Kingdom Minded | Elder Peng Hoe

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Kingdom minded.

Okay, but before we go into the third core value,

who can reiterate what the first one is? Spirit Field

was the first week okay that we as we embarked

on the twelve core values of X Church. All of

it taken from the Book of X chapter two mainly,

so if you need a reference, read X chapter two

and you'll see where all these values are coming from.

The second value that we went through last week christ centered. Okay,

cry is centered. And I had the privilege of being

in our Bahasa worship last weekend and I had to

preach the entire value in basa, which is not always

the easiest thing, but it's called busa. Can christus, I'm

like the brain exploded a little bit, but that was

what the translation is. And today I'm going to be

teaching again, okay, teaching on Kingdom minded.

Okay, Kingdom minded.

Uh.

And I need to warn you'all. Okay, there's a lot.

There's a lot that I want to share, but I

pray that you follow me because I need to paint

a picture for us to see and for us to

understand and if you also realize this as I'm sharing,

when we talk about kingdom minded, when we're talking about

the Kingdom of God, we're not just thinking God's kingdom.

We're also looking at it as the Kingdom of Jesus,

and we're also looking at it as the Kingdom of

the Holy Spirit. That's the reason why we started off

with Holy Spirit first Spirit feel and then we moved

on to Christ centered. And so I want to paint

a picture so that with that understanding, we will realize

that in today's day, a lot of times when we

talk about the kingdom of Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven. Okay,

depending on which gospels you are reading, but it's all

across the scriptures. You see this word in the Gospels,

especially Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, you will see the

Kingdom of God mentioned in Mark, Luke, and John is

usually mentioned Kingdom of God. We else in the book

of the Gospel of Matthew is Kingdom of Heaven. Can

be used interchangeably. And why is it like that? Because

Matthew wrote the Gospels predominantly with the Jews in mind

as the main audience. Actually because he was wanting to

write to them, and the Jews were very, very afraid

to even use the word God. And that's why he

uses Kingdom of Heaven instead of Kingdom of God.

By okay, that's sidetrack.

So as I paint this picture, I hope you all

follow me because I'm we through the entire Old and

New Testament all the way to the Book of X's.

Okay, stay with me, Stay with me. Okay.

Kingdom minded Okay, when we talk about kingdom, what do

we realize? Always I've taught this before kingdom? What do

you need in a kingdom? You need a king? Okay,

besides the king, what do you need? What?

People or citizens or subjects?

And so in a kingdom you will have a sovereign

and you will have subjects. Okay, the two s's in

case you forget or you need a king and you

need people, you need citizens or sons and daughters. All

this will be used interchangeably.

Okay. I want you all to know and realize this.

God's intention was always for his citizens, sons and daughters

to spread his kingdom across the earth. That was always

his intentions. That's why when we read Genesis chapter one,

verse twenty eight. He says this, Then God bless them,

and say, be fruitful and multiply fill the earth and

govern it. Rain over the fish in the sea, and

the birds in the sky, and all the animals that

scurry along the ground. You see, originally God created us

as subjects of his beautiful kingdom to fulfill the role

as sons and daughters. But we know all that was

lost in the garden of Eden when Sin came into

the picture.

Are you still following me?

You see, today, if we look around the world, we

realize that it is the prince of this world that reigns.

The prince of darkness, is the one that has strong

oil over planet Earth. And this is why the Jews

were always left looking forward to a day when God,

in his sovereignty and power, will re establish his rule

on Earth. They believed that he would do it primarily

with the nation of Israel, and from there would spread

his rule to the nations, to the ends of the earth.

That's what every Jew is hoping for, not just reasonly,

but since back then. If you study the Old Testament

the New Testament, you will see it flowing through. See

the Jews the phrase to them the Kingdom of God.

Men the day when God would re establish his rule

on earth everywhere, and that was the heart of every

Jewish person's hope.

That was what they were hoping for.

Because the minute Sink came into the picture, the Kingdom

of God became in a way, the kingdom of darkness

that has taken over. After that, you see, the root

of the problem is this. It was not that God

wasn't acting in a sovereign way, because a lot of

times we're like God, you lose ready to the power

of darkness. No, he's not that he wasn't acting in

a sovereign way. He wasn't acting in sovereignty, but that

his people would not be his subjects. And I want

to tell you this, Okay, I want to tell you this,

and I want us to also realize and imagine this.

It's quite hipocritical for us to pray for revival. And

I know Revival is our team this year. But if

you say, Lord, bring revival, come and take over this land,

let your mighty arm reign supreme, but at the same

time you're not willing to be his subject, it's hypocritical.

It's like saying, Lord, I want you, but I don't

quite want you at the same time, and so kingdom

mindedness must be understood, and I want to help you

understand it as we journey through the Old and the

New Testament. Okay, stay with me, Stay me. I'm not

going to be teaching from a whole portion of scripture

because it's a whole value and I'm going to have

to do a bit of screenshots from the whole scripture.

But I want you to know that there is a

big difference between the Old and the New Testament when

it comes talking about the kingdom of God. You see,

in the Old Testament, God was saying, I will exercise

my sovereignty and release you, but will you live righteously?

In other words, in the Old Testament, the kingdom was

made up of an offer and the demand.

God offered release.

Let me say, I will release you from the curse

that you have, but I'm demanding righteousness in response. So

there is an offer, the offer to release his people,

but there is also a demand. The demand is for

you to live righteously. You see, the New Testament does

not do that. Instead, in the New Testament, it offers

release and it also offers righteousness. I will explain all

this as we go into it, because it will help

you understand.

In the New Testament, God.

Promised not only to help them on the sovereignty side,

basically establishing what he can do by offering them a

way out, but He's also going to help us as

we are on the subject side, we are on the

following side.

Okay, isn't that beautiful of God?

So God was virtually saying, I realized the problem is

your subjection. I realized that what your struggle with is

to be subjects. You can't make it because you can't

keep the laws. How many of your can keep all

the laws? Very hard, even the ten Commandments so hard

to keep. Ready, even though a lot of us we say,

actually I keep all the ten commandments, then you realize, oh, God,

another six hundred and thirteen after that, no, we all

of us find it how to keep the loss. We

can't keep it. We can't keep the covenants. And so

the sovereign God was going to help subjects to be

subjects in two ways. Okay, there were two ways, and

you will see these two ways in which He uses

to help the subjects. The first is by forgiving their sins. Okay,

you realize that how God helps subjects is that he

forgives our sins. That's the first step. The second thing

you realize is he will pour out his spirit and

with then you realize how God is helping his people,

his subjects.

Is this.

When he's forgiving our sins, he is working on our past.

I've explained this before.

When God forgives us, he says everything, all the wrong

things and all the bad things that you have done

in the past, wipe clean. Now you have you can

start afresh and start anew. But that just settles the past.

We are still living in the present and the future,

and so it doesn't just stop that. God does not

just want to forgive our sins. He also wants to

pour out his spirit on us, because it is God's

spirit that will help us live our lives. Where we

are today and as we move forward, it is God's

spirit that will help us choose to do what is right.

Do you understand and do you see that?

You see?

One will never be a subject of the King without

first experiencing the forgiveness of your sins, which works out

the past, and also having the Holy Spirit pawed out on.

You, which helps you to journey as you move forward.

Isn't it beautiful that righteousness is no longer a demand?

That means God's not saying I'm offering you this right now,

but I'm demanding you righteousness.

You show me your righteousness.

God, Jesus has never want us that we show him

our righteousness. Now, both release and righteousness is on offer. Basically,

God is saying, I've got enough righteousness for you as

well as me. And that explains why it was prostitutes

who got into the kingdom first when Jesus was walking

in this earth. You realize that it also explains why

religious people did not get in to his kingdom because

they were still trying to be righteous.

Do you realize the religious people were trying.

So hard to be righteous they could not accept Jesus'

orfer Jesus offer is my righteousness is for you? For them,

it's like I have observed all the laws and they

thought that they were already righteous. And that is basically

the difference between the Old and the New Testament. You see,

the Old Testament did not work because the people could

not make themselves subject, and yet they wanted the Soviet

and king.

They wanted a king.

To rule and reign, a king to rule and reign,

but for them to be subjects.

W they ran out of ideas.

Eventually, you see, you will only understand the conflicts that

Jesus went through. That he went through and the reason

why they put him on the cross if you realize

that the crowd actually you see her during even during

Jesus' time, the crowd.

Wanted him to be king. They wanted him to be king.

They were looking forward, and that's why it started off

on the Holy Hosanna Hosanna in the highest. They were

welcoming whom they thought would be their political king, whereas

all he wanted is for them to be his subjects,

to be his sons and daughters. And this is why

the message of John the Baptist was that you had

better repent. That was what John the Baptist said, right

John the Baptists knew where the kingdom would begin, and

it will beginning when somebody says, I want my life

clean up, I can't do it by myself, I need help,

you say. He actually said that, And John the Baptist

actually told the king of the country at the time

his name was Herod, he you shouldn't be with that

woman that you have right now, it's not really legal. Basically,

he told him to clean up your act. That's what

John the Baptist told Herod Antipass clean up your act.

And then eventually what happened to John the Baptist, his

hate ended up honor pleatter. So John the Baptist was

actually the one who came to prepare the way of

the Lord. And you realize when Jesus came this Jesus

his message was exactly the same as John the Baptist,

because even he said, repent for the Kingdom is here.

It is right among you now, Matthew, Chapter four, verse seventeen.

If you study carefully, theation is very clear.

Jesus was saying, I am the Kingdom.

And that's why when we talk about the Kingdom of God,

we can never take Jesus out of the picture. He

is essentially saying I am the Kingdom. And he said

the same things about himself and about the Kingdom. So

basically they're like synonyms. They can be used interchangeably. And

when we look at that, because his congregation, you realize

that you have to look at the implications of when

he says I am the Kingdom, because straight away his

congregation went down from five thousand to twelve. You see,

he began with a huge following, but then eventually it

diminished and dwindled. And then he had to look at

Peter and ask him, are you about to leave me

as well?

And Peter said no.

But what Jesus said was that they had been waiting.

What I mean, what Jesus said when he says, are

you going to leave me as well? That was not

what they were anticipating and expecting. But that is what

actually happened. And it puzzles us. How did Jesus become

so unpopular when in the beginning he didn't even need

a publicity agent. Do you realize that Jesus when he

first started, Wow. See, the reason is actually very very simple.

He refused to concentrate on the sovereignty of the kingdom,

and he went hard after finding subjects. You see, Jesus

could have come and said I'm king, I died. I mean,

he could have done anything.

He was.

He had the power to do anything he wanted. He

could come and concentrate just on sovereignty. But that was

not what he did. He came and he went hard

looking for subjects and that is not a very spectacular

thing to do in the eyes of people, because people

were hoping for a king, a sovereign to come and

save them. But let's look first at the sovereignty that

he did bring, because we must acknowledge and establish that

Jesus is indeed sovereign. And aren't we amazed that there

was never a situation in which Jesus was at a

loss or he was not in control of because it

did not matter whether it was people who were demon possessed.

It did not matter whether it was a storm in

the Sea of Galilee. It doesn't matter whether it's five

thousand people with nothing to eat. There was never a

situation where Jesus was not in control of it. You

realize that even when they tried to throw him off

the cliff and Nazareth, he was still in total control

because why Jesus is the king of everything, he is sovereign.

The people believe this was what they had been waiting for. Jesus,

you are the king, and we are prepared to march

behind you, drive the Romans out, set up thrown in Jerusalem,

and then put the crown on your head.

He wanted to do that.

We want you as our king, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest.

As the people wanted King David, we also want you.

But somehow Jesus say no. He refused it. And therefore

time and again they recognized his sovereignty wanted to have

it publicly displayed, but every time he said no.

Do you know why he said no?

Because he knew what was in man, and he wouldn't

trust any man, because he knew that none of them,

as years, were his subjects, even when he healed people

and got them released from their disease. Do you realize

that he healed the leper, did wonderful things for the leper.

You see this account in Mark chapter one, Met You

chapter eight, Luke chapter five. But still they refused to

be his subjects. Why why do I say that, Well,

Jesus touch and heal the man with leprosy. Then what

did Jesus say to him? He says, hey, two things

you need to do. First, don't tell anyone. The next

thing is go and show the priests that you are

healed and you are well. And do you know what

the next verse in the Bible tells us. So he

went out and told everyone, and he didn't go and

get it assessed by the priest. You get the message.

Now you see people who were healed from all types

of diseases, they were set free from demons. But Jesus

could not find anyone to be his subjects who would

obey his orders. You see that, And remember when Jesus asked,

who do men think I am? That is a pivotal question,

asked at a very pivotal moment, and only when Peter

answered it, and he answered it correct, you are the Christ. Basically,

he's acknowledging him as the Messiah. And Peter was the

first human to recognize that landmark moment. After that, you

see with the realization Jesus's ministry started, it took off.

But if you still study Peter, you realize Peter the

next step, the next step.

What did he do?

Jesus says, Okay, now that you understand I am the Christ,

here's what needs to happen. I need to go to

Jerusalem to be crucified. And then Peter is like, oh, no,

that's not going to happen. You're not doing that. Then

can you see what Peter recognizes the king. He's not

willing to be his subject. Peter will argue would rebel

will say no, We'll say I know better than you.

And up to the last day before Jesus that Peter

was still telling Jesus what to do. Do you realize

that Jesus says, I want to wash your feet, Peter,

and then Peter says, you are not going to do that.

Mm hmmm.

He calls him lord, but he wouldn't let him be lord,

and that is a is hypocrisy. And then Jesus says this,

if I don't wash your feet, we cannot be friends.

And then Peter says, okay, if that's the kid, wash

my entire body.

And then he is like I said, only the feet.

You realize that, right up to that moment, Jesus that

he had not found one subject in the kingdom. He

had released many, he had exercised his sovereignty of the

kingdom in many lives, but he had not found one

who was utterly loyal to him. None, even his nearest

friend Peter ran away, the same Peter who say, well,

the others may let you down, by I won Lord.

And then the next thing you read he says, oh,

this Jesus, he actually saw you know that he didn't

know Jesus to a small little girl, are you o

shame on him?

Small little girl asked him, do you know this man?

He said, datau. So there is a sense in which

the Lord's earthly ministry almost looked like Jesus' entire ministry

here on earth for three years was a failure. In fact,

on the day of his crucifixion, it looked like a

total disaster. You know, we sing the song Son of Suffering.

A lot of people will say, what kind of god

your worship? Were hung on the cross? Hung hung on

the tree? Son of suffering? It looked like a complete disaster.

But here was the king who had come to re

establish the rule of God on earth. Yet he left

without a single subject, and he is dead. But you

know what, something did go through. See, even the dying

thief said to Jesus that he believed Jesus was the

king and would get his kingdom. How did he know

that something went true? Even those who put him to

death put a sign on top of him that says.

What this is the King of the Jews.

We know Jesus' earthly ministry was never a failure, because

if you realize this right from the beginning, Jesus gathered

his followers, took them up to the mountain and taught

them what it is and what it means to be

a subject in the kingdom. That's how you get the

wonderful Blessed series, the sermons.

On the mound.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the

Kingdom of Heaven.

And that was how he began.

And Jesus thought that if you are going to be

subject in your kingdom, there's a lot of things that

you need to realize. Firstly, you cannot be angry. Wow,

how long not to be angry? He says, you're angrier,

he's like killing. And then he goes on, no, to

make all these new introductions to what he believes is

the right thing to do.

He almost like acted like a king that's making laws.

He taught us that no, if you think not, he

thought about your neighbor's wife. M m m mmmmm. It's

as good as adult tree. He's saying, the way if

you worry, that is sin.

Wow.

He lifted the standards of the kingdom far higher than

Moses could have ever lifted it. And if we think

that are the tank of moments that Moses introduced Oh

so hard, so difficult, so impossible, you know, and then

the six hundred and thirteen other regulations that came after that,

derived from the Tank of Moments, even more impossible. But

you see, what Jesus did was he lifted the standards

of the kingdom even higher than Moses ever did. And

that's why when you read the Sermon on the Mound,

you're thinker, this is impossible. I'll never be a subject

of the kingdom. But you know what, Jesus refused to

lower his standard, not even one inch. In fact, he

pushed them heaven high. Really, he's like telling it. I mean,

there's the reason why he preaches from the mountain, no Sola,

I think, trying to get them to see and realize something.

In fact, Jesus seems to have spent his time putting

off the people who did follow him. You realize that

you're always like, hey, why are you following me? Are

you prepared to take up the cross? It's almost like

he wants them to follow, but yet like like one,

so like keep trying to put them off and put

them off. No, are you're willing to die on the cross? Okay,

you can come. I don't think it's the best way

you know to win friends and to influence people. But

yet that was what Jesus did. And in all this

there were still people who did follow him, even though

he raised the standard so high.

Why why would the people who followed him? I tell

you why?

Because instinctively they knew that while he sat the standards

so high, they also knew that he could help them

reach it. That's why when we sing the song his

love is still reaching us. It's because he is helping

us to reach it. The people realize that while it

seems impossible, Jesus didn't say, try.

And do it with your own STRENGTHU. You know what

he said. He said, my burden is light, my yog

is easy.

When Jesus says take mayo upon you, he is not

saying take the sermon on the mound and you try

to live up to it. He's saying get On the

other end of this is basically a tool that they

used to farm. They will till the ground to make

sure that the ground is ready to uh have seats

planted in it. And he's basically tied to two oxen

and you have to go together. And so Jesus is

saying I'm going to be here, You're going to be there.

We're going to do this together. We're going to pull

this together. And when we pull together, we're gonna make it.

You see, when the woman taken in a doultrey looked

at Jesus's face and he said, go and sin no more.

I believe she began to believe right from that day onwards.

Do you realize that this was the same woman who

had multiple husbands and then the one that she's living

with is not her husband yet, And then people were

getting ready to stone her, and then Jesus says, those

who have no sin in your life, you take the

first stone and stone her. And then of course they

all started living. And then he turns to her and says,

go and sin no more. I don't think he gave

her an impossible task. I believe what Jesus did was

we are going to do this together. And that's why

when she turned and looked at her. I believe she

knew that with God, I can do this. Aren't we

amazed that Jesus had the capacity to teach the highest

moral standards that anyone has ever taught, and yet be

able to be friends with sinners. Think about it his standards,

he didn't lower it a lot of times. What we

try to do is we try to lower, lower, lower

it so that we can be together, so that we

can identify with one another.

That's not Christ's way.

Jesus's way is I will show you the standard and

I will help you. And yet it was prostitutes, sinners,

people who had their life completely mess up that were

drawn to him. That's why I say Jesus have big

problems with religious leaders, religious people who are trying to

work their passage and was trying to be righteous themselves,

because the most you can achieve of your own righteousness

is that you can get the outside right, but you

can never get the inside right.

At least not by yourself.

Do you realize that sometimes we can make it look

like on the outside everything is okay, And that's what

the religious leaders were doing. On the outside, they look

like they were living in right. It looks like they're

following all the tank commandments. But you realize Jesus' ways

is not just the outside. It's always the inside, your motive,

your intention. And that's why he says, even if you

are angry with someone anger, you haven't even acted out.

The anger is actually your intention, and your motive is

as good as killing someone. If you have last full thoughts,

you haven't acted on the last full thoughts is but

yet it is there. So even what you think you

can be sinning. That is how high the standard is.

And that's why no one can. You can try to

fix the outside, but we can never fix the inside.

And all. This was very surprising to the.

Jewish people because they were so surprised that the religious

leaders that Jesus mixed, I mean, the religious leaders were

so surprised that Jesus.

Kept mixing with the sinners.

It was a surprise to the common people that he

would not be king when they wanted him to be king.

So they're all wondering what is he after.

He was still after releasing people from the kingdom of

Satan and helping them to be subjects of the Kingdom

of Heaven.

That was what Jesus was doing.

Yet it would look as if by the time he

came to die, he still.

Had no one.

Peters Uh. And there were people who had been raised

from the death. There were people who had been healed

of leprosy. There were people out of whom legions of

demons had been cast out. Yet when the crunch time came,

do you know, only one person went to Calvary, and

he went there alone. And on the day that Jesus

that the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth was reduced to

just one person. You see, not only was Jesus the

perfect sovereign of the kingdom, in total control and power

of every situation, but he was also the perfect subject.

Of the kingdom.

We need to realize that not only was he the

perfect sovereign, he was the perfect subject because he was

the first person who threw out his entire lifetime, had

been subject to the will of God perfectly. Never think

it was easy for Jesus to be sinless. Sometimes we're

like he had it easy. He learned obedience through the

things he suffered, and he agonized, and he sweated, not

just normal sweat, nor he sweated blood at the garden

of gadseemone, Father, is there no other way?

Let it pass me by? It wasn't easy.

Sometimes we think Jesus had it so easy, But there

would have been no subjects of the kingdom unless Jesus

went this way.

It was the.

Only way to set people totally free from Satan, and

Jesus had to break the power of the prince of

this world. And that's why Jesus finally said to the Father,

not my will, but yours be done.

And on the day that Jesus.

Was hanging on the cross, obedience to his father is

what smashed the entire kingdom of Satan.

Think about it.

That day, King Jesus triumph over principalities and powers. He

broke the power of the prince of this world, and

people have been released. And the blood of Jesus is

more powerful than anything Satan can do.

Do you know that release?

They will released, and from then on the kingdom could

be re established and subjects could be set free from

Satan forgiven, released, forgiven release. You see, after he had

reason from the day, what did Jesus do. He spent

time actually with the disciples about six weeks. You gave

them Bible study, Okay, when he resurrected six weeks, he

was walking with them. He brought them through every part

of the scriptures, from the Laws to the prophets to

the psalms. And what was his tea? I tell you

what his team was. His team was the Kingdom of God.

That's what kingdom mindedness is all about. He took them

eventually to the Mount of Olives and then they realized, hey,

sounds like goodbye right now. And you know what his

fellow message was to them. His fell message is, guys,

you got to go out. I'm going to send you out.

But he let them know that if they were to

be his disciples and to demonstrate his sovereignty, they can

only do it with the Holy Spirit. See, the Holy

Spirit is also involved with this in this and that's

why he says you are to wait in Jerusalem until

the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And that is where

the Kingdom lies. Now today, the Kingdom of God lies

wherever the Holy Spirit is. The Kingdom was inaugurated. It

started back in this earth when King Jesus was born

in that faithful day in a manger.

Re establish.

Restarted after Sin came in and took away everything for

our time being. But now we know it has restarted

when kingdom when King Jesus came.

But it's not.

Completely fulfilled as we can all see, but one day

it will come to fruition. Right now, I can tell

you this, the Kingdom lies wherever the Holy Spirit is.

That means wherever the Holy Spirit is feeling people, you

will see two things. You will see the sovereignty of

God being exercised, and then you realize this is the

same sovereignty Jesus exercise over demons and disease. And that's

why those who have the Holy Spirit, you have the

authority to cast demons out to help heal people. Not

only will you see the sovereignty of God exercise, you

will see people whom the Holy Spirit has enable to

be the subjects of this kingdom. It is the Holy

Spirit that helps us realize the sovereignty of God, helps

us to derive the power of the sovereignty of God

in our lives to do things that only God can do.

It is the Holy Spirit that.

Also enables us, as followers of Christ, to be subjects

of the kingdom. God is looking for subjects, and the

Holy Spirit doesn't just bring the sovereignty of the kingdom.

He also helps us to be subjects. That is the

kingdom of Jesus and the Kingdom of the Holy Spirit.

And that's why Paul wrote, but if you are led

by the Spirit, you are not under law Galatians five,

verse eighteen. In other words, if the Spirit is telling

you what to do, and you do it. Nobody will

ever need to tell you about laws. You won't need

to be given rules for your life. You can be

quite sure you won't break any rules if the fruit

of the Spirit is growing in you.

That's what Paul men actually and what is the fruit

of the spirit.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, makenus, self control.

All those things appear in the life of someone who

is living by and walking with the Holy Spirit.

You believe that.

That's why it's so important that we started with spirit.

Feel because in today's day and age, as we are

walking this way, we need the Holy Spirit.

You see, fruit grows gradually.

How many of you'll see a fruit that stray ripens

doesn't happen like that.

It takes time.

The gifts of the spirit can appear immediately, but the

fruit grow as how a fruit tree usually fruits over

a period of time, as you continue to live in

the spirit. That's why in Glatious four, verses twenty four

to twenty five, it says this those who belong to

Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature, which it's passions

and desires. Since we live by the spirit. Let us

keep in step with the spirit. Remember again the double offer.

Not only does God offer us released by his sovereignty,

he is also offering us his righteousness to be his subjects.

You see, that's what happened on the cross. On the cross,

the theological teaching is that God's righteousness was imputed and

impartant on us.

Okay, just look at it this way.

We can't be righteous on our own, and so the

exchange that took place on the cross is that our

sins God takes and puts it on his body. He

is righteousness, He takes and he puts it on his people.

And how that righteousness.

Is accepted, appropriated, taken is when we believe in what

Jesus has done on the cross. That's what took place

on the cross, and so he does not want to

keep his righteousness for himself.

He wants to give it to you.

And we can receive and appropriate this righteousness when we believe.

That's why faith is such an important thing in our lives.

We are not saved by faith. We are safe because

it is God's grace upon our life. We are safe

by his grace, true faith when we believe in what

he has done. Because what happens is grace is when

we receive something we don't deserve. What is the thing

that we receive that we don't deserve? God's righteousness? And

that's why when Father in heaven sees us, eventually, what

he sees is not our righteousness, because our righteousness has

always been compaed to the filthiest of rags. That means

our righteousness counts for nothing. What he wants to see

is his Son's righteousness in each and every one of us.

And so remember this double offer. God is releasing us

from our past. No longer are we bound by the

mystics that we have made. But He is also offering

us his righteousness so that we can keep moving forward.

You see in the spirit. If you walk in the

spirit and live in the spirit, you will find you

don't do the things that the flesh wants to do

because the two are not compatible.

They are not compatible.

Those who are in Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh

with its desires.

Do you realize that the word crucified.

Sometimes when we use the word crucified, we think it's

kill kill straight away.

It is lie, it is skill.

But you know death by crucifixion is actually a very

slow death. What happened to Jesus, And of course we

know Jesus was crucified a ninety am in the morning.

He died at three pm in the afternoon. But actually

that's considered very very quick in the normal terms. Most people,

sometimes those who go through crucifixion, it takes a few days,

sometimes up to a whole week that can be hanging

and still be alive.

That's why it's a torture.

Is the most tortuous way to die. And so we

know the crucifixion is not something that you don't die

straight away. And so the verse that says you have

crucified the flesh means you have nailed the flesh.

To the cross. But the problem is that it takes

some time for the flesh to die. Right.

The flesh will say, hey, take the nails outline the

afternoon to come ready, Please just give me a break,

That's what the flesh will cry out. And if you

take the nails out, it can be very much alive again.

That is the reality of it.

That's why the scripture says live your own life on

the cross until it dies. It has been crucified. It

has been nailed there, so leave it there and walk

in the spirit.

That's what the scripture is essentially teaching us.

If you want to enjoy being a subject of the

kingdom so that you want to do the right thing,

you want to keep the commandments, then the simple thing

is for us to walk in the spirit, walk with

the Holy Spirit. You see, walking is a simple thing

to do, right. You just live one foot up and

then you put it down, and then you live the

next one up, and then you put it down. Walking

is not very spectacular because every step, every step that

you take, actually is in a direction.

That you choose. We all have a choice now.

You can choose to walk in the flesh today or

you can choose to walk in the spirit. And I'm

sharing this not as someone who all I do is

walk and float in the Holy Spirit. No, I always

say this sin is stempting. It's nice, it's pleasurable. There

are days when I also want to go and pull

the nail out from the cause. In fact, there are

days when I do pull the nail out from the cross,

make the same mistakes thereafter. But we need the Holy Spirit.

That's why we need the Holy Spirit because it ultimately

it is a choice. We can make a choice because

we are convinced, or we can make a choice because

we are tempted. But when you have a step to

take or a decision to make, let's exercise this. Let's say,

Holy Spirit, which way do you want me to go?

And you choose to take another step in a different direction,

you won't enjoy the power of the whole kingdom. But

if you choose to take the step that the Holy

Spirit is prompting in your heart, I believe you will

enjoy the power of the Kingdom. You see, it is

walking in the spirit that produces the fruit of the Spirit.

It is taking one step after another in the direction

that He is leading you, And that is all we

need to do. Sometimes when we think kingdom minded, Wow,

so big, it's so impossible. How do I even experience

what kingdom minded is? How do I experience God's Kingdom?

How do I experience Heaven on earth? The concept is

just beyond what I can ever imagine or I can

ever do. Can I tell you this? Actually, all it

needs is for us to walk one step at the time.

Every day we are faced and presented with decisions and choices.

We can either choose the way of the Lord and

ask the Holy Spirit guide guide my path. That's why

the Scriptures is known as the lamb that lights out

our path so that we know where we are going.

Walking in the spirit, you.

Will see fruit start to grow and appear in your life.

If you keep walking in the flesh, then you will

grow the desires of the flesh that will get stronger

and stronger. And so I want to encourage us. It's okay,

don't look at it as I want to overcome all

in one goal. No, start with the decision that is

right before you. Every morning you have a decision to

make to wake up and say good morning, Holy Spirit,

or to snooze until you wake up two hours later.

It's a choice. Ultimately, is a choice. You see, the

Lord is looking for subjects of the Kingdom. He's looking

for people like you who will determine that you will

follow the Spirit.

Wherever he leads.

People ask, you know, sometimes should I leave a place

or should I stay? And I always tell them do

what the Spirit tells them to do, not do what

your flesh tells you to do. A lot of times

we make decisions that is based on our flesh. That

means I'm going to leave because someone offended me. I

don't think the spirit will tell you to live because

someone offended you.

Really, I'm going to leave.

Because I can't see eye to I don't like my

family right now, and I think I want to leave home.

It's time to leave home. Don't leave home because you

don't get along with your parents. Leave home because you're

getting married and it's the right thing to do. Okay,

that's fine, but make sure whatever it is, I'm sure

the Holy Spirit will always lead us to reconciliation first

and foremost.

That's my sincere and my honest beliefs.

So ask the Holy Spirit, because whatever the Spirit.

Clearly leads you to do, do it.

That is all you need to decide on every day

you are faced with decisions, and praise God because you know,

I meet many people who are still stepping out and saying,

I'll still take every step that the Spirit of God

leads me. I pray ex church today that we will

be followers of Christ who would hear from the Holy Spirit.

You need to be sure that it is the Holy

Spirit that is leading you, because there will always be

those fleshly impulses that will come your way, and you

need to watch out for those fleshly impulses. You need

to watch out for the suggestions of other flesh that

will tell you maybe you should do this, maybe you

should do that, Maybe you know you should feel this way.

As Holy Spirit, what do I do? What do I say?

All that God is asking from you is that you

promise him that everything you know the Spirit leads you

to do, you will do, and you will be a

subject of His kingdom. I kid you not, This is

the Kingdom of God in which we may now live.

And were amazed because the good news is this, You

can live in the Kingdom of Heaven today. All of

us can experience a peace of Heaven today. See, the

power of the Spirit is the power not only to

cause an individual to live right and be a subject,

but the power of the Spirit is the power to

get on with the most unlikely people and be harmonious,

be a harmonious community. Basically, why I'm saying is this,

Do you know that the church, the Church can be

people who are inhabited by the Spirit of God Because

the Church is people. And that's why in Acts Chapter two,

verses forty six, to forty seven, where we God the

scriptures the whole kingdom minded, as the value says this.

They worship together at the temple each day, met in

homes for the Lord's suppered and shared their meals with

great joy and generosity all the wild, praising God and

enjoying the good will of all the people. And each

day the Lord added to their fellowship those who.

Are being saved.

We are people of the spirit when we are spirit filled. Automatically,

someone who is spirit filled will acknowledge Jesus as the

center of it all, because that is the function, the role,

and the responsibility of the Holy Spirit to lead us

to Christ and all that Christ has done for us.

And we are spirit filled and we have Christ in

our lives, it is impossible to not be Kingdom minded.

Impossible.

And so today I want to encourage each and every

one of us. Sometimes I know when we talk Kingdom

of God, we are like, it's so big, what does

it mean? Well, it means that God is looking for

subjects and those of us who holds dearly to the

Spirit of God in our lives and follows after Jesus

as the Savior who has given us hope and the future.

I believe we can experience the Kingdom of Heaven here

on earth.

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