The will of God is the kingdom of Heaven in operation in our life and through our life in this world, today.
The Kingdom Of Heaven is anywhere that the rule of God is taking place.
The Kingdom of Heaven upsets the world in major ways, and effects the world in major ways.
If we’re going to walk in the fullness of our assignment in the kingdom of God, we cannot walk in step with the culture of this world.
Flipping The Script
Colossians 3:1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Life comes from above.
Genesis 1:7 God made this space to separate the waters of the earth from the waters of the heavens.
1. LIVE UP
4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Hebrews 10:14For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
I spend my life on earth continually becoming who I already am in Heaven.
As a Christian I get to choose the Kingdom I live from.
Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
2. KILL OFF
Colossians 3:5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
Romans 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
live = means to enjoy real life, to have true life, endless life, in the kingdom of God.
3. PUT ON
Colossians 3:10 Put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Romans12:1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.”
