The Priority of the Kingdom

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The Priority of the Kingdom

• How important is the Kingdom of God? It is so
  important that our lives depend on it, lirerally.
  The Kingdom of God is at the center of
  everything. God's every action and activity is
  motivated by His desire and passion to see His
  Kingdom established on the earth.
• How important to the Body of Christ is the
  message of the Kingdom? Frankly, we have nothing
  else to preach but the Kingdom. If we are doing
  our job, everything we are about will be Kingdom
  focused.
• The Kingdom of God must be our highest priority
  Jesus gave us no other commission than to go and
  establish and preach the good news of the
  Kingdom. (Matt 2819)
• See we all live in two worlds a visible
  physical world that engages our five senses, and
  a invisible spiritual world. We are not natural
  having a spiritual experience but we are spirit
  having a natural experience.
• The spiritual world is more real than the
  natural. First we see that the spiritual realm is
  larger than the physical and secondly we see that
  the spiritual is the realm from which the
  physical world originated.

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• In other words the principle is that the
  invisible produced the visible. See all things
  were created from the mind of a powerful Maker.
• Col 116 'For by him were all things created,
  that are in heaven, and that are in earth,
  visible and invisible, whether they be thrones,
  or dominions, or principalities, or powers all
  things were created by him, and for him'
• Therefore the physical world reflects the
  spiritual world from which it came. Whatever we
  see in the physical world has a corresponding
  greater reality in the spiritual.
• 2Co 416-18 'For this reason we never become
  discouraged. Even though our physical being is
  gradually decaying, yet our spiritual being is
  renewed day after day. And this small and
  temporary trouble we suffer will bring us a
  tremendous and eternal glory, much greater than
  the trouble. For we fix our attention, not on
  things that are seen, but on things that are
  unseen. What can be seen lasts only for a time,
  but what cannot be seen lasts forever'
• See God's purpose for creating the visible was to
  establish His invisible Kingdom in it. For this
  reason He created man in His own image. He
  created man with the capacity to communicate with
  both the spiritual and the physical realm.

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• See God created us as spiritual beings and put on
  us physical bodies placed us in a visible world
  and gave the order 'go and have dominion over
  this created world'. In this way, God planned for
  us to rule and exercise control over the earth in
  His name.
• Gen 126 'and God said, Let us make man in our
  image, after our likeness and let them have
  dominion...'
• Through us His rule of the heavenly Kingdom would
  be extended over earth. We were created as
  administrators of God's Kingdom on earth.
• Adam was the first the prototype. Next came Eve
  who ruled with Adam as a helper and equal
  partner. They disobeyed God and thereby forfeited
  their Kingdom rights. Satan illegally usurped the
  throne that they abdicated, wreaking havoc ever
  since in the hearts and lives of people
  everywhere in every generation.
• But then God sent Jesus to undo the curse
  brought upon mankind by the first Adam. See what
  the first Adam, the son of disobedience lost, the
  last Adam, the Son of obedience restored.
• Adam lost the Kingdom Jesus restored the
  Kingdom. And ever since Adam's fall God has been
  executing His plan to restore mankind to his
  place of dominion.

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• 1Co 1520-22 45 'But the truth is that Christ
  has been raised from death, as the guarantee that
  those who sleep in death will also be raised. For
  just as death came by means of a man, in the same
  way the rising from death comes by means of a
  man. For just as all people die because of their
  union with Adam, in the same way all will be
  raised to life because of their union with
  Christ. For the scripture says, "The first man,
  Adam, was created a living being" but the last
  Adam is the life-giving Spirit'
• God announced His plan for man's restoration in
  the same chapter that describes man's fall. God
  said to the snake
• Gen 315 'I will make you and the woman hate each
  other her offspring and yours will always be
  enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and
  you will bite her offspring's heel'
• Here the word head stands for authority. By their
  failure to stand up to satan and use their
  Kingdom authority to defeat him, Adam and Eve
  lost that authority.
• But Prophetically God announces a day that would
  come when another would arise, an offspring and
  descendant of the woman who would crush satan's
  authority, take back the power he stole and
  restore the scepter of earth's domain to man.
  That offspring was Jesus Christ.

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• And everything Jesus did in His earthly ministry
  healing the sick, raising the dead, casting out
  demons and calming storms He did under His
  authority as the Son of Man.
• See by design God gave dominion of the earth to
  the Son of man.
• Joh 114 'And the Word became flesh and
  tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory,
  glory as of an only begotten from the Father,
  full of grace and of truth'
• See Jesus was the Son of God but he took upon
  himself flesh and he tabernacled among us so that
  today we can also call him the Son of man. And in
  his humanity He had no inherent advantages over
  us.
• Many tend to assume that because He was the Son
  of God in the flesh, Jesus was better equipped
  than we are. This is not so. Jesus had the same
  human stuff we do. He had a physical body that
  got tired and knew pain. He needed regular rest
  just as we do. He got hungry and needed food, and
  thirsty and needed drink.
• He faced the same temptations, yet never fell
  into sin. He operated under the power of the Holy
  Spirit and later gave that same Spirit to us. See
  in everything He did He claimed His authority as
  the Son of Man and not as the Son of God.

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• Now what does this mean to us? Because we are
  created from and designed with the same stuff, we
  have the same authority on earth. In Christ, we
  are authoritative on earth because we are human,
  just as He was.
• See the problem is that we don't know who we are.
  We have become a kingdom of ignorant kings
  ignorant of our identity, ability, power and
  authority.
• Like the prodigal son we sit in the mud and
  stench of the pigsty, nibbling on dry corn husks,
  never lifting the eyes of our spirits to behold
  the riches of our Father's estate that are ours
  if we will only reach out and claim them.
• Our greatest enemy today is neither satan nor
  sin, because Jesus defeated both at the cross.
  Power is not the problem either. We have power.
  That is why God does not send power to fix our
  problems. Our greatest enemy is ignorance.
• As long as we live in satans darkness, we will
  never know that we are prisoners in our own
  territory, slaves of an illegal ruler. Because we
  don't realize the power we have, we allow satan
  to run our lives, ravagaing our bodies with
  sickness, draining our finances, destroying our
  marriages, messing up our kids with drugs and
  alcohol.

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• Jesus came to show us who we really are and to
  expose the enemy's false kingdom. See Jesus came
  to introduce us to ourselves and to call us to
  become the people God always knew we could be.
• Dan 718 'But the saints of the Most High shall
  receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom
  forever, even forever and ever'
• We have Kingdom authotity, and the Lord wants us
  to live it. God is waiting on us to move into or
  to receive the Kingdom, because therein lies
  blessing and power and purpose and promise.
• The choice is ours. It is a matter of maturing
  our Kingdom mentality, of learning to think,
  talk, and act like the royalty we are rather than
  like the slaves the devil has told us we are.
• We need to arise and exercise our God given
  authority, and reclaim conquered territory tha
  satan has stolen from us. It's all about taking
  the war right into the enemy's camp.
• A slave mentality simply rolls over and yields to
  the enemy's demands, assuming there is no other
  choice. Kingdom mentality faces the enemy square
  on and says, No way!