KINGDOM DEVELOPS YOUR BELIEF SYSTEM PART 1

John Chapter 9







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Numbers 24:7




He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom H4467 shall be exalted.







KINGDOM





Today we look to the word-KINGDOM- H4467 mamlâkâh, (mam-law-kaw') -dominion, (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm):—kingdom, king's, reign, royal





The Torah testifies...............




Exodus 19:6




And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.




Numbers 32:33




And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom H4467 of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom H4467 of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.




Deuteronomy 17:18




And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, H4467 that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:






The prophets proclaim..................




1 Samuel 10:18




And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, H4467 and of them that oppressed you:





Isaiah 9:7




Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.






Jeremiah 18:9




And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom H4467, to build and to plant it;









The writings bear witness...........................





1 Kings 9:5




Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom H4467 upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.





1 Chronicles 17:11




And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom H4467.




Psalm 145:13




Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.







Kingdom Develops Your Belief System Part 1




This afternoon we are discussing the challenges of life that we face sometimes. They can be very unexpected, many times but when you are living in the kingdom of The Most High--you have to understand the keys of the kingdom of The Most High! Yahusha said it has been given to you to know the keys of the Kingdom. We want to focus on faith in the Kingdom from a different perspective than you may normally have heard. We want to talk about the power of Kingdom faith. I am convinced that you should not trust anyone who has not been tested!! Somehow we've developed the idea that testing is a sin. Going through a test is some kind of an indication that you are out of The Most High's will and this is a very dangerous misconception. Somehow we believe that when things are not the way we think they should be, then we begin to wonder if something is wrong with us or wrong with other people or maybe we are not doing something that is right or maybe even thinking that we are sinning. Somehow we relate tests and challenges with sin and I want to correct that this morning because that is not true. You remember if you read the Bible in the four Gospels--there was an incident where Yahusha met a man who was blind and the story actually says he was blind from birth and the religious leaders had already concluded what caused him to be blind. So when Yahusha came into the village and the blind man cried out for help he went to the blind man and he began to address the situation. One of the religious leaders said to him before he acted he said, master, was this man born blind because of the sins of his parents? Interesting and that question is still asked today in your mind and in the life of our community. So it's important for you to have an answer to that question. So if your house is burning down, should that be your first question?? Or maybe the comments of other people around you shift immediately to questions of integrity. What are you doing wrong? Why? If you weren't doing something wrong your house wouldn't have burned down. So they assumed that the burning house was payback for sin. Your baby died in the womb, there is a miscarriage. Here comes the question--what are you not doing right? Maybe your husband is sinning, maybe you aren’t paying your tithes, maybe the Most High left you. They build this massive case against the experience of something that seemed to be negative. This is a very common human experience. So here is Yahusha facing a major issue, where a man has a physical problem. He cannot see and the religious people have already concluded why he's blind. They say he's blind because his father and mother must have sinned as if The Most High gets you if you sin!! And Yahusha answered wonderfully, He said this man is not blind because of anybody's sin. He said, but this blindness is for the glory of The Most High. Now there's a shock. It may be helpful then to discuss the word glory a little bit because, if a handicap or a problem or a challenge or a test of blindness is connected to glory, then give me more blindness!! And there's your paradox, okay write the word glory down just so that we can deal with the comment of Yahusha. The word glory is the word doxa, doxa. This is a Greek word doxa, this blindness is for the glory of The Most High. Here's what it means--write this down, it means nature. Nature or it means true weight. It also means heavy. This blindness is to show the glory, the doxa of The Most High. How can this problem reveal the nature of The Most High? Well nature has to do with what something is like. What is The Most High like? Well the only way to know what The Most High is like is for Him to reveal His nature. You can only know how strong someone is when they try to lift something. So you can brag about how strong you are as much as you want. The test is what you can lift so the test reveals your true nature. Are you really strong? So testing is not demonic activity. Testing is built into the system of faith. Yahusha said The Most High made sure this man could not see until this moment. Because I have to show you what The Most High's power is like. So I need blindness so I could show you that The Most High could make blind men see. It's not even the seeing that's important nor the blindness. What's important is to show you that The Most High can do this work!! Are you with me?? So The Most High's strength, His power is revealed in tests so I want to talk about this power of Kingdom faith. In the kingdom of The Most High, it is not a lazy, shallow, timid frightened community of people. We're tough--if I wrote the Bible from my own inspiration I would have canceled 80% of the stories in the Bible because 80% of stories in the Bible are full of trouble and yet the Bible is packed full of acts of faith under pressure. As a matter of fact, no one made the Bible without going through tests--just think about some names and you think about trouble don't you. Abraham, trouble: can't have a baby. Moses, trouble: can't talk and The Most High never healed this tongue and he was a murderer--trouble. Jacob stole his brother's birthright, he’s a thief. I wouldn't put that in the Bible. If I was Jacob, I would put good things in, not that I was a thief. But that's what makes them so great. They were able to go through and come out the other side better than when they went through. The Most High that we serve doesn't protect you from problems--He proves you through problems!!! You know the last few years in the church community around the world I'm talking about, maybe the last 30 to 40 years or more there have been incubating a theology that places a negative spirit on testing. Almost to the point where it is suggested that if you are not doing well you must not be doing right. And if that were true, then we get to cancel Moses, we get to cancel Jacob, and cancel Obadiah and Jonah and Daniel and Shadrach and Meshach and especially Abignego. I mean these guys weren’t doing anything wrong and The Most High let them go into fire. Now let me ask you to write some statements down. I want to talk about the value of your faith.

The most important power you possess is your faith. Please remember this. I want to strongly reinforce this reality. What is the most important power you possess? My faith, that's the most powerful thing you possess! When you lose that--you have lost. Not only is faith the most important, powerful thing you have. But it is the only thing that threatens the hasatan. As long as you have that he cannot succeed. Your faith is your only protection.

Faith is your belief and your conviction that creates your confidence in life. You can only have confidence, if you possess faith. When you lose faith you cannot be confident you become wavering--you become questioning. You become weak and all the forces of Earth run over you and destroy your life. As a matter of fact when you lose your belief and your conviction there's no reason to live after that.

Your faith is manifested by the tests it encounters. So how do I know if you have faith?? There has to be a test, the only way faith can be manifested is through a test. This is why The Most High would many times take his time answering your prayer. It ain't the answer nor the prayer--He wants to know what you're going to do while you are waiting. Are you still going to have confidence in the waiting period? So I'm no longer impressed by your bragging of how great The Most High is to you. I want to see how great He is when the bottom falls out. That's the test.

Your faith is as strong as the test it survives. The Most High will only know the level of your faith by the tests He allows you to face--that you survive.

Testing of your faith is The Most High's prerequisite for trusting you. Let me say it again, testing of your faith is heaven's prerequisite for trusting you. The word prerequisite simply means before a requirement, necessary before something. The Most High will never trust what He didn't test and if you call the test negative--you will never be trusted by The Most High. How you handle pressure, test, attacks and challenges is The Most High's laboratory of experiment for Him to trust you. Oh you can think of a thousand examples right just like that--I think the best example of all is Yahusha Himself at thirty years old. At the age of 12 he knew his mission. He told His mother I must be about My Father's business. Then at His birth, the angels announced that He was the Son of The Most High. The wise men came and confirmed it and yet The Most High didn't trust it. and now He's ready at age thirty because it takes a thirty year--old to become a rabbi or one who was a teacher in His culture. So at 30 He's now ready to begin His mission and The Most High says not yet let me test you first. So The Most High took Him dipped him in the water, brought him back out He confirmed that My beloved Son but I still don't trust you yet and the Bible says the Ruach HaQadesh led Him into the wilderness to be tested. And the word tested there is the word tempted. Wow. Then at the end of the test, 40 days and 40 nights, the Bible says when He had passed the test that there's a verse after that it says and Yahusha left the desert filled with the Ruach HaQadesh without measure. In other words you know The Most High would give you the Ruach HaQadesh on the front side of the test, but when you finish the test He baptizes you in a special power--why because you're gonna need it for the next test. Do you know that as soon as He came out of the wilderness, filled with the Ruach HaQadesh--the first thing He met was not a celebration party. What He met out of the desert was a demon-possessed man. Right into the next test. Sometimes you say Most High we just went through a tough time give us a break. The Most High said, listen the life of Kingdom citizens is proving their faith. If He had to test Himself, who do you think you are? I think the most dangerous prayer you could ever pray and some of you have prayed it and there is great ignorance in this prayer--Most High use me. Listen, don't pray that prayer--it's too late and I've already done it and that's why you're going through a little hell right now. Because He's answering your prayers. If you want Him to use you like He used His son He is going to take you and lead you to the wilderness. You have to be qualified to be heard. Write that down--you have to be qualified to be trusted!! The Most High used no one He didn't test and so your faith is really as strong as the test it survives. You are tougher than what you're going through. So take heart!! Rejoice, be exceedingly glad!! Because great is your reward at the other end of the test.