Victory Life KY

Kingdom Culture IV

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. 
• He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed (transferred) us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.

• 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.

• Make no mistake, God has an assignment for every one of us, but absolutely requires that we be governed by His system, not the one of this world.

• This is why Jesus made such radical statements like, “whoever loses his life for Me with find it.” “Take up your cross and follow Me.” But one of the greatest lessons the early disciples teach us is their unwavering trust and expectation that had in Jesus.

• I realize keeping the Kingdom of Heaven first place in our lives can be very challenging and this is why having an eternal perspective is crucial.

• 2 Peter 3:8,NKJV- “Beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
• 1000 years = 24 hours
• 500 years = 12 hours
• 250 years = 6 hours
• 125 years = 3 hours
• 72.5 years = 1.5 hours
• 36 years = 45 minutes

• This is why James tells us that our life here on earth is like the morning fog.

• So let today’s talk remind all of us that according to Jesus, “The time is at hand” God’s plan from the beginning was for His will to be done on earth like is in heaven.

• A major key to this reality is a consistent understanding that it’s 100% Christ in us manifesting His Kingdom.

• Isaiah makes it very clear it will be the Anointed One and His Anointing that destroys the yoke. That manifest through each of us. Like Esther, God set her up. What about Joseph? What about you?

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

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

• The seed can be working and we not see the fruit of it yet.

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

• 1 Corinthians 3:6,NKJV, I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 

• And according to God, every seed produces after it’s own kind.

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

• Remember last week we made this statement, it will be the quality of our intake that determines our output. So when we go to the word, let’s practice going with a little humble expectation.

• The challenge for most of us is that we spend the bulk of our time investing in the natural man.

• 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.

• Because at the end of the day, everyone of us go in the direction of our most dominate thoughts.

• The Kingdom of Heaven is of another dimension, it’s 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. Seed!

• 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 2:12,NLT- And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.”

• 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.

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

• But right believing and right speaking starts with right thinking. “As a man thinks...” The soul of a human is the governor of of our life. It consists of our mind and will, and it works in connection with our spirit.

• This means, thoughts are spiritual, and they are without a doubt the primary target of our enemy. Think about it, how many times did Jesus address issues with a person directly from their thoughts. Thoughts are seeds.

• And this is why James tells us 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.”

• John tells us, “As our soul prospers” so we have to ask ourselves, what’s the dominant influence in our soul.

• Develop some discipline in our thought life so we don’t drift. That we aren’t double-minded.

• Hebrews 2:1,MSG- It’s crucial that we keep a firm grip on what we’ve heard so that we don’t drift off. 

• Here’s the thing, we’ve seen the double-minded life from the beginning. It’s what the children of Israel did repeatedly, always looking at everything going on around them instead of trusting what God had told them.

• This is why the Holy Spirit tells us to learn from them, both what to do and what not to do.

• I cant help but wonder how many of us have been stuck in our wilderness, avoiding our assignment because we’ve grown comfortable with what were use too, or we simply don’t believe Him in the face of difficulties.

• The challenge with this thinking is that after getting use to not moving when God moves creates this entitlement way of manna thinking.

• Don’t let the uncertainties of today’s world paralyze you with the unknown. 
• It’s time for us to go into what God has for us! Let God disrupt your normal

• Deuteronomy 1:6&8,NKJV- The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.

• Remember Esther, God set her up. Make no mistake, you, we’ve been called to the Kingdom of Heaven for such a time as this. We are the seed God is planting right in the face of darkness.

• God is looking for believers that will stand right in the face of pandemic and uncertainty, without being discouraged, fearful, and especially angry and bitter, but unwaveringly confident in Jesus.

• Taking bold, God inspired, anointed steps of faith. Advancing the Kingdom of Heaven.

• Ephesians 6:10,NKJV- “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.”

• God would never have told us to be strong in His power if we couldn’t. As a matter of fact, according to 1 John, “Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.”

• The authority of the Kingdom has been delegated to the church, but unless exercised the kingdom of darkness will continue its influence.

• Matthew 8:7-10,NKJV- “And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.” 
• The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed. 
• For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it. ” 
• When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!”

• Romans 5:17,NKJV- “For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)”

• And this is why Jesus told us in John 14, “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.”