The Kingdom of God
The Laws we are under 5
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
In summary, we need to believe: 249
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
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