PART I THE KINGDOM IS ADVANCING BY FORCE AND FORCEFUL MEN TAKE HOLD OF IT! Before discussing how to do this, there are certain basic biblical foundations that have to be established. 1 PETER 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him Who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light. May the Holy Spirit lead us to establish certain truths from this verse. The first biblical truth established in the first write up to this series is that God has given the earth to man, His children specifically, to rule the earth on His behalf. He left the Life of the Third Person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit, to reside in the lives of His children on earth to guide and empower them to bring the Kingdom of God back to earth, so that man may enjoy the abundant Life of the Kingdom of God once again on earth. Gods children were entrusted to rule over the entire earth on behalf of God, not only the spiritual or religious area, but the entire earth. 2. The second spiritual truth is that God called the CHURCH a Holy NATION. The reason for this is that the church members who are living on earth, are a new creation in Christ. The old man who was born in the flesh, was crucified and died when he received Jesus Christ as His Lord and Savior (ROMANS 6:3-4; 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17), and a new man with two lives or natures was born from heaven with the Life of God in him (JOHN 3:3, 5-6). This new creation is called a child of God (JOHN 1:12-13). This new creation has been declared to be justified by God the Father (ROMANS 3:22-24). This means that this new creation has been declared by God the Father before the entire cosmos, as having no record of having committed any sin at all. The sins committed by the former man who was born in the flesh died with that old man, so that this new man shows no record of sin. The old creation has indeed gone and the new has come (2 CORINTHIANS 5:17)! God rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the Kingdom of the Son He loves (COLOSSIANS 1:13). We are now citizens of heaven (PHILIPPIANS 3:20). As citizens of heaven, God sent us here to this world to reconcile not only man, but the ENTIRE WORLD to God in Christ (2 CORINTHIANS 5:17-20). Our in this reconciliation is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together underone head, even Christ (EPHESIANS1:10). The claim that the CHURCH is just a religious organism, and as such, should be restricted only to religious matters is a lie of Satan from the pits of hell. The separation which Satan created and made man believe between church and state, is Satans strategy to hinder our work as Ambassadors of Christ to reconcile the entire world to God in Christ, and to bring all things in the second heaven, where spiritual warfare especially for cities and nations take place (EPHESIANS 6:12; DANIEL 10:12-20) under the Headship of Christ. DANIEL 2:34-35 is beginning to happen in our time. The world economy and the world governments are being shaken and uprooted to make way for the beginnings of the establishment of the Kingdom of God before Jesus comes to complete it. He has shaken the economies of the world to begin a transfer of wealth to His people for the building of His Kingdom. We are this small rock that is hitting the statue of the heathen nations at the feet and causing it to fall. HAGGAI 2:6-9 says, This is what the Lord Almighty says: In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. I will shake all nations, and the Desired of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with Glory, says the Lord Almighty. The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine, declares the Lord Almighty. The Glory of this present house will be greater than the Glory of the former house, says the Lord Almighty. And in this place I will grant peace. Yes, there will be shakings and clashes of kingdoms, but in the midst of it all, Gods people will begin and continue to build Gods Kingdom just like Ezra rebuilt the Temple and Nehemiah rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem in the midst of great persecution. Just as Jesus prophesied in MATTHEW 11:12, From the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it. Again, DANIEL 2:34-35 is beginning to happen and we are that small rock that was cut not by human hands. While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the same time and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth. Despite the fact that the rock starts small, because the word really means a small stone, and despite the fact that Gods people are advancing the Kingdom of God in the midst of violence and turmoil, the rock is eventually able to break all the powerful heathen nations into pieces and make them like chaff, which will be completely swept by the wind when Jesus comes in power. But that rock or small stone, will become a huge mountain (government) that will fill the whole earth. ISAIAH 9:7 says, Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on Davids throne and over his Kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. HALLELUJAH!!! Brother and Sisters, The hour has come for us to wake up from our slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over; the day is almost here (ROMANS 13:11-12). Let us answer the trumpet call of our Lord to advance His Kingdom into every area of society. Let us enforce the victory that our Lord Jesus Christ has given us. Let us reclaim and restore everything that was lost through sin but which the Lord has already redeemed for us. Let us take back from the enemy what rightfully belongs to us but which he unlawfully refuses to surrender. It is time that we legally enforce the restoration of everything that belongs to us. ALL GLORY, POWER, AND HONOR BELONG TO YOU, ALMIGHTY GOD!!!
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:14:48 +0000