The Kingdom

 

When the feet of Jesus pounded the dusty roads of Galilee searching for His disciples, He was concerned with a bigger picture that we could imagine. Jesus did not come only to save sinners, nor did He come only to make disciples, and contrary to popular belief, He did not only come to do His Fathers will. Those things mentioned make up a larger more distinct image and reason for His coming. He came to re-establish the Kingdom. The Kingdom fell by man so it must be regained by man.

God entrusted man with the authority of His creation and sadly the kingdom that man ruled was stolen from him through lust and trickery. From that moment onward it has been the sole agenda of God to restore His Kingdom among men. This Kingdom includes souls, disciples, God’s will, signs, wonders, blessings, holiness, deliverance, prophecy, and power. To many times, entire churches, movements, and individuals, are obsessed with one or more of these things until it consumes them. Their whole life, and the reason Jesus came seems to be about one of these issues that they feel strongest about. There is only one thing that consumed Jesus, the Kingdom of His Father. We cannot take one piece of the puzzle and make it the whole. The Kingdom is power, it is holiness, it is miracles, it is signs and wonders, it is the will of God, it is deliverance and prophecy, and it is souls and disciples. We tend to favor one piece of the puzzle because of the seasons we are in. Whatever season God has us in we deem it as the most important season of them all. However being Kingdom minded is the issue God is trying to get at in us, by taking us through different seasons.

The Kingdom is God’s ultimate rule—now instated, but yet to be enforced. In fact the only way the rules and laws of the Kingdom will be enforced before eternity, is if they are enforced through us. A true child of God understands that when he was born anew that there was a different law, a new moral code, beckoning his allegiance. A true saint knows that the way heaven operates right now, is how we are to operate now in the earth. Kingdom laws do not start when we get to heaven, they are active as we speak. This fact sheds light on judgment day. All broken rules of the Kingdom will be enforced on the day judgment. Like a pile of tickets dumped before a judge, our preference to not have had God’s law rule over us while we were on the earth, will be our own condemnation to what we have chose to become.

Something happened at the cross. A transfer of power and authority occurred. Many Christians believe that God sends people to hell because they refused to be owned by God. This is not true. At the cross God purchased EVERY man, heathen and saint. He owns them all. At the cross God took over the Kingdom once and for all. He re-instated His rules, government, and order. He gave all power to His Son for the enforcement of these rules, His Son gave that power to us. We enforce the Kingdom on earth, Jesus enforces it in heaven.

The rules of the Kingdom are what Jesus taught and lived by while He was here. The teachings of Jesus are not options, they are Kingdom rules and laws that bear consequences if broken.

A great deception of thought is that if there is no immediate consequence then the action must not have been wrong. However, this is not how the Kingdom operates. The Kingdom waits until the end to bring the consequences that we thought that should have come immediately. But once this happens it is to late to repent. God only enforces His Kingdom laws on the earth through men. This is the reason that much judgment will come to the souls of men for rejecting God’s word that came through a man. In God’s mind we are His officers and people have the freedom to not obey or listen. They are free to justify, criticize, and defend themselves from the officers of God. And momentarily these people feel that they have freed themselves from the tyranny of religion and Divine regulation spoken by a man or woman. But on the day of judgment the books will be opened and Kingdom law, that has been active since the cross, will be enforced. “That which you have done to the least of these, you have done to me.” Kingdom law considers actions for or against God’s officers, for or against God Himself. Because there is no immediate consequence to offense, pride, and justification, it seems that we are right in our own minds and we assume that what we feel and think is correct because of the lack of immediate consequence. We are used to instant enforcement in this life and we figure that God’s laws are the same. I speed, I get a ticket. I murder I go to jail. I favor myself over God, God should smite me right then and there. He wont, it is against His Kingdom laws. He waits until the end to do His smiting because He is merciful and patient with our arrogance and self partiality.

God set all men free to rebel against His Kingdom, or submit to it. Kingdom laws obeyed here on earth, are obeyed due to the love that pours from the obedient saint. Kingdom laws always seem optional and unnecessary.

God gives goodness and mercy to the wicked and often they prosper in their wickedness. They take this as a sign of Divine approval of their lives. Christians do the same. The are rebellious, lazy, hateful, selfish, prayer less, full of fear, pride, bitterness, pain, hurt, rejection, and offense, when you tell them the truth. Because there is no immediate physical consequence to these Kingdom sins, they feel at ease with their choices. Yet on the inside they know they are wrong.

Jesus taught, lived, and breathed Kingdom life. He lived on earth as He would have lived in heaven. This was His definition of Christianity. To live no different here than you would live there. To have the same power here as you would have there. To have the same holiness here as you would have there. God does not live in time and therefore all of His powers and abilities that reside in heaven are available on earth. We don’t have them because the Kingdom costs us this earth. Remember the man who found the pearl in the field?

The fact that the devil has been defeated at the cross, and God now owns all things, puts all my failure, my every sin,  and my total weakness upon the shoulders of my own selfish desires. The devil is no longer to blame for my sin. The Kingdom proves this. Jesus defeated the devil and stripped him of his power. Therefore all lack of submission to the Kingdom of God and His government is my own desired choice. When I choose to live by the rights of Americanism I forfeit my rights to the Kingdom. When I choose to walk other than they way Christ walked, I stare God in the face and tell Him that I will build and run my own kingdom.

This is an overview of the Kingdom messages that are going to come. Stay in prayer about this and God will open Himself and His laws to His abilities through you!

Let your Kingdom come and your will be done, in earth, as it is in heaven….