I want to re-introduce you to a thought, a plan, in fact, God’s original intent and purpose for mankind, Kingdom Government.
See, we have gotten this all wrong and we have divided ourselves into groups, religious groups. In the beginning, God did not establish a religion but rather a government.
What was God’s original intent? Why are we here and what is our purpose? God states explicitly what He intended in His Word. In Genesis chapter one, God speaks and what He tells us is the expression of the intent that He purposed beforehand in His mind. This is found in Gen. 1:26 – 28.
26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over
the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
In these verses, God tells us what He intended to do, which was to create in His own image and likeness, a species called “man.” Then He tells us why: so that “man” may exercise rulership and dominion over the Earth and all its creatures.
Now in order for this to take place, God prepared a special habitation for His human representatives, a “home base” from which they would fulfill His intent and fill the Earth with the culture of Heaven.
God’s original intent was to populate the Earth with humankind, who then would rule and dominate the planet for Him and in His name. God formed the Earth with man in mind to oversee it and exercise His delegated authority.
To get the full understanding of what we are presenting, understand that Heaven is a literal place, even though is it invisible. This you must know and believe, Heaven is real. It is a Kingdom with territory and a government – God’s government. God had a simple goal in mind from the beginning: to extend His invisible heavenly Kingdom to the visible Earth. He chose to do this by establishing an outpost, a colony of Heaven, on Earth. Now the plan was to populate this outpost, or colony with His children, those He created in His own image. They were to live by and operate His heavenly Kingdom government in the earthly realm.
We, here in the United States today, may not fully understand the concept of colonization. How can we? We live by, are governed by a different set of rules. But when a colony is established, it is made up of a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation. It is any people or territory separated from but subject to a ruling power. So remember now, the ruling power and parent country in relation to the Kingdom is God and Heaven. This is why we pray, Our Father, which art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name . Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. So we are to live by the rules and culture of our parent country, Heaven. Man therefore, are to be Kingdom representatives who are to infuse the Earth with the culture of Heaven.
OK, now there is more to this but let’s jump forward to Jesus for just a little bit. Because man messed things up in the first outpost, the Garden of Eden, God had a plan to redeem us and His name is Jesus. Jesus came on the scene preaching and teaching about the Kingdom of God. So man missed it in the Garden, God sends Jesus to help us get it straight, get back on track. Therefore, ought we not to do as Jesus did and teach and preach the Kingdom of God? Jesus did not come with a religion; He came talking about the Kingdom.
May I just say, that, we are referred to as Christians because we believe that Jesus is the Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Bible, referred to as the “Old Testament.” The word Christianity is the label that has been widely accepted by the secular and church-world to describe the practice of faith by the followers or disciples of Jesus Christ. So as disciples of Jesus Christ, as Kingdom Representatives, let us get back on our job to advance the Kingdom of God, not promoting a religion, but promoting and demonstrating the culture of Heaven, and Kingdom Government.
I’ll have more to say on this topic but in the meantime, do your own study, get in the Word of God and read it for yourself. Another reference book to consult, from which we took this lesson, is a book by Myles Munroe titled, “God’s Big Idea – Reclaiming God’s Original Purpose for Your Life.”
