Kingdom Principles

Kingdom Concept #2

Heaven’s ambassador to the Gentiles, to Kingdom citizens in the city of Philippi: Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord , to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:5-11). Jesus Christ is King and Lord of all. LIVING UNDER A LORD It is the lordship aspect of a kingdom that makes living in a king dom better than a republic or any other form of national administra tion or rulership. Lordship in a kingdom protects the citizenship from competition with their fellow citizens for national resources. It destroys such elements as jealousy, fear, deceit, and hoarding. In a true kingdom, the lord owns all resources and distributes the same as he determines. Whenever he gives resources to a citizen, it is never for ownership but for stewardship. Submission to a king as lord positions the citizen to receive from the king. From a kingdom standpoint, then, the most important confes sion any of us could ever make is to declare, “Jesus Christ is Lord.” Ambassador Paul stated this explicitly in his letter to the believers in Rome when he wrote:

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