Dr Myles Munroe Kingdom Principles

Objectives of this sermon
• Why the Kingdom message is important to the world and
• Why the Kingdom has to be taught to all humanity


THE LONG HUMAN SEARCH
From the beginning of recorded history, the deep human search for purpose, meaning and utopia have the driving forces of the human journey
This unnamed, misunderstood and, many times unidentified search for the human heart is found in every civilized and so-called uncivilized culture, people group and every race.
Every Generation is searching for Utopia.
Man is searching for the Ideal
The search is the Source of Human progress, development, inventions and philosophies. This search and desire for an idyllic world is the source of an ideologies and “school of thought”


THE SEARCH FOR THE IDEAL
1. The Long deep search of the human spirit was never for a Religion
2. No Human is searching for Religion
3. All humans are searching for the
a. ideal utopian world
b. perfect civil society
c. a just world of equality and fairness
d. world community of love and security
e. Another world
THE PASSION FOR THE “LOSS FACTOR”
1. The spirit of man cannot search for what it never had.
2. The very nature of “search” means something you once had, was lost.
3. The great unknown human “loss factor” is the source of human Hope.
4. The undercurrent of the Human hope for the “loss factor’ motivated all human behavior.


THE FORGOTTEN WORLD
• Deep in the forgotten crevasses of the secret subconscious chamber of the human spirit is a memory of a utopian world.


THE BIRTH OF THE MESSANIC
• This passion and force for the ideal has produced in all ancient and modern cultures the Messianic Dream
• The belief that somewhere, somehow, in some distant future from some unknown place will rise a person who provide all the answers and establish the ‘Ideal World’ free from pain, hatred, fear, poverty and injustice, and bring peace, love, joy and justice to all


THE LONG MARCH TO UTOPIA
The search for the ‘ideal’ world has produced a variety of human governing systems:
• Kingdoms
• Imperialism
• Colonialism
• Humanism
• Communism
• Socialism
• Deism
• Communal living
• Dictatorship
• Democracy


THE ILLUSION OF DEMOCRACY
Man’s recent attempt is that it offers
1. “Individual freedom”
2. “Self-determination”
3. “A just society”
4. “Protection of individual rights”
5. “A Civil society”
6. “The rule of law”
7. “Civil rights”


OUR BEST UTOPIA
DEMOCRACY:
1. Depends on the rule of Majority
2. Majority protects the minority



THE FREEDOM EXPERIMENT
The Democratic Ideal- The Freedom to peruse one’s personal dreams and maximize one’s personal potential without fear or oppression - a free society.”
RESULTS: Jealousy, suspicion, competition, prejudice, neglect, disparity, haves and have-nots”
The noble experiment has failed: Mankind has become imprisoned by his pursuit of freedom.

ONE MAN – ONE SEARCH
• ALL HUMANS ARE THE SAME
• ALL HUMANS ARE SEARCHING FOR THE SAME THING
• ALL HUMANS ARE LOOKING FOR THE SAME ANSWERS TO THE SAME QUESTIONS
THE GREATEST PRODUCT OF THE SEARCH
• The greatest product of the human search is RELIGION.
• All religions are a result of man’s search for a “Supreme Being” – Identified as – “God”. “Divinity” – etc. who would answer this questions
• The human search for the Ultimate reality is natural and common to all human cultures
• Every primitive expresses a desire for a Supreme being.



The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.