Repent: Living above the Common

Praise the Lord everybody. The message that Apostle Holcomb preached this week is entitled, "Repent: Living above the Common." This is living above the ordinary, the familiar and the normal. The message text is found in (Matthew 3:1, 2) and (Matthew 4:17). We must have the Kingdom message, the Kingdom mindset and the Kingdom ministry. In other words, it's all about Jesus. He is the message, the mindset, the ministry and the model of the Kingdom of God. It's all about Him! As stated in the previous scriptures, John the Baptist and Jesus' message was repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. "At hand" is a Hebraism which means that His help is available to us. We have right of entry to another dimension of help because we have access to God's resources. This is His support, His supply and His surplus. It is in Him that we live, move and have our being. This means that our dependence is not on the kingdom of this world. Our dependence is on the Lord, the Kingdom of our God and the Power of His Christ, which is the help and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. There is another King! Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! The Greek word for repentance is (metanoia) which means to modify or change the mind by association. It carries the connotation of changing the mind by renewing the mind to the mind of Christ, which is the ideology of Christ. The precondition of repentance is brokenness. In essence we must feel differently about sin. We must think differently about sin. We must also choose to live differently as a direct result of the Holy Spirit's conviction that Jesus is Lord and King. As children of the Most High God, we have dual citizenship. In the United States we are under a democracy. We are also citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven which is a Theocracy. We must begin to access our Kingdom mindset and think about things the way God thinks about them. It is essential that we discontinue the worldly mindsets as it pertains to our lives and to the church of the Living God. Remember when God asked Adam, Who told you that? In other words, where did you get that from? Remember that God's ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:8, 9) We must get the Counsel of God's understanding concerning every situation. We then yield and submit to God's point of view and we take God's position in every matter. Our philosophies must be married to God's Theology. Praise the Lord! As always, please remember to remain in the place of grace. Remain in the place by Jesus! God bless you and have a wonderfully blessed day!