Sermon Tone Analysis

Outside of Salvation where Christ dies for us in order that we might be saved through faith in the person and work of Christ on our behalf, is the event that at the point of being born again we receive as our permanent companion and mentor the third person of Godhead, who indwells the soul of every Church age believer.

He is not a lesser being but one who is equal with the Father and God the Son and it is He who is sent to us to empower our spiritual lives, convict us when we are walking in disobedience, teaches us all things even the deep things of God, trains us in the ways of Royalty as we are the Sons of the living God in Christ.

Our Success in reaching the objective of the spiritual life, that is spiritual maturity, the fullness of Christ, is solely dependent upon our complete surrender to our mentor and teacher which is the Holy Spirit.

The title of this Sermon is the Royal Family

The theme of this sermon is to enlighten the Christian to who he and she is in Christ as royal family to God in order to come to understand the Holy Spirit’s role in our lives.

Opening Hymn: Come fount of every blessing.

And remain standing for the opening prayer.

The Rebellion

The Rebellion did not start with Man.

It started with Satan in eternity past.

The prince of the God haters is the author of confusion up to this very day.

The rebellion in this world is the work of Satan.

It was in Satan’s exercise of choice to bring man down from the lofty place that God had placed man when God made Man ruler over this earth.

Sin brought man into Satan’s rebellion and put man in the chains and into the slave market of sin.

The evil in this world is orchestrated on one level by man, yes.

But there is a far more powerful and sinister agency at work, than us and those names that we hear spoken by the media, who are but Satan’s willing accomplices.

And while we might not think that God is at work because of the current condition of the world, it is not God who is on the ropes.

it is Satan who is trying to hold back the invading light that is disrupting his own work and reversing everything that the evil one has worked so hard to accomplish.

When Adam was lured into sin against God, Adam became accountable to God and did and does suffer the consequences and at that moment of sin, Satan and his minions filled the void of rulership that man had left open.

At that point, man is taken in as captive and placed into the slave market of sin.

Note this.

When a nation was conquered there were those who from the conquered nation who were tortured and killed while those who were let alive became slaves to the conquering nation.

When Satan won his victory man became his slave.

Some joyously and others grudgingly but none the less slaves.

John 12:31 (NASB95) — 31 “Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

John 16:11 (NASB95) — 11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

2 Corinthians 4:4 (NASB95) — 4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Ephesians 2:2 (NASB95) — 2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.

1.

What is the origin of the rebellion?

2. What role did man have in God’s creation?

3. What verse describes man’s role?

4. Who became the ruler of the dominion after the fall of Adam?

The Spiritual Reset

History is moving forward.

What God had purposed from the beginning is being reinstated.

Everything that Satan, the Lord of this dark world was seeking to accomplish, is being reversed and by the time that the Lord is through, there will not be a single accomplishment that Satan can brag about while spending 1000 years in the Abyss and then forever in the lake of fire.

The reversal began with the Lord’s victory at the cross, and his resurrection.

It was throughout the Tanakh (Old Testament) history the stage.

Jesus had accomplished that which Adam had failed to do.

The first Adam had but one test of His loyalty to God His creator.

Jesus the Last Adam the reinstated ruler, had much that he had to overcome to succeed in the Father’s will.

And He did victoriously.

Hebrews 4:15 (NASB95) — 15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.

Philippians 2:8 (NASB95) — 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Romans 5:19 (NASB95) — 19 For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.

Point of Doctrine:

1. Victory is found in allegiance to God.

2. Allegiance to God is demonstrated by obedience to God.

John 4:34 (NASB95) — 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.

It was after the baptism and the wilderness testing, that the Lord began to call his disciples.

A disciple is a learner.

There are tiers of learners.

There are those disciples who are casual learners, taking in the milk of God’s word but never really coming to a workable knowledge (epignosis) of the truth.

There is the adolescent learner, Learning and growing as one goes through life and is occupied with the details of life.

and then there were those who are dedicated followers of Jesus, those whose lives are centered around God’s word in the pursuit of the Kingdom and God’s righteousness (Matthew 6:33).

To them life is about learning and growing and coming to live by God’s word.

Jesus’ inner core abandoned everything to follow Jesus.

1.

When did the great reset begin?

2. What is the term for the Old Testiment?

3. Who is the last Adam?

4. How is victory won within the spiritual life of the Christian?

5. What did Jesus say was his food in John 4:34

The 12 Disciples

These were the 12.

These were those whom Jesus spent an entire night to pray for prior to choosing them to be His disciples.

(Mark 3:13)

Jesus did not just choose the 12 to be His students or followers but chose them to be receive delegated leadership and those who will become Apostles who will lay the foundations of the Church.

They would be The Lord’s earthly leadership council; A council of kings you might say.

Not that the Lord needs a council, but he chooses to have one and more than one as he also has a heavenly council.

(Psalm 82:1;1 Kings 22:20-23)

Matthew 19:28 (NASB95) — 28 And Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

What about Judas?

Well, He did not follow in the regeneration, did he?

Paul on the other hand will.

1. Defined Disciples

2. How many disciples who were on the mount will rule over the tribes of Israel?

3. Who will not be included as a future ruler?

4. God choses to have an earthly council where else can we find that God has a council?

The giving of the Holy Spirit

To these 12, The Lord will breathe upon the 11 His spirit, given them the credentials that set them apart prior to the day of Pentecost.

Among other things the Holy Spirit will impower the 11 for intense needed prayer up to the day of Pentecost.

John 20:22 (NASB95) — 22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

There emerges a pattern here of all who rule within the administration of the Lord.

Prior to Jesus, the ancestral Father, King David was given the Holy Spirit.

1 Samuel 16:13 (NASB95) — 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward.

And Samuel arose and went to Ramah.

David will be resurrected and will have a future rulership role during the Millennial reign of Christ when the Lord’s earthly Kingdom is finally established.

Jeremiah 30:9 (NASB95) — 9 ‘But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

Ezekiel 34:23–24 (NASB95) — 23 “Then I will set over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them; he will feed them himself and be their shepherd.

24 “And I, the Lord, will be their God, and My servant David will be prince among them; I the Lord have spoken.

Yes, Jesus will rule over Israel and the world but here is a promise that it is David who will sit on the Throne in Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 37:24 (NASB95) — 24 “My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.

Ever wanted to meet with and talk with King David.

How funny is it that there are those skeptics that say that David was only a Mystical Character?

Well, When King David returns, he can deny that rumor himself.

David indwelt with the Holy Spirit will rule

Jesus indwelt with the Holy Spirit will rule

The Apostles indwelt with the Holy Spirit will rule

1.

Where did the Disciples receive power prior to Pentecost?

2. Who else in the bible received the Holy Spirit?