Week 3 Concept of the Kingdom LRF 003

CONCEPT OF THE KINGDOMSOLOMON APPIAH

WEEK 3 – Culture Part 2: Specific Beliefs in Kingdom Culture

APRIL 19, 2016

QUESTIONS FROM PARTICIPANTS LAST WEEK

1. If my spirit is born again, does that not mean my soul and body are also born again?

2. Are Heaven and the Kingdom of GOD the same?

3. Is it wrong to take medication if one’s life depends on it? (For lack of time, this question will be tackled next week)

• Today’s teaching will answer the above questions resulting from the presentation slides on Concept of the Kingdom: Culture Part 1.

• One component of CULTURE is beliefs. All the questions asked are necessary to a proper understanding of Kingdom belief system

• Today’s presentation will be focused generally on specific beliefs in the Kingdom of God—that answer the questions asked by participants.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

i. RECAP FROM LAST WEEK (incl. Components of Culture; What is a Kingdom?)

ii. SPRIT, SOUL, BODY

iii. IS KINGDOM OF GOD SAME AS HEAVEN?

iv. SALVATION (BORN AGAIN) VERSUS ENTERING THE KINGDOM

v. ENTERING THE KINGDOM


RECAP


ORIGINAL MANDATE OF MAN – THE SHADOW

• Original mandate was KING’DOM. Man (First Adam) failed! Jesus came to restore that mandate. The beginning of this journey to restoration is salvation but the end is Kingdom

• Original mandate/commission:

Gen 1:28 KJV And God blessed them, and God said unto them:

i. Be fruitful, and

ii. multiply, and

iii. replenish the earth, and

iv. subdue it: and

v. have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.


ORIGINAL MANDATE OF MAN

• It takes an enablement/ability from GOD to be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, subdue it: and have dominion.

• This was the purpose of the blessing

• In the NT it takes the Holy Ghost

• Man was to exercise dominion over:i. The airways and their inhabitants

ii. The waterways and their inhabitants

iii. The land/earth and its inhabitants19-Apr-16LRF 3RD DAY OF WEEK TRAINING SEMINAR 7

BASIC CONCEPT OF THE KINGDOM (MATT 6:33) – AS OUTLINED BY PROPHET BAKO

i. THE KING

ii. TERRITORY

iii. LORDSHIP

iv. CULTURE

v. CONSTITUTION

vi. KEYS

vii. CITIZENSHIP

viii.LAW

ix. GIVING LUKE 6:38


CONCEPT OF KINGDOM

KING DOMLORDS

HIP CULTURE

Values

Norms

Customs

Traditions

Symbols

Roles

Artifacts

Language

Ideas

Beliefs, Worldviews,

Attitudes

CONSTITUTIO

N KEYS

CITIZENSHIP

LAW GIVING


COMPONENTS OF CULTURECULTURE OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD

CULTURE IS MADE UP OF …

i. Values

ii. Norms

iii. Customs

iv. Traditions

v. Symbols

vi. Roles

vii. Artifacts

viii.Language

ix. Ideas

x. Beliefs, Worldviews, Attitudes


1) Values: abstract ideas about the good, the right, the desirable e.g. core value integrity

2) Norms: social rules and guidelines; guide appropriate behavior for specific situations

a) Folkways: norms of little moral significance• dress code; table manners; timeliness

b) Mores: norms central to functioning of social life• bring serious retribution: thievery, adultery, alcohol

3) Customs are norms and expectations about the way people do things in a specific country

4) Traditions: e.g. Naming's, Weddings, History best man etc.


4) Symbols: anything that carries particular meaning recognized by people who share culture

―e.g. totems, Adinkra, obelisks, tribal marks & their significance

5) Ideas/Beliefs/Attitudes/Worldviews

6) Roles

7) Artifacts

8) Language


WHAT IS A KINGDOM?


WHAT IS A KINGDOM?

KINGDOM

King

Dom


JURISDICTION

KING DOM KINGDOM


GOD IS KING

JURISDICTION(OFFICIAL POWER;

A SYSTEM;TERRITORY)

POWER IS DOMINIONTERRITORY IS DOMAIN

DEFINITION OF JURISDICTION• the official power to make legal decisions and judgements

"the English court had no jurisdiction over the defendants"

synonyms:authority, control, power, dominion, rule, administration, command, sway, leadership, sovereignty, ascendancy, hegemony, mastery; More

• a system of law courts; a judicature

"in some jurisdictions there is a mandatory death sentence for murder"

• the territory or sphere of activity over which the legal authority of a court or other institution extends

• synonyms: territory, region, province, district, area, zone19-Apr-16LRF 3RD DAY OF WEEK TRAINING SEMINAR 17

QUESTIONS

• As a King, If you exercised jurisdiction (official power/dominion) over the territory/domain of Labadi, how would we refer to it? ANSWER: The Kingdom of La

• If you exercised same over earth, heavens and waters, how would it be described?

• If you exercised same over heaven, how would it be described?


IF MY SPIRIT IS BORN AGAIN, DOES THAT MEAN MY SOUL AND BODY ARE ALSO AUTOMATICALLY RENEWED, REGENERATED?


• The real you is a spirit i.e. what GOD breathed into the earth suit he sculpted

• Gen 2:7 KJV And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath [neshamah] of life; and man became a living soul

Definition of breath:

neshama h

1) breath, spirit

1a) breath (of God)

1b) breath (of man)

1c) every breathing thing

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DEDUCTIONS FROM GEN 1:26,27; 2:7

• Man was created in His image & likeness. Gen 1:26

• He is a Spirit so He created you a spirit being like Himself

• He gave this spirit a body i.e. a movable tent/tabernacle so man could interact with physical matter

2Pe 1:14 AMP WEB Knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

2Pe 1:14 AMP Since I know that the laying aside of this body of mine will come speedily, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

• Our bodies are tents for our spirits

• When you sleep [what earthly people call death], it’s the real you—your spirit—that goes back to heaven—not your body (i.e. the tent in which the real you lived)


• QUESTION: When did the tent i.e. the human body receive life?

• ANSWER: When GOD sent His spirit/breadth into it—Gen 2:7

• Joh 6:63 ESV It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life

• It is Spirit that gives life to dead (un-living) things such as a dead body, a dead career, a dead marriage, a dead friendship etc.

• When the real you—spirit—leaves earth suit, the real you goes to its maker BUT the earth suit i.e. your body returns to dust—meaning the source of life for earth suit—your body—is spirit


• This is why worldly folk seek spirit mediums etc. for life for their businesses, careers etc. but the evil spirits breathed into their businesses can only kill, steal and destroy—not build or give life (zoe)

• True life (Zoe) comes from Holy Spirit ALONE

• It is the Holy Spirit that is life. It is he who can give life to your body career, family, business etc.—not evil spirits

• The words that the King speaks [rhema] are Spirit and Life

• They quicken, make alive, vitalize, resurrect etc. 19-Apr-16LRF 3RD DAY OF WEEK TRAINING SEMINAR 23

• The English language bears testimony that it is the Spirit that gives life.

• Expire comes from 2 words: “Ex” which means “OUT” and “spire” which means “SPIRIT”.

• Expired medicine is one where the Spirit has exited or COME OUT (empty of the Spirit)

• Food is living when it is inspired or when the Spirit that gives life is inside it.

• The earthen statue GOD formed in Gen 2:7 lived only when God released the spirit into the earth suit—“and it became a living soul”

• In short, it is the Spirit which gives Life19-Apr-16LRF 3RD DAY OF WEEK TRAINING SEMINAR 24

• It’s the same in the NT. Only the Spirit gives life – See John 6:63

• For Jesus’ dead body to receive life, it took the Father sending His Spirit back into the dead body on the 3rd day Rom 8:11

• Death in scripture means the absence of life that the Spirit gives

• As soon as Adam ate the forbidden fruit, he died—meaning the real him died—Gen 2:17. After that he became the walking dead

• Death is separation from the Spirit of GOD who is/gives Life

• Unbelievers are dead—the Spirit that gives life is not in them

• We too at one point were Dead in sins (Eph 2:1)19-Apr-16LRF 3RD DAY OF WEEK TRAINING SEMINAR 25

• QUESTION: We were dead in our sins (Eph 2:1). How did we receive LIFE again?

• ANSWER: By having our spirits reborn with the seed of GOD’s word which is spirit & life (1 Peter 1:23; John 6:63)

• QUESTION: How were we given life again?

• ANSWER: Through the introduction of God’s Spirit! It is the SPIRIT which gives Life.

• QUESTION: How did the Spirit enter our spirits?

• ANSWER: By the introduction of His Word into our dead spirits/hearts - 1 Peter 1:23

• His Word is Spirit & Life! When planted, it is watered and it germinates


• When we vocalize the sinners prayer, this word of GOD which is SPIRIT & LIFE (John 6:63) is planted within our hearts/spirits (Pe 1:23-25) and germinates and when given room, grows, permeates and gives LIFE to our souls, bodies and everything that this Life (zoe) contacts

• At inception i.e. new birth, only our spirit is Life but our souls and bodies can also be quickened, made alive.


BORN AGAIN PROCESS

1Pe 1:23-25 AMP

(23) You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from one that is immortal by the ever living and lasting Word of God.

(24) For all flesh (mankind) is like grass, and all its glory (honor) like [the] flower of grass. The grass withers and the flower drops off,

(25) But the Word of the Lord (divine instruction, the Gospel) endures forever. And this Word is the good news which was preached to you. [Isa. 40:6-9.]


• Mortal refers to that which is susceptible to death—something not impacted by the life of GOD

• V23: We are born again by the introduction into our spirit/heart of a seed which is immortal or lives forever and lasts forever

• That seed is called the Word of GOD

• V24 cf John 6:63 The body or flesh on it own has no profit. It is like grass. When spirit is in grass, grass is alive but when spirit come OUT of grass, grass dies. So it is with human body


DEDUCTIONS

QUESTION: Why will your spirit live forever?

ANSWER: Because it was regenerated, born again, reborn by the ever living and ever lasting Word of God—vs 23,25

QUESTION: Which part of you is spirit?

ANSWER: Your innermost being

QUESTION: Which part of you got born again?

ANSWER: The part that is spirit because the seed planted is SPIRIT and life Joh 6:63


SPIRIT BODY

Produces Life, Vitalizes, Profits nothing on its own. Its

like grass

Is the real you Is a Tent, house, tabernacle

etc

Receives the seed for new

birth

Doesn’t receive the seed

Spirit is Life - Rom 8:10 Body is dead - Rom 8:10

…because of righteousness …because of sin


HOW ABOUT THE SOUL?

QUESTION: How did the soul come about?

ANSWER: And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen 2:7

QUESTION: What is the soul?

ANSWER: Comprises mind, will, emotions, intellect

QUESTION: Was it renewed / reborn when my Spirit was reborn?

ANSWER: NO. That is your responsibility


• Rom 12:2 KJV And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

• If your soul was renewed already, then you would not have to be told to renew it.

• Secret to transformation is renewing your mind

• As a man thinketh, so he is. Change your thought life, and you will change your life

• This is why we are instructed to take bad thoughts captive. They pollute reality making us vulnerable


CHRISTIANITY IS LIKE GARDENING

• Men sow seed, men water but GOD gives growth or increase 1Co 3:6 KJV I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the

increase.

• It is your spirit/heart that receives the seed of the Word which is SPIRIT—parable of the sower

• Depending on the condition of your heart, the yield can be: Mat 13:8 KJV But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit,

some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold

• If the Word is planted in the Garden of your heart, the true you will be the Word of GOD sent forth to accomplish a purpose. 1Co 6:17 KJV But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

• When allowed to flow/grow, this Life will produce life in your soul and body


• The level of fruitfulness of GOD’s Word in us is directly connected to the condition of our hearts

Mat 13:8 KJV But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold

Spirit = the real you

Soul = used to relate with the material world

Body = tent, vehicle

Which of these 3 demands your utmost attention?


• Heart is used interchangeably with spirit

Pro 4:23 AMP Keep and guard your heart with ALL vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flowthe springs of life.

QUESTION: What are the springs of life?

ANSWER: BDB defines springs as source (of life). Out of our hearts issues the source of life! SELAH

NB: it doesn’t say, coming into our hearts but rather out of it flow the springs of life. Take note!


IS KINGDOM OF GOD SAME AS HEAVEN?


HEAVEN ≠ KINGDOM OF GOD

• Heaven is a place or a domain

• King’dom is the dom’inion of a King over a dom’ain i.e. (Jurisdiction: official power, a system, territory)

• Assuming Ghana was heaven (domain), being born in Ghana to Ghanaian parents assures you citizenship but that does not mean you can operate in the dominion of its government over its domain

• Heaven is the place. Kingdom is the Government (dominion) & its domain

• Being born again allows you to be saved but does not assure you a place in the Government of the King


• The real Church is a government organ, not a social club

• Mat 16:18 KJV And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

• Gates are where Kings of old sat to take governmental decisions.

• What is translated church in Matt16:18 is actually ekkle sia and it is GOD’s called out ones or GOD’s assembly called out to deliberate and legislate on issues


SALVATION (BORN AGAIN) VERSUS ENTERING THE KINGDOM

Salvation allows us to see the Kingdom but not to enter it. It is a beginning not the end.


SEEING IS DIFFERENT FROM ENTERING

• Being born again allows one to SEE

John 3:3 KJV Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot SEEthe kingdom of God.

• Being born of Water & Spirit allows one to ENTER

John 3:5 KJV Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot ENTER into the kingdom of God.

• Notice two “borns”

• First is born again. Second is born of water and of the Spirit


Rom 8:10-11 KJV And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

• Christ does not dwell in the unbeliever so this scripture refers to born-again believers / Christians

• When you got born again, your spirit is what got born again—not your body. The part of a person regenerated at the new birth is the Spirit—not body or soul

• When you got born again, your mortal (short-lived, perishable) body was dead because of sin

• Dragon does not have access to that which is life but it has access to that which is dead because of sin


PROOF THAT OUR BODY IS DEAD BECAUSE OF SIN? ROM 7:17-25 AMPLIFIED BIBLE(17) However, it is no longer I who do the deed, but the sin [principle] which is at home in me and has possession of me.

(18) For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot perform it. [I have the intention and urge to do what is right, but no power to carry it out.]

(19) For I fail to practice the good deeds I desire to do, but the evil deeds that I do not desire to do are what I am [ever] doing. [WHAT HIS SPIRIT WANT TO DO, HIS BODY DOES NOT]

(20) Now if I do what I do not desire to do, it is no longer I doing it [it is not myself that acts], but the sin[principle] which dwells within me [fixed and operating in my soul].

(21) So I find it to be a law (rule of action of my being) that when I want to do what is right and good, evil is ever present with me and I am subject to its insistent demands.

(22) For I endorse and delight in the Law of God in my inmost self [with my new nature]. [Ps. 1:2.]

(23) But I discern in my bodily members [in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh] a different law (rule of action) at war against the law of my mind (my reason) and making me a prisoner to the law of sin that dwells in my bodily organs [in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh].

(24) O unhappy and pitiable and wretched man that I am! Who will release and deliver me from [the shackles of] this body of death?

(25) O thank God! [He will!] through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One) our Lord! So then indeed I, of myself with the mind and heart, serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.


• Apostle Paul was born again and yet his flesh was bound by the shackles of sin

• He stated, “sin which is at home in me and has possession of me” → Body dead because of sin

• Apostle Paul endorse and delight in the Law of God in his inmost self i.e. his spirit (new nature), but with the flesh, he served the law of sin v22-23

• This was Rom 7 before he spoke about how the mortal body can also be given life in Rom 8

• Christ was in him but his body was dead because of sin. He sought deliverance from this death v24

• He described how to attain this deliverance in Rom 8:1119-Apr-16LRF 3RD DAY OF WEEK TRAINING SEMINAR 44

• QUESTION: When man disobeys GOD and falls, which part of man causes the challenge?

• ANSWER: His body or soul—never his spirit

• 1Co 7:9 AMP But if they have not self-control (restraint of their passions), they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame [with passion and tortured continually with ungratified desire].

• Passions, desire, burning – all resident in the realm of the soul and body—not spirit. Why? Spirit is Life. It is the spirit which is born again. It cannot be subject to death

• Body is dead because of sin but Spirit is Life because of righteousness


•Are our bodies therefore condemned to death with no hope while our SPIRITS are regenerated and ONE with GOD?

•NO! It is the Spirit which gives Life (Zoe) and He can give Life to our short-lived, perishable bodies

•We need the same Spirit that resurrected Jesus’ body to resurrect ours also


Rom 8:10-11 KJV

(10) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

(11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.


• The release of life from our Spirit by the Holy Spirit involves us ALLOWING this to happen by focusing our minds on the Spirit—Rom 8:6 NASB

• This is why:i. we pray without ceasing [1Th 5:17]

ii. We take contrary thoughts, imaginations captive [2 Cor 10:5]

iii. Guard our hearts with all diligence [Pro 4:23]

iv. Speak to each other in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs [Eph 5:19; Col 3:16]

• Without renewal of mind and staying our mind on the Spirit, it is impossible to reap life and peace to the fullnest


• Why must we ALLOW? Can’t GOD just do it?

• The Holy Spirit is described like a dove. He will never force himself on us—even if it is for our own good.

• Rev 3:20 AMP Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears and listens to and heeds My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him, and he [will eat] with Me.

• Eating with Jesus is for our own good and yet he will never force that on us. Before he enters our heart, we must:

i. hear

ii. listen

iii. heeds Jesus’ voice and

iv. opens the door

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• It is the Spirit that gives life. The body profits nothing

• He (the Spirit) is resident within our inmost being or spirits

• But He wants out

• We must allow Him to flow from our inmost being outwards into our world

• This takes brokenness and fellowship in the secret place

• Summary of what we have learned so far:…19-Apr-16LRF 3RD DAY OF WEEK TRAINING SEMINAR 50

BORN AGAIN BORN OF WATER AND OF

THE SPIRIT

SEE the King’dom of God.

Can see King’s power

John 3:3, 5

ENTER into the King’dom of

God – be a part of the

King’s Gov.

Salvation From Salvation to

governing/reigning with

GOD the King

Can go to heaven but not

reign on earth

Can go to heaven but reign

on earth

No Dominion Demonstrating God’s

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BORN AGAIN BORN OF WATER AND OF

THE SPIRIT

Christ be in you Spirit (that raised Jesus

dwell) in you

Spirit is Life; Can go to

heaven. It is your spirit that

goes to heaven—not body

Spirit is Life; Can go to

heaven

Body is dead because of sin Mortal (short-lived,

perishable) body restored

to LIFE through Spirit that

raised Jesus from death


• Christ be in you → body dead

• Sprit DWELL in you → body resurrected

Definition of DWELL:

oikeo : to occupy a house that is, reside (figuratively inhabit, remain, inhere


ENTER THE KINGDOM – JOHN 3:5


QUESTION: How does one enter the Kingdom?

ANSWER: By being born of water and of the Spirit

NB:

• BAPTISM is likened to BIRTHing

• It is a ritual that points to a spiritual reality

• Secret place is covered by Water & Spirit


• A few notes about “born”.

• There cannot be birth without a seed being introduced into an egg

• When the egg germinates into a fetus, its covered by amniotic fluid or water

• Amniotic fluid is commonly called a pregnant woman's water or waters

• The baby drinks and expels this fluid. It fills them and covers them at the same time

• One is born when this woman’s water breaks and the baby ushers forth—similar to baptism by immersion


• This process of “born” can be likened to a Christian ritual called baptism

• Baptism requires being immersed in water and breaking forth out of the waters

• In baptism we identify with his death (death of the old man) in immersion and we arise from the water, identifying with his resurrection (birth of the new man).

• Jesus is the first-born among many brothers (Romans 8:29)

• To enter the Kingdom, we must be BORN of Water & Spirit

• What does this mean?


Born of Water & Spirit involves

1. Physical water baptism and its spiritual significance

a) Physical water baptism: Immersion in water—dead to old man; resurrect a new man in Christ. Identifying with Jesus’ death and resurrection. Do a study on the “new man”

2. Spiritual water baptisma) GOD’s Word is likened to Water – Eph 5:26 b) Water cleanses and gives lifec) Being Immersed in the water of the Word, drinking it, being

flooded by it and exploding forth from it—born of the Word

3. Immersion in the Spirit—born of the Spirit, controlled by the Spirit


• To be born of Water and the Spirit, you must allow yourself to be flooded in and out with the Water (God’s Word) & His Spirit—and like a baby in amniotic fluid, it must become what you eat and poo—saturating every bit of your being

• The source of this flood is in your inmost being—your spirit

• In truth the entire Kingdom is within you and it wants out so it can affect your Jerusalem, Judea and ends of the earth

• You must be born out of this Water and of the Spirit

• You need both to operate within the Kingdom


You have RIVERS within your heart/spirit—springs of Life

Joh 7:38-39

(38) He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow RIVERS of living water.

(39)(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

These rivers are enough to flood you. The Rivers is the Holy Spirit


When immersed and born of the Water and the Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead:

1. your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies will be quickened, vitalized, made alive, given life … From where? The scripture says, “… through His Spirit Who dwells in you”—RIVERS

2. Your mind will be set on the things of the Spirit and not the things of flesh i.e. the cares of the world—resulting in life and peace - Rom 8:6


THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS COME UPONYOU• The KINGDOM and the Spirit is within us - Luke 17:21

QUESTION: When does the KINGDOM overflow [flow-over] and come upon us?

ANSWER: When the finger of GOD i.e. the Holy Ghost gains expression THROUGH (OUT OF) us—from our innermost being to our soul and from our soul to our bodies and over spilling upon us—touching whatever is around us

Its this overflow that soaked Paul's garments

We must Leak the same Spirit that rose Jesus from the dead


• We are encouraged to be CONTINUALLY filled with Holy Ghost

• AN initial infilling is not sufficient

• As we flow out of our inmost being, we must CONTINUALLY be re-filled

• Act 13:52 AMP And the disciples were CONTINUALLYfilled [throughout their souls] with joy and the Holy Spirit.


• Leakage from Spirit to Soul and eventually to body hence Aprons from Paul's body soaked life

• The Kingdom can either be restricted/contained within you or given room to impact your world outside you.

• Joh 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

• Without continuous filling of oil (Spirit), the menorah candles will quench


ANSWER: The rivers is the Holy Ghost and He is Life hence Living Water

Joh 7:38-39 KJV

(38) He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

(39)(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

Ez 47:9 Wherever the river (the Spirit) goes, there is LIFE


CANDLESTICKS ANALOGY• Psa 18:28 KJV For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

• Pro 20:27 KJV The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

• Joh 7:38 KJV He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow RIVERS of living water.

• Joh 7:39 KJV (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)


• Like us, the pure gold candlesticks were required to be lit 24/7—always aflame

• For this to be possible, it requires a continuous infilling of the purest olive oil—just like we too must be continually filled

• Exo 25:31 KJV And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold…

• Exo 27:20 KJV And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.


•QUESTION: What is the candle?

•ANSWER: The Spirit of Man is the candle—not body or soul

• It is this candlestick that receives the oil or anointing of God

• It is located in the belly and must flow out like rivers that bring or give life

• The Spirit UPON us brings POWER


THE SPIRIT UPON US BRINGS POWER

• QUESTION: When do we receive power/dominion?

• ANSWER: Act 1:8 KJV But ye shall receive POWER, after that the Holy Ghost is come UPON you: and ye shall be witnesses [proof producer] unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

• The Spirit gives LIFE. His resting UPON us also brings POWER



• Luk 3:22 AMP And the Holy Spirit descended UPON Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven, saying, You are My Son, My Beloved! In You I am well pleased and find delight! [Ps. 2:7; Isa. 42:1.]

• Before this he grew IN spirit but this UPON was another level. This one is for demonstrating GOD’s Government

• Num 11:25 KJV And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was UPONhim, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested UPON them, they prophesied, and did not cease.



• Act 2:3 KJV And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat UPONeach of them.

• We need to be immersed in the Spirit so he is all around us and UPON us

• When we rise out of this immersion, our Sonship will be proclaimed

• Children are born but Sons are given


The Kingdom comes with power

• Mar 9:1 KJV …till they have seen the kingdom of God come with POWER

• Luke 11:20 NKJV But if I cast out demons with the finger of God, surely the kingdom of God has come UPON you.

• Kingdom of God comes with power

• It has come when we SEE the finger of GOD i.e. the Holy Spirit in operation


POWER & KINGDOM

QUESTION: What is POWER?

ANSWER: The Greek word is dunamis, which comes from dunamai (where the word dynamite comes from), and means force, miraculous and inherent power, strength, ability, power residing in a thing by virtue of its nature or which a person or thing exerts and puts forth.

Power is also the dynamic ability to cause changes

QUESTION: When does one receive POWER?

ANSWER: When the Holy Ghost is come UPON you


THE SPIRIT UPON US BRINGS POWERAct 1:8 KJV But ye shall receive [the dynamic inherent miraculous ability to cause changes], after that the Holy Ghost is come UPON you

• To CHANGE your current state, your life, move to another level of operation in life, you need the dynamic inherent miraculous ability to cause changes

• To get this POWER, the Holy Spirit must come UPONyou

• There are no legal changes in life w/o HG UPONyou


• You’ll receive POWER when the Holy Ghost comes UPON you

• But you MUST make use of it or else it remains locked up within you

• Being born again alone does not release the Kingdom or its power

• There are born again people who die for a lack of knowledge Hosea 4:6

• Study the death of Elisha—a great prophet of GOD—who did not apply what he possessed to heal himself


• Elisha had enough POWER in his bones—within his spirit to resurrect the dead but he did not use it to cure himself of the illness which led to his death

• 2Ki 13:14 KJV Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he DIED.

• 2Ki 13:20 KJV And Elisha DIED, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year


2Ki 13:21 KJV And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulcher of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

• The power [inherent dynamic miraculous ability to cause change] was not in heaven. It was in his bones

• QUESTION: Why did the same power not raise him up from the sick bed?

• ANSWER: He did not make use of power within him. 19-Apr-16LRF 3RD DAY OF WEEK TRAINING SEMINAR 78

LEARN FROM ELISHA• Christ, the Anointed One & His Anointing was not put in you

so you could keep Him caged. He wants OUT

• He must be released as RIVERS of living water—from your spirit to your soul and to your body and eventually out of you into your environment—Jerusalem, Judea and ends of the World

• This is what is means to continue being filled with the Holy Spirit. We receive the power, life, kingdom within so we can let it FLOW OUT

CHRIST IN YOU, the hope of Glory

CHRIST OUT OF YOU is the Glory manifest

APPLY THE POWER IN YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE19-Apr-16LRF 3RD DAY OF WEEK TRAINING SEMINAR 79

• 2Co 4:7 KJV But we have this treasure IN earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

• 2Co 4:6 KJV For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

• God has lit our candle. He has shone in our hearts. Now its time to let that light FLOW into a dark world


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