When you are full of where you are, God having brought you thus far, but you are not full of God, you will miss your moment and frustrate the grace of God, no matter how anointed you think you are. Without the childlike discipline of seeking first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness you will think that you are grown and have arrived. Tragically, one of the greatest misconceptions of the Christian community is that our experiences with God signal God's approval and they do not.

God said, "MY people, (His people) are destroyed for lack (want) of knowledge....... Because thou has rejected knowledge thou shalt be no priests to me."

Paul told the Church at Ephesus that while it was great, wonderful and to be admired that they had faith towards Jesus and love of the brethren, that he was moved to pray for them that they would receive the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him (God). In other words, having a vertical relationship with God and a horizontal relationship with man is good, its great and wonderful, but its only the beginning. We need to receive the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God.

Paul was a Kingdom man. He preached the Kingdom and he taught about Christ. People would travel far and wide to come to Paul's rented house and it was from there that he would receive all that came in to him and he preached the Kingdom of God and taught them about Christ.

Paul said, "When you read my writings then you will understand the mysteries I have in God." Paul said in Rom. 14:17 "The Kingdom is not meat or drink but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost." In 1 Cor. 4:20 Paul says that the Kingdom is not in Word but in Power.

Philipp preached the Kingdom and so did James. James said "If you fulfill the ROYAL LAW of love then you do well." Peter preached the Kingdom. He said that you are "a ROYAL priesthood, a Holy Nation, a Peculiar (set apart) people who should show forth the praises of Him that has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Paul said in Col. 1:13 that you have been translated out of the dominion (kingdom) of darkness and into the Kingdom (dominion) of God's Son.

These men were not full of themselves counting themselves as having arrived. They did not gloat in their offices but instead acknowledged that their office was thier assignment and they lived the God-kind of life manifesting the God kind of power for the Kingdom purpose that God brought them forth for.

The Apostles knew and understood the Kingdom of God over time. Paul who came later was schooled by the same Holy Spirit through those who were appointed to him and brought Paul into the same revelation of our Kingdom citizenship and ambassadorship, having been called of God through Jesus Christ, to be one sent to the Gentiles that the Gentiles might believe the good news that the Kingdom has come, that Christ is the Messiah King of the Kingdom present and eternal, and that He is the only means of salvation for man and that we are all called of God to represent His kingdom and His Christ living in His image and likeness.

Paul caught the revelation and his assignment was to articulate what God was revealing and God was revealing His Kingdom to Paul, the very Kingdom Paul preached, and Jesus who Paul taught about while also boldly proclaiming that Jesus is King. Paul's assignment in part was to make the mysteries of the Kingdom and what Paul had come to know concerning the ministry of Jesus Christ and the purpose of man known to all who would have an ear to hear, particularly the Gentiles to who he was called, yet Paul's earnest desire was to his own countrymen, the Jews that they might be saved and know this same Kingdom and Christ that Paul had come to know.

How much do you really know about the Kingdom of God? Have you been seduced by the religious system too? Are you well versed in the doctrine of salvation but marginally developed in the doctrine of the Kingdom of God? Have you been preaching the gospel of repentance unto salvation and missed the mark when it comes to preaching the gospel Jesus preached? Do you have enough courage to repent, become as a child allowing yourself to learn now, what we all didn't even know we needed to know, so that the firm foundation of the Kingdom of God would be the underlayment, the foundation planks of the doctrine of salvation? Or will you be like so many, who are proud and puffed up, afraid to admit that we've been duped by a loving and well meaning religious system?

My prayer is that these truths will cause you to receive a Spirit of wisdom and revelation knowledge that you would fully embrace the whole counsel of God and not just that which they seduced us to believe is the whole gospel. Unless you are preaching the good news that the Kingdom has come, along with the good news that Christ is the Messiah King of the present, yet eternal kingdom, then you are not preaching the gospel Jesus preached and are not reaching the world with the gospel that will cause Jesus to return.

How much courage do you have? How much faith do you have? Is your faith directed towards Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith? If so, then rediscover the Kingdom, see the assignment, discover the restoration of your dominion and obey the commandment of Jesus to teach all that Jesus taught the disciples. If you will be willing and obedient you will seek first the Kingdom and His righteousness and what the Father tells you in secret you will declare from the roof-tops, and God will honor His Word through Jesus, God will give you what you need, the very things the Gentiles seek. What they chase after daily; food, shelter, what they are going to drink, where they are going to live, all these things, all the things necessary for life and godliness will be just added to you.

Grace and peace to you.

Matthew 6:33

"But seek ye FIRST the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you." JESUS

Dr. Leonard N. Robinson

Kingdom Vision Ministries International

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