I want you all to think of the statement I made. Rather than presuming you are already right with God.
“Perhaps, you think about getting right with God before you demand a blessing!”
If so, then what does that mean? What does it mean to set the family in order? What does it mean to set the kids in order? What does it mean for my marriage to be in order? What does that mean for an individual?
Are you culturally ingrained that although you have physically left Egypt, like God’s people had with Moses, and you are committed to God and His church, Egypt is still not spiritually out of your heart? Therefore, you are constantly wrestling with God through the pastors and any authorities that require you to finish your own work on your cross and be transformed, because you keep looking back. You keep looking back at what the world and its opportunities could have given you, so you try to force entry into the new Kingdom with the old paradigm? This is called a lack of surrender, and if you do not come to full surrender, you cannot come to brokenness, nor will you come to know Him on an intimate level to call Him Abba!
Think about it.
Comment:
The worldly opportunities are not just about financial or career opportunities. It is also about personal opportunities in regards to family, regrets, unresolved relationships, personal justice, questions, etc.
In order to enter the New Kingdom, you must let go of all spiritual baggage. The New Kingdom of God does not know the language of self-pity, unforgiveness, regrets, Jezebelling, gluttony, self-centeredness, etc. All such carnal things must be left at the foot of the Cross. To enter the new, you must become the new!
Senior Pastor Steve Kim