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Church as City and Army
00:05:48
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| And God is, I believe every church ought to be a city of refuge for the last days. | |
| Does that agree with you at all? | |
| Yeah. | |
| And I think a key word there is city. | |
| You know, the church is called many things. | |
| Yes. | |
| A bride, you know, a temple, a priesthood, but we're also called a city and an army. | |
| Where do you see the church really be in the city it's called to be? | |
| And where do you see it be in the army we're called to be? | |
| These are the last two major parts, and they're going to come together. | |
| And that's what I address in this book, that we've got to be the army, but we've also got to be the city that is set on a hill. | |
| A city is a community of communities. | |
| And a community is where there's common unity. | |
| You know, but we're going to see communities. | |
| Now, community means common unity. | |
| Isn't that right? | |
| You say that throughout your book. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And so it's a part of what I believe is also the koinonia that we're going to see the church really begin to experience, which is the greatest thing you can experience on this level. | |
| And it can only come through Christ. | |
| But, you know, the first thing he said was not good was for man to be alone. | |
| Loneliness. | |
| But you're going to see what is truly the great society coming forth in the body of Christ that I think the early church tasted four time, but they just tasted it because they were the seed. | |
| But now you're going to see the harvest is when the seeds come to full maturity. | |
| And we're going to see the body of Christ become what everything she was called to be. | |
| And a part of that is becoming the city we're called to be, which right here, that's why you're building all these things here. | |
| It's going to be a city. | |
| People are going to be able to see the body of Christ in action. | |
| We're trying to do the same thing at our place. | |
| We're seeking, and, you know, we're in the formative stages and all, but that's the two things the Lord gave me that we're called to do as a church, city and army. | |
| Wow, and that's what he deals with in this book. | |
| And a lot of God's people are not where they should be. | |
| And if you're a part of a church, you need to start helping that church prepare for an influx, to prepare for the last days harvest. | |
| We're not going out of business. | |
| We're going in business for the glory of God. | |
| The church is going to win more souls in this. | |
| If you read the book, this army of the dawn, this time is going to be a great soul-winning time. | |
| Yeah, it's, you know, weapons of our warfare are not carnal. | |
| We're not going to shoot people. | |
| We're going to heal them. | |
| You know, we're not going to kill them. | |
| We're going to get them saved and give them eternal life. | |
| You know, we're going to bring healing, restoration. | |
| But there are some aspects of a natural army that we've got to take on to be the army we're called to be. | |
| There's a military demeanor. | |
| There's a military discipline. | |
| When Israel came out of Egypt, it says they came out a great mixed multitude. | |
| Basically, you could have said they were a mob. | |
| Before they even got to the Red Sea, they were marching in martial array. | |
| That's how fast he got them marching in military discipline. | |
| And I think it's one aspect where you point anywhere in the body of Christ today. | |
| Where do you see the church really becoming the army it's called to be? | |
| Now, some aspects of missions and some great missions, they've adopted some aspects of this. | |
| Learning to think strategically, have clear objectives, be able to plan and to not only take the ground, but to hold the ground and possess the land. | |
| But a lot of these aspects, I think we're going to see. | |
| I know when General Boykin, who you're going to have here in March, that's great. | |
| He's going to be here. | |
| But when he first retired, yeah. | |
| So excited to have him. | |
| Yeah, he's one of the greatest warriors of our generation, no question. | |
| But when he retired from, he was the head of Delta Force and all, you know, he was at one time head of all U.S. Special Forces. | |
| And then he went on up beyond that. | |
| But one of the key people, I think, that God has both given him experience and knowledge that gives him a basis for understanding the times that may be greater than anyone else I know in many ways. | |
| But, you know, I remember he came to me right after he retired from the Army and he said, you know, I'm getting asked to speak everywhere and I've only got three messages. | |
| He said, I need some more messages. | |
| And he was wanting me to just give him something. | |
| I said, well, you've already got two more than just about most of the preachers I know. | |
| I said, you're way ahead of most of them. | |
| But I said, look, what does the church look like when we become the army we're created to be? | |
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Through Many Tribulations
00:00:36
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| Now, we put together another book, Jerry and I, on the principles of warfare that will be one of the follow-up volumes to this. | |
| But God is, I tell you, there's some that are really getting it. | |
| They're starting to impart the vision, but you're starting to see it happen. | |
| But we, you know, we are headed for tribulation, but that's the gateway to the kingdom. | |
| Since Acts 14, 22, through many tribulations will we enter the kingdom. | |