Kingdom 104: Misrepresenting the Kingdom Gospel Pt 1
There are many who misrepresent the Kingdom of God through their lack of understanding of the Gospel message. When you don't understand the concept of the Kingdom, you will misrepresent the Kingdom culture. In order for one to represent the Kingdom effectively, you must first be filled with the Holy Spirit (the Governor). The Lord Jesus made it quite clear while speaking to His disciples at the time: And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” Jesus didn't want them to misrepresent Him or the Kingdom culture. The Lord Jesus had the Holy Spirit living in His mortal body while He was on the earth. He told us what would happen when they would receive Him. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
Without the understanding of the Kingdom concept and its message and understand that nothing is truly ours, but His and He gives us access; we cannot properly teach the Kingdom message. That is the situation with many who claim to know the King. I am speaking mostly of our leaders. Just because there is a sign over the front of your church building saying "Kingdom", that doesn't mean you understand the King's message. To understand is to closely study and comprehend God's Word. To seek means to learn diligently with a hunger to learn more than mental facts and information. The knowledge must become part of your behavior and lifestyle. Just follow the life of Christ while He was here on earth. A key factor is that you must want it bad enough to focus on it. I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me. Jesus made this statement: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. There is so much misinformation in the airwaves that if we aren't listening carefully to the Holy Spirit, we can be misled. We may act on our own thoughts and think that is the Holy Spirit leading us. This is happening everywhere. Ministries are built on misinformation and false doctrines contrary to the Kingdom message Jesus preached. That is why it is so important to stay in prayer and in the Word. We need to follow our King's example desperately. Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. On another occasion when the Lord was alone praying His disciples joined Him. He always found time to speak with His Father.
Constant communication (prayer) with the Father is needed more than ever in this age of social media, the internet and cable. Many embrace other's ideas concerning their faith in the Lord Jesus rather than embracing His Word. To be a Kingdom citizen will probably cost you your biological family and friends. And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”
Then He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”
Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.”
And another also said, “Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.”
But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
You must learn your priorities when it comes to following the King. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Continue to part 2
Acts 1:4-5 Proverbs 8:17 Luke 6:12 Luke 9:58-62 Matthew 6:33-34
~~W.R. Luchie
Without the understanding of the Kingdom concept and its message and understand that nothing is truly ours, but His and He gives us access; we cannot properly teach the Kingdom message. That is the situation with many who claim to know the King. I am speaking mostly of our leaders. Just because there is a sign over the front of your church building saying "Kingdom", that doesn't mean you understand the King's message. To understand is to closely study and comprehend God's Word. To seek means to learn diligently with a hunger to learn more than mental facts and information. The knowledge must become part of your behavior and lifestyle. Just follow the life of Christ while He was here on earth. A key factor is that you must want it bad enough to focus on it. I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me. Jesus made this statement: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. There is so much misinformation in the airwaves that if we aren't listening carefully to the Holy Spirit, we can be misled. We may act on our own thoughts and think that is the Holy Spirit leading us. This is happening everywhere. Ministries are built on misinformation and false doctrines contrary to the Kingdom message Jesus preached. That is why it is so important to stay in prayer and in the Word. We need to follow our King's example desperately. Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. On another occasion when the Lord was alone praying His disciples joined Him. He always found time to speak with His Father.
Constant communication (prayer) with the Father is needed more than ever in this age of social media, the internet and cable. Many embrace other's ideas concerning their faith in the Lord Jesus rather than embracing His Word. To be a Kingdom citizen will probably cost you your biological family and friends. And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”
Then He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”
Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.”
And another also said, “Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.”
But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
You must learn your priorities when it comes to following the King. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Continue to part 2
Acts 1:4-5 Proverbs 8:17 Luke 6:12 Luke 9:58-62 Matthew 6:33-34
~~W.R. Luchie
