Living Under the Kingdom: Service, Obedience, and the Commonwealth of God

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Speaker 1 – Pastor Tony Alamo
Identified from the opening and closing self-identification in the transcript. He delivers the sermon, invitation prayer, and most of the program.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Ministry Contact Voice
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Speaker 1 – Pastor Tony Alamo:
Hello again. This is Pastor Tony Alamo. Today we are in part 104 of How to Have God’s Life Living in You, and this is program number 206. If you would like a copy of it, get your paper and pencils ready so that, right at the end of this program, Sharon will share with you four different ways you will be able to receive a copy, either on CD or audiotape. It is free of charge.

This is not to cause you to believe that the message is inferior to other messages from ministries that charge for the Word of God. I have had people tell me, “You should charge for the materials because people will think it is not worth anything.” Well, you listen to the program and determine in your own spirit whether it is worth it or not. We do not charge anything because the Lord never charged me anything to be saved.

I realize there are a lot of poor people in the world. The average person in the world right now, or in the United States of America, is making only $10,700 a year. I think that is below the poverty level.

This thing called democracy in this country is nothing more than the rich of the world, the monetarily wealthy, wanting to develop a kingdom. They have the ability to make a kingdom, but they think it is similar to, or better than, even the kingdom of God. There are so few people in this country who understand the meaning of kingdom, what a kingdom is, because we live in what they call democracy, which the speaker describes as a satanic dictatorship.

People who are kings and queens of kingdoms often believe they are royalty and that they are to oppress all the people. In other words, everyone should not even be getting $10,700 a year, but perhaps $1,000 a year, taking crumbs from the table, while the royalty receives everything. So kingdoms are made to oppress people.

But there is a big difference between the kingdoms of this world and the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God definitely is royalty, and all the people who enter into that kingdom are royalty. Naturally, the people of the world, in the true sense, are oppressed because they refuse, and they have no desire to live under the authority of the true King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

When they become members of the kingdom of God, they become members of a commonwealth, so that everybody in the true kingdom of God has God as their King. They do so because they love His statutes, precepts, and commandments. They place themselves under His rulership. When they do this, everything that God has belongs to them.

Everyone who is not in the kingdom is like chaff. The Lord discriminates in that way. There is another kingdom in the world, and there are many kingdoms in the world. The one taking over the entire world is mentioned in the book of Daniel. This is the first time this has ever happened. This is the next-to-last kingdom.

Actually, the kingdom of God is being established right now on the face of this earth. It is a kingdom of kings, because the Lord has called us to rule the world. In other words, we rule the world by leading people who are possessed, possessions of Satan, which is our job as kings: to show them the way.

A king is not to sit back like the different kings of this world. Our job as kings is to lead people into the commonwealth of the kingdom of God. That is what we have been made kings for. If we are not at all interested in leading the people of this world, then something is wrong.

There is really nothing wrong with the people of the world except that they have never met the true King. If the sinners of this world meet the true King, then there will not be anything wrong with them. So we should not hate the sinner out there. The Lord tells us, as kings, to lead them.

I have a little daughter. She just had her first birthday, and the people who take care of her never teach her much. When she wants something, they give it to her. She had a little rash on her skin for quite some time because she did not like salads. I did not realize it until they told me today that she does not like salads. She does not eat salads. She eats whatever she wants, like candy or something, and they give it to her. Once in a while, her mother will say, “No, I do not want you to have the candy,” but then one of the other people in the church will give her candy.

So I told her, “Look, honey, you have got to have some salads. They say you do not like salads.”

She said, “Yes, I do not like salads.”

I said, “Well, all your hair will start falling out, and you will never get rid of that rash if you do not eat salads.”

It is the king’s job to explain things to people in the church. I said, “Lord, there is nobody in the church educating people. They do not want to take the position as kings.” Kings have rules. Kings have the people under them enforce the rules, just like the people in this world.

The world system today, according to the speaker, is run by the Vatican. The Bible states that Rome is the place where Satan’s seat is. The speaker says this large “church” is the head of the Antichrist system. He says it is the Antichrist system because this cult in Rome tells people not to read the Bible, which throughout the whole Bible tells of the kingdom that is going to come.

The Bible talks of a King who is going to come into the world, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, the One who will give us instruction. The people of His kingdom will be kings also because they will instruct other people. They will not condemn the world because the world is already condemned. The wicked people of the world are to be instructed into righteousness or holiness, meaning the rules, regulations, and laws of the kingdom of God.

Hopefully, they are bright enough to see that the kingdoms of this world are oppressing them. They are evil and oppressive, and they offer no reward except an evil one: that they go to hell and the lake of fire. But the kingdom of God tells them that, in the kingdom of God, there is a commonwealth where everyone receives everything they need.

There is not anyone in our church who can say there are things they need, because they are children of the kingdom. Now, there are some people in the church who are not of the kingdom. They come in because they love receiving the benefits of the commonwealth of the kingdom of heaven, but they do not keep the law, the rules, and the regulations that the King has set forth. However long they stay in the midst of those who are of the commonwealth of the kingdom of heaven, eventually they will go away, and they will be back out in the world where they will be oppressed.

When you are royalty, the world could be in complete depression. Everybody is making $10,700 a year; some do not even make that much. I am talking about the average. They are talking now about giving the royalty of this present world, the state of the world, the demonic kingdom dictatorship called democracy, more tax breaks. Many of them consider a poverty-stricken person in their realm to be someone making $10 million to $20 million a year. Some of them are making billions of dollars a year, and they want to give them more tax breaks.

They want to impose what they call the death tax on people, and they want to keep them completely under. It is their theory that if they are kings, and they are evil kings and evil rulers in this world, they want to keep people under their thumb and oppress them even further.

Inflation, like gas prices, is up now. With $10,700 a year, and food prices going up, the cost of living increases so much that there is no possible way that people can live. So they want everybody to know, “We are the kings, and if you qualify, we will issue you some food stamps. If you stand in line for a few hours when the truck comes by, you can get a box of cheese and some other things.”

But the people who are really the kingdom of God do not know, either, that there is a depression going on. I mean, they do not know there are people starving unless they are interested, as the Lord is interested, in finding out if people are starving and need medical attention.

We, who are the kings of the kingdom, are constantly searching to see if there is somebody to whom we can show the blessings of the Lord. That should encourage them to want to be in the kingdom of the commonwealth, where everyone receives the common good instead of the common evil of the worldly kingdoms.

Even though some people of the kingdom receive more blessings coming into them, it is because the Lord trusts them to give to the commonwealth. A good king of God here on earth understands that the kingdom of heaven is here on earth and is growing. There are just a lot of people who are still immature in their thinking. False prophets tell them, “You do this and you are going to get more. You are going to get a new house. You are going to get a new this or that.” That is not what the kingdom is all about.

The Lord says, “Seek the rules and regulations of the kingdom of heaven first.” Do not even think about what you are going to eat or what you are going to wear. The Lord teaches those who are part of the kingdom, “Just do what I say. Seek the rules and regulations and what I want you to do.” That is to be concerned about bringing people into the kingdom.

We are not going to do it by beating them over the head. We have to tell them they must come into the realm, and if they do, God our Father, our King, will give them the power to be able to live comfortably in the kingdom of God on this earth and throughout eternity.

If you could take people in this world, it is like taking a bunch of dead trees. The Lord does liken us to dead trees because our spirits are dead without the Holy Spirit living in us. You can put signboards up all around a bunch of dead trees saying, “You must grow fruit.” You can stand there and preach to a dead tree all day long: “You had better grow fruit, or I am going to chop you down. Come on, bear fruit. If you do not, I am going to set you on fire. I will send your trunk and your branches into the fire.” But the dead tree cannot do anything.

You cannot do anything either unless there comes into you some form of supernatural life, life that is able to bear fruit. Those who have been called into the ministry are supposed to be explaining these things to the people of the world so they can see the advantage of being in the kingdom of heaven. Once they see there is a great advantage to being in the realm, or citizenship, of the kingdom of God where no one wants for anything, then they can choose it.

I am talking about healing. There is no need for healing if you are keeping the rules of the King, because He said that if you do the things He says, all the blessings of Him belong to you. Therefore, if you do not, then you are going to suffer the things that people outside the commonwealth are suffering out in the world.

We are pinching pennies. You see people in supermarkets with little calculators. “Here is a can of spinach. If it is $1.29 or $2.50, my God, I can remember when this can of spinach was only ten cents.” But times have changed. There is inflation now. Who knows? Maybe the spinach is going to go up to five dollars a can, and peas may be ten dollars a can, and you are still making $10,700 a year.

You cannot adjust to this. You are being oppressed. But when you enter into the commonwealth, you can only enter in if you agree to comply with the laws of the kingdom. There are a lot of kingdoms in this world, and they all have their different laws and rules.

In this kingdom that we have today, everyone is oppressed, and only the rich benefit. They do not have to worry about taking a calculator to the grocery store or wherever they go. People have great wants. Medicine has gone sky high. I know some people whose prescriptions run $500, and they have to get a bottle every month. How can they do that when they are making less than $1,000 a month? That is $500 for medicine. Maybe $300, $400, $500, or $1,000 for rent. They cannot. They have to live like dogs.

In some Spanish communities, like Mexico, you see people living in cardboard boxes, with no bathrooms, nothing, because the world government, which the Bible calls, in these last days, the government of Satan, the Antichrist government, does not like you. They want you to curse God, because a person who is not that bright or who has not studied the kingdom of God through the Bible might think God is doing this to them.

God forbid that you need an operation. Some of these operations cost $30,000, $40,000, or $50,000. It is fortunate if it only runs $5,000, but that is more than half a year’s salary for many people today, for most of the people today. What about food? What about schooling, health, and education? All these different things are provided in the kingdom of God, because the Lord has an educational system in His kingdom. He wants everybody to learn and know these things, to make a comparison between the kingdoms of this earth and His kingdom.

If you serve the kingdoms of this earth, and you are in those kingdoms, you think you are suffering now, but when you die there is going to be a great amount of suffering. The Bible says it is torments, so many torments that they are indescribable. Some of the things that go along with that are that you gnaw on your tongue for pain, you weep and wail, there is gnashing of teeth, and you scream for mercy.

But because you did not come into the kingdom, or because many people living off the benefits of the kingdom of God are not concerned about keeping the law, or they do not know what the purpose was for coming into the kingdom, they think it is to sit and enjoy the benefits and do nothing. The Lord’s purpose is to increase. He wants to establish His kingdom.

He has heaven, where everything is righteousness, but He wants to bring forth His kingdom here on earth. He wants earth and heaven to be exactly the same. He says He wants His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. So we see that His purpose is to establish His kingdom here on earth, a kingdom of kings who care about people instead of caring about sending their kids to some demon-possessed university, or getting a bigger and better car.

The Lord says that if you do not worry about what you are driving, what you are eating, what you are wearing, and how much sleep you are getting, but you do what the Lord says, you as kings are teaching people about the kingdom of God so that they want to come in. You have to be a salesperson. There is a sales job to be done. Not only that, when you bring people into the kingdom, you are supposed to teach them. You are not supposed to let your little children go without knowing that they are supposed to eat salads.

After I taught my daughter, I said, “Honey, your skin is going to be bad. That rash will go away.” She is now eating two salads a day. Immediately she received what I said because she obviously respects what I tell her. Nobody sits down and talks to her. Little people, little children, get extremely nervous. They feel they do not know, and they have no direction in the world. There is nobody in people’s houses who teaches the family how to have good health and simple things.

So you let the children say, “Can I have candy?” “Here, take it.” “Can I have a popsicle?” “Go ahead and take it.” “Can I have more sweets, like an ice cream sandwich?” But the Lord directed, “Do not eat any dairy.” I do not know what is wrong with it. I have no idea. I do not even need to ask the Lord why. I know that when He says something, I do it.

“Do not eat any beef.” So I do not. We already know from the Word of God not to eat the different things that are abominations in the Bible, not to eat buzzards, sparrows, robins, rabbits. I know a lot of people like to eat rabbit. They say it tastes just like fried chicken. I know, but the rules of the kingdom say not to eat it. If you want to eat that sort of stuff, the Lord is not going to send you to hell, but you may not live so long, or you may be poor, or things like that. You can do it. But if you want to receive all the benefits of the kingdom, such as good health, the Lord has a great health program in this kingdom.

It is not this man who is taking all these different pills and things like that. If you are keeping the commandments of the Lord, and you have made up your mind to have a change of mind and to do things the way the Lord says to do them, then there is no problem with God healing you if you happen to catch some disease or sickness. But first seek the kingdom of God. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God,” and all these things the Lord talks about, such as food and clothing, will be taken care of.

You do not even have to ask Him much. We have storage places loaded full of clothing. Some people in our church have had to build larger closets because they have a summer wardrobe, spring wardrobe, fall wardrobe, and winter wardrobe. Their closets are bursting. You can see that there are not many skinny people in this ministry. They all have enough to eat, and some of them overindulge.

So I saw that just a little talk with my daughter for about three minutes, as a king, because we have to lead people into all that is right. The Lord is the God of righteousness, and that is what is right. He despises anything that is wrong. It is wrong to sit by idly and see little children not eating properly, and it is wrong to see the world dying.

You say, “But they are the most wicked and vicious people on the face of this earth. I am not going to witness to them.” There is nothing wrong with those people. You are the one who is wrong, because all those people are creations of God and sons and daughters of God if you would be a king and go to them and present the gospel to them as it really is.

Going out there saying, “You are going to hell,” or “Take this tract, and if you do not take it, you dummy,” is not the way. We have had people in our church do that, calling people dummies or possessed by the devil. They will yell down the street, “You are going to hell if you do not take one of Tony Alamo’s pieces of literature.” We need to be more led by the Spirit than that.

In order to make the people in the world believe that we are kings, we must act like the Lord. We must be as the Lord. He did not say, “You dummy,” did He? He did not say, “You are going to hell if you do not take this piece of bread or this minister’s tract,” or whatever. He reasoned with them, and that makes you a king.

Until you get your own life in order, there is nothing wrong with the people out in the world. The thing wrong with them is that nobody has ever presented himself to them as a king, one of the King of Kings’ kings. That is what people want to see: they want to see Jesus. “We would see Jesus.” We would like to see Jesus in people. The whole creation is groaning to see the kings, the ambassadors of the kingdom here on this earth. Until they see that, they are not going to get saved.

You keep saying they are vicious. Yes, they are, just like you were. You are vicious, worse than they are now, if you are not allowing the Lord to live in you and through you, because that is what they want to see. Jesus was just an ordinary human being, with the exception that God, the whole Godhead, was in Him. He let God demonstrate Himself in that human body. The Lord wanted us to know that we need to teach people this lesson that I am teaching you now from the Lord.

No one is really going to be saved, or stay saved, if they do not see Jesus. You can lead people to the Lord, and there are so many people who have led millions and millions of people to the Lord, but then they do not feed them. We have a problem in our churches. We have a bunch of people who have been saved for 20, 30, 35, or 36 years, but they do not want to take the time to instruct the people of the church.

I am instructing people in this church on a daily basis on things that were taught in the church over 40 years ago. It shows that if people are not like Jesus, meaning if Jesus is not living in them, they are not going to make it into the kingdom of heaven. I do not recognize the Spirit of God in more than 99 out of 100 people in the world who call themselves Christians.

If we are going to win this world, if we are going to win all those vicious, wicked, and evil people out in that world, they will get saved if they see Jesus. The Lord says He wants us to be the continuation of Him. He says, “Follow Me.” They want to see Jesus, and they need to see that on a continuous basis.

That means we have to discipline ourselves. We have to have a change of mind and be disciplined by the Holy Spirit. We have to change our minds and say, “Here is what the Lord says to do, and now we are going to do it. Let us do it now.” Doing what the Lord does is not something to rush past. He sat down and taught all day long.

If there is nobody in the church teaching but the pastor, it is not the kingdom of God, and you are not citizens of the kingdom of God. People can come into the ministry through my literature and through my messages, but if there is not a body of citizens who are like Jesus as well, who sit down and take the time and do not make planting flowers, baking cakes, being a carpenter, helping around the church, or cooking the food like Martha more important, then something is wrong.

Some people want to listen to Jesus, and they want to listen to Him for the purpose of becoming like Him. They want to learn what the rules of the kingdom of God are. He says, “Now preach the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” But if they see people hating the sinner out in the world, then they know that is not the kingdom of heaven. You are exactly like the kingdom of Antichrist, and do not think you are going to bring anybody into the kingdom of God.

That is what the Lord came here for. He wants to establish His kingdom here on earth, which means He is developing this heaven and earth as His will. We know His will. If we do not do that, if we see our children and say, “They are our little darlings,” they are not yours. The Bible says He gave them to you to instruct into all righteousness. But if they are liars and you defend them, that is because they come from your body, your precious disobedient body.

We need to put all of our mind and our body under subjection to the Spirit so that the Spirit in us can do the Spirit’s work. When that happens, we see more and more of the kingdom of heaven being established on earth. But when you see the things of this world getting worse and worse, that shows me something, and it shows the Lord something for sure. It shows that He does not have children of the kingdom here on earth developing it for Him. You are deliberately, willingly, and wantonly allowing Satan to take it over.

Now they are talking about using weapons. They do not need to have people with briefcases walking around the United States of America. They do not even have to do that because they have missiles that can reach this country with atomic and hydrogen bombs attached to them. They can fire those missiles from anywhere in the world, and they will come over here.

You say, “We have anti-missile weapons that will shoot those missiles out of the air.” That was a few years ago. They have come up with new devices so that, like a missile is like a bullet going through the air, before we could send a bullet to knock that bullet out of the air. But now they have different devices on these missiles, with atomic and hydrogen bombs on them, that can cause our missiles that are trying to shoot them out of the air to go awry.

We need to be busy doing the Lord’s work because, if we do, then the Lord has a defense system. One of the other blessings, or part of the commonwealth of the kingdom of heaven, is that we have a host, a heavenly host. This is commonly known as the army of God, the Christian army, the army of God, to defend the people of the Lord. Hallelujah. That is another benefit.

There are all kinds of things that could happen to you if you are not in the commonwealth of the Lord. If you insist on shielding your children, causing them to sin, and defending them for sinning, you may be commanded by God to leave the commonwealth of the kingdom and go out and teach some more of your sinful ways out there. If you are a person who lusts after the things of this world, God knows. There is not anything you can hide from Him.

I was in an automobile today where you can just yell out the number on the phone and it will dial for you. You do not even touch the dial. You just say the words, and there is a woman who comes on. You can ask her, “Where am I?” and she will tell you exactly where you are.

In this car, we were coming from Louisiana into Arkansas, and I just blurted out, “Can you tell me where we are at?” She said, “You are on the border of Louisiana and Arkansas. You are just approaching the Arkansas border, and you are heading north.”

I said, “Can we just go to sleep and let you drive us wherever we are going?” She started laughing. Human intelligence knows where we are and where we are going. Why would you think God does not know that? Our minds are absolutely inferior to His. He gives us minds, and He also gives us directions to be able to reap the benefits of the commonwealth of the kingdom of heaven. One of those benefits is defense.

Many people tell me, “We are going to destroy you.” They have been telling me this for years. Years ago, the federal government told some of our people, “You had better stop listening to Tony Alamo, because if you do not, you are going to have as many bullet holes in you as he is going to have in him.” Well, that was 20 or 30 years ago. I do not have any bullet holes in me. I have a few holes in my head, like ears and nostrils and my mouth and eye sockets and so on, but I do not have any bullet holes in me.

If you are a king of God, God will put the fear of God in your enemies. If they come against you, we have the heavenly host. This is God’s defense team for those who are members of the kingdom. The people of this world know of the kingdom because they see Jesus in you. You teach them. The children of God who come into the church, you do not just ignore them and let them go. You teach them every rule and regulation you have learned of the kingdom in all the years you have been here.

In other words, you cannot just hear this message and then continue on and forget about it the next day, or an hour from now. The Bible says you have to receive it and then mix it with faith and do it. If you are a person who hears what you are supposed to do, and you forget it and just do not do it, you are like a fool. I have been saying that in the last couple of days, today and yesterday in the message. You are a fool.

Why are you a fool? The fool is one who says, “There is no God,” so God will not protect you. These people, people in this church, who are not really of the kingdom, call up and say, “I am hurting. I have something wrong with me. Will you pray for me?” I will say, “Sure,” and I will go up to the throne, and the Lord will say, “Do not pray for this person.”

I will say, “What should I tell them?” He says, “Tell them they have to keep the commandments, and tell them they have to pray to Me. If they do not pray to Me, I will take their life in the morning.”

One of them was Jennifer Colbeck. I did not really know who she was. My brother Danny called me from Nashville and told me, “Have you seen Jennifer Colbeck?”

I said, “No.”

He said, “She looks like death eating a cracker.”

I said, “What is the matter with her?”

He said, “You would not believe it. She used to be healthy looking, and now she looks dead. The doctor says she has some kind of rare disease. She is going to die in the morning.”

I said, “Tell her husband John to call me, or put her on the phone, and I will pray for her.”

So John called me and gave the phone to Jennifer. I started praying for her, and the Lord said, “Do not pray for her.” I do not know what she did wrong. He said, “Tell her that if she does not reach My throne tonight, she will be dead by morning.” The doctors had predicted she could not live. This was a rare disease that even the doctors did not know what it was.

I said, “You had better listen to me, Jennifer, because if you do not, you are going to be dead and in hell in the morning.”

She said, “I do not know.”

I said, “I do not know what you did wrong or what you are doing wrong. I do not have to know. All I have to know is what the Lord is telling me to tell you.”

Thank God she respected me enough to believe, because a lot of people see Jesus in me. They know that if I am telling them something, it is true, because I am not going to get in trouble with the Lord by not telling you what is right, or by telling you something that is wrong, or by telling you that you are not being blessed by the Lord because you are a sinner. Sometimes I know, but sometimes I do not.

You have to change your attitude. Everybody had better get busy for the Lord, because you were not saved by the Lord, the King of Kings, for you to be as the people of the world. You cannot abide, stay, or live in God’s kingdom and be like the world, because you are not going to lead anybody to the Lord. The people of the churches, the church of God, must be concerned and must instruct the people in the church. This is what the body, or the kingdom, is all about.

Every Bible tells us that every part of Christ’s body becomes part of Christ’s body, and therefore Christ is in us. We have to surrender ourselves completely to Him. In other words, consecrate ourselves so that He can continue His work here on earth. When we do that, then we are blessed of the Lord, and the Lord is happy with us.

But if you think God called you into His kingdom so you could reap the benefits of His kingdom while you do not obey the rules of the King, you are wrong. He said He wants you to have mercy and to feed the church of God, and give them the milk of the Word. The pastor cannot attend to all the new people coming in, and the people who are really of the kingdom know this.

There are some who are reaping the benefits of the commonwealth. The people who are in the commonwealth of the Lord will be able to spend eternity forever and be blessed forever, just like the pastor or the prophet or anyone else. They all receive the common benefit of the kingdom and the King, which the King has provided for everybody.

The people here in the western hemisphere do not know anything about kingdom. All they know is, “We have to pay taxes. The whole government is not taking care of us. The people in the government are phonies,” and all this sort of thing. They say, “We are going to cheat on our taxes. We are going to do all this stuff.” You could do that with the people in the government, but if they catch you, you are going to go to prison.

Even if you did not do that stuff, if they do not like the message I am preaching or you are preaching, they could throw you in prison. But when you go there, just like Joseph did, and like Christ did, and like the men of the prophets did, God will open some kind of door inside the prison. He will break out in the prison by using you, with Him in you, to instruct the people into all righteousness.

You are so busy doing that that you do not have time to worry about what you are going to eat and what you are going to wear. That is secondary, because the Lord even clothes the birds and feeds them. How much more will He do that for you? He feeds the sparrows. He says you are worth more than many sparrows. The sparrow is not out there preaching the gospel and instructing the ones who come into the church to know the ways of the kingdom.

There are people in this ministry who are reaping the benefits of the kingdom, and they love to watch people stagger and fall right where the kingdom of God is being preached and taught. It gets bad when the Lord says, “Nobody is doing it. You have to do it.” So I thank and praise the Lord for giving me messages that can teach the younger ones what to do.

Even you younger ones, if you see old people who have been in the kingdom for a long time and you do not see them doing the things the King instructs them to do, do not pay attention to them, because there is a scripture for you. That scripture says those who are coming in last are going to be first. You do not have to sit in a congregation for years to be blessed by the Lord.

When I first got saved, my mind wanted to win souls and to feed the souls, to tell them the things of God and to help them stay in the kingdom. I named the Lord. I was not old in the Lord, and neither was Samuel. They were just kids. Timothy was young in the Lord. The old ones, like Saul, King Saul, were first, but people like David were just little. He did not even claim to be anybody of the Lord. He was just a sheepherder.

You do not have to have sat in the temple for years. All these Pharisees were sitting in the temple for years. They did not do anything. They did not lead anybody into the kingdom of God. They irritated people and abused people. So do not say, “If these guys are not doing the right thing, how am I going to be able to do it?” Do not look at it that way, because the Bible says that the last, like you young ones, will be first, and the first, the old-timers in the church, will be last.

God’s kingdom is a righteous kingdom. There is a judicial system that we can reap the benefits of in God’s kingdom. It is like a courtroom. The Lord sees everything you are doing, and He also sees everything the first ones are doing to you. Many of them are trying to stifle you from praising and thanking the Lord. Many of them totally ignore you as though they are somebody. They have the attitude of Satan because they do not allow Christ to live in them at all.

For instance, there was a drummer. We had a singing over here, and I was telling him, “Do not beat this particular way.” I happen to be out of the music industry, and I know what I am talking about. There was a woman narrating something before she was going to sing a Spanish song. A lot of people in the congregation did not know what the song said, so I told her, “Explain in English the words before you sing it.”

While she was explaining, he was going, “Rap, rap, rap.”

I said, “Do not do the rap. Use brushes, son, and brush very lightly on the traps so they can hear her narration. Then once she starts singing, you can play, because nobody knows what she is saying anyway in Spanish,” though there were a lot of Spanish people there that day.

All of a sudden, on the day of the singing, here comes the “rap, rap.”

I said, “I rebuke you, man.” I said it in front of the congregation and the guests. “I told you to use the brushes. If you want to be that defiant in front of me, before the congregation, the Lord, and the children of the kingdom, I am going to let you know that I happen to be a king. With my eyes, the Bible says, I will scatter you. I verbally rebuke you for disobeying the one God has sent over you, because you have exalted yourself above God. That might be why you are having problems with your life and with your wife. Who knows? I think so.”

It is not good for you to disobey those who have the rule over you, because that is part of the King’s law. Now, some people say all we have to do is keep the Ten Commandments, and there are a lot of people who say we do not have to do that. But let me tell you something: the New Testament has more than Ten Commandments, and everything is accelerated.

In other words, in the Old Testament, if you committed adultery with a woman, you were to be stoned to death. But in the New Testament, the Bible says if you even look at a woman with adultery in your heart, or you married women look at men with adultery in your heart, or you are fantasizing about these things, how can you be a child of the kingdom?

I have been going on for a long time here, and I thought we were going to read these letters and things. But sometimes the Lord takes over, and I have to listen to the King of Kings. I see my time is up. Therefore, if you want to come into the blessings of the King, there are many other blessings I wanted to tell you about, many blessings of the commonwealth. Everyone who comes in will not be treated like a second-class citizen. You may be treated that way by some people who are not really children of the kingdom, but are pretending to be by telling you they have been here for so many years. That does not mean a thing.

If you want to be partakers of the commonwealth of the kingdom of heaven, then say this prayer to the Lord and enter in right now, in the name of Jesus.

Say to the Lord, “My Lord and my God, have mercy upon my soul, a sinner. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God. I believe that He died on the cross and shed His precious blood for the forgiveness of my sins. I believe that He is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, the King of the kingdom.

“I open up the door of my heart, Lord, and I invite You into my heart. Wash all my filthy sins away. It does not matter how many I have committed. I know You say it does not matter how many I have committed, but if I invite You into my heart and confess my sins to You, You will make me a new creature. You will enter into me, and then You will be in me. I will begin letting You live out Your life in me, and I will let my own life die away.

“Lord, You will not turn me away. You will wash all my sins away in Your precious blood. Your Word says that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 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 my soul.”

Now, precious Savior, raise your hands to the Lord God Almighty and thank Him and praise Him for salvation. Praise Him and thank Him for the simplicity. If you would like a copy of this message, we can give you a copy. Just let us know whether you want a CD or a tape. As I said before, postage and handling are paid for, and there is no cost whatsoever.

Now, in the kingdom of heaven, the King also has an economic system, and it is called tithing. If you want this message and these kinds of messages to go out to invite children into the kingdom of heaven, then partake also in the economic system. Do not be hanging on to your cash. Tomorrow you might go out into eternity, and you would go to hell for not obeying the economic system. Tithe, so I can get this message to the whole world.

All right, Sharon, tell them how to receive a copy of this message.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Ministry Contact Voice:
Go to AlamoMinistries.com, or write to Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, PO Box 6467, Texarkana, Texas 75505, or call area code 479-782-7370, or fax to area code 479-782-7406.

Speaker 1 – Pastor Tony Alamo:
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