Embracing the Transformative Power of the Kingdom
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul, and when we look at human beings as we are, it's kind of like trying to figure out what a car is by going to a junkyard. The kingdom of God is the central message, and Jesus, of course, comes as the one who is the door. [00:01:32]
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and everything else will be taken care of. See, everything else will be taken care of. Now we who have fallen away as a race from the kingdom of God have to relearn that, and we're overwhelmed with the visible world. [00:03:01]
Love suffers long and is kind. Love does not envy, does not vaunt itself up, is not puffed up. Wow, what a change, what a relief to be out of all that huffing and puffing that we do. I mean, we're coming up on Academy Awards night, right? Sunday. I mean, you want to see puffed up? [00:05:44]
The kingdom of heaven is the range of God's effective will. It's where what God wants done is done. See, in Matthew 4, verse 23, Jesus was going about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people. [00:11:36]
The Word of God and the presence of God becomes a tangible force with which you feel, whether you want to or not. You don't have to give in to it, but you do have to feel it. That's what real revival is, is when this word of God becomes a tangible force in an area. [00:21:00]
The word of the kingdom is a life force that reproduces after its kind. The word of the kingdom, it isn't just, you know, there is a kingdom, but what it's like, how it works, are the manifestations of the kingdom, the teachings about the kingdom. These are all words of the kingdom. [00:27:13]
Spiritual disciplines are actually activities by which we access the reality of the kingdom. I wish I had time to teach at length about them. I don't, but I hope I can just give you some idea what they are and how they work, and of course, all of you engage in some of them. [00:49:09]
A discipline is something that is in your power that enables you to accomplish what you cannot do by direct effort. Something in your power that enables you to accomplish what you cannot do by direct effort. For example, if you don't know Spanish, you can't speak it by trying. [00:49:54]
Solitude and silence allow you to take your hands off of things and let God run them. Often I will have ministers say to me in conferences, but if I don't show up, you know, things won't work. And, well, suppose you died one morning. You think it would just quit? No, no, it'll go on. [00:55:37]
The vision of the kingdom of God is what says no matter what happens, there is a larger context in which all things work together for good to those who love God and are called into His purposes. That larger vision is the word of the kingdom of the heavens. [01:02:47]
The one on whom seed was sown in the good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it and indeed bears fruit and brings forth some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty. See, the difference in the fruit bearing is all within this last category. [00:57:34]
When we have accepted that word into our hearts, then we can begin to experience the abundance. I was speaking some time ago to the large pear church group over in Pasadena, and I was speaking to them about the birds and so on, and a young lady came up to me. [01:00:02]
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Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and everything else will be taken care of. See, everything else will be taken care of. Now we who have fallen away as a race from the kingdom of God have to relearn that, and we're overwhelmed with the visible world. [00:03:01]
Love suffers long and is kind. Love does not envy, does not vaunt itself up, is not puffed up. Wow, what a change, what a relief to be out of all that huffing and puffing that we do. I mean, we're coming up on Academy Awards night, right? Sunday. I mean, you want to see puffed up? [00:05:44]
The kingdom of heaven is the range of God's effective will. It's where what God wants done is done. See, in Matthew 4, verse 23, Jesus was going about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people. [00:11:36]
The Word of God and the presence of God becomes a tangible force with which you feel, whether you want to or not. You don't have to give in to it, but you do have to feel it. That's what real revival is, is when this word of God becomes a tangible force in an area. [00:21:00]
The word of the kingdom is a life force that reproduces after its kind. The word of the kingdom, it isn't just, you know, there is a kingdom, but what it's like, how it works, are the manifestations of the kingdom, the teachings about the kingdom. These are all words of the kingdom. [00:27:13]
Spiritual disciplines are actually activities by which we access the reality of the kingdom. I wish I had time to teach at length about them. I don't, but I hope I can just give you some idea what they are and how they work, and of course, all of you engage in some of them. [00:49:09]
A discipline is something that is in your power that enables you to accomplish what you cannot do by direct effort. Something in your power that enables you to accomplish what you cannot do by direct effort. For example, if you don't know Spanish, you can't speak it by trying. [00:49:54]
Solitude and silence allow you to take your hands off of things and let God run them. Often I will have ministers say to me in conferences, but if I don't show up, you know, things won't work. And, well, suppose you died one morning. You think it would just quit? No, no, it'll go on. [00:55:37]
The vision of the kingdom of God is what says no matter what happens, there is a larger context in which all things work together for good to those who love God and are called into His purposes. That larger vision is the word of the kingdom of the heavens. [01:02:47]
The one on whom seed was sown in the good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it and indeed bears fruit and brings forth some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty. See, the difference in the fruit bearing is all within this last category. [00:57:34]
When we have accepted that word into our hearts, then we can begin to experience the abundance. I was speaking some time ago to the large pear church group over in Pasadena, and I was speaking to them about the birds and so on, and a young lady came up to me. [01:00:02]
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