Access The Kingdom Resources – Citizenship In The Kingdom

To fully experience God’s best, influence the world, and operate in the miraculous, believers must shift their perspective from seeking church membership to embracing Kingdom citizenship. This realization unlocks the gospel of the Kingdom, which is the central message God wants to communicate today due to its immense power.

The Essential Shift: Membership to Citizenship

When a person gets born again, the initial focus may be on church membership. While membership is fine, the critical step is recognizing and embracing citizenship in the Kingdom of God.

This citizenship provides a perspective that mere membership cannot. As citizens, believers are part of a divine government.

Key facts about Kingdom Citizenship:

• Government and King: The Kingdom of God is a government with a King. This King is the King of kings.
• Royalty and Dynasty: Citizens are royalty and part of a divine dynasty.
• Dominion: This government, the Kingdom of God, rules over everything.
• Ambassadors: Believers are ambassadors for Christ.
• New Kingdom, New Rules: Being born again places the believer in a different kingdom with a different government.

The Mandate of the Kingdom Gospel

The Bible indicates that the end shall not come until the gospel of the kingdom is preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations. The mission of Bill Winston Ministries is specifically to preach the gospel of the Kingdom throughout the world.

Understanding the Kingdom is crucial because it helps believers to comprehend parts of the Bible that are otherwise unclear. In fact, the New Testament mentions the “kingdom” over 100 times, compared to mentioning the “church” approximately three times.

Manifesting the Kingdom: Becoming Miracle Minded

One of the primary purposes for the believer’s existence is to manifest the kingdom and bring the kingdom culture into every assigned place. This requires becoming miracle minded.

The Role of Miracles

Miracles are not optional but are central to the divine plan.

• Evidence of Truth: Miracles testify of the truth.
• Establishing the Kingdom: Miracles, signs, and wonders are used incidentally to establish the kingdom.
• Turning to God: Miracles cause people to turn from dead gods to the true and living God.
• Necessary for Impact: There is a limited distance a believer can go and a limited amount they can do without the supernatural.
• Jesus’ Standard: Jesus stated, “If I do not the works of my father don’t believe a thing I said”. Smith Wigglesworth adopted this standard, proclaiming that if no miracles were seen, people should not believe his words.

Even the act of getting born again is a miracle. This miracle is evidenced by an internal change, even if it is not felt outwardly. The individual’s name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and every sin is blotted out.

The Biblical Foundation for Miracles

The Bible is full of miracles, from “front to back”.

• The Demand for a Miracle: When Moses was sent to Pharaoh, God predicted Pharaoh would demand a miracle. Moses’ stick turned into a snake, which then consumed the snakes of the magicians.
• The Bronze Serpent: The bronze snake on a pole Moses made represented the curse. Everyone who looked at it was healed. This foreshadowed Jesus, who was hung on a pole, became a curse for us, but then turned back into the rod (resurrection).
• Signs and Wonders: Believers, along with the children God has given them, are meant to be for signs and wonders.

The Danger of Ignoring the Supernatural

Many times, the church has attempted to go places, be of influence, and impact the world without the supernatural. The natural part of humanity often tries to make people avoid the supernatural.

The wisdom of men and human philosophy is a trap designed to keep people under control, as Satan is the God of this world.

The Power of Revelation vs. Human Wisdom

The Kingdom operates on revelation, not human information or logic.

The Limitations of Human Wisdom

The Apostle Paul, who was learned and intellectual, counted all his wisdom as loss for Christ, recognizing that God was giving him a wisdom the world could not match.

• The Trap of Philosophy: Believers are warned: “Beware, lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit… after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ”.
• Senseless Arguments: Arguments that “sound wise” may be only human teachings.
• Satan’s Dominion: If a believer relies only on human teachings (information), Satan still has dominion over them, and they are fighting a lost cause.

The Implication of Revelation (Seeing)

Jesus stated that one must be born again to even see the kingdom. Once born again, something that was invisible becomes visible.

• Mastery through Mystery: To gain mastery in the Kingdom, one must learn the mysteries of the kingdom.
• Imitating God: God’s instruction will not sound logical like the world’s wisdom. Believers are called to be imitators of God.