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Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo
Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Hello again. This is World Pastor Tony Alamo. Today we are in part 109 of How to Have God's Life Living in You. Actually, every message I preach or teach has to do with God's life living in you, because if His life does not live in you, that means His Spirit is not in you. Remember that the Spirit of Christ is the fullness of the Godhead. God dwells in you. When His Spirit is in you, you have the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in you.

If His Spirit is not in you, then when you die and stand on the day of judgment, you will not rise from the dead to be judged favorably by the Lord. You will stand before the great white throne of judgment, and you will not be happy at all. You will be terrified.

This is program number 211. If you would like to have a copy of it, please mention whether you want an audiotape or a CD. It is free. The postage, teaching, and handling are free of charge.

Right now, let us go to the throne and ask the Lord to anoint this message.

Lord, we are in Your kingdom. You are extending Your kingdom from heaven to this earth. We must keep ourselves in this present world as we will be in the kingdom of heaven. We are in this present world, but we are not a part of it if we are in Your kingdom.

You are God. You are the One who created heaven and earth, and You are repossessing it through those who believe everything You say. Humanity lost that kingdom when Adam and Eve - Eve first - disbelieved Your word over something most people would say was simply touching a piece of fruit from the wrong tree and eating it. Yes, this is the way it really is.

You are the King of the kingdom, and no one will disobey You unless they want to be outside the kingdom. Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word, believing every word that proceeds from the mouth of the God who is alive, the living God.

Lord, I pray, as we always do, be with me. Speak through me in this service so that as many souls as You will may be saved. I know there is nothing in You that loves to see souls burning in hell. You chasten the world because You chasten those whom You love. You do not love the sin they are committing, but You chasten them in hopes that they will cry out to You for forgiveness.

Send down the latter rain of Your mercy, Lord God, that souls will be saved and the church will be strengthened. In Jesus' name, everyone says amen and amen.

All right. We have some letters here. Where is the first letter from?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
From Canby, Oregon.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Here in the United States, Oregon. The state of Oregon is a beautiful state. Okay, let us hear it.

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
I was so happy reading your letters from Christians all over the world and to find that the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries are still out in the world saving souls. I was a visiting Christian in Saugus, California, then moved to Fort Smith to serve the Lord for five years as a visiting Christian. Circumstances had me move back to Oregon, and I have missed the church every day.

I am sickened when I see or hear things about the church being a cult and the lies about many things. You know what is said; there is no need to list them. Those who do not know you all do not know God. Stay strong in the Lord and fight the good fight.

Karen from Canby, Oregon.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Praise the Lord. The next letter is from Kenya, Africa.

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
Dear Pastor Tony,

Greetings to you and the brothers and sisters of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for the A.V. Bibles, Messiah books, and newsletters we have received.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
That is just a drop in the ocean.

I turned on the television the other day, and I believe it was the day before yesterday, and I saw Jan and Paul Crouch of the big network handing out Bibles in Haiti. There are many things on their network, a lot of things on their network, that I do not agree with. But I think that because we are distributing Bibles, they too decided to do so, and they are distributing millions of Bibles.

I just hope and pray that they are the King James Version. I was really surprised to see how we have influenced other people. The people in Haiti were extremely happy too. They were coming in line, and one of them was handing a Bible to each one of the people. Praise the Lord. Thank You, Jesus, for what they are doing there now.

If people need Bibles, get them for them. We are not receiving as many tithes and offerings as we would like, but we keep praying that the Lord will send the money. We know that if we keep His commandments, He will. It costs a lot of money to hand out Bibles like that. But thank God there is another entity now where you can receive Bibles.

There are Catholics, and I disagree with the doctrine of Catholicism because it is false, but praise the Lord for them handing out Bibles. That is very unlike Catholics. They do not want you to read the Bible. I pray that what I saw - I just saw the end of it - I pray that they are doing that everywhere in the world.

Glory to God. I love to give good commentary on people when I see them do good. But they do so much evil that maybe God will give them wisdom, knowledge, and understanding so that they will begin doing everything the Lord says to do.

Okay, in the meantime, Jan and Paul, you can send us a few million of them, because there are a lot of people who write us who want some. Give some tithes and offerings to a work that believes in sharing the truth and not telling people a bunch of damnable lies.

All right. Continue the rest of this letter.

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
Many people here are being saved, encouraged, and blessed by reading your literature. May God richly bless you. Every blessing to you,

Pastor Amos from Kenya, Africa.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Praise the Lord. Then what?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
From Cotabato, Philippines.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Dear Tony Alamo Church.

I am sure we influenced them to do that, because they never did this before. All they were interested in was getting more and more television stations and telling all the heresy they do. When they give a Bible, if it is the King James, there is no heresy in there. Amen. Praise the Lord. Maybe they got saved through our ministry. Glory to God.

Okay. Then what?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
Dear Tony Alamo Christian Ministries,

Greetings once again in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, whose we are and whom we serve. I am so thankful to our God Almighty for using His servant, Pastor Tony Alamo, to send to us the soul-winning literature.

It was on June 1, 2006, at two in the afternoon that I claimed the baggage full of literature and some books from Pastor Tony Alamo in the post office near our barangay. Since the seminar was going on, I arranged the materials for distribution. In the evening before departure, I started to distribute the literature with my young people and continued distributing on the second day, the last day of our seminar.

I am happy because of their positive reaction. This soul-winning literature of Pastor Tony Alamo is very commendable and inspiring, and it really touched the hearts and minds of every individual who read his message. Some also committed to work for the glory of God.

Pastor Alamo, according to them, you truly were used by God as an instrument so that people know there is a God who moves and rules in the entire universe and all of humanity. They are planning also to share the teaching of Pastor Alamo in the church, especially in Sunday school and some extension-service programs in the church.

Last June 12, 2006, we had the International Inter-Ministerial Meeting in our municipality of Midsayap, composed of different denominations whose stand and belief are not contrary to what the Bible says. Twenty-five pastors attended from different denominations. After the meeting, I gave them an announcement that I brought my Christian soul-winning literature from Pastor Tony Alamo, and I equally distributed the materials.

Some were not content to bring only a few pieces of material. They asked to have more because they also wanted to share what they learned from the man of God with their congregations. I am thankful for the wonderful response of my fellow workers, and they promised me to help next time with distribution if you can still send some literature and Bibles.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Yes, we can still send some literature and Bibles. If we run out of Bibles, call Jan and Paul.

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
Another gathering of pastors from five municipalities in our province will be conducted. This is a bigger fellowship for all pastors and ministers, and I will ask the president of PALMA, composed of five towns or municipalities, to include in the agenda my distribution of the materials.

My prayer is that as they read the materials, there will be fire that burns in their hearts, and they will commit their lives to God for a greater service. I still have some literature left, but I will not stop distributing it with my young people until I have completely finished all.

God bless. In Christ's service,

Pastor Jesse from Cotabato, Philippines.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Well, Pastor Jesse, God bless you as well. You are doing a terrific job. Keep it up, and we will always send you literature and Bibles - whatever you need.

Okay. Now, Sharon, we are going to read a couple of verses from the second chapter of the book of Hebrews. The reason we are doing this is because almost all the evangelists on Jan and Paul's network and on other networks have so much heresy.

If I ran this network, or any network, and the network was on twenty-four hours a day, with a lot of one-hour programs and a lot of half-hour programs, and if I heard heresy on there, I would immediately tell them, "Look, Reverend Hagee, Reverend Parsley, Reverend Schuller, Benny Hinn, and all your different reverends, you are preaching heresy here. Stop it, or I am going to have to put you off the network."

I could get a network myself. It runs about $100,000 a month, and it could turn into - you say, "Well, you would have to put some of these heretics on, or else you would not be able to pay for the network." But if they charge, say, $5,000 an hour, that is $5,000 times twenty-four. So that is good money, and even if it were $1,000 an hour, that is $24,000 a day. In four days, you pay for the $100,000 it costs to have a network. Then you have to get all the equipment and everything else.

They have these satellites in the air, and on each satellite they have twelve networks. There are networks available. So if anyone in radio land would like to sponsor us with a network, pay it up for a year, and give us the equipment, then I will run the network for you and police that network for you to make sure there is no heresy going over it.

You have the Crystal Cathedral, where they held the big honor for the popes, and the popes are the ones who have caused all the wars. The Vatican and the city of Rome are where Satan's seat is, as the Bible tells us. They are the ones responsible for creating all these wars.

This fake war is the first time that we know of that the United States started a war. I would say the vast portion of the population in the United States and the world believe that it was a fake war. It was not supposed to have happened at all, and it has caused people all over the world to hate those of us in the United States.

Jan and Paul put these kinds of people on. They were having the celebration for the Vatican at the Crystal Cathedral, and Jan and Paul were there. Benny Hinn was there. Benny Hinn was at the funeral of the pope and was saying that Catholicism is good. Even though they say they are eliminating the Bible from schools, Jack Van Impe says, "I am a Catholic and proud to be one." All of them.

I would not allow those kinds of people on my network at all. Benny Hinn keeps going from wearing a Catholic priestly outfit, and when he gets too much flak, then he takes it off. He is a very sickening type of character.

They are preaching this heresy that Jesus had a different blood than we do. So I want to read two verses from the second chapter of Hebrews, verses 14 and 17, to prove to you without a doubt that the word of God is the kingdom of God. Therefore, if you are of this kingdom, you receive everything the King of the kingdom says.

The King of the kingdom says that He was flesh, blood, and bone, and He had no special blood. Even Isaiah 53 says the same thing. He was not any different from the rest of us, except that He had the Spirit of God in Him. He had flesh, blood, and bone, and it was human flesh, blood, and bone. God cannot die, so He had to come into the world as a human so He could die and shed His precious blood for the forgiveness of all our sins.

It was not God's blood. God does not have blood. That is why He had to come as a human.

So Reverend Hagee and so many of them - the last one I heard was Hagee - said that two times, even after I rebuked him on the air. I do not mean the man any harm, but he is harming a lot of people. When people think that Jesus was not flesh, blood, and bone, they say, "Of course He could keep all the commandments." Then they keep saying, "Nobody is perfect." Well, you will be perfect, or you will not enter the kingdom of heaven, the Bible says.

There are many scriptures in the Bible that state we must be perfect, especially in the New Testament, where it says we must not have any sin on our soul to enter the kingdom of God. Romans chapter 8 tells us that if we walk in the Spirit of the Lord, there is no condemnation to those who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. If you are not condemned, then you are perfect.

If you murder somebody in this world, the law of the land could act against you if you are just a regular person. Not like President Clinton, where he ordered the murder of the people at Waco. Nothing will happen to him in this world, except a lot of angry people will be angry at him. President Bush is not going to receive any condemnation in this world because he bombed a bunch of innocent men, women, and children. President Clinton bombed fifty countries, killing millions of innocent citizens, people who never did anything wrong to him or anyone. The people of Waco did not do anything that would hurt anybody that we know of.

Nothing is going to happen to him in this world, but at the judgment bar of God, his soul is going to be sent into hell unless he repents immediately before he gets there.

These people condone all this stuff. I have heard Reverend Hagee support President Bush, saying he is our friend. Then some say he is like the Messiah. He is none of those things. He is following the orders of the pope. He is a puppet. I have to obey the orders of the Lord.

Anyway, let us read a couple of these verses here. I am paraphrasing. You can read the same meaning in the King James Version, or probably in the NIV or any of them. They all say the same: Jesus came into the world like us.

Go ahead.

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
In Hebrews chapter 2, verse 14, in so many words, the Lord is saying: Because God's children are human beings made of flesh and blood, Jesus also became flesh and blood.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Not godly blood, because God does not have blood. He had to become a human to have human blood, genuine human blood. Okay. Then what?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
Jesus also became flesh and blood by being born in human form. Only as a human being could He die.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Yes. God cannot die, so He had to become a human being so He could die for the sins of the people of the world. Amen.

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
God could never have died. Only by dying could He break the power of the devil, who had the power of death.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Right, because there has to be a sacrifice. There is no forgiveness of sins without the shedding of blood. That is why there were all the animal sacrifices in the Old Testament. But when the true sacrifice came, He had to die for the sins of the world. God Himself came into the world. The Word of God came into the world and died as a human for the sins of the people, because He shed His precious blood for us.

Now all the animal sacrifices - that was the major part of the law - are over with. But the law that God wrote with His own finger, He did not even trust Moses to write it. He wrote it with His own finger: the moral law. That can never be broken unless you want to go to hell.

It is so easy to do. I remember when I was a kid. I never committed adultery or fornication as a child. I never did anything like that. It was easy not to steal, and it was easy not to lie. It is so easy. But these people who are such liars are on these networks.

We really need to have a network where people tell the truth, especially the truth of God. The Bible says that Jesus is the Word of God. So when the Bible says, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved," that means believe on the entire Word of God from Genesis to Revelation, and thou shalt be saved. Not only believe that it is the truth, but do what it says. If you just believe and then do not do it, you are a sinner.

All right. Then what?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
Only in this way could He deliver those who lived their lives as slaves to the fear of death.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Right. We feared death before we saw somebody raised from the dead who was a human. But after we saw that He rose from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit, and we walk in His Spirit, we know that we do not have to fear death, because we never die. Amen. That is what that is saying. We were slaves to the fear of death.

When I see Jesus showing how we can be perfect by walking in the Holy Spirit, and then proving that we will never die, as He said we never would, He died in His body, His chaff, because the body we live in is chaff. Flesh and blood shall not enter the kingdom of heaven. So it is just a husk that the real us is living in.

When I see that Jesus kept all the commandments, and He said that if we do the things He says - some people say, "You do not have to do any works anymore. Jesus did it all" - He said, "Oh no. If you do what I say and follow the instructions I give, then you are My friend." Then the friend will let you into heaven. But if He says, "I am not friendly with you," you are not going to enter the kingdom of God. He says, "I am your friend if you do everything I say." Amen.

So we see what He did by reading His Word. We see by doing that, He says if the same Spirit that dwelt in Him, that raised Him from the dead, is in you, you also shall rise from the dead and live eternally in the kingdom of God, heaven.

By Him dying and resurrecting from the dead, He took all the fear of death away from me because I know His rules and regulations. I have a good mind. I have a good Spirit in me. I know the Spirit of the Lord is living in me because He talks to me, and I talk to Him all the time. We have communication going here. You had better communicate with the Lord if you intend to be in the kingdom of God. That is very simple.

It says this takes the fear of death away from us because the instructions to escape death are in the Word of God. Therefore, when He abides in us and we abide in Him - simple, because "Him" is the Word of God - if we let the Word of God abide in us, we just keep reading the Word. The Word is Spirit and life, and the Word is Jesus. We abide, we live by it. Abiding means to live. He abides in us, and we abide in Him. Then whatsoever we ask, on top of everything else, He gives to us so far as it is the will of God. Amen.

Why fight it? It is bigger than the both of us. Amen. Praise the Lord. He takes the complete fear of death away because we know that if we are in Him and He is in us, we never die.

That is if. Now, if is a little word with a huge meaning, because if you are not abiding in Him and He is not abiding in you, you will not enter into the kingdom of God. You will spend eternity in hell and the lake of fire if you sin willingly and knowingly and refuse to repent.

Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
Only in this way could He deliver those who lived their lives as slaves to the fear of death or the fear of dying.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Right. We know that He is God because He rose from the dead. Then 500 people saw Him ascend into the kingdom of God. After that, He commanded them to tarry to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Only 120 of them showed up to be baptized in the Holy Spirit, to have the power, the strength, the wisdom, knowledge, understanding, leading, guiding, and direction of the Holy Spirit in this world.

What happened to the rest? They did not want it. They thought it was a joke, even after seeing Him ascend into the kingdom of heaven in a cloud, after seeing Him killed and then raised from the dead. These are powerful things. They have no confidence, and they still are under the fear of death because they know they are not keeping the commandments of the Lord. They fear death because they are not abiding in Him, and He is not abiding in them. Rightly so.

Some people think of sending a rocket to the moon, and I have thought that all that was sent in a studio, or at Universal, Warner Brothers, or someplace. There are millions of people who believe that. I saw the astronauts trying to justify that it was not done in the studio, that they really went to the moon. They can do all kinds of things in a movie studio with all these new computers and things that they have, and make you think that the end of the world will be tomorrow. They can make you think they are walking on Mars. They will probably do that and make you believe it.

Even if they did, what good is it if you walk on the moon or on Mars and your soul is lost? You are going to be walking on coals of fire when your life is over. You are going to be in flames forever.

Okay. Then what else?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
Chapter 2, verse 17.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Now this is another truth. Some people do not believe the Apostle Paul wrote Hebrews, but he did. It is obvious. They say the words are not like Paul's. Well, the words were not like Paul's anyway because it is the Holy Spirit speaking through him, just as it is with me right now. These are not my words. Everybody can tell you that I do not talk this way when I am not being anointed. Amen.

You like this?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
Amen.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Do I talk like this?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
No.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
You are giving me an inferiority complex. No, I know I do not talk like this. Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
Therefore, it was necessary for Jesus to be, in every respect, like us.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
In every respect. So, Reverend Hagee, again, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. Jesus was a man in every respect as we are. Why? The Bible says so. I believe it is 1 John that says anyone who says Christ did not come in the flesh is an antichrist.

In order for you to get off the hook with this, you had better confess that on television, that you were in error. Otherwise, hundreds of thousands or maybe hundreds of millions of people will never believe you. When you stand before the Lord, the Lord does not allow antichrists to enter the kingdom of God. Maybe your daddy taught you those things because he was a preacher too, but you are lying, and he lied if he taught you that. Go by the Bible, not your daddy or your mama or anybody else.

Okay, then what?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
Therefore, it was necessary for Jesus to be in every respect like us human beings. We became His brothers and sisters so that He could be our merciful and faithful high priest before God. He then could offer a sacrifice that would take away the former sins of the people who desire to be saved.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
All right. Now let us go into my message. First, before we do, I want to say we have a dictionary here. We are going to read the dictionary. Most people in the Western Hemisphere have no idea what a kingdom is. If you are a Christian, then you need to know what a kingdom is, because you are living the kingdom life, not the Democratic life, the Republican life, the Communist life, or anything like that.

These are all man-made kingdoms, and they are always looking for some type of system. All people, no matter where you go in the world, seem to want peace, safety, happiness, and joy. They have all come up with different ideas of how to make that come to pass. The one-world system wants you to believe that having a kingdom where there will be peace and tranquility is simply to have everybody be sinners and take the Word of God out of them, so that no one will be condemning anybody.

But it is not we who condemn you. It is the Word of God. The Lord did not come into this world to condemn it because it was already condemned. Because of what Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden, it is a condemned world. So He came into the world to tell you how to be saved. Everybody was lost and on their way to hell.

Jesus came into the world saying, "The kingdom of heaven is at hand." Before Him, John the Baptist was saying, "The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repent." A bunch of Pharisees came to him and said, "Baptize us." He said, in so many words, "I am not going to baptize you until I see you keeping the commandments of the Lord. Bring forth fruit, or deeds, that are worthy and that line up with the Word of God. When I see you do that, then I will baptize you."

He refused to baptize the Pharisees and Sadducees, but the sinners came weeping because they knew they were sinners. He was telling them the Messiah was at hand. He said, "I indeed baptize you with water, but the Messiah, when He comes, will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." The fire of God.

Okay. Now, a kingdom is not a democracy. Read, and I will explain more in the message about what a kingdom is. Go ahead. This is from what dictionary?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
From the Oxford Dictionary.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Oxford. Okay.

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
Kingly function, authority, or power; sovereignty.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
King sovereignty. We have a country here that is supposed to be one nation, not the United Nations with all the other ungodly nations, but one nation under God. All these ungodly nations we have merged with now are saying they do not believe in God. All these people are saying, "God bless America." Why should God bless America when we have joined with the antichrist world government?

The world government is not the kingdom of God. It is the kingdom of Satan. The Bible says so. There are many kingdoms. One of them is the kingdom of God, and one is the kingdom of Satan. Then there is the bird kingdom, the mineral kingdom, the kingdom of fish and beasts, and so on. They are all under the kingdom of God. They do what the Lord says. The only ones who do not do what the Lord says are humans. They are out of control.

God is going to make the universe go out of control. The moon is going to turn to blood. The sun is going to scorch the earth, and then it is going to be blocked out. Many people will pray to die. Stars are going to fall out of heaven, and everything is going to go crazy. The door to hell will open, and all sorts of beasts will come out that will sting people. People will pray to die, but they will not be able to. We are living in that hour, and the Lord is unleashing all kinds of diseases and infirmities. These are called pestilences in the Bible.

There is much more, but I have a different message today: the kingdom of God. You people do not know what a kingdom is. Then what?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
An organized community having a king as its head.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Okay. That is what a kingdom is: an organized community. A lot of us on earth here are organized communities, and God says He made the leaders His kings and priests. Each community that is of the Lord, gathered together to keep the King of kings' commandments, is a little kingdom here. We may still be small, but we are big in God's eyes because we do exactly what He says. If we do not do exactly as He says, then we are not of His kingdom.

The Lord tells us to kick them out of the kingdom because the kingdom of heaven is here on earth now. We, the kings of the Lord, are commanded to tell people exactly what to do. They say we are fanatics. I do not think that has anything to do with it. You people who do not do what the Lord says are fanatics for Satan, and you are crazy because you are going to spend eternity in hell and the lake of fire.

Then go ahead.

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
A monarchical state or government.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Monarchy.

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
The territory or country subject to a king.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Now, Ho Chi Minh had a kingdom, and he had killed or murdered millions because they disagreed with him. If you are going to be in the kingdom, you have to agree with the king. Ho Chi Minh's slogan was, if they argue with you or do not do what you tell them, cut their head off and that ends the problem. No more problem.

Then you get Idi Amin, who was like a king over one of the countries in Africa. If you did not do what he said, he killed you. There are other kingdoms on earth. There is the United Kingdom in England, where they all agree and are united to do what the king says.

The Lord wants to extend His kingdom to this earth, and He already did it by sending Jesus. All those who are of His kingdom do exactly what He says. Many local churches have opened here and there throughout the world, and they are doing exactly what the Lord tells them to do.

Thank God, God has used us to inspire different people, or kings, to open communities where they are the king of that community. In other words, they are there as Adam was put on the earth. He said, "Do not let anything come into this garden that disagrees with Me." Adam and Eve were called Adam. Eve took from the tree and ate, which you may think is a small thing, but any disobedience to God causes you to be imperfect.

A lot of people enjoy the preachers and teachers who say no one is perfect. That way, it relieves them of having a conscience. Their consciences are never bothered because they think it is okay not to be perfect. Those types of people are not of the kingdom of God, because God commands that you are perfect, or else you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.

If you are walking in the Holy Spirit, then there is no condemnation, which means you are perfect in God's eyes. We may say your nose is on the wrong side of your face and say you are not perfect, or maybe you have too many pimples, blackheads, or whiteheads, and say you are not perfect. That has nothing to do with perfection. Perfection is walking in the Spirit, and it is easy to keep God's commandments when the Spirit of God has entered into you.

God upholds everything: the universe, the world, the heavens, the earth, everything. It is so easy for Him to uphold you if you have His Word in you on a continuous basis. It flows in and through you. When that happens, you are able to witness and testify to people, and you are able to keep the rules of the kingdom and encourage others to do the same thing.

If they are, through your encouragement or preaching the gospel and through the Lord's help, keeping the commandments, then they are of the kingdom. If they do not keep the commandments, they are not of the kingdom, and they have to be put outside the kingdom with the Gentiles. It is that simple. This is the Word of God. Read the eleventh chapter of the book of Revelation.

Okay. What else is kingdom from the Oxford Dictionary? It is the same thing in Webster's. Go ahead.

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
The area over which a monarch's rule extends; a realm.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
A realm. This is supposed to be the United States, united together with one purpose: the U.S. Constitution, which gives us the freedom of speech, just as God does, the freedom to worship God in any way you will. That is so we do not go out and so Catholics cannot condemn us or burn us at the stake for believing in God, and so the government does not step into religion. But if the government is of, by, and for the people, it is supposed to be biblical because that is how this government was arranged.

This kingdom here, the United States, was united together with one belief under God, sovereign, not one-world, not merged in. This is the antichrist desire, for us to merge in with all the other ungodly governments of the world. The pilgrims fled from the king of England and the United Kingdom so that we could worship the Lord, praise and thank God, and have Bibles in schools. It is guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution that we are constituted to keep and be united as a sovereign nation, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for everyone.

Because I do not agree with Catholicism, they threw me in prison for six years. They said - they make things up - they said I did not pay taxes. First of all, we were tax exempt at that time. They said, because you do not agree with Catholicism and you do not agree with one-worldism, you are evil. No, you are evil if you believe in it, according to God. If you are going to be in God's kingdom, you have to go according to the King's rules. Otherwise, you go to hell and the lake of fire.

All right. Then what?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
More fully, the kingdom of God or of heaven: the spiritual sovereignty of God or Christ, or the sphere over which this extends, in heaven or on earth.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
If a king of one of God's communities here on earth is bringing forth the gospel and increasing the kingdom of God here on earth by preaching it, and then you allow somebody to - you would call - well, then you are definitely outside the kingdom of God. You disagree with God's kingdom, so you are a member of the kingdom of Satan. Get to the part where it says the kingdom of Satan and the kingdom of God.

Absolutely, you are of your god, the devil. You are of your king, the devil. Then what else?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
The kingdom of God or of heaven.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
We have the kingdom of God, or the kingdom of heaven. John came preaching the kingdom of heaven, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." John the Baptist said that. Then Christ came on the scene, and John baptized Christ. The Spirit of God came down from the kingdom of heaven, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." He never said that to anybody else.

So we all must be in the body of Christ, which is the kingdom of heaven. It is a very small kingdom. There are millions of people there, but in comparison to the ones who believe in themselves and do whatever they want rather than obey the King of heaven and earth, it is small. They do not deserve to enter into the kingdom of God.

God says He puts rulers here on earth, and those rulers are - He said He made us kings and priests. So you must listen to what we say. You say, "Who do you think you are?" It is not who I think I am; it is who God says I am. He said I am a king and a priest, and I am a pastor, a teacher, a writer, a scribe who puts down some things He says. You have to listen to Him because I give you hundreds of references where you can check the Bible to see if I am right or wrong, and you will see that I am right. Read the Bible and you will see.

Okay, then what?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
The spiritual sovereignty of God or Christ, or the sphere over which this extends, in heaven or on earth.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Okay. You can look it up in your own dictionary, because I cannot spend any more time on this. I want to try to get a little bit of the message in, and we are running out of time. We have five more minutes to talk about this message.

Go ahead.

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
When John the Baptist came on the scene, he proclaimed that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Jesus instructs us to tell everyone in the world that the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Right, if you are of the kingdom. But you are not of the kingdom if you are a hypocrite. Get out of the way. Get out of the church.

The kingdom of heaven is at hand. I am telling you that because I am of the kingdom of God. I am of the same mind as Christ, the same mind as God. He is the Word of God. I am of the same mind as the Word of God. He says to put on the mind of Christ, and Christ is the Word of God, so put the Word of God on and you will have the mind of Christ.

Okay. Then what?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
But today, people have little or no understanding of what a kingdom is. Many people have their concept of what a kingdom is, and many people are attempting, in a carnal state, to develop a kingdom such as today's one-world government, which is totally void of the Holy Spirit.

We must learn how to understand and communicate not our ideas of what a kingdom is, but what a kingdom really is. It is very important for people to realize that God, who is our Creator, is the One who chose the concept that we must abide by the concept of a kingdom in order to communicate His purpose, His will, and His plan for everyone in the world, all mankind.

So the message of the Bible is primarily and most obviously about a kingdom, not a religion.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Right. It is a lifestyle. You must live according to the lifestyle that Christ set forth, rather than a religion. You have to leave all religions and become members of the kingdom. Then what?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
If you do not understand what a kingdom is, or what kingdoms are, it is impossible for you to understand the Bible and the Bible's message.

Over the past two thousand years since Christ died, the true concept of the kingdom has been lost because of the so-called modern governments in the world today. These new concepts of governing include democracy, socialism, communism, atheism, and dictatorships.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
Now, the one that we are living in now is an atheistic kingdom, which is so inferior and is soon to be done away with by the Lord, as mentioned in the book of Daniel and in the book of Revelation, and many places in the Word of God.

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
Most of the people in the world that we live in today know very little or nothing about kingdoms, especially here in the Western Hemisphere, or what we call the Western world. They know very little about the concept of royalty or monarchy. Because of this, it is compounded by the idea that kingdoms are designed to elevate one family.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
I will use the British as an example. They have the queen, and that is one family. Everybody else is oppressed, but she is exalted. All of her royal family can go to school where they want to, play where they want to, raise all kinds of hell if they want to. If all the rest of the people do anything, you are going to the Tower. I do not know if they use the Tower anymore, but there is that big tower castle I have been in, right near the Tower Bridge.

Then what?

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
I will use the British as an example here. They have the idea that kingdoms are designed to elevate one family above all other families, and can subject, for one reason or another, their citizens to oppression. Through history, we read that kingdoms are notorious for having dark histories of atrocities and oppression, prospering at the expense of the dignity and value of their citizens.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
It is the same thing with the kingdom of heaven. Anyone who does not belong to the kingdom of heaven, or the body of Christ or God, we do not let into this kingdom if they do not believe in the Word of God.

For instance, the Lord just recently told me to tell everybody not to eat beef, not to eat dairy products or anything like that. The other day, a couple of people got offended at that. But I want to remind you that in the Old Testament, the Lord had everybody eating wafers in the desert and wilderness for forty years. They did not eat beef or dairy. On top of that, they did not smoke.

So a couple of people were offended because I said you cannot smoke in this kingdom. The Lord told me that He did not make bodies that could smoke without getting cancer. There are many Christians I have seen who smoked and died from cancer.

My time has stopped, but this is a very excellent message, and you need to hear the rest of it. Make sure to tune in tomorrow.

Right now, if you want to be a member of the kingdom of heaven, you can say this prayer and you will be a member. But then you have to remember that you must keep the commandments of the King. Otherwise, it is not a kingdom anymore. You have chosen yourself as a king above the commandments of the King of kings and the Lord of lords.

To get started, He said we must pray to Him and ask the Lord. We know we are all guilty of sin before we get our sins washed away with the blood of Jesus. So say this so that you can get your sins washed away and so that the Spirit of God can enter into you.

Father, I come to You today guilty of sins, and I need for them to be washed away. I know that Jesus Christ is Your Son, the Son of the living God, and I believe that He died on the cross and shed His precious blood for the forgiveness of all my sins. I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I open the door of my heart, and I invite You into my heart, Lord Jesus. Wash all my filthy former sins away in Your precious blood. You will not turn me away, Lord Jesus. You will save my soul. I know because Your Word says so. Your Word says all who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, and that includes me. Therefore, I know You have heard me, and I know You have answered me, and I know I am saved.

I thank You, Lord Jesus, for saving me. I am going to keep the King's commandments. I am going to be perfect because I am going to walk in the Spirit. Thank You, Father. Thank You, Jesus, for saving my soul. Amen.

Now, if you want a copy of this tape or CD - this audiotape or CD - Sharon will tell you how to receive it. It is program number 211.

Speaker 2 - Reader/Assistant:
Go to alamoministries.com, or write to Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, P.O. Box 6467, Texarkana, Texas 75505. Or call area code 479-782-7370, or fax 479-782-7406.

Speaker 1 - Pastor Tony Alamo:
All right. Praise the Lord. Until tomorrow, this is World Pastor Tony Alamo saying God bless you. I am really happy you received the Holy Spirit, that you received Jesus, and that your sins are taken away.

Now go and sin no more, lest the worst thing happen to you. That worst thing would be that you would not have any more forgiveness. These are the rules of the kingdom, so please obey them for your own soul's sake.

Praise the Lord. God bless you.