Series: “The Kingdom” Sermon #4 “Kingdom Rules”

Series: “The Kingdom” Sermon #4 “Kingdom Rules”

Psalm 2:6, 8 “Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion. … Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession.”

The Kingdom of God is eternal but DOMINION is generational.

Acts 13:36 “Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; …” 

Psalm 115:16 “The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s; But the earth He has given 

to the children of men.”

Mark 1:15 (NIV) “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!” 

Think again. Take a fresh look at this good news!!! 

One of the greatest difference between the old and new covenant is the location of GOD!!!

Picture of Cheryl’s with tattoo of KINGDOM

Jesus is not the Gospel.  Jesus preached the gospel and he is the means to the gospel (DOOR). 

The good news (Gospel) is that He has brought the Kingdom of God to earth!!!

Acts 1:2-3  “He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles … during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.”

Jesus last instructions before ascending.

Acts 28:30-31 “Then Paul dwelt two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who came to him, preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence, no one forbidding him.”

Every Kingdom has a Ruler, Realm, and Rules.   

A Kingdom is the governing influence of a King over his territory, impacting it with his will, his purpose and his intent. producing a citizenry of people who reflect his culture and manifest his nature and glory. 

The Ruler:  Jesus is King!

A King who is empowering, serving, loving, uplifting, king-making.

Not a religious call to serve with self-abasing religious activity, but to let his reign of self-giving love influence every sphere of our lives.

Revelation  1:5-6  “To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,  and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen”

Jesus is a King Maker!!!

Psalm 8:4-6 “What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, (Elohim) And You have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,”       God highly values man and His creation!!!

The Realm:  Engaging The King

1 Corinthians 3:17 (NKJV) “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”

(TPT) “Now, the ‘Lord’ I’m referring to is the Holy Spirit, and wherever he is Lord, there is freedom.”

Matthew 13:33  (NLT) “The Kingdom of Heaven is like the yeast a woman used in making bread. Even though she put only a little yeast in three measures of flour, (60lbs) it permeated every part of the dough.”  

Quietly — Progressively — Inevitably      His Kingdom fills every thing every way!

The Rules:

John 13:34  “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.”

Galatians 5:6 “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.”

“The essence of the Christian faith is not knowledge, but love.”     Martin Luther

Love :– Sacrificially ascribing infinite worth to another.

I John 3:23  “And this is His commandment: that we should (1) believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and (2) love one another, as He gave us commandment.”

Orthodoxy:– (orthos) right (doxeia) belief.

Orthopraxy:– (orthos) right (praxis) action or practice 

We have been more concerned with right belief than right action.

2 Thessalonians 1:3 “Dear brothers and sisters, we can’t help but thank God for you, because your faith is flourishing and your love for one another is growing.”

1 John 4:7-21 “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.  Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.  In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us  and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.  No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.  By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 

By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.  There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.  We love because he first loved us. 

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.  And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.”

Four Things About God’s Love

1. Personal Love “We know…”.                                  2. Proven Love “…the propitiation for our sins.”

3. Perfecting Love “His perfect love perfecting us”    4. Preserving Love “God is love.”

Four Results Of God’s Love

1. Born In Love  “…loves is born of God.”                2. Baptized In Love “…we abide in Him, He in us,”

3. Bold In Love “…that we may have boldness…”.  4. Bent In Love “…loves God must love brother.”

“The measure of God’s love is that He loves without measure”   J.I. Packer (Knowing God, p. 111)

Charles R. Swindoll  (The Quest for Character) 

“Marbles or grapes, which will it be? Every congregation has a choice. You can choose to be a bag of marbles … independent, hard, loud, unmarked and unaffected by others… 

…Or you can be a bag of grapes … fragrant, soft, blending, mingling, flowing into one another’s lives. Marbles are made to be counted and kept. Grapes are made to be bruised and used. Marbles scar and clank. Grapes yield and cling.”

Marbles need external structure.        Grapes have in internal structure. 

Marbles are independent.                   Grapes are interdependent.

Marbles Bounce off each other.          Grapes mingle with each other

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