Study Notes

FOUNDATION STATEMENT: The Kingdom of God mentality is a mentality that is based out of our spirit and not our flesh.  It’s a mentality that says all things are possible to him that believes. – Mark 1:14-15

 

I.      The carnal mind will try to keep you from the results that the Kingdom of God can produce

A.     The Kingdom of God is a mystery (Mark 4:11)

1.      A mystery is something that is not humanly comprehendible

a.      Something that doesn’t make sense to the natural mind 

b.      It doesn’t make sense because we are talking about things be accomplished that are naturally “impossible”

2.      It doesn’t make sense to the natural mind how:

a.      A person missing an arm can get an arm

b.      A 250,000 debt getting paid off in a month

B.      Immediately when you start talking about the Kingdom of God and the results that it produces the carnal mind will try to fight it (Rom 8:5-7)

1.      The carnal mind fights this because the gospel is extreme

a.      The gospel guarantees success; it’s leaves nothing to chance

1)       It says no evil shall befall neither shall any plague come near your dwelling

2)       It says 1000 may fall at my side and 10000 at my right had, but it will not come near me

2.      The carnal man looks at the scriptures, but his experiences in the world have built unbelief in his heart and keep him from believing and receiving the gospel

a.      The carnal man looks at the Bible but because of the experiences that he’s had in his life, he forms his own doctrines, not by what the word says, but by what his experiences say

b.      His mind’s fighting against the Kingdom; the Kingdom’s trying to get him 100 fold, but he doesn’t believe that money is for the church

1)       Until you purposely renew your mind to this Kingdom, then you’re going to be against the very system that has been designed to see to it that succeed

3.      You look at the situation minding the flesh or from a carnal standpoint.  You look at the situation as a natural/flesh man trying to accomplish a task.

a.      You are a spirit and you’re supposed to be operating out of your spirit

1)       Your spirit is big, it was created in the image of God

2)       Your flesh is limited your spirit is not

b.      You are not natural having a spiritual experience, you are spiritual having a natural experience

1)       You’re looking at the situation from the standpoint of your flesh, but God didn’t call your flesh and you aren’t supposed to be operating out of your flesh

C.     When you’re carnal you walk as mere men or according to man (1 Corinthians 3:1-3)

1.      God doesn’t want mere men; he’s looking for men who will work his system and be supermen who do supernatural things

a.      That carnal way of thinking is trying to keep us from accomplishing the “impossible”

2.      When you think carnally you come down to the level of natural man and it keeps you from walking in your true Kingdom potential

D.     Numbers 13

1.      Joshua and Caleb simply spoke the word (Exodus 33:1)

a.      The COI couldn’t see how that was going to happen – to them it was impossible

1)       Their thinking was carnal & it was keeping them from the results God wanted

2)       It was impossible to them because of the outside

b.      When the Word was preached it didn’t agree with what was naturally reasonable and now people got mad and wanted to stone them

1)       Romans 10:8-17-If the impossible is not preached, then the impossible will not be accomplished

a)      What the church has been preaching is something that is acceptable to the flesh or the carnal mind – That’s not what you’re supposed to be hearing

b)      Consequently the church has been walking like mere men

2)       When the Children of Israel rejected the words that were preached the rejected the opportunity to go into the promise land

a)      All because they couldn’t see how in their minds

2.      They were looking for something that they could do in their own ability, instead of looking for something that they could do in God’s ability

a.      Stop looking for something that a natural man can do, and start looking for something that the power of God can do – The Kingdom of God has no limits

b.      With God all things are possible (Luke 18:27, Mark 10:27)

1)       God’s with us so we must stop thinking inside of ourselves and start thinking inside of God

3.      Work the Kingdom of God, be quiet and rest (Mark 4:26)

a.      You don’t have to know how

1)       This Farmer didn’t know how it was going to happen, he just engaged in the system

2)       The Kingdom of God is in me and it rules over all (Luke 17:21)

a)      The Kingdom of God is going to take me above time, space, and matter

b.      Isaiah 7 – Pay attention, be quiet, fear not and don’t be a chicken

II.     We have to renew our minds to the Kingdom of God system

A.     We’ve been translated out of that old system and that old way of doing things and been translated into the Kingdom of God system and it’s way of doing things (Colossians 1:12-13)

1.      God took you out of the world’s system, but now we got to get the world out of you

B.      Don’t conform to this world’s system (Romans 12:1-3)

1.      Don’t allow yourself to be shaped by the world’s failing and faulty system

a.      You go to make a decision that you’ve left that system and you aren’t operating like that any more

2.      You are transformed by renewing your mind to the Kingdom of God system

a.      The renewing of the mind to the Kingdom of God system starts by hearing the gospel of the Kingdom

1)       The Gospel of Christ – Is the preaching about Jesus came to Earth, died, bore or sins, was raised from the dead and when you receive as Lord you get saved

2)       The Gospel of the Kingdom – Is the preaching about working God’s system on the Earth, living above the system of the world, & living in victory on the Earth

C.     Change the way that you think b/c the Kingdom of God system is at hand-Mark 1:14

1.      Repent – Have another mind, change the way that you think

2.      Change the way that you think because there’s a new system at hand now and we aren’t doing things the way we used to do them.

III.   My thoughts are not your thoughts neither or my ways your ways (Isaiah 55:11)

A.     Jesus took us out of the world; now we need to get the world out of us. 

1.      The more truth we receive and act on, the more separate we will become from the world and the more “natural” it will be to us. (John 17:17)

a.      As you hear the word of God and sow the word of God into your heart, that word will begin to separate you from the world or push the world out of you

2.      The reason that we’ve seen the world outside in your thoughts, words, and actions is because you have the world inside in your heart

a.      We change the inside by constantly hearing the truth of God’s word

b.      That word will begin to build a new image on the inside & push the old image out

c.      I am putting this word in me at an extreme and radical rate because I HAVE to get the world out of me so that I can see the KOG produce through me