There are two primary governing systems in the world today: the world system and God”s kingdom, both of which require expertise. Believers have a peculiar challenge of growing up in the world system but expected to live in it as people from another kingdom. Jesus is our primary example of living in this world as one from another world. He faced the same challenges as the people around Him
but He handled it differently every time. We may consider Jesus’ works mysterious miracles but to Jesus, they were neither mysterious nor miracles. They were just actions with predictable outcomes, because He was learned in the ways of God.
The system we tap into when we are confronted with challenges of life depends on which we have expertise in. If I am skilled in kingdom principles, I will not seek to borrow when confronted with lack. I will do what the kingdom says – “give and it shall be given into you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over” and I will speak to the mountain of lack. If not, I will borrow money or work harder and meditate and talk about my lack, further compounding it.
If I have a disease in my body and I am unskilled in kingdom principles, I will consult the world’s healthcare system which is evidently a failure and is driven by greed. If I am learned in God’s ways, I will use God”s failure proof system of speaking faith-filled words to diseases. Sadly, many Christians are neither learned in the ways of the world – survival of the fittest, nor in the ways of God – faith that works by love. This makes us largely irrelevant in society. Our relevance in society depends on learning and applying the ways of God.
The disciples were not learned in the ways of the world but they turned the world upside down. Jesus did not go to Medical school, yet he knew how to accurately heal people. Elisha did not learn to produce marketable oil in school. Joseph spent his school years in slavery and prison yet he emerged from prison to run the world empire of his days. As believers, we have access to a system that has an infinitely superior solution to every challenge.
Why be in God”s kingdom if we still live like we are under the dominion of an inferior system? Why be a free man if I continue to live like a prisoner? Learn the principles of God”s kingdom and stop applying the ineffective ways of the world. The more you learn the ways of God, the more you realize how dead and impotent the world’s system is and the more you dominate it.We learn by diligently reading, studying, meditating and putting to practice God’s word and if that were easy, every Christian would be like Christ. But thank God it is easy because Jesus said so and He has given us His own Spirit to help us.
–Tolu
I’ve been teaching and preaching a sermon series entitled “THE CHRIST CHURCH” and on Sunday I talked about “PRAYER”. Prayer is not a foreign topic to us here at the Resurrection Center however we need to keep prayer at the forefront of our lives and ministries.