The Kingdom Exposed

Copyright © 2012 George Jenkins

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ISBN: 978-1-4497-5051-0 (sc)

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ISBN: 978-1-4497-5050-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012908050

WestBow Press rev. date: 5/23/2012

Contents

Introduction

1.   Standing at the Door

2.   Finding the Key

3.   The Gospel of the Kingdom

4.   Kingdom Dads

5.   Kingdom Homes

6.   A Visit to Kingdom Farm

7.   A Visit to Kingdom Garden

8.   Kingdom Cross

9.   Revivals Past

10.   Kingdom Revival: The Last Great Awakening

11.   Kingdom Angels

12.   The Hour of His Glory

13.   Will Your Chair Be Empty

From the Author

Dedication

To my dearest Pastors Jim and Lorraine Davis the words of man utterly fail in the description of their sincerity, devotion and faithfulness to me. To them belongs a crown for my life is partly the result of their intimacy with the Father. Yet their humility will cast that diadem at the feet of Christ and declare that He alone is worthy.

Introduction

In this world of ours the Church of Jesus Christ has been divided in a hundred different ways. The most masterful stroke of the enemy came when he divided the Church by using against us the very thing that was designed to unite us, The Word of God. This has left the Church in great danger, for we are called to go to the world with a message of love and if we cannot agree upon what that Message says unity is but a pipe dream. Some say healing is in the atonement others disagree. Some say that physical and spiritual healing is instant whereas emotional healing is a process. On the one hand one group says that if you simply say Lord I repent then your name is written in the Book of Life. On the other hand another group tells you that repentance is feeling deep sorrow over sin and turning around and walking in the opposite direction is what is required. The danger then in all of this is that those we are called to reach hear only a partial message. Because of this a question remains.

"How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?" (Rom 10:14).

In all our partial messages we have missed the real message we are to carry to the world that is, The Kingdom.

This book is designed to direct you to The Arms of Love through truth. Perhaps it may be more truth than you might like to read. This work is designed to encourage the soul winners of our day and to challenge the Church to understand the heart of the Evangelist. It is intended to reach those who are no longer walking close to the Lord and perhaps, by the grace of God, to touch the lives of the lost. Above all else it is intended to encourage the Bride of Christ. It is time to get ready, for the great wedding feast when we meet our Bridegroom in the air. The great day stands at the very door.

Are you ready for eternity? If Jesus were to come before you turn the last page of this book are you ready? Is what you have believed all your life been the truth? Have we His messengers turned away the thousands by threatening them with Hell. Have we shared the Kingdom message? Will you be at that great wedding feast or will your chair be empty?

Will you be a part of this last Great awakening that will see us leaving this world as a glorious Church without spot or wrinkle? (Eph. 5:27) Will you be a part of the astonishing miracles, the amazing manifestations of the supernatural? Will you be a part of the greatest transformation the world has known since the Transfiguration of Jesus?

1

Standing at the Door

And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter forever. And his disciples heard it. (Mark 11:13-14).

In our hustle-here and race-there society we have become addicted to a world of instant everything and thus we are governed by first impressions. How we see things dictates our every mood. We live in a time when people see things through the eyes of brokenness, pain and fear. Others see only what they want to see and that inability to see conjures up the most elaborate of lies. Far too often people pretend that they are whole when in fact they are fragmented. Then there are Christians who hide from their responsibilities as Christians who hide behind the notion that they are not quite healed enough to begin to bring in fruit that is to remain. These are the religious. Is it any wonder that only a scant few take to the highways and byways to compel the lost with love to come into our Fathers family? (Luke 14:23) Oh where oh where has the Kingdom gone?

There is a multitude of people today who claim that they were touched by the Master’s Hand but that His touch was not enough to heal them completely. John the Apostle spoke of a young man who was a blind beggar. When he came to Jesus, the Lord made mud with His spittle and after placing it on his eyes then told him to go wash in the Pool of Siloam. (John 9:11) The instant he obeyed the Lord he received his sight. Later the Pharisees challenged this young man and demanded that he tell them who had healed him. They wanted to engage him in some theological debate but the young witness courageously silenced them with his words;

I know one thing, that, whereas once I was blind, but now I see. (John 9:25b)

This man was changed. He came to Jesus blind and he walked away with sight, new sight in the Kingdom. He came in darkness and left with the full Light of Life. He came empty handed and left with a Kingdom. (Luke 22:29)

The only offering that the blind beggar had to lay before the King of sight was his poverty, his pain and his isolation. He came as a beggar of the streets and he went home to feast at the Master’s Table. He gave up the stench of the sidewalks for the aroma of the presence of the Holy Ghost. He left that boulevard of despair and entered the avenue of faith. As that new creature in Christ opened his mouth a river of beauty poured forth upon the anvil of truth. He did not say I was once blind but now I can partially see. No, No, No, when the Lord touched him he was made completely whole. Everything about him was made whole. New life, the Kingdom was his with all of its limitless possibilities and yet standing by the doorway of this new life were the emissaries of doubt. Like vultures ready to devour that fragile life from this new babe in Christ were the Pharisees ready to accuse and point their fingers. They pounded and pounded with their hammers of scepticism yet the truth of Christ’s Kingdom arose radiant from that anvil in unshackled defiance of doubt.

When the Kingdom manifests it is always the same the hounds of doubt always stand by the doorway of revival to devour the life from the new infant. Thus many Churches have backed off from the beginnings of revival and they have missed the move of God.

It remains the same today and the Pharisees (the religious) still hang about in our midst. The very moment one claims that the Lord has done a miracle the devourers pounce with their theological mumbo jumbo. They tell the very young in the Lord that while they are saved there remains more to their healing to reach towards. These buzzards of error and teachers of tripe try to get new believers to accept a salvation, which is far less than full and free. If there is no Kingdom living, Kingdom dancing, Kingdom healing, Kingdom prosperity, Kingdom freedom there is no Kingdom at all and religiosity triumphs supreme.

It is so sad to hear people confess that the rest of their healing is to be found in some process of sanctification. That idea could not be any further from the truth. Sanctification has nothing to do with sin or healing. In John 17:19 Jesus tells us that He sanctified himself. What sin or what sickness did He have to be freed from? None of course! He is the perfect sinless Lamb of God who took away the sin of the world (John 1:29). For too long these parasitical diluters of truth, have tried to deny a truth hard won on those streets of Jerusalem two thousand years ago. The very words of that young man must be permitted to echo through the centuries and bring enlightenment to our day. He taught us that when Jesus, touches someone they are made every wit way whole. I was once blind but now I see (John 9:25). I was once broken but now I am whole. I was once bound but now I am free. I was once lost but dominion, the Kingdom has been restored to me.

When I came into the Kingdom I learned from the Bible that there was a difference to every aspect of my life. The Lord told me to look for that difference. His Word taught me that others would see that difference and be amazed at the changes that had revolutionized my living. The moment you permit Him into every aspect of your life you become a new creature and all things are made new. (2 Cor.5:17) The very second you say yes to the Kingdom you will never be the same again.

Here is the broken Christians dilemma in a nutshell. They are Christians but they are not Kingdom citizens. Many broken-hearted souls have been made to carry pain when they did not have to carry such a burden. Then this brings with it an ever-haunting question, perhaps one you may be asking yourself: How much of your life have you surrendered at the Jesus’ Cross? Oh yes, many will say that their surrender was total. If that were so, why are you still walking in pain? Maybe you have held those hurts for so long that they are just too precious to give to Jesus. If He has not touched the wounds, then the surrender is incomplete. The reason this has happened is because you have never been taught about Kingdom living. You have been pounded with the gospel of hell but you have never been loved by the Gospel of the Kingdom.

Here is where ministers have failed those seeking Christ. They have never been taught that The Absolute Christ heals absolutely. Spiritual, emotional and physical, His touch is absolute the instant we surrender to Him. Anything that teaches less than total and complete healing is another gospel not taught by Christ. (Gal.1: 6)

The lady with the issue of blood in the gospels suffered much in her life (Luke 8: 48). When she reached out and touched the hem of the Master’s garment she was made whole. She was not healed in part but in all. Jesus works no other way. Thank God for His grace in blessing the Church with counsellors until we are awakened to all that we have missed because of lack of sight and understanding. Perhaps this is just the very edge of the difficulties that face the Church today. There is much that has been taught that is not according to scripture.

Right from the very beginning of this book let us understand what born again is about. (John 3:7) This term is only mentioned once in the whole Bible and that was to a Priest in the middle of the night. Jesus speaks of the Kingdom. He tells us that repentance is the gateway into the Kingdom.

From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. (Matt 4:17)

The message of repentance and its results has also been watered down for the convenience of our generations past. We were told that repentance is when one stops going in one direction and turns around completely and walks in the opposite direction. That is true yet it is only the very outer edge of truth. Then again the emphasis is upon what man can do and not what the Lord has already done. Upon closer examination you can see that such a feat is really impossible to man.

Perhaps you can tell me how does anyone stop and turn around when all their life they have been living in torment and brokenness? Why did they not just stop at some other point in their journey? It almost gives the impression that this can be done at will. Repentance, real repentance is a gift from God. Without that supernatural ingredient you will never repent. Real repentance comes at the end of a process of the Lord working upon your heart. It is a miracle that comes when you have had enough of living in sin, sickness and poverty.

In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve knew the fullness of the Kingdom. They were supernatural people who walked in intimacy with the Father. He met them in the garden, He called for them to come and be with Him. But one day they did not come to Him. They had sinned they ate of the tree of knowledge of Good and evil. (Gen: 2:17)

Up to that moment they lived having dominion, rule, and government over everything. Then when they disobeyed they lost their dominion and were cast out of the garden. However God had a plan to restore the Kingdom to them. He would send Jesus His only Son who would pay the price of their restoration. From the Old Testament it is made clear who would come and restore the Kingdom.

He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore. (2 Sam 22:51)

The word here for salvation in Hebrew is "yeshuw` ah," which is the name of Jesus. Then in the New Testament it tells us that there is salvation in no other name. (Acts 4:12) As we begin our journey to faith we must come to know that Jesus is the door into the Kingdom

The Lord worked upon my heart for six weeks straight and brought an end to my process. For six long weeks and through many long nights I wept as the Lord dealt with the sin problem in my life. During those six weeks it seemed as though I was going to be ripped apart. It was in that place of truth that His Hand of Love came heavily upon me. Towards the end I was convinced that I would die. It was there in the darkest of all depths that I was made to see in all its brutality the truth about my life. I was made see that I lived at the very gates of despair.

The last thing I needed was someone to tell me that I was going to