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Two Invisible Kingdoms

September 8, 2024 • Pastor Joe Sabolick Ph.D. • John 18:36, 2 Corinthians 4:18, Colossians 1:15, John 5:37, Matthew 12:24–28

A War Between Two Worlds 


Two Kingdoms-

The Kingdom of Heaven and the kingdom of the enemy who thought he’s flexing his muscles but he’s a defeated Foe- 


 

The devil is the god of this world 

He is the author of confusion

He’s There 


If he can get you confused he can weaken you and when you are weak he strikes 

kill steal 

and destroy~ 


After You Come To Christ You Belong To Him- 

Nothing can separate you from Him-  


Your Life Isn’t a dress rehearsal~ 


This is REAL! 

You have an enemy of your Soul 


That you have power over but you have to take the authority you have over it~ 


John 18:36  Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. 



The Dilemma Of Life~  



~Manifestation Of Light and darkness~


They are as real as you and I standing and sitting here-


You must have an awareness of the Unseen World- 


The unseen worlds

 has everything to do with 

Your Healing, 

Your Restoration 

Your Prosperity 

Your health 



2 Corinthians 4:18

while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen;

 for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.


Jesus Is~ 

Colossians 1:15

He Jesus is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.


Jesus speaking to the Religious people of the day...


John 5:37

And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. 

You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form…


Jesus Said~ 

John 14:8 If you have seen me you have seen the Father~ 


John 10:30 I and My Father are One



 Jesus Said~ 

Two Invisible Kingdoms-

 

Matt. 12:24–28


24 But when the Pharisees heard how Jesus was healing the sick and casting out demons-

 

they said, 

“It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that He drives out demons.” 


25 Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, 

“Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand. 


26 If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself.

 How then can his kingdom stand? 


27 And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people drive them out? 

So then, they will be your judges.


                        

28 But if it is by the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, 

Then the kingdom of God has come upon you…



Jesus Addressed Kingdom of God and also a kingdom of demonic activity~ 



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1 The Kingdom Of Darkness~


Ephesians 6:12 

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual host of wickedness in high places…


Planet Earth Is Under ATTACK~ 


MORE THAN EVER~ 


The battle of the human soul- 

Wake up to the Truth that there is a SPIRITUAL REALM- 


And These are no doubt Satanic energized times~ 

  


And you can be very well trapped and deceived- 


By just flowing through life- 


And not addressing the strongholds that might be in your life~ 


It’s a Wrestling match with spiritual beings without bodies…


Against rulers with various areas and descending orders of authority...



 Against the world dominators of this present darkness...


Racism, 

Division, 

Hatred, 

Bitterness, 

Jealously are Demonic in their Origins~ 


The enemy of your soul works to manipulate you in believing lies about God, Yourself & Others- 



Invading you with demonic influences to invade your life to develop strongholds- 





We are called to- 


Cast Down Strongholds 


2 Corinthians 10:3-5 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 

(For the weapons of our warfare are not in the natural or physical , but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against ...


Strongholds are the result of wrong thinking- 


Wrong beliefs that have taken root in your life. 


They are contrary to God’s thoughts- 

Inspired by the devil’s lies –


The devil will whisper to your natural flesh to try to cause doubt~ 


Get you to Question God’s power and authority Just like in the Garden`


Someone asked me Where Did God Come From` 



Asking Where did God Come From 

Displays You are thinking of the Wrong god~



The God Of the Bible is not affected by 

Time- Space- Or Matter~

If He is affected by Time Space Or Matter He’s Not God 


Time Space and Matter Is 

What we call a Continuum~


All of them Have to come into existence at the Same Instant 



Because if there was Matter But No Space Where Would You Put It?


If There was Matter and Space and No Time Then When Would You Put It?


You Cant have Time Space Or Matter 

Independently~ 


They have to come together Simultaneously


The Bible answers This in Ten Words 

Genesis1:1 

In the Beginning TIME

God Created The Heavens SPACE

And The Earth MATTER 

Time Space Matter 

A Trinity of Trinities 


Time- Past Present Future 


Space- Is Length Width Height 


Matter-

 Has

 

Solid

 Liquid 

Gas 


A Trinity of Trinities created instantly 


And The God Who Created Them Has To Be Outside Of Them 


If He is Limited By Time 

Then He’s Not God 


If Your Brain Is Just a Random collection of Chemicals that Formed Over Billions of Billion of Years 


How on Earth can you trust your own reasoning Processes and the Thoughts That you Think?


The Question Of Where Did God Come From Is 

Assuming A Limited God~ 


And That’s The Problem! 


The God That I Worship Is NOT limited By Time Space Or Matter 


If I could fit The God Of Creation In my 3 pound Brain He would not be worth worshiping~ 



We are Not Just Some Random Cells that happened to form Billions And Billions Of Years~  



1 The order and the structure of the cosmos 

point to an intelligent mind


2 Moral Absolutes!! 

Point to some Moral law giver 


Without Moral Absolutes Humanity would destroy itself~ 

And That of Course Is Where It Is Heading


3 Life Comes From Life 


I’ve never once Have I’ve seen Life come from Non life 



4 FREE WILL 

If there is no God You’re just hunk of biochemical Reactions 


That’s all I am 

You’re not free 

You’re determined by your biochemical reactions- 





Jesus said- 

The devil is the father of all lies- 


John 8:44 

You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do… 

He was a murderer from the beginning, 

and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. 


When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, 

for he is a liar and the father of it…




Jn. 10:10 The thief comes only that he might steal and might kill and might destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.



Kill steal and destroy- 


Establish that the devil is a liar- 


Because you are a Extreme Value to God 


And Because God Created you with a Purpose 

He created you with intention ~ 


Eph 1:4 

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 

4just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

 5having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,


Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew


Psalm 139:13 

For you created my inmost being;

    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.



In This society Of Rapidly growing Godless influences- are manifesting themselves trying to destroy you of the Truth of Gods Word and His Love For you ~ 



Lies-You believe about yourself, God or others – 


IF YOU give the devil a stronghold on your actions, behaviors and habits. 


The more strongly you believe these lies, the stronger the hold.


IF YOU ALLOW OTHERES CONTROL YOU THEY WILL



Strongholds don’t just sit in your mind doing nothing. 


They produce actions, behaviors and habits 

that, no matter what you try, seem impossible to get rid of.




All the pain, death, sickness, Killing of the unborn, Drugs- Pharmakia, witchcraft, new age deception, hatred, bitterness, prejudiced, 

unforgivness, jealousy and the list goes on... 


It’s all a Display of demonic strongholds- 



Strongholds that keep people deceived-

IN A LIMITED SPACE OF TIME~ 


All you see in this world today is what 

Jesus said would be happening before He would come again- 


It’s All Under The Banner Of The Kingdom Of Darkness! 


Eph. 2:2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.


Notice the Kingdom of the Air~ 

Or In The Air~ 


In the Realm of The Earth~ 


Spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenlies


Kingdom Of Darkness! 


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3 Realms Of Heaven~ 


Now We Understand The 


3 Heavens~


Gen.1:1

“Heavens”are plural


Sun The Moon The Stars The Galaxies-


Second heaven= 

Between God’s heaven and visible heaven:

 satan’s and the demons kingdom (dwelling places) 




Eph. 4:10 

Jesus ascended above all heavens 


 Third heaven/Paradise or God’s Eternal Heaven~ 


2 Cor. 12:2–4- 

Paul The Apostle was Caught up- 


Third heaven = God’s dwelling place…


This IS WHY YOU MUST IDENTIFY WITH WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE NOW! 


1 Jn. 4:4 greater...


Kingdom of Darkness~ 

Heavenly Realms~ 








2 Kingdom of God~ 


Colossians 1:13

“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son:”


Matthew 13: 

Jesus Gave an illustration or a Parable~ 

A Earthly Story With A Heavenly Meaning~ 

Of A Farmer who went out to plant wheat in his field~ 

And while he was sleeping an enemy came in an planted tears seeds… When the Wheat sprouted there were tears also~ 

His workers said should we pull up the tears? The Lord Of the Field said no lest we uproot the wheat~ 

Then Jesus Explained to His Disciples that The Field Is the Soil of the Kingdom of God 


The Seeds He planted were the Children of The Kingdom~ 

The tears were the children of the devil~ 


They look like Wheat They Smell Like Wheat But They don’t produce Wheat for the Kingdom of God ~

God Has Planted you in His Kingdom~ 

You Will not be destroyed~

God Put You Here Because you are going to make~  

The chaff is not going to defeat you it’s trying to up root you 

But Greater Is He who is in you 


1 These. 5:5

You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.


We Are Children Of The Most High God! 

We don’t have a FAKE JOY

YOU CANT HAVE JOY WITHOUT JESUS



Rev. 12:9 ...Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.


Luke 10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.


We must “pray through” and Rise Up- 


We are Children of The Light! 


Romans 8:37 

 More than conquers 


Phil. 1:6 He who has begun a good work in you 


The Child of God alone has been given the weapons to intervene in this spiritual war:


Intercession



Luke 10:19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, 

and over all the power of the enemy, 

and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Christ In You...


 

 How To Wage Spiritual Warfare


We must take advantage Of the equipment We have To Do with God Wants For You~ 


 Eph. 6:13–18

Spiritual Warfare 

We have been equipped with the ARMOR FOR OUR SPIRITUAL BATTLE~ 


You have come To a place of truth when you came to Jesus Christ~


You met the standards Of God’s Righteousness When you embraced the TRUTH of The Gospel~ 


Ephemeral 6:10–8

1. Waist clothed with truth~ 

2. Breastplate of righteousness~

3. Feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace~

4. Shield of faith

5. Helmet of salvation (thought-life) 


1 Thessalonians 5:8

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, 

putting on the Breastplate of Faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,


6. Sword of the Spirit—

The Word of God

7. Praying always 


Matt.12:28

But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, usurely the kingdom of God has come upon you. 

29 Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house. 

30 He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.



Matthew 12:30 

He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.



- First identify- the Enemy 

 then bind, the strong man



What is in your life that is attacking God’s Voice~


Don’t let it any longer~ 

RISE ABOVE IT! 


Remember You are Going to Rise Up And Rise Above the Attacks of the enemy~ 



The Thief does not try to break in and steal from someone who has nothing-


Thieves don’t drive by homeless people and think lets rob that…


There is noting to take~ 


But You are experiencing Attack because of Whose and Who You Are! 


I am looking a Valued Saints of God ~

Those who are Called To Be- Redeemed-

Restored- 

Renewed- 

Rewarded-

Readmitted-

 


You Will not be Uprooted 

You Have Benn Redeemed~ 


You might be hindered if you allow it~ 

But By the Blood Of Jesus You Are Back on Track! 


Recognize the Spiritual Attack and aggressively Cast it down~ 


In the Name of Jesus~ 



God has provided the necessary spiritual weapons 



Prayer


Harmonize in Unity~ 


God’s Promises~ 


Mat. 18:19 Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.


Two or more gathered in His Name~ 

God is with You! 


Christ in You the Hope of Glory ~


I and the Father are One~ Christ in You 


You ARE NOT OF The kingdom 

DARKNESS- 



John 14:11 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.



Seated Far above all~ 


Dwell where you are seated- 

In

The Secret Place Of The Most High- 


Thanksgiving Everything give Thanks~ 



Praising God 


Acts 16:25–26 25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

Let Everything that has breath~ 


LETTING YOUR LIGHT SHINE 



Remember, we are not of the kingdom of darkness, but of the Kingdom of God. 

Let us live with this awareness, allowing our light to shine brightly for His glory.