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· 8 viewsThere are two Kingdoms. Are you apart of Gods Nation or Satans?
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Introduction:
Introduction:
During this series of the Kingdom Agenda, I hope you understand how the Individual must be rooted in God, because the individual impacts the family, and the family impacts the Church.
But the Church exists to impact the Nations.
You see in government there is the entity of the Embassy. The Embassy of any government is located on the foreign soil of another government. The Embassy represents a little taste of home to those who are Ambassadors to the foreign country. The visible Church is to represent the invisible Kingdom of God on Earth for the purpose of advancing the the Will of God.
There is the the competing system of Satan. “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places ().”
This other Kingdom is physically and spiritually represented.
Satan is the ruler of this physical realm (; ). And he has implemented systems satiate your temporal desires, to help you find pride in your person and look on temporal things.
This Philosophy is a lie from Satan set to try and keep the Gospel at bay, to prevent mankind from turning to God.
God is the creator of Government
Government was never to operate outside of Him
Define Religion: An institutionalized system of religious beliefs and practice
Define Politics: from the Greek word politikos meaning affairs of the people. A person’s political allegiances or opinions.
The Christian life can not be compartmentalized. You either belong to one Nation or the other.
A house divided will not stand
“He who comes to a fork in the road and goes both directions splits his pants.”
Define Nation: Nation is does not mean
There are to Kingdoms that exist The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Satan
What Nation do you belong to?
Background (Philippians):
Background (Philippians):
Originally a Greek colony
named after Philip of Macedon
Rome defeated the Greeks and made it a Roman colony.
in 42 BC, Brutus and Cassius (Killed Julius Caesar) were defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian (Emperor Augustus).
You had Roman citizenship, property rights and legal rights. No poll or land tax
In return they pledged allegiance to the Roman Emperor’s authority in both government and religion.
Citizens of Phillipi were at the same time citizens of the city of Rome.
Those in control of this region were emphatically Roman and spoke Latin (aristocracy)
While the majority of the population (Thracians and Greeks) were farmers, skilled trades, slaves and merchants who spoke Greek.
The Thracians were and native to these land and there names were not listed anywhere in any public or funerary inscriptions.
The Thracian people were reduced to villages and mountainous regions.
They were the underclass and could only obtain citizenship if they had the money to purchase it.
Roman citizenship, language, culture and pagan religion were dominant when Paul wrote this letter.
Two Nations/Kingdoms
Two Nations/Kingdoms
1 Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. 2 It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. 4 They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
It is important to recognize that there are two Kingdoms
Gen 11:1-
Kingdom means:
a ruler and his reign
his activity
realm
benefits
It is a reign or dominion of God, Satan, or human leaders.
History of the two Kingdoms: Satan, Adam, and the rest of humanity.
The Kingdom of Sin (Ruler is Satan)
44 “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:
grounded in Pride (Satan looked at himself and man looked at himself)
The Kingdom of Salvation (Ruled by God)
God’s ultimate reign of the Universe; Present spiritual reign of His people; Future messianic reign on earth.
purpose is to save a people for himself and renew the world for that people.
His rule implies saving and redeeming on behalf of the people.
The coming of this Kingdom is called good news.
This Kingdom of Satan is rooted in sin
“Nation” has nothing to do with physical boundaries but with the people .“Ethnos”
In Adam we all were united in death
But if you be a Christian, God changed your nationality by calling a people to himself.
2 And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing;
Genesis 12
6 “For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
This morning I want to discuss your Nationality! What nation or what people do you belong to?
Paul provides the marks of a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven.
A New Walk
A New Walk
5 The Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 The Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. 7 “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:
17 Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us.
Sinful man has a propensity to turn his back on G
Philippians 3:17
Don Schulas: Lemon, towel and water
Adam hid in the Garden ()
Paul stated follow me as I follow Christ ()
15 So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word of mouth or by letter from us.
Paul could be imitated based on whom he followed.
Paul is saying follow me as long as my life corresponds with Christ.
The People called by God wanted a King
Look at others who walk like Christ and emulate
4 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters; 5 but to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but the Lord had closed her womb.
4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah; 5 and they said to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations.”
1 Samuel 1:8
1 Samuel 8:4-5
Walking refers to living a life that is rooted in Christ.
God would rather is vile that he would rather have another perditious man than to have a perfect God.
A New Agenda
A New Agenda
Fast forward to today.
18 For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.
Philippians 3:18
There are those who are anti-God
God
They believed error and practiced it “walk” means ongoing.
enemies of the Cross.
There are physical enemies and Philosophical enemies of the Cross.
We live in a hostile world
Your faith will be challenged
My Professor use to always say that the ruler of this world Satan uses the ideas of Nietszche, Freud and Darwin. Frued’s over sexualized view of the world, Darwin’s evolutionary change in the world, and Nietszche fatalistic view of the world.
Are we as jealous over the Cross as Paul was?
Do we do you tolerate heresy or false doctrines attributed to Christ.
Christianity is being politicized and used for any means necessary today.
Paul wept over false doctrinal matters.
He also knew that eternal destruction was the consequence
9 These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,
“whose god is their appetite”
Most of the views and philosophies of today are all based on personal desires (Earthly and temporary things.)
“Whose glory is their shame”
11 Symptoms of Final Decay Observable in the Fall of both Greece and Rome
No Fault Divorce
Birth/Death: Increased disrespect of Parenthood and parents
Meaningless marriage rites/ceremonies
Defamation of past national heroes
Acceptance of alternative marriage forms
Widespread attitudes of feminism, narcissism, and hedonism.
Propagation of anti-family sentiment
Acceptance of most forms of adultery.
Rebellious children
Increased juvenile delinquency
Common acceptance of all forms of perversion
Dr. Carl Zimmerman “Family and Civilization”
We live in a world that flaunts their vileness
20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
The world boasts of: Homosexuality, Abortion, Adultery, Prejudice, Divorce, Cohabitation,Transgendering, and drinking.
All of the insatiable appetites and braggadocio are rooted in the temporary.
People act as if they will live unscathed on earth forever without consequence.
14 Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
A New Home
A New Home
20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
Philippians
“Our citizenship is in Heaven”
The Philippians would have understood this as they were citizens of Philippi and Rome.
Christians are residents of Earth but citizens of Heaven
Embassy/Ambassador analogy
20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
We being Ambassadors announce the end of democracy (rule of the people)
We announce the Monarchy and Theocracy of Jesus Christ
We are aliens and strangers.
Satan thought he had the Church by placing Paul in Prison.
instead of stop the church he spread the church
Everywhere the believers went a little colony of heaven went, along with the Gospel
You have been Saved out of this world, Sent back in this world, to Witness to this World, and thats the only business in the World you have in the World!
You duty is tell a Hellish World about Holy Christ who died to save them!
We are citizens of Heaven and residents of Earth as Ambassadors on foreign soil for our King!
11 Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.
A New Hope
A New Hope
21 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.
Phili[pians 3:21
This is not a wish. We look confidently to the return of our Savior.
The returning Christ will conform our bodies to His glorious body.
And this old world will be all subject to Christ
10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
Philippians 2:10
Conclusion
Conclusion
Conclusion
Conclusion
The Goal is to belong to Christ’s nation
We are in the world but not of it. Don’t settle down! There is no Dual citizenship!
We are Saints sorjourning, foreigners, aliens this is not our home. We are passing through.
We are not citizens of earth trying to get to Heaven
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,
If we are apart of His ethnos, we will walk as he walked
2 and the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us—
6 Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
And if we walk like he walked we will live where Christ lives.
We are not citizens of earth trying to get to Heaven.
6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
A Pastor was preaching on going to heaven. He said, “How many of you would like to go to Heaven tonight?” And everybody raised there hand but a little boy in the balcony. He tried again, “How many of you would like to go to heaven?” Everybody but that little fellow in the balcony. So he said to him, “Son, don’t you want to go to heaven?” The little boy said, “Yeah, someday, but I thought you were gettin’ up a load right now.”
Many here today want to go to heaven but don’t know how to get there or how long it takes.
You get their by receiving Christ as Lord and Savior.
You will be there as soon as you accept Him.
God’s Kingdom is universal, present, and future
