Victory Life KY

Kingdom Culture

Episode Summary

As citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, heirs to the throne, ambassadors for Jesus, our assignment is taking the culture of the kingdom everywhere we go.

Episode Notes

• Colossians 1:11-13,NLT- We also pray that you will be strengthened with all His glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. 
• May you be filled with joy, always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to His people, who live in the light. 
• For He has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of His dear Son.

• As citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, heirs to the throne, ambassadors for Jesus, our assignment is taking the culture of the kingdom everywhere we go.

• But here’s the thing, possibly one of the biggest challenges the born again face isn’t so much the powers of the kingdom of darkness,  it our refusal to embrace the world we’re born of, embracing a way of living that is beyond humanity. 

• Listen to Paul’s words again, He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to His people, who live in the light. 

• Make no mistake, comprehending all that Christ has made available for His people demands a new paradigm, the Kingdom of Heaven can only be accessed by faith.

• Philippians 3:17-20,NLT- Dear brothers and sisters, pattern your lives after mine, and learn from those who follow our example. 
• For I have told you often before, and I say it again with tears in my eyes, that there are many whose conduct shows they are really enemies of the cross of Christ. 
• They are headed for destruction. Their god is their appetite, they brag about shameful things, and they think only about this life here on earth. 
• But we are citizens of Heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for Him to return as our Savior.

• Here’s my prayer, that we inspire and equip our next generation in discovering their life in the Kingdom of Heaven.

• As we dig into our talk, a key principle in understanding the Kingdom is to not think geographical, but be open to multidimensional thinking.

• In Luke 17, Jesus tells us, “Indeed, the Kingdom of God is within you.”

• Let’s lay some foundation as we unpack our talk. Genesis introduces God’s beginning of what we know as our physical world.

• In Genesis 1, God says, let’s make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over all the earth.

• Psalm 115, The heavens are the Lord’s, but the earth He has given to the children of men.

• Gen. 1:26, Let Us make (asa) man in Our image.
• Gen.1:27, God created (bara) man in His own image.
• Asa- to make out of something already existing.
• Bara- to create out of nothing natural.

• The invisible taking on the visible. Adam was 100% spirit and human.
• Jesus, the last Adam 100% spirit and human.

• What’s really interesting is that this word, man in Genesis 1 literally means spirit species. The nature and essence of God Himself.

• “Let them have dominion” is the fundamental principle of the Kingdom of God into this visible world God gave  His creation.

• Adam was the first royal representative of the Kingdom of Heaven, places in charge of this world.

• This is why the angels of Heaven asked God, “What is this man you created like you?”

• The NT calls Jesus the last Adam because He came to restore all that Adam lost through his rebellion  against the Kingdom of Heaven.

• And because of Adam’s position, when he accepted satan’s temptation he abandoned his royal position as well as his dominion.

• This is why Colossians is so powerful, God has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of His dear Son.

• One of Jesus’ primary objectives was restoring God’s original creation to his God ordained position.

• A reality many of us have the tendency to let slip is the fact that the Kingdom of Heaven is designed for complete reliance on the King.

• Remember Psalm 115, The heavens are the Lord’s, but the earth He has given to the children of men. 
• God put man in authority over the earth.

• Kingdom of Heaven principles aren’t even legal here without an heir of the Kingdom exercising dominion.

• Galatians 4:6-7,NKJV- “And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.”

• 4:1, Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all.

• Bottom line, if we’re ever going to live supernatural, we’ve got to start talking and thinking supernatural.

• Romans 8 tells us that we are predestined to be conformed to the image of Christ.

• God wants to distinguish you! (Esther)

• But according to the apostle James, we cannot continue living a double minded life.
• Another way to say it would be, double Kingdom.

• Romans teaches us that the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
• This is why a human has to be born again.
• John 3:3,NKJV- “Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

• 1 Corinthians 15:45-49,NKJV- “And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 
• However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. 
• The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. 
• As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. 
• And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.”