Read Jeremiah, and then go to the history and ask where are all the nations He prophesied against, and what kind of end did they come to? Where are they now? They are exactly where He prophesied. You see these things are all through the Bible. The Bible is the revelation of Jesus Christ. It's whole centres on Jesus Christ. Okay, so how can I respond to all this? What should I do? Isn't this exciting, getting some things out of the word like this? But what can I do, what do I do, what do I do? I need to know what to do, not just get excited about the word. Number one, I need to acknowledge Jesus' right to rule. Bottom line is, at a personal level, if you are here today, and you are not a Christian, you've not given your life to Christ, you're living your life your own way, you're a rebel against heaven. You're a rebel against the order of God, you're a rebel against God's government, your life is out of order and you are suffering immensely. Not only are you not in the kingdom of heaven, you are under the rule of another kingdom, a demonic kingdom called the kingdom of darkness. It rules your life, and torments you, and seeks to steal from you continually. The first thing is to acknowledge: I have run my life my own way. Jesus, I come to You as the one who loves me, and I submit to Your right to rule my life. I acknowledge You as Lord.
Notice what it says in Romans 10:9; if we believe in our heart, and confess Jesus Christ is Lord or king, then we'll be saved. This is an issue of governance, living in one kingdom, coming into another kingdom, and re-ordering my whole life. It's not just well I come to church, that's the end of it, nothing like that at all. The second thing, what do I need to do? Well, because I'm called into His kingdom, I now need to learn how to live in His kingdom. I need someone to help me and empower me to do it. I need to receive the Holy Ghost, the power of the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues, which is an entrance into a spirit world. Acts 1:8, you shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost has come on you. I need to get filled with the spirit, because I can't live in the spirit dimension with God. I can't live a kingdom life without the power to live that life, and that power is given to me. He's the Holy Ghost. He's a glorious person. Halleluiah, maybe some of you are at that point now.
Here's the third thing I need to consider. I need to consider aligning my life into God's order, aligning my relationships with God's order. Now you start to think about it, it starts with your personal heart. Jesus said in John 14, Verse 21: He that has my commandments and keeps them, he's the one that loves Me, and My Father and I will come and manifest Ourselves. If you're not getting much of God perhaps there's commandments of God you're ignoring. Now notice what Jesus said: if you keep My commandments, that's how you demonstrate you really do love Me. This is not a legal thing. This is what this is. I looked and thought oh man, that's a tough statement. If you keep My commandments, then you love Me. I think if you do what I tell you, then you love Me - it sounds incredibly hard doesn't it? But it's not meant to be like that. In fact that's actually not what it's about.
What He's saying is something like this: all your life you've thought that doing it your way you would have your needs met, and it's not worked. So I want you to repent, and recognise that the ways you've tried to run your life, and manage your life, and control your life, do not work at all. There is a need to turn from them, and in faith believe that aligning with Me will get what you were looking for, see? And so what I need to do if there's a mess in my life, the first question you'll ask is, where do I need to align up with God and His ways? Repentance and faith is the foundation for living in kingdom life. You say well, I repented years ago. Ooh, I think you should repent before you go home. Listen, repentance is the continued process of recognising when I'm living out of my own strength, my own way, my own ability, my own ideas about life, and coming to realise it's not working, and it never was going to work, and re-centring, getting rid of the idols, and re-centring on the king and His kingdom, letting my life be aligned with God: your finances.