The Church
Church is also Democratic The people vote in the Pastor they want. Theocratic gov’t is under God.. He Rules.
Now for this to take over the systems of the world we must allow it to work in our lives first.
This gov’t must control it’s Kingdom which is not of this world. Since the Kingdom is within each of us. Guess where it must first start.!! God is establishing a new Kingdom, a new heaven & a new earth & it is all within this earth, which is our body. How many Christians really bow down to Jesus our Lord. How many have made Him Lord over His Kingdom? Does He direct your every foot step, your every thought, the works of your hands. Is His voice your Master as you awake each day & ask for His will to be done this day in every aspect of your life. If not it is okay, we are a work in progress. It just means, like the caterpillar you are still in the cocoon stage. A transformation is still taking place.
This transformation that is taking place is all in the mind. You need a mind change. Once your thoughts start to change, your words change. When your words change, you change, your world changes & the world of the kingdom arises within, what a beautiful thought! What a transformation. From that lowly worm made from the dust of the earth, into a new creation in Christ Jesus. He owns all of us, our whole body. We belong to God, we do not own ourselves.
Christ is in you, you hope & glory, He is invisible. He must become visible to the world. We must give Him our will, we must give Him our body. I don’t need to be anything, just allow Him to own me. Lord means owner.
God’s will an purpose for man has not changed. He wants a people that He can be their God, that will love Him as He loves us. & usher in the Kingdom of God on earth. Even the Lord’s prayer tells us, Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on this earth as it is in heaven. That has been my desire, my vision. God’s people need to have a vision.
From our study today we will take a look into the book of 1 Sam. 8
Israel was at this point a theocratic governing people. God ruled them. Unfortunately Israel failed, as we see the story continue.
1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
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5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them
(Here Israel refused the Lord as there King, to reign over them. They rejected me. You cannot persuade the Lord to do your will. They wanted a human King, a man to rule over them & The Lord gave them their way..)
8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they . also unto thee.
9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
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(Many Christians have married the Church & live under this same headship. Unto this day, we have our Kings over us, in the political world, in the physical world of our bodies, in our spiritual world. People still want this human King a man to tell them what to do.
It is time to be married to the Lord, to become one with Him. To worship Him in Spirit & in Truth. May He reign over your earth, your body this day.)
Chap. 14 Israel received their King, Saul (Chap. 14 condition of the Church today, under the leadership of humans or man. Influenced by the carnal mind not the mind of Christ, therefore cannot function as the Kingdom of God. You learned to praise Him,, when God does something for you. True worship is because you love Him & know Him & trust Him in all things.
It is time to know we have the authority of this earth. It is divine authority, the carnal mind is our enemy & has had a stronghold on us. )
1 Samuel 16
1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. God has provided Him a King, (God is looking for Kings today, that will rule & reign with Him. Reign in His anointing.)
King Saul has been our fleshly King, we have had no divine authority, the carnal mind is our enemy. That is our battlefield.. We need the mind of Christ, to walk in the authority He already has given us, to slay our Goliath. His true Church has not even come on the scene, that has the power over the enemy. There should not be any sickness in the body of Christ, no more tears, no sorrow. Dare to believe this! Jesus came to give us life & that which is more abundant. I am ready for that spiritual abundance. It is time to know who we are in HIM! Christians have married the Church. We need to marry our Lord Jesus Christ, He is our true husband. We are one with Him. We must ascend unto the Lord, He is high & lifted up & His train fills the Temple. You are the Temple of the Holy Spirit. You must ascend unto His Holy Mountain.
We are the Church. Jesus is sitting by the right hand of the Father, I will guide you & I will be your King. You will be my people. You will rule & reign with me. Not in the hereafter, but here on earth. This is the body of Christ. His Church!
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Psalm 133
1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore
(this anointing never touched his flesh, nor can it touch your flesh. It is not your head being anointed, He is the head, the Christ. The mind of Christ on the body of Christ. Christ is the anointing
Death burial & Resurrection of Jesus Christ was our death. He took our bodies to the cross, the first Adam is dead, “ Reckon the old man is dead” He took everything that old Adam “was” is now dead. Our sufferings, our sicknesses “was” nailed to the Cross. Jesus Christ is our resurrection & our life. We are a new creation in Christ Jesus. Then you may ask, “Why are we still suffering & still sick.” Because we have not really believed what He did, because we are still in the consciousness of sin. We are still double minded & a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. We are still in the process of having our mind changed.
We are still being cleansed from man’s doctrines & way’s. We have lived in the mentality of the first Adam. Still seeing ourselves as the sinner, when Jesus freed us from the curse of the law. Our righteousness comes from the Righteousness that He is. Righteousness, right standing with God! It is nothing we have done, but all that He has done for us!