CULTIVATING THE EXCELLENT SPIRIT

MANIFESTING THE KINGDOM’S LIFE STYLE

WHAT IS THE KINGDOM OF

GOD?

•Rom 14:17 ……. Right conduct, peace and joy, through the Holy Spirit;(WNT) •Rom 14:17 …….Righteousness and peace and gladness through the presence of the Holy Spirit.(TCNT) •Rom 14:17 ……Righteousness, peace, and joy which the Holy Spirit gives.(GW)

WHAT IS THE KINGDOM ?

WHERE IS THE KINGDOM OF

GOD?

•Luk 17:20-21 ….He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with observation; .. "nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you." •Not the Externals……but the ETERNALS which starts within you….Ecc3:11(acv,amp)

WHERE IS THE KINGDOM ?

MANIFESTING THE KINGDOM’S

LIFE STYLE

2PET 1:3-11 (KJV):•3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue :4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers (Join in ,take part of ,to share) of the divine nature, (compare Jos1:8) having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (human/canal nature).

DIVINE PROMISES

DIVINE POWER DIVINE NATURE 2Pe 1:3 For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things ……2Pe 1:4 …..to become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature. 2Pe 1:5 For this very reason, adding your diligence [to the divine promises],), (AMP)

NO AMOUNT OF POLISHING OF HUMAN NATURE CAN REFLECT DIVINE NATURE,ITS ONLY THROUGH

HIS GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES

•2Pe 1:5 For this very reason, adding your diligence [to the divine promises], employ every effort in exercising your faith to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy), and in [exercising] virtue [develop] knowledge (intelligence), :6 And in [exercising] knowledge [develop] self-control, and in [exercising] self-control [develop] steadfastness (patience, endurance), and in [exercising] steadfastness [develop] godliness (piety),

EXERCISING: An activity carried out or engaged, or practiced for a specific purpose i.e. to sustain or improve health and fitness

An activity that is planned, structured and repetitive for the purpose of training or conditioning any part of the body…to improve health, maintain fitness etc.

DEVELOP: To bring ,convert ,transform , from latency to…. or toward fulfillment

To bring ,generate into being gradually

To grow by degrees into a more advanced, expanded or mature state

•2Pe 1:7 And in [exercising] godliness [develop] brotherly affection, and in [exercising] brotherly affection [develop] Christian love. •2Pe 1:8 For as these qualities are yours and increasingly abound in you, they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful unto the [full personal] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

•11) In this way you will be given the full right to enter the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (GNB) •For thus you will be given a triumphant admission into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. (TCNT)

THE RESULTANT EFFECT :

JOH 15:1,4-5(MSG):•"I am the Real Vine and my Father is the Farmer , Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. …"I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you're joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic(living entity), the harvest is sure to be abundant……. Separated, you can't produce a thing.

But he that is joined unto the

Lord is one spirit. (1Cor6:17)

THE VINETHE BRANCH

&THE FRUITS

FACTS ON VINE FRUITS:GRAPES• IT TAKE UP TO THREE YEARS TO PRODUCE VIABLE GRAPES• SOAK THE BARE ROOT VINES IN A BUCKET OF WATER FOR 3-4

HOUR BEFORE PLANTING• THE FIRST YEAR IS TO SUPPORT ITS ROOT GROWTH,AND

TRAINING THE VINE TO KEEP IT STRAIGHT(TIED SEVERAL TIMES TO MAKE IT STRAIGHT), WITHOUT STRONG ROOT,THE VINE CANNOT DEVELOP PROPERLY….2ND YEAR IS FOR PRUNNING ABOUT 70% OF THE PLANT TO LEAVE MAIN TRUNK AND CANES(BRANCH).• HEAVY PRUNNING PROVIDE BEST FRUITS,LIGHT PRUNNING

GIVES LARGE YIELD OF POOR QUALITY FRUITS,OVER PRUNNING PRODUCE LITTLE FRUITS &VEGETABLES ONLY• SUNLIGHT (UP TO 7 OR 8 HOURS A DAY) AND FULL SUN AND

HEAT IS NEEDED TO MATURE THE FRUIT

JOH 15:7,8(MSG):• Joh 15:7 But if you make yourselves at home with me and my words are at home in you, you can be sure that whatever you ask will be listened to and acted upon.

• Joh 15:8 This is how my Father shows who he is….(DIVINE NATURE )When you produce grapes, when you mature as my disciples.

•But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. (NLT) Gal 5:22-23•But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.(NKJV)

•These “qualities" in (1pet1:5) relate to each other the way the branch relates to the vine and the fruits to the branch.(John15:1-8) Like the "fruit of the Spirit" (Gal 5:22-23), these nature grows out of our lives and out of a vital relationship with Jesus Christ.

• It is not enough for the Christian to "let go and let God," as though all these were God's work alone. Literally, Peter wrote, (2pet1:5a)•Employ every effort in exercising your faith.• The Father and the child must work together.•"Work out your own salvation. ... For it is God which worketh in you" (Phil 2:12-13)… According to the power at work in you (Eph3:20c)• JESUS SAYS..MY FATHER WORK…I WORK JOHN 5:17

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