The Kingdom Principle of Fatherhood Insights

You feel the anointing on that song? When I first heard that song sung by our men, I wept. And I think they have a few of those CDs out there. Put that in your car, I guarantee you'll be weeping down the street driving in traffic. Because we're trying to find our image. And we try so many other people's images. But we found our hero, Jesus Christ. Amen? Please get your Bibles and your notebooks. Let's go to work. It's building time. Men are builders. I'm going to be using a screen, so they'll be sharing our PowerPoint presentation with you to take notes, so make sure you can position yourself to see the screens. And there'll be a lot to write tonight, so write very fast. What I'm going to teach you took me 38 years to learn. And we're going to be focusing as we take a look at 2007 for men only conference here in the beautiful state of Texas, Dallas. The theme of this conference is men are builders. And I couldn't think of a better focus for men. And tonight we want to really talk a little bit about, not the Bahamas, I know you want to go there. You know God lives in the Bahamas, you know that. But we're going to be focusing on understanding the kingdom principle of fatherhood. Everybody say fatherhood. Fatherhood. I want to bring you to reconnect to the purpose and role of the male man and the concept of why God calls the male father. There's so much that I wanted to share in this series because it has so much content. In the limited time we have, I thought it would be helpful if I would handpick a few items for your own education. And so I wanted first of all to show you my family. I believe that no man can measure his life beyond the success of his family. If a man wants to run God's house, he must first run his own house, the Word of God says. So, my family is my greatest testimony. My wife and I have been married for 28 years. My son and daughter are both university graduate students. They have their graduate master's degrees. They are very sound young people, obedient and yet very visionary. We are proud of them. My wife tonight is speaking in the great nation of Trinidad, where she is speaking at the Caribbean Women's Conference in Port of Spain tonight, while I am here in Dallas. We always travel together. It is very rare that my wife is not with me. And the only thing that separates us is if there are duties of ministry as tonight. This is very rare for me not to be with my wife. My son and daughter are our greatest gift to the world. And we thank God for his faithfulness to our family. We're going to talk about manhood tonight, but from the perspective of the principle of fatherhood. There is no greater responsibility for a male, whether he is married or unmarried, as much as fatherhood. We're going to look at God's foundation for building the human family. God's foundation for doing what? Building the human family. I want you to listen tonight because most of us never had good fathers who sat with us and taught us the way Bishop Jakes wants you to be taught in this conference. Much of our manhood skills were taught by men who were not men. And so it's important. for us to re-enter the training. There's so much to share. I want to just remind you of a few items that we have. Our books on the kingdom are available to you and our latest book that deals with how to apply the principles of the kingdom to your company, your country. to your family is called The Most Important Person on Earth is now available as a brand new release. And all three of these kingdom books are available for you. Many of you may have seen our products on the kingdom worldwide. We have now... Being totally overwhelmed, over 1 million copies of these books are now sold and I am shocked. Walmart purchased over 40,000 copies last week, which is unbelievable for Walmart. I think Bishop Jake knows what I'm talking about. So that's a wonderful thing. And this particular series is available as a package for all the special men's conference attendees here. We also remind men that they have... to provide vision for the family so there is a product there for vision and also men need to know how to be leaders in their family and so we also have a special product that i ask our staff to ship up here for you called the spirit of of leadership. Both of these are in a package for the men in this conference as well, and they are available for you specifically here for a special rate. We also have our best-selling book, 700,000 copies of this book were sold. It deals with single men and also married men it also deals with divorced men and this book will help you understand how to live a life as a single person effectively how to monitor and manage your marital life and then how to regain your life after divorce 26 ways to understand a woman It took me 12 years to write this one book. I did 12 years of research and I figured out that women are different from us in 26 specific ways. And for you to live with a woman, you got to learn those 26 different ways. And I have this brand new book available for you. It's called Understanding Love and Marriage and it's going to help you understand how women think. That's almost impossible, isn't it? But women are not difficult to understand. As a matter of fact, There is a book, said book that I worked on for 12 years. One is called The Purpose and Power of Men. And it deals with the five needs of a male. Men really only need five things. And the average woman don't know what they are. So it's important for you to get this book and give it to your wife or to your girlfriend or someone who you want to, who may be interested in your future with you. It would be a great investment. Make sure you read the book first yourself, though, so you understand what you need as well. But only five things a man really needs to function. And then I had to do research for a partner book for it. And I took 13 years of research for this book. It's called The Power of Woman. And it deals with the five things a woman needs. Women only need five things. They want 26. But they only need five specific things. And the average man doesn't know what those five things are. Do I need a handheld or something? If I do, let me know, guys. So, the five things that a woman needs are very simple. and that's because a man doesn't know what they are, a man experiments. For example, the first thing a male needs, everybody say need. A need is a requirement necessary for function. Say that with me. A need is a requirement. Necessary for function. In other words, a need is not a want. Your car does not want gasoline. Your body does not want water. So when we talk about the five needs of a woman, a woman doesn't want these things. The needs of a man, a man doesn't want these things. For example, the first thing that a male needs... It's sex. Don't look too cool on me now, come on, smile. A man doesn't want sex. I'm not teaching on this now, I'm going to teach that. Next time I'll come back, but I just want to show you the difference. But a woman doesn't need sex. A woman needs affection. And sex is not affection. So most men, when they are satisfied, they roll over and go to bed. And the woman is still unfulfilled. Because men confuse sex with affection. So to understand the difference, you need to really study and research how unique we are before God. And these two material items are available for you today. But the book I'm going to speak from is our latest book called The Principle of Fatherhood. And it has already sold over 400,000 copies. And I'm very impressed by the desire for this material, The Fatherhood Principle. And I want to recommend that to you tonight. Get the whole pack. The whole pack of all these books together are available for all the men. specifically a special rate where you save a lot because I want all the the men to get these. I think we have a good supply of them. We shipped up here from our offices in the Bahamas and in Miami. And so make sure don't let this material go back home without you taking advantage of it. Okay? Right on top of your page, this topic, understanding the principle of fatherhood. Can you go ahead and write that down, please? And I want to deal with the subject of fatherhood, appreciating why men are called to be fathers. called fathers. Why God called men fathers. The kingdom of God is the focus of Jesus. So let me begin with a scripture that's found in the book of Genesis chapter 1. Can you turn there please? If you don't have a Bible, just look at the screen. So we are going to take a look at this scripture. Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 says, Then God... said, let us make man in our own image and our likeness and let them have what? Dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, over the cattle of the field and over all the earth and over everything that creeps upon the ground. So God is very clear about why he made man. Now, write this down. The Bible is about a king, a kingdom, and his royal kids. The Bible is not about a religion. The Bible is about a royal family. The Bible is about a kingdom because a kingdom is a governing influence of a king over a territory. In other words, all kingdoms are countries with citizens. They are not religions with members. And I want to begin with this concept because to understand how manhood works, the word dominion, you want to write it down, I did some research for you, and the word dominion is from two Hebrew words, the word is daowau, and it means sovereign rule. kingdom the word is also the root word mamlakak which also means royal power or kingdom so when you read the bible genesis 1 26 it actually should be read like this and god said let us make man in our own image and our likeness and let them have kingdom over the earth. Let them have royal power. The word dominion means to govern, to rule, to control, to manage, to lead, to master something. In other words, God created humans to have dominion power, kingdom power over the earth. Therefore, the first thing God gave man was a kingdom over the earth. I was born in 1954 in the Bahamas. When I was born, the Bahamas was not a country. The Bahamas was called a colony. A colony is a territory that belongs to a kingdom that is under the control of a king. So when I was born in 1954 in the island of Nassau, New Providence, I was born under a king and a queen. And every morning at 9 a.m., we had to wake up as students and we had to sing every morning a worship song to the queen and king of England. We never saw them. We just kept singing. Because in a kingdom, the first thing you do every morning is you worship the sovereign. Some of you all are slow. See, being born in America is a disadvantage because there's no kingdom concept in America, but Jesus Christ is a king, he's not a president. And in a kingdom you are required to worship. And so at four years old, three years old, we would stand up in the hot sun, 90 degrees, and we had to sing because we were in a kingdom. Before we started work in school, we had to sing to the king. What is a kingdom? It's a very important definition. A kingdom is the governing influence of a king over a territory, impacting it with his will, his purpose, and his intent, producing a citizenry with a lifestyle reflecting the culture, values, morals, and nature of the king. This is a very important definition. A kingdom is A governing influence of a king over a territory. Notice the word his territory is there because in a kingdom the king owns the country as personal property. That's why the Bible says the earth is the Lord's. and the fullness thereof. As a matter of fact, the reason why a king is called Lord is because the word owner is the word Adonai, Adon, which means master owner. So every king is automatically a Lord because he owns the country. You don't make a king lord. He comes as lord. He owns the country. And so Jesus Christ is lord because the earth is the lord's. The only lord in America that exists is the one you're renting from. He's called the land lord because he is the owner of the property. So a kingdom is a government that owns a territory, that impacts the territory with the king's personal will and purpose and intent, and he produces a citizenry. people who reflect his nature his values his morals and his lifestyle so when you come to the Bahamas for example we were a colony under the kingdom of Great Britain for over 250 years so in the Bahamas we speak English just like our King speaks English we drive on the left-hand side of the street like our kingdom does we wear suits with short pants and long socks We drink tea, not coffee. Why? Because when you are under a kingdom, you take on the lifestyle, the morals, the standards of your kingdom, even though you are in a colony. It's amazing that we act just like the king of Great Britain for years and the king never came to our territory. In other words, Christ doesn't need to come here for you to act like there. Therefore, all kingdoms colonize. Say that with me. All kingdoms colonize. Write that down. Quit. All kingdoms colonize. Republics don't colonize. Democracies don't colonize. Only kingdoms colonize. And the Bible is about colonization. As a matter of fact, God's original purpose and plan was to colonize earth with heaven, just like the British colonized the islands of the Bahamas. Put it another way, God's plan was for man to compose the colony of heaven on earth. He wanted to extend his heavenly kingdom to the physical earth, so that earth could reflect what heaven looks like. Therefore, the plan of God and his goal was not to take man to heaven, but to establish a heavenly society on earth. I'm talking to men now. You are not supposed to be a man of God after you get to heaven. Don't rush me now, I'm getting excited, I'm going to run down there in a minute. Write this down please. All societies create a culture that expresses the values and morals and standards of the people of that culture. kingdoms colonized colonies of a culture and the culture produces society and the society reflect the values the morals the standards and the nature of the country therefore the plan of God was for humanity to look just like heaven without coming to heaven you know Let me give you a secret, listen carefully about kingdoms. When a kingdom takes over a territory, look at me, very important. When they colonize it, the first thing they destroy in the people is their language. When they took over our islands, the British Kingdom took away our African language. It became illegal to speak the African dialect. And they made us speak the Kingdom's language. Jolly well old chap, come on now fellow. And from a child we had to speak British English. They took away our language. Well that's the first thing a kingdom does when they take over territory. They colonize you by taking away your language. That's why Jesus said when the Holy Spirit comes the first thing he will take away is your language and give you heaven's language. I don't want to get into that. why because your language always gives you away you could tell me a man is from just when he speaks that's supposed to give you away you are not from where you are in the earth but you are not from the earth come on somebody talk to me tongues is a sign that you are from another place i am in the world but not Tongues is not a religious ritual. It's a national language. Oh come on shout with me. You take on the values of your country. Listen carefully please. Therefore the fall of man was not a fall from heaven. Adam did not fall from heaven. So going to heaven is not restoration. I'm going to say this slow. This gets a little bit... Okay. The fall of man is not a fall from heaven, but a fall from dominion. You cannot lose what you never received. God never gave Adam heaven. So Adam couldn't lose heaven. He never got it. God gave Adam earth, dominion over earth. So the fall of man was the loss of a kingdom. Stay with me. The fall of man was the loss of what? A kingdom. Dawaw, mamlakak. You couldn't lose what you never got. God said in Genesis 26, Adam here is Mamlakak over the earth. Here is Dawa over the earth. How do you mean over the kingdom? And Adam lost it. Let me prove it. You can always tell what Adam lost by what Jesus bought. Whatever man lost is what Jesus Christ had to bring back to earth. Going to heaven does not fulfill God's will. Dominating earth fulfills God's will for you. Oh, I'm talking to myself. Religion prepares man to leave earth. The kingdom equips man to rule earth. The kingdom focuses on occupation. Religion focuses on evacuation. Some of y'all still ain't getting with me here. That's why the church, religious church, is so rapture oriented, because it has no anointing for kingdom impact. We are not here to focus on going to heaven. We are here to invade your city, your business world, your law world, your media world, your education world, your political world. God says go into all the world. So whatever man lost, Jesus had to bring back to earth. Let's read what Jesus brought. His first public statement is found in Matthew 4 verse 17. Here's what he says. He just finished being tested. He passed his test. His first public statement says, Matthew 4 verse 17, From that time forward, Jesus began to preach, quote, Repent! Why? For the kingdom of heaven has returned! Kingdom, Dawau, Mamlakak. I look at Luke chapter 4 verse 43. He says, I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to other towns also because that is why I was sent. The cross was not the goal of his coming. It was a means to an end. He said the reason why, look at it, he said because of the kingdom message, that's why he was sent. And then he tells us in Luke chapter 9 verse 2, he sent them out to preach the kingdom of God is here and then heal the sick. You know, miracles, and there are going to be some here in a few moments, miracles are not religious activity. Let me explain miracles to you. When you come to the Bahamas, because we were under a kingdom, I mean we were in a colony, when you come to the Bahamas, when you walk out of the airport, you will notice that when you get into the taxi cab, the guy will take the car and take it on the left-hand side of the street. And he'll drive you all day on the left. Why? Because that act of driving is evidence that another government was here. Oh, you don't get it. So, when you read the Bible, it never says, and Jesus healed the sick, and cleansed the leper, and raised the dead, and then preached the kingdom. It never says that. Read your Bible again. It always says, he preached the kingdom of God first. Then it says, then he healed the sick. In other words, he had to give evidence that another country had arrived. Uh-oh. In other words, sickness being cured is evidence that another country is now invading the earth again, taking back territory. Lift your hands right now. Every sickness in your family has to leave tonight because you are under the kingdom teaching. And I rebuke it in Jesus' name. Let the kingdom come to your house in Jesus' name. I remember the man who had a son and the son had a demon and the demon was throwing the little boy up and down and destroying him and they brought him to Jesus to be healed and Jesus cast the demon out and the man said you did this because of the devil who said that the religious people They said, you are full of the devil. Jesus said, no, no, no. How can you be so stupid, he says. First of all, when kingdoms take territory, they never give it up. By the way, I was born in one. I know what that means. That's the principle. A kingdom's power is in its territory. I'm going to repeat this. Write this down, please. A kingdom's power is in what? Its territory. That's why kingdoms like to expand. The more land a kingdom has, the greater power it has. So when kingdoms take territory, they never give it up without a fight. So Christ says, Satan will never cast himself out of his own territory. It was a kingdom statement. He said, but if I cast out this demon by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of heaven has come upon you. Woo, come on, give him a praise. He said this is evidence that another country has arrived. I'm taking back territory. God's about to take back the business you lost. He's going to take back the marriage you lost. He's going to take back even the child that was killed. He's going to give you a new baby. What is the ultimate desire of Jesus? I found it. Matthew 6 verse 9, they asked Jesus, what should we pray for? He said, when you pray, pray this, our Father who is not on earth, where is he? In the home country. Holy is his name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. Where? On earth. How? Just like it is in heaven. He said, don't pray to leave, pray for heaven to come to earth. I'm gonna try that again. Religion say pray to go to heaven. The kingdom says pray for heaven to come to earth. Now clap your hands and believe what Jesus said. It's reversed. We've been trained to leave. He's trying to train us to invade. Hallelujah. And so he has this plan. Here's his plan. He created the human family to manifest his kingdom culture, his morals, his values on the earth. That's why God made the human family. It's supposed to be a society of heaven on earth. That means the male and the female are supposed to reflect what heaven's nature is like. Everybody say culture. The foundation of the human family is a male. Today there are 6.7 billion people on earth and God only made one of them from the soil. He never went back. Let me say it slow because it's a little bit deep. There are 6.7 billion people on earth right now, billion, and God only created one from the soil. He never went back. Females did not come from the soil. And the first and only human that God created from the soil was a male. Why? Because he was laying the foundation for the human family. When you're going to build anything, you got to first lay the foundation. Stay with me now. And the most important part of any building is the foundation. And you only lay one. Oh, I feel like running now. Foundation. No home in this city has two foundations. Woo! The male is God's chosen foundation for the human family and he puts us on the bottom. See you've been taught you are the head, no you are the bottom of the home. Now this is gonna get heavy now. You've been taught in your culture that you are the head of the house. Tonight, I'm taking you back to kingdom teaching. You are on the bottom of the house. You're supposed to carry the weight of the whole family. Come on, clap your hands, you real man. Listen to me. You've been around this beautiful hotel all the last few days. I saw you through my window taking photographs of the building, of the chandelier, of the beautiful plants. You took pictures of the walls. Guess what? You never took a photograph of the foundation. Why? Because you cannot see it. Why? It's on the bottom, but it's holding up everything. That means a real man doesn't walk around bragging about what he does for his family. He just does it, doesn't care if nobody takes a photograph. He just holds up his wife, his children, pays the bills, he keeps them solid, he keeps them together. Oh, I'm getting ready to get excited. A real man doesn't brag about paying the rent. He doesn't brag about buying groceries. He doesn't brag about keeping the lights on. Why? That's his responsibility. Clap your hands and say, I'm a real man. The most important part of this hotel is the foundation, and you never looked at it. Oh, they don't recognize me. They don't know what... Shut up and just hold it up! It's your family! Hold the family up! Tell your neighbor, stay on the bottom. And hold the family up. Tell your neighbor, God knows where you are. Tell your neighbor, God laid you down there. Because he knows he can carry the weight. Clap your hands, all you strong men who are foundation people. Write this down quickly. The foundation carries the weight of the building, Bishop. Can I suggest to you that the key to the building is the foundation? Some of you in this room are builders, contractors, and you know that in your city, the local government has a building code. And the building code says... that if you break the walls down of a building, the government will not condemn the building. If you lose the windows, they won't condemn the building. If you lose the roof, they won't condemn the building. If you destroy the fancy chandeliers, they won't condemn the building. If you dig up all the carpet, they won't condemn the building. They will not condemn the building in your city. If you lose the walls, they won't condemn the building. But if they ever find a crack in the foundation, that is why the devil is not interested in your wife. She's the wall. The devil is not interested in Eve. She ain't holding up nothing. Oh, don't miss tonight. It's going to be heavy for a few minutes. That's why you, listen to me, you are the most important part of God's building project. The mail is the most important part of God's project. That's why you are on the top of the hit list of hell. Every project of hell is aimed at the mail. Every one of them. Every ad has a naked woman. Why? They're after you. Pornography is after you. Dirty books is after the male. Corruption is after the male. Sweetheart is after the male. If you can just destroy the foundation, the whole house is condemned. Isn't it amazing that when Eve sought a fruit, nothing happened. The Bible says she picked it, nothing happened. She bit it, nothing happened. She chewed it, nothing happened. She swallowed it, nothing happened. She digested it, nothing happened. It said, but then she took it to the foundation. Because she was not the heart of the building. The Bible says, he took the fruit. Read my lips. And he ate it. The next word says, and suddenly. By one man, sin entered. By one man. That's why this For Men Only conference is a conference that is more important than a thousand, hundred thousand, ten thousand women. Because no matter how the women get healed, if the wall comes back and there's no foundation, all you got is a wall that can't stand up. Write this down. The world is filled with males but very few men. And the world is filled with many men but very, even less fathers. We're suffering from a father problem. I did some research for you. I thought you'd be happy to see this. It'll be helpful to you. This was a statement that was written in Time Magazine on Father's Day. Three consecutive Father's Days, Time Magazine had this quote. They said, dad is destiny. Say that with me. Dad is... that was taken from Time magazine and they are correct. Matter of fact here's a quote from this article. They said more than any other factor a biological father's presence in the family will determine a child's success or happiness. Time magazine. Look at the next quote here. They said 40% of all kids in the West now live without their biological father. Up 17.5% since 1960. Another quote from the magazine. They said more than half of today's children will spend at least part of their childhood without a father. Another quote that's depressing. They said fatherlessness is the most destructive trend of our generation. This is from a secular magazine. Another quote I thought was amazing. They said the abuse of, the absence rather, of fathers is linked to the most social nightmares. Boys with guns to girls with babies. They say it's the fathers being absent that causes the problem. This is from sociologists, behavioral scientists, and psychologists research. Another quote is an amazing one, this one. They said 49% of all families with children headed by single mothers live below the poverty line. 49%. Compared with 8% of those with two parents. In other words, fatherlessness is the cause of poverty. Another quote, research. Studies show that only 41% of state prisons inmates grew up with both their parents and that a missing father is a better indicator and a predictor of criminal activity than race and poverty. In other words, people are in prison not because of poverty or race, but an absence of a father. Research in your own country. Oh, it gets interesting. Here's one I thought was interesting that threw me off. This one says, social scientists have made links between a father's absence and his child's likelihood of being a dropout, a jobless one, a drug addict, a suicide. victim mentally ill or a target for sexual abuse, fathers being absent. Another thought that shocked me, research says only 51% of kids live with both biological parents today. That means every time you stand up in a church service, half of the church was bought up without fathers. In your youth group, half of the boys don't have fathers. The chances are the woman that marries you marries a man who never had a proper father. Here's another quote. I thought it was interesting. 71% survey says it is very important to have a father living in the home. They surveyed secular people. U.S. News. a word report. They agree. The world is saying that we need fathers. Well, let's see what God says. The highest honor God ever placed on a male is the word father. Why? Because father is the title God gave himself. God never calls himself a mother. And God gave you his title. That's why we got to talk about it before we go home. Because if he gave you the title, you better find out what it is. You are so important, God gave you the title. Now, get ready. Sit up straight. Sit up straight. You're going to get heavy now. Watch this. Fatherhood is the ultimate work of the male. Why? Because fatherhood is the principal cause of sin. Let me put it another way. I'm moving fast for a reason. Sin is a fatherhood problem. How do we know that? Because sin is result of a man declaring independence from his father. Therefore man is suffering from a fatherless child syndrome. Can I put it to you? God saw fatherhood as the source and the solution to man's problems. I say both. He saw father as what? The source and the solution of the sin problem. How do I know that? Let's read what he says in the last prophecy in the Malachi. Before he closes the Old Testament, the last statement God made about humanity. He says, he will turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children and the hearts of the children back to who? Their fathers. Or else I will come and curse the land. Whenever a country is under a curse, it's because the men are out of position. Hey boys, reposition yourself. Tell your neighbor, go back under the family. Oh, that's deep. Tell your neighbor, go back under your wife. Stay with me, I'm going to explain in a minute. My wife is secure because I am under her. He said the solution that the Messiah will bring is that he will turn the hearts of the father back to the children and the children back to the father. New Testament, 400 years later, we read this very beautiful statement, Malachi 4. Verse 6 says, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day. He will turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, children back to the father. And then Luke is fulfilled and Matthew and John is fulfilled. And here's what it says about Jesus Christ. Do not hold on to me, he says. I have yet to return to my father. And go instead and tell my brothers to meet me, he says. But I am returning to my father. And now he is your father again. All right, let's write now. What's the word father meant? Let's go home. Everybody say father. The word father is from the Hebrew word Abba. I'm talking about you right now. Watch this. Write this down. Abba. Everybody say Abba. The word Abba. Is the Greek word pata, P-A-T-E-R, in the New Testament, Old Testament, Abba, New Testament, pata, and they both mean the same thing. Matter of fact, the word in the Hebrew and the Greek means sauce. Write it down quick. It means sauce, Abba, sauce. Secondly, it means sustainer. Every man, write this down please. The word Abba means what? Source and sustainer. It also means nourisher. Abba, nourisher. The words Abba also means supporter. In other words, you source something and then you support it. Abba. The word Abba means foundation. This gets heavy. Now you got to follow me. This next five minutes are very critical. God was not always father. Listen to me. To be a father, you have to become the source of something. That means something had to come out of you. And then you sustain it. So before anything was, God is. So everything that is used to be inside of God. Hang on, Ashley. So if you met God before anything was, and he was standing on nothing by the corner of nowhere, And you shook his hands, you would be shaking hands with everything. But you wouldn't have known it because everything was inside of him. That means God, Jehovah, was pregnant with the universe before anything became. Then God decided, let us create. And out of God came 500 million galaxies. They've counted so far and they're still counting. A galaxy is a... multiplicity of solar systems a solar system is about the procedure planets that means there are trillions and trillions of stars and planets and they are all of there and we still can't measure the length of the universe and all of that was inside of God used to be inside of God are you with me follow me now listen to me so when God released everything he became the source of creation now whatever you release you have to automatically sustain So the Bible says he is the father of creation and he upholds all things by the power of his word. He's a true father. A father doesn't just produce, he sustains. I'm gonna say it again. A father doesn't just produce, he sustains. Hear what I said, a father doesn't just produce, he sustains. So let's go to work. Fatherhood means the source, sustainer, nourisher, and supporter, and the foundation of that which comes out of it. Brother Kendall, can you come here a minute please, quick. Stand right here. Face us. I want to show you something. Please don't miss this. I have a a bottle of water here. I want to show you how this works. You will never forget this. Hold this. Now, this is a bottle of water. I'm going to pour this out into this glass. So, the act of pouring myself out automatically made me a father. Whatever is in this bottle is in this glass. So in the Hebrew language, this would be called Abba. Hallelujah. So this is called the sauce. This is called the resources. You can't have a resource without a source. So you are God's resource. He is your source. Whatever is in the source is automatically in the resource. So when they say taste and see They don't need to go to heaven to taste him, just run into you. The Jehovah's Witnesses have a problem with you Christian people. They say Jesus cannot be God because he calls God Father, which means he must be less than God. They never been to my seminar. What Christ was saying was this, he was saying look, Jehovah is my source. So when they asked Jesus, show us the bottle, he said what are you talking about? He that has seen the glass, oh come on make some noise, you understand what I just said. Hallelujah! I say Hallelujah! Tell your neighbor you ain't got to go to heaven to see my father. Watch me from now on. I'm going to show you the nature of my daddy. I got my heavenly genetics. I am just like my father. Me and my father are... Come on, clap your hands and shout somebody. Oh! Sit down. Look at this verse. Look at this verse. Very interesting verse. The word father means source and what? Sustainer. It means foundation and supporter. When God called the male father, he was telling the male, you are the source of something. Now watch this. Watch this. Oh, you're going to go home dancing. Jesus said in John 8 verse 19 you do not know me Nor my father. What is father? Sauce. If you knew the glass, you would know the bottle. Watch him now. John 10. Read. I and the bottle on. Because I came from, I came from, I came from, I came from my father, he says. Look at verse 9 of chapter 14, read, and Jesus answered, don't you know me, Philip? Even after the glass have been on earth for so long? He that have seen me have seen my sauce. The shoe on your feet is still the cow it came from. Calling it a different name doesn't change it. If someone call you stupid, you are still like your father. If someone call you ugly, you are still like your father. If you tell your shoe, I think you are crazy, it is still the car. Oh, you missed me. Opinions do not change composition. Listen to me carefully then. And here comes the bottom line. The mail is designed by God to be the father of the human family. Now listen to me. When God created the mail, the foundation, please hear me. He gave the mail all the instructions. He never gave any instruction to the female. Shh, listen to me. He took the male and put him in the Garden of Eden and began to instruct him. Then God created a female. Afterwards, so the male was traded first and God decided I'm going to do with the male what I did with myself. You get it Bishop? I'm not going back to the soil to get the woman. Oh, you're gonna get blessed in a minute. I'm gonna make him what I am. So he put the guy to sleep, went inside the guy, went inside the male, and pulled out another, read my lips, male. Listen, male. And he built. Another one, except he made a few adjustments while he was building. And he created a womb in this model to carry the fetus. And gave it paps to sustain the fetus. So he took the male and built the capacity for the fetus in the male. And so he called it the fetus male. Fee male. A female is a male that can carry a fetus. carried a fetus. So he went inside the man, took on another man, built the man, made a few adjustments and put a womb. He called him the man with the womb. So you got the Wound man you call a woman So if you ain't sure you are a man Don't break your wrist on your ponytail and earrings and walk from it. Check and see if you got a room. If you ain't got a room, you're a brother. Hallelujah! I don't care what kind of surgery they do, they cannot put a womb in you. You can wear dress, put on wigs, make your breasts with hormones, but you ain't got no womb. You are a brother. You are a brother. Clap your hands on the real man. Hallelujah! When Adam saw her, Adam says, this is flesh, just like my flesh, and the bone structure, just like mine. And then he looked down, he said, oops, she has a wound. I will call her Wound Man. No psychology could create a womb. No vote could create a womb. No 70 bishops can lay hands on you and create a womb. No legislation in Washington could create a womb. If you ain't got a womb, put your pants on and be a brother. Clap loud if you're a real man. Men are builders, say it. Men are builders. We are builders. Now watch this. God went inside the man. Pulled out a woman. This is important. He didn't go to his feet. Didn't go to his hip. Didn't go to his back. Didn't go to his head. He went to his heart. The word in Hebrew is not rib. It just says peace. Part. He took a part. Why? Because every cell in your body. Please sit down. I got ten more minutes. Every cell in your body is... Listen to me, look at me, don't miss this. Very important, listen. Every cell in your body, scientifically proven, has in it a replica you. The DNA coding in every cell in your body codes for a duplicate you. The problem is we cannot split the code. Cloning is when you take the cell and you split the code and you cause the cell to multiply and produce an exact duplicate. So God is the first one to clone. He took a piece out of Adam, built a woman. This is important now. And the woman therefore is in this position. She's from the man's chest. So she's always on the top of the man. Why is this important? The children come out of the woman. So they are always in the front of the woman. You see, he's on the bottom. When life attacks the kids and hits the woman and she falls. Oh, you don't get what I said. Let me try one more time. When light hits the kids, hits the woman, and she falls. There's a man who was in Dallas, Texas, at the men's conference, who's there to catch her and say, Woman, I'm your foundation, baby. I'm the one who holds the building up. I don't care what the devil does. I'm going to hold my family up. Clap your hands and scream, somebody. So from now on, don't you ever say again, behind every good man is a good woman. That's not kingdom. You should now say, in the front of every good man is a better woman. You are holding her up. All the real men, clap your hands and give God praise. You're going to hold your family up. Sit down quick, I got two more minutes. Everybody say foundation, foundation. Listen to me. Man was the source of woman. The function of the male is to father the woman. Write this down please. The function of the male is to father the woman. Put the notes up please. I want you to get this please. It's very important. A woman is not looking for a lover. She's not looking for a sex champion. She's looking for a father. This is shift now. This is kingdom stuff I'm talking about here. So the function of the male, say it, the function of the male is to do what? Father the female. What is father? Source. Listen, look at me. No woman on this planet, I don't care what she tells you, no woman on this planet wants to have to go to work. Let me say it slowly. No woman on this planet, none, I dare them to talk to me. I've been to 87 countries and every woman is the same. They don't want to have to go to work. Why? They're not built to have to support nothing. They came to help! And so the devil's strategy is to move the man. And now the woman got to carry the weight. And she's not built to carry the weight. So he said, I will return the hearts of the fathers back to the children. If the foundations be restored, where will the righteous even be saved? How is the male, the father, the female? Here's the bottom line. The male is the source of seed. Woman have no seed. You carry it in your loins right now, four generations son. Every minute of every day, every male in here is carrying four generations. Right now. So whatever you do, it's being transferred upon your sperms. What you do in secret is never secret, it's generational. So your private escapades with the woman that you're not married to is not private. Generations are being impacted by that spirit of adultery. Some of you wonder why. You are violent against women, or why you are homosexual tendency, or why you want to drink alcohol, or why you want to take drugs. You wonder, why am I like this? Why do I hate women? Why do I want to beat women? Check your father's father's father. Because the sins of the father, never the mother, never the mother. The sins of the fathers, God says, are transferred to the first, second, third, and fourth generation. Nothing that a male does is private. It might be personal but never private. So every time I'm tempted to sin, I think about my unborn great-grandchildren. God doesn't just want to forgive you. He wants to forgive your righteous seed. You are the source of seed. You are the nourisher of fruit that comes from your seed. You are the source of the female that came out of you. The male is designed to protect the food that comes out of them. Therefore the male determines the quality of the... The fruit and the tree, therefore the male maintains his offspring, therefore the male is the source of life. Listen to me men, and I beg you. You are the key to the whole building. This theme was not given to you haphazardly, Bishop. If we're going to build the communities back in our countries. We got to study what Paul said. Paul said, I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ and the head of woman is man and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays with his head covered dishonors his head. Verse 8, the man did not come from the woman. But the woman came from the man. Abba, Abba. Now, I feel an anointing coming on me. Listen. Listen. Therefore, the woman, all the women that you have in your life, you are supposed to father them. Listen. Shh. Listen. You are your wife's father. You ever wondered why? All the way back in Abraham time, even today, when you get married, you stand at the altar. She's coming down the aisle with her father. So there are two fathers in the house. One waiting and one bringing. Follow me now. The father who's bringing, he's going to soon release it to another father. So the Bible says, watch this, the Bible says a man leaves his father. But it never says a woman leaves. A woman never leaves. Read the Bible. For this cause should a man leave his father mother. But the woman never leaves her father. Why? Because she just changes fathers. He turns over to you and says, pick up where I left off son. Keep on fathering my daughter. Pick up where I left off son. You are the father of your wife. And that's why it's built into you to automatically call your wife baby. Oh come on brothers, be honest now, clap your hands. Because she is your baby. And that's why it is natural for your wife to finally call you daddy. Come on, scream if you got the revelation. Woo! Carry the load. Carry the load. Care for it. Woo! One last point I want to make. And I want to sit down, sit down quick. Are you getting blessed tonight? Everybody say, my baby is at home. I'm going home to father her. Clap your hands, all you great Abbas. Fathers, fathers, do not abuse the children. They protect their children. Fathers provide covering and food and clothes and support and counsel and advice. So I saw this in the Bible, this is going to bless you. Genesis 2, I want to close with this, very important. Write this down. God is now talking to the male. He said, he said, look, the Lord God took the male. This is very important. The books are there, please get them all. Because there's so much I want to tell you. A man must read, please be a reader. Shut TV off and read, okay? Look at me. God took the male and put him in the Garden of Eden, the Bible says. God didn't allow Adam to find Eden. He put him in Eden. Listen to me, this is so important. I did research on the word Eden for 12 years. I wrote a book on it. I discovered that the word Eden is made up of five strokes in Hebrew. Look at me, five strokes. One stroke says spot. Another stroke says moment. Another stroke says open door. Another stroke means access. And the final stroke means presence. It's interesting. The word Eden is five strokes in Hebrew. It means moment, spot, presence, open door, access. Eden, therefore, is impossible to translate into English. That's why the word Eden is written Eden, the Hebrew word is written Eden in English. Because the word Eden literally means... The spot for the moment where the presence of God is open door access to heaven. I got me again. What is Eden? A spot on the earth for the moment where the presence of God is an open door to heaven. It says God took the man and put him in the spot. So the first place God put the male is in his presence. So the first thing a male needs is not the presence of a woman. He needs the presence of God. The second thing God says, work it and cultivate and guard the garden. And then the Lord commanded the man, don't touch the tree. So here's the bottom line, write this down. The five purposes of the male. First, number one, Eden. To be a kingdom man, you must be in the presence of God 24 hours a day. Number two, work. God gave man work before he gave him woman. That means you need a job before you get a wife. Number three, God told a man to cultivate. To cultivate means to bring the best out of something, to make it fruitful. Therefore, God will never give a male a finished product. Oh, it's going to get heavy now. You were designed to be a cultivator. So God will not give you anything you don't have to cultivate. So God never gave Adam a chair or a table. He hid them in the trees. God never gave Adam a pair of shoes. He hid it in the cow. Okay, here's the good part. God would never give a male a finished woman. This is very important now. The woman that you are looking for, the one in your head, does not exist. That's why you can't find the perfect woman. She only exists in your mind. God will only give you the raw material. He said I want you to cultivate her and make her into the woman in your mind. So your job is to develop and to refine and to train and to educate and to improve the woman in your life. That means the longer a woman stays with you the better she should become. If you are ashamed of your wife, you should be ashamed of yours. Oh, come on men, go with me now, getting ready to go home now. Therefore, you must be just like your hero, Jesus. The Bible says he has a woman. Her name is Ecclesia. He says, you love your wife like I love my wife. How? I wash her, I cleanse her, I remove every spot, every wrinkle, every blemish, every stain, and then I present her to myself. And I say, look at the idea, that's mine, that's my thing. He says, you're supposed to feel proud of your wife, you're supposed to make her what you wanted her to become, become the woman she was born to be. Present your wife to yourself. When I first married my wife, she was afraid to talk to the dark. Today she speaks all over the world by herself. Why? Every woman is a man's project. I'm going to say it again. Your wife is your divine project. If she's too fat, don't tell her she's fat. You wake her up at 6 o'clock, come baby, let's go. I gotta cultivate you. Let us go jogging. If she don't look right, don't dress right, don't criticize her. You take her to the best boutique in town and buy her the best clothes and say, come on baby, look at my stuff. Cultivate! If you are not proud of your wife, you should be ashamed of yourself. I know it's quiet now, I'm getting ready to go. Tell your neighbor, cultivate your woman. Tell your neighbor, cultivate your woman. Your children are supposed to be produced better and better because they are your children. You cultivate. Last two, he says protect the garden. Males are protectors. That's why God gave you larger bone structures and mass muscle. Why? You were born to be a protector. When a man takes his muscle and hit the very thing you should be protecting, that man is a beast. Your strength was not given to you to destroy a woman, but to protect a woman. So don't you ever touch that woman again. I'm talking to you sitting in the back there. Don't you go home and apologize and tell your wife, in Dallas this week, the kingdom set me free. Forgive me, baby. I will never harm you again. You are my delicate protection. What a shame that a powerful man with all of his strength at two o'clock in the morning would creep into his baby's room and climb on top of his six-year-old daughter and use his strength to pin her down. This is abomination. Stop it brother. Stop it. Your strength was given to you to protect your wife and your daughter. Oh God help me. And the last one. He said Adam I give you my command. Teach the woman. God never told Eve about the tree. He only told the man. Your job is to teach your family the command of God. The problem is the devil has reversed it. Your wife knows more word than you. And you are wired to be the teacher. That's why you hate when she tries to teach you. So from this day forward, go to that lobby, get your credit card, buy every T.D.J.'s books out there, every Brother Watley's book, buy every book. Why? You've got to catch up now. Spend 207 as your education year to become a man of education. teach your family the word of God clap your hands and give him praise you will be a better man stand up on your feet if you're a real man and shout for the king Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Lift your hands and give God praise in this place that he is setting you free for men only 2007 in Dallas Texas TD Jakes Ministries is the place where you got a revelation to be a father. You are a father. Nobody move please. My authority is in the room. Nobody move. Stop. Thank you. Listen to me. God never speaks without expecting a response. Your grandson, your unborn granddaughter is in the balance tonight. Being a father is not having children. Being a father is bigger than that. Being a father means that you take responsibility to sustain. Take your brother's hands. Every time I speak the kingdom of God. He has to show up to validate the presence of his country. As we leave this building tonight, that presence, Eden, shall follow you. The reason why the word says moment is because the presence moved. He was here for a moment, there for a moment, wherever Adam went, it followed. His presence always comes when you teach the kingdom of God. Come here, you see this man? doesn't suspect anything. Can you stand behind him? Look at me a minute. Lift your hand up. This is just, the Bible says the Word of God is not just in speech but it's in power. So the power of God comes upon you right now. The kingdom of God finds place in this man's life right now. And may Eden come upon you right now. And may you be full of Eden's presence and may you worship like Adam in the name of Jesus. Now receive Eden. Come here sir. Run. He's going to wake up speaking in tongues. Come here. Stand here. Look at me. I don't know what you've been struggling with the last six months. Lift your hand up. Six months you've been telling God, if things don't change, I'm gonna, I'm not gonna make it. Eden comes upon you right now. The kingdom of God comes upon you right now. And everything that has been going wrong changes right now. Now receive it. Your hands shall be ready. Solutions shall come quickly. By Wednesday you shall be out of the pit. This week you shall have a testimony. The kingdom of God is looking for men that represent the culture of heaven. Simple. The Holy Spirit said to me, I am going to break generational curses tonight. The sins of the fathers have been transferred. to the first, second, third, fourth generations. I don't know what your great-great-great-grandfather did, but whatever he did, it could still be oppressing you. Maybe not possessing you, but oppressing you because you have not renounced its rights. There are things your great-grandfather did and your grandfather did that are still affecting your family cycle. The power of a father. God wants you to become a new source for a new generation. Lift that hand of your friend. Father, in Jesus' name, I decree. That every spirit that entered my family line through the act of my father's and my father's father's, I renounce them now. In Jesus name, I denounce every spirit that is not from God. that entered my family through the behavior of my fathers it shall not go into my future The governor of the kingdom, the Holy Spirit says that you've been struggling with habits. You prayed for them, you fasted, you had people pray over you and you keep going back to that habit. It came into your family through the behavior of your fathers. And tonight He's gonna break that. If you got a habit that you've been battling with, come down to this altar quickly. This will take two minutes. I've seen this break all over the world. Habits forever.

And we try so many other people's images. But we found our hero, Jesus Christ. Amen? Please get your Bibles and your notebooks.

Let's go to work. It's building time. Men are builders.

I'm going to be using a screen, so they'll be sharing our PowerPoint presentation with you to take notes, so make sure you can position yourself to see the screens. And there'll be a lot to write tonight, so write very fast. What I'm going to teach you took me 38 years to learn. And we're going to be focusing as we take a look at 2007 for men only conference here in the beautiful state of Texas, Dallas. The theme of this conference is men are builders.

And I couldn't think of a better focus for men. And tonight we want to really talk a little bit about, not the Bahamas, I know you want to go there. You know God lives in the Bahamas, you know that.

But we're going to be focusing on understanding the kingdom principle of fatherhood. Everybody say fatherhood. Fatherhood.

I want to bring you to reconnect to the purpose and role of the male man and the concept of why God calls the male father. There's so much that I wanted to share in this series because it has so much content. In the limited time we have, I thought it would be helpful if I would handpick a few items for your own education. And so I wanted first of all to show you my family.

I believe that no man can measure his life beyond the success of his family. If a man wants to run God's house, he must first run his own house, the Word of God says. So, my family is my greatest testimony. My wife and I have been married for 28 years.

My son and daughter are both university graduate students. They have their graduate master's degrees. They are very sound young people, obedient and yet very visionary.

We are proud of them. My wife tonight is speaking in the great nation of Trinidad, where she is speaking at the Caribbean Women's Conference in Port of Spain tonight, while I am here in Dallas. We always travel together.

It is very rare that my wife is not with me. And the only thing that separates us is if there are duties of ministry as tonight. This is very rare for me not to be with my wife.

My son and daughter are our greatest gift to the world. And we thank God for his faithfulness to our family. We're going to talk about manhood tonight, but from the perspective of the principle of fatherhood. There is no greater responsibility for a male, whether he is married or unmarried, as much as fatherhood. We're going to look at God's foundation for building the human family.

God's foundation for doing what? Building the human family. I want you to listen tonight because most of us never had good fathers who sat with us and taught us the way Bishop Jakes wants you to be taught in this conference.

Much of our manhood skills were taught by men who were not men. And so it's important. for us to re-enter the training.

There's so much to share. I want to just remind you of a few items that we have. Our books on the kingdom are available to you and our latest book that deals with how to apply the principles of the kingdom to your company, your country. to your family is called The Most Important Person on Earth is now available as a brand new release. And all three of these kingdom books are available for you.

Many of you may have seen our products on the kingdom worldwide. We have now... Being totally overwhelmed, over 1 million copies of these books are now sold and I am shocked.

Walmart purchased over 40,000 copies last week, which is unbelievable for Walmart. I think Bishop Jake knows what I'm talking about. So that's a wonderful thing. And this particular series is available as a package for all the special men's conference attendees here.

We also remind men that they have... to provide vision for the family so there is a product there for vision and also men need to know how to be leaders in their family and so we also have a special product that i ask our staff to ship up here for you called the spirit of of leadership. Both of these are in a package for the men in this conference as well, and they are available for you specifically here for a special rate. We also have our best-selling book, 700,000 copies of this book were sold.

It deals with single men and also married men it also deals with divorced men and this book will help you understand how to live a life as a single person effectively how to monitor and manage your marital life and then how to regain your life after divorce 26 ways to understand a woman It took me 12 years to write this one book. I did 12 years of research and I figured out that women are different from us in 26 specific ways. And for you to live with a woman, you got to learn those 26 different ways.

And I have this brand new book available for you. It's called Understanding Love and Marriage and it's going to help you understand how women think. That's almost impossible, isn't it?

But women are not difficult to understand. As a matter of fact, There is a book, said book that I worked on for 12 years. One is called The Purpose and Power of Men. And it deals with the five needs of a male.

Men really only need five things. And the average woman don't know what they are. So it's important for you to get this book and give it to your wife or to your girlfriend or someone who you want to, who may be interested in your future with you.

It would be a great investment. Make sure you read the book first yourself, though, so you understand what you need as well. But only five things a man really needs to function.

And then I had to do research for a partner book for it. And I took 13 years of research for this book. It's called The Power of Woman. And it deals with the five things a woman needs. Women only need five things.

They want 26. But they only need five specific things. And the average man doesn't know what those five things are. Do I need a handheld or something?

If I do, let me know, guys. So, the five things that a woman needs are very simple. and that's because a man doesn't know what they are, a man experiments. For example, the first thing a male needs, everybody say need.

A need is a requirement necessary for function. Say that with me. A need is a requirement. Necessary for function. In other words, a need is not a want.

Your car does not want gasoline. Your body does not want water. So when we talk about the five needs of a woman, a woman doesn't want these things. The needs of a man, a man doesn't want these things.

For example, the first thing that a male needs... It's sex. Don't look too cool on me now, come on, smile.

A man doesn't want sex. I'm not teaching on this now, I'm going to teach that. Next time I'll come back, but I just want to show you the difference. But a woman doesn't need sex.

A woman needs affection. And sex is not affection. So most men, when they are satisfied, they roll over and go to bed. And the woman is still unfulfilled.

Because men confuse sex with affection. So to understand the difference, you need to really study and research how unique we are before God. And these two material items are available for you today.

But the book I'm going to speak from is our latest book called The Principle of Fatherhood. And it has already sold over 400,000 copies. And I'm very impressed by the desire for this material, The Fatherhood Principle. And I want to recommend that to you tonight. Get the whole pack.

The whole pack of all these books together are available for all the men. specifically a special rate where you save a lot because I want all the the men to get these. I think we have a good supply of them.

We shipped up here from our offices in the Bahamas and in Miami. And so make sure don't let this material go back home without you taking advantage of it. Okay? Right on top of your page, this topic, understanding the principle of fatherhood.

Can you go ahead and write that down, please? And I want to deal with the subject of fatherhood, appreciating why men are called to be fathers. called fathers.

Why God called men fathers. The kingdom of God is the focus of Jesus. So let me begin with a scripture that's found in the book of Genesis chapter 1. Can you turn there please?

If you don't have a Bible, just look at the screen. So we are going to take a look at this scripture. Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 says, Then God... said, let us make man in our own image and our likeness and let them have what? Dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, over the cattle of the field and over all the earth and over everything that creeps upon the ground.

So God is very clear about why he made man. Now, write this down. The Bible is about a king, a kingdom, and his royal kids. The Bible is not about a religion. The Bible is about a royal family.

The Bible is about a kingdom because a kingdom is a governing influence of a king over a territory. In other words, all kingdoms are countries with citizens. They are not religions with members.

And I want to begin with this concept because to understand how manhood works, the word dominion, you want to write it down, I did some research for you, and the word dominion is from two Hebrew words, the word is daowau, and it means sovereign rule. kingdom the word is also the root word mamlakak which also means royal power or kingdom so when you read the bible genesis 1 26 it actually should be read like this and god said let us make man in our own image and our likeness and let them have kingdom over the earth. Let them have royal power. The word dominion means to govern, to rule, to control, to manage, to lead, to master something.

In other words, God created humans to have dominion power, kingdom power over the earth. Therefore, the first thing God gave man was a kingdom over the earth. I was born in 1954 in the Bahamas. When I was born, the Bahamas was not a country.

The Bahamas was called a colony. A colony is a territory that belongs to a kingdom that is under the control of a king. So when I was born in 1954 in the island of Nassau, New Providence, I was born under a king and a queen. And every morning at 9 a.m., we had to wake up as students and we had to sing every morning a worship song to the queen and king of England.

We never saw them. We just kept singing. Because in a kingdom, the first thing you do every morning is you worship the sovereign.

Some of you all are slow. See, being born in America is a disadvantage because there's no kingdom concept in America, but Jesus Christ is a king, he's not a president. And in a kingdom you are required to worship.

And so at four years old, three years old, we would stand up in the hot sun, 90 degrees, and we had to sing because we were in a kingdom. Before we started work in school, we had to sing to the king. What is a kingdom?

It's a very important definition. A kingdom is the governing influence of a king over a territory, impacting it with his will, his purpose, and his intent, producing a citizenry with a lifestyle reflecting the culture, values, morals, and nature of the king. This is a very important definition. A kingdom is A governing influence of a king over a territory.

Notice the word his territory is there because in a kingdom the king owns the country as personal property. That's why the Bible says the earth is the Lord's. and the fullness thereof.

As a matter of fact, the reason why a king is called Lord is because the word owner is the word Adonai, Adon, which means master owner. So every king is automatically a Lord because he owns the country. You don't make a king lord.

He comes as lord. He owns the country. And so Jesus Christ is lord because the earth is the lord's. The only lord in America that exists is the one you're renting from. He's called the land lord because he is the owner of the property.

So a kingdom is a government that owns a territory, that impacts the territory with the king's personal will and purpose and intent, and he produces a citizenry. people who reflect his nature his values his morals and his lifestyle so when you come to the Bahamas for example we were a colony under the kingdom of Great Britain for over 250 years so in the Bahamas we speak English just like our King speaks English we drive on the left-hand side of the street like our kingdom does we wear suits with short pants and long socks We drink tea, not coffee. Why? Because when you are under a kingdom, you take on the lifestyle, the morals, the standards of your kingdom, even though you are in a colony.

It's amazing that we act just like the king of Great Britain for years and the king never came to our territory. In other words, Christ doesn't need to come here for you to act like there. Therefore, all kingdoms colonize.

Say that with me. All kingdoms colonize. Write that down. Quit.

All kingdoms colonize. Republics don't colonize. Democracies don't colonize.

Only kingdoms colonize. And the Bible is about colonization. As a matter of fact, God's original purpose and plan was to colonize earth with heaven, just like the British colonized the islands of the Bahamas. Put it another way, God's plan was for man to compose the colony of heaven on earth. He wanted to extend his heavenly kingdom to the physical earth, so that earth could reflect what heaven looks like.

Therefore, the plan of God and his goal was not to take man to heaven, but to establish a heavenly society on earth. I'm talking to men now. You are not supposed to be a man of God after you get to heaven. Don't rush me now, I'm getting excited, I'm going to run down there in a minute. Write this down please.

All societies create a culture that expresses the values and morals and standards of the people of that culture. kingdoms colonized colonies of a culture and the culture produces society and the society reflect the values the morals the standards and the nature of the country therefore the plan of God was for humanity to look just like heaven without coming to heaven you know Let me give you a secret, listen carefully about kingdoms. When a kingdom takes over a territory, look at me, very important. When they colonize it, the first thing they destroy in the people is their language. When they took over our islands, the British Kingdom took away our African language.

It became illegal to speak the African dialect. And they made us speak the Kingdom's language. Jolly well old chap, come on now fellow. And from a child we had to speak British English. They took away our language.

Well that's the first thing a kingdom does when they take over territory. They colonize you by taking away your language. That's why Jesus said when the Holy Spirit comes the first thing he will take away is your language and give you heaven's language. I don't want to get into that. why because your language always gives you away you could tell me a man is from just when he speaks that's supposed to give you away you are not from where you are in the earth but you are not from the earth come on somebody talk to me tongues is a sign that you are from another place i am in the world but not Tongues is not a religious ritual.

It's a national language. Oh come on shout with me. You take on the values of your country.

Listen carefully please. Therefore the fall of man was not a fall from heaven. Adam did not fall from heaven.

So going to heaven is not restoration. I'm going to say this slow. This gets a little bit...

Okay. The fall of man is not a fall from heaven, but a fall from dominion. You cannot lose what you never received. God never gave Adam heaven. So Adam couldn't lose heaven.

He never got it. God gave Adam earth, dominion over earth. So the fall of man was the loss of a kingdom.

Stay with me. The fall of man was the loss of what? A kingdom. Dawaw, mamlakak.

You couldn't lose what you never got. God said in Genesis 26, Adam here is Mamlakak over the earth. Here is Dawa over the earth. How do you mean over the kingdom?

And Adam lost it. Let me prove it. You can always tell what Adam lost by what Jesus bought.

Whatever man lost is what Jesus Christ had to bring back to earth. Going to heaven does not fulfill God's will. Dominating earth fulfills God's will for you.

Oh, I'm talking to myself. Religion prepares man to leave earth. The kingdom equips man to rule earth. The kingdom focuses on occupation. Religion focuses on evacuation.

Some of y'all still ain't getting with me here. That's why the church, religious church, is so rapture oriented, because it has no anointing for kingdom impact. We are not here to focus on going to heaven. We are here to invade your city, your business world, your law world, your media world, your education world, your political world.

God says go into all the world. So whatever man lost, Jesus had to bring back to earth. Let's read what Jesus brought. His first public statement is found in Matthew 4 verse 17. Here's what he says.

He just finished being tested. He passed his test. His first public statement says, Matthew 4 verse 17, From that time forward, Jesus began to preach, quote, Repent! Why? For the kingdom of heaven has returned!

Kingdom, Dawau, Mamlakak. I look at Luke chapter 4 verse 43. He says, I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to other towns also because that is why I was sent. The cross was not the goal of his coming.

It was a means to an end. He said the reason why, look at it, he said because of the kingdom message, that's why he was sent. And then he tells us in Luke chapter 9 verse 2, he sent them out to preach the kingdom of God is here and then heal the sick. You know, miracles, and there are going to be some here in a few moments, miracles are not religious activity.

Let me explain miracles to you. When you come to the Bahamas, because we were under a kingdom, I mean we were in a colony, when you come to the Bahamas, when you walk out of the airport, you will notice that when you get into the taxi cab, the guy will take the car and take it on the left-hand side of the street. And he'll drive you all day on the left. Why?

Because that act of driving is evidence that another government was here. Oh, you don't get it. So, when you read the Bible, it never says, and Jesus healed the sick, and cleansed the leper, and raised the dead, and then preached the kingdom. It never says that.

Read your Bible again. It always says, he preached the kingdom of God first. Then it says, then he healed the sick.

In other words, he had to give evidence that another country had arrived. Uh-oh. In other words, sickness being cured is evidence that another country is now invading the earth again, taking back territory.

Lift your hands right now. Every sickness in your family has to leave tonight because you are under the kingdom teaching. And I rebuke it in Jesus' name. Let the kingdom come to your house in Jesus' name. I remember the man who had a son and the son had a demon and the demon was throwing the little boy up and down and destroying him and they brought him to Jesus to be healed and Jesus cast the demon out and the man said you did this because of the devil who said that the religious people They said, you are full of the devil.

Jesus said, no, no, no. How can you be so stupid, he says. First of all, when kingdoms take territory, they never give it up. By the way, I was born in one.

I know what that means. That's the principle. A kingdom's power is in its territory. I'm going to repeat this. Write this down, please.

A kingdom's power is in what? Its territory. That's why kingdoms like to expand.

The more land a kingdom has, the greater power it has. So when kingdoms take territory, they never give it up without a fight. So Christ says, Satan will never cast himself out of his own territory.

It was a kingdom statement. He said, but if I cast out this demon by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of heaven has come upon you. Woo, come on, give him a praise.

He said this is evidence that another country has arrived. I'm taking back territory. God's about to take back the business you lost. He's going to take back the marriage you lost.

He's going to take back even the child that was killed. He's going to give you a new baby. What is the ultimate desire of Jesus? I found it.

Matthew 6 verse 9, they asked Jesus, what should we pray for? He said, when you pray, pray this, our Father who is not on earth, where is he? In the home country. Holy is his name.

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. Where? On earth.

How? Just like it is in heaven. He said, don't pray to leave, pray for heaven to come to earth.

I'm gonna try that again. Religion say pray to go to heaven. The kingdom says pray for heaven to come to earth. Now clap your hands and believe what Jesus said. It's reversed.

We've been trained to leave. He's trying to train us to invade. Hallelujah. And so he has this plan. Here's his plan.

He created the human family to manifest his kingdom culture, his morals, his values on the earth. That's why God made the human family. It's supposed to be a society of heaven on earth.

That means the male and the female are supposed to reflect what heaven's nature is like. Everybody say culture. The foundation of the human family is a male. Today there are 6.7 billion people on earth and God only made one of them from the soil. He never went back.

Let me say it slow because it's a little bit deep. There are 6.7 billion people on earth right now, billion, and God only created one from the soil. He never went back.

Females did not come from the soil. And the first and only human that God created from the soil was a male. Why?

Because he was laying the foundation for the human family. When you're going to build anything, you got to first lay the foundation. Stay with me now. And the most important part of any building is the foundation.

And you only lay one. Oh, I feel like running now. Foundation. No home in this city has two foundations.

Woo! The male is God's chosen foundation for the human family and he puts us on the bottom. See you've been taught you are the head, no you are the bottom of the home. Now this is gonna get heavy now. You've been taught in your culture that you are the head of the house.

Tonight, I'm taking you back to kingdom teaching. You are on the bottom of the house. You're supposed to carry the weight of the whole family.

Come on, clap your hands, you real man. Listen to me. You've been around this beautiful hotel all the last few days. I saw you through my window taking photographs of the building, of the chandelier, of the beautiful plants.

You took pictures of the walls. Guess what? You never took a photograph of the foundation.

Why? Because you cannot see it. Why?

It's on the bottom, but it's holding up everything. That means a real man doesn't walk around bragging about what he does for his family. He just does it, doesn't care if nobody takes a photograph.

He just holds up his wife, his children, pays the bills, he keeps them solid, he keeps them together. Oh, I'm getting ready to get excited. A real man doesn't brag about paying the rent.

He doesn't brag about buying groceries. He doesn't brag about keeping the lights on. Why? That's his responsibility.

Clap your hands and say, I'm a real man. The most important part of this hotel is the foundation, and you never looked at it. Oh, they don't recognize me.

They don't know what... Shut up and just hold it up! It's your family! Hold the family up! Tell your neighbor, stay on the bottom.

And hold the family up. Tell your neighbor, God knows where you are. Tell your neighbor, God laid you down there.

Because he knows he can carry the weight. Clap your hands, all you strong men who are foundation people. Write this down quickly. The foundation carries the weight of the building, Bishop. Can I suggest to you that the key to the building is the foundation?

Some of you in this room are builders, contractors, and you know that in your city, the local government has a building code. And the building code says... that if you break the walls down of a building, the government will not condemn the building. If you lose the windows, they won't condemn the building. If you lose the roof, they won't condemn the building.

If you destroy the fancy chandeliers, they won't condemn the building. If you dig up all the carpet, they won't condemn the building. They will not condemn the building in your city. If you lose the walls, they won't condemn the building.

But if they ever find a crack in the foundation, that is why the devil is not interested in your wife. She's the wall. The devil is not interested in Eve. She ain't holding up nothing. Oh, don't miss tonight.

It's going to be heavy for a few minutes. That's why you, listen to me, you are the most important part of God's building project. The mail is the most important part of God's project.

That's why you are on the top of the hit list of hell. Every project of hell is aimed at the mail. Every one of them. Every ad has a naked woman.

Why? They're after you. Pornography is after you. Dirty books is after the male. Corruption is after the male.

Sweetheart is after the male. If you can just destroy the foundation, the whole house is condemned. Isn't it amazing that when Eve sought a fruit, nothing happened. The Bible says she picked it, nothing happened.

She bit it, nothing happened. She chewed it, nothing happened. She swallowed it, nothing happened.

She digested it, nothing happened. It said, but then she took it to the foundation. Because she was not the heart of the building.

The Bible says, he took the fruit. Read my lips. And he ate it. The next word says, and suddenly. By one man, sin entered.

By one man. That's why this For Men Only conference is a conference that is more important than a thousand, hundred thousand, ten thousand women. Because no matter how the women get healed, if the wall comes back and there's no foundation, all you got is a wall that can't stand up.

Write this down. The world is filled with males but very few men. And the world is filled with many men but very, even less fathers. We're suffering from a father problem.

I did some research for you. I thought you'd be happy to see this. It'll be helpful to you.

This was a statement that was written in Time Magazine on Father's Day. Three consecutive Father's Days, Time Magazine had this quote. They said, dad is destiny.

Say that with me. Dad is... that was taken from Time magazine and they are correct. Matter of fact here's a quote from this article.

They said more than any other factor a biological father's presence in the family will determine a child's success or happiness. Time magazine. Look at the next quote here. They said 40% of all kids in the West now live without their biological father.

Up 17.5% since 1960. Another quote from the magazine. They said more than half of today's children will spend at least part of their childhood without a father. Another quote that's depressing. They said fatherlessness is the most destructive trend of our generation.

This is from a secular magazine. Another quote I thought was amazing. They said the abuse of, the absence rather, of fathers is linked to the most social nightmares. Boys with guns to girls with babies.

They say it's the fathers being absent that causes the problem. This is from sociologists, behavioral scientists, and psychologists research. Another quote is an amazing one, this one. They said 49% of all families with children headed by single mothers live below the poverty line. 49%.

Compared with 8% of those with two parents. In other words, fatherlessness is the cause of poverty. Another quote, research.

Studies show that only 41% of state prisons inmates grew up with both their parents and that a missing father is a better indicator and a predictor of criminal activity than race and poverty. In other words, people are in prison not because of poverty or race, but an absence of a father. Research in your own country.

Oh, it gets interesting. Here's one I thought was interesting that threw me off. This one says, social scientists have made links between a father's absence and his child's likelihood of being a dropout, a jobless one, a drug addict, a suicide. victim mentally ill or a target for sexual abuse, fathers being absent. Another thought that shocked me, research says only 51% of kids live with both biological parents today.

That means every time you stand up in a church service, half of the church was bought up without fathers. In your youth group, half of the boys don't have fathers. The chances are the woman that marries you marries a man who never had a proper father.

Here's another quote. I thought it was interesting. 71% survey says it is very important to have a father living in the home. They surveyed secular people. U.S.

News. a word report. They agree. The world is saying that we need fathers. Well, let's see what God says.

The highest honor God ever placed on a male is the word father. Why? Because father is the title God gave himself. God never calls himself a mother. And God gave you his title.

That's why we got to talk about it before we go home. Because if he gave you the title, you better find out what it is. You are so important, God gave you the title.

Now, get ready. Sit up straight. Sit up straight.

You're going to get heavy now. Watch this. Fatherhood is the ultimate work of the male.

Why? Because fatherhood is the principal cause of sin. Let me put it another way.

I'm moving fast for a reason. Sin is a fatherhood problem. How do we know that?

Because sin is result of a man declaring independence from his father. Therefore man is suffering from a fatherless child syndrome. Can I put it to you? God saw fatherhood as the source and the solution to man's problems.

I say both. He saw father as what? The source and the solution of the sin problem. How do I know that? Let's read what he says in the last prophecy in the Malachi.

Before he closes the Old Testament, the last statement God made about humanity. He says, he will turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children and the hearts of the children back to who? Their fathers. Or else I will come and curse the land. Whenever a country is under a curse, it's because the men are out of position.

Hey boys, reposition yourself. Tell your neighbor, go back under the family. Oh, that's deep. Tell your neighbor, go back under your wife.

Stay with me, I'm going to explain in a minute. My wife is secure because I am under her. He said the solution that the Messiah will bring is that he will turn the hearts of the father back to the children and the children back to the father.

New Testament, 400 years later, we read this very beautiful statement, Malachi 4. Verse 6 says, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day. He will turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, children back to the father. And then Luke is fulfilled and Matthew and John is fulfilled.

And here's what it says about Jesus Christ. Do not hold on to me, he says. I have yet to return to my father. And go instead and tell my brothers to meet me, he says. But I am returning to my father.

And now he is your father again. All right, let's write now. What's the word father meant? Let's go home. Everybody say father.

The word father is from the Hebrew word Abba. I'm talking about you right now. Watch this. Write this down. Abba.

Everybody say Abba. The word Abba. Is the Greek word pata, P-A-T-E-R, in the New Testament, Old Testament, Abba, New Testament, pata, and they both mean the same thing. Matter of fact, the word in the Hebrew and the Greek means sauce.

Write it down quick. It means sauce, Abba, sauce. Secondly, it means sustainer.

Every man, write this down please. The word Abba means what? Source and sustainer. It also means nourisher.

Abba, nourisher. The words Abba also means supporter. In other words, you source something and then you support it.

Abba. The word Abba means foundation. This gets heavy. Now you got to follow me.

This next five minutes are very critical. God was not always father. Listen to me. To be a father, you have to become the source of something.

That means something had to come out of you. And then you sustain it. So before anything was, God is.

So everything that is used to be inside of God. Hang on, Ashley. So if you met God before anything was, and he was standing on nothing by the corner of nowhere, And you shook his hands, you would be shaking hands with everything.

But you wouldn't have known it because everything was inside of him. That means God, Jehovah, was pregnant with the universe before anything became. Then God decided, let us create.

And out of God came 500 million galaxies. They've counted so far and they're still counting. A galaxy is a...

multiplicity of solar systems a solar system is about the procedure planets that means there are trillions and trillions of stars and planets and they are all of there and we still can't measure the length of the universe and all of that was inside of God used to be inside of God are you with me follow me now listen to me so when God released everything he became the source of creation now whatever you release you have to automatically sustain So the Bible says he is the father of creation and he upholds all things by the power of his word. He's a true father. A father doesn't just produce, he sustains. I'm gonna say it again.

A father doesn't just produce, he sustains. Hear what I said, a father doesn't just produce, he sustains. So let's go to work. Fatherhood means the source, sustainer, nourisher, and supporter, and the foundation of that which comes out of it.

Brother Kendall, can you come here a minute please, quick. Stand right here. Face us.

I want to show you something. Please don't miss this. I have a a bottle of water here. I want to show you how this works.

You will never forget this. Hold this. Now, this is a bottle of water.

I'm going to pour this out into this glass. So, the act of pouring myself out automatically made me a father. Whatever is in this bottle is in this glass.

So in the Hebrew language, this would be called Abba. Hallelujah. So this is called the sauce.

This is called the resources. You can't have a resource without a source. So you are God's resource. He is your source. Whatever is in the source is automatically in the resource.

So when they say taste and see They don't need to go to heaven to taste him, just run into you. The Jehovah's Witnesses have a problem with you Christian people. They say Jesus cannot be God because he calls God Father, which means he must be less than God. They never been to my seminar.

What Christ was saying was this, he was saying look, Jehovah is my source. So when they asked Jesus, show us the bottle, he said what are you talking about? He that has seen the glass, oh come on make some noise, you understand what I just said.

Hallelujah! I say Hallelujah! Tell your neighbor you ain't got to go to heaven to see my father.

Watch me from now on. I'm going to show you the nature of my daddy. I got my heavenly genetics. I am just like my father.

Me and my father are... Come on, clap your hands and shout somebody. Oh!

Sit down. Look at this verse. Look at this verse. Very interesting verse. The word father means source and what?

Sustainer. It means foundation and supporter. When God called the male father, he was telling the male, you are the source of something. Now watch this. Watch this.

Oh, you're going to go home dancing. Jesus said in John 8 verse 19 you do not know me Nor my father. What is father?

Sauce. If you knew the glass, you would know the bottle. Watch him now.

John 10. Read. I and the bottle on. Because I came from, I came from, I came from, I came from my father, he says.

Look at verse 9 of chapter 14, read, and Jesus answered, don't you know me, Philip? Even after the glass have been on earth for so long? He that have seen me have seen my sauce. The shoe on your feet is still the cow it came from.

Calling it a different name doesn't change it. If someone call you stupid, you are still like your father. If someone call you ugly, you are still like your father. If you tell your shoe, I think you are crazy, it is still the car. Oh, you missed me.

Opinions do not change composition. Listen to me carefully then. And here comes the bottom line.

The mail is designed by God to be the father of the human family. Now listen to me. When God created the mail, the foundation, please hear me.

He gave the mail all the instructions. He never gave any instruction to the female. Shh, listen to me. He took the male and put him in the Garden of Eden and began to instruct him. Then God created a female.

Afterwards, so the male was traded first and God decided I'm going to do with the male what I did with myself. You get it Bishop? I'm not going back to the soil to get the woman.

Oh, you're gonna get blessed in a minute. I'm gonna make him what I am. So he put the guy to sleep, went inside the guy, went inside the male, and pulled out another, read my lips, male.

Listen, male. And he built. Another one, except he made a few adjustments while he was building.

And he created a womb in this model to carry the fetus. And gave it paps to sustain the fetus. So he took the male and built the capacity for the fetus in the male. And so he called it the fetus male.

Fee male. A female is a male that can carry a fetus. carried a fetus. So he went inside the man, took on another man, built the man, made a few adjustments and put a womb.

He called him the man with the womb. So you got the Wound man you call a woman So if you ain't sure you are a man Don't break your wrist on your ponytail and earrings and walk from it. Check and see if you got a room.

If you ain't got a room, you're a brother. Hallelujah! I don't care what kind of surgery they do, they cannot put a womb in you.

You can wear dress, put on wigs, make your breasts with hormones, but you ain't got no womb. You are a brother. You are a brother.

Clap your hands on the real man. Hallelujah! When Adam saw her, Adam says, this is flesh, just like my flesh, and the bone structure, just like mine.

And then he looked down, he said, oops, she has a wound. I will call her Wound Man. No psychology could create a womb. No vote could create a womb. No 70 bishops can lay hands on you and create a womb.

No legislation in Washington could create a womb. If you ain't got a womb, put your pants on and be a brother. Clap loud if you're a real man.

Men are builders, say it. Men are builders. We are builders.

Now watch this. God went inside the man. Pulled out a woman.

This is important. He didn't go to his feet. Didn't go to his hip. Didn't go to his back. Didn't go to his head.

He went to his heart. The word in Hebrew is not rib. It just says peace. Part.

He took a part. Why? Because every cell in your body.

Please sit down. I got ten more minutes. Every cell in your body is...

Listen to me, look at me, don't miss this. Very important, listen. Every cell in your body, scientifically proven, has in it a replica you.

The DNA coding in every cell in your body codes for a duplicate you. The problem is we cannot split the code. Cloning is when you take the cell and you split the code and you cause the cell to multiply and produce an exact duplicate. So God is the first one to clone.

He took a piece out of Adam, built a woman. This is important now. And the woman therefore is in this position.

She's from the man's chest. So she's always on the top of the man. Why is this important?

The children come out of the woman. So they are always in the front of the woman. You see, he's on the bottom.

When life attacks the kids and hits the woman and she falls. Oh, you don't get what I said. Let me try one more time.

When light hits the kids, hits the woman, and she falls. There's a man who was in Dallas, Texas, at the men's conference, who's there to catch her and say, Woman, I'm your foundation, baby. I'm the one who holds the building up. I don't care what the devil does.

I'm going to hold my family up. Clap your hands and scream, somebody. So from now on, don't you ever say again, behind every good man is a good woman. That's not kingdom. You should now say, in the front of every good man is a better woman.

You are holding her up. All the real men, clap your hands and give God praise. You're going to hold your family up.

Sit down quick, I got two more minutes. Everybody say foundation, foundation. Listen to me.

Man was the source of woman. The function of the male is to father the woman. Write this down please.

The function of the male is to father the woman. Put the notes up please. I want you to get this please.

It's very important. A woman is not looking for a lover. She's not looking for a sex champion.

She's looking for a father. This is shift now. This is kingdom stuff I'm talking about here.

So the function of the male, say it, the function of the male is to do what? Father the female. What is father? Source.

Listen, look at me. No woman on this planet, I don't care what she tells you, no woman on this planet wants to have to go to work. Let me say it slowly. No woman on this planet, none, I dare them to talk to me. I've been to 87 countries and every woman is the same.

They don't want to have to go to work. Why? They're not built to have to support nothing.

They came to help! And so the devil's strategy is to move the man. And now the woman got to carry the weight.

And she's not built to carry the weight. So he said, I will return the hearts of the fathers back to the children. If the foundations be restored, where will the righteous even be saved?

How is the male, the father, the female? Here's the bottom line. The male is the source of seed.

Woman have no seed. You carry it in your loins right now, four generations son. Every minute of every day, every male in here is carrying four generations. Right now.

So whatever you do, it's being transferred upon your sperms. What you do in secret is never secret, it's generational. So your private escapades with the woman that you're not married to is not private.

Generations are being impacted by that spirit of adultery. Some of you wonder why. You are violent against women, or why you are homosexual tendency, or why you want to drink alcohol, or why you want to take drugs. You wonder, why am I like this?

Why do I hate women? Why do I want to beat women? Check your father's father's father.

Because the sins of the father, never the mother, never the mother. The sins of the fathers, God says, are transferred to the first, second, third, and fourth generation. Nothing that a male does is private.

It might be personal but never private. So every time I'm tempted to sin, I think about my unborn great-grandchildren. God doesn't just want to forgive you. He wants to forgive your righteous seed.

You are the source of seed. You are the nourisher of fruit that comes from your seed. You are the source of the female that came out of you. The male is designed to protect the food that comes out of them.

Therefore the male determines the quality of the... The fruit and the tree, therefore the male maintains his offspring, therefore the male is the source of life. Listen to me men, and I beg you. You are the key to the whole building.

This theme was not given to you haphazardly, Bishop. If we're going to build the communities back in our countries. We got to study what Paul said. Paul said, I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ and the head of woman is man and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays with his head covered dishonors his head.

Verse 8, the man did not come from the woman. But the woman came from the man. Abba, Abba.

Now, I feel an anointing coming on me. Listen. Listen.

Therefore, the woman, all the women that you have in your life, you are supposed to father them. Listen. Shh.

Listen. You are your wife's father. You ever wondered why?

All the way back in Abraham time, even today, when you get married, you stand at the altar. She's coming down the aisle with her father. So there are two fathers in the house.

One waiting and one bringing. Follow me now. The father who's bringing, he's going to soon release it to another father. So the Bible says, watch this, the Bible says a man leaves his father.

But it never says a woman leaves. A woman never leaves. Read the Bible.

For this cause should a man leave his father mother. But the woman never leaves her father. Why?

Because she just changes fathers. He turns over to you and says, pick up where I left off son. Keep on fathering my daughter. Pick up where I left off son.

You are the father of your wife. And that's why it's built into you to automatically call your wife baby. Oh come on brothers, be honest now, clap your hands. Because she is your baby.

And that's why it is natural for your wife to finally call you daddy. Come on, scream if you got the revelation. Woo! Carry the load. Carry the load.

Care for it. Woo! One last point I want to make.

And I want to sit down, sit down quick. Are you getting blessed tonight? Everybody say, my baby is at home.

I'm going home to father her. Clap your hands, all you great Abbas. Fathers, fathers, do not abuse the children. They protect their children. Fathers provide covering and food and clothes and support and counsel and advice.

So I saw this in the Bible, this is going to bless you. Genesis 2, I want to close with this, very important. Write this down. God is now talking to the male. He said, he said, look, the Lord God took the male.

This is very important. The books are there, please get them all. Because there's so much I want to tell you.

A man must read, please be a reader. Shut TV off and read, okay? Look at me. God took the male and put him in the Garden of Eden, the Bible says.

God didn't allow Adam to find Eden. He put him in Eden. Listen to me, this is so important.

I did research on the word Eden for 12 years. I wrote a book on it. I discovered that the word Eden is made up of five strokes in Hebrew. Look at me, five strokes.

One stroke says spot. Another stroke says moment. Another stroke says open door. Another stroke means access. And the final stroke means presence.

It's interesting. The word Eden is five strokes in Hebrew. It means moment, spot, presence, open door, access.

Eden, therefore, is impossible to translate into English. That's why the word Eden is written Eden, the Hebrew word is written Eden in English. Because the word Eden literally means... The spot for the moment where the presence of God is open door access to heaven. I got me again.

What is Eden? A spot on the earth for the moment where the presence of God is an open door to heaven. It says God took the man and put him in the spot. So the first place God put the male is in his presence.

So the first thing a male needs is not the presence of a woman. He needs the presence of God. The second thing God says, work it and cultivate and guard the garden.

And then the Lord commanded the man, don't touch the tree. So here's the bottom line, write this down. The five purposes of the male. First, number one, Eden.

To be a kingdom man, you must be in the presence of God 24 hours a day. Number two, work. God gave man work before he gave him woman. That means you need a job before you get a wife. Number three, God told a man to cultivate.

To cultivate means to bring the best out of something, to make it fruitful. Therefore, God will never give a male a finished product. Oh, it's going to get heavy now.

You were designed to be a cultivator. So God will not give you anything you don't have to cultivate. So God never gave Adam a chair or a table.

He hid them in the trees. God never gave Adam a pair of shoes. He hid it in the cow.

Okay, here's the good part. God would never give a male a finished woman. This is very important now.

The woman that you are looking for, the one in your head, does not exist. That's why you can't find the perfect woman. She only exists in your mind. God will only give you the raw material. He said I want you to cultivate her and make her into the woman in your mind.

So your job is to develop and to refine and to train and to educate and to improve the woman in your life. That means the longer a woman stays with you the better she should become. If you are ashamed of your wife, you should be ashamed of yours.

Oh, come on men, go with me now, getting ready to go home now. Therefore, you must be just like your hero, Jesus. The Bible says he has a woman.

Her name is Ecclesia. He says, you love your wife like I love my wife. How?

I wash her, I cleanse her, I remove every spot, every wrinkle, every blemish, every stain, and then I present her to myself. And I say, look at the idea, that's mine, that's my thing. He says, you're supposed to feel proud of your wife, you're supposed to make her what you wanted her to become, become the woman she was born to be.

Present your wife to yourself. When I first married my wife, she was afraid to talk to the dark. Today she speaks all over the world by herself. Why?

Every woman is a man's project. I'm going to say it again. Your wife is your divine project.

If she's too fat, don't tell her she's fat. You wake her up at 6 o'clock, come baby, let's go. I gotta cultivate you. Let us go jogging. If she don't look right, don't dress right, don't criticize her.

You take her to the best boutique in town and buy her the best clothes and say, come on baby, look at my stuff. Cultivate! If you are not proud of your wife, you should be ashamed of yourself.

I know it's quiet now, I'm getting ready to go. Tell your neighbor, cultivate your woman. Tell your neighbor, cultivate your woman. Your children are supposed to be produced better and better because they are your children. You cultivate.

Last two, he says protect the garden. Males are protectors. That's why God gave you larger bone structures and mass muscle. Why? You were born to be a protector.

When a man takes his muscle and hit the very thing you should be protecting, that man is a beast. Your strength was not given to you to destroy a woman, but to protect a woman. So don't you ever touch that woman again. I'm talking to you sitting in the back there. Don't you go home and apologize and tell your wife, in Dallas this week, the kingdom set me free.

Forgive me, baby. I will never harm you again. You are my delicate protection. What a shame that a powerful man with all of his strength at two o'clock in the morning would creep into his baby's room and climb on top of his six-year-old daughter and use his strength to pin her down.

This is abomination. Stop it brother. Stop it. Your strength was given to you to protect your wife and your daughter. Oh God help me.

And the last one. He said Adam I give you my command. Teach the woman.

God never told Eve about the tree. He only told the man. Your job is to teach your family the command of God.

The problem is the devil has reversed it. Your wife knows more word than you. And you are wired to be the teacher. That's why you hate when she tries to teach you.

So from this day forward, go to that lobby, get your credit card, buy every T.D.J.'s books out there, every Brother Watley's book, buy every book. Why? You've got to catch up now.

Spend 207 as your education year to become a man of education. teach your family the word of God clap your hands and give him praise you will be a better man stand up on your feet if you're a real man and shout for the king Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Lift your hands and give God praise in this place that he is setting you free for men only 2007 in Dallas Texas TD Jakes Ministries is the place where you got a revelation to be a father. You are a father. Nobody move please.

My authority is in the room. Nobody move. Stop.

Thank you. Listen to me. God never speaks without expecting a response. Your grandson, your unborn granddaughter is in the balance tonight. Being a father is not having children.

Being a father is bigger than that. Being a father means that you take responsibility to sustain. Take your brother's hands. Every time I speak the kingdom of God. He has to show up to validate the presence of his country.

As we leave this building tonight, that presence, Eden, shall follow you. The reason why the word says moment is because the presence moved. He was here for a moment, there for a moment, wherever Adam went, it followed. His presence always comes when you teach the kingdom of God.

Come here, you see this man? doesn't suspect anything. Can you stand behind him?

Look at me a minute. Lift your hand up. This is just, the Bible says the Word of God is not just in speech but it's in power.

So the power of God comes upon you right now. The kingdom of God finds place in this man's life right now. And may Eden come upon you right now. And may you be full of Eden's presence and may you worship like Adam in the name of Jesus. Now receive Eden.

Come here sir. Run. He's going to wake up speaking in tongues.

Come here. Stand here. Look at me. I don't know what you've been struggling with the last six months. Lift your hand up.

Six months you've been telling God, if things don't change, I'm gonna, I'm not gonna make it. Eden comes upon you right now. The kingdom of God comes upon you right now. And everything that has been going wrong changes right now.

Now receive it. Your hands shall be ready. Solutions shall come quickly. By Wednesday you shall be out of the pit. This week you shall have a testimony.

The kingdom of God is looking for men that represent the culture of heaven. Simple. The Holy Spirit said to me, I am going to break generational curses tonight.

The sins of the fathers have been transferred. to the first, second, third, fourth generations. I don't know what your great-great-great-grandfather did, but whatever he did, it could still be oppressing you. Maybe not possessing you, but oppressing you because you have not renounced its rights.

There are things your great-grandfather did and your grandfather did that are still affecting your family cycle. The power of a father. God wants you to become a new source for a new generation.

Lift that hand of your friend. Father, in Jesus' name, I decree. That every spirit that entered my family line through the act of my father's and my father's father's, I renounce them now. In Jesus name, I denounce every spirit that is not from God. that entered my family through the behavior of my fathers it shall not go into my future The governor of the kingdom, the Holy Spirit says that you've been struggling with habits.

You prayed for them, you fasted, you had people pray over you and you keep going back to that habit. It came into your family through the behavior of your fathers. And tonight He's gonna break that.

If you got a habit that you've been battling with, come down to this altar quickly. This will take two minutes. I've seen this break all over the world.

Habits forever.

Transcript for:The Kingdom Principle of Fatherhood Insights

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The Kingdom Principle of Fatherhood Insights