28th November 2021 - Teaching Service - Simon Chaffer - That's the Kingdom of God

So we're going to gather around the word. Now, Simon's going to come

and share with us. We're in our series around the Kingdom, the last

one on the Kingdom. So let me pray, and then Simon's going to

come and share with us. Father, we're hungry for your word today,

or if there's one thing we need, it's a word from you. And

so Father speak to us. As Simons laid down time and prepared and listened,

Father, I pray the Lord you'd bless him multiply the time that he's

given. Lord God, give back to him with strength and with purpose and

with blessing. Lord God, and Father, as we listen, let our

ears be open, our hearts be ready in Jesus' name, Amen, Simon

Funny. So the title of this this measures this morning is a righteousness,

peace, joy in the Holy Holy Ghost. That's the Kingdom of God.

So let's pray show we do welcome you this this morning. Please take what

I've got here and what I've got in here and release it to build up

other people, though, who are going to listen to it here, go

to it later. I'm going to online in Jesus name. And so a

very familiar scripture is Matthew six, nine through ten. I'm reading from the

New King James version of the Bible. You can see the light, and

if you can see it, okay, in this manner, therefore, pray

our Father in heaven, hallow would be your name, Your Kingdom come,

Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And just a

very familiar scripture, very familiar scripture. Whether you've been any any church,

you've been to a few, and if you're in church, you probably know

those first sentence of the model prayer you should recorded in Matthew six. And

today we're going to have a look. We're going to do a build a

bit of a foundation before talk about what we need to talk about this morning.

I think it's important to note this is a model player that Jesus is

praying, and after he hallows his father, helloed be your name m hm,

he says, your Kingdom come, you all will be done on earth

as it is in heaven. So we could say your Kingdom come, You'll

be done on earth as it is in heaven. In my life, in

your life, we could even say your Kingdom come, Your perfect will be

done in earth as it is in heaven because God's will is perfect. God

is without flaw, is without spot, is without wrinkle. He is perfect.

So it could say, your Kingdom Come, You're perfectly done in earth

as it in heaven, over my life, over your life, over my

family, over this nation. We have the ability and we have the authority

to declare this in Jesus' name, over our family, over our lives,

and over our nation, and to believe for a manifestation of the Kingdom of

God on earth as it is in heaven. You know licenses of choices,

and sometimes we can make the right choice, sometimes we can make the wrong

choices. If we pray this prayer, your Kingdom Come, You're perfect well

being on earth and on earth as it is in Heaven, over our lives.

That allows the Holy Spirit to work in our lives and position and to

align us in God's perfect will for us. Even if we make a mistake,

God can correct that mistake after we've also repented and put us in the

right position so that we are fulfilling His perfect will on earth as it is

in heaven. Things in life happen doesn't mean that God negates his perfect will

for our lives. Jeremiah one five says, before I formed you in the

womb, I knew you before you were born. I sanctified you, I

ordained you. In this case, Jeremiah was a prophet to the nations.

Okay, we could say, before I formed and put your name in there,

I knew you before you were born. I sanctified you, I ordained

you as a dot dot dot. Whatever gods are darned you to do,

this is, this is, this is. God is a god of plan.

God is the God of purpose. Doesn't do things randomly. M hm.

You could say, is the master planner, He's the master tactician.

It's something to work out. He does another plan, another plan. You

know. He is infinite in his planning skills to grow that way. So

God as a plan for you which he wants you to fulfill. And the

doorway for that plan is to enter into the Kingdom of God. H m

h m HM. Romans eight to ten says, but what does it say.

The word is near you in your mouth and in your heart, the

word of faith which we preach that if you confess with your mouth believe in

your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

It all starts with that connection, that initial connection, and then the

plan rolls forward. So you haven't connected with Jesus today, there's an opportunity

to connect with him by do it. You believe in your heart, confessed

with your mouth, that Jesus is the Lord. Ask him to take your

life and use it. I'm sure God can use your life and my life

as something more than we have planned by ourselves. If you roll your life

into his hands, then the journey begins and Jeremiah one and verse five can

become a reality in your life. He may not call you to be a

prophet to the nations. It doesn't matter what he calls you to do.

What matters is that you do what He has planned and purposed for you.

Ephesians one four through to six, and the New King James Versions says,

this is Paul speaking just as He chose you before the foundation of the world.

Notice, just as He chose you, that's you and me before the

foundation of the world, that we should behold it and without blame before him

in love, having predestined us to the adoption of sons by Jesus Christ to

himself according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise and the

glory of His grace by which he made us acceptable in the beloved. So

notice he chose us before the foundation of the world. He predestined us in

the words plan and purpose. Plan and purpose. God is the plan and

purpose for you. When you pray your kingdom cut your perfect will. We

do on earth, and this is in heaven over your life that aligns you

with His plan and his purpose. We're only here for one hundred and twenty

years if you don't die of something, so we need to make the time

count. He turns it a long time. One hundred and twenty yards is

nothing. Jian one seven twelve says in him we have the redemption, or

have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches

of his grace, which he made to a bound towards us in all wisdom

and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of his will, according

to his good pleasure, which he purposed in himself, that in the dispensation

of the fullness of time, he might gather together in all in one all

things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth.

Notice, which are in heaven and which are on earth in Him. In

Him we also have obtained an inheritance, been predestined according to the purpose of

Him who works all things according to the council of his Will, that we

who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. That's

if Agian's one seven to twelve. Notice he predestined according to the purpose of

Him who works all things in awe to the council of his Will, as

a plan and a purpose. Nothing just happens, Nothing just happens. He

knew us before the foundation of the world. Hm. That's step one,

that square one. That's where it all starts for everybody. That's the beginning

in Jesus, at the beginning of the word, and the word was God,

which is correct. But each individual has a starting point, and our

starting point is when we accept Him and we enter into this glorious plan that

it has for us. He's designed a way for us to live as we

fulfill his plan, as to fulfill his purpose, as to fulfill his design

for our lives. He designed a way for us to live. And the

Bible says that God's ways our ways, and we need to align ourselves with

God's ways. Of doing things and being right. God wants us to succeed

on every level of life, spiritually, physically, financially, socially, emotionally.

God succeed in those areas of our lives, but we need to align

ourselves with His plans and his purposes. It is not a pick and mix

and them as a kid go into the halfpenny news agents where you could pick

a little mouth, we could pick something else. You picked and mix and

you spend I don't know five pence which you've got a big batter sweet of

fivepence. It's not a pick a mix. In the Kingdom of God,

it's all or nothing. God's not pick a mix God when it comes to

plan and purpose. So today we want we want to touch on three significant

things in the Christian work. One of which we've actually touched on already was

a bit of a foundation. Paul speaking in Romans seventeen about fourteen and verse

seventeen, sorry new King James version, he was addressing an issue in the

church about eating and drinking and not called your brother or your sister to sin.

At the end of that discourse he said, for the Kingdom of God,

it's not a matter of eating and drinking of righteousness, peace and enjoying

the Holy Spirit. The Kingdom of God is not a matter of eating or

drinking of righteousness, peace and enjoying the Holy Spirit. So he just wade

some scriptures in the Ephesians and Jeremiah which point to righteousness. Righteousness is right

standing with God. So we're righteous. We're in right standing with God.

Right. But what does that mean. It's what we accepted Jesus into our

lives. God's righteous is imputed to us. All our sin, all that

shame is removed, and we are seen as righteous. And if we sin,

one young one nicely, If you sin, confess your sin and forgive

your seeing plenty from all on righteousness. We have a mechanism if you make

a mistake to walk in God's righteousness. So God sees as pure, perfect,

awesome. How do you see yourself? Do you see yourself as God

sees you? In righteous? Righteous, in rights standing with God? How

do you see yourself? Today's going to touch on three things. Righteous is

the first thing. How we see ourselves. You know, if you've been

reading the Bible for a long time, you can read the scripture. You

can you can skate over the scripture, as you can skate over the depth

I've read some scripture. There's a lot of depth in some of the scripture

I've just read, which you can spend hours on the times not allowed to

do that. But how do you see yourself as you sit and reflect?

How do you see yourself? Do you see yourself as God sees you?

You sees as righteous in rights standing with him. Jesus been predestined, is

adopted, the sons of God, adopted into the family. And as you

have the same rights and the same privileges as Jesus, you have the same

rights and the same privileges that Jesus. You've been adopted. Does it mean

here second class, you're the second or the third or force, and you

have the same privileges mm Peason one five says, having been predestined, having

predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ himself according to the good pleasure

of his will, God's will, God's kingdom come, God's perfect will be

done. Was for you to be predestined, for you to be adopted into

the kingdom. This is foundational. This is where I've got to go.

ROMs Tenthron, Sorry, fourteen seventeen says Kingdom of God. It's not a

matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and enjoy and the

Holy Spirit. So when we enter the Kingdom of God, when we walk

through that door, we're righteous, we made righteous at step one. How

do you see yourself? Do you see yourself righteous? I don't mean self

rise. Do you see yourself as God sees you? Sometimes you read something

but don't believe what we read and see ourselves as something else. Today we're

going to get into the substance that plenty you the substance. Some people don't

even move past step one. They enter into a relationship with Jesus and they

stop at step one. Certainly they are a rich saved by grace. Don't

understand that they're adopted into the family to stop at step one. God never

designed his plan and purpose to stop at step one. He designed his plan

of perps to move through to greater things. Salvation is a miracle of God.

But there's more to the life in the Kingdom. And just accepting Jesus

and going to church on a Sunday. Nothing wrong with that, but it's

step one. The King of God is not a matter of eating and drinking,

but of righteousness, peace and enjoying the Holy Spirit. These other two

elements, peace and joy are just the fundamentals I go on to live in

to get these foundations right, give you this outlook, a different perspective on

your life. So what about peace? Jesus in John fourteen twenty seven said

to his disciples, peace, I leave with you my peace I give to

you. Not that the world gives. Do I give to you. But

now you're happy, troubled need let it be afraid. Peace. I'll leave

with you my peace I give to you. That's for us. That's why,

everone who believes, have you received his peace in the fullness that he

intended to give it? Have you received his piece in the fullness the intended

to give it? Again? We can all read this. It's one thing

to receive, it's nothing to receive. Fire up up a nice gift,

a little bow on it, and hand it to my wife. I know

she's going to receive that gift. And I know she's going to rip open

the paper. She's not going to put it on the shelf and leave it

for six weeks. She's not going to put on the shadowlere for six minutes.

She's going to receive that gift. Jesus gifted us his peace. Have

you ripped open that box? Have you acquired his peace? And do you

live in his piece? Thought us about the piece which transcends or understanding Philippians

four six. Through an irony we enter the substance here this morning. Fundamentally,

it's about living in the in the fundamentals of the Christian walk, which

are one of these is peace. So where are you with your peace?

Are you living conness consistently in God's peace? Or you are you like a

holy roll over up and down, up and down, up and down?

Where one minute in God's peace? Next minute you're down here? To be

doing now up here and down here, up here and down here. Do

not let your heart be trouble me. Let it neither, let it be

afraid, stop the eyes help to agitated and disturbing itself, to be fearful,

intimidated, chyldie unset trust in God, trust also in me. Do

not let yourselves. We have a choice, don't we We have a choice

about what we take in, and we have a choice of what we put

out today. Our message to talk about these fundamentals and to currently encourage us

to walk in his peace so that nothing moves us. Jesus went to the

cross the first day, Scorge and sa his back was like torn, see

his flesh sees bone. And he carried across, put big nails to his

hand. Was probably about I don't know, twenty five mil to an inch

thick nails to his hands. On his feet, he was still in peace.

That is the piece that he's talking about. The piece that's say,

to any circumstance, any situation, without you being fearful or worried. Today,

go once to remind us about walking in that piece. Yeah, you

read, if you read the news or you watch the news. How have

you do it nowadays? You've got a smartphone. The world is a very

fast changing place with the cod variance and so forth. When there's people are

dying every day. H God wants as believers to walk in his peace.

It's appears so that can be a witness to those people around us. They

so you're walking in peace regardsless circumstances. It begins a conversation. Do pros

Christmas? That's where the mana Jesus was born. People need to understand there

is peace there is hope. It's not in the world, it's in Him.

So if you're hopeless, it's time to accept Jesus. If you've messed

up, if you've gone the wrong way, if you knew Jesus, then

he's had to go and do your own thing. God can take you where

you are and put you where you need to be and take away all fear

or doubt or unbelievable with his peace. Once you turned back to him.

M h, it's time to walk consistently in peace. And that takes a

quality decision. It takes a surrendering of self, takes a minidgement of thoughts,

takes imagine of our mouth. Things that actually worth something take time,

don't they. Things are actually works. They take time, take efforts.

Once you, once you, once you've learned how to walk, you can

walk consistently. When you're a little baby, walk for the first time.

They get up and they walk, and they fall flat on their face,

and they get up again, and they waddle around and they walk for after

a while, they have to walk properly or of his parallel. So what

we're seeing, the naturally seen, the kingdom spiritual speaker might before that that

God will pick us up until we can walk consistently, so he will hold

his hand to be more mature. He wants us to walk in his peace,

not in and out, but he wants to be consistent in this time,

in this season, and God employed, he wants us to walk consistently

in his peace. So Romans fourteen seventeen. The Kingdom of God not a

matter of eating or drinking, but righteousness, peace, and enjoy in the

Holy Nos. So what about joy. Let's be clear, this is a

natural joy. Oh I'm joyful. It's not natural joy. I mean,

who says that. I don't know. It's joy in the Holy Spirit.

It's a joy that has no limits. It's a joy that's not dependent upon

circumstances. It's a joy that's freely given. It's a joy that nobody can

take away. Galatians five twenty two says, but the fruit of the Spirit

is love, joy, peace, patience, long suffering, kindness, goodness,

benevolence, faithfulness, self control. That's not me, yore King James

version. By the way, that's the amphibat. It's time to walk enjoy.

It's time to walk enjoy. But to walk enjoy, you've got to

receive joy, and joy comes from the Holy Spirit. Remember spirits on earth

using the Father in heaven soosps God's agent on the earth. It's time to

receive his joy. That's a joy that fills and overflows to other people.

God want people to see your peace, God, and see God wants people

to see your joy because we are His hands and we are his feet.

God can do himself, That's how he found them, purposed it. He

wants you to be his hands and me to be his hands and his feet.

So it's time to get with the weal of sin, all that dodgy

stuff. It's trying to surrender to the Lord and receive his joy, receive

his peace, and allow the Holy Spirit to manifest his person and his presence

through your life. What it's down the supermarket, down down Tesco's or Saintsburys,

whichever supermarket you go to, which other country you're in, Well,

it's in your workplace. We're a dying sin filled the world. But we

are His light, we are his sobd we are his hands and we are

his feet. And it's time to allow the person and the presence of the

Holy Spirit to work in our lives, to change our environment, to change

the environment around us and to touch people's lives. And we do that by

allowing the Hosbit to walk through it with his love, with his joy,

with this peace h name I tends to the joy of the Lord is your

strength. That's the characters of good. Joy gives your strength, gives your

strength to overcomes that. We are overcomers in Christ, Jesus. I've talked

about peace. I've talked about joy. Doesn't mean they're not challenges. There

are. That's a joy and the peace, and no they can take away

because Jesus died to give us these things. Like I said step one,

we're adopted, were in the family. So these things are given to us,

not dangled them taken away. They're given to you. It's a case

of recognizing what's been given to us, appropriating what's been given to us,

living with what's being given to us, not living below what God has expected,

not having a million pounds in the bank and living on as a pauper.

Your spiritual account is full. We need to start making some deposits and

withdrawal. Sorry, O. Father wants her to live in the fullness of

his joy and his peace. He wants that to be evident to others.

So the question is what change do we need to make so we ad consistently

living this way, not just dipping in and out, in out, shaking

all about. And that's a song. We're going to be doing that.

We want to be consistent. So I'm going to at this message now and

I'm going to pray, well, they prayed for a measures of salvation,

for the people to re see salvation, and then to pray that the host

house, each one of us individually be consistent in our peace, in our

joy work. There's degrees of peace and there's degrees of joy. It just

depends how far you want to go, depends how you want to live.

That's nothing to do with me. That's a personal discussion between you and him.

Just depends where you want to be. You can have everything or you

can have something. Imagine the wedge of cheese. You like cheese, but

the real narratives at the bottom, and they get the big chunk of it

on the end. As much as you like. She gives a question of

choice. Mhm. God's not going to say you can have that much.

You remember, you are part of the family. Family, You've got some

of this house. And if if you go to you go to your mother

or your father's house, you don't say, oh cat that son, cat

of that daughter. It's what you want. I've made you this. It's

not only I have that foot crumb over there. It's all ready for her.

Granny's been baking, or your mother's been baking. It's all there isn't

it all laid out and you can have whatever you like. God's the saying

we need to take, receive. It's no work for take, take receive

what God has for us. Tell me pray, Father, playing the name

of Jesus, that you would help us to receive and then walk in the

fullness of your peace. I have your joy, not only through this period

of Babo and through the Christmas, but consistently so that we can be a

light. We can be a beacon to those people around us who have no

peace, will have no joy. I have no relationship with you. In

Jesus name, prey for those people who have backslidden and walked away, I

pray you joy these people backwards to come back to step one, received forgiveness

through one John one nine and choose to walk with you again back into your

peace. Back into your joy in Jesus name. H m hmm. Thank

you, Simon, thank you for that word. I was reminded as he

was sharing with us that we hear the angels come and they say peace be

on earth and goodwill. We reminded as the Christmas story, peace on Earth,