0:36 Praise the Lord. Glory to God. Good evening. Good evening. It is Friday night and it's time for Bible teaching. I'm Mary Banks, your Bible teacher for tonight. Bless the Lord. And we have an awesome word for tonight because what makes it awesome is that we were instructed by God to teach it. I was instructed by the Lord to teach this message tonight. I I was going to do it uh Tuesday night, but we didn't get 1:07 an opportunity to do so. Uh and but now we're here. We're here to get it done tonight. Now, we're not going to be able to get the whole lesson done tonight. So, we're going to make a series out of it. Uh, it the book is done though. The book is done and it's in the uh faith library and for download, you know, these are these are downloadable books. We don't have time to print them because 1:37 we're doing them every week. So, you're going to have to get used to downloading, guys. And besides that, the the expenses of printing books and shipping them and whatnot. We just can't bear that right now. We have to do the thing that's economically feasible for the ministry. Praise the Lord. But we're trying to get the material in your hands. Now, this is very important that that everyone is online tonight. So, call your friends, call the 2:07 the GTC, all of you that are a part of this ministry called Bible Teachers International. Call members of the GTC. Call members of the church. I want everyone in Bible teachers online tonight. I want the ex uh executive uh branch of this ministry to send out a notification for those members that may not even uh realize that that we're teaching tonight. So send it out. Let them know that we're doing disciplehip tonight. I want to 2:38 get that out right away. Bless the Lord. Uh those um executive people over there in Leburg, get it out. Praise the Lord. I can depend on you guys to get it out there. Amen. Bless the Lord. And I I want everybody online. Why do I want everyone online? Because though this word is not just for Bible teachers international, it's for the body of Christ. The Lord said something to me that just, you know, when he 3:08 says it, when he when God really speaks to you directly and tells you uh directly about an issue, you better pay attention. You better pay attention. Glory to God. Because nothing about that issue is going to change without God. Nothing about it is going to change without God do the changing. Right? And so God is telling us to minister this so that it can bring about a change in the body of Christ. The lesson for 3:38 tonight is Christian nationalism is a demon. Christian nationalism is a demon. That's the title of this uh lesson. The subject matter is Christian nationalism, but the title is it's a demon. Glory to God. And it has done more to divide the American church than any other principality that's been assigned to our our nation. Glory to God. And I I need you to understand and and hear me because I think we lose sight of the fact 4:08 that we're in a spiritual war. You know, we don't wrestle with flesh and blood, but with principalities and powers, glory to God, in heavenly places. These are power, the powers of the enemy that we are wrestling with. Glory to God. And the these are principalities that have been assigned to this nation by Satan. Glory to God. So, I I want you to to hear God tonight. I want you to hear God. I'm giving time for 4:39 others to get on to to to to come on. Praise the Lord. and and um and let's hear what God is saying tonight. Praise the Lord. If you have not been here before, if you have not been to my channel, I'm going to invite you to just subscribe. Glory to God. You know, that's so easy. If you just push that little button and subscribe, just click on it. Subscribe to this channel. Then any whenever we're 5:09 ministering, you will be notified. If you have been here and you already have a subscription, then now what I need you to do is share this video. Take the time. This is evangelism. Take the time to share the video with all of your friends, all of your contacts. Glory to God. Amen. Send this out. Send this out to everyone. Bless the Lord. Because time is winding up, saints. And we all got to do our part. 5:39 I'm going to be faithful to teach this this this material. you need to be faithful to help me get it into the body of Christ. Okay. We will also uh be translating all of these lessons and books and things that are coming out into other languages for project 87. But let's do our part. Let's get this out. Most of your contacts are in America. Amen. And in the other countries that we're in, Jamaica, the Bahamas, 6:09 Trinidad, Canada. Glory to God. And we do have we do have some um outposts in other other countries. Amen. But I want those of you especially in America because America is has been most affected by it. We have been most affected by this demon. He's been assigned to our nation and we need to deal with this and how it is affecting the church. Okay. Praise the Lord. Glory to God. Well, we're going to get started 6:40 here and and saints, as I said, I'm not going to be able to do this whole lesson tonight. So, we'll we'll be here tonight. We'll be back again uh Monday or Tuesday night, then uh Thursday night, next week, whatever is necessary. Well, we're going into to the school of the prophets. I want to finish this lesson before we get to the school of the prophets because I want you in the right frame of mind. Okay? 7:10 Bless the Lord. Amen. Um so, go to marybanks.net. I believe that's they they're going to put the put it up in the um comment section or somewhere on the screen where you can download the lesson. Amen. You can download. We put a lot of work into this lesson to try to break it down so that you can understand it. Amen. Uh I thank God for Anessa Samuels. Amen. Part of our team. She has done a 7:40 terrific job with this lesson. um actually breaking it down, formatting it in in such a way where we can explicitly teach it. Glory to God. And you'll be able to understand it. All right. All right. Let I'm going to start at the very first uh page in the introduction. The kingdom of God is at hand. The kingdom of God is at hand. Now, what does that mean? Jesus said this. The kingdom of God is at 8:11 hand. He said that when he was here. Glory to God. um what that really means for the church, what it means for for those of us that are that are that are carrying the gospel of Jesus Christ. We we should be telling people the kingdom of God is at hand. We should be saying the kingdom of God is at hand. What are we saying when we say that? We're saying that the kingdom of God is 8:41 available. The kingdom of God is available. Okay. Now that that may not sound like much to you, but when you when when you are living in darkness, you're living in a a violent, hostile world that is is is run by the forces of darkness, the powers of darkness. And you have been affected by that darkness. You have been a captive of that darkness. And you want freedom. you want to change who you are, what you 9:11 are, and you can't seem to you can't seem to break free. There are people that are doing drugs that you can't break free from him. There are people that have have emotional pain that they cannot seem to to uh overcome. There there's so many things there, alcoholics. There there are people that are caught up in relationships that they would love to get out of but can't seem to get out of them. Bless the Lord. When 9:41 you when when when when you have lived that way as we all did. All of us had our part of this environment that called the world. We had our little territory in the world and we had its effect on our lives. But then someone let us know the kingdom of God is available to you. The kingdom of God is available. So that's what Jesus was saying when he's saying the kingdom of God is at hand. 10:12 It's available. It's being offered to you. And so that's the that's the responsibility of the church. And I can't say this enough. It's the responsibility of the church to let the world know that the kingdom of God is available to them. That's our responsibility. That is the primary directive for the church. We should be focused on that and nothing else but procuring souls. We need to get out of get out of these four walls and 10:42 let's go out here and let's procure souls. Okay? Telling them that the kingdom is at hand. God is not impressed with our with our with with our uh programming in the church and all of the all of the stuff that we do inside that does not affect the world that does not go out and seek the world does not bring the world in. It's it's different when you having something inside and you're bringing the world 11:12 in to be a part of it so that they can be influenced by it. But when you're just, you know, among yourselves entertaining yourselves and churches are are bonding together with each other and entertaining one another, glory to God, it does not meet the mandate. We are not allowing the world to know that the kingdom, the kingdom of God is available. Now, let's look at what else that means. That also means that there's an alternative. 11:43 There's an alternative. So what you're saying when you say the kingdom of God is available, you're saying that there is an alternative to this world. There's an alternative to this life. There's an alternative to what you're going through, to what you're experiencing. There's an alternative to your captivity. You can be free. There's a kingdom that is more powerful than the one you've been living in. That's what that means. The kingdom of God is at hand. 12:13 We're to let the world know that there is an alternative kingdom that they can live in. They are invited to become a citizen of a new kingdom. They are invited to become a citizen of a new kingdom. Now, let me let me just slow down and take my time here because, believe it or not, most of the Christians in America that would hear this this message really don't agree with what I just said. Now, they 12:43 would never say that they don't agree because they seem they would seem to agree. It seems like we all agree that there's another kingdom, but the truth is we don't live as if there's another kingdom. So when we say to the world that the kingdom of God is at hand, they're they're like, "Well, where is it? Where where where is the kingdom? Glory to God. How how do I know it? How do I see it? 13:13 Glory to God." And that itself is the tragedy. That's the tragedy because we are not revealing the kingdom by our life. Our life does not manifest the kingdom of God. I'm talking about the church at large. I'm not talking about one or two individuals. I'm talking about the church at large. The world is looking at the church and saying, "Wow, these people are really they they they're really going through some stuff." the church. I mean 13:44 we have more in much more infidelity in the church. We have we have homosexuality in the church. We have so much in the body of Christ. I'm not talking about I'm not talking about the four walls. No, I'm talking about in the body of Christ that there are those that got saved. Amen. And got delivered from the captivities that they were in. And now they're making those captivities um spiritually lawful in the body of Christ. 14:14 They're saying, you know what, you know, we're too hard on this faction and we're too hard on that fact on that. You know, maybe maybe God was not totally against certain vices and certain sexual immoralities. Maybe we just kind of took that a little bit too far. It's almost as if ministers have been delivered from something that they regret that they've been delivered from and now they're going back. They're going back into the thing that 14:44 they were delivered from and they're trying to take the church with them. They're trying to take the church with them. They are trying to justify going back. They're trying to justify, Amen, it with with ideology that they're calling the gospel the gospel of Jesus Christ. And it's just not going to fly in the face of truth. Glory to God. So God is saying in the last days there's going to be a great falling away, right? 15:15 Well, that falling away has all is already taking place. It's the church has already fallen away. Amen. Much of the church has fallen away. There I think that there are more that are that are not adherent to the gospel of Jesus Christ than there are than those that are amened to the gospel. And that is a tragedy in for the body. That's a tragedy for the body of Christ. But when it when the scripture tells 15:45 us that the kingdom of God is at hand, when Jesus ministered that and the disciples went around ministering that, they were making the kingdom available. They had the power to bring people into the kingdom just by the preaching of the gospel and that was their primary concern. Now what does that mean? That means also this point number three here. That means also that in order for them to be to promote another kingdom, they had to 16:15 just about forget about the one they came out of. You didn't you didn't see. And you you guys that are online, correct me if I'm wrong, but show me in the scriptures in the new covenant in the new covenant scriptures where the disciples that were that were entrusted with the uh with being stewards of the mystery of Christ, the gospel of Jesus Christ. Show me where they went and promoted any kingdom other than that of 16:45 God. They never promoted any country nation in this on this planet. The only thing that they promoted was the kingdom of God. Now, I'm I'm I know I'm going to rattle a lot of feathers. Glory to God. And and I'm going to be criticized for it, but that's okay. You know, I've learned I've learned how to weather those kinds of storms. Amen. Uh, I'm that old grey mare. Amen. You know the difference in a grey 17:16 mare and a and a buck a buck stallion. You know you you ever been to some of you been to rodeos and whatnot. They're very famous over here in Texas. You know, they get on these these buck stallions and and soon as something hit his back because he's not he's he's not used to anything, you know, sitting on him. Amen. And so they they they get a saddle on him eventually and then a writer gets 17:46 on him and they let him out to stand. He's just bucking and bucking and bucking and bucking and bucking and bucking. Glory to God. Trying to get that writer off his back. Trying to get him off his back. He has no experience. He has no He's just he's he's he's moving by adrenaline. I'm going to get and I'm strong enough to get this thing off my back. This person off my back. I'm strong enough. And 18:16 it's just kicking and kicking and bucking and bucking. Glory to God. Where that that gray mare said, "You know what, baby? If you just settle down because what what that that that uh stallion doesn't realize is that the writer that's on him is has something to prove. He's trying to prove that he can out he can outlast him. He can he can stay. Glory to God. You're not knock you're not knocking me off. I'm going 18:46 to be here." So So now they're in a tugof-war. They're in a fight. Glory to God. And guess what? 99% of the time, the rider wins. Where in that gray mare has seen all of that, lived through all of that, and that gray mare know I if I ride you, if you if you want to ride, glory to God. We'll ride and I I can ride and I'm fast and I'll ride until you get tired 19:17 and you'll get off. Praise the Lord. I don't have to knock you off. You'll get off. Praise the Lord. So her wis that you know that mayor's wisdom prevails. Amen. Glory to God. because they're not emotional. Not emotional. Praise the Lord. And and and they know that that mayor knows that a rodeo is not a place to fight. Glory to God. Because you don't you don't even know what you're dealing with. The person that's on 19:47 you has been trained. He's been trained to stay on. Praise the Lord. So without wisdom, without maturity, glory to God, that's what you're going to have. Well, this I I want you guys to understand something. It doesn't matter the criticism. It doesn't matter who who who who takes this video and and try to pick it apart and try to criticize me. That doesn't matter because one thing about truth, it's going to prevail. Truth will stand. 20:17 You cannot destroy it. You cannot destroy it. Glory to God. Your tradition and your disobedience to it can make it non-effective in your life. But the truth is still going to be the truth no matter what. No matter what you do, how you do it, and how much of it you do. Praise the Lord. So I want you to to um travel with me in this because saints God has said Christian nationalism is the most 20:48 powerful demon that's operating in the body of Christ today. It has done more to separate the body to divide it to to bring forth iniquity and separatism and exclusivity. It has done more to bring these evil demons alive in the body of Christ than any other principality. So we now we have to address that because our objective is that we be one. Amen. We are called to oneness. Glory to God. And we can't preach oneness 21:18 out of one side of the mouth and nationalism out of the other side. Are y'all working with me? Glory to God. And as I said, find in the scriptures where the the apostles and any of their disciples promoted any other nation other than the kingdom of Christ. You will not find it. They promoted the kingdom of God. They made sure that the world knew that the kingdom of God, they didn't promote America. They didn't promote 21:48 China. They didn't promote Russia. They didn't pro promote Ukraine. They didn't promote any nation in the world. They promoted Christ and his kingdom. That's the only kingdom that they promoted. And we have to make sure that that's what we are doing. Because to do anything different from that makes you a nationalist. No matter what nation you're in, it makes you a nationalist. If you're if you're promoting that, if it it and bringing the church into 22:18 that and and the reasons why this message is so important is because we have so many pastors pastors that have turned their pull pits into political podiums. They have they they they've turned the whole pullpit into a political podium. Glory to God. And God is vexed. The spirit of God is vexed because of it. Praise the Lord. Amen. Let's look at what I've written here. And I'm going to stay with what I've written because I 22:49 don't want to forget anything. I'm going to uh follow the leading of the Holy Spirit here because he dictated this. Um our first chapter, our first um uh first division here says Christian nationalism is a demon. I now that's that's going straight to the juggler if if if any the princ the princ this principality is leading the American church. This principality is leading the American church. It is in strong leadership in the American church. It 23:19 is a political this is what I'm going to give you the definition of polit of uh Christian nationalism. Christian nationalism is a political and cultural ideology that merges Christian identity with national identity. It merges my Christian identity with my national identity. Now, now some of you are some of you are thinking and uh I I want you to to to find this scripture for me. Amen. Uh I think I got it in here. Yeah, I 23:49 do, but I'm not there yet. But some of you are thinking, well, shouldn't we do that? Shouldn't we merge our Christian identity with our national identity? Praise the Lord. How do you do that? Okay, you say, well, I'm a citizen of the nation. I'm a citizen. I am a citizen of my country and I'm also a citizen of the kingdom of God. Okay. Well, which one am I going to serve? Which one am I going 24:20 to serve? Because there's some there if I'm going to identify, notice what it said. know Christian nationalism says you have to merge the two identities. So if I identify as an American or an Indian or a Chinese or a Russian, glory to God, if that's my identity, all right, how is it now that I reconcile my identity as a son of God in which there is no nationality, no Jew or Greek, remember that's remember scripture. 24:50 There is no nationality. There is no gender, no male or female. There is no social economic, you know, uh uh chapters, you know, divisions in the body of Christ. Glory to God. So, how do I merge the two? How do I how do I actually merge them when in this kingdom called the kingdom of God, there is no genealogy? There's no genealogy. We are the 40 42nd generation which is Jesus Christ. He is he is 25:20 he is the 42nd generation from Adam. Glory to God. And we are now a part of that his his generation. We are the generation that declares Jesus Christ to the world. So, how do I merge that identity with the identity of being an American, a Russian, even a Jew? How do I how do I merge the identity? Because even even with the Jew, God was specific. He says in that there is no Jew or Gentile, 25:50 no Jew or Greek. Glory to God. So he's saying no Jew or Gentile. So in that kingdom that's called the kingdom of God, if I'm going to maintain that identity, how do I maintain the identity of the citizenship in my natural country? You can't do that because there's too many factions in your your your nation, your country, your natural country, your earthly country. There's too many factions. And that's why God said, "Don't be entangled with 26:21 that. Don't get tied up inside of that." Why? Because your identity is in another kingdom. Now, I'm going to read this definition again, and I want you to consider it. And I'm saying I'm speaking to those of you who really want to know God, because everyone that's in the church don't really want to know God. Amen. Everyone in the church doesn't want to really know is not looking for the real truth. People are just looking 26:51 for something they can talk about. Many people are. But if you're looking for the truth and you really want to please God, you want to serve him, you want to please him, then you got to hear what he's saying here. Christian nationalism is a political and cultural ideology. It's an ideology. It's an ideology. It's an experiment. It's a theory that they're trying to get to work. Amen. They're trying to You're trying to turn a nation 27:21 into something that by policies. Listen, listen at this here. Amen. You're trying to merge the Christian identity with the national identity. often asserting that the that a particular nation must notably most notably the United States in contemporary discussions was founded upon principles which we were then the United States was supposedly founded on on Christian principles. Amen. Simply because they brought a Bible with them. So now we're saying that our nation was founded on Christian principles. 27:52 There are some factions in this nation that would would would beg to differ with that. Amen. It blends patriotism with religious belief. Patriotism, in other words, I heard a a minister that I had admired for many, many years. uh he's an evangelist, a very famous evangelist and um he just always promoted the gospel of Jesus Christ. But suddenly he got involved in politics. Glory to God. And now he says to to his congregants and all 28:22 of those who listen to him, millions of people that are listening on online that if you don't vote for a particular person, you're not a Christian. You know, if if you don't get up and get in the fight, if you don't get up and get in the fight, then you're not really a Christian. And if you don't vote for a particular candidate, you are not a Christian. You're not really a Christian. Glory to God. And 28:52 when I heard that, my spirit was so vexed. I have been so vexed for the last three weeks because that's I it's like I've been bombarded with that kind of rhetoric. That kind of stuff has just been bar. And when you are an apostle that is that is a gatekeeper for what goes in and out of the body of Christ, it's it's a vexation to hear ministers minister like that because now you're alienated. Can you 29:22 imagine? Can you imagine me? Amen. getting up before a congregation of hundreds of people uh uh in a room where there are people of this party and people of that party and and people of this other party and people you know and saying that if you don't vote for the candidate that I say is the right one, you don't vote for that candidate, you are not a son of God. Can do you know what that 29:53 does? It alienates. Glory to God. Amen. So, this is what we're up against. This is what Christian nationalism does. Glory to God. It has no It has no regard. It has absolutely no regard for the how the what is the effect of the rhetoric that it promotes the the the political parties that it promotes the political how that how promoting that party promoting that candidate alienates half the country.
