New Covenant Church
Join us online at wearencc.com, or at one of our three in-person services: 9:30AM or 11:15AM at our South Campus, or at 9:30AM at our North Campus.
Modern church has taught a “light” theology about Jesus, what it means to be a christian, and very little on the Kingdom of God.
Some teach salvation as a get out of hell card, fire insurance...a way to become a better person...but Jesus taught salvation as becoming a citizen of the Kingdom of God.
The Kingdom is the Priority of the Bible
The old testament points to Jesus coming. The new testament it’s about Jesus and his reign. You have to look at the bible through the lens of the Kingdom of God. - Genesis to Revelation.
Original kingdom - God’s plan was for Adam to be a king. - rule and have dominion.
Genesis 1:26 ESV
Jesus came to re-establish the Kingdom of God on this earth.
Mark 1:14-15 ESV
The Kingdom is the Priority of Jesus
Jesus primarily spoke about the Kingdom of God. If you read the gospels...Jesus was always talking about the kingdom.
Luke 4:43 ESV
Matthew 9:35 ESV
IT’S ABOUT A KING AND A KINGDOM - two things we don’t understand.- Kingdom is not - democracy, a republic, monarchy, communism, socialism.
ALL KINGDOMS HAVE:
• A king - A ruler
• A territory - A domain
• A Constitution - A covenant
• A Citizenry - A community of subjects
• Laws - Acceptable principles
• Privileges - Rights and benefits
• A Code of Ethics - acceptable lifestyle and conduct
• An army - security
• A currency - economic security
• A culture - protocol and procedures
Matthew 6:31-33 ESV
Seek - to pursue, study, explore, understand, learn, and consider. To seek means to give diligent dedication to and to preoccupy one’s self with that which one is seeking.
First - must be our top priority. The main thing. The highest value for the believer...what we focus on more than anything else.
WHATEVER YOU SEEK FIRST ORGANIZES YOUR LIFE
The Kingdom - A kingdom is a governing influence of a King over his territory impacting it with his will, his purpose and intent. Producing a citizenry of people who express his culture and reflect his nature. - Myles Monroe - “Rediscovering the Kingdom”
The Kingdom is the priority of followers of Jesus
His Righteousness - To be righteous means to be in alignment with authority, to be in right
standing with God’s authority. It means seek a right relationship aligned with the King.
Jesus did not come to establish a religion. He came to establish a Kingdom.
Religion will keep you from the Kingdom of God
Religion preoccupies man with works until he finds the Kingdom.
Religion prepares man to leave earth; the Kingdom empowers man to dominate earth. Religion focuses on Heaven; the Kingdom focuses on earth.
Religion is trying to get to God; the Kingdom is God coming down to man.
Religion wants to escape earth to get to heaven; the Kingdom seeks to bring Heaven to earth.
The Kingdom of God is about bringing heaven to earth, not just one day, but now!
Matthew 24:14 NLT
THE MESSAGE OF THE KINGDOM IS THE GOOD NEWS!
It’s not about getting to heaven one day but getting heaven to us now. We are empowered to live supernatural in a natural world. - That is good news!
Hebrews 12:28 ESV