In Your Bible Read This
Isaiah 11, and 12
Here Are Your Memory
Verses
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given,
and the
government
will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful
Counsellor,
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase
of his
government and peace there will be no end. Isaiah 9.6-7
Afterwards Talk About
This
What difference would it make if more committed
Christians
entered
the pillars of society that we have identified and stood for God
and for the people?
Something To Do Before
Next Time
Organise a meeting for businessmen, teachers,
reporters,
government workers and so on to pray for them and to
encourage them as kingdom missionaries.
Written Diploma Work
Write a brief article for a church or
denomination’s
magazine encouraging the believers to take the kingdom
of God into the pillars of the nation.
Meditate Word By Word On
This Verse
Proverbs 11.10 and 11.
- Spend
a Minute to Change the World
- Pray
For Somalia - 8,000,000 in four major clans 99.96% Muslim,
- Failed
by Islam, nation destroyed by anarchy, intensely dangerous place
- Be
sure to teach this lesson to others.
- Always
pray and prepare well adding
- your
own verses and stories to bring it to life.
We discover the mission of the kingdom and
kingdom strategy to accomplish it every time we pray the prayer
the Lord Jesus gave us, Matthew 6, 9-10, "Our Father in
heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be
done on earth as it is in heaven."
The Mission Is To Exalt The King
As the peoples of the earth join heaven in
praise and worship to their rightful King, Revelation 4.8-11; 5, 9-14.
The Strategy Is To Extend His
Righteous Kingdom Rule
Of the increase of Christ’s government and
peace there will be no end, Isaiah 9.7, so step by step all the
territory usurped by Satan through treachery and folly in Eden will be
recovered. Kingdom is wherever the King, and the constitution of the
kingdom of God reigns and necessarily conflicts with the kingdoms of
Satan, man and this world.
At the Cross only a few friends confessed
Christ as their Lord, God and Coming King but today hundreds of
millions of people happily bow the knee and confess Jesus as Lord with
their lips. His government is increasing.
The Kingdom Will Come
One day there will peace on earth between man
and God, between man and his fellow man, nature and the environment.
When the Kingdom comes in fullness the earth will be full of the
knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Isaiah 9, 1-9; 11.9.
1. The
Advancing Kingdom
The Kingdom mission strategy has three
strands to increase the government of the King -
- 1. Mission in every believer.
- 2. Mission in every nation.
- 3. Mission in all the world.
"A return to the King and his Kingdom will
stir every local community, its media, its business and industry. A
return will radically affect the world of entertainment, politics,
education and medicine and bring about a clash of values and
personalities, but primarily of spirits because the Spirit of the
kingdom of God is altogether different from the spirit of the kingdom
of darkness. Not only are they different but they stand opposed to one
another!"
From Gerald Coates, Kingdom Now
World famous writer H G Wells, who was not a
believer said, "The most radical proposal ever presented to the mind of
men is the proposal to replace the world order with God’s order, the
Kingdom of God." That’s a very good description of the kingdom mission.
2. Mission To
Every
Believer
Paul wrote in Phil. 2,12-13; and
1.6,
"Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,
for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to
his good purpose," and "being confident of this, that
he who began a good
work in you will carry it on to
completion until the day of Christ Jesus." You will discover
the many ways that God is doing his own mission work in you as
you work through this course.
3. Mission To
Every
Nation
Every nation has its pillars which hold
society in place and greatly influence the lives of the people
for better or for worse, towards God and righteous living or
towards Satan, corruption, injustice, inequality and widespread
misery.
The Pillars
Of Society
Government
National and local politics, the
adminis-tration, the courts of justice and prisons.
Family
Marriage, medicine, hospitals, care of the
poor, the homeless, the orphans.
Media
The press, radio, magazines, TV ‘stars,’
computers, the Internet.
The Arts
Music and songwriting, painting, writing,
poetry, sculpture and design.
Entertainment
Sports, cassettes, CD’s, videos, theatre,
cinema, holiday resorts.
Religion
The beliefs, the churches, mosques, temples,
idols and superstitions.
Education
From kindergarten and junior schools to high
schools and universities.
Business
The boardroom, the bank, the stock-exchange and
the workplace.
God wants every believer to join him in his
mission to increase righteous kingdom rule in the nation. Since
the Garden of Eden each of the pillars in every nation has been
dominated to a greater or lesser degree by Satan’s kingdom,
but since the Cross the way has been open to drive out the
disarmed powers of darkness and bring in the Kingdom of God. Col.
2.15.
Salt And Light
Kingdom rule increases when believers see
themselves not as employees or employers but as missionaries sent by
God into all the different worlds within their own nation to redeem the
peoples in there for the King. By prayer, by faith and by righteous
living the mission of Kingdom advances, God is praised and a nation
changes little by little.
Men Should See Your Good Deeds
Read Matthew 5, 13-16.
When the righteous prosper, the city
rejoices; through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by
the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed. Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin is a disgrace to any people. Proverbs 11.10,11; Proverbs 14.34.
4. Mission To
All The
World
Isaiah 11.9 says that one day the earth
will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the
sea. This is the Great Kingdom Mission or Commission and you will
find a whole section in this book about your call from God to
join him in it. Matthew 28,19; and 22, 36-40.
To Close Pray For The
World's Most Unreached Peoples By Name
Taken from the Joshua Project Unreached
Peoples List these people have no churchand as yet
no cell, church or mission has committed themselves
to prayer, adoption or church planting among this people.
Vietnam
|
People
Name
|
Language
|
Population
|
Kim Mun (Mun,
Gem Mun)
|
Kim Mun
|
90,000
|
Phu Thai
|
Phu Thai
|
150,000
|
|