The Work is Done Paper.
We are called to do a greater work than what Jesus did. The Bible says in John 14:12 that “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” [1]Jesus did the supernatural work, but he is calling on us to continue because there are a new people on Earth who need to be impacted by the work of God. Even though God started and completed the work, he is still calling on our contribution. Even in the beginning of time, God did not call on mankind to sit still. Adam was called to be a regent upon the Earth, with God’s blessing. Work was in the Garden before sin and even before marriage. Adam had to name all of the animals, because God gave him this responsibility. Adam had to tap into God’s will to figure out a name for each animal, and this is work. So because Jesus has done the work, does not mean that mankind has to be idle.
John the Baptist ministered to people.? He was sent by God to be a herald to the people and his ministry was based in the wilderness of Judea.[2] The people of the region were drawn to his message and they were baptized in the Jordan River. The confession of sin was a vital part of John’s ministry. Another vital component of John the Baptist’s ministry was confrontation of people who arrived at the camp meeting with impure intentions. He told these Sadducees and Pharisees that they were not redeemed and that they needed repentance. This cry for repentance would be one that Jesus repeated throughout his ministry.[3]? We as Christocrats must recognize that the workers are few and desire to be those workers who will toil for the kingdom. Christ also fed the 5,000 who came to see him and to be ministered by him. [4] Christ in the camp meeting took care of people’s physical needs as well as their spiritual needs.
Christ taught through his active prayer life how to pray.[5] Christ would often to go a mountain or a secluded place in order to commune with God. [6] Christ would then join the disciples to give them the revelation of God. As Christocrats, it is vital that we set aside time to pray to God and to worship him.[7] Christ taught the disciples the Lord’s Prayer.[8] This prayer is a template for the Christocrat during his or her quiet time and prayer sessions with Christ.
Jesus spoke to the people on the mountain about prayer. In John, one of his disciples also asked him about prayer and Jesus prayed the same words. So Jesus’ admonitions about prayers are true no matter what someone’s position is in life. God intends for all of us to pray and to fervently pray. There was criticism about legislative prayer to open the sessions of Congress. The president replied, I don’t know of a place where prayer is more appropriate than in Washington D.C.
Jesus begins with the words, when you pray you shall. Shall is covenant word, a command. It is a contract that binds people who are a party to what is said. God uses shall as a prompt to pray in a particular way because this is the way in which he is to be approached. Another word that is used is must. It is not an option but it is a teaching that has to be done.
The Bible presupposes that the church will pray. Jesus tells the church how they should pray and how they should not pray because the church will pray. It does not say if the church would pray because there is no other option. It does not make prayer into an accidental behavior that we find ourselves doing. Every person who is on his or her knees in prayer is there on purpose. Every person who turned his face to the wall did a very deliberate act to submit himself to God and speak to God.
Prayer is not an option but a mandate for all believers. The word pray is also in a present and a future tense. We must pray now and we must continue praying. We cannot dwell on the prayer life that we had in the past, or that time before when we prayed for a particular thing and it came to past. We must not just have prayer moments we must have a prayer life.
We are not free to pray to God anyway we want to. We must pray in accordance in God’s will and God’s purpose. We must pray through the name of Jesus Christ our Great Intercessor. In this sense, we are not free to go into the throne-room of the Holy of Holies with a cavalier attitude. God has always and will always demand reverence.
We cannot confuse the access that we have to God, which was bought by the blood of Jesus, with having a reckless attitude towards God that does not value him. Otherwise it would be using grace as a license to sin in our communication with God. We can appreciate the access we have because of Jesus while also appreciating the magnitude of speaking with the Most High God.
Christ teaches us the correct way to pray. The first instinct of prayer must be not to run into the streets, but to enter into the closet. It must be purposeful. We did not wake up in the closet, but we went there with a righteous attitude. The closet means that we would go into a room or a hallway. The closet also implies lack of comfort. Prayers must be made that challenge, both in terms of the physical space and of the words of the prayers itself.
?A Christocrat should not just pray in camp meetings, or in revivals or in church. A Christocrat must have his own independent prayer life.? When King Hezekiah went to pray, he turned his face to the wall so that he could not be seen. His tears and anguish could not be seen because it was a private conversation with God. A lot of the prayer life of a Christocrat is private with God.? Yes, a lot of it is public, but much of the prayer life of a Christocrat is intimacy with the Redeemer. Even the public prayer life of a Christocrat is dependent on the private prayer life of that particular Christocrat.
Christ said that the Christocrat ?should shut the door. Even if it is inside of the house, the door should be shut. If the closet is open and people see us and we want to show off, it would defeat the purpose.? Christ also said to Pray to the Father who is in secret and the Father who is in secret will reward you openly. Even if you don’t see the reward at first, the reward is coming.
After Christ told us how not to pray, he tells us how to pray. He says that we should speak like this Notice that Christ does not say whether or not prayer should be done with eyes closed, or eyes opened, whether the hands should be open or closed or whether the person should be standing or kneeling. The posture of the body is secondary to the posture of the heart.
Jesus starts with Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name.Praise and Worship. We must begin by praising the name of Christ and adoring his name. We must worship the great and dreadful God who keeps covenant to them that love him and that keeps his commandments. You see, God can do everything, but he does not worship himself. That worship is reserved for the angels in heaven and for mankind on earth. Mankind was created to worship God as the creation who is most like God
Christ continues with Thy kingdom come, they will be done in earth as it is in heaven.
This is a prayer of Faith. Christ is very concerned with the kingdom of God and the will of God. The will of God has to made manifest on earth as it is made in heaven. God created earth to be a reflection of heaven and God sent Christ to earth to bring earth into alignment with the will and the kingdom of God.
Christ states to give us this day our daily bread. This is a prayer of supplication. This is a personal request from God. Some people have expectation, but they don’t know if God will answer their prayers. Doubt begins to set in, when God does not answer their prayers right away. Some people don’t even know if their prayers are effective. Its like getting a take-home exam, but you forgot where you lived. God said that healing is the children’s bread. So every bread that is needed we will request it every day at the beginning of our start, and not at night when it is too late.
Jesus prayed that we should forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.? God says that forgiveness is conditional on people being forgiving of their neighbors. This shows that relationships with people are very important. There is no such thing as bearing grudges in the Kingdom of God. Bearing grudges is a sign of unforgiveness. Oftentimes, people cutting other people out of their lives is a sign of unforgiveness. The message is clear. If someone wants to be forgiven, they have to forgive, because God will forgive them the same way that they have forgiven others. People think that they deserve God’s forgiveness, but they don’t think that they should fully forgive others and that is wrong. Partial forgiveness is unforgiveness. There is either total forgiveness or no forgiveness at all.
Christ said that people should not be led us not into temptation.This is a prayer of Intercession. Christ is praying that people cannot be led into temptation. But as God cannot be tempted, he cannot be led into temptation. He will allow temptation to happen, just as he did with Jesus in the wilderness, but he would never allow more temptation than what we can bear. Mankind should never say that they are being tempted by God, because God is not in the tempting business, he is in the deliverance business.
Christ said that God should deliver us from the evil one. This is a prayer of spiritual warfare. We must remember that God desires us to conquer all aspects of life including the schemes of the evil one. Christ was quite familiar with the schemes of the evil one, because the Devil had tried to kill him as a baby and tempted him in the wilderness. So Christ said that God, and only God could deliver us from the evil one, because only God has the power and authority to exercise against the Devil’s wickedness.
Christ concludes with thine is the kingdom, and the power and the Glory.This is a prayer of Thanksgiving.? Christ mentions three aspects of God, which is his kingdom, power, and glory. This is also an encounter with God.? Our encounter with God is a special occasion, when we meet God face to face and the answer to our expression and our expectation. We cant have an encounter if the Bible is nowhere to be found in us, because we are nowhere to be found in our Bibles. Some people say the Devil made me do it but it’s a special person who can say that God visited me.
A Christocrat is the representative of Jesus Christ. Just as a soldier is a representative of the nation in which he or she fights, a Christocrat is a representative of the nation of Christ. To be saved means to believe that he has redeemed you to righteousness. Jesus prayed that thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory and God has given these things to us. Access to the kingdom and the power and the glory are aspects we receive after we are saved.
Jesus Christ displayed in His ministry the power of deliverance to restore people. Jesus Christ raised Jairus’ daughter from the dead.[9] In raising this young adolescent from death to life. Christ was showing that he had Christocratic power over death and the grave. Christ displayed that his power is not limited in any situation. In the same chapter in Mark 5, Jesus Christ healed the woman with the issue of blood. The woman grasped the helm of Christ’s garment and was instantly healed. She tapped into the power of Christ and Christocracy and was delivered from her infirmity.?
Jesus Christ also raised from the dead Lazarus, who was Mary and Martha’s brother. [10] Christ displayed that in the Christocratic super-structure, there is power to overtake the enemy when he has attacked the saints. Even in Jesus’ last days on earth, he healed the servant’s ear.[11] The servant was fully restored even as he was with the forces that attacked Jesus. ?These are also the ministries that God said that the Christocrat should partake in.
Christ prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane. [12] Jesus prayed in that Garden until great droplets of blood poured from his forehead. Where Adam and Eve sinned in their Garden, Jesus used the turmoil of his Garden to draw even closer to God. This fervency of prayer is an example for Christocrats to emulate. We as Christocrats pray not to be seen and praised but so that we can praise God and implement His Christocratic vision upon the Earth.[13]
Christ’s ministry had constant interaction with the kingdoms of the world and the kingdoms of Caesar. One instance is the depiction of Christ and the centurion. A centurion went to Christ because his servant was sick.[14] A centurion was similar to a captain in today’s military forces, and they held control of 100 men. The centurion had more faith than the people of Israel because he was used to command and authority. Therefore, the Christocratic governance that Christ proclaimed to him was not new, but it was how he lived his life. All of the powers of Caesar and access to Caesar could not heal his servant, but the centurion had heard about Jesus and recognized that his power superseded the Caesar who he served. Christ’s healing of the centurion’s servant was a proclamation that the forces of Christ and Christocracy are stronger than the armies of Caesar and this world. Through the centurion’s faith, he made a treaty with Christ that he would serve and believe in the Almighty God.
??????????? Christ cast out the demons who were called Legion from the demoniac. Before Christ encountered the demoniac, Christ went on a boat and it encountered a storm.[15] This was a gathering by the navy of the Most High to save someone who was lost.? Christ acted as an admiral to fight on behalf of those who had to be redeemed. The Holy Spirit had already acted as an admiral to protect the Earth after the fall of the enemy. Christ had also stepped forward in his role as an Air Force general when he saw Satan fall from heaven like lighting in his rebellion after he was shot down.
? The battle between the storm and Jesus’ arrival to help the demoniac is spiritual warfare, divine naval warfare.? Christ prevailed and arrived to the demoniac. The demoniac had said that his name is Legion because they were many.[16] The demoniac did not say his personal name but the name of the demons who possessed him. He said the name of the system that was oppressing him. This system was the system of the world and the system of Caesar. The worldview of Caesar did not just control him in the country, it had control of his very body and soul. A Legion was Rome’s highest military unit, and it was equivalent to a division in today’s modern military day terminology. It was under the organization of the legion that Rome had conquered much of the known world. But it was also under the banners of Rome’s military that much atrocities and oppression took place. But Christ had sent the demons away to the pigs and the man was delivered.
The Bible says in Mark 16:17-18 that ?And these signs will accompany those who believe: In My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages;?18?they will pick up snakes;[a]?if they should drink anything deadly, it will never harm?them; they will lay hands on?the sick, and they will get well.”[17] So God has said that the Christocrat will continue the work that Christ has started upon the Earth. We will drive out demons as Christ has driven out demons in his ministries. A plethora of ministries do not emphasize the casting out of demons, however it has to be done in modern day ministry.
It can be seen in Mark that there are certain Aramaic passages that Jesus says, such as when Jesus says Talitha cum, which means Get up, or when he is dying and saying Eloi, Eloi lama sabachthani, which Mark provides a translation as My God, My God why have you forsaken me. The place called Golgotha is also called the Place of the Skull. The gospel is written in a different language than what Jesus spoke during his ministry, and it would have been a different language than what the people who read the Gospel of Mark were accustomed to. Mark would have written on a wax tablet and a stylus, and writing was inscribed on the wax tablet. The Gospel of Mark is a prime example of God using apostolic leadership to work mightily upon the Earth.
Christ said in John 6:27-29 that “ Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because?God?the Father has set His seal on Him.' Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?”?Jesus?answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent."[18] Ephesians 4:11-15 states that “And He Himself gave some?to be?apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the?faith?and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ.” [19]
The Apostles were the called-out ones appointed by Jesus to institute his will on the Earth.[20] Peter and Andrew were fishing but after a powerful display of Christ, they gave up their vocation as fisherman to become apostles. John and James were also fishermen who were compelled to follow Christ. An apostle is a fisher of people. The Apostles came from different backgrounds. [21] Matthew was a tax collector who became an apostle.[22]He? had access to the genealogical records of Jesus.[23] Luke speaks of Joseph and Mary traveling to Bethlehem because they were descendants of David.[24]
?Christ nurtured the disciples throughout his ministry. When the apostles could not cast out a demon, Jesus did so.[25] Christ walked on the water to show his divine authority to the disciples. However, not every apostle was receptive to Jesus’ message.? Judas was the Treasurer who betrayed his station.[26] When a woman came and anointed the feet of Jesus with her hair, Judas protested and stated that this money was to be given to the poor.? Judas was betraying his apostolic prerogative and showing that his vision did not belong to the Christocratic kingdom but to the enemy. Judas did not care about the poor, because when he took the money from the money bags, he kept it for himself. Christ approved of this sacrifice, and rebuked Judas Iscariot. Jesus said to Peter that on this Rock he would build his church. Although Peter denied Christ, Christ never gave up on Peter or revoked his apostolic mandate. Christ told Peter to feed his lambs and still serve the Kingdom of God.[27]
The Diaconate of the Superstructure is vital to the functioning of the church.[28] These were people who saw the power of Christocracy and the Christ was their Redeemer. They were supporting him with funds from their own financial holdings. The Bible passage that speaks to Jesus’ ministry being funded points to Mary, Joanna and Susanna, as well as various other unnamed women. Joanna was the wife of Herod’s servant and therefore she would have been a woman of means and prestige.? Jesus delivered Mary of 7 demons and therefore displayed the power of deliverance in Christocracy to her.[29] These women were among the first to see the risen Christ and to spread the gospel after Jesus ascended to heaven. In this Christocratic dispensation of grace, both men and women are vital to the functionality of the church.
Christ said that he was sending the 70 as lambs among wolves. Christ recognized that to spread the gospel of Christocracy, it would take a universal effort by different types of ministries that were linked to Christ.? Christ sent messengers to Samaria but they were not receptive. The apostles wanted to call down fire on Samaria and Jesus rebuked them. Christ came to redeem and to save and under the new dispensation, mankind was not to be destroy but was to be convinced to follow God. Some people stated that they wanted to be evangelists, but they were not willing to make the necessary unconditional sacrifice to spread the message of God’s kingdom.[30] Christ stated that the role of the evangelist was to bring peace to the region where they were ministering. Christ said to remain in the same house and minister to the people there.[31] Jesus also taught the evangelists how to handle rejection of the gospel.[32] Christ fully equipped the evangelists for the work of the kingdom.[33]
Christ was not relegated to ministering to Israel, but embraced the different people of the region.? In the Gospels Christ ministered to a Syro-Phoenician woman whose daughter was being tormented by a demon.[34] As Christocrats, we must recognize the global mandate of Christocracy.? In the University of Christocracy, there are students and teachers from different countries who embrace the tenets of Christocracy and the instruction to preach to the nations.
? Christ also ministered to the region of Samaria. Samaria was an important region for Christ’s ministry.[35] Christ ministered to the Samaritan woman who was at the well. The Samaritan woman recognized in Christ someone who had divine authority, and went to spread the Word of God to her neighborhood. Christ also forgave the sins of the leper who was Samaritan[36]. The leper had two strikes against him in society, and these were that he was a leper and that he was a Samaritan. Christ proclaimed to him that his sins were forgiven. Access to the Most High and to heaven was now open to the leper through his faith in Christ.
Jesus was in Bethany, on his way to Jerusalem. It? was after a long period of ministration. Jesus was going to Jerusalem to worship God, but he had not eaten yet. Jesus was hungry. It was like in the wilderness, where Jesus was hungry there too. However, he was not called to fast. Like Ecclesiastes says, there is a time for everything. It was Christ’s time to eat.
?Imagine how much it took for the Son of God to be hungry. Imagine the virtue that must have gone out of him for God to say now I need to be fed. The battling with demons and impartation onto the sick and suffering. The miles walked, and remember Jesus did not take the train or bus or even contemporary transportation, he walked everywhere except when he went by ship. It was a process, that God would heal and deliver, and then he would replenish himself.
Some of us, we are not replenishing ourselves, and as a result we are suffering. We work hard like Martha, but do not replenish ourselves spiritually like Mary. So as a result, We are famished physically and spiritually. Some of us need to take a step back, so that our needs could be met. We need to enjoy the presence of God, and realize that it is as important as the work of God.??
The story of the fig tree is instrumental in showing that Christocrats must be fruitful. The one who fed the 4,000 and the 5,000, the one who could feed a crowd of people, was now famished.? There was a fig tree there, but it did not produce fruit yet. Jesus had gone to see if there was any fruit. Imagine the anticipation of having figs for breakfast, and the disappointment when the figs were not there. The distance walked in anticipation of getting figs native to that region, and there were none yet. Jesus wanted figs and figs would not produce fruit for him. The fig was not in season, which meant that it was not the correct time for figs.
So it is with us. How many of us have been disappointed in life. That we waited a long time only to realize that friend isn’t coming, that event was canceled, that package was never sent and that gift isn’t there. To go a long distance only to find out that what we most wanted was not there.? There are a great many disappointments in life.? The Bible says that we should not depend on man. But we should rely on God who sticks closer than a brother. God will never leave us or forsake us. No matter what the issue, God is with us. God will see us through. God will uphold us with his mighty right hand.
We have to be active for Christ. We must move with the knowledge that Christ will bless our efforts when there is effort to be made. There are no excuses. Jesus is not an excuse maker, he is a curse breaker. Jesus wants us to be obedient, yet some of us are disobedient. He wants us to be holy, yet some of us are living in sin. He wants us to be righteous, yet some of us are guilty of being at the wrong places at the wrong time. Sometimes we feel that if God is disappointed in us, then he would just cast us away. God would ignore us and give up on us. But that is not the case. God is with us to redeem us. He is there to uphold us with a mighty right hand. He is there to hold us when we fall.
????????? So many of us have the excuse for not being productive that it is not the correct time. We procrastinate and think that a better time would come. But when we do it then we reveal ourselves. Because no fruit means no fruit. In the New Testament, Jesus is forever intolerant of people and situations being unfruitful. The virgins without the oil, the servant with the one talent, God is always condemning those who do not produce. His mandate is that we be fruitful and multiply. It was not the fig trees fault it could not produce, just as it was not the servant’s fault that he only had one talent or the virgins fault that they only had so much oil. But God still demands that we produce and there are those that do. For the servant that had 1 talent there were the other servants who doubled their talents, and for the virgins that lost their oil there were the virgins that kept their oil and were deemed righteous.
So in life, everything has to be productive. Items as diverse as the military, to business, to medicine, all run on productivity. Whatever is not productive is dropped and then the entire enterprise moves on.? So the entire life cycle depends on whether or not something is holding its weight.
God spoke to creation, and it came forth. God’s word was so powerful, that when he spoke to the fig tree? it died. God spoke to the Nile, and it became blood. God’s word was so powerful he told the Israelites to shout at the walls, and they came tumbling down. All of these obstacles had to give way to the language of God. We don’t know what fig trees, or the Nile, or the walls of Jericho speak on our own, but God does, and whatever they speak has to submit to the power of God. Whatever tongue rises up against you must bow down to the utterance of the Most High. Whatever voice comes against you must come down because God is King. God have given us utterance.
Trying to pretend to be perfect so that you don’t need the Word of God is like dressing up in a suit to get operated on.
God has come to address the dryness of our season. He has come to give our dryness life and remove that which is unproductive. He notices everything about it. We may not understand why we are dried up, but God does, and he has the word to fit our situation. We may protest that we are comfortable with the dryness, but God came to remove the dryness so that we can be closer to God. We can have a relationship with him that is truly everlasting.
Because you can speak to a fig tree, you can speak to something bigger than a fig tree, like a mountain, or another person, or a principality.
Jesus had a relationship with both the fig tree and the cross. One of them, the fig tree, did not produce fruit. It was barren and its job was supposed to give fruit so that people could be fed. When Christ encountered the fig tree again, he condemned it to not being able to bear fruit for anyone ever again. This illustration is very telling. When we are not able to bear fruit for Christ, we are not able to bear fruit for anyone else. Christ calls himself the Branch, and He is the branch that bears fruit for all those who believe. The triumph of the cross is also very telling. Christ created the wood that would be his execution site and did so without hesitation. He did this out of love for us, so that even the worst thing that could have happened turned into access to God by people. Christ had to carry the cross to the execution site, and he was so weary that Simon carried the cross the rest of the way. When we are weary Christ carries our burdens as believers so that we can stand on solid ground. Christ’s sacrifice on the cross bore much fruit and was the catalyst for the Christian faith.
Because the fig tree could not give provision, it now became an obstacle. The purpose for which the fig tree was made, it had now not done. In other words, it had no purpose. And since it did not have purpose. God cut it off. God has ordained all of us to have purpose. When we do not fulfill our purpose, then it is like we are dead inside. There is a difference between a dead season and a waiting period. A waiting period is a period of transition from one fruitful part to the next. But a dead season, everything just stops. So God sends a word. It is like when he was in creation and there was a dead season at the beginning of time, and God spoke a word and creation started to live. Jesus could have spoken a word and the fig tree live again. But the fig tree had to play its part.
So it is with the fig tree. It may have been old, it may have had many years on it, but it had deadness year after year after year. So its experience was for nothing, because it could not produce.
So it is with us. We have to play our part in being alive for Christ.? We must do our part to make sure that we are productive and on fire. We must not stay in deadness, but must make sure to give to God our portion. There is a story in the Bible about a Pharisee and a tax collector and the Pharisee said, Lord I thank you I am not like other people. He was right he wasn’t as righteous as other people. All of the stuff he did, going to church, fasting, tithing of all that he had, were dead works. The tax collector could be seen as more redeemed because he entered with a contrite heart.
Jesus said: May no one ever eat fruit from you again. We should guard against a dead season being permanent. That a dead season may be so pervasive that there is no way that it can be revived. That way, it cannot be retrieved and it would have to be cut off.
Sometimes God has to put in what we consider disgusting, or revolting, for that which is dead to be living again. God will do it because he is on our side, because he wants us to be productive. And once we are productive, we are more like God’s likeness, with vibrance and energy and vigor.
Jesus said in Matthew 19:14 that ?“Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” [37]
I was involved in the youth ministry. When I came back from college, I was involved in Yahweh, which was the Youth and Young Adult Ministry of New Covenant Ministries. I was the Secretary of Yahweh,and it taught me how to take minutes and how to contribute at corporate meetings. It also taught me how to be more receptive to the needs of the youth.
I was involved in plays. . I first began by performing in plays. I performed in plays in my church. I still remember the time I did one of my roles and the entire time I did my role inside of a box.
I also perform sermons. ?Finally, I performed sermons at my church. When my play director saw that I was doing a good job on the plays, she asked me to do sermons for the Youth Day. I would write the sermons and practice and on the day I would give it. I also do sermons for the church’s radio program, and I researched the organization of the sermon so that I could better deliver them.
I was involved in the prayer line. When I came back from law school, I was involved with the prayer line. The young adults had a prayer line when I was in college and the early part of the law school, but it had become dormant. Therefore, me and another person in the ministry helped to set up a newer prayer line where we would minister to people, share concerns, and share the Scripture. It was a great way to communicate the Word of God.
Youth Ministry is important to me as a Christocrat. As a Christocrat it is important to
spread the work of God not only to our Jersualem, but to the utmost parts of the Earth. God has
commanded us and empowered us to do exploits. Therefore we must take this command with
confidence and go to people to spread the gospel so that the name of God is glorified.
[1] John 14:12.
[2] Matthew 3:1
[3] Luke 4:42- Even in a sparse place, the crowds still sought Jesus and the power of his anointing.
[4] Matthew 14:13-21- This number of 5000 did not include women and children, so the true number is approximately 15,000-20,000 if everyone is counted.
[5] John 17:10-11- Christ prayed for the unity of the church.
[6] Luke 6:12- The need to directly communicate with God, and the need of all-night prayer to combat the forces of darkness are emphasized in this passage.
[7] Luke 4: 8- Jesus told the Devil that the Word stated that only God is to be worshiped and served. This admonition shows that the Devil is under the power of God, and that worship and service are two vital components of the relationship between a Christocrat and God.
[8] Matthew 6:9-13- Christ taught the disciples how to pray and how not to pray. This is similar to the admonitions in Leviticus 16:2, when God told Moses how Aaron was to enter the Holy of Holies. The Christocratic mandate of communication, even though it was opened by Jesus into a full revelation of access, still emphasized reverence for the ability to speak with the Most High.
[9] Mark 5:35-43- When Jesus was about to raise Jairus’ daughter from the dead, he expelled those people who were doubtful and laughing. This shows that Jesus in his Christocratic mandate did not tolerate mocking of the gospel ministry because it would inhibit the presence and power of Jesus.
[10] John 11:38-44- The tomb of Lazarus was a cave with a stone on the face of it. This cave and death could not keep Lazarus from rising and becoming alive. Similarly, the tomb that Jesus was placed in could not keep Jesus dead, because he is the risen Christ.
[11] Luke 22:51
[12] Mark 14:34-35.
[13] Matthew 6:5- Christ warned the disciples not to pray like the Pharisees, who viewed prayer as a spectacle to proclaim their purported righteousness. The Pharisee in one of Jesus’ parables thanked God that he was not like other people but the publican asked that God forgive him of his sin. This prayer is one of reconciliation and when the Christocrat prays with a heart towards God, God will hear the cry.
[14] Matthew 8:5-13-Jesus welcomed the centurion and did not have the traditional distrust that many Jewish people had of the Romans. He saw the centurion as a member of Christocracy.
[15] Mark 4:35-36.
[16] Mark 5:9- Christ also said in Matthew 26;53 that he could send 12 legions of angels to rescue him if he chose. So if the enemy has a legion, Christ has an army that is equipped and ready to fight. Every time in the Bible that the numbers of the enemy are depicted, the numbers of Christ’s kingdom to fight on behalf of Christ are more numerous.
[17] Mark 16:17-18.
[18] John 6:27-29.
[19] Ephesians 4:11-15.
?[20] Online Etymology Dictionary (www.etymonline.com/word/apostle). The word Apostle comes from the Greek term Apostolos, which transitioned into the Old English term Apostl,? and the modern English word apostle. The world apostle means messenger and person sent forth.
[21] Luke 6:15- Christ was able to gather men of different backgrounds and priorities and use them to advance the Christocratic kingdom. For instance, Simon the Zealot belonged to a group of people called the Zealots who wanted to overthrow the rulership of Rome and replace it with Jewish leadership. But Simon the Zealot saw that the rulership and the mandate of Christ was more important, and he decided to follow Christ and become one of his apostles. There are also examples of fishermen in the Bible like Simon Peter, Andrew, James and John the sons of Zebedee.
[22] Matthew 9:9-13- Matthew the Tax Collector worked for the IRS of his day, and collected taxes on behalf of both the local government (Matthew 17:24-27)? and the Roman government (Matthew 22:15-22).? The tax collectors of Matthew’s day were hated because they represented the oppression of the Roman government and the subjugation of the Jewish people by Rome. However, in the dispensation of grace, even someone who was a tax collector could be a mighty ambassador for Christ.
[23] Matthew 1:1-17- The Bible speaks of three different eras of the ancestry of Christ, from Abraham to David, from David to the Babylonian Exile, and from the Exile to the Messiah.
[24] Luke 2:1. Luke speaks of the whole Roman world going to their home city or town because they needed to be taxed.
[25] Matthew 17:19- The disciples were unable to cast out a demon, and Jesus taught them that the power of the apostle is based on faith and connection to God, not celebrity and the desire to be praised independent of God.
[26] John 12:6- Judas Iscariot was put in charge of the money the diaconate of the ministry raised and that people forwarded to Jesus, but he would take the money from the money bags. This was a foreshadowing of when Judas would sell Jesus to the authorities for 30 pieces of silver.
[27] John? 21:15.
[28] Luke 8:1-3- These were three women, Mary of Magdalene, Joanna, and Susanna, who traveled with Jesus’ ministry from different towns and villages.
[29] Mark 16:9-? The Bible speaks of Mary Magdalene? as the first person who saw the risen Christ. The apostles had argued in Mark 10:36-37 that one of them should be able to sit at the right hand of Christ. Christ chastised them and stated that they did not know the magnitude of what they were asking. But Mary Magdalene had the faith, as part of the diaconate, to go see the risen Christ because she knew that although Christ was buried, he would rise again and fulfill the Christocratic mandate.
[30] Luke 9:57-62- Jesus depicts the itinerant nature of evangelism, that in order to follow Christ, there must be consistent travel and a priority to spread the gospel.
[31] Luke 10:7- This was a foreshadowing of the house church and the ministry of the house church. This concept of the house church is the first type of structure that is seen to house the assembly of Christ, and the evangelist is seen as a vital component of this organization.
[32] Luke 10:10-11- Christocracy, alone among all of the governing systems of the Earth, is persuasive but it is not coercive. It is a freewill decision to choose Christ, but the decision to obey Christ and be born again will not be forced or enforced upon people.
[33] Luke 10:20- Christ told the evangelists to rejoice that their names are in heaven. This shows that the essential component of salvation is not just power over the enemy, but the fact that there is redemption and a new relationship with Christ that leads to a heavenly abode after life on earth.
[34] John 4:28-30.
[35] 2 Kings 17:24-40- The people of Samaria were a mixture of different peoples from the region of the Middle East and Israelites who stayed in the land after Israel was conquered by the Assyrians in 722 B.C. They practiced syncretism, which was the blending of their beliefs with the Jewish faith. However, they were not a part of the mainstream Jewish faith and there were clashes between the Samaritans and the Jews as to the true nature of worship. Samaritans had their own mountain to worship while Jewish people believed that Jerusalem was the center of worship. Christ spoke the revelation that the worship of God was not in just one place, but that people would worship in spirit and truth.
[36] Luke 17:19.
[37] Matthew 19:14.