The Kingdom Message Today

           Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand – This is the foundation message Jesus preached.  The kingdom of God is the manifestation of the presence and will of God

            This message says God is present and has come to help you

Jesus said God is present in Me and will be present in you –“ the kingdom of God is within you.”

            Jesus told us to preach saying the Kingdom of God is here – We are called and can be empowered  to do and be this – a manifestation of the presence and will of God for              ourselves, our  family, our land, nation, and for all of God’s creation in an ever increasing way.

            Jesus has now been exalted and He reigns at the right hand of God, and He comes to live in us thru His Spirit.  Because He is who He is, we can be all God wants us to be.  Because He is who He is, we can do in this life all God wants us to do.  God created us to have intimate spiritual  fellowship with Him, and to show forth the fruits of such a relationship, (love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance).  Sin destroyed this relationship.  Jesus came and restored the ability of man to again live in such fellowship.  The enemies of evil can be overcome as we receive and live in the life of Jesus and join with God in spreading His kingdom presence and message into all of the earth.  The Bible says that we can receive the power to reign in this life now, through receiving the righteous nature of God and empowerment of the Holy Spirit.  (those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ Rom 5:17 NKJV.)

             Much of the world lives in a fairy tale mentality.  With a fairy tale mentality we are subject to the whims of the devil. The devil has transformed us into something that we did not want to be, and now we can only hope for someone  to come and wave a  magic wand to restore us back as we were.  However, the state in which we were is still able to be overcome by and transformed by the devil, seemingly at his will.  The old nature, the state in which we were born, cannot be transformed.  In this state we cannot have victory over our sinfulness, or over the desires of the devil.  We do not want to go back to this state.

            Rather, thru Jesus, we can receive a “new” nature that can be empowered to overcome the power of the devil to transform us.  We can enter into the plan of God to remove sin from us and then to remove the spiritual beings who want us to sin so they can rule over us.  God created us to be conformed to His image.  We have, by sin, been transformed by the devil into beings that he is able to rule over.  We can, by Christ be transformed into the beings that God had in His mind, when He created us.  God has His vision and His purposes for us in His mind.  He will share them with us.  He will impart them into us.  He will energize them for us so we can be and want and do all that He has in mind for us and for His creation.

Fairy tales give the impression that evil can transform any person at will.  Fairy tales give the impression that man is powerless in this process, and that man is not at fault when evil rules over him.  The Bible says it is thru sin, that evil is able to reign in this world.  The Bible says that evil cannot exercise its evil desires on a person that has not sinned, because they have not given it any place.  The Bible says that Christ lived a life apart from sin, thru the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.  The Bible says that Christ is now able to live in us, thru the Holy Spirit.  The Bible says that God is able to bring us out of our old nature, out of the heart we were born with, and into Christ.  The Bible says that we need a new heart, a new nature, not a freeing or changing of the old one.  The Bible says that God will bring Christ into us, and bring us into Christ, and a new heart will be formed.  The Bible says that this new heart, this new nature must then come into all of our being, our spirit, soul and body.  The Bible says that this will happen as we daily receive this new nature into our being, expanding its rule and influence.  The Bible says that the old heart must be removed and destroyed, and this will be done as we daily confess the ways in which we have let evil reign in us.  The Bible says we are to daily put off the works and ways of the old nature and receive the ways of the new nature which are in Christ. 

The Bible says that we will be continually transformed with a nature an life that will be able to do all the will of God, and the devil will have no place in this new life.  The Bible says that Jesus has overcome all our sinful ways and desires of our old nature on His cross, when He took them into hell.  The Bible says that by receiving Jesus’ life, we are counted as holy, and Satan no longer has the right to hold us in bondage to sin or to his evil transforming ways.  The bible says that thru Christ, who now reigns over the devil and over his evil kingdoms, we can reign in this life.  The Bible says that thru the resurrected life on Jesus, manifested on His cross, we can bring about the removal of sin in our lives, and can be continually receiving the life of God into us.

The Bible says that we can, thru prayer, intercession, actions and proclamations, we can participate with God as He brings about the reality of the eternal rule of Christ into all the world, both heaven and earth.  This is reality. 

We do not need to have a fairy tale mentality- one that does not contain the removal of sin, the devil and all who would follow him both human  and spirit beings.  We do not need to look for one who will only make us happy, but never enable us to rule over the evil natural and spiritual forces that seek to harm us and to enslave us.  We can have our ability to imagine things, our imaginations, filled with truth.  We can have the imaginations and visions of God.  God will share His heart, His ways, His imaginations, His desires His longings with us.  He will unite us with Him, inviting us to participate with Him as He accomplishes His plans and purposes for all of His creation.

We can live in the eternal reality of God  We can experience Him, Hear Him, Know Him, Live in Him, Know the reality of His living in us, and seeing His transforming power working each day.  We enter and live in such a reality by faith.  Faith comes as we read and meditate on His revealed word in the Bible.  Faith comes as we learn to listen to His eternal Word, who is Christ. Faith comes as we behold Him who lives in glory, and has been commissioned by God to save us completely, and to redeem all of His creation, out of the power of the devil and into the empowerment of the Spirit of God.  By filling our minds, our lives and our actions with these truths we will have the mind of Christ and will no longer have a fairy mentality which leads into fear and hopelessness because there is no eternal victory in fairy tales.

THIS HEAVENLY LIFE OF GOD HAS BEEN BROUGHT

 TO EARTH IN CHRIST FOR IT WAS IN HIM.  THIS

 HEAVENLY LIFE WAS BROUGHT FORTH BY CHRIST

INTO A HUMAN FORM AND WAS WORKED INTO ALL

 OF HIS BEING.  NOW THIS HEAVENLY LIFE CAN

BROUGHT INTO ALL WHO COME TO HIM.  NOW THIS

HEAVENLY LIFE CAN FLOW OUT OF ALL THOSE WHO

ARE IN CHIRST.  NOW THIS HEAVENLY LIFE CAN BE

 MANIFEST INTO ALL THE WORLD.  NOW THE LIFE OF

 HEAVEN CAN AND WILL BE MANIFEST WITH THE

 LIFE ON EARTH.  The ways and sinfulness of the

 old life on earth can be removed and

 replaced by the Heavenly life of Christ

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