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This week we have Art Katz with his
message, Man's Petty Kingdom.
Well, I want to take you this morning
to a river.
I took you the other day to a
mountain.
It's that famous Jordan, which is ever and
always the profound place of choice and of
crossing.
And before I read from it, I just
want to read that paean of praise to
the church that is given us in the
book of Hebrews.
Don't turn, just listen to the amplified rendering.
But rather, it begins.
You've not been called to the old time
religion and to the revival of the things
that titillate your soul because they're couched in
the things that are familiar and the sentiment
of old.
And you're not called to the worldly wisdom
of men and their diagnostic helps for your
church growth.
But rather, you have approached unto Mount Zion,
even to the city of the living God,
the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless multitudes of
angels in festal gathering.
And to the church, the assembly of the
firstborn who are registered as citizens in heaven.
That's far more than Christian respectability.
And to the judge who is God of
all and to the spirits of the righteous
who have been made perfect.
This is evidently then something more than Sunday
church.
It's evidently a suggestion of a far more
intensive quality of relationship where the spirits of
just men can be made perfect that they
might be citizens in heaven.
And to Jesus, the mediator of a new
covenant.
So see to it that you do not
reject him or refuse to listen and to
heed him who is speaking to you now.
My prayer this morning, especially, and in these
days in general, has been this.
That I might be to him as a
mouth for you.
For if they, the Israelites, did not escape
when they refused to listen and heed him
who warned and divinely instructed them here on
earth, revealing with heavenly warnings his will, how
much less shall we escape if we reject
and turn our backs on him who cautions
and admonishes us from heaven.
Then as Sinai has worshipped the earth, but
now he has given a promise yet once
more, will I shake and make tremble not
only the earth but also the heavens.
Now this expression yet once more indicates the
final removal and transformation of all that can
be shaken.
That is of that which has been created
in order that that which cannot be shaken
may remain and continue.
May I prophesy that if you have not
experienced yet a shaking individually and in your
churches and throughout your movement, that you shall.
And that these speakings have been the beginning
of shakings.
For God will not allow to remain that
which cannot remain.
All that is earthly, all that has its
origin in human initiative and in sentiment and
in tradition, however hallowed and however dear, is
going to be crumbled and brought into the
dust.
Mark those words.
We're going to see movements collapse, stagger, sway
and fall.
We're going to see the most lustrous charismatic
churches and great multi-million dollar plants be
terrible stigmas.
Empty houses, unable to pay their mortgages and
to save themselves from their financial indebtedness who
are carried off by the fever of the
hour in great building promotions.
We're going to see some of the glossiest
and snazziest of present day ministries turn to
dust.
There's only one thing that will survive the
shaking.
It's a kingdom that is firm and stable
that cannot be shaken.
So offer to God pleasing service and acceptable
worship with modesty and pious care and godly
fear and awe for our God is indeed
a consuming fire.
With that admonition will you turn with me
to the first chapter of the Gospel of
John?
I can't think of a heavier imperative for
the church of Jesus Christ and the earth
today than the incarnation of God in them.
The mystery of God which is His deity,
His heavenly glory revealed through flesh.
That's much more than being correct, scripturally sound
and respectable.
It's a glory.
The phenomenon is a glory.
And no man has seen God at any
time.
But the only unique begotten Son which is
in the bosom of the Father, He has
revealed Him.
God will not do anything outside His Son.
I want to tell you that.
If your movement is not in His Son
and His Son is not in your movement,
you shall be outside the holy end time
purposes of God.
You may make a sound, you may have
your activity and your programs, but it counts
for nothing that is eternal.
Only the Son which is in the bosom
of the Father, not in tradition, not in
respectability, not in human wisdom and devices and
programs and methodologies, but in the bosom of
the Father, in the heavenly place, He shall
reveal Him.
My Jewish life was confronted and stopped short
when I beheld in a simple Gentile girl
whom I should have disdained and utterly cast
aside as not worthy of my attention the
light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory
of the people of Israel.
In her simplicity and in her transparency, God
was in her face.
And the word, it says in the 14th
verse, became flesh.
Human and incarnate and tabernacled fixed His tent
and lived a while among us and we
actually saw His glory, His honor, His majesty,
such glory as an only begotten Son receives
from His Father, full of grace and truth.
My only regret is I've not been able
to speak to you on truth.
It's full or it's not the Son.
It's full of truth and grace or it's
not the Son who is in the bosom
of the Father.
If you're making polite references, that soothes and
smooths the situation over, but it's not true.
It's no longer full of grace and truth.
It's no longer the Son in the bosom
of the Father and there's no longer the
revelation of the Word made flesh which alone
can save men out of death.
You can have all your evangelistic programs, but
you need to be full of grace and
truth.
John testified about Him and cried out, This
is He of whom I said, He that
comes after me has priority over me, for
He was before me and He takes rank
above me and He existed before I did.
How we need to parrot that cry.
Do you realize that there's one who has
priority over you?
And who takes rank over you?
I'll tell you that if I would just
summarize the whole issue at the end of
the age, it's this.
It's the petty kingdoms of men versus the
kingdom of God.
It is the kingdom of heaven.
It has priority over you and it takes
rank over you.
Have you seen that and have you acknowledged
that?
Out of His fullness we all received and
had a share and were all supplied with
one grace after another and spiritual blessing, gift
upon gift.
For the law was given through Moses, but
grace, favor and spiritual blessing and truth came
through Jesus Christ.
No man has seen God at any time.
The only unique Son, the only begotten Son
who is in the bosom, that is in
the intimate presence of the Father, He has
declared Him, He has revealed Him, brought Him
out where He can be seen.
He has interpreted Him, He has made Him
known.
God will not do anything outside of the
Son that reveals the Father.
And the question is this.
Are you in the Son?
Are you in the glory of what God
is establishing now in these end times in
the earth?
The body of Christ.
I'm not impressed that you can use the
phrase glibly.
I'm only impressed with the actuality.
But I'll tell you, to be in this
requires a coming out of something else.
You cannot come into this Son with all
of your trappings and all of your own
vested interests.
There's no place for that in the bosom
of the Father.
And this is the testimony of John when
the Jews sent priests and Levites to him
from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are you?
He was this ungainly character, sounding off in
his shrill way, in that muddy place in
the Jordan, in the wilderness.
An offense.
He confessed and admitted the truth and did
not try to conceal it, but acknowledged, I'm
not the Christ.
And they asked him, What then?
Are you alive?
He said, I'm not.
Are you the prophet?
He answered, No.
Then they said to him, Well, who are
you?
Tell us so that we may give an
answer to them that sent us.
What do you say about yourself?
He said, I'm the voice of one crying
aloud in the wilderness, the voice of one
shouting in the desert.
Prepare the way of the Lord.
Straighten out the path of the Lord, as
the prophet Isaiah said.
The messengers, it says in the 24th verse,
had been sent from the Pharisees.
And they asked him, Why then are you
baptizing, if you're not Christ, nor Elijah, nor
the prophet?
John answered them, I only baptize in water,
but among you there stands one whom you
do not recognize, and with whom you are
not acquainted, and of whom you know nothing.
These things occurred in Bethany, across the Jordan,
where John was then baptizing.
Can you picture the scene, folks?
Pathetic prophet, ungainly, and unattractive, creating some kind
of ruckus in that distant wilderness place outside
of Jerusalem.
It's a Jerusalem which has been abandoned of
God.
It is no longer the holy city.
It's a city whose wine has turned to
water, and it's silver to dross.
The city of righteousness has become the city
of harlots.
And such a phenomenon does not take place
in a day.
It's a gradual erosion.
And usually, those who are there are unwary
and unseeing.
The temple still stands, but the Shekinah glory
of God has long since departed.
There are still priests, but they're flunkies and
functionaries sent by the Pharisees to inquire of
what is that ungainly thing taking place in
the muddy Jordan, at a spot just before
it empties out into the Dead Sea.
I had that kind of strange sense this
morning that this is where we stand now,
spiritually speaking, at this point of time.
There's something that is happening outside your Jerusalem,
outside your religious establishment.
Have you seen it?
There are only two classes of people that
were there at that point in time then,
and there are only two classes of people
now.
The first is indignant, suspicious, and somewhat hostile,
or at best, curious, mildly, to see what's
going on.
Men who have been sent by the Pharisees,
not by God, to inquire what's going on
here.
How dare anything go on outside our Jerusalem?
Of these, John the Baptist said to them,
there's one here whom you do not recognize
and with whom you're not acquainted and of
whom you know nothing.
John himself was not able to discern and
to see him and to realize who this
son was, except that he would glimpse him
in the waters of repentance and separation.
I'm not impressed with the glib and cheap
and easy unctuous mouthings of the phrase, Body
of Christ, which is the corporate, many-membered
Son that shall reveal the Father, which is
the Church of the Firstborn, the Zion of
God, the New Jerusalem, the Heavenly City.
Have you really seen it by revelation?
In the scene that changes everything, there's only
one place that you can discern it.
It's in the waters of separation.
The radical descent into death, which the Jordan
is.
And I'll tell you that by the eye
of God, there are only two classes of
men.
Those who sense their woeful and terrible inadequacy.
Those whose hearts are burning because they're discontent
with mere religion.
In whose heart there's a cry for the
coming of the Lord in fullness and in
glory.
And we stand again historically at such a
time.
The soon coming of the Lord.
And there's again a place where God is
bidding men to repent of their vested self
-interest, of their fierce and intense personal ambitions,
of their own desires for the future, of
all of the welter of things that pertain
to their religion and to their Jerusalem.
And to come out of that and to
come and to humble themselves in that muddy
place and enter the waters of radical separation
from selfishness, from ambition, from power, from the
love of prestige and the esteem of men,
that they might glimpse a son who is
being brought forth and to whom they can
be joined in those self-same waters.
One whom you've not recognized.
One with whom you're not acquainted and one
of whom you know nothing.
I'll tell you if you'll not enter the
waters at this time, for there's certainly a
timing of God.
Had they known the time of their visitation,
Jesus wept as he looked upon Jerusalem on
his way to the cross.
I believe that these days have been a
time of visitation for your denomination.
That if you'll not enter the waters of
separation, think of what it will cost you
who love the fraternity of like-minded men,
who are presidents of institutions and heads of
denominations.
How scintillating and intoxicating and heady it all
is.
How full of things that are pompous and
earthly, worldly.
That which is esteemed of men is abomination
in the sight of God.
I'll tell you if you might enter these
waters here now, they'll flow into the Dead
Sea and your denomination with them.
You're at a fierce and severe radical moment
of choice and it behooves you to see
who is being brought out of these waters.
That is God's end time instrument for the
revealing of himself to men before the day
of his judgment shall come.
The son who is in the idealism of
the father, he'll not do anything outside that
son.
He has priority over us and rank over
us.
Over our denominations, over our interests, over our
individual churches and careers.
Only in him shall the glory of God
be revealed.
A son that shall receive the spirit of
God without measure and enter the familiar synagogues
that have long ignored him and look up
in stark amazement at the power and the
authority at which he shall speak under that
spirit.
For the spirit of God shall be upon
him for he hath anointed him to open
the eyes of the blind, to set the
captives free, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim
the acceptable year of the Lord and the
day of his soon coming wrath.
How dare we think to conclude the messianic
task except by the spirit of God without
measure which is given only to a son.
This is he of whom I said, after
me comes a man who has priority over
me, who takes rank above me because he
was before me and existed before I did,
before old time religion he was.
And at the end of the age he
shall be.
And I did not know him and did
not recognize him myself.
It wasn't because I was a long time
Pentecostal or I was even related to him
that I was able to recognize him.
But in order that he should be made
manifest and be revealed to Israel, be brought
out where we can see him that I
came baptizing in water.
It's only the place of repentance that reveals
the son.
For as many who will not be content
to stand on the bank as the curious
or the indignant but will come as the
broken and the contrite to enter the waters
of radical separation.
John gave further evidence saying, I've seen the
spirit descending as a dove out of heaven
and it dwelt on him not to depart.
And I did not know him nor recognize
him but he who sent me to baptize
in water said to me, upon whom you
shall see the spirit descend and remain, that
one is he.
And I've seen that happen, I actually did
see it and my testimony is that this
is the son of God.
You should be patient with me this morning,
I just want to make one reference to
another critical time at the Jordan when God
again called the people to choice.
It's in Joshua the third chapter, when a
people had been stumbling about, if you will,
in a religious wilderness forty years, a time
of judgment.
And the hour had come to cross and
God said and commanded the people saying when
you see the ark of the covenant of
the Lord your God and the priest of
Levites bearing it, you shall remove from your
place and go after it.
Come not near unto it that you may
know the way by which you must go
for you have not passed this way heretofore.
God intimated some things to you that pertain
to the kingdom and of course within the
purview of a morning speaking time he could
not disclose details.
But how few of you were interested sufficiently
to pursue me and to inquire.
You have not been this way heretofore and
you shall have no knowledge of what remains
on the other side except that you can
enjoy the apprehension and the fear and the
tremblings which are right because on the other
side is that final showdown with the powers
and the principalities of the Gilgashites and the
Amorites and the Hivites the Canaanites cities which
have ever and always been opposed to the
spirit of God and to his people.
That final battle in the taking of the
land that on his holy hill his temple
may be established and the glory of that
house shall be greater than the former.
There's a land to be possessed folks for
those who enter the Jordan and cross over.
It's a time for radical commitment and you
cannot bring the things that you've enjoyed in
the wilderness into the new land.
God who is gracious and has honored our
immaturity with daily manner now shall require us
to live from the land and enter in
to apostolic vigor and to reality.
When you shall see the ark of the
Lord being lifted by the priests and the
Levites you shall remove from your place and
go after it.
Though you have not been this way heretofore
when the priest who bear the covenant of
the Lord shall put their feet in the
Jordan it shall part and the people shall
go over as on dry land.
As the priest that bore the ark of
the covenant of the Lord stood firm on
dry ground in the midst of Jordan all
the Israelites passed over until all the people
were passed clean over Jordan.
Unlike any of the previous messages in these
days which you have called lectures I'm going
to give an invitation at this conclusion to
the priests and to the Levites who are
the bearers of the ark for the hour
has come when the ark of God is
being lifted and he's bidding his people pass
over.
There's a class of men unlike those that
were sent by the Pharisees who were religious
flunkies to do the bidding of those who
are concerned with their establishment in Jerusalem.
A mere shadow, a disfigurement, a grotesque caricature
of the true priests whose service is to
God only who is the first one in
and the last one out who has got
to stand in the midst of swirling waters
as if on dry ground in the faith
and the commitment and the courage that will
part the waters and enable a people to
follow after.
Jerusalem was no longer a holy city.
The whole land lay under Roman bondage.
The Greek Hellenistic spirit seduced and prevailed over
all the people.
How much like this present hour.
The glory of God had departed the temple
and the priesthood was corrupted concerned only with
their prestige, their position and their advantage.
But outside isn't that always the way?
Outside.
Outside religious Jerusalem at the faithful place of
crossing at the muddy wilderness spot the ark
of God was again being lifted.
It was at a final place of opportunity
for radical separation in the waters of repentance
before the Jordan ended its journey into the
Dead Sea.
Today there is a sun coming forth out
of those waters upon whom the Holy Spirit
will descend and remain without measure, greater than
any denomination and all of them together.
The curious and the indignant cannot know or
recognize him.
Only those who enter the waters of death
to pride, to recognition of men, to religious
ambition, to power, to prestige.
Because you have obeyed my voice God said
to Abraham in multiplying I will multiply you.
You don't need charts and graphs.
If you've been unwilling to go up will
you pass through?
If you've not heard the voice of God
will you this morning see the ark of
God being lifted by the priest and the
Levite?
When you see the ark of the covenant
of the Lord your God and the priest
the Levite bearing it then you shall remove
from your place and go after it though
you have not been this way heretofore.
God has not invited you to move to
a hundred and sixty acre farm as he
has us.
We're only one model and form and variant
of Christian community.
We've not set before you some narrow kind
of self interest asking you to emulate us
but we have proclaimed a kingdom.
The same kingdom that John the Baptist came
proclaiming the same kingdom of heaven that Jesus
both began to teach and to preach and
the same kingdom that was in the heart
and the mouth of Paul to his final
and to his dying day.
It is still in the heart of God.
It's a kingdom that eclipses all.
It takes priority and rank over all.
If you'll follow the ark of God which
is being lifted though you've not been this
way heretofore.
I have such a sense of sadness to
see this fantastic facility, this school, these buildings,
the men and families that live all about
it as a cluster and to see and
to recognize that it is an institution and
not an organism.
It has all of the precious potential for
the expression of the kingdom if you would
but make but one radical apostolic shift from
things institutional in the systems of men to
the things that are apostolic and that are
the expression of his life in the community
of God which is his kingdom, the Zion
of God, the heavenly city, the new Jerusalem
which cometh down from above where the spirits
of just men are made perfect.
Behold the ark of the covenant of the
Lord of all the earth passeth over before
you into Jordan.
Where are the priests of the Lord who
are the first ones in and the last
ones out?
One of your dear ministers said to me
privately the other day, when you began speaking
God, I was ready to shout Amen but
one of the leaders of our movement cautioned
me with his finger to keep quiet.
How many of you can say with Elijah,
as the Lord my God liveth before whom
I stand?
And how many of you are conscious that
you're observed and seen by the men of
your movement who can see to your promotion
and advancement?
I'll tell you if you'll continue that way
you'll be the priests that were sent by
the Pharisees rather than the priests who can
bear the ark of the covenant of the
Lord.
Where are those who will be the first
ones in and the last ones out?
God does not give you or explain to
you what the crossing is going to mean
what lies on the other side, what kinds
of struggles and battles are before you what
it will mean to possess the land and
to live from the land what it will
mean to leave behind the institutional securities and
the comforts and the things that are familiar
and proven and tested to explore and to
find your way into that new relationship with
God's people by which they can by one
shout break down the walls of those who
oppose them.
I'll tell you that's more than Pentecostal bellowing.
It's the one voice of those who have
been called into an army and who have
exposed their flesh to the cutting of the
sharp knife of the Lord till they be
healed and each man find his place in
the camp.
All of that awaits you on the other
side for those who will cross over but
there'll be no crossing for the people until
the priests will be the first ones in
and the last ones out.
Priests who can stand firm on dry ground
and I'll tell you it'll get dry.
In the midst of the flood that the
people might pass over into the land of
promise kingdom living.
Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at
hand.
That kingdom is only to be found and
to be established on the other side.
And I want to tell you as a
Jew that there are two and a half
tribes that never passed over.
Dad, Manasseh and Reuben never ever made it.
Lost forever to the purposes of God and
to the people of Israel because they could
not bring themselves to pass over.
The grass was just too lush on the
side which was already familiar to them and
their distinctive was that they were razors of
flesh.
What a melancholy picture we have in the
New Testament when Jesus himself encounters one of
the descendants of that people now ridden with
demons to Gad Arene.
Living in the cemetery with dead man's bones
naked and in chains.
What a last and melancholy statement of a
people who would not cross over.
And nothing had changed because when he casts
the demons out of this victim they drove
him from their coasts more concerned for the
loss of their swine than for the recovery
of a man made sane.
I'll tell you dear children if you have
ears to hear it's a fateful thing not
to cross when God gives you a cross.
For you've not passed this way heretofore.
We have been too long in the religious
wilderness more concerned for the raising of flesh
than the building of his kingdom.
We are not told what awaits us on
the other side but the end we know.
The Shekinah glory of God and the temple
that shall be established on his holy hill.
Where are the priests of God who will
bear it and where are those who seeing
it will remove and go after though they've
not been this way heretofore.
Believe in the Lord thy God so shall
you prosper.
Believe in his prophets so shall you be
established.
I have been faithful to speak the words
that God has put in my mouth and
now you are called not merely to compliment
me because I've challenged your thinking and it
was an interesting lecture but if this is
not very God calling an entire people to
a new place in apostolic reality in the
establishing of a kingdom a new quality of
life and relationship that will require the radical
alteration of much and at the beginning of
which is to be found in the waters
of repentance and separation for our ambition for
our self interest for our vanity for our
pride for our self seeking for loving the
esteem of men more than the approval of
God.
So I'm going to ask you to bow
your heads with me precious
holy God it's
with trembling that I have to announce to
this people what is my function in your
body lest they think that they were hearing
only a speaker lest they think that this
was an interesting series of days with different
aspects of the truth that somehow all fit
together when you have in your providence set
before them alternatives that require radical choosing indeed
now as then there are only two categories
of men at the Jordan those who are
merely curious or indignant that anything can take
place outside their Jerusalem and those that are
broken and contrite who want to see and
glimpse the sun which is being brought forth
out of these waters and be joined with
him precious God may these words be as
the lifting of the ark before this people
that as many who have eyes to see
and ears to hear will be willing to
remove from their place though they have not
been this way heretofore and my final word
precious God in prayer among these dear precious
people whom we love with your love is
for those whom you've called to be the
priests of God to go before and to
bear the ark to put their feet in
the waters of the flood though it's threatened
to engulf them to hear the roaring of
the lions that are displaced in their lairs
by the riverside at the flood stage the
shrieks and the cries of fanatic and worse
that they shall hear but the water shall
not part except there be a class of
men whose first loyalty is to God before
anything else who will be ever and always
willing to be the first ones in and
the last ones out in the name of
Jesus and as a minister of this everlasting
gospel I want to ask those men whose
hearts are set for God who will be
his priests to get out of their seat
and to come and to kneel by the
front of this platform to be the first
ones in and the last ones out you
have no idea what this is going to
cost you you'll suffer the misunderstanding of men
you'll offend many you'll
have no distinctiveness in yourself you'll be a
priest swathed in the blood of sacrifice from
your fingernails to your elbows dripping with the
gore of sacrifice there's nothing attractive about the
calling full of tremblings wholly separated unto God
bearers of the ark precious God in Jesus
name if this is not some kind of
mock and hokey religious service if this is
something that was born in heaven and these
were the words of your speaking and this
is your invitation then I ask you now
to seal in heaven by name every precious
man of God who has come to bow
before you and to acknowledge that you have
priority over them and rank over them who
are laying on the altar of God this
morning sanctifying themselves every petty ambition and thought
for the future of what they were going
to be and what they were going to
do and the audiences that they would impress
and the elevated positions that they would attain
in the movement willing that it should all
perish that they might have but one distinction
in God to be the bearers of the
holy ark that there might be a city
set on the hill out of which the
Shekinah glory can again come to flood a
dark earth with the knowledge of God unto
the salvation of despairing millions everywhere.
Thank you for these precious priests, Lord.
Seal them by name.
Give them the preparation that goes far beyond
schooling that men can provide shape their lives
in testing and in trials that they shall
not balk at floods and swirling waters that
they can stand still in the midst of
a dry ground and not panic and not
seek for devices and techniques and methodologies to
save them from their predicament but trust the
God whose ark they bear.
And now a final word of invitation for
the people who will follow after.
Those of you who have seen the ark
of God being lifted this morning and are
prepared to follow after these priests who bear
it into a land of promise, it'll blow
your mind.
It'll destroy every conventional religious category you have
ever entertained.
It'll bring you into a fierce new place
where privacy as you've understood it, will be
a thing of the past.
It'll be a new honesty and quality of
truth in living.
Lives that are transparent and open to each
other.
It'll be a people who are together.
It'll be Peter standing with the eleven.
It'll be Peter and John going up together
into the gate beautiful.
It'll be behold how good and pleasant it
is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
It'll be the end of things feigned and
postured.
It'll be the end of religious faces.
It'll be kingdom reality.
I ask you to stand if you're prepared
to follow after this morning, willing to cross,
though you have not been this way heretofore.
Art, can't you explain to us what it's
going to mean?
What are the particulars?
No.
It's just for those who love him enough
to follow without knowing.
I'll tell you this, I cannot believe that
we can cross into this land and still
continue as we were.
There has got to be radical alteration unto
glory.
Precious God, seal this moment in heaven, Lord.
Woe to those who have stood idly to
this invitation because of the fear of man,
but seal this scene in heaven, mighty God.
May it be a profound and historic moment
of crossing into a new land, precious God.
A new reality, a new glory that shall
make you known.
Precious God, save us from the image that
we have adopted from the world about what
church ought to be, what a minister ought
to be, what a denomination ought to be,
and give us in a burning way by
fire what that holy city is, that new
Jerusalem that cometh down from above, that Zion
of God, that church of the firstborn, the
spirits of just men being made perfect.
Oh God, thy kingdom come, thy kingdom come,
and not some patsy middle class religious alternative.
Thy kingdom come on earth as it is
in heaven.
Transform this school from an institution to an
organic and pulsating expression of your life by
a people lived by faith who flow together
by the spirit of life.
A glory to God in the earth that
shall produce priests of God and not functionaries
and hucksters and thieves and promoters.
Seal, precious God, this consecration this morning and
work out the application of it in the
minutest detail as we cross over with you
to the other side.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, precious God.
Seal it in heaven, Lord, and bring it
forth.
Thank you, Lord.
Thy kingdom come.
Intoxicate us for the kingdom of God.
May we be drunk with the words the
kingdom, the kingdom, the kingdom.
No longer the petty kingdoms of men, but
the kingdom of thine own dear son into
whom we have been translated at the place
of crossing this day.
In Jesus' name we pray.
You've been listening to the From the Pulpit
in Classic Sermons series.
This week, you heard Art Katz with his
message, Man's Petty Kingdom.
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speak about the final judgment of God on
From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons.