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Message today is How to Change the World in One Easy Lesson.
I believe Jesus wants us to change the World.
Look at the sermon on the Mount.
Jesus is teaching the Sermon on the Mount in Matt 5-7.
He teaches the Beatitudes: Blessed are the Poor in Spirit… those who mourn...
When Jesus preached that sermon, the Sermon on the Mount… when he preached the Beatitudes blessed are the poor and those who mourn and all that, when Jesus preached that he was announcing the coming of a new kingdom.
He was saying that what you have been waiting on is here.
Jesus announced the coming of a New Kingdom
A new kingdom is here with a new King.
There is a new economy… a new way of thinking… a new set of values… new kind of citizenship… There is a whole new way to live.
The Sermon on the Mount was Jesus first sermon and it laid out what he was about.
It’s an important sermon, but he did not give it to the rich, or the educated, or the religious leaders.
He gave it in a field on the side of a hill in Galilee to people who were mixed with people from other parts of the world… people the Jews looked down on.
Their religious practice was not as “pure” as the religious practice in Jerusalem.
Don’t you just love to be around people like the leaders?
He began his ministry by speaking to the least likely people… with the Galileans, the misfits of society, the vulnerable people… the ones who continually compromised with the culture.
These are the people that Jesus said
He is telling “these people” that the KOG is yours.
What is the KOG?
The KOG is where Jesus is ruling.
So if Jesus is ruling in heaven then obviously the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven is in heaven.
But if Jesus is reigning on the earth then the kingdom of God is on the earth.
If Jesus reigns in your life then the kingdom of God is in your life.
As Jesus said, The kingdom of God is within you.
It is among you.
If Jesus is king in your home then the kingdom of God is already in your home.
The kingdom of God is wherever Jesus has been made king.
We are Kingdom people.
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When you receive Jesus as your Savior, he transfers your citizenship to the KOG.
We are already citizens of Heaven.
The sooner we let that soak in, the sooner we will begin to live by that truth.
Jesus says this kingdom does not belong to the self-righteous, it belongs to the spiritually bankrupt.
It does not belong to those who think they are righteous enough to deserve it.
The KOG does not belong to the self sufficient, but to those who are fully surrendered tot he Lord.
The KOG is opposite from all other religious teaching where people have to strive to reach heaven or something similar.
Here, Jesus just gives us the KOG.
As far as Jesus was concerned, the KOG was not the end, but the beginning of our mission.
We are already kingdom people.
We look forward to spending eternity in heaven with the Lord, but eternal life doesn’t begin when you die.
It started when you received Jesus.
You body will die, but your soul will live forever.
Does that make sense?
We are already living new and different lives… an abundant and eternal life.
Paul did not say that one day you will become new if you work hard enough.
He said that when you give your life to Christ, you become a new person… the old is gone.
So the KOG is something we possess right now, but it’s not because of anything we have or will do.
It’s totally because of what Jesus did on the cross.
It’s because we recognized our spiritual poverty and our desperate need for a Savior.
We have invited the King of Kings to become the King of our lives.
So we are now citizens of heaven.
In God’s Kingdom broken people are blessed.
In this kingdom broken people are blessed, not the beautiful people who have it all together.
The subjects in this kingdom are not oppressed by our king, we get to rule with our king.
We are called to represent our king to the world.
We are called to partner with the king to change the world.
He changes the world though his people… you and me.
He works through us… people just like those in Galilee - the broken, misfits, the hopeless, the ones who don’t measure up to the standards of the religious… He works through us to extend the influence of his kingdom into the world around us to bring more people under the authority and rulership of Christ to live as kingdom people.
So the king has invited us to change the world.
How are we supposed to change the world?
Jesus says that you and I are the Salt of the earth and the light of the world.
To us, this statement could get lost even though it’s a powerful statement.
In Jesus day, Light of the World was a title some religious leaders held.
He is making a radical, life changing statement by saying to everyone present - YOU are the light of the world.
That title was only meant for the most respected rabbis of the day… not to common people.
But Jesus is saying.
You broken people, you hopeless people, you tired people, you misfits, you outcasts, you the people who are trying the figure this stuff out… You are the light of the world… You are the Salt of the earth.
Jesus knew exactly who he was talking to.
They’re saying, You can’t mean me.
And Jesus was saying, Yeah I do mean you.
Because Jesus had just finished telling us who the kingdom belongs to in the Beatitudes.
It belongs to the spiritually bankrupt.
It belongs to those who mourn their condition.
It belongs to those who are surrendered to him.
All of those characteristics you read about in the Beatitudes.
Those who are starving – because they hunger and thirst for righteousness.
That means they are starving for God to make things right in their life.
And they are starving to be made right in God’s eyes.
That’s who this kingdom belongs to.
“Jesus comes not for the super spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak kneed who know that they don’t have it all together and who are not too proud to accept a handout of amazing grace.
Jesus’ kingdom, he says, is made up of people who willingly admit that their cheese has fallen off of their cracker.”
Ragamuffin Gospel
Anybody here besides me say, Yea, my cheese fell off a long time ago?
Jesus is saying you are the ones the KOG belongs to.
He says you are the Salt....
You are the light!
Not only does Jesus save sinners, he changes sinners!
Anyone in the house who have been transformed by the Power of God?
He not only changes us, he calls and empowers us to go out and change the World.
He didn’t save us to sit in the corner, or in the church and clap and sing, he saved us, called us and equips us to change the world.
He uses us, the broken and least likely to change the world.
Paul goes on to say that we are his ambassadors or representatives to the world.
There’s another reason that this statement, you’re the salt of the earth and you’re the light of the world, there’s another reason that it was so surprising to people.
It’s because in those days there were basically three schools of thought on how the kingdom was going to come and how God’s people were supposed to interact with the rest of the world.
Three Schools of Thought
1. Compromisers
These were the Pharisees.
The compromised with the Roman government to get what they wanted.
And the Pharisee position, the compromiser’s position was if we just compromise enough, if we’re willing to be politically correct enough, not make any waves, not really stand up for what we truly believe, if we just get along with everybody well enough maybe they’ll just mind their own business and let us be to ourselves.
If we really play the game well enough then we can become the power brokers of religion.
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