KINGDOM GRACE

KINGDOM GRACE

Text: Heb. 12:22-29 - ". . .we receiving a kingdom. . .let us have grace. . ." Hebrews 12:28

When you are carrying the cross, you keep your eyes on the King. Knowing that the King is mastering your cross journey, you thereby understand that you are a part of His Kingdom.
"Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

There is a spiritual kingdom of light active on this planet; King Jesus is in its kingdom. All those who believe and faithful are citizens of that realm.

1) KINGDOM UNSHAKABLE – “ the Kingdom of Jesus ". . .cannot be moved. . ."
That is, it is stable. All else in this life is unstable. It is always in the process of vanishing. One day in history's future, the earth will be folded up as an old garment and done away with. Everything but the Monarch and His citizens will be obliterated.

2) KINGDOM GRACE- ". . .let us have grace. . ." Grace permits you see eternal fact. Grace gives you the power and strength to carry the vision and positions you then to make the eternally correct decisions for your gospel witness here. Grace is the ingredient that allows us to succeed even went we fall short. Without His grace you can’t even live your Christian walk with God. You’ll be walking in the law and flesh trying to obey, trying to pray, to serve and to love Him – yet we feel like a failure 100 times. God’s grace is limitless and there is abundance of grace and we never run dry of His grace. There is always more and more grace abounds and full of it.

For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. (John 1:16)

The message of grace is spreading with increasing speed! The light is shining in the dark, and the darkness can’t overcome it!

Luther emphasized “GRACE ALONE”, “faith alone” and “Christ alone”. All forms of legalistic religion fall to the ground in the light of the Gospel. Paul says: “But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the grounds of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.” (Rom.11:6) The fullness is only by grace - grace upon grace!


3) KINGDOM GRACE TO SERVE. Let us have grace for what? - ". . .whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear." This godly fear is not the fear of God’s judgment but the fear of the Lord in doing right not wrong. The grace gift has one purpose--to provide us with the wherewithal to bring all our efforts to the King for His praise. We don’t serve God out of fear but out of love.

Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men, because you know that the Lord will reward everyone for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free.

Ephesians 6:7-8

You will be hard-pressed to find someone who will do something for nothing. People say things like, “You scratch my back, and I’ll scratch yours.” “If you hook me up with this, I’ll hook you up with that.” It’s all about the payback.

God’s economy doesn’t work that way. He doesn’t want us to give just to get; he doesn’t want us to serve just because of what we’ll receive in return. Kingdom service is different because grace is there.

Serving is all about placing other people’s needs before your own. And when you do that humbly and with a pure heart, it allows God to work through you to touch the lives of others in a supernatural way.


4) KINGDOM COVENANT - JESUS’ BLOOD SPEAKS BETTER THINGS

Hebrews 12:24
… 24 “to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel”.

Today, forensic science tells us that blood has a voice. DNA can be extracted from just one swab of a murderer’s blood and the results used in court as evidence.

So blood in a sense can speak. And when it is the blood of Jesus, it speaks better things than that of Abel. Abel’s blood cried out, “Vengeance! Vengeance!” after his brother Cain murdered him. (Genesis 4:8–11) But Jesus’ blood cries out forgiveness for our sins, healing for our bodies, and peace and soundness for our minds. It cries out protection for our coming-ins and going-outs, prosperity for the works of our hands, the righteousness of Christ as our acceptance before God and much more!
In the Bible, Jesus’ blood speaking of “better things” is found in the context of the last days when things are being shaken, so that the things that cannot be shaken will remain. (Hebrews 12:27) God wants you to know that you will not be shaken when you put your faith in Jesus’ blood, which speaks for you.

5) KINGDOM VOICE of Grace is the voice who speaks from heaven will keep you from being shaken in these last days. We heard of what is coming to this world – it will shake the world. The kingdom of this world will be shaken. There’s another kind of spiritual shakening.

But what kind of shakening? Not earthquake, but waking up of His church in Heaven and earth.

• Removal – those trusting the law like Paul’s day – human effort, religion, rituals, etc.

• Remain – unshaken. Grace will be unshaken, Zion, Holiness, blood of the Lamb and the Word of God and His eternal covenant. God’s love for you will be unshaken. Only grace can shake the devil out of their place, Mt. Zion (grace) that must shake the law out of our lives that the devil gave us before. We must be free to serve in Grace.


We received a Grace kingdom that cannot be moved or shaken. There are better things coming and the best is yet to come. We are going to see His Kingdom manifesting through Grace. Grace will perfect us esp. our spirits of just men made perfect. God is perfecting you through His grace.