Mere Missions

182 • M ere M issions : M oving F orward to M ultiply

Whether one submits to the rightful King or not has no effect on the Kingdom. We do not make up the Kingdom. The Kingdom makes and molds us upon entry into it. The message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that is received by faith through grace, can set free the most rebellious of souls that are trapped and bound in the domain of the dark kingdom and transport that soul into God’s Kingdom domain (Col. 1.13). Those who do are brought into the Kingdom society, commit to embracing each other as brothers and sisters in the Family of God.

Content 2: “E” of an Apostolic Missions Platform: Embrace We live on the razors edge of the presence of the Kingdom’s righteousness, peace and joy in

the Holy Spirit (Rom. 14.17) and the darkness and terror of the Day of the Lord (Joel 2). The apostolic mind is set on the certainty that the Satanic Kingdom of Darkness will be crushed and God’s Kingdom will rule over all (Rev. 11.15). It is a mind set on today. Choose you this day whom you will serve (Josh. 24.14-15). This Gospel of the Kingdom must be proclaimed throughout the whole world before the end comes (Matt. 24.14). The vastness of the task demands that we embrace – to take or clasp in the arms; press to the bosom; hug; to take or receive gladly or eagerly; accept willingly – as one Church moving forward in apostolic missions. We must take on the spirit of Gideon and strike as one man (Judg. 6.16). As we pray for God’s Kingdom to come, the Holy Spirit brings His Church together for the common task of missions. We embrace in all our diversity under one banner – The Kingdom of God. We are one body and one Spirit; called to the one hope; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all (Eph. 4.4-6). The enemy of the