People of the Kingdom 4

Good morning and welcome to Kingdom fit online ministry.

Our vision is to evangelize equip and empower people to be fit for the Kingdom!

Recap:

The last couple weeks we’ve been talking about the

Priority of the Kingdom

Purpose of the Kingdom

Now:

People of the Kingdom

God has a 3 fold Purpose.

We started it with embassy:

The church in someway is an embassy of the kingdom of God. The people of God who are a part of the kingdom of God here on earth serve as a sort of embassy that transacts or represents the interest of our heavenly father here on earth.

A. Like the American Embassy stationed in other countries. They represent the country of origin.

B. As believers, We are here on earth but are ultimate allegiance is to another kingdom.

The kingdom of God is an earnest.

Ephesians 1:13,14

In Him, you also, when you heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation, and [as a result] believed in Him, were stamped with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit [the One promised by Christ] as owned and protected [by God].

The Spirit is the guarantee [the first installment, the pledge, a foretaste] of our inheritance until the redemption of God’s own [purchased] possession [His believers], to the praise of His glory.

A. The kingdom of God exist in two realms already and the not yet. It is here, and is it is coming. It has manifested itself, and manifesting itself, and will fully manifest itself at the consummation and the restoration of all things.

B. So what we are experiencing now is an earnest a down payment on what to come.

C. So we experience kingdom life, life the Kingsway to a degree upon salvation but the join the peace that we have now it’s just a down payment on what is to come with the restoration in a consummation of all things.

D. Understanding the kingdom is already and not yet helps us to give comfort and provide perspective for people who are wrestling with issues of the theodyssey good things happening to bad people.

E. We do not have the fullness of our inheritance so we still live in an imperfect world that functions imperfectly , and bad things happen to good people.

The kingdom of God is an exodus.

A. It is an exodus out of an inferior kingdom and superior way of life and an entrance into life as God intended.

B. This is the good news that Jesus preached about when he talked about Kingdom. The good news is there is a way of life that is far more superior, far more for fulfilling, far more flourishing, and far more fruitful then the way of life a person has been living previously.

C. The kingdom of God liberate humanity from an inferior kingdom. When a person enters the kingdom of God they are exiting out of an inferior kingdom.

This is what it means when we’re talking about salvation. Salvation gives us the capacity to live life as God intended. Salvation means to be;

•rescued

•delivered

•recovered!

God‘s way is not just right its better.

Romans 10:9,10

If you declare with your mouth Jesus is Lord [recognizing His power, authority, and majesty as God], and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

For with the heart a person believes [in Christ as Savior] resulting in his justification

[that is, being made righteous—being freed of the guilt of sin and made acceptable to God]; and with the mouth he acknowledges and confesses [his/her faith openly], resulting in and confirming [his] salvation.

This scripture teaches us that authentic salvation requires that our heart and our mouth are in agreement with this undeniable fact; we need a relationship with God.

This agreement we must declare specifically that Jesus is Lord because in order for God to save your life he has to lead it.

Ex: dear Lord Jesus come to my heart forgive me my sins I accept you as Lord and Savior of my life I believe that you died and rose again sitting at the right hand of God the father sending the Holy Spirit into my life so that my spirit is born again renewed in your image and likeness so that can be more like you.

Salvation is not a destination is a door to a new life under new management.

God can’t really save your life unless you let him lead it.

So why is salvation so important?

Salvation brings us in into the right relationship with God.

Sin separates us from God.

So God saves us from sin:

The problem of sin, impulses that are self-destructive. This means that even though we have them, they no longer have us.

We now have the power to resist this flawed nature.

The penalty of sin, distance between us and God. Isaiah 59; 2 but your iniquities have separated you from God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that so that he will not hear.

Ex:

Like in the book of Exodus The people of God was in bondage, slavery and was inferior to the Egyptians.

D. This exodus out of an inferior kingdom is something that the Scriptures calls repentance.

E. You can have access to a different way of life a way of life that is consistent with your creators intent.

F. Repent means change of mind that result in a change of direction it’s literally a U-turn.

Repentance does not mean apology; repentance means an adjustment. Repentance has fruit. Matthew 3;8 golly sorrows brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow springs death. Repentance is an act of faith that says I believe what I am turning toward is greater than what I’m turning from. The kingdom of God is not just verbal proclamation it is visibly demonstrated. Gods rule reign over everything and so things like exorcism and healing and all that were in the expression of the rule in the reign of God. The gospel Has to be embodied before it’s transmitted. You can be a Christian in this life and not live the kingdom life.