The Kingdom Of God System
FOUNDATION STATEMENT: The Kingdom of God
system works on the seedtime harvest principle. – Mark 4:26-30
I.
The world has been more
wise in working their system than we have been in working our system (Luke 16:1-8)
A. The world has been more
wise in doing wrong than the church has been in doing right
B.
We
need to put the effort in to become educated and wise in our system
C. When you’re talking about
working the system you’re talking about, “How do I get from A to B?”
1.
Matthew
6:33 – Tells us that when we are in need we are to seek the Kingdom of
God.
a.
What
exactly are we to seek?
II.
Our power lies in our
understanding of the Kingdom of God system and in our willingness to work this
system (Psalm 103:19)
A. The Kingdom of God system
rules over all, but if we don’t understand the Kingdom of God system and how to
work this system, then we do not have access to the power of this system
B.
As
a believer, a part from doing things God’s way and working God’s system you
have no power
1.
EX-The
power to be delivered from debt lies in the Kingdom of God system and apart
from the Kingdom of God system you have no power to be delivered from debt.
C. If we want to walk in
power and get results in our lives then we must understand the Kingdom of God
system and be willing to work the Kingdom of God system
III.
Jesus compares the
Kingdom of God system to the natural farming system. The Kingdom of God system is like the
system of natural farming. (Mark 4:26-30)
A. In the system of natural
farming you have:
1.
A
farmer
2.
The
seed
3.
The
field
4.
The
tree (vine, stalk)
5.
The
harvest
B.
In
the Kingdom of God system you have:
1.
You
the farmer
2.
The
word-seed
3.
The
ground of your heart
4.
The
tree of your belief
5.
The
harvest of results in your life
C. The word of God is the
seed that travels down the pathways of the eyes and ears that lead to the
heart. When that word seed is sown
into the ground of your heart a belief is produced. When that belief is developed it yields
the results you have in your life.
IV.
The Kingdom of God system
is like a man sowing seed into the ground (Mark 4:26-30)
A. In the Kingdom of God
system the seed is the Word (Mark 4:14, Luke 8:11)
1.
When
you’re in need in the Kingdom of God system, the first thing you must do is go
to the Word and get the seed
a.
Without
seed, you have no potential to see a harvest
1)
The
harvest is in the seed
b.
The
Bible is not a book of rules it’s a bag of seed
2.
To
the farmer the seed is absolutely necessary and essential
a.
In
the Kingdom of God system you can do nothing without the Word-Seed.
1)
How
far will a farmer get in the system of farming without getting the seed
necessary to produce the harvest that he desires? How far will a believer get
in life without the seed of God’s word that is necessary to meet the need he
has?
3.
When
you’re talking about God’s way of doing things, when God wanted to create
something physical (add something to Himself) he used words (Hebrews 11:3)
a.
Words
are what God used to create everything physical thing we see
b.
Words
became flesh and gave us the son of God
4.
One
of the greatest stunts that devil has ever pulled on the Body of Christ is that
he’s gotten many Christians to believe that words are just words and they
really don’t make much of a difference.
He’s trying to work the deception that what you spend time saying and
what you spend time listening to is not going to affect your life.
a.
The
words that you spend time saying and the words that you spend time listening to
are the key issue in life
B.
In
the Kingdom of God system, the soil or the ground is your heart (Mark 4:15)
1.
The
ground brings forth the harvest (Mark 4:28)
a.
Your
heart is going to take the word-seed that is planted in it and bring forth the
harvest in your life (Proverbs 4:20)
1)
Whatever
the Farmer puts in the ground in seed-form, manifests
out of the ground in harvest-form.
2)
Whatever
you put in your heart in word-form will come out in manifested-form.
2.
In
the Kingdom of God system your heart or your recreated spirit is designed to be
the production center of your
life. That whatever you send to it
in seed form, it’s going to produce it in manifested form in your life. (Matthew 12:33-35)
a.
The
word-seed in your heart, then your heart works with the seed to produce a
belief, and then that belief yields fruit in your life – The Production
Center Of Your Life.
b.
Soil
will only produce outside of it, whatever is inside of it and our hearts are
the same way
1)
Whatever
you want outside in manifested-form must be sown first in seed form
c.
Can
I rightfully expect to see something in my life that I have no sown in my heart?
V.
How the Kingdom of God
system works–The seed, the tree, the fruit –The Word, The belief,
The results (Matt 12:33-37)
A. The seed of the Word is
sown into your heart and it produces faith/a belief in your heart (Romans
10:17)
1.
The
tree comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God
2.
Faith
(the tree) has to be developed before it yields fruit. Trees that aren’t developed don’t yield
fruit (Mark 4:28)
a.
First the blade, then the ear, after that the full
corn in the ear
1)
The
seed doesn’t just come out of the ground in manifested fruit form
b.
The
first thing the word seed does is it produces a belief (That’s the blade)
c.
The
second thing that happens is that belief begins to develop (That’s the growth
and development of the tree)
d.
After
that the belief will manifest the result in your life (That’s the harvest or
the fruit being brought forth)
3.
Words
that you spend time with, will produce a belief in your heart
a.
Hearing
the wrong words will produce a wrong belief
B.
That
belief in your heart begins to produce results in your life (Proverbs 23:7,
Matthew 8:13)
1.
The
belief that the word-seed produces is like a tree in that it yields the fruit
of your life (Luke 8:12)
a.
The
results that spring from your belief are like the fruit that springs forth from
a tree
2.
The
kind of fruit that you have is determined by what kind of tree that you have
a.
The
results you have in life are determined by the kind of belief you have in your
heart.
3.
EX:
If you spend time sowing the word on healing, it’s going to produce a belief in
your heart that you are healed.
That belief is going to produce the fruit of healing manifested. You had to have the tree of belief to
get the fruit of healing.
4.
Your
life is a product of what you believe
a.
You
can’t go any further in life than what you believe in your heart
1)
You
can’t produce any fruit beyond that tree
2)
You
can’t bear any results beyond what you believe
b.
You
are limited or empowered by what you believe
C. Whatever words you’re seeing, hearing, and saying are being sown in your
heart. When those words are sown in
your heart, they begin to develop faith in your heart. Then that tree of faith bears the
results you see in life (Matthew 12:37)
1.
Your
belief is a product of the word seeds that you’ve sown in your heart
a.
The
kind of tree you have is determined by what seed you planted in the ground.
1)
The
kind of belief you have in your heart is determined by the kind of words that
you’ve sown in your heart.
b.
Whatever
word-seed that you put in your heart is going to determine what you believe and
what you believe will determine the results that you get
1)
There’s
a tree inside of every believer that was produced by the word-seeds that they
sowed in their hearts. That tree
(belief) yields fruit and produces the results that a believer gets in their
lives.
c.
37-By
your words your justified (Rendering to each his due) or by your words your
condemned. By your words you’re
healed or sick, by your words you’re prosperous or poor, and by your words
you’re victorious or defeated.
2.
Your
life is s sum total of the words that you’ve sown in your heart
a.
Your
life is a product of the words that you’ve sowed into your heart
1)
You
can’t become anything greater in life than the words that you spend time sowing
in your heart
b.
Battles
are won and lost with the words that you spend time sowing
VI.
In the Kingdom of God
system there’s word-seeds, there’s the ground of your heart, there’s the tree
of your belief, and then there’s the fruit-results in your life. (Numbers 13, Hebrews 3:19)
A. The Word seed
1.
What
did God say?
a.
Exodus
33:1-3 – God said He would drive out the giants
b.
Numbers
13:1 – God said He had given the land to the Children of Israel
2.
What
did the enemy say?
a.
Numbers
13:31-33
B.
The
Ground of their heart – What had they sown in their heart?
1.
The
ten spies sowed the evil report into their heart (Numbers 13:27-29, 32-14:1-4)
a.
They
gave their thoughts and attention to the evil report (the giants, the walls,
the people)
2.
Joshua
and Caleb sowed the word (Numbers 13:30-31, 14:7-9)
a.
They
gave their thoughts and attention to the Word
C. The tree of their belief
– What did they believe? (We can find out what they believe, by looking
at what they said in the time of pressure)
1.
The
ten spies believed they couldn’t go in (Numbers 13:31)
a.
Where
did that belief come from? They spent time with the wrong words
2.
Joshua
and Caleb believed they could go in (Numbers 13:30)
a.
Where
did that belief come from? They spent time with God’s words
D. The fruit results –
What did they get?
1.
The
ten spies and all the people that believed like them never went in; they got
the fruit of their belief (Num 14:28-34)
a.
Hebrews
3:19 – Their unbelief shut them out; their tree kept them out
1)
A
result couldn’t be produced in their life, that was different than what was in
their heart
2.
Joshua
and Caleb went into the promise land; they got the fruit of their belief
(Joshua 14:7-11)
E.
All
of this began because they spend time with the wrong word-seeds
1.
The
words that they looked at, listened to, and spoke determined what they got in
life