Kris Miyake: Rediscovering the Heart of Jesus' Church
Kris speaks at King of Kings Worship Center on 11/14/2021

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You are like, "Kris, but that's Old Testament
you're preaching out of Nehemiah, that's Old Testament
That sounds really great,
"Build and that's how you win the fight, don't fight, build."
But the New Testament talks about spiritual warfare.
True, but let me read you something from the New Testament,
and I'll do you one better.
I'm not just going to read our New Testament,
I'm going to read out of some red letters.
That way if you get really mad,
you're just going to have to take it up with Jesus, okay?
Matthew 16:18 says this,
"Upon this rock, I will," [Matthew 16:18]
Everybody says that with me.
"Upon this rock I will..."
And then you're going to fight, no, He says,
"On this rock I will, build my church
and what all the powers of hell will not conquer it."
See the victory in the building.
That's why Jesus was a carpenter for 30 years and not a soldier.
Because the victory is in the building,
build the kingdom.
And as long as we build the kingdom,
We'll win the fight.
But if we stop building the kingdom
so, we can fight,
We'll fight our whole lives, and we'll never win.
Jesus says, you're going to build My...
I'm going to build My kingdom
and hell will lose.
Well, that's awesome, it's pretty great.
That's not rocket science.
That's like arithmetic.
Build a kingdom hell will lose.
The key is He builds it.
He designs it.
And I've been on this journey for two years,
searching the Word of God, trying to figure out
what is the church He's building.
And I believe that what we're seeing in this moment,
is God returning His church back
to the way He originally designed it.
Build not on programs and buildings,
but build on family and relationships.
God calls Abraham out [Genesis 12:2]
and says, "I'm going to make you two things,
I'm going to make you a great family and a great nation."
Jesus comes 2,000 years later
and that great family and great nation had become a great religion
that had mixed up their worship and their politics.
So, Jesus comes, and I want you to see this, He doesn't try to fix it.
And if something is so far gone that Jesus doesn't try to fix it.
I don't know what to tell you.
Maybe I shouldn't try to fix it.
But then Jesus says, this is what I'm going to do.
I'm going to take 12 dudes.
And it wasn't just 12 dudes.
He didn't just have 12 disciples.
They only counted men in those days.
We think Peter, James and John was his inner circle,
but he actually had
another three people that were inner circle.
They just didn't count at that time,
their names are Mary Magdalene,
Mary His mom, and Salome.
And they were every bit His inner circle
discipled as Peter, James and John.
They were everywhere.
You look in the Bible, they were all over the place.
In fact, when Peter, James and John, well,
yeah, when Peter and James at least ran off
and they show up at the crucifixion,
guess who was there?
Three days later, at the empty tomb.
John was even there.
Guess who was there?
If you wonder why this is important to me,
I'm a dad of five daughters.
And I want my daughters to grow up in a world.
Well, they would never be limited
in what God can do to them
because of their gender.
It's very important to me.
So, two of them are here this morning.
So, Nadia is my oldest.
Raise your hand
and then my second oldest, Trinity there,
she raised her hand.
And then the other one that also looks like my daughter,
but she's my personal assistant, Diane.
But God doesn't want us to be confused about what He's building.
Nehemiah wasn't confused about what he's building.
He says, "Build the church."
So, Jesus takes these guys, these disciples.
He says, "I'm going to do two things in you.
I'm going to build you a great family."
See, He goes back to the original,
word He gives Abraham.
I'm going to make you a great family. But this time
He says, I'm not going to make you a great nation.
I'm going to make you a great kingdom.
I'm going to build a kingdom.
And here we are 2,000 years later.
And wouldn't you believe it,
just like Jesus came 2,000 years
after Abraham and their great family
and great nation became a great religion.
Here we are 2,000 years after Jesus
and the great family, and the great kingdom,
has become another great religion.
And I think God is raising  up a generation right now.
Who's not distracted by the fights,
by the division,
by the instability, by the confusion.
But you can recognize this moment we're in,
that not just in America, but all over the world.
God is building His church.
A church ruled by one law.
Young ruler comes up to Jesus

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