The Kingdom of God

The main deliverances 4

The Laws we are under 5

Preface 7

A Prayer to Follow Jesus as Your Lord and Saviour 7

The prayer of Repentance 7

How does one enter The Kingdom of God 9

The Calling of A Christian 9

The Rule of The Kingdom 21

The Gospel of The Kingdom and Citizenship of Heaven 22

What is the Gospel of The Kingdom 22

What replaces the things of the Kingdom in most churches these days 23

The Gospel of The Kingdom deals with the whole person 23

The ministry of Jesus was Holistic 24

The Great Commission 24

The going into all nations 25

The Importance of People to Jesus 26

Power of The Kingdom 26

A lesson in regards to light as follows: 27

Jesus was an evangelist! 27

How are we to repent? 28

In Summary we are to preach 28

What is the purpose of Evangelism? 29

Why has the world not been reached yet? 29

God’s Business 30

Revival 31

An overview of how it all fits together 31

What is the Christian Life? 32

The Wonder of it all 32

Relationships with Jesus 35

Relationship to Him as God 35

Creator 35

He is the judge of all who live 35

Lawgiver 35

Judge 36

Relationship to Him as Lord of all 36

Saviour 36

Redeemer 36

Relationship to Him as King of heaven and earth 37

Ministry of Jesus at the Moment 37

Intercedes for ever for us With The Father 37

Maintains heaven for our benefit 37

Relationship to him as a person 38

Rewards in the Kingdom 38

The ‘Gospel’ 40

Gospels Mentioned in The New Testament 40

What is The Gospel all about? 40

Why don’t people defend The Gospel and Jesus? 41

A History of Salvation 42

The Kingdom and the individual 45

What is our relationship to God? 46

Our Position in Jesus 46

The Things of God 46

Idols 47

What will you give up? 47

Prayer and The Kingdom 49

The Two Kingdoms 50

Evangelism and Representing The Kingdom 51

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST 52

A statement of the Gospel and Atonement 52

What Happened at Calvary 58

Salvation 58

Atonement 58

Jesus’ mission statement for ministry was as follows: 60

A Synopsis 64

The True Kingdoms 64

What does it mean to be a citizen of kingdom? 65

Status of The Citizen 66

What does the citizen of the Kingdom do? 67

They serve the king in various areas: 67

Kingdom Attitudes 69

It is all a matter of attitude. 69

What is the Christian life? 71

How does one live as a servant of Jesus? 71

Why become a follower of Jesus? 71

Why follow Jesus? 71

What danger were we in that He had to die in our place? 71

What does it mean to live as follower of Jesus? 72

How does this affect His followers? 72

How does our following Jesus affect out life 72

What did he do and how should we respond to this? 73

Ministry (serving the King) 73

Who to serve 74

Do you want to serve God? 74

Should we desire the gifts or signs? 75

Work of Holy Spirit 75

What is our role in evangelism? 76

Are the gifts of The Holy Spirit for today? 76

‘Sons of God’ 78

Appearances are deceptive. 80

Satan hides the truth 81

Stewardship and the Kingdom of God 81

The Christian in the Government 82

How then should a Christian who is a public official behave 83

The Challenge to the Christian Family 83

The Kingdom of God in Summary 83

Gospel of the Kingdom 85

Not of this earth 86

Other verses 86

Calvary, The Cross and salvation 88

Were we Saved at Cavalry? 88

What actually happened at Calvary? 90

An overview of how it all fits together 92

Atonement 92

Once Save Always Saved Error 93

What of those who have never hear of Jesus or Calvary? 93

The Father 95

His Work 95

He is God 95

Ministry to Us 95

His Relationship to Jesus 95

His Relationship to us 97

On Earth 97

Salvation 98

Children 100

When we pray to Him we are to approach Him as Holy and God (Mat 6:9) 100

The Father will honour all who serve Jesus (Jn 12:26) 100

Access to The Father is through Jesus (Eph 2:18) 101

In Heaven 101

Usage of words ‘The Father’ in the New Testament. 101

The Trinity and The Family 102

General Comments 102

This is was a message from The Father 104

The Fathers Heart in Ministry 105

Authority and The Father 106

When we Minister 106

How should we approach people? 107

The Church and The Kingdom of God 108

Definitions 108

Preamble 108

The New Covenant (Rom 8) 108

What is the purpose of the ‘church’? 109

The invisible church 110

Kingdom Living 110

Ecumenecism 111

Unity of The Spirit 111

Holy Unity 112

Ecumenecism should not be necessary 112

The Church and Matt 6:33 114

Why do church groups have to ask for money? 114

Opposing God’s Work 115

Excesses in the Church 116

In summary 116

Where to Worship God 117

Ministry and the church 118

Control By Ministers 118

Healing in Churches 120

Ecumenecism and the New Evangelical Movement 120

The Family and The Kingdom 123

Stewardship and the Kingdom of God 124

Stewardship and The Church 125

The church in Acts 126

The Apostle 131

Citizenship and The Kingdom of God 134

Entrance to The Kingdom of God 135

A New Creation 135

How is the relationship expressed? 136

What does it mean to be a citizen of a kingdom? 136

The Gifts and The Kingdom of God 137

Ministry. 137

What gifts should we desire for daily living? 137

Roles in The Kingdom of God 138

The King 138

The Citizens 138

The Work of a Citizen of The Kingdom 138

How does a Christian represent The Kingdom? 139

A summary as follows: 140

Serving Jesus 143

Unto Jesus 143

Jesus never asks us to do more than we can do (1 Cor 10:13) 144

How did Jesus Live 144

Holiness and The Kingdom 145

What attitudes should we have as a citizen of the Kingdom of God? 146

A warning about relationships 146

Self esteem, self-worth, self-value and criticism 148

How to handle negative remarks about yourself and Criticism 148

Heavenly Attitudes 149

Attitudes to living as a Citizen of The kingdom of God 150

Planning for the Future 151

God’s Peace 152

What is God’s Peace? 152

No Peace for The Wicked 153

The Witnesses to our Life 153

Psalm 23 155

God’s Servant 157

The servant is commissioned (Is 42.1–4) 157

The purpose of the servant is described Is 42.5–9 158

The commissioning of the servant is described Is 42.1–6 158

The servant’s reliance on God is spoken of Is 50.4–9 159

His steadfastness in God’s purpose is declared Is 52.13 – 53.12 159

The picture of The Servant of God 163

The Battle 165

The Armour of a Christian 165

The Weapons of a Christian 168

Rewards 169

God is our Reward 169

Some crowns mentioned as rewards are as follows: 170

Types of Rewards 171

Relational Gifts (a result of salvation) 171

Service Gifts (a result of our desire to serve God) 171

Rewards (These are for services rendered - a result of our obedience) 171

On The Gospel 173

The fall of the demons 173

Lucifer fell because of pride (Is 14:13-14). 173

Why did the other demons fall with him? 173

Satan Hides the The Truth 173

Satan copies Jesus 174

The Gospel of The Kingdom is Holistic 175

What is wrong with not preaching the Kingdom of God 175

What replaces the things of the Kingdom 175

The Eight Gospels 176

Preface 176

The Gospel of The Kingdom 176

The Gospel of Jesus 176

The Gospel of God’s Grace 177

The Gospel of God 177

The Gospel of Peace 177

The gospels of circumcision and uncircumcision 177

The gospel of your salvation 177

An Analogy 178

God is Love. 180

Is knowledge of Jesus necessary for salvation? 182

The Gospel in Outline 182

How a person decides to follow Jesus Christ 185

A Warning 188

Water Baptism 190

General Commentary 190

Water Baptism 191

Some comments on Baptism in the context of Christianity 192

Baptism of The Holy Spirit 193

What does it mean to be filled by The Holy Spirit 196

Baptism into His Suffering (Matthew 20:22,23) 197

Is Water or Spirit Baptism necessary for Salvation? 197

Does this explanation stand up to scrutiny in the above two verse? 198

Once Saved Always Saved? 200

An Examination of the Usage of Election and Predestinationin the New Testament 200

Election. 201

Predestination 201

Progress of Salvation 202

Salvation is 202

Salvation and citizenship must be related to The Kingdom of God 203

Heb 6:4-6 204

God elected those He knew would be saved 205

The Deception 205

Salvation plus works (Legalism) 206

Some verses that show endurance is required to preserve salvation 207

Hell and Judgment 209

What are the Torments of Hell? 210

Visions of Hell 210

The Church and Preaching Hell 212

The Kingdom of Heaven comes through force 212

How do you expand the Kingdom of God? 213

So how do we take it by force? 213

Judgment on the Land 213

What are the judgments on the land? 214

What is God’s Solution 214

Fasting 214

Repentance: 215

What is the responsibility of the church 215

Why is Anti Christ able to make peace so quicklywhen no one else has been able too? 215

The Second Coming 217

The Coming of Jesus 217

Note that there are two events: 217

The deception of the Antichrist 217

What is the purpose of The Tribulation? 218

The people left on earth after the Tribulation are of two classes: 218

The Effects of The Second Coming 220

The Marriage Feast of The Lamb 220

The Millennium 222

Epilogue 222

Heresy and Modern Bible Versions 223

Why have a chapter on heresy in a book on the Kingdom of God? 223

To identify heresy you need too: 224

How do they alter The Bible ? 224

The tow approaches to interpreting The Bile 225

The two main texts used today 227

Preservation of The Bible 229

Some wrong interpretation in modern bibles 231

The seven tests of truth 235

1 The Test of Antiquity 235

2 The Test of Numbers 235

3 Variety as a test of truth 236

4 Respectability or weight of truth 236

5 Continuity as a test of truth 236

6 Content as a test of truth. 237

7 Internal evidence as a test of truth 237

The results of the modern texts in the church 238

The heretical nature of modern Bible translations 239

Other theological errors 240

Evolution and The Bible 241

Websites to obtain more information from: 242

A Warning

Bible Study 243

Why do we need to know The Bible 243

Need to Hear the Holy Spirit 243

Attitude to study of The Bible 244

The Holy Spirit is our teacher 246

How to apply the Bible 247

Foundations for faith 249

In summary, we need to believe: 249

A Matter of Time 253

A Simple Doctrine 255

On God! 255

There are three separate people in God: 255

How do we know about God? 255

Can we prove God’s existence? 256

How can we describe God. 256

What are the names of God? 257

In what form does God exist? 257

The Bible 258

What is The Bible? 258

How did God Give us The Bible? 258

Who interprets The Bible to us? 258

How do we know the correct books are in the Bible? 258

The Father 259

Jesus The Christ 260

The Holy Spirit 261

Angels 263

Good Angels 263

Bad Angels (Satan and his demons) 263

Man and Sin 264

Man has three parts 265

What is sin? 265

Salvation. 266

Can you lose your Salvation? 267

What should be our motivation for following Jesus as lord? 268

What assurance do we have of our salvation occurring? 268

The War 268

The church. 269

The Purpose of the local assembly. 270

What Commands has God given His Citizens? 270

The Future 271

Life with and without God 273

Prophecy to the church 10 05 2002 274

Principles 275

Warnings to Church pastors and leaders 287

Things that are not done or Misunderstood in regard to churches 287

Nine things that are wrong with Christianity 287

What is not usually done by the denominational church 287

How to stifle a church 289

What is not preached 290

Does it Matter? 291

A Simple Quiz 291

What Gospel did Jesus preach? 291

What was the ministry of Jesus? 291

Who owns your church building? 292

What are the two main purposes of the church? 292

Can person get to heaven without knowing of Jesus? 292

What two things are churches doing that hinder the return of Jesus? 292

Why must denominations destroy the church of Christ? 292

What do we take with us when we die? 292

What signs did Jesus say would follow those that believed in Him and are these signs in your life? 292

Psalm 18 - A prophetic Psalm 293

Why Psalm 18? 296

Comments on the sections 297

He shows what type of people will be delivered from the Tribulation. 298