Bill Winston - The Kingdom Within You
Look what he says here. This is 2 Corinthians chapter 3, and look at verse 18. But we all with an open face say, «Open face». Say, «Face time». «Beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord». Alright, now. So what did I do? Every day I went and looked at TV. Now we didn’t have a television at that time. The neighbor had one. So I went up and knocked at the neighbor’s door. I was in elementary school and I said, «Hey, you know, can we can I look at your television»? She said, «Oh, you want to look at Superman again»? I said, «Yes, ma’am». And she bring me in.
I look at Superman and I take that television and put it right up in my face. I mean, I, I didn’t want to miss anything he said or did. This was Monday through Friday. Faster than a speeding bullet. Able to jump over buildings at a single bound. More powerful than a locomotive. Come on. Somebody, somebody, somebody know what I’m talking. So what did I do? I kept getting that. I kept getting that. Now, did they have a picture? See, right down there on your left, at the bottom. Everybody else got on the basketball uniform. But that’s the kid. Right down there. Are you following what I’m saying?
Now, I’m not kidding you. It. What happened is this, when you look in that book a long time, and begin to meditate what it says. You are changed into the same image from glory to glory. As by the spirit of the Lord. So I kept looking and kept changing. Now, all of a sudden, what happened to Kellogg’s cornflakes came out with a promotion that they said, «If you sent a box top with $0.50, we’ll send you a Superman shirt». That was for me. I’m just telling you that, because you don’t attract what you are, I’m, pardon me, what you want, you attract what you are. So when you build something inside, you are designed to attract that. Lord have mercy.
So I know the promotion came from my believing. I believe it. I don’t care what you say about it. You can’t argue with me. So what happened? I done send in it, that box top, got a Superman shirt. And the next thing you know, I’m feeling good. Really. I’m, I’m feeling good. I’m feeling like I can whoop somebody. I mean, I’m just a little guy. I feel like, hey, hey, let me look around and. And the next thing you know, it felt so good to, when I pulled it off, I felt different. So I said, «I need another one and another one».
So every day I was going to school in a Superman shirt. Fresh. Bible says, «Put on Christ». Now you gotta hear what I’m saying, because what I’m telling you is how we function, and we are designed to make be made. So then I got my mother’s sheet and I started running around the house. She caught me with her sheet. She’d spanked me. So forth and so on. Put me out and so forth. That’s okay. Because when you’re really walking in true faith, the God kind of faith, you’re under the influence. Turn over here to Mark’s Gospel, chapter 3. Look down here at verse 21. «And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him. For they said,» He is what? «Besides himself».
If you look up that in the CEV translation, here’s what it says. «He’s crazy». He’s crazy. And I believe that’s one reason why we don’t see miracles. Because people are not yet under the influence. That they haven’t gotten enough face time. They haven’t meditated that Word enough, for that Word to transform how they think. And I’m saying this to you that I was under the influence. Now, it took me over. There’s a place in faith that you are no longer holding on to the promise. But the promise is holding on to you. Is switches. And you don’t have to all day, spend all day. I believe I see. I believe none of that. You’ve passed that stage. Now you are under the influence. And when you are. What I said is, «I’m going to fly down to Windell’s house».
So I got up on the roof of the garage. Let me come over here because this this is… I want this. Now, you stay with me, because I’m talking to everybody in here. Because I’m about to take you to airplanes, and, and shopping malls and so forth. Because it’s the same principle. It’s the same principle. I got up on that garage. I said, «I’m going to fly down to Windell’s house». Come on. I had everything on. I had I had everything ready. I had… I jumped off. And where did I go? Why? Because it wasn’t the Word of God. It wasn’t. All faith only comes from the Word. Not TV.
And I’m telling you right now that God is no respecter of persons. Let me share something with you. I want to quote this individual. His name is Brother Jesse. «The most important thing in your life is what you believe about your future». He preached that up at, in our church. I preached it because I was drawing something. And when I draw it, you got to preach it. We’re going to cover impartation here in just a minute. The most important thing, in your life is what you believe about your future.
Now if you’ll look, there’s a couple of places I want to go to Luke’s gospel in chapter 17, verse 20».And when He was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, He answered them and said, 'The kingdom of God cometh not with observation. Neither shall they say, lo, here or lo, there. Behold, the kingdom of God is» Where? Is in you. Is within you. Now this kingdom is in you as your supply. Because everything you would need or want in this life. God has already provided. And watch this. Loaded it in you. In the kingdom. So when he sends you somewhere you don’t need to beg somebody. For anything. Everything that you ever have to need in an inexhaustible supply has already been provided and given to you in the kingdom. That’s all messed up. Yeah, I’m loaded right now.
Now, what am I loaded to do? I’m loaded to go places. And create things. All right. I’m living from the inside out. I’ll say, «Living from the inside out». So how I’m going to act? Glory to God. Is based… Oh, Lord, I don’t want to jump ahead of you. Let’s go to Genesis chapter 1. Genesis chapter 1 and verse 26. «And God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth». I like what Charles says, «We have dominion over creeps». All right. «Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over the cattle, and of all the earth». So you and I have dominion.
Wait a minute. Adam had dominion over all the earth. The next verse. Verse 28. «And God bless them, And God said to them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and to do it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over the every living thing that moveth upon the earth».
Now watch this. Verse 26 told you, the what, you are to do. Have dominion. Verse 28 told you how you’re going to do it. You’re going to be blessed and you’re going to be fruitful. Come on. And you’re going to do what else? Multiply. And what else? Replenish the earth. And what else? And subdue it. Now I put those down here. And if you can make or making notes, this might be something good for you to make notes of. Fruitful, fruitful means to produce. It means to produce. I am going to produce something. Now, there’s something that I’m going to produce, is going to come out of something that is not already produced. So I’m going to produce a chair out of this tree. Produce. Glory to God.
You just look up the Word. Sometimes I put it down here. Produce. Has to do with bringing forward. This is 1828 Dictionary of Webster. Bringing forward. Another word for that is create. Create. I’m going to bring it forward. It’s something that’s not seen or manifested yet, but I’m going to bring it forward. See, see, I gotta see a chair in a tree. Are you with me here? I’ve got to see milk in a cow. I gotta see an egg in a chicken. Because the production of that chicken is going to bring forth eggs. Going to bring something forth that is.
Now, this is very important because people are not poor, because they have no money or job that pays much. They are poor because of what they fail to produce. They are poor because of what they fail to create. See if if you look at the scriptures and look at Psalm, I’m just going to read it at Psalm 82. And this is I’ll never forget. As Charles Capps was teaching this one time and it just clicked. Everything just clicked. It’s Psalm 82 and started verse 1. «God standeth in the congregation of the mighty and judges among the gods».
Now, if I look at that in the Hebrew, it says, «Elohim stands in the midst of the Elohim and judges among the Elohim». That’s why he goes on down in what verse 6 and said, you are gods. All of you are children of the Most High. You have this nature. Come on. You, you. He wants you to have His thoughts. Am I right about this? So produce. Now, here’s the thing about that. Let’s go back to Genesis chapter 1 again. «And God bless them. And God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply. Replenish the earth and subdue it».
So be fruitful. Means to produce. Matter of fact, we have a measure called the Gross National Product, and it’s a measure of what has been produced by a set group of people in that are members of that particular nation. The gross national product. So produce. So we got to produce, and we’re going to bring forth we’re going to create with that. Watch this now, He said, «Be fruitful». Then he also said that we are to multiply. Now this multiply has to do with whatever you produce. You are going to increase that production. In other words, you’re going to make it and make it again and again and again multiply. And then He says, «And replenish the earth».
Now replenish. One of the reasons I have that is to perpetually renew and to supply, but it means to redistribute. So I’m going to produce something that I’m going to eventually distribute, and I’m going to distribute that. If I get inventory and it sits in my, my, my company and is not distributed, I’m going broke. Now this applies to a business or a ministry. Brother Copeland is producing teachings. What is he doing? Bringing it forth. This is some of the stuff he’s never preached before. Where is he getting it from? Oh, I better come over here. Where is he getting it from? He’s getting it from God. He’s getting it from God now. I’m going to show you something here. Because God now. And and subdue it. Subdue it means for you to dominate the market.
Now let me, let me let me wake you up to something. You better get a hold of that word dominion, because Amazon got a hold of it. Amazon has plans to take you out of business. Don’t look at me. Don’t look at me. I’m telling you, they have in their plans to rule this market. Control the market share. That’s the. That’s their plan. Now, wait a minute. He told us to do this. He told us you’re supposed to be the leader in your industry. You look at Joseph’s life. All three of those. All right. All four of those.
All right. Let’s. Let’s go on. All right, so Genesis chapter 2. And look what He says in verse 7. «And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul». Speak in spirit like God. I think you look up the Hamas translation. I’ve got a set of those and it is a speaking spirit. Okay. You’re speaking spirit like God. Now what? Let me keep going next. And this is verse 8. «And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden. And there He put the man whom He had formed».
All right. Now this garden, I believe, was a prototype. What’s a prototype? Prototype means it’s it’s a picture of how the rest of the earth should look. But God only made it geographically, having boundaries. So He put the man in there and now bless him. Why? Because that’s the same power God used to create the universe. He put it on a man so that the man can bring forth a Garden of Eden everywhere he went. So you are made to create your world. I don’t care how bad it is. They’re trying to fix it with green. They’re trying to fix it with windmills. They’re trying to fix it all kinds of ways. But the blessing was given to fix the curse. And it’s the only thing that can genuinely fix it.
So here, this man is like God. God bless them. Now He’s sending him. Put him in the garden. And now he’s going to create the garden. Increase. Everywhere he goes, everywhere he goes. Okay. He’s going to turn it. And you can look at his. A reference for you is found in Ezekiel chapter 36 verses 33 through 36 «Turn waste places into the Garden of Eden». You can look at Isaiah chapter 51, verses 1 through 3 about Abraham. All right. Now in verse 16 of Isaiah chapter 51 and verse 16, it says, «To plant the heavens».
All right. Glory to God. Are you with me here? I got to go a little deep now, but Imma tell you something that’s inside of you. Because he’s saying that we’re to live from the inside out. I’m saying that the reason why a lot of God’s people have not gone and done the things that God want them to do, because they don’t know how they’re made. They don’t know that things inside of them have heat. They’re loaded. You can put Fort Worth in you. You you can put United States of America in you. Because when you’re doing it in the Spirit, it has no mass to it. It had.
Come on. It has no time to it. See it, it’s already what? When Jesus came in Matthew 14, He healed a man who was though blind, lame, maimed. People have no, no, no arm, no leg. Now, Jesus got him a leg. Now, how did he get a leg? Because the leg was in the kingdom. You’ve not only got a supply for you, but you’ve got a supply for anybody that you’ll come in contact with. Who needs to see the kingdom?
In John chapter 10 in verse 9. I think it is. He said, «I am the door». I am the door. This is what Jesus said. And He said, anybody to come to me? They’ll go in and out and find pasture. Now wait a minute. Where are they going? To find pasture. Through the door. But he’s not the pasture. He’s the door. You’re introducing them to the door. So when people come and receive Christ, they go through the door. But when they get through the door, they go out and get their inheritance. They get every thought, have mercy, everything that God has for them that was there before the foundation of the world is in the pasture.