Understanding The Principles of The Kingdom

• foreign [Music] the principles of the Kingdom and I believe it might be good for me to begin talking briefly about religion and the kingdom the kingdom is an idea it’s a concept that needs to be understood and the Bible is a very difficult book if you don’t understand the kingdom concept the Bible is not about a religion it’s about a kingdom I believe the greatest enemy of the kingdom is religion it’s not atheism is not sinners and the reason why the the greatest Envy religion of the kingdom is religion is because religion parades itself as a substitute
• for the kingdom that makes it dangerous if you believe you already have something then you stop looking and that is the challenge of religion so if you believe you found something then you stop searching and religion pretends that it provides what man’s looking for and some are religion has convinced Humanity that it has found what it’s looking for so Humanity even though it is not satisfied with religion stops earnestly searching deep in their hearts they know something’s missing they know that what they’re involved in is empty they are quite aware that the rituals
• are not satisfying their deepest yearning but they’ve been convinced by religion that you’ve found what you’re looking for and the result of that is people back off and they say well I’ll just endure this religion experience Jesus came to Earth to bring a kingdom and not a religion God’s Redemptive work on his program was to restore his kingdom now this statement up on the board at the moment is very important what we’ve done is we have reduced God’s program which is a means to an end to to the purpose itself
• God’s ultimate goal was to re-establish his kingdom on Earth which is what Adam lost but we have magnified the program and made it more important than the result we’ve actually turned the process into the end this is why Calvary is more important than the kingdom I’m saying some heavy things here that’s why the blood is more important than Dominion Jesus never preached about his blood am I too bold I really don’t care I want you to read the four gospels for yourself every statement I am making
• has taken me 30 years to make them I thought about him for 30 years that’s why I can make them now I’m not irresponsible we’ve made the process of redemption more important than the purpose for Redemption and that’s why we have built a religion on the process and have for the most part ignored the purpose for it this is why most of you are here today you are here today because somewhere you heard the kingdom message at least a little piece of it and you thought I never heard of that before and I’ve been saved for 40 years see you’ve been
• preoccupied with the process for 40 years the kingdom is the purpose for that process very important man therefore has reduced the means to the end when your car breaks down what becomes your problem mobilization am I right when your car stops working you become immobilized so you take your car to a mechanic the mechanic initiates a process the purpose for repairing your car is not for you to worship the car but to regain with the car used to provide for you which is what mobilization so you don’t worship the mechanic