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What Is The Gospel Of The Kingdom? . . . Mobile Conference 2005
Kat:
HUMBLE YOURSELF
I have read you what God has in store for us. A kingdom of priests, royal, kingly, holy, Godly nation, special precious people unto God. Judges, saviors, sons of God, lords, kings, you don’t get lifted any higher than that in the universe in all eternity ever. That the pinnacle, that’s it that’s the ultimate height.
Now notice what James says.
James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
You’ve got to be humble, it’s of paramount importance. But be careful how you judge people. You know I can raise my voice, I can even be a little sarcastic and some people think that is haughty. But they don’t know me and that’s alright. Sometimes when they go a little overboard on that, I copy and paste from my ‘Jesus Christ to the Pharisees.’ Where I just take out all the terms - hypocrites, lying two faced, blind guides, generation of snakes and I send it to them. I say do you think Christ is humble? “Well yea, He was.’ So you can lift your voice and call a spade a spade and still be humble? ‘Well He can, but you can’t.’ Oh okay, but I thought we were suppose to be like Him? Christ is the anointed and guess what? So are we, we are the anointed, Christ lives in us. We are the heavens of the Father's dwelling place.
A friend of mine wrote a book, about how to leave church without leaving God or something like that. He sent me the manuscript before it went to press. I said to him, you can’t say these things, I mean it had some really foul language. I said you can not use language like that, it won’t fly. I said to him, Paul said don’t let any filthy communication come out of your mouth (Eph. 4:29). Do you know what his response was to me? Well I’m not Paul and I don’t claim to be Paul. But what does the gospel of Paul say? Follow me as I follow Christ. We are suppose to be like Paul. That’s not humble to say, well I’m not Paul or I’m no Christ, as He is so are we in the world. Isn’t that what John said,
1John 4:17 …because as He is, so are we in this world.
Peter said He left us an example, that we walk and we follow in His footsteps.
1Peter 2:21 For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:
I mean we don’t even walk beside or behind Him, but in the same steps.
Mat 23:5 But all their works they do to be seen by men.
James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
Mat 18:2 And Jesus called a little child to Him and set him in their midst,
v. 3 and said, Truly I say to you, except you are converted and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of Heavens.
v. 4 Therefore whoever shall humble himself like this little child, this one is the greater in the kingdom of Heaven.
Humility, God loves humility. When you see how weak you are, then God can show how strong He is. But if you are the 99 that don’t need saving, you won’t be saved.
Christ said…
Mat 9:13 For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.
That's tongue and cheek. There are no righteous, just those that think they are righteous.
Jesus said…
Mat 11:28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
v. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek (Greek there is gentle and humble) and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Jesus Christ was gentle and humble. Somebody just made the comment once to Him, they said “good master” and He said whoa whoa slow down.
Mat 19:17 So He said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.
Don’t call Me good. I mean if Jesus Christ says don’t even call Me good, that's humility. Because it isn’t that He didn’t know He did everything right and good, He just didn’t take credit for it. It was all of God. Come unto Me for I am gentle and meek and lowly and you shall receive rest unto your souls. Some people are in turmoil, they are in constant turmoil, they are not happy. Why? They are striving, they want to be happy, happiness it’s out there… it’s up there… it’s in the future, but they don’t have it.
I was going to talk today about who wants to be happy. But this one was going to be too long, so I scratched it. It was going to be either the one on the destiny of women or who wants to be happy. Happy lost.
Be humble, be teachable, read it, see it, believe it, do it. I don’t assume that everything I teach is automatically perfect. Certain things I know, I know when I’m on safe ground, I know. I mean I’ve been around the block a few times and I’ve repented before God. I understand spiritual principles, but I don’t claim to know it all. But when you live by the Word, then you understand the doctrine.
LAODICEAN - LUKEWARM - DECEIVED
Let me give you something powerful. Everybody has kind of a feeling, they say, ‘well nobody is perfect and I’m not perfect and therefore I’m okay, because nobody is perfect.’ This is the attitudes of Laodiceans, I’m lukewarm. What does God say about lukewarmness? "I will vomit you out of My mouth."
There is either light or darkness with God. Jesus Christ says if you are not for Me, you are against Me. ‘Well wait there must be something in between, you can be pretty much, maybe not completely.’ No, you are either for Me or against Me. If you are lukewarm you are totally deceived.
Rev 3:14 "And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, "These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God:
v. 15 "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.
v. 16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth.
v. 17 Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods (‘oh I understand these truths, I know all this, I could teach it, I could write articles on this, I know these things, they are second nature to me’), and have need of nothing; and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.
Wow, it doesn’t say you are a little deceived, I mean come on. Here is somebody that believes in God, these are members of the church of God, this is the seventh phase, Laodicea. “you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know…” You don’t know you are totally deceived… “that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.”
You are like the emperor that had no clothes on and when somebody says ‘you don’t have any clothes on.’ He get’s angry with you and says beat that servant. The truth of the matter is he doesn’t have any clothes on and you are just trying to save him some embarrassment. But he hates the servant and would whip the servant that would ever suggest such a thing.
HIDDEN TREASURE
Rev 3:18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold tried in the fire…
Buy it, that is the hidden treasures. The “gold tried in the fire” is the hidden treasure. Buy it whatever it takes, sell everything you’ve got and buy it. That’s what you want, you want that gold tried in the fire. That’s what you want. You are either for Me or against Me.
Remember in verse 10 James said, “humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord.” Now back up in verse 6 notice what it says.
James 4:6 But He gives more grace. Therefore He says, God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.
He resists the proud. If you start to go with these truths… I’m talking about when you left your first love and now you are coming back, if you don’t grow in these truths, God will resist you.
If you don’t grow you are like the man that took his talent and wrapped it in a napkin and hid it, so it can’t grow. Guess what? You will lose the one talent you had. If you had some abilities and you are not growing, guess what? God will take them away, He will take them away and you will lose what you had. He will resist the proud.
Psalms 119:165 Great peace have they who love Your law (and we know that God‘s Law is spiritual), and nothing (not anything) shall offend them.
If you are living by God’s Law, you can’t be offended. You will only pity the poor slob who tries to put you down. If you are not offended, truly not offended, you will be a king who will bring judgment to that person one day. Then they will learn to be humble like you.
So God has great things in store for the few, the called, the chosen, the humble. The ones that are like little children, just wanting to do the will of their Father.
Kings - lords - priests - a royal nation - a peculiar people - a special people to God. It’s all at hand, that how close it is, it’s at hand.
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