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Ladies and gentlemen, in honor of his own birthday today, your host Eric Mataxes has said he's going to do his radio show in his birthday suit.

Hey, don't say I didn't warn you. Get ready to cover your eyes and turn down the volume. Here's Mr. Gadiba himself, Eric Mataxes.

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Hey folks, I get to talk to a friend of mine named Ken Fish and you get to listen to our conversation.

Ken, welcome back. We've had you here many times. I love talking to you. There's always something exciting to talk about.

I was last night with you at a meeting in New Jersey and I saw people get healed. Now, I was sitting there thinking, is this real? There's nothing here as I'm watching these people that could possibly be fake.

And I thought I'm watching miracles happen. And so many people don't believe in miracles. And it just, it kind of drives me mad. You live in this realm. You pray for people and see healing all the time.

So anytime you come to New York, I want to talk to you about it. But I want to talk about last night. I want to talk about the future this weekend. Let's start here. Tell us what you're doing this weekend in New York.

This weekend in New York, I'm with an organization called Christian Union. And they have me in usually a couple times a year. And we'll be doing a conference specifically on the subject of the power of God.

And where will this be? It's in Midtown and I don't remember the exact address, but it's not open admission. You have to contact Christian Union if you want to come.

Okay, okay. So there are people listening now today's Thursday. Okay. So this is tomorrow, Friday, Saturday. And that's it. If you want to come to any of your part of this, you have to email info at Christian Union dot org. That's info at Christian Union dot org. If I were in New York, I would be there. And I'm frustrated. I can't be. You're going to be in Houston.

Yes, I'm going to be in Houston, but you're not going to be in Houston. I'm not going to be. No, I'm preaching in Houston this weekend. In fact, people want to know about that. You go to my website, air.

Metaxis.com. But I guess I want to talk about what I heard last night. You first of all, I saw some healings. I want to talk about that. But you often do a teaching before you start praying for people. And last night, I don't know what you're going to teach on. And you taught on the Kingdom of God.

Talk about that a little bit. Well, the Kingdom is central to everything we do. That's why my organization is called Kingdom Fire Ministries. I've had a lot of people say, you know, sounds sort of dorky with a name like that. But I really wanted to have the Kingdom be central to you, even the naming of what we do.

So the Kingdom of God is actually a concept that I call it the golden thread. It runs through the entire of the Old Testament and right into the New Testament. And it ties together the entire Bible. And in a soundbiter to it, it really is about the rulership of God and the exertion of his authority, which I sometimes call the active dynamic power of God.

But the exertion of his authority in the world. And so when the Kingdom of God is proclaimed, we're really in a word saying God is King. But it's not just a slogan. There's actually a spiritual power that comes with that. And it releases something so that healings, deliverances, prophecy, other things can happen.

Well, you I've never heard it laid out the way you laid it out yesterday. It's not like there was anything particularly new in the general concept, but you laid it out really well. But what was new to me, and I'm always amazed if I haven't heard something before because I've heard Zillions of sermons, you talked about how the term the gospel, the proclamation of the gospel. We say the good news.

Yeah. Was ultimately seen or was rather in those days seen as dramatically different from how we hear it today. You said it was kind of a military announcement that there's a new there's a new king on the throne. And now he's going to go out and tell everybody, hey, I'm the new boss in town. I'm the king and you're under my rulership. I've never heard it put that way before.

Well, this word gospel, it comes from Roman military history. If we go back into the archives of Roman history, we can find numerous emperors who issued gospel proclamations upon their coronation among the most well known, Hadrian as in Hadrian's wall, Trajan and various Julius Maximus. All of them had gospel proclamations upon their coronation.

Okay, so to be clear though, why when we say the word gospel, it means good news, right? It means good news because there is a new king in their context. It meant and I'm the king. I'm the dude, right? Yeah.

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