Make Christ the Center of Your Life

You want God to rule over your life? You need to stop making mistakes. So the less mistakes we make, the more God reigns and rules over our life. The more mistakes we make, the less God rules and reigns over our life.

And when God is not ruling over our life, who is? Satan. That's why people love going clubbing. That's why people love drinking, gambling, drugs, dealing with drugs, men and women, and mixed of everything under the sun.

There is only two kingdoms. It is either the kingdom of God being ruled by Jesus Christ or the kingdom of the world ruled by Satan. You follow the kingdom of the world, you will die.

You follow the kingdom of God, you will live. That is the nature of these two kingdoms. The kingdom of God's nature is life.

The kingdom of the world's nature is death. All people who live for this world will all perish. Very simple.

God came, gave us the only way to be with him. What did we say about Enoch? And Enoch walked with God. That's why there was no mention that Enoch died.

Because he walked with God. It wasn't just God walking with him. God walks with all humanity, not just Christians.

God walks with every single human being. But are all people walking with God? No. Those who do not walk with God will die.

But those who choose to walk with God, death will never conquer over them. So let me say this, God is everywhere, meaning his kingdom is not. What does that mean? For as long as his kingdom is not established in you, even if God is with you, he can't.

You're not letting him to help you. You're not allowing him. His kingdom has to reign in you in order for God to be king over your life.

God without his kingdom in you can't be your king. He said, every time you pray, you'll find it in Matthew 6, 9 and Luke 11, 3. Every time you pray, you say, our father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Why is the Lord Jesus teaching us to pray to our heavenly father and beg him for his kingdom to come? Why? Because unless the kingdom come in us and be in us, God cannot be the king over us.

And if God is not king over us, he is with us, but we are not with him. And as long as we're not with him, he is not ruling, reigning over us. We will die even if God is with us.

But when the kingdom is established in us, then God is the king to this kingdom. The moment you accept that kingdom, you're accepting God being king over your life. The moment God is king over your life, he is controlling your life now.

You will live forever, for there is no death in the nature of God's kingdom. The present tense and salvation of being saved from the power of sin is the expansion of God's rule and reign in our life. When God begins ruling over your life, God will start working in you for you and me to make lesser and lesser and lesser mistakes.

Why? Because the mistake is what keeps us away from God. The mistake is that it's the one that stops us from walking with God. Every time we sin, that's a mistake, every time we sin, we are not walking with God anymore, we're stopping.

But God moves, God walks, never stops. So when we stop, what happens? The light keeps on going and we stop. Where do we remain once the light is gone? We remain in darkness.

What is darkness? The kingdom of the world ruled by Satan. You're in deep trouble. Before I was going to church every Sunday, I stopped following Christ and walking with Him.

I ended up going every day to Satan's house called the club. And I started doing everything wrong under the sun, because that's what happens when Satan is ruling over your life. You'll start making a lot of mistakes.

God says, let my kingdom be established in you through my son Jesus Christ the cross, so that I reign and rule over you. And the moment I rule over you, I'll start helping you to stop making mistakes, because the lesser mistakes you make, the more I am manifesting in your life, ruling over your life. Are you with me? This is foundational to later on when we speak about relationship.

This is foundational. It's not about, I saw her, I met her, I met him, and I fell in love. Get a life.

What do you mean he met her? You need to lay the foundation right. And God must be that foundation. Otherwise, forget it.

Otherwise, forget it. And this God, this sweetheart, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, till the day the Lord calls me home. This is my God.

May the whole world, I want the whole world to know this, to hear this. There is only one God in heaven. His name is Jesus Christ.

You look for another God, you're wasting your life, you're wasting your breath, you're wasting your time. Come to Jesus. There is no other way but him.

There is no other way but him. Now, God's reign means God is in control. God's manifest presence means God is tangible and we are with him.

In other words, this means within reach. When I am with him, God is within reach. I have access to the awesome power and salvation God offers me.

When I am with him, I have that access to his beloved son. I have access to eternal life. I have access to everything that is of God's nature.

Kingdom of God in the present time or it is in the future. Well, it is both. It is present and future at the same time.

Let's look at this. I'll give you a few verses showing us that the kingdom of God is present right now. In Matthew 3.2, and saying repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

It is now. It is not in the future. Matthew 12.28, but if I cast out demons by the spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you, meaning now.

So these verses are telling us that the kingdom of God, it is now present with us. It is not something that is futuristic coming later on. Why am I going back? There you go.

It's just like that fax. Luke 10.9, and heal the sick there and say to them the kingdom of God has come near to you. Luke 17.21, nor will they say see here or see there, for indeed the kingdom of God is within you.

It is now in you. You don't need to wait for it to come. It's already here.

The only thing you need to do is grab it. How do you grab the kingdom of God? Accept Jesus Christ, the cross. Now we're going to come to the cross.

It's not just having, you know, it's not fun. You come to the cross and you say, oh, you accept your Lord Jesus. There are conditions to that.

It's easy said than done. How do we accept Jesus Christ? We're going to come to that, my beloved. Now, let's look at other verses telling us and showing us that the kingdom of God is futuristic as well at the same time.

Why is it going back to Luke 10.9 again? I'm pressing the right button, I think. Here we go. The kingdom of God in the future.

Matthew 26.29. But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my father's kingdom. That is in the future. Second Peter chapter 1 verses 10 to 11.

An entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. That is a futuristic verse. I think there is something not right here, but anyway, there we go.

Here we go. I think it's before I start, I don't go any further. Is it a bit warm? No, it's okay.

Good. Now, let's come again to the very parable we read earlier, which is Luke 13.18 to 21. Let's come back to that parable.

Where is the parable? What is the kingdom of God? The Lord Jesus told us what the kingdom of God is. Then he said, what is the kingdom of God like and to what shall I compare it? It is like a mustard seed. What is the kingdom of God like? A mustard seed, that's one.

Which a man took and put in his garden and it grew and became a large tree and the birds of the air nested in its branches. And again he said, to what shall I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaving. Second thing, so what is the kingdom of God? The Lord gave us the kingdom of God in a parable in very simple words, yet extremely deep.

Revealing the kingdom of God in a parable, revealing the kingdom of God in a mustard seed and a leaven. It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened. The Lord here is revealing the kingdom of God in a form of a parable.

So let's come and see what is a parable. Parable. What is a parable? Parable uses simple visible illustrations to reveal the order or the nature or the governing laws and principles of the invisible.

The Lord here is revealing a principle, a governing law about the kingdom of God. So through the mustard seed and the leaven, the Lord Jesus is revealing what the kingdom of God is and the principle of this kingdom, how it functions in other words. He revealed the functionality of the kingdom of God in a mustard seed and a leaven.

So easy said than done.