Kingdom Principles

Kingdom Principles

for the kingdom or fill the vacuum in man’s soul. The hunger of the human heart is for the lost kingdom.

THE MESSAGE OF THE BIBLE A careful and honest look at the biblical Script will reveal that the fundamental message of this greatly misunderstood Book is about a King and a Kingdom. The Bible is not primarily about a reli gion or rituals, but about the establishment of a kingdom rulership on this planet from the heavenly realm. It is about a divine project of governing earth from Heaven through mankind. In practical terms, the Bible is about a royal family mandated to colonize earth from Heaven. This kingdom assignment is the priority of God the Creator and the object of mankind’s inherent pursuit. MISUNDERSTANDING JESUS I believe no one who has ever lived has been misunderstood more than the young teacher who happened to be born, not by pref erence but by promise, through the line of the Old Testament Hebrew patriarch Abraham—Jesus the Christ. Misunderstanding Jesus has caused Muslims to reject Him, Hindus to suspect Him, Buddhists to ignore Him, atheists to hate Him, and agnostics to deny Him. But it just may be those who claim to represent Him the most—Christians—who have in fact misunderstood and, therefore, misrepresented Him the most. If my last statement sounds outlandish and way off the mark to you, let me encourage you to read the rest of this book before clos ing your mind to this possibility. In my own life I have had to come to grips with my own personal defects related to my understanding of Jesus and His message. This book will demonstrate beyond doubt that Jesus’ message, assignment, passion, and purpose were not to establish a religion of rituals and rules but rather to reintroduce a

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