The Kingdom of God- The Cultural Reformation of Jesus Through Righteous Rebellion/ Rashea@LLO2 Academy
Jesus introduced the Kingdom of God by colliding with the culture. Did Jesus conform to the culture? No. Jesus reformed the culture with context, content, concepts and precepts derived from the Kingdom of God.
Jesus changed the geometrics of the culture by introducing the resurgence of genesis. Not in the beginning but rather a new beginning. What is the resurgence of genesis? The resurgence of genesis is to be reborn; to be born again; to undergo a rebirth; salvation.
5 “I am telling you the truth,” replied Jesus, “that no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. 6 A person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the Spirit. 7 Do not be surprised because I tell you that you must all be born again. 8 The wind blows wherever it wishes; you hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. It is like that with everyone who is born of the Spirit (John 3:5-8)."
We see the resurgence of the ruach of God manifested through Jesus. But how? The resurgence of the ruach power and life of God through the Holy Spirit was at work recreating, renewing, restoring, reviving, reconstructing and bringing to order the culture through signs, miracles and wonders (Genesis 1:2, 2:7; Acts 1:8, 2:1-4, 4:31, 6:8-10, 8:4-8, 26-40, 10, 11:22-24, 12, 13:2, 14:1-7, 16, 17:10-34, 18:1-11, 19:1-6).
Jesus went about doing good. Jesus healed many people. Jesus healed all those brought to Him.
Did you know that whatever Jesus recreates, renews, restores, revives, reconstructs and brings order to carries and is sustained by the life, glory and government of God the Holy Spirit? The dominion of God through the life of Jesus and the work of the Holy Spirit is at work within us. What sustains the ruach life, glory and government of God within us? Faith and obedience in Jesus through the work of the Holy Spirit within us (Mark 11:22; Hebrews 11:6; James 3:17, 22 & 26) .
"Do you believe? Do you have faith that I can heal you?" Faith requires obedience (Jeremiah 17:14; Matthew 8:8, 9:21; Mark 2:5, 5:34, 10:52; Luke 8:48, 17:19, 18:42, John 9:38, 11:23-26; Acts 14:9; 1Peter 1:9).
Embodied with glory and empowered with government Jesus cast out devils, confronted the religious hypocrisies of the church and introduced the Kingdom of God.
Jesus actively mobilized the Kingdom of God in the culture. He did not raise heresies as the Pharisees and scholars of the mosaic law assumed and accused Jesus of doing. Jesus raised the faith of the culture by introducing the Kingdom of God to the culture.
Righteous Rebellion
Jesus would not bow to Rome nor did Jesus bow to the religious sect of Judaism. Jesus rebelled. He kept the law, fulfilled the law but did not bow to the corrupt teachings and manmade traditions of the mosaic lawgivers who often broke the law themselves.
Jesus preached the Kingdom of God embodied and empowered by the Holy Spirit who tabernacled within Him. Jesus was fully divinity and humanity. From His birth to His death He was Jesus.
From His water baptism to His resurrection and ascension to heaven Jesus was Jesus the Christ the Son of the living God, born of the son of man (humanity, Mary the mother of Jesus). Christian's whether male or female are biblically referred to as the sons of God (Romans 8:14; 1John 3:2). Furthermore, because we are born of the Spirit of God through faith in Jesus we have sonship (Galatians 3:28-29).
Jesus through His righteous rebellion brought forth salvation and sonship. Jesus rebellion against hyper religion revolutionized the church and brought forth reform to the culture. Jesus reached the culture and regenerated the church without ever conforming to the carnality of the church or the culture.
Jesus was relateable. Yet, Jesus found a way to relate without sin. Jesus embodied in both divinity and humanity became sin for us that we through Him could become the righteousness and resurgence of God in Him (2Corinthians 5:21). Let's be clear. Jesus did not sin, but rather died the death of a sinner once for all mankind (Hebrews 9:26).
Jesus took the time to communicate the importance of the Kingdom of God. Moreover, He, also, communicated the significance of every individual within the culture. The righteous rebellion of Jesus was audaciously revolutionary through confrontation, correction and the cultivation of salvation.
Rashea@LLO2
