“EXPECTING MIRACLES TO BE SEEN IN 2016”
Matthew 16:19-21
Bible Fact: Jesus expects all of His disciples to demonstrate the authority and power of His kingdom as a witness to a weak and wicked world.
The Big Idea: To get Christian disciples to surrender their faith beyond the traditional to be offered the opportunity to engage with God without restrictions to do miraculous works that represent God.
I. The SOUL ONLY is the lone citizen that lives in the kingdom of heaven.
II. 7 Keys to unlock kingdom authority and power within you:
III. Kingdom citizen rules Jesus taught that release His keys of authority to His disciples
IV. The Holy Spirit’s release of God’s power to unlock authority and power in Christians
A. The objectives of the Holy Spirit in Christians
- To exemplify His person
- To experience His power
- To elevate His purpose
- To execute His plan
B. The five primary activities of the Holy Ghost
- To direct believers in the way of righteousness to represent The Lord;
- To divert harm from the presence and way of the believer:
- To discern with a supernaturally higher recognition about things, events, activities, and actions of people.
- To deliver the believer from evil.
- To defend the will of God
a) What is the will of God?
- God has two wills in the Bible: His will of decree and His will of command
b) The Holy Spirit helps believers to defend God’s will in their:
- Witness: to observe that which is seen or the evidence of proof; to become a witness by becoming a martyr (one who dies for his beliefs); a witness as one who advocates, defends, one who becomes an example of or for a movement and died for its cause, etc. In Christianity we are martyrs not when we are in charge of our faith but when our faith is in charge of us that we die to our own selves.
- Word: communications made by speech or writing that give understandings; appellations and expressions giving something or someone names, titles, doctrines or tags that convey meaning (i.e. Apple, The Apple, Son of God, Messiah, Son of Man, Zion, heaven, etc.)
- God is His spoken declared Word; John 1:1,2
- God made all things by His spoken; John 1:3; Genesis 1:1-31
- God’s word is the foundation of the God-kind of faith and the platform on which all He stands for; Romans 10:17; Isaiah 44:24; 45:18; Hebrews 1:2,3,10