Participant: Hey everybody.

Welcome back to another episode of
the Breakthrough Church Podcast.

Uh, grateful to be with you and, uh, just
excited about what the Lord is doing.

Um, and then through.

Uh, breakthrough and, and
just his presence is so good.

And when he speaks, we listen,
we obey, we respond, and there's

just so much fruit from it.

Um, and so last episode I shared
a little bit of the breakthrough I

experienced in my heart related to
the freedom and deliverance I've

experienced from religion and performance.

Uh, and the more I just think on
that, the more I realize that, um.

Uh, the more I'm able to pinpoint when
my life tends to go more religious.

Um, when I go religious, I'm second
guessing if I'm doing enough, uh,

and I'm like, I need to pray longer.

I start to count, uh, how long I
pray or take note of how often I read

my Bible or et cetera, et cetera.

But when I feel free from that, my life
is marked with joy, Thanksgiving, worship.

Uh, and, uh, I want to spend time
in scripture and in prayer because I

wanna be with my father who loves me.

Um, and I, I wanna build on this.

Um, this episode, I wanna share what
I hear the Lord speaking to me about

related to, um, the kingdom of God,
the authority of the kingdom, and how

we can gra lay, hold of, and walk in
the authority and power of the kingdom.

I just read a, an email that I get from
a ministry and it was talking about.

Uh, grace and, and what Grace really does
for us as Christians and many of us, uh,

my, and this was me for so long, actually,
probably not just so long, like my whole

life up until about four years ago.

Grace for me was unmerited favor, which
it is, it is Grace, is, is, um, as me

receiving something I did not earn.

And that's forgiveness of sins.

That's salvation Atonement.

It's, I know that by grace through
faith, I am saved and now a son

of God, uh, no longer a sinner,
but now a saint type of thing.

That's what, that's what
I've taught, been taught.

Grace is, and it is, but I think that's
only half of the, the coin, um, um, grace

is not just, I've received what I don't.

What I don't deserve and
what I haven't earned.

Um, grace is also empowerment.

Paul says in the book of one
Corinthians that, uh, he asked for the

thorn in his side to be taken away.

But God says, my grace is
sufficient for you, for my power

is made perfect in weakness.

And so grace is actually power.

It's the gift of the Holy Spirit
to bring power into our lives.

Um, and when you look
at the gospel of Mark.

Um, you kind of see this thread,
um, of empowerment of grace

is empowerment in the kingdom.

A lot of us, this email was saying that
I just read, A lot of us will receive

grace by faith and we're, we go from
being sinners to saints and it gets

us to the door of the kingdom and we
step, take a step into the kingdom.

But then a lot of us just stay right
there at the doorway and we don't

take further steps into the kingdom.

Um, and on the other side, as we
keep walking into the kingdom.

The grace will lead us into power and
authority to go and do the things that

Jesus has done, um, to live the life of
victory that Jesus lived, where there's

healing of sick and the delivering of
demons and, uh, raising the dead, and

ultimately people receiving Jesus and
the authority he has over their lives in

submitting to him and, and being saved.

This, this is a life we
were all called to live.

This isn't just for the select few.

This isn't for pastors
or for charismatics.

This is for Christians.

The everyday Christian, the Lord's desire,
and his call to follow him means walking

in authority and power over the things of
this world and the kingdom of darkness.

I'll prove it to you.

I'm gonna read a scripture.

I'll prove it to you right now.

All right.

I'm not just saying this.

This is the, this is the scriptures.

Um, Jesus, in the beginning of
Mark, he goes, uh, he gets baptized.

If you remember this, he gets baptized
and as he comes outta the water, he is

praying and the the heavens are torn open.

Um.

Uh, and it says the spirit
descending on him like a dove

and a voice came from heaven.

You are my beloved son with you.

I'm well pleased.

Uh, and so this is kind of
the beginning of the kingdom.

You enter into the kingdom realizing that
you're now a son or a daughter, right?

This is, this is not just, oh yeah, you're
liked now, or, oh yeah, he loves you.

No, no, you are a beloved.

Son and daughter of God.

When you enter the kingdom through
baptism, not just water baptism,

but the baptism of the spirit, you
are immersed into a new reality.

And that new reality is you're
a son and you're a daughter.

And from that place of identity,
it's just the launching point.

We don't just stay there
and say, yeah, I'm a son.

I'm gonna sit here and play with my
some with some toys all day, every day.

This sonship, this daughtership.

It's supposed to lead us
into all that God has for us.

And the next thing that Jesus did,
it says the Spirit immediately

drove Jesus out into the wilderness.

And he was in the wilderness
40 days being tempted by Satan.

Uh, and he was with the wild animals
and the angels were ministering to him.

Um, what does sonship lead us into?

It's surrender to the spirit.

So from sonship comes surrender
to the spirit, to the point

of denying the flesh, right?

This is the surrendering to the spirit is
unto and marked by a denial of the flesh.

And on the other side of this
denial of the flesh is true power.

And so Jesus, it says after.

After that John was arrested and Jesus
came into Galilee proclaiming the gospel

of God and saying, the time is fulfilled
and the kingdom of God is at hand.

Repent and believe in the gospel.

Okay, just, just try to track with me.

So you see Jesus' journey.

Um, he's baptized.

And, uh, God speaks over him by the
power of the Spirit and the presence of

the spirit that you are my beloved son.

With you, I'm well pleased.

This is identity being spoken
over and imparted into Jesus,

uh, that he is the beloved son
and, and God is pleased with him.

This is before he did ministry.

This is before he did anything
for the kingdom publicly

before he died on the cross.

Like Jesus.

God is saying, I'm pleased with
my son because he's my son.

Just because he's my son.

This is why I love him and why I'm
pleased with him, because he's my son.

So there's the identity.

This is grace being spoken over Jesus.

And then that from that identity,
it launches his, launches him

into battle with the flesh.

And the only way to receive victory
over the flesh is by surrendering

to the spirit's work in your life.

Um, this is why Jesus
went to the wilderness.

He wasn't sinful.

He didn't sin.

He didn't need to cut out sin, but
he's showing the pattern of walking

in power and authority in the kingdom.

It starts with identity and then
it starts with surrender to the

spirit for the sake of denying the
flesh and crucifying the flesh.

Which is the flesh is desires for
the world, desires for comfort.

Um, a desire just to kind of sit
and be, or even just desire to sin

and be complacent and idolatry.

All of that is the flesh.

It's this pocket of desires that loves
things that are opposing God and his will.

Uh, and so once we receive identity,
then he leads us into, uh, battle

with the flesh, surrender to the
spirit, which then leads to power.

Power authority.

So Jesus came into the Galilee.

He's proclaiming the gospel of God.

This is the good news of God.

God's good news.

Proclaiming in the earth is this.

The time is fulfilled and the
kingdom of God is at hand.

Repent and believe in the gospel.

A kingdom isn't just a realm.

Someone rules over.

In this context, uh, there's a,
there's a story, actually a parable

where if you remember it says, there
was a man who owned a vineyard and

he left to receive a kingdom, and
he left the vineyard in charge of.

Other people and he comes back
and sees that they haven't been

fruitful over this vineyard.

They've actually just squandered
their, their wealth and they

haven't done and been faithful.

And this kingdom or this guy comes back
with a kingdom and he basically takes

charge again and commands things and
declares things and decrees things.

Um, but it says he went to
receive a kingdom and then

came back to his vineyard.

He didn't leave to receive a
different realm to rule over.

He left to receive the authority to rule.

That's what a kingdom is first
and foremost in this context.

A kingdom is authority to
rule over certain areas.

So when Jesus is saying the kingdom
of God is at hand, he's saying the

authority of God, God's right to
rule over the earth is now is here.

And what that demands of you is that you
repent and believe in this good news.

Believe that God is the one who has
authority, repent, turn from how

you've been thinking about life.

Because now everything.

Has changed because the time is fulfilled
and the authority of God is now here.

Um, and so repentance is really
coming up underneath the authority

of God in every situation and
every circumstance in your life.

So then Jesus will go from this
place and he will begin to speak to.

People and show and demonstrate what the
authority of God looks like in the earth.

The very next story, it says, Jesus was
passing alongside the Sea of Galilee.

He saw Simon and Andrew, the
brother of Simon, casting a net into

the sea for they were fishermen.

So he sees a couple of guys and
they're, they're fishing for fish.

They're trying to capture
fish from the sea,

and Jesus says to them, follow me.

I will make you become fishers of men.

Okay?

That's a pretty, pretty
authoritative statement.

Follow me.

Meaning I have something to offer you
that the world can't, that your occupation

can't, and if you follow me, I will make
you as his promise of transformation.

I will make you become.

So it's not just transformation
to do things, it's to become a new

person that does what Fishes for men.

Okay, this is awesome.

This is a vision of the kingdom,
a vision of discipleship that is

so full of meaning and power and
promise that what do the people do?

They leave their nets and follow him.

They leave everything they've known.

They leave all of their source of income,
all the security blankets that they have.

They leave it because the invitation
of Jesus was so full of vision.

They couldn't say no to it.

And they went on a little far.

Jesus went on a little farther.

He saw James and John and
he did the same thing.

He called them and they left their
father Zeb in the boat with the

hired servants and followed him.

These four men, Simon, Andrew, James,
and John, they leave all that they knew.

They leave the comforts of their
occupation that leave their family.

Um.

They'll leave hired servants, meaning
they're not getting a paycheck anymore

and they're following Jesus because his
vision and his invitation is so full

of vision, they couldn't say no to him.

And so what does it look
like to be a fisher of men?

Okay, because this is, um, I'm trying
to put this, how do I put this?

Being a fisher of men is a promise
that you are going to be somebody who

casts a net and rescues mankind from.

The kingdom of darkness into
the kingdom of the beloved son.

This is a rescue mission.

Jesus is inviting them on.

And how does he go about rescuing them?

I'm not gonna go into all the detail
here, but the first story after

this is Jesus goes into a synagogue.

He teaches with authority, so
much authority that an unclean

spirit manifests in a man.

And it knows Jesus.

It says, what have you to do with us Jesus
of Nazareth, have you come to destroy us?

I know who you are, the holy one of God.

What a confession from a demon.

I can't go into all of this.

I could teach on this, but Jesus
rebuked the unclean spirit saying,

be silent and come out of him.

And he did Jesus and the kingdom,
and part of rescuing men and fishing

for men is authority over demons.

The kingdom of God.

The authority of God, the rule and
reign of God on the earth today.

What does it look like?

What does it have authority over?

The demonic, unclean
spirit, Satan, himself.

Okay?

Remember the disciples see this?

They're following him now.

They see Jesus cast this demon out.

What is he doing?

He's training them to cast out demons
and to show them firsthand how strong and

powerful the authority of the kingdom is.

Okay.

The next thing he does is
he leaves the synagogue.

He enters the house of Simon
and Andrew, and he heals Simon's

mother-in-law of a fever.

Just lifts her by, takes her by the hand,
lifts her up, and the fever relieves her.

What's he doing?

He's declaring authority
over sickness and disease.

Imagine the moment this
person's been sick.

The Mo Simon's mother-in-law has been.

To the point where she's laying
down and in a display of authority.

He says, no, I know that this
sickness knocks you down.

This sickness is demanding that you
lay down because you feel so terrible,

but the the kingdom of God and the
authority of Jesus is coming upon you.

So much so that he reverses the
narrative, grabs her hand, lifts her up,

doesn't say, Lord, would you heal her?

No.

He is acting on the authority he has
in him from his identity as a son.

From the power of the Holy Spirit.

And he says, get up.

And he stands her up, physically
grabs her as a prophetic declaration

of authority of the kingdom.

Honor picks her up and
the fem relieves her.

Come on man.

This is the authority of the kingdom.

And again, remember the
disciples are seeing this.

He's training them in
how to move in authority.

'cause that's what it
means to fish for men.

To fish for men means to move into
authority, which means that men who

need rescuing, who need fishing, men
and women who need to be fished out

are under someone else's authority, and
those things can be demonic or disease.

You realize what I'm saying here is
what is the schemes of the enemy?

He uses oppression, direct oppression.

He also uses disease.

Disease is a tool of the enemy and the
authority of Jesus comes against it

and rescues people from disease and
brings them into a kingdom marked by

healing, wholeness and restoration.

We could keep going.

Um, because he preaches in Galilee.

He, he goes on to other places,
begins to preach, and he's casting

out demons and synagogues and,
and then a leper comes to him.

And, and he, he moves, he's moved with
pity and he, he cleanses the leper.

And, and there's, so,
there's so much here.

And I have an outline.

I'm actually gonna be preaching on Mark
starting in September, whenever we launch.

I'm gonna go through the book of
Mark and show the authority of the

kingdom, and I believe many will be
healed and many will be delivered.

Because the kingdom of God is here
today, the authority that Jesus

has, and so here's what grace does.

Grace takes you from a place
of being a sinner far from God.

It makes you a son and then sets you
on a path of authority to fish for men.

So we like, it's not really an option.

Following Jesus means we will
move in authority and power.

I have specific instances of this
happening in this last week, and

I'm not gonna share just due to the
private nature of the conversations,

but there was healing, deliverance and
encouragement that's happened over the

last few days through Ministry times.

And, um, the only reason that happens
is because Jesus ushered in a new age,

an age where the kingdom of God is here.

The rule and reign, the authority of
God is on the earth through Jesus.

And now by the spirit in the church.

And our role as the church is to be awake
to the spiritual things of God and to move

forward the kingdom of God in authority
to walk into as sons and daughters of God,

step into the authority that he's given
us in a cast out demons and heal the sick.

Welcome the stranger.

Encourage the downtrodden.

The Kingdom is here, and so I just, I,
I, I'm, I'm very excited about this.

The Lord is speaking to me about
authority and about how I can move

in authority because of my sonship,
because I'm a son of the king.

He's put his signet ring on me.

He put on purple robes on me.

He has set his heart and love
on me, and nothing can shake me.

The kingdom of God is unshakeable.

And I can step into any ministry
situation with authority over it, saying,

I know God's will here is to set free,
to heal, to deliver because I've seen

what he's done, um, in scriptures as he
ushered in this new age of the kingdom.

And ultimately, Jesus has authority over
death itself, which is why at the end

of the Book of Mark and all the gospels
we see, the man who ushered in this new

powerful kingdom with authority, uses his
authority not to bash, roam over the head.

Or to destroy the religious leaders,
but actually to destroy death

itself by laying down on a cross,
allowing himself to be crucified.

Um, laying down his own life,
no one took it from him, but he

laid it down of his own accord.

Um, and the fruit of that is
many will come and be saved.

Many will leave the kingdom of
darkness and be rescued into the

kingdom of the beloved son because
of the holes in the hands of the man

from Nazareth, Jesus Christ himself.

The blood flows and the blood sets free.

And if you are encouraged, if you are,
honestly, if you are in a season right

now where you feel downtrodden, you feel
heavy laden and burdened, you feel sick

physically, you are just going through
sickness, or maybe you've sensed demonic

oppression in your life, I'm telling you
right now, the kingdom of God is coming

upon you and Jesus sets free and delivers.

If you cry out to Jesus,
he will set you free.

That's his promise.

That's why the kingdom is here.

Breakthrough is possible because of Jesus.

So the Lord is speaking to me about this
and I'm, I'm just moving in authority.

And sometimes that authority can be
offensive to people as we'll read

later in Mark, um, because it seems a
little presumptuous and prideful, like,

who are you to do that type of thing.

Um, but when we're, when we are just
so, so confident in the father's love

for us, um, those words don't shake us.

The opposition doesn't shake
us, and we can move forward

in it because God is doing it.

And so.

Just be encouraged by that today, y'all,
um, again, we launched on September 13th

at 5:00 PM Would love to see you guys.

Make sure to register ahead of time
so we know who's gonna be there and

how many kids we need to prep for.

Um, uh, God is just speaking all
over the place and is covering

this entire work with his presence.

He's building this house and
we're just trying to be obedient.

So I would love to see you guys.

Come on Launch day, September 13th.

That's a Saturday at 5:00 PM at, you
can google Maps, uh, breakthrough

Church and it'll be there in Richardson.

Uh, and can't wait to see you there.

Guys.

Love y'all.

Praying for you, uh, and grateful for you.

See ya.