Part 6 // Reigning on Earth in the Age to Come// Mike Bickle, A Biblical Overview of Eternal Rewards

we'll turn to Revelation chapter 5 if you want to follow along your Bibles what you got all the verses that we're gonna use right there on the handout so you got to conform with that father we thank you for this glorious subject that was birthed in your own heart that you do long that have weak and broken people you would forgive us cleanse us sanctify us and raise us up to partner with you in ruling the earth forever and forever oh we thank you we magnify your love and your grace we thank you for the way you love us we bless you in Jesus name Amen well our on session five on a biblical overview of eternal rewards and each session I'll just say it for those that are visiting here the first time that this is one of the most emphasized topics in the Bible I mean of the teaching of Jesus is eternal rewards but it's almost totally ignored by the body of Christ and yet it is one of the not the most but one of the most emphasized topics and the Apostles refer to it regularly and I feel like I have a hunger in my heart to understand this area and to see other people rooted in it like the Apostolic community was in the book of Acts the eternal reward paragraph a and we got six pages so we're not going to go through all every all these notes but I want to leave you with verses two and some explanations that we won't have time to cover here in the teaching session but paragraph a the eternal reward most emphasized we look at heavenly garments last week but the one most emphasized is reigning with Jesus in the age to come I give you a few verses there revelation 5:10 he made us kings and priests we all know this verse will reign with him but I don't know how often you think about the implications of that that is staggering the implications are vast the fact that he wants us to reign with him as weak and broken people forever and what are the implications of reigning there so many activities involved in raining and we will reign with him in a in a in a a correspondence to how we obeyed him in this age and a lot of believers they don't pay that much attention to that connection but that's a very important biblical truth and I've said to the Lord for some years Lord shocked me now don't shock me then I don't want to stand before you and go oh my goodness I should have paid attention we got a you know a Bible full of information I want to pay attention now it's called watching and waiting Jesus use that phrase many times and it's teaching this idea of ruling with him at the age to come it actually gives our life a sense of relevance even now because we're laboring now and we we don't most of us don't see the fruitfulness that we're desiring we're seeing some but we all long for more but Jesus is assuring us that every movement of our heart even the giving of a cup of cold water that he remembers it and that in the age to come he is gonna tell us how he feels about the way we loved him in this age that's called eternal rewards that's Jesus communicating how he feels about the way we loved him in this age but but the Apostles Paul said it a number of times he says the exceeding great reward of what's coming if I continue to press in and obey now that was a very very clear motivation to Paul in Romans 8:18 I don't have that on the notes in 2nd Corinthians 4:17 s another place where he said that paragraph B that he desires us to be enthroned at the highest level of the created order the entire created order of angels and there's demons and there's believers unbelievers thee all the kree the animal kingdom he wants redeemed humans at the very height of the created order in his government look what he says it's almost too big to grab I mean it is too big to grasp but it's it's so intense I challenge you meditate on this passage he says I will grant to the one that overcomes revelation 3:21 I grant you to sit with me on my throne like what I mean if anybody else would have said that you'd say sit with Jesus the Genesis one God who became a man to sit with him on his throne really I mean the implications the honor the privilege the joy of that is beyond anything we can grasp Jesus has planned an indescribable exultation for his people to be a part of his eternal government but you don't overlook the word to the one who overcomes now we know in this context revelation 3 he's talking to the Laodiceans and they had to overcome just spiritual lukewarmness buddy said I exhort you to be zealous and repent and overcome lukewarmness and if you do you will reign with me that's a pretty intense that the greatest honor I could imagine in terms of a function reigning with Jesus is connected to overcoming spiritual passivity in this age he connected those two egos I'm gonna I'm gonna give you the biggest motivation I can give you in terms of function and activity in the kingdom of God paragraph C the position of authority or the work assignment those are really two ways of saying the same thing that every believer will have in the age to come we'll bring them great joy the reason I say that is I've taught this subject for well over 30 years and I've always run into really sincere believers there were sincere and they kind of boast about how they don't care about any ternal rewards and I say well you know Jesus said you will enter into real significant joy in that day I I think you will I think you will care more than you understand right now because we will be partnering with the one we love in a closed in a dynamic way and so I encourage folks imagine they have no interest in this subject because they're you know I'm just in it for the Lord I don't really care about that other stuff I always urge them to go back to what Jesus said about it and to take his words and not just to kind of take their own philosophical kind of thinking about the subject of rewards paragraph D all of us will have different work assignments in the age to come and our or job descriptions or positions of authority use the term you want they're all saying the same thing but we will have all of us will have varying degrees of authority as we have emphasized in the first four session Paul said that as one star differs from another star in glory so also will be the resurrection every single believer will be distinct and the measure of the glory of God that's expressed in them and through them just like all the billions of stars every one of them are different now Jesus emphasized this more than anybody if you look at the verses they're all from the lips of Jesus he emphasized that some in the age to come he's talking about will be called least and some will be called greatest he said it over and over and over it's surprising to me that the Apostles didn't say that because Jesus said it repetitively he said it I mean again when you put all the verses together you go wow he really meant this then he says when I evaluate lives I will call some lives their life choices great and others I will call their life choice as least and they're in the kingdom she's talking about people that are in the kingdom he taught a parable in Luke chapter 19 that made it clear that some will have authority over 10 cities some will have authority over five cities and somebody entrusted authority to end up with no authority over any cities at all you can read the parable more in Luke chapter 19 Roman numeral 2 now this is a familiar theme matter of fact it's a prominent theme in the Bible the earthly kingdom of Jesus in the age to come now the term the Millennial Kingdom very very popular term it means the thousand-year reign you don't have to use the term millennial millennial just means 1000 as most of you are aware of but the theme of Jesus's earthly kingdom after he returns his kingdom on the earth reigning with Saints from this age is a very popular I mean a very prominent theme in the Bible revelation 20 verse 6 they shall be priests and will reign with him for 1,000 years the phrase 1000 years is mentioned six times in Revelation chapter 20 the emphasis of a thousand years then after that there's the new heavens and the new earth but it's still on the earth then it goes on forever and forever and where we assume it's the same principles of Kingdom and authority and this and a lot of the same realities continue and even a greater dimension of glory well during that Kingdom reign of 1000 years and then forever and forever beyond that the kingdom will openly be manifest worldwide affecting every area of life the political the social fine aggregate economics spiritual every single facet of human life will come under the lordship of Jesus and be manifest on the earth in a global way paragraph B this will be a thousand year period of unprecedented blessing on the earth Jesus will establish righteousness in every sphere of life and academics and economics in political and legislation education every sphere will have righteousness and justice all the way through it he will restore the agriculture the atmosphere the animal kingdom back to the conditions of the Garden of Eden and I'm assuming and beyond at that time paragraph C all the kings of the earth there will be Kings on the earth with natural physical bodies all of them will worship Him that says that six times as well and all the kings of the earth will be born-again believers radically committed to Jesus and His Word and his government top of page two one preacher said I quote this regularly he said well I've heard it from different preachers I don't know who originated it that if we don't think rightly about heaven we won't think about heaven and I think that's really true because many people they think wrongly of heaven and so they don't think of it because they think of heaven as floating on a cloud playing a harp and that's about it and they go their streets of gold somewhere but we're floating mostly but there are streets are gold knows the way angular can't put it together and I want to just bring a very very simple I'm gonna I got more on the notes that I'm gonna cover just a snapshot of the Millennial Kingdom I have a series on the internet I don't know it's maybe twelve sessions maybe more I did it a couple years ago breaking down what the Bible says about the Thousand Year reign there's a tremendous amount of information in the Bible on this glorious subject but the one of the centerpiece ideas is rebel is a Ephesians chapter 1 verse 9 and 10 look what it says Paul is talking this amazing revelation that Paul makes known it's never been made known before till after the resurrection of Jesus Paul gets to make known the mystery which is the hidden plan that's been in God's heart from ages past he goes here's what he's gonna do verse 10 he's going to gather together into one reality everything in the heavenly in the earthly realm he's gonna bring them all together all the good things and heaven and earth those real are gonna be joined together on the earth the heavenly realm speaks of the supernatural realm of God's presence and power being openly manifest the heavenly realm the supernatural dimension the resurrected bodies oh the angelic activity but the earthly realm obviously the physical that's where human process and physical sensation and human dynamics come to full expression so what he's gonna do when Jesus returns he's the New Jerusalem is coming down to the earth with him and the Saints will live in the New Jerusalem but the New Jerusalem will be in proximity to the earth they will reign in the New Jerusalem with a physical they will live in the New Jerusalem with a physical resurrected body a physical body I like to say with it with an elbow I mean you won't like hug each other and kind of pass through cuz you're just spirit beings you will have flesh and bones jesus said in Luke 24 he'll be supernatural but it will be substantive it will be physical you will eat physical food like he did in the resurrection he ate the fish then passed through the wall where did the fish go through the wall you know we got to figure that out some other time paragraph B God's purpose has always been that heaven would come down to the earth and God would live together with his people with the full dimension of the physical realm and the full dimension of the supernatural room joined together with no veil between them that was always his intention always even in the Garden of Eden that's where it was going and then sin created an interruption to that but only a temporary interruption now in the Millennial Kingdom natural processes catch this will not be suspended but they will be significantly enhanced by the supernatural dimension of the Holy Spirit there will still be learning there will still be traveling there will still be interaction on the earth gardens will be planted houses will be built by people with natural bodies because there'll be people still on the earth that were not raptured when Jesus returns hey they didn't say yes to the Antichrist they resisted him but they didn't say yes to Jesus so they weren't part of the rapture and they'll still have physical bodies non resurrected bodies and there'll be hundreds of millions or billions of them Tommy I don't know you know after the Great Tribulation it's hard to know what the number but it'll be a massive number and those were the resurrected bodies we'll live in the New Jerusalem but they'll reign on the earth and it was just be instant transportation from the New Jerusalem to whatever place on the earth just like angels can move back and forth between the realms effortlessly it will be the veil will be lifted between the realms there will be a supernatural dimension but the people of natural bodies they will have all the natural realities of life but those are the resurrected bodies we'll be interacting with them and actually have the government over them and the leadership over them we see aspects of this natural and supernatural realm together we see a brief window of this just a snapshot for 40 days in Acts chapter 1 when Jesus came back at his resurrected body he's teaching them they're there they're overwhelmed with and excited he's eating with them their food he's hugging them he's laughing with them he's appearing and disappearing but he's sitting with them in hours at a time teaching them they're learning and so forth at 40 days there's a brief snapshot of some of the conditions it will be where those were the resurrected bodies will be interacting with those with non resurrected bodies physical bodies in the Millennial Kingdom see I've already said this but I'll kind of say it again so you can grasp the context of like some of your going like now who's on the earth and who's where how's this work there'll be three types of people on the earth when Jesus appears in the sky at the Second Coming they'll be the redeemed and when he appears they'll be raptured they'll get resurrected bodies there will be the reprobate they took the mark of the beast and they won't repent and they end up under judgment but it's this third category that there's there's a there's a significant number of references to this third category they don't use the word I use but it's the it's they describe the category it's what I call the resisters the unsaved survivors of the Great Tribulation they resisted the Antichrist they never said yes to him but they never said yes to Jesus somebody says well how could that be well the analogy I like to look to is in world war two in France there was a resistance movement against Hitler they resisted Hitler even unto death not because they love Jesus but because they love France and they hated Hitler it wasn't about Jesus it was about hating Hitler loving their country and there will be people that will resist the Antichrist that won't say yes to Jesus's leadership in the great revival they will still be there I mean all these remarkable events the rapture the coming of the Lord the New Jerusalem coming to the earth they're kind of looking around like man that was a one intense couple weeks here you know what is going on the veil will be lifted between the two realms the cities will be destroyed the agriculture will be greatly in upheaval I don't mean every city but many many of the cities will be they'll be disruption everywhere read the book of Revelation of the judgments of God as well as the attack on oppression of the Antichrist you know I think of the cities of Europe after World War one or two you get that picture of desolation but I believe what's coming on a global level it will have parallels to I mean you look at some of the amazing I mean not amazing but the tremendous amount of work that needed to be done to rebuild cities and Nations well that natural reality will still be in place but people with resurrected bodies will actually be involved in the restoration process that's part of ruling and reigning on the earth there's many dimensions involved in ruling and reigning you know maybe just do an internet study on everything involved in raining every degree from the smallest to the group most significant activities I think it would surprise you how many activities are involved in ruling a nation I mean there's massive amounts from very small to very very big decisions and activities paragraph D I have mentioned here the New Jerusalem was coming down to the earth that is declared three times in the book of Revelation three times it's emphasized the heavenly City is coming down to the natural realm it really is and it's going to bring the two realms together and at that time it will be true heaven will be really truly on the earth you know Jesus said pray thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth like it is in heaven and that's happening in part right now just in this in this hour of history but there's a dramatic increase of this happening when the New Jerusalem comes in the veil lives paragraph Roman numeral four there will be natural processes of life will still be happening on the earth and the reason I'm explaining this and some of you already understand it it's kind of you know Millennial Kingdom 101 what I'm covering tonight but reigning and ruling on the earth are connected to understanding this because if you don't understand what's happening on the earth and you've never thought through the dynamics of reigning and ruling to the minutia of small things to big things then reigning and ruling is just a term it doesn't really mean anything it doesn't conjure up any thoughts or emotions to think you might be involved in that says but when you see what the details of rating and ruling are in real life then you see how much activity is going to happen in the Millennial Kingdom and then you see the Saints are the ones in the top leadership positions over it you start connecting the dots and saying this is going to be really a real ministry this is going to be real this isn't floating on a cloud playing a harp and just hoping the cities of the earth get restored you're going to be I don't know if you but the Saints I don't know who will have what role but the Saints will be deeply involved in the whole process of bringing the glory of God to the horrors they will bet with physical resurrected bodies you will look like you look now but imperfection I know some of you are almost there but there's still perfection to be at it you will be you with your personality your DNA your physical appearance but brought to fullness and protection with no diminishing because of darkness or the attack of the enemy our weakness at all it will really be you and you will really know each other and you will really have physical bodies you really eat dinner together you will really teach each other things you will really teach people on the earth things you will set in order you will establish you will rule and reign again many spheres I'm not spheres many many types of activities involved in ruling and reigning in a nation I have somewhere in the notes here that in the American infrastructure just in America there's 22 million people right now that are employed by the federal local or state governments there's 22 million in the governmental in from infrastructure of America and that gives you kind of an idea of how many levels there might be or how many types of activities involved in ruling and reigning over a nation it's not just the president or the Senators the ruling and reigning aspect was all the way through to the local to the people that that run the school board it's every part of society as a part of ruling and reigning so when the Lord says you'll reign with me he doesn't that several billion believers we don't really know how many they'll be but some say there's been a billion up to now I don't know if that's true there's a you know throughout history there's a billion believers now so that's 2 billion a billion coming in the great harvest so I don't know if that's true but it's probably several billion you know some number like that it's a big number but there's only 200 nations in the Earth's right now and when the Lord returns he's gonna probably rearrange the map a bit but there's not gonna be a billion nations there maybe 300 then maybe 100 I don't know but so a couple billion people won't all be kings a king is over a nation they'll be you know a couple hundred nations maybe more maybe less a couple hundred Kings maybe more maybe less couple billion people and aren't Kings but there will be people ruling and reigning at very many many diverse levels involved in the infrastructure of bringing the glory of God they have back at 214 I don't have that the notes but you know it well where the glory of God will cover the whole earth as the waters cover the sea and that glory of God it's a little bit now his glory is increasing but it's gonna be fully manifest in every sphere of life and it's actually going to take 2,000 years to bring righteousness and fullness and the healing of the land to fullness of fullness of maturity it's going to take really the thousand years for it to happen because Jesus isn't going to wave his hand and everything pops up righteous and justice he's gonna do it line by line with people making choices to obey Him but the devil will be thrown in prison and all the demons so they won't be here but uh there will still be a process and the glory of God will cover the earth just line by line just area by area paragraph B the natural processes of life will continue there will be a need to establish infrastructure in every sphere of every city of every village throughout the whole earth now it will be established by people with natural bodies but just like now if you lifted the veil there's undoubtedly angels at the side of people at every sphere of society working they don't see the angels but the veil was lifted now I think we would be surprised how many angels were in this room right now we might be surprised how many demons are in this room and of the war going on over the lives of people but in that day the fair will be lifted and though the infrastructure will be done by people with natural bodies the NGO that the Saints with resurrected bodies it won't be the Angels helping in the way in the same way I don't think I think it's going to be the Saints ruling and reigning but in relationship with them training and teaching managing overseeing planning evaluating many things that are better involved in reigning and ruling I have a few of the things that are involved in the infrastructure right here paragraph B there will be life support systems building projects economic systems in the Millennial Kingdom I'm talking about amongst the nations the the people with natural bodies again there are born in the mud am that still need to be saved and they will be doing that but under the leadership of those that have the primary government over the nations which is the Saints with the resurrected bodies paragraph C Jesus will rule a global Kingdom that includes two types of kings the Bible makes it clear there's two types of kings there's Kings that will be on the earth with natural bodies just like there's kings right now presidents prime ministers but there will be kings with resurrected bodies there'll be both types of Kings interacting with each other and together they will establish a godly social order that will bring transformation to the world but again it's step by step line by line it's not Jesus returning waving over the earth and everything is done and he says you know Saints I could have used you but I didn't really need you so I just blew on the earth and everything is now perfect he could actually do that is powerful enough but he didn't want to he wants to do it in relationship with us he wants to do it through us and with us which is remarkable but that's not just the Jesus of the future he's the same man right now he has the same personality he really wants to use us right now even in this age but there's a continuity between what we do now and what we do there we think the break of our physical death everything is different it's the same you but the darkness is removed but your deeds follow you into the age to come and everything you've done even giving a cup of cold water that's been done in obedience to the Lord is recorded in his books and again rewards are Jesus revealing how he feels about the way you loved him rewards aren't about strutting in front of people but about the Lord saying here here's the garments here's the crowns here's the thorns Come Dine With Me here's how you're gonna interface with me because of the way you loved me on the earth it's not about earning it because though we take a step of obedience he gives us a mile of blessing it's far beyond anything anybody can earn we've cover all that in the first four sessions a number of times top of page three I love this subject physical proximity to Jesus it's a subject that I don't hear much about in sermons books or in conversation there's not that much in the Bible on it but there's clear indicators of it but this is an area I think they're the indicators in the scripture of it that I really care about I want you to pay attention special note to this to the promises in the age to come where Jesus uses the phrase with me you will sit with me you will walk with me you will dine with me those with me promises really have my attention like a wall because I'm not thinking a couple billion Saints all walking in the park holding hands with Jesus at the same time I'm thinking he's thinking something far more specific then a couple billion people all at one really long banqueting table and Jesus says you know 6,000 miles on the end of it hey Jesus good eat with you bro no it's not gonna be like that it's gonna be far more dynamic but remember paragraph a or maybe this is a new thought Jesus's physical body will only be in one place at one time he he became a man now he's still God so by the spirit he could communicate with his people now everywhere he's with us and could communicate with us by the Holy Spirit now and he will forever forever forever we'll always have access to his presence to communication with him into his heart but it's when he became a man he committed to become human and to live in a physical body for billions and billions and billions of years forever that is a most radical commitment but he had to do that to redeem us he had to live at a human body forever and be limited to it in terms of his physical presence now by the Holy Spirit as he said he is God he could communicate with us by the spirit paragraph B I believe that our work assignment will affect the closeness of our physical proximity to him not our spiritual proximity because I again I believed by the Holy Spirit we could connect with him now and then forever all you know billion or two or three or whatever the real number is Saint but I'm talking about walking with him I'm talking about sitting in a room with him with this physical person I believe that our work assignment will affect the closeness of our physical proximity some people's work assignment will bring them into a place of working more closely with him because of the nature of their assignment because he's the governor the king of all the Kings and he's administrating the whole earth but he's doing it by the spirit through his people but he's communicating was with you know I'm many many minutes goes on for years and years and years face to face as well as by the Holy Spirit look what he said here's some indications of this he told the when they were arguing who would sit the right in the left mark 10 Jesus did not deny the reality that somebody would sit at his right and his left what he told them is that it wasn't it was for who was prepared for he didn't say hey James and John that's who was arguing about it he didn't say now you got it all wrong no they had it right there will be somebody sitting at his right in his left and I don't think it will be two people for billions of years and there it is I think many situations there will be somebody many many many different situations is like a king over a nation depending on the occasion will have somebody to write in some of the left that's just a guess what he says here he says three with me promises again with me hello I really pay attention to these he says in Revelation three you have a few believers in Sardis who have it defiled their garments me they haven't yielded to compromise now a number of the believers their taste I'm not the believers had yielded to compromise does it mean they were not saved but they have yielded and their garments figuratively speaking were defiled their lifestyle they were snared and caught in something but Jesus said a few of you you've resisted the compromise and look what he says these few that they will walk with me I think this is literal i I think meaning there's a with me that is not just by the spirit a couple billion people I think there's something more there I don't know I don't want to guess what it is but I like that with Mises because they're worthy not because they earned it that's not what he's saying because nobody could earn that by anything they do down here but they've responded in a way that's appropriate of to have this kind of level of involvement with me in the government of the earth see what the Lord is doing he wants us to love him now when we don't see him as the genuineness of our love so that when we do see that him face to face and that day forever he's gonna say you're one of the ones that loved me when you couldn't even see me that is the testimony of your love and when he says worthy I think he means it's appropriate that you would be in a position working closely with me bringing my love to the nation's because it's who you really were when you couldn't feel me things are not going well people were not treating you right the money wasn't right your physical body was weak people were not understanding you but you loved me that's the kind of people I want walking with me and my world government bringing the love of God to the nation's because you were in it for real when it seemed remote and far away but you wouldn't back away from it that's what I think he means by you were worthy then he goes on verse 20 now he's talking to the group the Laodiceans who their big area of compromise was just passivity and he goes on and he says I'm a knock on the door if you will open it I'm gonna you're gonna dine with me and I'm gonna dine with you and I believe that has a spiritual connotation in this world and this age I believe we open up to the Lord we will feast on the Lord in that spiritual sense more in this age but I don't believe it's limited to this age Jesus is constantly thinking billion year picture not only 50 year picture most of his teaching had billion-year picture paradigm in it or whatever you know eternity is what I'm really saying but then in verse 21 he makes it real specific he says to the person that overcomes passivity just spiritual passivity you know where we get to passivity the promises were believing in they keep being delayed it's more mundane and routine that we thought it would be we thought we would feel more power we'd have more presence more favor more impact more energy more money more comfort than we do you know like I think of us gonna chill out and coast and the horses don't don't he says the verse before nineteen it goes be zealous and repent and if you do you will sit with me on my throne it will be worth that press through the disappointment the delayed promises the bitterness is of people not treat your right press through it do it with me and for me do something bigger than relate to how people relate to you don't relate to them based on how they relate to you we relate to them based on how I relate to you and if you do that you'll sit with me I look at that I go this is inconceivable up bigness yes yes I go Lord show me show me show me put my name on this I want my name on this I don't want to be over you I want to be sitting with him some folks say I don't want to eat earn rewards because I don't want to be over people I go forget meal over people I'm talking about I'm gonna be in leadership meetings with him when he's talking about whether whatever sphere I'm involved in Mike come on to the room what are you doing over there well give me a little report you know you have the Holy Spirit you got a resurrected body we've met several times and face to face how's it going well we're doing it Lord I mean I don't know how it probably won't be like that but there's really gonna be interactions real ones and again he's not gonna be meeting with a billion people every day all day walking in a park with him I remember I told one lady that and broke her heart she goes oh I can't wait I know why I mean I understand wanting to get a resurrected body that's pretty cool I guess she goes I just want to be with Jesus all day just me and him in a park I go you're not you don't really think a couple billion people are gonna be waiting for you guys having a picnic every day well he's governing the entire Earth because well I mean aren't I his beloved I go yeah you are but there's other implications involved she was really heartbroken she really didn't like that at all I said are we just gonna wait are you gonna have long lunches or short ones with you every single day all day she's well I've never really thought about it I said that's my point this is gonna be real it's a real man in a real Kingdom in a real world transforming it in her interacting with him with resurrected Peller this is this is glorious beyond measure but again to many believers it's just a faint thought that crosses their mind every couple years for a moment Jesus related to people in his earthly ministry very differently had the three the twelve the seventy 120 in the upper room the five hundred he appeared to in the resurrection and the multitude you know among the twelve look at this verse this is very tender look into his relational dynamics verse 36 Jesus goes to Gethsemane all the disciples are there he tells the disciples nine of them - Judas so there's eight because you guys sit here this is the night before his death and he knows it's gonna happen tomorrow they haven't figured it out they're still little bit confused because you guys sit here Peter James and John you come with me here it tells us guys you guys stay there I love you I'm really with you matter-of-fact surnames are gonna be on the New Jerusalem on the foundations you're good but I want these guys over here with me and he brings em overhead there because he wanted to share his sorrow in a different way his extreme sorrow then he asked them stay here with me I mean this is a very tender seat loot inside just a glimpse into the man Jesus full of the Holy Spirit how he will interact with people and I believe there will be these dynamics that are recorded in the word I don't know the details of how they'll happen but I believe there will be all kinds of diversity and differences Roman numeral six the function of the resurrected Saints well I think there probably will be many functions but the two functions that are emphasized the most is that will function as a priest as priests and kings now being priests and kings both relate to raining but raining isn't only the king of a nation again in America there's 22 million people in the governmental infrastructure those are all facets of reigning and ruling just in small microscopic kind of levels to the to the Maya you know the macro levels of being over the whole nation reigning includes many many activities not just the king declaring an edict over the nation and they go obey a training's the whole gamut of activities priests as resurrected Saints were worship and there will be the glory of God our own enjoyment and revelation and enhancement in it but I believe worship will also release the power of God there will be intercession in the age to come God will still release his power through the prayers of the Saints there will be teaching the word the teaching of the word there will be the communicating of the knowledge of God well who are we gonna communicate who are the Saints gonna communicate with they're gonna communicate and teach the word two people on the earth that have natural bodies there'll be hundreds of millions eventually billions of them they need to be taught well they will teach each other but just like now and I'm just glimpse as we get a little glimpse of this an angel will appear here and there and aid somebody and even give some instruction just a glimpse once or twice in a life that might happen or maybe it won't happen once or twice in our life but it's very rare but the idea of there is an interaction that we can get it we can imagine it because it's happening very very little right now according to our at least our grasping of it but I believe we will we beating the Saints with a resurrected body I'll teach people on the earth I believe the Saints will teach the Saints when you get a resurrected body you don't get a chip of omniscience you know resurrected body you step across the line now you know everything I think the day you get a resurrected body you don't know anything more then you know the money you'll earn real fast but I think it's still you you're going okay Wow you're learning really fast you got your mind will be have a supernatural ability but you won't have omniscience you'll still learn line by line you'll just remember oh well you'll understand real deep but you'll still for billions of years you will be learning and you will be teaching you'll be communicating to the Angels you know first Peter chapter 112 I don't have the nut and the notes says the Angels look at the Saints to get instruction right now feaces 3:10 says the same thing I like the one then I don't have these in the notes I'm just thinking of them the first Corinthians chapter 6 verse 3 says in the age to come we're gonna be judging the Angels I don't think just teaching them but judging them cuz you're not only always going to be a newcomer right now you're a newcomer you've only been in the game for on it less than a hundred years everyone in this room the angels in the room have been around maybe billions of years I don't know but eventually you're going to not just be new covers you're gonna be profound in your understanding I don't even know where all that's going but it's glorious you'll be there's Kings and I think Kings is the ultimate but I think that Kings also implies or infers the lesser spheres of reigning of which the king is the is the top in terms of scope of authorities what I mean Kings they reign with judicial responsibilities their responsibilities to establish a godly social order that will include evaluating past events that's what judging is you know what talks about judging the world judging angels judging it doesn't well it doesn't mean punishing it means evaluating and it's evaluating I'm assuming to improve things so will you see judge don't think punish think evaluate and then I think you'll be more in the right line of thinking about what it means when the Saints will judge because all punishment John chapter 5 says the father gave that to the son he will be over all judgment both the evaluation the rewarding and the punishing he'll be over all of it but I believe that the Saints will be involved in determining action plans that's what ruling and reigning means you get together see what the divine opportunities are you train rally recruits select manage and employ and things grow that's how it happens at this age and I believe in the age to come because the natural realm won't be suspended it will be continued it will be enhanced by the supernatural row there'll be many many many dimensions of reigning paragraph D I love this this passage Revelation 20 verse 4 and I saw Thrones and the Saints said on him here it is judgment was given to them again he's not talking about punishment he's talking about decision-making which involves evaluating selecting plans judgment was committed to him and they ranked he goes on to say 1st Corinthians 6 the Saints will evaluate the world they will judge it again I don't believe he means punish it they'll judge angels in the age to come now reigning here's the key point we'll be relational it will not be automated like robots some people have this idea raining it's robotic we go there get the information from headquarters simply implement it come back get more information no judgement is committed to the Saints the Lord says I want your involvement I want your personality I want your ideas there's more than one way to do it that I will bless just like now now there's many choices we all make and the Lord will bless many of those choices some of them you won't but I mean there's not always just one choice that's right he says I want you fully engaged I could imagine when we're planning a ministry outreach and we're asking the Lord how about this how about that I can imagine the Lord saying and this age and the age to come well what do you think well Lord I'd like to do this Rhaegar's let's do that way I can do that yeah that's good I believe that's how he worked with the Apostles when he sent them out and they came back and they told their stories he goes yeah that works and they all did it a little bit different I think will make real decisions that will have real quality impact on people it will bring improvement to other people's lives and it will express our own unique personalities in the will of God there won't be just a right and wrong answer just like there's now-now sometimes there's a right wrong answer real clear but many situations of going forward in growing a ministry and righteousness the Lord says there's a number of things ways to go forward that I will bless now the Lord doesn't need any of us again he could come at the second coming wave his hand over the earth blow his breath and everything people stored like in Genesis chapter 1 he just said let there be light booooo he could do that again no problem but he wants to involve us because he delights in his people table at page 4 well we're coming to the last few minutes here so I'm just gonna kind of give you what's on these pages and you can take a peek at it at your own time if you want I believe there will be two levels of government there will be the people with natural bodies and there will be the people with the resurrected bodies right now in the government of our nations there's men and women with natural bodies and there's angels over the city there's angels given charge over every city every country and there's demons that have been assigned every city every country every leader so the humans are in charge at one level the angelic authorities are in charge at another level but I believe in the age to come it will be natural believers and resurrected I think that will be the order that's coming because he says it clearly I have it the notes Hebrews 2:5 he goes I'm not gonna subject the world to come to angels I'm subjecting it to you so the resurrected Saints will be over the people with natural bodies they'll interface with them just again like now you might be blessed to have an angelic encounter once in your life or maybe more or maybe you don't ever have one but the Angels do appear here and they're very minimally and they give aid in they give instruction I can imagine something far more dynamic than that happening in the age to come look at Roman numeral eight and there will be a progressive increase look at Isaiah nine of the increase let's talk about the Messiah of his government there'll be no end a thousand years a million years his influences sphere will get bigger and bigger and bigger forever and forever it will keep progressively growing on what happens when we cover the earth the earth is full the glory of God I'm assuming he says look up there's billions and billions and billions of stars I mean who knows where it's going over trillions of years I don't know I don't care I don't think about that right now but I know that his government will never end it will always progressively grow paragraph B when the Lord gave Adam the mandate of dominion over the nation's he said Adam you and your sons and daughters Adam and Eve your sons daughters and all the generations exercise Dominion in my name he never took that mandate back ever we still have it he gave it to humans to be the vessels to bring the glory of God to the earth and in the millennial kingdom they'll go to a whole nother level then it'll go on beyond that in the age after the millennial kingdom the new heavens in the ANU earth I don't know the details of it but I'm assuming it will have parallel principles to the millennium at least to some degree paragraph C catch this this is the Millennium many believers I mean many people verse three that's with natural bodies you know hundreds of millions eventually billions or I don't know the numbers I'm just imagining in the Millennium after the tribulation many people will say let's go to Jerusalem Jesus will teach us his ways and he won't only just give Bible studies on the four Gospels undoubtedly he'll just that too but I think his ways of government he's gonna show ways of agriculture ways of economics you're gonna go back home to their nation with brand new ideas of how to do it better and the mendacious will constantly be coming to Jerusalem for training the point is is that we'll be teaching and the teacher will be Jesus but I don't think Jesus is the only teacher again where a hundred million people come and he's standing in front of all of them doing every seminar I believe Jesus is responsible and it's his teaching and it's those that are under him but I think it's the emphases and I say is that it's the Lord Himself and he will be he's the ultimate teacher but I believe it's Jesus and all his teaching I put the word institutions I that's a probably an adequate word but they'll be teaching on technology agriculture politics education and they'll go back to their nation to have a page five let's go to paragraph G the kings of the earth these are natural kings they'll actually come into the New Jerusalem because the New Jerusalem will be in proximity to the earth they'll have an ability to enter it the Kings well they will bring the glory of their nation to present to the Lord but here's what they do now catch this they take the leaves from the tree of life and the New Jerusalem they bring it back to their nation what do they do with those leaves I can only guess my guess is there are supernatural properties in those leaves that when mixed with seed or water or whatever it brings healing and purity and it heals the land in some glorious ways that has many dimensions to it that is far beyond my understanding but I know the leaves are brought back to the nations and the agriculture and the water systems and the atmosphere and maybe the people that eat the food from the gardens that are touched by those leaves or something like that again I don't want to have too much detail because I don't have it but we know in Ezekiel chapter 37 47 I mean when the water comes from the throne it heals all the bitter waters around the area the waters are all healed when that living water comes from the throne in the New Jerusalem but the New Jerusalem remember it's in proximity to the earth and it's the connected to the throne of Jesus paragraph H resurrected Saints there's much on this subject they will partner with the leaders of the lineal earth to restore cities Justice Society agriculture atmosphere animal life everything will be restored and it will be Saints under Jesus leadership impacting other people in the nation's Roman numeral 9 I've already said this but there's several maybe several billion Saints we don't know not all of them will be Kings over a nation again there's only about two Nations there may be more or less I don't know but all won't be Kings some will some will be over 10 city some over five cities some over various parts of a city interacting with the people with natural bodies just to give you a kind of a snapshot not that this is the picture or the parallel but just kind of look at the natural realm and see if there's any hints we can get about what global infrastructure might look like today just a casual quick study there's a hundred cities in the earth about that have about 4 million people plus there's five thousand but I have a hundred thousand people totally you can read the paragraph later if this is interesting to you villages towns and cities there's two million of them in the Earth's right now but if that not that that's the number of the age to come that's not I don't know but there's two million in a whole globe right now two million towns village cities but there might be two billion believers so everybody's not even over a city and the reason I'm saying that I I I want people to look at this and make it real and not just poetic or figure to everything this is actually real this really matters top of page six bring this thing to an end here it's a big topic but I love it so I kind of get going on it I think about it a lot in Revelation chapter two and three he gives two promises related to ruling the nation's and these two promises paragraph a or in context to overcoming immorality idolatry in being lukewarm he said if you overcome immorality in idolatry you'll reign you'll have power the nation's and I'm gonna tell you what level but you'll be involved in my government if immorality or idolatry touches you and you resist it not if you stumble you could rise up get forgiveness but you don't want to ever make peace with it say I'm just okay I'm just gonna live that way no you're resisting it all the way he says it really matters look at here he says to this one church he says you allow Jezebel to teach and seduce my servants to commit immorality and idolatry but if you overcome this I'll give you power over the nation's then he tells later on that's the thigh Atari tell that to them later on he tells Laodicea he goes if you overcome lukewarmness she'll sit with me on my throne paragraph B the point I'm wanting you to get is that there's many different levels and it's not about being over people to me it's about proximity working with what's near and dear to his heart it's not a minor name but it's about your life being a testimony you loved him when you couldn't see him so now he wants you to impart his love now that you do see him because your life was a testimony of loving him when it was challenging and difficult so he says those are the kind of people I want in my government so he tells the Apostles he connects their obedience to their job description now some people don't like this that makes me feel pressure again I say Lord shocked me now don't shock me then because the Lord is not changing his word or his kingdom policies because some people in America don't like pressure tell people so I don't like that cuz I feel pressure I said so we changed the Word of God because you feel pressure or you just do the ostrich put your head the ground and hopefully it changes no this is Jesus the Bible it's never changing ever I want to see what it says and embrace it he tells the Apostles verse 27 they say to him hey we left everything what do we have he says in verse 28 and the idea is because you left everything and there's a sovereign dimension he called them too but they said yes you'll get a rule on Thrones but he connects it to their obedience beloved eternal rewards are not based on your ability they're based on your response he tells him later in Luke 22 he says it's because you continued with me when it was hard you didn't quit therefore you're gonna sit on Thrones so he connects sitting on Thrones in Matthew 19 they gave up everything to his leadership and in verse 22 Luke 22 he connected it because they wouldn't quit when things got tough they stayed steady under his leadership paragraphs see I love this this gives all of us hope you were faithful here's the key in only a few things but the idea you were consistent it's not only you were faithful a few times that's not what he means you were consistently faithful but you didn't have much entrusted to you but just stayed steady yes you failed but every time you failed you recovered and you came back with all of your heart you're gonna be ruler over many Luke 19 he says the same thing a different way he said you were faithful for very little he didn't mean again their faithfulness was little but the sphere entrusted Bailey impacted a few people and nobody really appreciated them but they kept steady they didn't do it because men applauded them they did it because the Lord said I want you to do that now I'm watching you it says you'll be over 10 cities so beloved it's not about how much impact or how much education or how much money how much favor how much opportunity it's about the response of your heart paragraph 8 our life on the earth can be likened to a 70 year internship I've used this analogy over the years we are being prepared in this 70 years we're all in our internship right now our primary assignment on the earth is a thousand year assignment we are in prep our what we're doing matters now it really matters it's a real it's not a practice game but this is our preparation your 50 year your 70 your assignment on the earth it's not your primary one you will have a thousand year assignment on the earth with the physical body teaching training leading mobilizing big involved I want to use my 70 years with a view of my I'm getting trained for ministry you know worship TV go ahead come on out you know Billy Graham he's about 95 plus he's led many stadium events probably hundreds and hundreds of them I don't know he's it in turn when he steps across that line that resurrection 4,000 years he's gonna have a assignment on the earth I think that's gonna surprise him but he's an intern we're all interns right now and again that doesn't mean what we're doing is that the real thing and it really matters but what we're doing now is not the only thing we're doing and that's where people lose it they know what they're doing is real but they think it's the only thing no we're doing what we're doing now for real but we're preparing for something else that's real pair of F some of your personal prophecies this make excite you or discourage you some of your personal prophecies real ones and there are real ones they will have their greatest fulfillment on earth but in the Millennium what well the prophecies in the Bible for Jesus Abraham nation of Israel King David the prophecies for them in the Bible had a lot more to do with the Millennial Kingdom than their first time on the earth David has far more prophesy about when he comes back to the earth then when he was on the earth look at I get a list of others Daniel Elijah zerubabbel Ezekiel Aaron the tribe of Levi Phineas Zadok they had prophecies of their impact or what they would do when they came back in the resurrection so my point is we don't want to just be thinking only now who likes me and is it going good or is it hard and then we evaluate that's the whole storyline beloved that's only a part of the storyline he says have you overcome you will sit with me Wow if you overcome your lukewarmness you'll sit with me on my throne I go Lord I'm going for it I love that you'd said this to us Lord amen and amen let's stand oh I love your leadership lord I know I gave you a water hose to go man I don't even know what to do it all this but just take any the next week's it's gonna check out some of the verses anything you find on here you can't find in your with your own eyes and your own Bible throw it away only accept what you can find in the Bible from this you see something I said and then line up throw it away but check it out check it out because there's a big storyline where part amen Lord here we are before you we love your leadership Jesus [Music] and how great great is our God [Music] is Elka and all will see how great is [Music] I want to pray for people you feel like the Lord the enemy's hitting you right now you feel discouraged the enemy's trying to get you on the small picture see how hard it is now is it worth it and you know it's worth it but he's breathing hard his fire against you right now you would like prayer and I'm gonna invite you to give up his life beloved there's a bigger storyline then how big your impact and how easy your life is right now how much favor you have now here in preparation from far bigger ministry assignment and you've ever imagined the enemy wants us to be focused only on here and now so he can take us out [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it's coming while lover there's a big story that's your name on it it's kind of beautiful enemy want you to think it's only now here that matters [Music] he wants to get you to Quinn's he was forget or drove back [Music] it's gonna be he says if you overcome you'll sit with me on my tool not ever to sit with you I want a recess passivity of Luke idolatry its immorality those three things you highlighted about reading in the book of Revelation [Music] I want to be nor they want to overcome I don't want to quit [Music] Oh I want to give me courage get me straight not to you beloved if you don't quit he will be to overcome it's not to quit you keep on pursuing Jordan I'm signing up again tonight Lord [Music] I press all [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the spirit release your power the stream we say no in immorality we say no to idolatry which is covetousness [Music] [Music] [Music] there's a bigger story there's a bigger story line of your [Music] yes [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I love it it's worth and there's a bigger story going to it's bigger than your body or your favor Jesus said because you continue because you continue [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] say yes [Music] Jesus more [Music] [Music] release your glory right now just lumens that asking for manifestation of your grace [Music] [Music] [Music]

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