Witnessing of the Kingdom

Today’s Focus: Witnessing: The Most Misunderstood Practice of the Saints
Scripture: Matthew 24:14; Acts 28:23-31

Greetings Kingdom Citizens
Real quickly to clarify a previous email statement. The Holy Spirit is not the passport to the Kingdom of God it is Jesus Christ and His blood. Thank You for the clarification. Remember to always be in a place for correction and learning!

What I am going to explain to you is going to or may change completely the way you witness to those who are not citizens of the Kingdom. Religion has told us that you witness to the lost about Jesus Christ and He saves you from your sins and if you do not then you are going to hell. Ok! If you did not know about Christ and someone walked up to you on the street and said that, would you really be interested in wanting to join that faith? Most likely no! This is why, in these times you see less people really coming to Christ and witnessing is becoming very hard. Yes many people have come to Christ in the past 2000 years, but in these times and economic hardships, people want to know how can I improve my life now! So to really gain this person, your testimony will not be enough, you must have evidence. Get ready! So the first concept:

An effective witness is a person who can testify to an action as well as provide evidence of said action!

Many people talk much about Jesus but do not have a relationship with Him so they have no evidence of what He can really do. Harsh but true. Now let’s look at the right way to witness and win the nations to the Kingdom of God.

Example
If you lived in the U.S. and you wanted to visit the St. Lucia, first you would search for a brochure. Now, if all that brochure had was the Prime Minister’s face and his bio on it and that’s all, would you really be interested in visiting that country? If you lived in Mexico and you wanted to think about moving to the U.S. and you had a brochure and all it had on it was the President’s face and his bio, would you want to visit that country? So what attracts you to a certain country? Ok, you see on the brochure the beaches, hotels, the people, the food, the style of living. In other words, the benefits of the country is what attracts you and not the president of the country. Stay with me! So when you visit a theme park, you really care less about the president or CEO of that theme park, you care more about the benefits the theme park offers once you come into the park. The church has been for hundreds of years now been doing this and back then, it somewhat worked but now we see the church is losing it’s influence in the world. The church is witnessing about Jesus, but are accepting antichrist behavior and policy in the church. The church is witnessing Jesus but nothing about the Kingdom of God. So, now you have all these charismatic preachers preaching everything but the Kingdom of God and the message of the Kingdom of God is exactly what the people need. Matthew 5:3 says, “Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.” So Jesus even says the poor need the Kingdom so what message are we really giving to the people. We have been preaching and witnessing all about Jesus, but Jesus really did not witness to the lost about Himself. He came to establish the Kingdom of Heaven back on Earth and what he explained and showed to the multitude was the benefits of the Kingdom life. Now this next statement will be hard for religious folk but for citizens they are going to understand and give them a new view on witnessing.

To be an effective witness to the lost, you do not witness Jesus to them first!
You witness the benefits of the Kingdom life first and teach them about Lord Jesus second!

I know for many of you this is hard but based on the above example it makes sense. People today in economic hardships really do not want to hear about Jesus first. Jesus understood that from the beginning Himself. Look at Matthew 4:17, His first public statement, “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand”. They care about how am I going to pay my bills and survive now! So, Jesus said Repent or change your mind, I am bringing to you a Kingdom that will provide all of your needs and solve all your problems So, if you are a true citizen of the Kingdom, you can witness to them about the benefits you receive and how you receive it as a citizen of the Kingdom, then once they are truly interested and see the evidence of sthe Kingdom of Heaven and trust me many will, then you teach them about the way (Jesus) to get entrance in to the Kingdom and become a citizen. Jesus Christ said it Himself that He was the door. In addition, He said He is the “way”. This is effective advertising. Funny, this is exactly what Jesus did while He was on Earth. He witnessed about the benefits of getting your inheritance back (Holy Spirit) and living in the Kingdom. That is why many of his sermons to the multitude started like this “The Kingdom of God/Heaven is like…” I know somebody on this ministry is going to understand. Jesus did not speak of Himself to the multitude because he knew they would not understand Him and who He truly was, but He spoke of the Kingdom and a new life that the people can have once they were able to receive the Holy Spirit after His death, burial and resurrection. So in order to effectively witness the Kingdom, you have to know how to live in it. And over the past 6 e-mails we have been talking about returning to the Kingdom Life and this is the reason why, so that you can become a true effective witness of the Kingdom. Get ready, we are about to embark on a true revelation about the most misunderstood person on Earth, Jesus!


Abba’s Ambassador,
Min. Calvin Calhoun, Jr.