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Behind the Door: Exploring the Kingdom of God 0:01 Welcome to the men's global livestream. If you have a bible, you can hold a spot in Matthew chapter 10. That's 1 of the the chapters that has some key verses for this session of a new series that0:13 we started 4 weeks ago called Behind the Door. The big idea, if you're joining us for the first time, that we are exploring and applying is that behind the natural0:25 things that we see, the material existence that we live, and the visible life that's all around us that we see and sense, behind that there is this supernatural reality0:37 that all believers in Jesus Christ belong to and it's called the Kingdom of God. And the goal of every man of God is to get behind the door0:49 of that natural material and visible world that we both see and sense and begin participating and engaging in in and living in this realm called the1:00 Kingdom of God, and more importantly, to seize our role and moment and moments in the Kingdom of God that belong uniquely1:12 to you and I. So just by way of review in part 1, if you're joining us for the first time, it's just about becoming aware. What's what's the reality and commission for the man of1:24 God to engage the Kingdom of God? In part 2, we talked about just gaining insight. You know, there's such a thing as tribal knowledge in in realms that1:36 maybe we need to to navigate that. We talked about gaining insight into the dynamics, the forces, the rhythms of the Kingdom of God and the truths that we1:48 find in scripture and in the Gospels, where Jesus reveals the secrets of the Kingdom of God. Part 3, it's about engagement. Alright? Moving from sort of a dormant knowledge,2:00 to meaningful and active participation in the Kingdom of God. And then when you're when you're in, we talked about in part 4, you're gonna get noticed. Okay? Others2:12 sensing that the kingdom of God is in you. And then now to conclude this series on behind the door, we're going to talk about just from2:24 that basis, growing your intuition so that we can all seize more opportunities as a way of life, not an event, but just as a way of2:36 life so that our ongoing active participation in the Kingdom of God is is a lifestyle and almost automatic. Okay? Now another word2:48 for the word intuition is instincts, a phrase that describes it is like a sixth sense. It's just when someone has a nose for3:00 what's happening that is unseen and yet to happen, but very real, right? In the military, we've all seen movies where somebody stops, you know, a platoon3:13 and then whispers, you know, something's not right here. They can't explain why and others might not sense what they're sensing. Today we might say,3:25 that person's spidey senses, right, are are tingling. Well, there's actually a field of research military experts have and researchers have and it's3:37 called perceptual expertise. You might want to make a note of that. It's just the ability to recognize things in your environment reliably. That's a keyword. You recognize things in your3:48 environment reliably, automatically, and quickly. You have perceptual expertise. In fact, the United States Navy has invested millions of dollars to4:00 train Marines in what they call sense making. That's where you sense your environment, you extract environmental cues, you interpret their meaning and situation based on the4:12 situation, and then you connect those clues into a plausible reality so that you can anticipate what's coming or most importantly4:24 take action. Right? Now, why talk about perceptual expertise, sense making environment, interpreting your environment, connecting clues to anticipate or take4:36 action? Well, if you're God's man, the Bible calls for an alert mind, right, that is sensitive to your surroundings, that is sensitive to your environment. More specifically,4:48 Jesus tells his followers that they have the ability to recognize and sense the kingdom, the battle, the opportunity to take action, and5:00 how that is central to fulfilling the kingdom through your personal missions for him. So question for myself, question for everybody, watching,5:11 listening. How good is your kingdom to intuition on the battlefield? Right? The context of our5:23 kingdom assignments involves this this epic supernatural war, and I just love CS Lewis's take on that. He says, there is5:35 no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God and counterclaimed by5:47 Satan. Wow. So Earth, biblically, is a place where there's a supernatural reality called the Kingdom of God. This is the super adventure that you5:59 and I and every follower belong to and we have a super story that's connected to the King, his kingdom and that realm. But there is6:11 an opposing enemy and force and there is their spiritual battle. So let's kind of lay out the roadmap for session 5. We're going to like we did in parts 1 through6:22 4. We're just going to review a key definition our key verse for the series, but then we're going to look at some new baseline themes about the Kingdom of God and how you relate to it. And then we're going to see it6:34 worked out in the first followers. That's just kind of the first section. And then we're going to look at this topic. What does readiness and Kingdom intuition actually involve?Kingdom Readiness: Integrity, Perceptivity, and Sobriety 6:46 So that we can build our lifestyle around that, our thinking. And then look at some simple disciplines that build upon our Kingdom intuition that we have right now where we're6:58 at. So So let's review key definition, key verse, some core truths. Alright? Key definition, the kingdom of God, very important that we embed this in our minds. The kingdom of God is the supernatural realm in7:10 reality where God's purposes, God's presence, and God's power are present, operating, and alongside the natural, the material in the visible everywhere I am.7:22 Okay? It's a supernatural reality. And Jesus talks about how we're supposed to engage that in Matthew 16. This is the key verse for our series. He says, I will give you the keys of the kingdom of7:34 heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. And so, if we unpack that simply, here's some foundational thoughts that we7:46 have to have when we think about this supernatural realm and reality where God's power and presence are present, and that we're participating. Number 1, my spiritual authority is delegated, all7:58 right, from Jesus. He's giving us his keys to his kingdom and in other passages right after this 1 in Matthew, he says all authority. I will give8:10 you authority. So my spiritual authority to work and live in the kingdom of God is delegated from the king of the realm8:22 that I'm in. Alright? Number 2, my spiritual authority is kinetic. K? And I use that word specifically, because that means that, our activity in the kingdom8:34 as described by Jesus here, it's kinetic. It's not a passive action. It's not a soft action. In fact, in military language, kinetic action8:45 is a lethal action. Kinetic action involves physical engagement. Kinetic action involves high value targets and it's disruptive to an environment. And that's what Jesus is talking8:57 about when a man of God enters into a space to ambassador and advance the kingdom of God. It is disruptive. It shifts that environment toward God's presence, toward God's purposes,9:09 and towards God's plans. 1 thing is displaced or neutralized, and another thing takes its place. That's what you need to know about the word kinetic. So my spiritual authority is delegated.9:21 My spiritual authority is kinetic. It's disruptive. Something's going to be displaced. And then third, my spiritual authority is spoken out loud. Jesus refers to this, whatever you bind on earth will be bound9:33 in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. That goes back to a Hebrew idiosyncrasy that allows and forbids. And that was a thing in Hebrew9:45 culture where you would allow for something to happen and you would disallow or forbid something to happen in a certain space. So those are just 3 simple truths9:57 foundational about the Kingdom of God. You have spiritual authority. Isn't that cool? You're deputized by Jesus himself to operate in this supernatural realm that's right alongside your10:09 visible life that you see in sense. Okay? Now, let's look at a cool vignette of men living this out, living out their spiritual authority, living out a10:20 kinetic engagement, and speaking it out loud. In acts 2, you see a kinetic fulfillment by Jesus' men of advancing the Kingdom of God. It's in Acts 2, and we're10:32 gonna read that from scripture. Then Peter stood up with the 11, raised his voice, and addressed the crowd. Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain10:44 this to you. Listen carefully to what I say. Alright? And then Peter goes on to explain the gospel and who Jesus was and what their response should be.10:56 Now we we we fast forward to verses 36 and 37. Therefore, let all Israel be assured of this. God has made this Jesus whom you've crucified, both Lord11:08 and Messiah. When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart. K. So when you go back and you read Acts chapter 2, you see11:20 our foundational truths here from the introduction. You see God's men using their delegated spiritual authority. You see a kinetic, lethal, physical engagement, high value targets, people11:33 in this case, and then you see this cutting to the heart. The kingdom is in these men. It's coming through these men. They're exercising their spiritual11:44 authority. It's a disruptive and positive kingdom advance. And I want you to see that because that's for everybody. This isn't just for11:56 pastors or missionaries and in other countries. This is for you and I in the spaces and places that we uniquely occupy in our unique12:08 footprint. This is modeled for us, and because it's modeled for us, it's meant for us in God's word. Okay? Now, let's get into12:20 your own kingdom readiness and intuition and on the battlefield. And I want you to think of this sort of just like an assessment. It's not good or bad. It's just where are you?12:32 And then the goal is building on where you are today as we ask the question about readiness and intuition and do you have it? Okay. So let's look at what it involves12:44 in terms of dynamics and mindset. Alright. Number 1, battlefield kingdom intuition involves integrity. Okay. Write that word down. Now, biblically,12:57 if you have spiritual integrity, in otherwise in other words, if you are undivided between what you believe and you're striving to align what you believe with how you13:09 actually live and think on an increasing basis, the Bible equates that being undivided between what you believe and how you live in, as power. I say many times, your integrity13:21 is your anointing. And Jesus not only modeled this, not only did his critics tell him he had spiritual integrity, and that's why he had power,13:33 but he also teaches believers that this is the key to power in kingdom life. Listen to what Jesus says in Luke 11. When13:45 your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. But when it is unhealthy, your body is filled with darkness. Make sure Circle that. Make sure13:57 that the light you think you have is not actually darkness. If you are filled with light with no dark corners. Alright? Circle that too. Then,14:08 okay, keyword, then your whole life will be radiant or at full power, as though a floodlight were filling you with light. So you see Jesus painting this picture14:21 of a believer, light and dark, and then the the tendency of human beings who are following Jesus14:34 to blend light, which is God, and darkness. And Jesus is saying if you do that14:46 you are going to cut power. And that's why he says make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness. In14:58 other words, you're you're running into battle thinking everything's cool in your blended life where you have 90 percent of your life is light and15:10 God then you're just, you know, you're giving yourself permission to blend some questionable habits alongside your faith life. Power is cut. Right? And I think we all can identify15:22 with this that sometimes we just want to give ourselves permission to blend light and dark. Well, if God weren't who he was, maybe that's possible. But this is what the Bible15:34 says about God and his relationship with darkness. In first John chapter 1 verse 5, it is not in your notes. You might wanna make a note of this. It says this, this is the message that we heard15:46 from him and declare to you that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.15:58 Did you hear that man of God? So the whole idea related to the human tendency, it's kinda like there's this consumer tendency, like, we can just, oh,16:10 yeah, we have a relationship with God and then we can blend in this and that. And, you know, he'll give us a pass, you know, on that where publicly we can be doing certain things privately, we we can be doing other16:21 things, or maybe even publicly we can declare that we're light and that we're living in the light. But then, you know, we're compartmentalizing a certain area of our life and just reserving that16:32 area for darkness and an area where we know, that that doesn't align with with what God says. But hey, you know, we're just kind of giving ourselves permission to16:44 do that. And God's like, no. You're cutting the power. I I like the last phrase of the verse, if you're filled with light with no dark corners. Does that mean16:56 you're perfect? No. It does mean that you are aware. Right? You are aware, you're watching for, and if there is a stumble or if there17:08 is a sin and we're all gonna stumble and sin, the Bible says the righteous man falls but rises again. You know, so that assumes, you know, that we're gonna fall even though you're righteous. But17:20 if there's no inner conflict, if there's a permission based allowance for there to be ongoing darkness in your life, right alongside a public profession of17:32 faith in Jesus Christ, you're not going to be filled with power. Jesus says only when you're having this this relationship and you're handling maybe some,17:44 you you know, some parts of your life that are rough, but that you're keeping keeping that in front of yourself. You're keeping that in front of God. There's daily confession. There's a way to deal with that17:56 so that you remain at full power. Full power means integrity. Okay. So your kingdom intuition hinges on your spiritual integrity.18:07 Remember that doesn't mean perfection, that just means inner conflict, a relationship with sin that is healthy, that when that happens or we blow it, we confess and repent of it and then we get back to right18:19 relationship with God. Number 2, battlefield readiness in intuition involves perceptivity. First is integrity. Second, perceptivity. And what does that mean? It just means a18:31 heightened sensitivity based on your operating environment. So if Lewis is correct and he is biblically, that there is no space in the universe where there isn't a claim of that18:43 space, every inch of it, for the kingdom of God and a counterclaim by Satan, and that means that our perceptivity has to be on. Like you can't take a vacation18:55 from that supernatural reality that's going on all around us. Jesus really encouraged perceptivity and he would say19:07 things to his followers like he said in Matthew 10 verse 16. He said, look, I'm sending you as out as sheep among wolves. Okay?19:19 So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves. Okay? So first is operating environment. Kingdom of God, it's19:31 like Lewis said, Jesus just affirmed that, that we're going out as sheep among wolves. You know, just think about wolves when they attack a sheep, they're in a pack, they19:42 surround. I mean, we're kind of surrounded. Right? So the encouragement is to be what I call a snake dove. Alright? Now think about it.19:54 Shrewd. The word shrewd. Right? Calculating, discerning, thinking ahead, alert, right? As snakes. Shrude is snakes. Okay. Where20:06 are snakes? Right? Their their their belly is on the ground and they sense their senses are they have that forked tongue. It comes out. It smells with that tongue. Their body is on20:18 the ground. They can sense vibrations and that's 1 aspect of being perceptive. Alright? You got to sense. You have a heightened sensitivity and then harmless as20:30 dove where, you know, if if you don't have to get into a fight, you don't you don't want to get into a fight, you know and using your your thinking, to anticipate things, having a heightened20:42 sensitivity. Right? And that is that's a kingdom intuition. So integrity, perceptivity. Third, your readiness and intuition involves sobriety. Okay. The20:54 Bible is very clear biblically that we're supposed to keep awake intentionally as we live here on Earth. Listen to what21:06 it says in first Peter chapter 1. It says, so prepare your minds for what? Action. Right? Exercise self control. In some of your translations you're reading, keep sober in21:17 spirit. Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. So you must live as God's obedient children. Listen to these words.21:29 Don't slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn't know any better then, but now you must be holy in everything you do21:41 just as God who chose you is holy. Now if you're like me, you have seasons where because of circumstance or distance from God or something going21:53 on, disruption, where it kind of pushes you off the mark. Right? A loss. A situation that's unwelcome. That's unplanned. Right? That just kind of22:04 pushes you off your mark of consistency. And you know, that's where, you know, that's probably where the spiritual battle really begins, you know where now,22:17 you could potentially slip back into old ways of living, satisfying old desires that are very familiar to you. But here's the problem, you're22:28 conflicted. Before you were a believer, you're just like, well, yeah, of course. But now you're like, there's a dissonance in inside of you. Right? And there is a call to22:40 holiness where you might have slipped or slipped back, and then there's this call to holiness. It's like, no. You're God's man. You gotta get back on here.22:53 You're in the game and the ball is coming to you and you got to get ready. You got to exercise self control in this moment. Right? So23:05 when you're thinking about, being an active participant in the Kingdom of God, remember integrity, remember perceptivity and remember23:16 remember that we got to keep awake intentionally. We got to keep sober in spirit. Remember sobriety. Fourth, the Kingdom and Kingdom intuition involvesShow more In this video 0:00 Behind the Door: Exploring the Kingdom of God6:41 Kingdom Readiness: Integrity, Perceptivity, and Sobriety23:24 Building Kingdom Intuition Through Discipline45:11 Forcefully Advancing the Kingdom
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