Kingdom Builders
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Preach, Prove, Protect
Preach, Prove, Protect
59 Then He said to another, “Follow Me.”
But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”
60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.”
61 And another also said, “Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.”
62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
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Remember Lot’s wife. Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
As men and leaders of our house we have a huge responsibility:
We take the trash out
We kill stink bugs and spider
When something goes wrong with our car my wife isn’t looking around for her headlamp to go check it out
If there’s noises outside of my house, I’m the one grabbing my scatter gun and going outside to check it out weather I feel like it or not
There’s a lot of weight that we carry as men in our society
Most of our natural worth as a man is determined by what kind of service you can offer to the world
A lot of what you do as a man you won’t receive a lot of honor for either
Jesus did everything correctly, set people free, healed the sick and raised the dead
They crucified him
You know what is My number one honor as a dad, when my kids make the right decision
We honor God by doing what he’s asking us to do
Love vs. Honor
3 Things we need to be about when it Comes to the Kingdom of God:
Preach, Prove and Protect The KINGDOM
Preach the Kingdom
Let the dead bury their own dead but you go and Preach the Kingdom
We’re all called to preach the kingdom
With our words and our actions we preach the kingdom
People have to know
18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
If you don’t know you’re specific calling start here
We preach the kingdom
2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”
We are in arms reach of people who need the kingdom
43 but He said to them, “I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent.”
MUST- IT’S NO OPTIONAL:
The heart of the Father is that the lost are found
Mandate
We have to have a heart that breaks for the city
WE don’t just talk about it we BE ABOUT IT
2. We Prove the Kingdom
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
That we may prove:
Colossians 1:13 says he has conveyed us into the Kingdom
He sets us in the kingdom but it’s up to us to establish it in our lives
This is probably the hardest of them to do
This is daily
Everything about this part you have to fight for
17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Roots are not easily removed:
This has to be buried deep inside of us
Concrete:
Agitate(vibrate) the concrete- removes air pockets, bonds better, becomes more structurally sound
Everything about the word is supposed:
to Agitate
shake up
remove all the impurities of your life
Remove the pockets in your mind that you keep holding onto that makes you unstable
That makes you capable of caving in
IT’s to remove every ounce of compromise in your life!
That not always easy but that’s why your a man
We have to know the Word of God so we can prove or establish it in our families:
We’re the head of the household for a reason
Are you ready to except that responsibility
Can you disciple your family?
Really Can you?
Well isn’t that the churches JOB?
Paul tells us in Ephesians 4 that I’m here for the equipping of the Saints
The church equips you to do your JOB
Only 28% of Christians attend church 1-2 times a month
The average school year is 180 days a year
Doest 24 days a year seem like a good enough emphasis on spiritual growth to you?
DO your Jobs dads:
IF all the woman’s ministries and kids ministries stopped in the church tomorrow would your relationship with God be enough to sustain them spiritually?
Young men that want to get married in here this should be a wake up call
It’s not just about having guilt free sex!
3. Protect it
12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
We are in violent opposition to an enemy that wants to steal the word:
15 And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.
18 Now these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word, 19 and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
A soon as God puts his hand on you, someone will raise their hand against you
We must protect not only what God has put in us
We must also protect what God is establishing through us
1 But it so happened, when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, that he was furious and very indignant, and mocked the Jews. 2 And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the heaps of rubbish—stones that are burned?”
3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Whatever they build, if even a fox goes up on it, he will break down their stone wall.”
When they decided to repair and establish which God had commended them to build People came out of the wood work to criticizes and destroy what they were doing
9 Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and because of them we set a watch against them day and night.
I don’t care what the enemy says about me:
I don’t care what the world says about my beliefs
I don’t care if the Bible is politically incorrect
I don’t care if you think it’s foolish
As for me and my House we will serve the LORD
I’d like to tell you that when adversity comes to the church it grows:
But more often than not what really happens is that the christians leave
People go somewhere they feel safer
I don’t blame them
But when light leaves there’s nothing left over but darkness
We need men more than ever that are going to stay and fight:
Where are the men at?
Some people in society are saying it’s hate speech to say you don’t want men in the woman’s restroom
Where are the MEN at?
Why are girls fighting against this?
Where are the dads?
13 Therefore I positioned men behind the lower parts of the wall, at the openings; and I set the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows. 14 And I looked, and arose and said to the nobles, to the leaders, and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”
The kingdom is worth fighting for:
The kingdom is worth protecting
18 This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, 19 having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck, 20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.
Believers who went against truth
Believers who taught people what they wanted to hear
Story about shipwreck
Some have rejected the Holy Spirit
Went against a good conscience
I know its hard fighting:
I know it’s hard not being accepted
I know it’s hard not blending in
Not being asked to hang out anymore
It’s hard to have controversial views
It’s hard to stand up in the face of adversity
But what other choice do you have?
Preach, Prove and Protect the Kimgdom
Pray