The Warrior Priesthood Revolution
CHAPTER 19 (Portion -one)
"The key from the Kingdom of God has become specified to you personally," (Mk. four:eleven)
Over almost every other matter, Jesus Christ who was God in the flesh (Jn. ten:thirty), discussed the Kingdom of God again and again once again. Bible scholars advise us that the undisputed heart of all Jesus' essential teachings focus on the theme with the "Kingdom of God." The KINGDOM is talked about much more than every other matter in The brand new Testament (162 moments). So why is there continue to a great deal discussion and confusion among the modern day theologians and Christians currently about When the Kingdom of God has arrive or Not? Jesus claimed, "But to those on the outside anything is alleged in parables so that, "'they may be ever viewing but never ever perceiving, and at any time Listening to but hardly ever understanding; or else they might change and be forgiven!" (Mk. 4:11-twelve). Jesus told parables in public to unbelievers, but he privately exposed the Tricks of God to his disciples. Jesus mentioned, "For almost everything that is definitely Concealed will sooner or later be brought in to the open, and each Top secret are going to be introduced to Mild," (Mk. 4:22). Jesus said, "he who may have (spiritual) ears, Permit him hear," (Mk. 4:nine). Jesus also explained, "... I have come into this environment, so which the blind will see... " (Jn. 9:39). "They are the things God has Disclosed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit queries all items, even the DEEP Issues of God," (one Cor. 2:ten).
Could there potentially be Hidden Keys of God which can unlock The key to Information? Jesus was a radical rebel who condemned the spiritual leaders of his day for taking away The important thing to Knowledge: "Woe for you specialists during the legislation, as you have taken away the Key to Know-how. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who ended up entering," (Lk. 11:fifty two). The Bible speaks from the familiarity with the Secrets and techniques with the Kingdom of Heaven (Mt. thirteen:11); the Mysteries of Christ and God's Will (Eph. 3:four); and the Hidden Manna (Rev. two:seventeen). The Holy Ghost teaches us all issues (Jn. 14:26): "The ANOINTING you gained from him remains in you, and you do not will need anyone to teach you," (1 Jn. 2:27). In actual fact, because the Holy Ghost uncovered "Solution Things" (Deut. 29:29) for the Apostle Paul, we are actually equipped to know the mysteries of God the Outdated Testomony prophets plus the angels couldn't even understand within their time (Eph. 3:3-5; 1 Pet. one:eleven-twelve). The Bible tells us that many Mysteries of God will probably be sealed up until finally the tip of time (Dan. 12:4; Rev. ten:four). So, if we've been presently dwelling eventually Situations, what is this Kingdom Secret?
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS IN OUR MIND ~ We have the Mind of Christ (one Cor. two:16)
"The Coming of the Kingdom of God isn't something that can be noticed, nor will persons say, 'Below it truly is,' or 'There it truly is,' since the Kingdom of God is Inside YOU," (Lk. seventeen:twenty-21)
Several Christians who pray the lord's prayer are still looking ahead to "Thy Kingdom to come back," (Mt. 6:ten). These are advised that when Jesus returns, he will rapture them up to God's Kingdom. But, Jesus instructed us to pray that God's will likely be performed on the planet. Following Jesus resurrected from the lifeless and ascended to heaven, he sent the Holy Spirit to invade Earth earth, and his Church was born on Pentecost. Jesus informed his followers which the Kingdom of God has previously come: "if I push out demons through the finger of God, then the Kingdom of God has arrive at you" (Lk. 11:twenty; Mt. twelve:28). The exact same verb "has arrive" (ephthasen) is made use of continuously, and it clearly signifies "is now current" (Rm. nine:31; 2 Col. 10:fourteen; Phil. 3:16; one Thes. two:16). Paul claimed, "Let this Brain be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus," (Phil. two:5).
The key of your Kingdom of God is realizing that God's Kingdom exits "Within Us" while in the "spirit dimension" the place Jesus is King. So, if Jesus could be the King of your coronary heart and Existence, then the Kingdom is Within just You. Understanding and comprehension the Kingdom of God, commences Together with the operate of God's Spirit inside our hearts and Minds. In the ANOINTING, baptism and advice on the Holy Spirit, believers can hold the "Intellect of Christ." Our hearts and minds can rise within the spiritual deadness of staying blind and ignorant to noticing our long term Eternal existence within our glorified bodies - to under no circumstances mature aged and turn out to be immortal. By constantly expending time with Christ through prayer and meditation, looking through and finding out God's Word, and fellowshipping with God's individuals, we can have some Perception into God's strategies, thoughts, and steps. God developed us to worship him in His Kingdom inside our minds and to like him with all our heart, soul, strength, and intellect (Lk. ten:27).
HOW CAN WE ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD-? ~ Repent and become Born All over again-!
"Repent, for your Kingdom of Heaven has arrive in close proximity to," (Mt. 4:17)
Jesus' 1st command when he commenced preaching was to Repent. The phrase translated as 'Repent' (Greek term "metanoia") implies to possess a alter of intellect and coronary heart (to think differently about anything). In cases like this, that "One thing" may be the Kingdom of God that has appear in close proximity to. The urgency was that God experienced invaded earth in Jesus Christ and guy did not require any obsolete Structured Religions any longer (Heb. eight:13). Jesus and John the Baptist had been the two Sacrilegious rebels that opposed Arranged Religion (Mt. three:two). John condemned his religious leaders for a "brood of vipers" (Mt. 3:7) or even a spouse and children of snakes. John was essentially calling his church leaders on the day "sons of serpents" or devils. Jesus also repeated this: "You brood of vipers! How can you converse excellent, when you are evil" (Mt. 12:34)? Jesus cleansed the Temple twice (Jn. 2:fifteen; Mt. 21:twelve), and he was charged with Blasphemy for healing the sick on the Sabbath (Mk. 3:3). Jesus would like us to REPENT - convert far from the SIN of believing in Institutional Religions to avoid wasting Us.
Both of those Jesus and John the Baptist are commanding us to REPENT or change from our ritualistic, regular, spiritual formalism (all Organized Religions) and to surrender to Jesus our King. The Apostle Peter provides us even further guidance on what we must do. At Pentecost, he informed his fellow Israelites that, "... God has manufactured this Jesus, whom you crucified, the two Lord and Messiah." When the individuals listened to this, they ended up Slice to the guts and said to Peter, "Brothers, what shall we do?" Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, Each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of one's sins. And you will receive the reward (ANOINTING) of the Holy Spirit." (Functions two:37-38).
We have to BE ANOINTED While using the HOLY SPIRIT ~ To be Born Again-!
"Very truly I tell you, no you can enter the Kingdom of God Until These are born of Drinking water plus the Spirit," (Jn. 3:5)
Jesus informed the Jewish Higher Priest Nicodemus that he should be "Born Again" to enter the Kingdom of God. Jesus referred to remaining bodily born of drinking water (in our mom's womb) and getting spiritually reborn to find out God's Kingdom. This was and nonetheless is actually a revolutionary thought - much like "THE MATRIX" Motion picture: "Neo discovers that he's living in a earth that's been produced to cover the truth from human beings, in which people are saved as slaves. He learns the truth and his spiritual eyes are opened to see "God's Kingdom." We enter the Kingdom by Religion. Becoming born yet again prepares us to "rule collectively as kings" with Christ (2 Tim. two:12). How are we born yet again? "Should you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your coronary heart that God raised him with the dead, you can be saved," (Rom. ten).
The Apostle Paul tells us that those who have only been baptized in drinking water as a ritual to join a church are incomplete: "For John baptized with Water, but in a couple of days you will be Baptized Together with the Holy Spirit," (Functions 1:5). They've got not received the Present with the Holy Spirit, since they have not been Anointed (baptized) because of the Holy Spirit. This really is confirmed by Paul from the Reserve of Acts (19:2-6). Paul states: "Now it can be God who makes each us and you stand company in Christ. He ANOINTED us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit within our hearts being a deposit, guaranteeing what on earth is to return," (two Cor. two:21-22). So, if we have to be Anointed via the Holy Spirit - Did The daddy anoint the Son - Jesus with OIL -?
GOD ANOINTED JESUS WITH HOLY OIL ~ As our Everlasting "Superior" Priest-!
"Therefore God, your God, has established you above your companions by ANOINTING you Using the Oil of Joy," (Heb. one:nine)
The Apostle Paul from the e book of Hebrews, quotations the above mentioned verse with the Outdated Testament, where by it states that God will Anoint the Messiah with the Oil of Pleasure (Psalm forty five:7). This was a prophecy about Jesus becoming anointed Using the Oil of Pleasure to be the future Messiah. In the New Testomony, Jesus fulfills this prophecy when he prices the prophet Isaiah, who states that God will Anoint the future Messiah (Jesus) Using the Oil of Gladness (Is. sixty one:1). Jesus stated, "The Spirit from the Lord is on me, since he has ANOINTED me to proclaim good news into the lousy. He has sent me to proclaim liberty for that prisoners and recovery of sight with the blind, to set the oppressed free,... " (Lk. four:18). Paul also claims that, "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth With all the Holy Spirit and energy,... " (Functions 10:38).
The New Testomony reveals 3 (three) more accounts of Jesus staying ANOINTED. The initial party transpired in your house of Simon Chocolope the Pharisee, at the least two many years prior to the Crucifixion, when John the baptist was nonetheless alive. An mysterious woman who was a notorious sinner (prostitute) ANOINTED Jesus' toes. Jesus forgave her sins and also rebuked Simon for not Anointing his head with Oil (Lk. 7:36-fifty). The next celebration occurred in the home of Lazarus in Bethany, 6 times before the Passover. At the moment Mary, the sister of Lazarus and Martha ANOINTED Jesus' feet (Jn. twelve:1-8). The last ANOINTING of Jesus occurred in the house of Simon the Leper in Bethany, just just before Jesus was crucified. An mysterious girl ANOINTED Jesus' head (Mt. 26:6-13).
THE ANOINTED 1 ~ Christ's Title ("You are definitely the Christ," Mk. eight:29)
"Christ liked us and gave himself up for us as a Fragrant Providing," (Eph. 5:2)
Do you know that Jesus' previous name isn't "CHRIST"? In fact, his to start with title just isn't and never ever was "Jesus." Actually? His mother and father Mary and Joseph gave him a quite popular Jewish title - Yeshu'a (Joshua). Christ is not and hardly ever was Jesus' previous identify. Jesus was prophesied since the promised Messiah (the Christ) or environment savior in the primary ancient path prophecy in Genesis (Gen. three:15). The Hebrew phrase for Christ is Messiah as well as Greek word for Messiah is Christ. Both of those indicate the Anointed One. So Jesus could be the Christ or even the Messiah. He is definitely the ANOINTED a single. CHRIST is not his previous title, but his title - Jesus the Christ (Messiah, Savior) or Jesus the Anointed One. Jesus was created the Christ by staying ANOINTED by God's Holy Anointing Oil in Heaven (Heb. 1:9). Jesus had to be baptized by John and Anointed from the Holy Spirit to the MELCHIZEDEK priesthood and start his ministry to be the High Priest plus the Holy Sacrifice for our sins. The muse of Jesus's Priesthood is based on getting from the get of Melchizedek: "You (Jesus) really are a Priest without end, from the order of Melchizedek." This can be documented seven situations (Ps. one hundred ten:4, Heb.: five:6, 10; six:20; seven:1,eleven,17).
CHRISTIANS ARE Known as ~ The Anointed Ones ("little Christs")
Paul reported, "We're like a sweet-smelling AROMA "Incense" supplied by Christ to God," (2 Cor. 2:15)
It had been in Antioch the disciples of Jesus ended up first referred to as "Christians" or minor Christs (Acts 11:26). The title began like a slanderous nickname (just like a Jesus Freak), until the whole world identified that these "little Christs" had been also ANOINTED by Jesus plus the Holy Spirit to carry out signals and wonders. It had been because of the life of such very first followers of Jesus that modified the entire world by way of their ANOINTING, that the title Christian turned a reputation of admiration, respect and marvel. The Apostle Paul mentions two gifts God gives us once we turn into believers: (one) The Seal of Possession - this exhibits who our Master (King) is, and (2) The Holy Spirit - This shows that Jesus "ANOINTED us, established his seal of possession on us, and set his Spirit inside our hearts for a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come," (two Cor. 1:21-22). The ANOINTING (Oil) from the Holy Spirit's energy functions in us to remodel us now, and what we working experience now is simply a style of the whole alter We are going to encounter in eternity. Paul repeats this educating again: "... Whenever you considered, you ended up marked in him that has a Seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who's a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance right until the redemption of those who are God's possession-towards the praise of his glory," (Eph. 1:13-14). Additionally, Luke writes to "Theophilus" (Lk. one:three-four), who is quoted with declaring the subsequent: "Do you think you're unwilling to be anointed Along with the Oil of God? Wherefore we have been referred to as Christians on this account, because we've been anointed Together with the Oil of God," (Theophilus of Antioch, 181 AD). So, does the Outdated Testomony point out anybody currently being Anointed with Holy Oil-?
THE "Concealed" HOLY ANOINTING OIL ~ From the Previous Testomony-! (Ex. 30:23-twenty five)
"The Spirit from the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has ANOINTED me to... to bestow on them... the OIL OF Pleasure as an alternative to mourning... " (Is. 61:one-three)
Inside the e book of Exodus, we will read through exactly where the Lord God initially gave Moses a Unique recipe for your sweet-smelling (perfume) Holy Anointing Oil. They burned oil for the light inside the tabernacle. Oil can be a symbol of God's Holy Spirit (Mt. 25:7). God directed the Israelites to use this sacred ANOINTING Oil to burn up Incense from the tabernacle also to anoint Aaron as well as the Levitical Priesthood. The holy "Oil of Anointing" shaped an integral Element of the ordination from the priesthood along with the Superior Priest together with within the consecration in the content of your Tabernacle (Exodus thirty:26). The primary objective of anointing Together with the holy anointing oil was to established the Anointed particular person or item apart or "Holy" for God's use ONLY (Exodus 30:29). God also requested that the Israelites make special choices to Him of "Spices for your ANOINTING Oil along with the fragrant INCENSE" (Ex. 35: 1-8). At first, the oil was used solely for the priests and also the Tabernacle content, but its use was later on extended to incorporate kings (I Samuel ten:one). It was forbidden to be used on an outsider or for use on the human body of any popular person. The Israelites were forbidden to duplicate it for themselves (Ex. thirty:33). The penalty was Demise (Lev. ten:1-2).
We realize that when God anointed his Prophets (1 Kg. 19:16), Priests (Ex. forty:13), and Kings (one Sam.sixteen: 3,thirteen) together with his Holy Anointing Oil, the Spirit in the Lord came on them in electrical power and they could preach, prophesy, witness, accomplish miraculous healings, see visions, and aspiration dreams of the longer term. These identified as-out ones would change into unique men and women (2 Cor. 5:seventeen). One example is, we see this take place when God's prophet Samuel anoints Saul as King over Israel: "Then Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it on Saul's head and kissed him, expressing, "Has not the Lord ANOINTED you ruler about his inheritance? (1 Sam. 10:one). Samuel then tells Saul: "The Spirit in the Lord will occur powerfully upon you, and you may prophesy with them; and you will be adjusted into a special human being," (1 Sam. 10:six-seven). Viewing the recurring effects of God's Holy Anointing Oil, some have speculated that God's Specific recipe for this Holy Oil contained a supernatural substance from your Tree of Life while in the Back garden of Eden.