KINGDOM TIMES #3
Kingdom Times
MULTIPLICATION
Been LOVING talking about Kingdom Times this month.
Caleb pointed out that God’s kingdom was Jesus’ priority when he slapped us w/the line that Jesus didn’t come preaching He was our personal savior, He came preaching REPENT for the kingdom is at hand. BOOM. He also took us on a journey through time, the kairos, chronos and Christos of time. Check his notes out here: HANDY LINK
Maghan took us on a journey through time and a journey through signs with the sweet thought of how God, though He is outside of time, meets us on the edge of time with signs and relationship and glory. You can check out her notes here: HANDY LINK
BOTH Caleb and Mag presented their speak to us in the context of the Kingdom Time concept of “Already, Not yet”. Which is a wonderfully mysterious and glorious reality that when we come to Jesus, even though we are living out a stint on this planet, we are able to experience eternal life NOW by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Now, here at Mega we’ve talked a LOT about the Kingdom, and we’ve talked a lot about multiplication - growing, the parable of the sower and the seed and how Jesus Himself said if you don’t get that you won’t get anything, and so many more things. We are a church that wants to function in the KINGDOM principles of growth and the KINGDOM timing that comes with that. Interestingly, THIS DAY in 2019 was a Wednesday and we did a Bible study on the que? Of the Kingdom Parables. We were studying that because that month was a month on Kingdom Come!
You can check out the 5 messages from that month here for more insight into Kingdom things:
March 3, 2019 - Come your Kingdom: READ IT HERE
March 10, 2019 - Seeing the Kingdom: READ HERE
March 17,2019 - Parables of the Kingdom: READ IT Y’ALL
March 24, 2019 - Kingdom Lowrarchy: GET READING HERE
March 31, 2019 - Kings in the Kingdom: SO MUCH GOOD READING
So with all that has gone before, I encourage you to equip yourselves on this VITAL matter, to check out Caleb and Mag’s great briefings, check out the briefings from 2019, FEED on them, FEED on the scriptures included, get to KNOW them, get the Kingdom ready reckoner and add it to your weekly prayer expression. Knowing all that has gone before, TODAY, I’m going to trust that we have ample fodder to investigate and digest and glean from and instead of breaking down what multiplication is or focusing on how we can multiplay, instead share from the understanding that Jesus told us to occupy until He comes - occupy is not a “well just sit and wait here and do nothing” thing, it’s an operative word, its active, it involves multiplication which scripturally involves taking ground, advancing.. Another Kingdom reality is to function in the authority we have been given and set under when we receive Jesus Christ and what He did for us on the Cross! We occupy in that authority as overcomer and how do we overcome?
BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND THE WORD OF OUR TESTIMONY AS WE LOVE NOT OUR LIVES UNTO DEATH (Rev 12:11). And what pray tell, is the KEY to any testimony? JESUS CHRIST.
Revelation 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
PROPHETIC MULTIPLICATION
Be fruitful and multiply (First mandate - Gen 1 and repeated Gen 9// Matt 28:18-20))
Speaking of FRUITful - we must be spirit filled to function in bringing God’s kingdom to earth. But God doesn’t say “judge them by their gifts”, he says “judge them by their fruits”
WHAT ARE FRUIT?
Fruit of the spirit - love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. // Goodness, righteousness and truth - Gal 5:22 // Eph 5:9 - against such there is no law!
Good fruit - evil fruit (Mat 3:10, Mat 7:17-19, Mat 12:33, Mat 13/Luke 8, John 4, John 12:24, John 15, Romans 1:13, Romans 6:22, Romans 7:4-5, Heb 12:11, Heb 13:15, Proverbs 18:21 The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
MOST FRUIT NEEDS PREP OR WORK ONCE YOU’VE PICKED IT
Kingdom Multiplication is different than our thinking
Abraham with 1 kid but also innumerable seed (Gen 22) also OBEDIENCE
Jacob with the goats (Gen 30)
Plundered the Egyptians (Ex 12/36)
God made water flow from the rock, provided manna and birds in the dessert
The law makes TONS of provisions e.g. Don’t reap to the edges (Leviticus 23:22)
Joshua - Sun Stands Still (Josh 10)
Elijah with the widow and son (1 Kings 17:7-16)
Days multiplied (Proverbs 9:11)
Valley of the dry bones (Ezekiel 37)
Multiplied visions, similitudes, ministry of the prophet - Has 12:10 / Acts 2:17 / Joel 2:28
Jesus feeds the crowds (Mark 6:30-44, Mark 8:1-8)
Widows mite (Luke 21:1-4)
First shall be last (Matt 20:16)
Hard for rich to inherit (Mark 10:17-31
Give up homes and get more 100 fold (Mark 10:29)
Daily added to the church (Acts 2:41, Acts 2:47, Acts 5:14, Acts 6:1, Acts 6:7, Acts 9:31, Acts 11:24, Acts 12:24)
There can be negative multiplication:
Fools multiply words (Proverbs 17:27-28, Ecclesiastes 10:12-14, Colossians 4:6)
Drunkards multiply bruises Proverbs 23:29
Multiplied kisses - Enemies tend to do this (Proverbs 27:6)
Demonic doorways (Matt 12:43-45. Luke 11:25)
Jealousy because of our multiplied blessing - (Exodus)
Sorrow - for those that hasten after another God — Psalm 16:4
Transgression increases when wicked are multiplied (Proverbs 29:16)
Multiplied whoredoms/fornication/abominations (Ezekiel 16:25, 29, 51)
Ruins multiplied (Ezekiel 21:15)
BUT WE WANT THE GOODS!!!
BID
Less is more / Pruning
Our word from Mag - one of the parts of 7th year factor is they don’t prune // 7th year for mega as distinct from specific individuals.
PRUNING IS VITAL TO SEEING FRUIT AND MULTIPLICATION
John 15:2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
WHAT DO WE NEED TO PRUNE
REPENT THE KINGDOM IS NIGH - GET FRUITFUL, SON