Welcome to Transformation Church podcast where we represent God to the lost and found for transformation in Christ.

We're so glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe God will transform your life through today's message.

And I'm excited because it's week one of a brand new series called Holy Rebellion.

Oh, that's my Bible, my bad. I was about to be like, where my Bible at? I left it back here. Thank you so much.

I'm excited to date for the word I've got for you, I believe. Not I believe. Let me say this.

If there's any series that I know, that I specifically, Charles Henry Meccaff III, not Charlie, not Chuck, my mom was very clear.

I wanted to call you Chuck. I would have put Chuck on your birth certificate. I called you Charles.

There's anything I know that I was made to preach through and through. It is a series called Holy Rebellion.

I am. Thank you for the barks, brother. I appreciate that.

There's a guy I've been barking in the last couple of weeks. I've been wondering. I appreciate that. It's your way of...

I got a little nervous the first time. I'm not going to lie, but you're still here, so we're trusting that it's not weird.

I'm just... When you're up here and you're like, praying that somebody starts barking, you're like, whoa, whoa.

And then you're like, oh, he's just given some encouragement. I appreciate it.

But I'm excited today. Every single year, we have a word of the year. Every single year since our lead pastor, pastor Michael Todd has been the pastor.

And this year, our word is Kingdom. Everybody say Kingdom.

The tagline for this year is the rise of a Holy Rebellion.

The rise of a Holy Rebellion. At the top of the year, we did a series called Kingdom that was really walking us into this idea of what does it mean to be a Kingdom citizen?

What does it mean to be a part of the Kingdom? The Kingdom is the only message Jesus preached.

All of your favorite stories, all of your favorite scriptures, all of the stories that you use in your personal life. Jesus would say this.

The Kingdom can be illustrated this way, or the Kingdom is like.

And if Jesus spent his whole ministry all through years trying to unwrap the Kingdom, why is it that we have so many other labels and so many other sermons that we want to preach?

When Jesus said, I only got one message. The Kingdom is what I'm talking about. So this year, that has been the backdrop of our year.

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