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EXCERPT FROM KINGDOM DISCIPLES
WHAT IS A KINGDOM DISCIPLE? by Dr. Tony Evans
Kingdom disciples are in short supply these days. The result has been a bevy of powerless Christians who attend powerless churches that embody a powerless presence in the world.
Until we return to lives of discipleship, we’ll continue to fail in our calling to live as heaven’s representatives on earth. This is because the power, authority, abundance, victory, and impact promised in God’s Word to His people is ours only when we align ourselves under Him as His disciples. Until then we can anticipate that chaos and crisis will continue to reign supreme in spite of all the Christian activities we engage in, Christian books we read, Christian songs we sing, and small groups we join. Discipleship is a very personal decision. It starts when a person commits himself or herself to God as His follower and allows the results of that commitment to overflow into everything else in life. Surrender to Christ’s lordship and obedience to His rule of love unlock God’s power to bring heaven to bear on earth. A kingdom disciple lives out this divine power and influence. I define kingdom disciple this way: A believer in Christ who takes part in the spiritual-developmental process of progressively learning to live all of life under the lordship of Jesus.
The goal of kingdom disciples is to live transformed lives that transfer the values of the kingdom of God to earth so that they replicate themselves in the lives of others. The result of such replication is God’s exercising His rule and His authority from heaven to history through His kingdom disciples. And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.” Matthew 28:18-19 The word translated as authority in the English version of this verse essentially means “power, right, liberty, jurisdiction, and strength.” Strong’s Concordance reveals that this term denotes “power of choice” or “doing as one pleases,” even “the power of judicial decisions.”1 When Jesus said all authority was His in heaven and on earth, He was saying that He possesses the legal right to use that power.
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Power without authority matters little. Take, for example, players in the National Football League. They’re far more powerful than the older referees officiating the game. Yet they exercise that power only under the authority of the referees. If they choose to misuse their power, a referee simply throws out a flag. If the player persists in wrongly using his power, the referee can then eject him from the game altogether.
In other words, Satan has been given power only on earth. Unfortunately, far too many believers seek to overcome his tactics or fight his attacks in their own power. But that will never work. That’s why we’ve been instructed never to rebuke Satan on our own and with our own skills (see Eph. 6:12-18) but rather to resist him (see Jas. 4:7) and to rebuke him only in the authority of Jesus’ name (see Zech. 3:2; Jude 9).
When Jesus said all authority had been given to Him, that authority encompassed not only power but also the right to use that power as He chose.
When you understand the importance of authority, you’ll grow as a kingdom disciple to the point that you can not only resist the devil but also call on heaven, as Jesus did, to bear in your earthly endeavors.
Then the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power, only do not put forth your hand on him.” So Satan departed from the presence of the LORD. Job 1:12 Power is someone’s ability to influence another person through strength, personality, control, or deception. Authority, on the other hand, is someone’s legitimate, vested, and formal right to wield power. Enormous difference exists between the two realities, but when we fail to discern this difference, we can foolishly choose to fight power with power (rather than authority) or seek to live by our own power (rather than the authority given to us in Christ). When Jesus was tested in the wilderness (see Matt. 4:1-11), Satan’s power was outmatched by Jesus’ authority. After being offered temptations of power and fulfillment in this world, Jesus appealed to the full, final authority He possessed as the Son of God.
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If you’ve never differentiated between power and authority, let that sink in. Jesus offers you complete authority in Him when you live as His disciple. Many powers are coming against you that are stronger than you could ever be on your own, but He has overcome the world (see John 16:33). Consider the comfort and peace that come from knowing you have access to the authority of the Creator of the universe. Let that reality motivate you to grow as a disciple of the King.
1. Strong’s G1849, Blue Letter Bible, accessed December 12, 2017, https://www. blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon. cfm?Strongs=G1849&t=NASB. Excerpted from Kingdom Disciples: Heaven’s Representatives on Earth. Published by LifeWay Press®. © 2018 Tony Evans. Used by permission.
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EXCERPT FROM RACHEL & LEAH
DEFINING MOMENTS by Nicki Koziarz
Can you think of the most defining moments of your life? Those moments when everything shifted in an instant? When nothing was ever the same? Of course, the moment we invite Jesus into our lives should always be the most defining, but I’m talking about other moments or places where decisions defined us, maybe even in a not-so-great way. We’ve all had them. Some more dramatic than others, but they are there. I remember one of mine very clearly. Nineteen. Alone. Standing in a bathroom holding a pregnancy test that read positive. My life shifted in that moment. It was a defining moment for me. While I had struggled with comparison for what seemed like a lifetime, becoming a mom at such a young age wasn’t exactly an ideal situation for learning to become comfortable in my own skin.
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I spent a lot of my early twenties looking at all these women who seemed to have life way more figured out than I did. Comparison convinces us we’re failures. And our failures leave us in a place of constant comparison. It’s a cycle that never seems to go away. But failure really is one of life’s greatest teachers. And it’s time for you and me to get honest about our failures. There’s so much God wants to teach us from our pasts. They contain clues to help us understand what’s happening today. Let’s do some digging. When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home. Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob. Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field exhausted. 30 He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I’m exhausted.” That is why he was also named Edom. Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.” “Look,” said Esau, “I’m about to die, so what good is a birthright to me? ” Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore to Jacob and sold his birthright to him. Then Jacob gave bread and lentil stew to Esau; he ate, drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright. (Gen. 25: 27-34 CSB) This is a big defining moment for both Jacob and Esau. Nothing would ever be the same between them again. But this intense
struggle to be the best didn’t end there. In fact, we’ll see it get worse a few verses later. It’s a constant theme throughout their story. Isaac became old and unable to see well (Gen. 27:1). He became weak and sick and thought his days might be up very soon. So he asked Esau to go kill and cook him something yummy to eat. Isaac wanted this to be a special occasion between him and Esau in which he could give Esau his blessing (Gen. 27:2-4). The blessing was different than the birthright. The birthright was what the firstborn son was required to get by law, such as the double portion of the inheritance. The blessing, such as who would become head of the extended family after the father’s death, was decided upon and bestowed by the father. So what Jacob did next was extra conniving. He and his mother, Rebekah, cooked up a scheme to trick Isaac into giving Jacob the blessing, instead of Esau, and Isaac fell for it. (Read Genesis 27:5-40 for the whole story.) And whoa, did this stir up some anger in Esau. He wanted to kill his brother. Once Rebekah realized Jacob was in danger, they made a drastic decision. Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau determined in his heart: “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.” When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she summoned her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Listen, your brother Esau is continued on page 23
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consoling himself by planning to kill you. So now, my son, listen to me. Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran, and stay with him for a few days until your brother’s anger subsides — until your brother’s rage turns away from you and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose you both in one day?” So Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m sick of my life because of these Hethite girls. If Jacob marries someone from around here, like these Hethite girls, what good is my life? ” So Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite girl. Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father. Marry one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. (Genesis 27:41–28:2 CSB) Jacob’s journey was about five hundred miles. It would have taken him weeks to make this trip. That’s about like walking from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Orlando, Florida, or from San Diego to San Francisco, California. Let’s think about our starting points and where we want to end up. Bible studies can give us a lot of knowledge, but just knowing a lot of things about the Bible isn’t going to change our lives. It’s when we apply God’s Word that we see the most impact.
In Romans 12:4-8 we see something of the genius of God’s design in putting all of us together in the church, each with a part to play and a gift to contribute, but none able to go it alone. He could have appointed just a few supermen and superwomen to do it all, but He didn’t. If we are willing to do our parts and not compare how our parts measure up to someone else’s, we just might find the thrill of being a functioning part of something much larger than ourselves. Plus, we’ll likely come away with some great relationships added in for good measure. Today, I believe, is a turning point for you and me. The more unsettled we allow ourselves to become with this comparison struggle, the more likely we are to overcome it. And the more honest we get about where we are, the more we’ll see where we need to go. It’s the struggles we stuff, ignore, or simply deny that never see the light of victory. acob knew his destination was Haran. He didn’t know what was in store for him there, but it was better than where he was. And where God wants you and me to end up is much better than where we are now. He wants your destination to be freedom.
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W H AT H A PPENS W HEN YOU SEE EV ERY THING IN THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL? It’s that moment when you realize your heart cannot begin to hold all the love Jesus has for you. When you realize that moralism is empty and all of life is really about His life, death, and resurrection. This new Bible study series will lead you on a one-year journey through the entire storyline of Scripture, showing how Jesus is the Hero from beginning to end. When the light of the gospel transforms just one individual, it has the power to illuminate your group, your church, and even your entire community.
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