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Why Dominion Matters
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| Well, I believe when you when you talk about dominion, you know, there are some people they they criticize certain camps theologically for talking about what they call dominion theology. | |
| And I understand that there's something very specific that they mean by that. | |
| But the reality is that this entire book is a book about the church taking dominion. | |
| And I'll give you proof of that. | |
| Well, the first proof you need, just read the Bible. | |
| The very first book in the Bible, God makes man and says, take dominion over the earth. | |
| So that should be enough evidence for you. | |
| But I was talking to one guy recently about the return of the Lord. | |
| And I said, why do you think it is that Jesus hasn't returned yet? | |
| He died on the cross 2,000 years ago. | |
| And listen to what this guy said to me. | |
| He said, he hasn't returned because he's busy building our mansions in heaven. | |
| Now, I know why he thinks that, because Jesus said, I go to my father's house and all these things. | |
| But listen, God created the entire world in six days. | |
| He created it with the words of his mouth. | |
| Do you really think it takes him 2,000 years to build a house, to build a mansion? | |
| And besides that, he is eternal. | |
| And he knew the end from the beginning. | |
| Why didn't he think ahead and have these mansions prepared by now? | |
| There's obviously something else going on here. | |
| There is a reason that you and I and the body of Christ, there's a reason that we're in the world. | |
| And Jesus told us what it is. | |
| He said, you are here as salt and you are here as light. | |
| We are here to represent the kingdom of God. | |
| We are the conduits through which the power of God and the kingdom of God flows into the world. | |
| If we don't influence the world for the glory of God, no one else will. | |
| God doesn't just appear and do all of these things himself. | |
| He works through his people. | |
| In fact, even when Jesus came in the flesh, God himself, he wrapped himself, the Bible says, in the form, in the guise of humanity. | |
| He came as a man. | |
| He didn't just appear as some celestial being from realms of glory. | |
| He came as a man in flesh and blood because the purpose and the assignment of influencing this world has been given to humanity. | |
| We have a role to play. | |
| And even when it comes to the, you know, the current political climate, all of these other things, we cannot be sitting silently on the sidelines. | |