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Good morning. Welcome to Victorious Faith. I’m Cherry Campbell. This morning, I’m going to continue sharing with you the message that I’ve been sharing with you in the last few broadcasts, which is part one of a series of messages called the Kingdom of God. And this message, part one, is called What is the Kingdom of God? So join me now in our live service for the continuation of this message. What is the Kingdom of God? How do you seek first his kingdom? What do you do? Most Christians answer me like this. And this is the common understanding. It means to pray, read your Bible, go to church, seek God and serve him and love him. How many of you kind of, that’s the general idea you have. Seek God, love him, serve him with all your heart, pray, read the Bible. But let’s stop again and take an account. Pastors all over the world are doing that even more than Christians that are not in ministry. They’re serving him with all their heart and they pray and read their Bible and love him. And you can say most all of you, and we’ve said how many people have had a hard time paying bills, but they go to church. They love God. Ding, ding, ding. It’s not working. That that we’ve been doing is not bringing the result that he promised. I present to you that what we have been doing, what these things are, love him with all of your heart, serve him, pray, seek God, go to church is not what he’s talking about. Not that you don’t do those things because you should. Those are the right things to do. We’ve been doing those things and those things are not bringing the answer that he said he would bring. So what we’re doing is not what he’s talking about doing. I present to you, he’s talking about something entirely different in an entire different realm. then the church is recognized. So they keep struggling over here, pray, pray, pray, go to church, read the Bible. And yet they’re not doing what he said to do. And so they’re not getting the results that he promised. We need to find out what does he mean? God, what we’re doing isn’t working. What do you mean by this? To seek your kingdom. Okay, let’s start with the word kingdom. You break down the word, kingdom. King, you understand. Dom comes from dominion and domain. Dominion means authority. Domain means the territory where one has authority. Dominion means authority. Domain means the territory where one has authority. Your domain is your home. That’s where you have authority. So a kingdom is the territory or domain where the king has authority to rule. Right? A kingdom. That’s the territory, the area within a certain boundary where a king’s authority and jurisdiction rules. Right? Let me point out to you, he did not say, seek first the king. He said, seek first the kingdom. Seeking the king is not the same thing as seeking the kingdom. And we talked about seeking God first. Well, let me stop for a minute and say this. The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God. In one gospel, it calls it the kingdom of heaven. Another gospel calls it the kingdom of God. I heard a preacher one time try to use some deep theological explanation of how those two are different and the difference between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven. Hey, there are one and the same. God is not the ruler over two kingdoms. He doesn’t have two kingdoms. He only has one. It’s one kingdom. Kingdom of God refers to who is the head of the kingdom or who is in charge. God is. So it’s the kingdom of God identifying the one in charge. Kingdom of heaven identifies the place of the headquarters. Where is headquarters? In heaven. It’s the kingdom of heaven because heaven is headquarters. Let’s bring it down to earth and use earthly examples you can understand. Think of the kingdom of Great Britain. Or now it’s more even a queendom. Queen Elizabeth. The queendom of Great Britain. If you say, let’s use the proper word, kingdom of Great Britain, or if you say the kingdom of Queen Elizabeth, it’s one in the same kingdom. But when you say the kingdom of Great Britain, you are identifying the source and headquarters of where that kingdom is rooted and from where it spreads out. It is the headquarters, Great Britain. If you call it the kingdom of Queen Elizabeth, you’re identifying who is in charge, who’s the head of that kingdom. Queen Elizabeth is the head queen of the kingdom. So the kingdom of Queen Elizabeth is identical, one in the same as the kingdom of Great Britain. Great Britain being the place of headquarters, Queen Elizabeth being the head of the kingdom. Same with kingdom of God and kingdom of heaven. God is the head, number one in authority, overseeing it all, kingdom of God. It is identifying the head, ruler. The kingdom of heaven is identifying the place where headquarters is. Same kingdom, God only has one kingdom. So they are the same. So if we’re looking at that, then notice he did not say, seek first the king. He said, seek first the kingdom. And so what we are doing, when I named those things, we said, we believe that we should love God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. Read your Bible, pray, seek God, go to church and serve him. All of that is God related. Build your relationship with God. And that’s right. You should do that. And you’re supposed to. But that’s not the same as seeking the kingdom. So what we’ve been doing is seeking God, which is right to do, but not what he said to do to get all your needs met. He didn’t say seek him. He said, seek his kingdom. Now, what does that mean? Then how do you do it? Well, there’s our study. That’s where we go from here. We are now learning. What does it mean to seek his kingdom? It is the territory of God’s dominion. So let’s break it down. And again, let’s say using the kingdom of Great Britain as an example. If you wanted to study the kingdom of Great Britain, What would that mean? What would you start studying if you were a foreigner and I wanna learn everything about the kingdom of Great Britain? Well, you’re gonna start with learning things like the government system, the government. You’re gonna learn, and especially if you move there, you have to learn the laws. Gotta know what the laws are or you can easily be a lawbreaker. Got to learn the system. Even the transportation system is different there than here. Trains and buses. Transportation system is different. For us, the language is the same. But let’s take, for example, how the kingdom of Great Britain also ruled over India, Fiji. And I’ve been in both of those places. So when Great Britain was ruling in India and Fiji, then that meant that the government of Great Britain began to rule in India. And they brought the British government into India, the British system of government and British laws. They also brought in the British school system. They brought in English. People started learning English. So it means understanding the government. It means understanding the language. It means learning the laws. It means learning the system of operating, method of doing things, MO, method of operation, ways of doing things. How do the British do what they do? And if you’re going to go there and live, you better learn how the British do what they do. And so you’re going to learn their system, methods of operating, the methods and ways of doing things. Also their laws, their government system, their language, and even the currency. British pound. Learn and understand what those coins and bills represent and how to exchange them properly so you don’t get ripped off or pay too little or too much. You’ve got to learn the currency. All of that is involved in learning what is the kingdom of Great Britain. Getting a picture now of what we have to study about what is the kingdom of God. So now we understand then that we’ve got to understand the government of God, which is going to include his laws. And we’re going to talk about that later. I could go into it right now, but I don’t mean just commandments when I say laws. When I say laws, I also include spiritual laws. You also have to learn his language. You also have to learn his currency. You also have to learn his M.O., his method or ways of doing things, his righteousness, his right ways, the ways of God. When I was really studying on this, and I mean, actually 25 years ago, I started writing my curriculum for my Bible school. And I was actually on a pursuit of asking God, how do you do what you do? How did you turn water into wine? How did you part the Red Sea? How do you raise the dead? How do you perform miracles? Those are all involved in God’s MO. And he never once said, those are for me to know. And I’m not telling you. Instead, on the contrary, Jesus said in John 14, what I’ve been doing, you will do also in greater things than these shall you do. He expected us to do his miracles. He expected it. He expected it. But the problem is we have had no clue of his M.O. And therefore we don’t get the results. So we are pursuing, learning Jesus M.O., so that we can get the end results that he got and that were promised in Matthew 6, 33. What you just heard was the continuation of part one of a series of messages called the kingdom of God. And this message is called, what is the kingdom of God? And we will continue this message again tomorrow. So join me again tomorrow and remember God loves you. You are blessed and highly favored by the Lord.
