Words from a Doctor

I heard this teaching today from Dr. Myles Monroe.
Sometimes, I forget this truth.
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There is nothing more important than an idea.
Dead men rule the world.
Ideas are generational. They live on.
An idea becomes your ideology
which becomes your philosophy
which becomes your way of life.

Is your idea right?

It's important to believe the right idea.
Your life becomes what you believe.
If your idea is wrong, your whole life will be wrong.

The Word means logos: an expression of an idea.
God is the original idea and through His idea everything exists.

What was God's original idea?
He wanted to colonize earth with Heaven,
so the culture of earth would look just like heaven.

Too often,
instead of seeking God's ideas,
we ask Him to bless our ideas.

It is important for believers to understand the concepts of God.
"Teach me your precepts."
Precepts precede concepts.
Precepts is the original idea.

For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

The Bible is about a King and His kingdom and His kids.
The King wants His invisible kingdom
to be made visible through His kids.

Other religions, including Christianity,
are focused on getting out of earth
and going to a better place.

God wants His kingdom to be manifested on earth.
A kingdom is a country. Jesus wants to establish
His kingdom on earth as a colony of Heaven.

The greatest opposition Jesus had was from religious people.
Could it be His teachings were so non-religious
the the religious people couldn't handle them?

His first public message was
"Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand."
Matt. 4:17

The prophets foretold that the government
would be on Christ's shoulders...
the increase of His government would have no end!

In a Kingdom, every citizen becomes like the King.
They reflect the King's nature and values.
It is not a democracy.
'If you love Me, you'll obey my commands.'

We are in the world, but not of the world.

The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast.
Yeast is influence.
Yeast is introduced into dough.
The yeast never becomes dough;
the dough is infiltrated by the yeast.
God wants His Kingdom to influence and infiltrate the whole earth.

There is no law in the Bible
that is bad for the culture of the Kingdom of Heaven.
But we've made it a religion instead of a culture.

What should we do?
Two things.
1) Seek first the Kingdom of God
2) and His righteousness
And all these things shall be added to you.
Matt. 6:33
Most of our faith is focused on prayer about things.

How do I become a citizen of this country?
We have to be born into it.
We need to be born again.
We need to be born of the Spirit.
We must embrace the laws of the country and obey them
so there is no dysfunction between us and the King.
The words 'submit and obey'
are words found in a kingdom,
not a democracy.

It is His obligation to take care of you
as a citizen of His kingdom.
You focus on seeking His kingdom
and right standing with Him.
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His yoke is easy and His burden is light.
We have complicated things, haven't we?
"Thy Kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
on earth, as it is in Heaven."

And as citizens of this kingdom
we can call Him,
"Our Father..."
and ask for our daily bread...
forgiveness of sins...
For it's His kingdom,
His power,
His glory,
forever and ever.
Amen. ~A