Grace In The Kingdom Of God
I. Matt 6:33-The way to get
things added to you by grace is to seek first the Kingdom of God
A.
Matthew 12:26-There are two kingdoms in the
world today
1. Your either operating in one or the other
2. If you operate in the wrong kingdom you’ll find no grace there
B.
Colossian 1:13-When you got born-again you
were translated into the Kingdom of God
1. You are now in a whole new system, a whole new way of doing things
2. Luke 12:32-You’ve been given this new system, this new way
a.
God gave it to you so that you could work it
in the Earth
3. Luke 17:21-This new way, this new system, is on the inside of you
a.
That’s why when you’re in debt, don’t have
enough money, etc there’s something on the inside of that’s saying this isn’t
how it’s supposed to be
b.
This Kingdom is crying out on the inside of
you
C.
Grace from God is located when you engage the
system of God
1. You can’t do things the way of the world and expect to see God’s grace
in your life
2. If you’ll seek this Kingdom that you’ve been translated into, that has
been given to you all the things you need will be added to you by grace
II. It’s imperative then to walk
in the grace of God that you learn about the Kingdom of God
A.
We got to learn the ways of God/God’s way
1. Psalm 25:4-Shew (reveal, instruct) me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy
paths.
2. Psalm 103:7-He made known his ways unto Moses
a.
If He made his ways known to Moses He will to
you
3. Psalm 119:15-I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways
a.
You will not learn what you don’t consider,
regard, and pay attention to
B.
The biggest hindrance in this is the way that
seems right
1. Just because it seems right doesn’t mean it is right
a.
Proverbs 14:12-There is a way which seems
right unto a man, but the end thereof are
the ways of death.
2. Never choose the way of the world, there is no grace in it
a.
Proverbs 3:31-Envy thou not the oppressor,
and choose none of his ways
b.
The ways of the oppression lead to oppression
C.
People have a hard time w/ the ways of God
b/c they’re higher than their ways-Is 55:8
1. Mk 1:15-Jesus came preaching change ur
way of thinking, there’s a new system
2. People who fail to renew the mind by the Word of God, to
the system of God, will struggle to walk in the grace of God
D.
Not learning of and walking in the ways of
God will cost you grace-Psalm 81:13
1. 8-God will speak again and again, but people aren’t listening
2. 11-They wouldn’t learn of His ways
3. 12-They did it their own way
4. 13-If only they would have got my word and did it my way
5. 13-To people who will do it God’s way, there is soon-coming grace
6. Psalm 95:10-Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is
a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
a.
They had were trouncing around in the
wilderness, less than God’s best for forty years because they didn’t know His
ways
7. Psalm 128:1-Blessed is every
one that fears the LORD; that walks in his ways.
8. Proverbs 3:17-Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
E.
Get wisdom and understanding about this
system (Proverbs 4:5-6)
III. Isaiah 30:18
A.
They went to the Egypt (another system)
instead of looking to God & doing it His way
1. They didn’t seek first the Kingdom of God, they looked to Egypt
2. 7-The strength of the world’s system is to do nothing
3. 8-Write this down so others will know
B.
They did not ask God’s word what He had to
say about it
1. They didn’t come to my word, they didn’t find out what I had to say
about it, they didn’t look to my system
C.
Genesis 26:1-16-Don’t go down to Egypt
1. 12-Isaac sowed in famine
a.
In the kingdom when famine strikes, we don’t
sow less we sow more
2. He worked God’s system and great grace came on him