Culture of the Kingdom
Today’s Topic: The Culture of the Kingdom: A Revelatory Glimpse
Scripture: Romans 8:14-17
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
When we talk about entering into the culture of the Kingdom we must understand the mindset that is required to enter and experience. There are many people in the Kingdom of God but do not have a clue to the culture that the Kingdom is to exemplify. Now the first requirement we talked about when we spoke about entering the New Season of God was that the person had to repent. Repentance is a change of mindset from one direction to the opposite direction. So whatever culture you belonged to prior to the Kingdom of God cannot influence or be brought into the Kingdom because the Kingdom of God alone has its own culture. The early apostles understood that they had to give up whatever culture conflicted with the Kingdom of God. They understood that this is a requirement to enter and possess the realities of the Kingdom. Let me give you a great example and I pray you search your own selves to make sure you are not contributing to this problem. It was American Culture around the times of slavery and the early 1900’s to the mid 1900s that people should date within their race. This cultural attitude found itself into the church and for the most part it still is in the church. How do we know? Because the most segregated day in America is Sunday mornings. A day in which we should be united we are divided. The old attitude that whites worship over here and blacks worship over here and Hispanics over here has divided us on so many levels that we find it hard to fellowship with our brothers and sisters because of their skin color and the way they celebrate the Lord. But the culture of the Kingdom is so unique because it takes different people from different cultures and submerge them into one people and one culture. Now this works when the ones who have been translated into the Kingdom become lead by the Holy Spirit.
It is our job to present the culture of the Kingdom and because it is so different from all of man’s various cultures various racial, ethnic and historical groups will be offended by the Kingdom doctrine. Why? Their perspectives are shaped and determined by these cultural norms. As ambassadors of Christ we are not here to persuade but allow God to speak the truth through us. Our goal is the represent the One, Jesus Christ who sends us.
Now Jesus sends Holy Spirit as the Heavenly Messenger to inform the human spirit and give the human spirit being and relevance that is defined from a heavenly perspective. Let’s look at a scripture to show this. Romans 8:15-17: “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father. The Spirit (Holy Spirit) itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ” Do not get caught up with the doctrine of going to Heaven. If you die in Christ then the natural result is to go to Heaven. But the reason you are saved is that you become a son of God and then mature from an immature son to a mature son where you fully represent the interests of God and Christ in the earth. The person who empowers us is Holy Spirit. God also gives us spiritual fathers to disciple us by showing in his mature life what it looks like to become the thing you are moving to. The spiritual fathers are to bring instruction and correction so that you will stay on track. But remember the goal of God is have you walk step-by-step and moment to moment in the Holy Spirit. Romans 8:14: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” So you must have your mind renewed by Holy Spirit so that Holy Spirit can show you the things of earth from a Heavenly perspective.
In the next message we will take a look back at when the culture of the Kingdom was first established.
At the Father’s Service,
Elder Calvin Calhoun Jr.
