The Principle and Power of Kingdom Citizenship: Keys to Experiencing Heaven on Earth by Myles Munroe

Author:Myles Munroe [Munroe, Myles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Books & Bibles, Christian Living, Spiritual Growth, Protestantism, Pentecostal & Charismatic, Religion & Spirituality, Pentecostal
ISBN: 0768409306
Amazon: B014OIR7H2
Publisher: Destiny Image
Published: 2016-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

How many people go their whole lives without understanding their country, Heaven?

When I first heard that story, it reminded me of God’s cry for humanity in the book of Hosea: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hos. 4:6). I thought of the Kingdom of God, because it is the same with most of us, where the Kingdom is concerned. We do not know much of anything about it, even those of us who know we have got a free ticket. So we sell ourselves far short of all that the Kingdom offers. We skip right over the words of the Bible that explain the many ways the Kingdom works. We are as ignorant as new babies about the citizenship we have just been born into.

Now when you and I were real babies, we certainly did not know anything at all about our citizenship. I was born in Bain Town in the Bahamas, but I did not know a thing about the Bahamas for a long time. I was just a baby, blank. After a while, I began to learn things. As time went on, I began to understand what it meant to be a citizen of the Bahamas. It took a longer time to understand my citizenship in the Kingdom.

How many people go their whole lives without understanding their country, Heaven? Too many do not even know there is something to know about it. They could enjoy full citizenship, but they know nothing about how it works, what rights and privileges it brings, nothing about the laws. They stay ignorant all their lives and live on the equivalent of cheese and crackers.

My desire is for everybody to throw their cheese and crackers overboard and walk down to the buffet so you can enjoy the journey as much as the destination. The whole Kingdom is at your disposal; did you know?

LAW AND THE PROPHETS FULFILLED

All the knowledge contained in the pages of the Old Testament could not fulfill God’s promises of restoration of the Kingdom—until Jesus came. As soon as He drew His first human breath, that knowledge—much of which was prophetic foreknowledge—began to grow into full wisdom. Jesus explained: “The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing their way into it” (Luke 16:16, NIV).

The Law and the Prophets were not superseded when the King arrived on the planet; they were fulfilled in Him. They represented the knowledge about the Kingdom, and Jesus brought the application of that knowledge.

If you skim the various books of the Old Testament, you will understand what I am saying here. Start with the “big five” books, which are known as the Pentateuch (meaning “five books”): Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. In these books, the ceremonial laws that God gave to Moses are laid out in great detail. Next we come to the book of Joshua, which describes the people of Israel after they had come into the Promised Land.

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