The Myles Munroe Kingdom Training Seminar

0:02 well thank you very much you may be seated good afternoon everyone welcome to our first session for our 2013 Kingdom Training Seminar uh these seats here are empty so as people come in ushers please fill all the seats from the front back please there's some empty ones here i'm very pleased to welcome all of you to this very important experience this week uh some of you have uh been here last year and you back for a second dose some of you are here for the first time uh at this seminar but you've been to one of our events in the past and then those of you who are here that you've never been to the Bahamas before now you know where God really lives it's a pleasure

0:52 to welcome all of you here to this intensive experience i am very grateful for the privilege of being able to serve so many wonderful people from around the world i am also honored to have a great faculty of uh teams teachers with me who are going to be a part of this process and uh you will of course meet them as we go along my responsibility today is to open this training seminar on a subject that is probably the most important part of this experience and those of you who are online I hope you got your first uh download which is dealing with the session on kingdom ideology if

1:38 you are not online can you please hold your hand up if you're having difficulty uh that looked like 80% of you i got a problem so I need my tech people to move around quickly and check everyone i mean right now please uh if you do have a problem just hold your hand up and someone will come and take a look at your situation and in the meantime we're going to continue uh those of you who did not bring a uh a technical item like a computer or you don't have an iPad or you didn't bring some kind of a technical product we have a hard copy for you supposed to be available to you if you didn't have one of those items so if you don't have a computer or an iPad or whatever

2:29 else you use you need to also in indicate that to uh our assistants now p um char no one's moving i need someone to move with these people gina or someone come and help them out please and uh we need to make sure that we stay on course uh they are tested this so it's supposed to be working so if it isn't working I'm sure they can uh assess as to exactly what we need in the meantime you can get your notebooks and uh take some notes i'll be using the PowerPoint screens so whatever you have in your download that you can't get access to yet it will also be on the screen so you can take notes from that uh one of the major issues that we deal with when we talk about a seminar

3:17 is that a seminar is really not uh a conference a seminar is an environment in which learning takes place at a level of instruction that is more or less to help you apply what you learn uh a conference can be a place where you confer on issues but a seminar approach is different we are here to give you practical information that you can learn to apply as well as to train others now you will note that this seminar is called the Kingdom Leadership Training Seminar here in the Bahamas and the the focus of this seminar over the last three years has been training you

4:10 on how to teach it uh recently since we have been privy to so many people uh being exposed to the kingdom message that creates some very dangerous problems because some people believe that if they heard it they know it and this is very dangerous i have had the horrific experience listening to people who claim to be teaching the kingdom and they were destroying it because they didn't understand it and they tried to teach it you cannot teach what you don't understand and what may seem simple when someone like me speak about this subject is not simple because I've been

5:04 engaging this information for over 40 years so it seemed very easy for me some of you are just being exposed to this in the last 40 months compare 40 months to 40 years there's a big difference so the reason why this seminar was created is so that we can protect you from uh confusing people creating error uh misguiding people into things that you don't understand and also destroying the very purpose of Jesus which is to communicate the most important important message on earth and

5:52 that is the kingdom message so this is to in a way attempt to correct history and in some cases to complete your education uh there are people in this room and maybe online who have had formal Bible training in a school somewhere maybe you went to a seminary like I did graduated from university like I did in theological studies and you still don't have the grasp of the kingdom this seminar was created to assist you in getting the completion of your education i have not found any leader in the church or any uh so-called Bible teacher i've not found any yet

6:50 who had formal training in kingdom studies i've met people with PhDs in theology PhDs in in the uh Old Testament studies people with all kinds of degrees in in the sociology of the Bible and all kind of deep stuff but I haven't met anyone that had formal training in a school on the kingdom which is very sad because this is the ultimate message and also the only message that Jesus preached which was the kingdom so it's very important for us to pause and uh go back if

7:37 I can use that term and reconnect to the most important message that was ever preached and taught on earth and that is the kingdom message now why do we begin with the concept of ideology why do we begin with this foundational thought uh I thought about this very very long ideology is more important than theology ideology is more important than philosophy

8:31 i went to university like some of you in this room and I graduated i went to some very interesting classes in in the university and followed their curriculum course of studies and graduated i meant to I went to more than one university and I can't remember a course on ideology on in any of those universities there was a course on philosophy there was a course on theology but not ideology and some of you are are not even acquainted with the word too well ideology so this first session is the most

9:23 important because it is found foundational but it's also the most important component when you talk about learning and teaching and educating and that is ideology uh the objectives of this session are up on the screen and you will note we talk about what you will learn in this process the first one is our attempt is to rediscover the principle and the power of ideas and ideology that is crucial we're also going to take a look at the ideas in scripture what are the

10:09 the priority ideas in scripture we don't approach the Bible this way too often we normally go to the Bible to get devotional concepts or to get some scriptural reference or something but we don't necessarily approach the Bible as an ideological document or a document that has ideology in it but that's the most important part of our research we also want to define the impact of ideas why they are important explain the priority of the kingdom as an idea it's an idea that Jesus communicated we also want to take a look at the difference between ideology and modern church

11:01 ideas and Jesus Christ himself hopefully in this sort opening we're going to talk about how to apply the kingdom ideology as the prophetical fulfillment of Jesus throughout the scriptures uh the the Bible is really the manifestation of God's ideas i want you to think that way so that you can approach the Bible from that perspective we also want to eval evaluate the ideology of the 20th century and it's the contrast with um the ideas of Jesus because what's going on right now

11:52 is really a clash between the ideas of Jesus and the modern ideas of our contemporary culture and that includes the church and then finally we want to talk about uh hopefully help you demonstrate the practical application of the kingdom ideology to your studies uh always remember that whenever you pick up a piece of material to read or study that material is in danger because you bring to that material your preconceived ideas and the temptation is to impose your ideas on

12:42 the material and you end up with your ideas coming from the material that may not be speaking your ideas you actually make it say what you wanted to say because we all bring to life our own ideas and we impose them and this is very dangerous and is probably the curse of most of our modern day theology uh the key concepts in this series which you will find as you download this information is the ideas of God through the Old Testament the ideas of Jesus in the New Testament the ideas of what it means when we talk about the the kingdom of heaven the kingdom ideology is the foundation

13:32 of theological perspective of Jesus and of course the Bible and we're going to talk about the fact that the primary content of the four gospels is the ideology of the kingdom it really is and it is the principle and the primary context for understanding or interpreting the message that Jesus preached i want you to think for a minute you interpret through your ideas you also impose them on which you are engaging that is a formula for error i also have to be very careful battling

14:25 this fight the fight of making sure that my ideas are not being imposed on God's word the results are disastrous and I think history have shown that for example you remember the Inquisition when the church instigated the killing of hundreds of thousands of people in Europe because of the wrong idea you remember the Crusades when the church dressed in a red cross representing the blood of Jesus cut people heads off with knives and killed hundreds of thousands of people in

15:11 the name of Jesus because of a misconceived idea about what they thought the scriptures said it is therefore vital that we deal with the power of ideas ideas are the source of all the destruction that has taken place in the world the murder of 6 million Jews was the result of an idea that Adolf Hitler had that's how powerful an idea is they can kill 6 million people and literally justify the killing when I was in college I was asked as a part of a course to read the writings of Hitler

16:09 his his what they call mind camp and when I read it I was shocked that he really began it with God he said that God raised him up to correct some problems and also to restore the Roman Empire and he said that the problem that he saw that prevented that from happening was that this group of people the Jews were the problem and so God had raised him up to correct that and so his idea was that he was raised up by God well Bin Laden said that he was defending the honor of his God so the idea can actually destroy the

17:01 world so let's talk a little bit about the power of ideas you might want to write this down the world is ruled by dead men what do I mean by that every form of government that is ruling countries was an idea that someone conceived and all of those who invented those ideas are dead so basically the world is still being ruled by dead men because ideas outlive men ideas are

17:47 stronger than death so don't you ever consider this session and this discussion as not being the ultimate discussion the discussion of ideas ideas are so powerful that death cannot kill them that also leads to my next point ideas outlive men and therefore ideas can never be destroyed if you kill a man you cannot kill his ideas as a matter of fact history has proven that if you kill a man with an idea the

18:35 idea multiplies they call it martyrdom you know it's a very dangerous thing to try and stop a man with an idea by physical termination because you give honor to the idea and this is why for example terrorism has grown since bin Laden was terminated it gave validity to the idea so ideas can never be destroyed that means ideas can only be exchanged write that down that's important if you meet a person with a different idea

19:23 don't try to destroy their idea try to get them to exchange it for yours if you meet a Buddhist or a Hindu or a Muslim or an atheist they are what they are because of the ideas they believe if you want to reach those people you don't curse their ideas what you must do is present your idea as being a better alternative so they can exchange theirs for yours it's called conversion the word convert I'm sure you've used it a few times in your life if you have a certain

20:12 type of currency and you go into an environment where the currency is not valid then they ask you to do what convert the money the question is do you lose your money no you maintain the value but you exchange it and sometimes when you exchange your money you get a better value that's called conversion so when you tell someone I was converted what you're telling them is I exchanged my old ideas for some new ones do you understand it's the power of an idea that leads to my next point ideas produce everything everything in life was

21:02 once an idea the shoe on your feet began as an idea in someone's mind the chair that you sit on was first an idea in a designer's mind the the clothing on your back was first an idea the building that we are in was first an architectural idea everything begins as an idea that's how powerful an idea is an idea begins everything including the creation of the world and the universe began with an idea in someone's mind that someone of course we refer to as God which means self-existing one so ideas produce everything and the only way to defeat a bad

21:50 idea is with a better idea because you can't kill an idea when we talk about being effective in the world having influence in your generation how to deal with all the contesting ideas in your environment one of the worst things you can do is to tell a man that his idea is no good because everyone has a reason for the belief in their idea and if you try to disregard my idea or discard my idea or devalue my idea you lose me can I give you a simple wise statement life is simply about an exchange of

22:48 ideas so if you want to reach someone with a different idea first tell them to explain theirs give them the privilege of trying to convince you that their idea is better than yours that is how you gain respect with people when someone says to you I respect you what they're saying is I put value on your ideas and the most important statement about ideas is this right here ideas produce philosophy which will be another session we do tonight so

23:34 don't miss tonight philosophy is this is the product of ideas philosophy which we will learn a little later today is actually the word love filo means to love osophy means to think so philosophy means to be in love with your own thoughts that's basically what it means so when you say I have a a communist philosophy what you're telling me is you are madly in love with the ideas of communism that's your philosophy your thoughts are your driving

24:21 love and according to the Bible as a man thinkketh in his heart this is the man's life so your philosophy is your lifestyle it becomes what you live out of all of you sitting in this auditorium and the thousands who are privy to this information online I promise you that you are simply living your philosophy right now that's all you're doing you are living what you believe to be true or truth and it might be wrong but because

25:09 you believe it's truth it becomes your life that's called philosophy and therefore it begins with what idea so here's my point if your idea is wrong your life is wrong think about it for a second if your ideas are wrong your life is wrong your philosophy is wrong your lifestyle is wrong and you can live an entire life in error most of us basically got a soup we call truth we got stuff mixed up in it you know a

26:01 little bit of this a little bit of that and some of it is bone some is meat and some is poison and we got this thing we call my belief and this is why you must keep pursuing truth and that's why we come to a seminar like this because we need to remember the power of our ideas all right let me take you to uh a little thought about ideas again you cannot fight against an idea this is very important because you cannot physically destroy it can you shoot an idea with a bullet absolutely not they thought that when they killed Bin Laden they destroyed terrorism

26:49 they thought that when Lenon died and Karl Marx died that communism died communism is still in Cuba which is 20 minutes from where you're sitting and they've been dead for 75 years humanism is as old as Pharaoh 4,000 years old and they are teaching it in your university in your city today the Egyptians invented humanism the worship of man so ideas cannot be destroyed and that's important ideas may have a shelf life but they are never extinct ideas go into hiding for a generation and then they show up again

27:36 the next one you remember bell bottoms was an idea and then you thought it went away so these are important questions what do you do with an idea write this down ideas can be generationally traded this is frightening what do I mean by generational trade that means generations take their ideas and package it and sell it to the next generation it is called traditions a tradition is simply an idea that was passed on to succeeding generations and the generations that embraced

28:25 them did not question them didn't check to see if those ideas were in line with what we call truth i want you to think for a minute this is a a a training seminar on the kingdom most of you in this room never heard the concept until perhaps you heard one of my book read one of my books or heard a tape or something and so the question is what were you believing before that and where did you get it from you inherited it from somewhere some generation in the past gave you something and you were using it without question until someone introduced a fresh idea into your environment

29:10 you call it revelation uh by the way the word revelation is an interesting word i was speaking uh in Puerto Rico uh a few weeks ago and I was talking about this and I gave them a demonstration i'll give it to you okay i hold in my hand a bottle everybody see this a bottle of water you can see that right everybody see that now i'm going to cover it up my question is does it still exist yes yes but can you see it no okay revelation is never anything new the word reveal means to unveil that's all it means revelation is never new

30:05 revelation is simply the reexposure of something that was covered up for a long time so when someone comes and they remove the veil we call it unveiling or reveiling revealing revelation so revelation is simply the rediscovery of old truth i would prefer to call it the original truth so my question is the ideas that you believe are they original or did some generation pass that on based on what they got from their

30:57 previous generation and no one question whether the information or the ideas were truth that leads to my next point ideas outlive men and therefore ideas multiply under pressure if you want to expand an idea help someone die for it it expands jesus Christ laid his life down for the sake not only of your salvation but for the idea of it his idea about saving humanity was an idea and he was willing he said "No man takes my life i'm

31:52 going to lay it down for this idea that's why we can't get rid of it." His idea multiplied from one man to almost two billion people today and it is still multiplying because under pressure ideas multiply that leads to my next point god is the source of divine ideas and that is why we have to go to God because God is the original source of true ideas there's an abstract word that we use that many times we don't understand the word it's the word truth truth people ask me sometime you know uh what is truth and you know the

32:38 famous question that Pilate asked Jesus Christ what is truth this is a very important question and keep in mind that Pilate was a governor trained by the Roman Empire produced by the Italian exquisite classical educated class he was ruling the whole area of Asia Minor in charge of the of Palestine this guy was powerful and still didn't know truth he was still confused i too was confused and people use strange answers when you ask them what is truth especially religious people they answer this way Jesus is truth that makes no sense to me

33:27 and it doesn't make any sense to you either you cannot apply that answer to nothing a person is not truth let me explain what I mean by that truth Truth let me define it for you write it down is original information that's the practical definition of truth original information what do I mean by that that computer that you're sitting in front of right now came from a manufacturer the manufacturer that made that product placed in the box on top of it a book we call the book the manual the word manual means to make manual is referring to the

34:18 maker's mind so the manual is put in the box because the manufacturer don't trust you he doesn't trust your ideas about his product so he puts his mind in the box and ships his mind to you and then he says "Before you touch my product read my mind completely." Why because I know the truth about this product i made this i know stuff you can't even see that's in it i have the original information about this product this is why God is the source of divine ideas god created everything

35:07 so if you want to know the truth about everything which is what original information you got to go to the manufacturer this is why we need God now the Bible says in the book of John chapter one in the beginning was the word okay and the word was with God and the word was God and he was in with God where in the beginning when when God began the beginning the word was in it he was inactive and then it says in verse 12 "And the word became flesh." So when Jesus says "I am the way the truth." You probably should read it this way i am the way to the truth that gives you life because I am the manufacturer i know the truth about everything cuz I made it

36:00 so when you listen to the message of Jesus you're not listening to the Apostle Paul who to me is a commentary you're not listening to Peter and James who are commentaries you're listening to the manufacturer and this is why I want to warn you do not get your gospel from the epistles get it from what they call the four gospels that's why they call them that get it from the source get it from the manufacturer otherwise you can make the commentators more important than the manufacturer you study the four gospels you won't find grace too much because grace was

36:58 not the gospel that Jesus preached he preached the kingdom that grace is important but if you study those other books you'll get other themes because they were dealing with issues but Jesus dealt with something completely different he dealt with the original information the kingdom of God so when you come to this kind of event this seminar we are trying to get back even behind the commentators to go back to the original source so we can get his ideas because that idea produces our life are you with me yeah so ideology is really the foundation of this whole thing

37:44 uh let's talk about the power of ideas real quick again the most powerful force on earth is an idea because everything on earth is a product of an idea everything began as an idea and ideas produce everything ideas are more powerful than death and death can never kill an idea and ideas can never be destroyed now this is the reason why I talk about ideas so much because ideas sometime they submerge in one generation and then they emerge in the next one by the way that's what makes me very wise you know because I am convinced that there's nothing new under the sun solomon taught me that solomon says "Whatever you say here's something new." He said "That was here already there's no such thing as a new idea on

38:33 earth it's just a new generation bringing it back see glorios so I want you to think then about the process of ideas now this is important here ideas begin with a thought a thought that we call a precept a precept if your precept is wrong everything will be wrong everything so it's more important for you to find out what is the precept about everything look at the word precept pre means before sept means

39:23 thought it's a word pre is a prefix sept is the word we don't use the word too much i could ask you what what is your sept and what I'm really asking is what what is your thought pre means before so if I say what is your precept i'm asking you what is your thought before you thought about the thought what is your original idea that produced the thought that's called a precept once you conceive a precept it is called a concept a concept therefore is not stage one it is stage two

40:12 your concept will be wrong if your precept is wrong so if you don't understand the precept you cannot have the concept that's why you begin with the idea first i believe that every course that you take in any school should begin at the level of ideology this is probably why many of our social systems are falling apart many of our cultures are decaying because no one is questioning the precepts we talk about for example redefining marriage has anyone ever

40:59 sat down and thought what is the precept of marriage and I actually been thinking about it i'm going to write something on its own the precept of marriage is not love the precept of marriage is the continuation of the human species in the context of preservation buy the CDJs for that statement see I just went over your head just now that's how deep you got to think when you are arguing these ideas because the people who are selling the ideas don't even understand the precept it's not about love god never told Adam and Eve to love one another he simply said multiply

41:46 now why is that important because the precept that they are using to justify for example the idea of same-sex marriage is that if people love each other see it's too deep well love is not this you love is marriage not about love it's about procreation so if two men cannot procreate we cannot call that marriage call it something else but you can't call it marriage because the idea is wrong there you go i can see your face what are you talking about i just leave that alone so the conception of a precept produce a concept that leads to stage number four then the once you accept the the concept it becomes what we call a

42:36 conviction once you have a conviction it leads to the fifth stage when you accept a conviction it becomes a belief when something becomes a belief then it becomes your ideology that means your your system of ideas that you believe to be truth once it becomes your ideology then it moves to this very dangerous stage of becoming your philosophy let me use the term Christianity where did we get that concept from what does it mean where is the original idea that gave birth to it and does it genuinely describe the intent of the original idea of

43:26 God we just accept things never acts once it becomes your philosophy the result is your lifestyle and there's your problem so if you want to know what life is you take this list and you work backward you start from the bottom what kind of life am I having it's because of my philosophy what is my philosophy coming from from my ideology where my ide where did my ideology come from it come from my belief system where did I get my belief from it came from a conviction I had somewhere where did my conviction come from it

44:12 came from a concept that someone taught me where' the concept come from it came from a precept an idea so you can see that if your idea is wrong then it runs all the way through your life is wrong now if your idea your precept is wrong watch this then you become a prisoner of your misconception am I right so you can actually live in a lie am I right look at that process am I right okay so if you are living in the prison of a lie all your life because your precept your idea thought was wrong then how do I set you free

45:02 from that prison i will answer it this way jesus comes along and says "You shall know the truth." He says "I'm not I'm not going to set you free." He didn't say that he says "You shall know something you shall discover something." You shall discover what original idea and when you discover it he says it will set you free free from what an entire life that was wrong we call it being saved yes saved from what the lie right do you know what the Bible calls the devil jesus actually gave him a name and you know

45:49 we we have all kind of names for Satan but it's important to read Jesus's title for him he calls him the father of lies a lie is simply a an idea that is not truth father means what source he is the source of ideas that are not truth cuz once he can plant the wrong idea the precept in your mind that he got your whole life Satan walks up to Eve if I can put it that way and he did not attack Eve he swed an idea he said "If you pick that fruit you will not surely die." He was planning an idea he said "As a

46:43 matter of fact if you eat it you'll be just like God." It was an idea being planted the rest is history why am I saying this we are here to study the kingdom of God and some of you just discovered the idea recently which means that you are so contaminated with so much stuff that you inherited for the last 30 years of your life that we got a lot of cleaning out to do it ain't going to happen in no one hour sermon from a pullpit amen you are contaminated

47:32 i was too still getting cleaned up myself battling stuff and some people are so in love with their old ideas when you embrace new ones they make you their enemy they don't want you to change your ideas so they can have conversation with you with your wrong ideas it's called fellowship your ideas can destroy your friendships cuz you can't relate to people anymore if your ideas change your belief system which means your

48:19 conversations change which means you can't converse with them anymore and that's this is what Jesus meant when he says I will cause there to be friction between you and your own family you know you you know Dr hana used to be a Southern Baptist right when he was baptized in the Holy Spirit they defellowshipped him now what does that mean his idea expanded he couldn't fit in anymore he became the enemy the power of an idea coming to this seminar is very dangerous cuz you might go back home converted completely different currency which means you can't exchange with other people that

49:07 you left home anymore you can't exchange not no longer the same value of exchange i know what I'm talking about personally all right let's deal with this real quick precept write this down and a precept is what an idea write it down a concept is a conceived idea conceived thought a concept therefore is a picture that shows up in your mind for example if I speak the idea of a dog anybody see the dog okay how about a yellow dog do you see it yellow dog with a purple ribbon around his neck do you see that yellow dog in your mind yeah that's a powerful idea it can actually create pictures now everyone in

49:54 this room have a different dog in their head though some got a poodle some got a you know great dane some got a Doberman pincher some you know some got a Greyhound you But but but we all got dogs the picture is there in other words the idea becomes a picture and we call it a concept so if you have the wrong concept then you have the wrong picture so if your precept is wrong your concept is wrong your pitch is wrong then your conclusion is wrong yes your dog is not my dog and you could swear that you have a dog i could swear I got one too but our dogs ain't the same dogs can I give you one of the most important things I ever learned in university it was in

50:46 a class called oral communication i was sitting in this class and they were reading a book by an author they studied a book in that class called Hayakawa i never forgot the guy and the entire book was about meaning when you're communicating you know communication communications class and he made a statement in the book i never forgot it this is 1974 that's how far back I go with that i still remember it as if it was yesterday he said "Meaning is not in words meaning is in people." Write that down meanings are not in words they are where in people in other

51:37 words my dog is not your dog so what a dog is is the one you see that's your dog i can't tell you that my dog is is the right dog you see your own dog in your mind so when both of us use the word dog we talking two different animals completely am I right you say I saw my dog i say I saw my dog too but they ain't the same dogs that's how powerful an idea is ideas are different in people's minds here's my point the only way for you to know what dog I'm talking about is you got to

52:26 get into my mind and take a picture of my dog that's why the class is on communication how do I describe my dog to you so I could replace the picture of your dog with mine i use oral communication so I use what i take words and I try to get the words to create a picture of my dog in your mind so my words are the vehicle to paint the same picture of my dog it's too deep so when God saw the world in trouble with the wrong ideas God says "I'm going to send my word." And then he says "Listen to what he

53:17 says." Not your bishop not your pope not your pastor or parents hear him he says he will describe what you're supposed to be seeing in your mind and if you study what he said you'll you will come to the conclusion that the painting in his mind is not the painting in your local church his picture is not the picture in your seminary

54:05 what you call theology is not the theology in the mind of Jesus he's the word of God he's the vehicle that carries the right picture in the mind of God he came to deliver the precept so you can walk away with the right concept so you won't have the wrong conclusion why because if your conclusion is wrong then you walk away what we call a misconception a misconception will always produce misunderstanding and once a person misunderstands something you can't help

54:53 them uh misunderstanding is the source of most of the destruction on earth including marriages it destroys misunderstanding is so dangerous it can kill 6 million Jews it can send aircrafts into buildings and kill 3,000 people in one hour just a misconception that's why I'm happy deep down you know quietly happy about you leaving your home and flying to this conference or walking across the street to this conference and and you come and put

55:38 aside your regular life so that you can have an opportunity to question your regular life education is simply the distribution of ideas training is the disbbursement of ideas hoping that the person will capture those ideas and it will change their behavior lifestyle so misunderstanding is the greatest danger on earth uh what is an idea real quick an idea is a conceived thought a conceived thought is a precept a precept is the original idea and the original idea is

56:27 called truth so truth is the source of understanding all things because the most important possession in life is understanding notice now write this down this is very important statement I'm making here the most important thing in life is understanding not knowledge you can have knowledge and don't still don't understand it how many of you ever read a book and you had to read the sentences 10 times because you didn't understand what you was reading i mean you get the information but you don't understand it understanding is more important than information let me quote the Bible in all you're getting

57:14 it didn't say get wisdom you know wisdom is is application of that thing understanding is the most important because the most important say in understanding because understanding is when you get to the truth of the matter i understand you ever heard that oh I understand what they say the light just came on the Bible says God is light that means God just came on in your mind that means the manufacturer just entered your thought patterns that means his idea just lodged in your brain you call it revealation he

58:03 unveiled you know the Bible said the Holy Spirit it didn't say he knock you on the floor and make you shout it says he will guide you into all truth yes that's his number one job he will guide you into all truth what is truth original idea he's going to take you back to the original thought that God thought once you get that you get what understanding and once you get understanding then you get truth and truth does what set you free set you free all right so here's the way it works with theology ideas ideology ideology is a

58:54 study of thought psychology is the influence of your mentality theory is a study of belief philosophy is the belief in your own thoughts theo means divine authority of thought you know God himself theo theo theology means the study of God and his activity in history so you see the connection here uh a theory is a study of your beliefs about God or truth or some substance or some experience uh the theo has to be with the divine authority of that thought so when someone once says "I studied theology," what they're saying is "I studied God's thoughts about God or what I believe about God's thoughts or what I believe about God." That's theology

59:43 your theology could be completely wrong so I'm not impressed when you tell me you got a degree in theology my question is what theology you have about God the Pharisees had a theology the Sadducees had a theology they had a belief about God hitler had a theology bin Laden had a theology everybody got a theo about their God so I'm not impressed when you tell me you have a theological degree what I want to know is not the theo but theology is theology right

1:00:36 because if your thoughts about your God are wrong then your whole life is wrong your belief system is wrong so when we talk about theology don't get too excited about that word uh here is a little diagram I put up here uh ideas becomes your psychology which becomes your philosophy which becomes your theology that sounds very simple but it's really not simple in other words your theology are simply to be ideas you believe about your God and your ideas could be wrong and you could be preaching them while you're sweating and you could have a 10,000 member church disseminating

1:01:28 error i am never impressed by large groups i want to listen for truth many times I'm suspicious of large groups i think the apostle Peter had the same thought when he said "Don't just preach things for itching ears." Sometime we we serve what people want not what they need and these people are attracted because you give them what they want not what they need and they need truth to set them free

1:02:20 so watch your ideas and you watch your theology the most powerful force on earth is thought and the source of thought is knowledge and knowledge is the exposure to ideas that's all it is so education is the exchange of ideas and therefore the most important issue of life is the source of your ideas not the ideas the source of it write that down the most important thing about life is not your ideas but the source of your ideas where did you get them from h think for a minute what did your parents teach you taught you rather that is no longer true to you they were your parents

1:03:14 so the source of ideas are the most important issues in life and this is why it's called your school of thought you ever heard the term school of thought school of thought is the most powerful statement that I believe we need to get back to school of thought what thought is schooling you mhm what school did you come from when someone says I am a Baptist they're telling you I came from a school of thought when someone says that I am a Presbyterian they're saying I came from a school of thought if someone tells you I am a Hindu they're telling you I came from a certain school of thought if someone says I'm an atheist they're telling you

1:04:00 I came from a school of thought a school of thought is the source of your thoughts so what does the Bible say about this you know what the Bible says the Bible says faith simply means belief right romans 10 says so faith belief comes by what hearing but it doesn't end there cuz you you may be hearing from the wrong place do you see the difference faith doesn't come just by hearing but yet that statement is true in every case faith comes by what hearing write the word faith down stop making it religious it's not a religious word the word faith Greek word pistas it simply means belief

1:04:51 when you take a bottle of pills from your doctor with an instruction to take three of them a day when you walk out of that office with those pills you have faith in that doctor's words that's faith simply means you believe what he said so notice what Paul the Apostle says paul says all belief comes by someone giving you some ideas you're hearing some ideas all belief he says "So get your ideas from a specific source." He says "From the word of the manufacturer God." Paul didn't say "Get it from his words

1:05:45 get it from the word of God let him be the source of your ideas for your belief system comprene yeah comprende when we talk about this book called the Bible please see it as a treasure of ideas it's a treasure chest of ideas that's the Bible and you go in there to get your ideas and you need help you know that's why he gives you the Holy Spirit he guides you cuz you open that chest you can get

1:06:33 confused you need good teachers who have given themselves over to finding out the truth about this book you are too important to God to to to live your whole life wrong my father whom I love dearly hopefully you'll meet him before you leave he's 89 years old he going to be 90 in May my father he calls me almost every day you know when I'm home called me last night you know he he comes and he sits in this place at 89 he was

1:07:24 a Baptist pastor all my life and he sits here with a notebook when I'm teaching at 89 he said to me the other day he said "Son you got a lot of learning you're smarter than me 89 David says "Your precepts have made me wiser than my elders." Listen to his words carefully "my your precepts," see my elders got concepts he says "Your precepts have made me wiser than my elders." How's that possible because your eldest may be expert in

1:08:13 error and God will reveal the truth to babes what's a baby a baby is somebody who comes to life with a empty hard drive am I right mhm see the more you bring your ideas to a meeting the less you learn you can almost come before God constantly with a lot of delete in your life i delete everything lord teach me again your blessings are new every morning give me something new i'm willing to exchange my loving ideas that

1:08:59 I love so much i'm willing to exchange them if I understand that they are not truth that's a hard thing to do cuz remember now you are in love with your ideas so it's like a divorce you got to divorce yourself from something you learned like my father for 50 years that's a that's a hard divorce that's why most people get exposed to the kingdom message they get excited and then they go back the divorce is just too hard because they will lose their friends lose their association with their organization lose the denominational affiliation lose their credentials with I ain't going through that forget the kingdom i'm going to stay this whole idea see cuz the divorce is just

1:09:47 so hard so they'd rather live a lie for the rest of their lives than to get married to the truth that's why we're here to talk about this let me give some scriptures before we go john chapter one says what in the beginning was the word the word was with God the word was God he was with God in the beginning the word word is the word logos the word logos simply means idea did you know that so Jesus Christ is God's idea on two legs the word logos means expressed idea in the beginning was the expressed idea the idea was God the idea became God the idea walked in the flesh so when you see the word Jesus you talking about God's ideas in a body

1:10:38 logos so what did God send to save the world ideas why can I suggest something to you this is very simple but profound if God sent his idea to save the world then what's wrong with the world come on use your brain huh that means the world got the wrong idea that's what Yeah misconception you're right ain't that wonderful what did the devil use to destroy Adam and Eve's relationship with God another idea idea so Christ came to what bring the old idea back and say you already

1:11:28 gods now to convince you is a hard thing cuz you've been away from that for so long you think you are just an animal see so this this this is an important scripture god sent his idea back into the world yeah through him all things were made nothing was made without him in him was life watch this and that life was what the light the Hebrew word for light is the word knowledge in him was life and the life was light so life is actually knowledge life is light there it is

1:12:17 so life is what knowledge of the truth so you ain't living until you know the truth about life it goes on to say the light shines in darkness the Hebrew word for darkness is the word ignorance so the idea is the light coming on hey I understand now wow and then the darkness the ignorance goes away in a couple of months I'm going to be speaking in this church for three Sundays just on light because I've done some research again it blows your mind the Bible says you are the light of the world the word world means systems you are the actual

1:13:03 knowledge for politics you're the knowledge for economics you are the knowledge for education you don't even know that right you have the truth about education and yet we let them educate our children light it says the darkness did not understand it couldn't comprehend it in them was life that life was the light it destroyed darkness write this down light life is measured by light post that on your Facebook right away miles Monroe quote life is measured by light what is light knowledge so you can only live to the amount of knowledge you

1:13:54 get jesus Christ never said you shall know the truth no you shall he never said the truth shall set you free he said you shall know truth which means that there's a measure of the knowledge of it and the more of it that you learn then the more freedom you have the more you get the more freedom you have so little knowledge little truth little life little truth little freedom a lot of truth a lot of freedom little truth little life little light little life big light big life it depends on what you want

1:14:40 pursuit of light the word became flesh and dwelt among us we beheld his what glory which was full of what grace and truth grace and truth he had the original information this is why it's called glory he bought the full weight back he brought the weight of life back the the essence of life back the word glory means heavy he bought the the the weight of everything back what an amazing thing he bought the culture of heaven back what it's supposed to be like well this stuff is in your notes i just want to get some scripture before we close read the

1:15:28 scripture with me please psalm 19:8 read the precepts of the Lord are right and they give joy to the mind heart means mind think about it now notice the word precept the one you never saw before hey precept is in the Bible precept means the thought before the thought read it again the precepts of the Lord are right in other words there's no question once you get the precept you could boast you could be bold you could be zealous you could be even dogmatic if you get the precept you are right that's why you have joy in your mind psalm 111:10 read "The

1:16:13 fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and all who follow his precepts have good understanding." Is tied to understanding see I told you this seminar is really not about information it's about precepts we're trying to get the original ideas psalm 119:4 says read "You have laid down precepts that are to be fully obeyed." The precept is more important than the law if you know the precepts it's easy to obey the law mhm cuz the precept precedes the law if you understand why you shouldn't run across

1:17:03 a highway with cars it's easy not to run across the highway right yeah so the precept helps you obey the law the precept says "I don't want to be killed if I run across that highway those cars flying by 100 miles per hour I'm going to get killed so the precept says "This is not a good idea do you want to die?" No so I obey the law i control myself i impose discipline on myself so precepts are more important than law because precepts gives you the incentive to keep law most countries are teaching people to obey laws but never teach them the precepts precepts happen in the mind let me quote uh the writer of Hebrew which I think

1:17:58 is very important he said the day will come when no man will teach you right or wrong for the Lord shall write his laws on your mind he's talking about precepts you wouldn't have to fight against temptation anymore he says you would just know this is the right thing to do it'll be in your mind that's what we need to get at couple more scriptures psalm 111:10 read the fear of the Lord is beginning of wisdom all who follow his precepts of what good understanding and to him belongs what eternal praise psalm 19:27 read let me understand the teaching of your precepts then I will meditate on your

1:18:45 wonders if I understand the thought behind making the sun I'll wonder about the sun wow not the sun now I'm wondering about the precept that made him make it gosh the sun provides gamma rays ultraviolet rays all these wonderful things that provide chlorophyll for the plant that produces oxygen that gives me life wow so he thought about the sun to produce gamma rays and ultraviolet rays to create chlorophyll in the plant of the leaf of the tree to produce oxygen so I could breathe and live wow man the sun the idea of the sun is amazing you see cuz you understand the depth of it not just the sun is nice and I'm alive it's like I understand the reason why he made the sun

1:19:38 the precepts helps you meditate on his wonders boy wow a leaf keeps me alive wow every leaf out there is giving me oxygen i'll never walk past a plan again and ignore it because I understand the precept see all of this is really to tell you that if you don't get the right ideas about the kingdom of God you get the wrong theology that's it so let me understand the teaching of your precepts then I will meditate on your wonders why because I will walk about in freedom because I have sought your

1:20:26 precepts precepts set you free i will speak of your statutes before kings and will not be put to shame why once you know precepts I tell you can be bold in the front of a politician a prime minister a president which I am why i ain't afraid of nobody because I have discovered some precepts that none of their theories could defy they think I'm smart no I just know precepts david says "I delight in your commands because I love them." When you know God's precepts you love his commands because his commands make sense yeah psalm 119:9 "I will never forget your precepts for by them you have preserved my

1:21:17 life save me for I am yours i have sought out your precepts." Some of you sitting there going that in the Bible all them precepts you'll be amazed what's in the Bible look how many words the precepts how many times it's been used and you never heard about it in church in your pulpit cuz precepts are the most important factor in life it is the foundational idea david says if I learn your precepts they preserve me i have more understanding than the elders because I obey your precept there it is in the Bible it makes you smarter than your parents and your teachers cuz your teachers may have the wrong ideas last one psalm 119 verse 44 i

1:22:05 gain understanding from your precepts therefore I hate doing wrong things precepts make you hate unrighteousness idea the power of an idea in this seminar we're going to introduce ideas to you every session don't listen to the words of the person try and listen to the idea that they're communicating because the idea is more important than the words remember meanings are in people not words so you have to listen what's the idea that they're trying to teach the next session that we're going to have is going to be talking about nations and government listen for the idea of how

1:22:55 the kingdom is supposed to engage nations how it how it's supposed to affect this concept we call nation the idea behind it well I have a lot more to say to you but our time is gone so I'm going to take this opportunity to thank you for listening and I hope I got some ideas across

1:23:43 theme tonight uh I'm going to dump a lot of things on you tonight so you got to walk through this with me and think fast please write this down understanding kingdom philosophy our focus is cultivating a kingdom belief system please write that statement down culminating or culminating culminate culminating am I getting this word right cultivating a kingdom belief system i'm checking to see if you are listening cultivating a kingdom

1:24:29 belief system say that with me cultivating a kingdom belief system every word is important yes sir a belief system without a belief system your concepts will be wrong so everything begins with your belief system your belief system comes from your ideas that you have accepted as truth your ideas came from somewhere so if the source of your ideas uh is corrupt then your ideas are corrupt thus your belief system will be corrupt so we're going to talk a little bit

1:25:20 about philosophy and how that works what's the source of philosophy talk about philosophy just a little bit what's the source of philosophy the source of philosophy is your original ideas a precept is an original idea i think we saw in our last session and those who are watching us live if you weren't a part of the first session I did you'll be at a disadvantage so please get a copy of that CD those who came in a little late in this session please get it okay but precept is the most important component in life because precept is the thought before the thought that gave the thought life

1:26:10 if you look at that word precept it's actually a grammatical construct what's a grammatical construct it is a construction in language between two components pre for example is a prefix a prefix is not a word it is a stem in your grammatical studies that is added to a word so if you took away pre what do you have left sept so Sept is the word we don't use that word anymore in our language but the word Sept actually means thought or idea sept it means idea pre means before it's a prefix before so when you see the word precept it means the the the thought or

1:27:01 the idea before the thought in other words there's something that created the idea it is the original idea that made the idea difficult to explain so that's what a precept is you can't get lower than a precept the precept then produces what we call a concept now keep in mind the word is what sept so what is the prefix corn corn means one it means to come together corn it's a prefix means to come together so if sept means thought then concept means when your ideas come together they become like a picture a complete idea is called a concept the concept then becomes what we call

1:27:47 a thought a thought a complete thought a thought then becomes what we call an ideology ideology has to do with your your ideas that you have come to believe you believe these ideas everybody in this class tonight have a belief system and it came from the ideas that someone taught you whether your belief system is true or not depends on whether the source of your thoughts and your ideas were truth so it's not what you know that's very important what's more important is whether what you know is true so your ideology could be wrong ideology then leads

1:28:43 to what we call theology theo means God it's the word for God and means to know so your theology is your belief about God it theology could basically be defined as the study of God the study of the ideas about God theology your theology comes from your ideology your theology then leads to something that is more powerful and that is your philosophy philosophy means your way of thinking your mentality so when someone says they have a philosophical position on something what they're saying is this is my belief system about this thing now belief

1:29:35 system is very powerful it's not just a belief it's a system that you use you feed everything else through it it's a system so someone tells you something you put it in your system and your system interprets it for you that's why it's called a belief system a system is a mechanism so a belief system is simply a belief mechanism you use to interpret everything you see or hear so if your philosophy is wrong then everything that you hear or see or or experience will go through that system and whatever comes out is your lifestyle do you

1:30:25 see how important this is each one of you have that system and you got it from somewhere you created that system the belief system you have that is why your philosophy is your life 7.2 billion people on earth each has a philosophy each one of them the man sleeping under the bridge on a cardboard box in your city has a philosophy under that bridge and that philosophy is what keeps him under the bridge so what we are here to do then is to challenge your philosophy concerning

1:31:19 God concerning the kingdom concerning your theological system look at the last word on that slide what's the last word mentality the most dangerous thing on earth your philosophy is your mentality it forms your mentality your mental state so everything you see is passed through your belief system and then becomes your mentality your mentality produces something that we all see and it's called attitude okay that's where your

1:32:10 attitude comes from so your attitude is really the manifestation of your belief or your your belief system producing a conclusion your attitude comes from that so this is the level that that's why I'm calling this session advanced philosophical session because I'm taking you to a level that you don't normally think about and that is you are a product of ideas you collected over the last 30 years and you turn them into a system and you feed everything you hear through that system the problem is you live that system and you can't help yourself so you can live all your life with the wrong belief

1:33:00 system when you shut the door on your belief system you stop growing you are stuck this is where traditions are created a tradition is is a system that's shut down it can't it won't allow any new ideas and uh can I give you another concept a system that is shut down the Bible calls it a stronghold yes now a stronghold is like a a fortress that you got

1:33:53 to fight to try to get into there are some people here tonight who someone bought here and they already decided they don't believe what I'm talking about it's a fortress and those kind of people can sit in a meeting like this and never change they just lock down they they would smile and everything but they just decide I'm just going to believe what I know they shut the system down so they stopped growing long time ago let me say something that keeps me very humble god knows more than he told you write that down that keeps me very humble what did I say god knows more than he told you so don't you ever think you got it

1:34:40 so all of us are on a journey of dumping our ignorance that's the journey we're on we we are on a journey of getting rid of foolishness we that's our life our whole life is about dumping the ignorance that they have given us and replacing it with truth somehow we got to get it from somewhere and truth is only found in the manufacturer let's talk a little bit about how philosophy affects your belief system number one you cannot become beyond your belief system this is a very interesting statement I'm making here you cannot what become beyond your belief system no matter how much you would like to

1:35:25 change you cannot just decide that you're going to change you got to deal with a belief system this is why positive thinking books don't work how many of you in this room have read positive thinking books and you are still broke because those books don't deal with the level I'm talking about they don't deal with conviction they deal with mechanics you know say to yourself five times I am rich i am rich i am rich and you're still broke because wealth is not a matter of words it's a mentality that have to change so your philosophy begins with your belief system and you can't live beyond it

1:36:18 you're stuck that leads me to point number two you will only change when your belief system changes

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