Victory Life KY

Kingdom Culture III

Episode Summary

Our assignment is taking the culture of the kingdom everywhere we go.

Episode Notes

• Colossians 1:12-13,NKJV- Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 
• Qualified- made competent, sufficient, and authorized.
• He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed (transferred) us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.

• And in chapter 2, He disarmed the powers of darkness and made a public spectacle of them.

• Jesus will have a group of believers that will embrace their new covenant assignment.

• They will have a working knowledge of the world of the spirit.
• 1 Corinthians 1, Paul reminds us that God has chosen the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are so that no flesh can glory in His presence.

• This is why developing a life of faith is absolutely vital, it’s the only way into that world.

• The minute we give our lives to Christ some very significant changes happen;
• We become a brand new creation
• We become citizens of the Kingdom 
• We become heirs of the Kingdom
• We become ambassadors for the Kingdom 

• Our assignment is taking the culture of the kingdom everywhere we go.

• And this is why Jesus told us to pray His Kingdom come, His will be done.

• Then He takes it a step further by telling is to seek the kingdom of Heaven above all else.

• Matthew 6:33,NLT- “Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.”

• MSG- Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met. Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now.

• Remember, the heir, as long as he remains childish is no different than a slave.

• This is why it’s absolutely vital that we’ve got to have a clear understanding of who we are as people of God.

• Here’s the thing, whenever you hear something from God’s word that doesn’t fit your thinking or believing, instead of just rejecting it, ask God to elevate your thinking to match His word.

• C’mon guys, we’re the created. Which means we don’t serve our King by trying to figure out everything about His ways, but through faith, we serve Him, simply by trusting His way is right.

• In Mark 1, when Jesus started His earthly ministry, one of the first things He did was preach the gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven.

• His disciples asked Him, what’s the Kingdom of God like? And Jesus goes right in to the parable of the sower.

• Matthew 13:24,NKJV- “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.”

• Luke 8:11,NKJV-“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.”

• Every aspect of the Kingdom of Heaven works according to this principle of sowing seed;
• The gospel, love, kindness, healing, prosperity, etc...

• Genesis tells us that as long as the earth remains, seed time and harvest will be in effect.

• Galatians 6:7,NKJV- “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.”

• The moment we give our life to Christ, we actually become seed our Father plants in the earth with an assignment.

• 1 Corinthians 3:6-8,NKJV, I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 
• So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 
• Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

• Let’s keep in mind, the things of the Kingdom of Heaven are design to function in a different dimension.

• But the tendency of humanity is to think faith can be accessed and managed by human intelligence.

• Remember, Jesus told us the Kingdom of Heaven is like someone sowed a seed.

• And according to God, every seed produces after it’s own kind. It’s God who gives the increase.

• Think about it, we don’t have to know how tomatoes grow to enjoy tomatoes.

• 1 Peter 1 tells us that we’ve been born of incorruptible seed through the word of God.

• In Luke 17, Jesus told us that the Kingdom of God doesn’t come through visible signs, He said the Kingdom of God is within you.

• Ultimately, God’s Kingdom is spiritual in its reality, it’s other dimensional. 

• And if we’re ever going to experience things of the Kingdom, of the supernatural, we’re going to have start thinking and talking supernatural.

• The Kingdom of Heaven is a place that cannot be managed by human intelligence.

• Since everything pertaining to the Kingdom is already in the born again, everything we’ve been created and called to be is in us, in our spirit.

• You see, God inspired faith comes from His word. His word is seed sown into His creation.

• Keep this in mind, we’re not built to base our believing on our human experiences, but on what our God says we are and what we can do.

• 1 Corinthians 2:10-12,NLT- It was to us that God revealed these things by His Spirit. For His Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets. 
• No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit. 
• And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.”

• As ambassadors, as heirs to the Kingdom, we’re suppose to be operating at a higher level than the rest of the world,

• But until the seed of this truth is sown  into our soul, it all remains a mystery.

• Remember, Jesus told us the Kingdom of Heaven is like someone sowed a seed.

• The Kingdom of God is in us and it’s brought into this realm through believing and speaking.

• Here’s the deal, we cannot continue to live double-minded and expect to function in a different reality.

• James 1:7-8,MSG- If you don’t know what you’re doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You’ll get His help, and won’t be condescended to when you ask for it. 
• Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought. People who “worry their prayers” are like wind-whipped waves. 
• Don’t think you’re going to get anything from the Master that way, adrift at sea, keeping all your options open.”

• This is why in Philippians Paul reminds us that it’s our responsibility to manage our mind.

• Make your mind available to God.

• The quality of our output is in direct proportion to our input.

• We are the seed of Abraham. Sown by our Father into a world desperate for the same blessing Abraham had on him.

• Truth is, from the garden, God’s purpose hasn’t changed, He’s still introducing His Kingdom to His creation.

• God plants the righteous among the wicked, the fallen, for one reason.

• His Kingdom come, His will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.