Thy Kingdom Come (1)

[Background choir music] [Speaker 1] O, our Monday discipleship class. We are indeed very, very grateful to God for his love and for his mercies. We thank him for his goodness. We thank him for his grace. We thank him for all who he is and for all that he is. Indeed, our God is great. Let's come together this evening. Let's have a word of prayer as we start together. Almighty God, we are grateful unto you. We thank you for your love. We thank you for your mercy. We thank you for your grace. We thank you for all that you are to us. Thank you again for another time to gather in your presence. Lord our God, as we all connect together—we who are here physically at Life Camp, our brethren who are joining us on Telegram, our brethren who are joining us on Mixlr, Lord our God, we pray, as we all gather together this evening, we pray that you will meet with us individually and collectively. In those areas of our lives where darkness seems to persist or where darkness seems to rule, let the light of your word shine into every darkness of our life. Make us better and better. Cause us to know you more and more. Liberate us, O God, because where your spirit is, there is liberty. Let there be liberty to serve the Lord in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you, eternal Father. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. So, last week we were able to look at a final word on biblical concept of faith. We want to thank God for that series. I can't even remember the month we started again, that finally came to an end last Monday with a final word about biblical concept of faith. And today we'll be moving on to another topic. I don't know if we'll be able to round up everything about that topic today. But I know we'll be starting. If we can get to the end, our God be praised. If we cannot conclude, we'll continue from wherever we stop next week. The topic we want to consider today is "Thy Kingdom Come." Thy kingdom come. And our topic is actually taken from the book of Matthew, Matthew chapter 6. That is in the Lord's Prayer where Jesus was teaching his disciples how to pray. And he said when you pray, don't be like the hypocrites who do this, who do that, who do that. But when you pray, this is how you should pray: "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." And then for the gospel according to Matthew, "for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory." It is from that format for prayer, outlined by our Lord Jesus Christ, that the topic for today's discipleship class came from. Thy kingdom come. Thy kingdom come. And in teaching his disciples to pray, Jesus made reference to the matter of the kingdom. And I want to call our attention to a very, very important thing. You will notice that when Jesus began the ministry, what he was saying was, "Repent! Repent! For the kingdom of God is at hand!" And often times when Jesus was speaking, you will notice that he would often say, "The kingdom of God can be likened to... the kingdom of God can be likened to..." for virtually all the parables that Jesus used to teach about what he came to do, the emphasis of the Lord was on the matter of the kingdom. So, it is important for us to know as believers that what Jesus came to do was to establish a kingdom. That's why when you look at Colossians, look at Colossians, look at the book of Colossians, that's Colossians chapter 1. Colossians chapter 1, you will notice that the Bible talks about a kingdom. Colossians chapter 1, if you take your reading from around verse 9 or thereabouts, look at what the scripture says. [Speaker 2] "For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love." [Speaker 1] So, actually what happens to us was that initially we were in a kingdom. What is the name of that kingdom? The kingdom of darkness. So, what Jesus came to do was to take us out of darkness into light. That light that we are brought into is actually that we were brought into the kingdom of the Son. So anybody, when the Bible says that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all, if anybody says that he has fellowship with God and walk in darkness, the person is a liar; the truth is not in him. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. I'm quoting 1 John chapter 1 from verse 4, verse 5, verse 6 downwards. So, that walking in light is actually being in a kingdom. Anybody who is in light and not in darkness is in a kingdom. So, Jesus said in that format for prayer, in that modus operandi for prayer—not necessarily the only way we should be praying. The Lord's Prayer is actually a modus operandi. What should be the content of prayer? What should be the focus of prayer? What should be the central concern of prayer? What a correct prayer life should look like. That is what that thing is showing. And in looking at that, the Lord said, "Thy kingdom come." You will notice again the matter of the kingdom in Matthew chapter 6. Look at Matthew 6:33. If you're there before me, please read. Matthew 6:33. Matthew chapter 6, that's a very popular scripture, something we can quote offhand. [Speaker 2] "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." [Speaker 1] "But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness." Now, what led to this statement? You will see that from around verse 25. Please, can you read for us from around verse 25 of that Matthew chapter 6? [Speaker 2] "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?" [Speaker 1] Okay. So, the focus of the believer, if it is on what to eat, what to drink, if that is our primary preoccupation, it is a display of lack of faith. Please read on. [Speaker 2] "Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek." [Speaker 1] Have you seen something? The primary preoccupation of the Gentiles, in every decision to take, is a materialistic concern. And I keep telling believers something: when what will be immaterial where we are going—where we are going—becomes your primary concern where we are right now, you are blinded. You are blinded to eternity. I repeat myself: when what will become immaterial where you are going becomes your primary concern now, where we are now, it means you are not preparing for your future. You are only living for now and here. And anybody living for now and here is a miserable person. The Bible says that if only in this world we have hope, he said of all men we are what? Most miserable. You are a miserable person. I'm just trying to tell you who you are, if what primarily occupies you here are things that will become immaterial where we are going. It means you are not preparing for your future. You are only living for now and here. And anybody living for now and here... he's a miserable person. So the Master is saying something very crucial in this text. He was pointing our attention to something very serious. He said, therefore, don't be occupied with what are we to eat, what are we to wear, what are we to drink. He said for these things are the focus of the Gentiles. So what make a man a Gentile is the focus of his life. The focus of a man's life tells you whether he's a Gentile or he's not a Gentile. So what makes a man a Gentile is not first some material things; it's actually a state of the heart. It's actually a state of the mind. The Bible says do not be conformed to this world, but what? You are to be transformed. Where? By the renewing of your mind. So when you say worldliness, it is a mindset. When you say a Gentile, it is first a mindset, a mindset about something. When the way our mind is set is such that the primary things that determine our decision making, if it is what to eat, what to wear, what to drink—tomorrow this, if that is the primary thing that determines our decision making—please, you are not a Christian. You might be tongue-speaking, Holy Ghost filled; you are not a Christian in your mind. You are conformed to the world. You are a Gentile. He said for these things the Gentiles seek. This is what the Gentiles, this is what they are seeking. Their primary concern is what to eat, what to wear. That is the priority of their life. When you look at their priority, when you look at how their life priority is set, the first thing is what do we eat, what do we wear, what do we put on, how much will I get from it, how much, how much, how much, how much. Are you understanding me? So that I can provide myself with what to eat, what to wear, what to drink. That is their first thing. In their priority, that is what comes first. And everybody who is like that is a Gentile. He's having a mind of the Gentiles. That's why the Bible warns us: "Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly." Psalm 1:1. You may be godly, but walking in the counsel of ungodly people. Are you getting the point? So, you may be a believer, but in your mind, you are a Gentile because you are walking in the counsel of the ungodly. Now, so when Jesus said that, please note that it was because he was pushing towards a kingdom. My focus, our focus in this discipleship class for today—and I don't know for how many weeks it may take us until we conclude today or we move on to next week and after next week, I don't know, but let's start journey—is that for Jesus, fundamental to prayer, fundamental to what is the basis of our communion with God, is that Lord, thy kingdom come. Your kingdom needed to come. Kingdom of darkness needed to disappear. We cannot be living as Gentiles. We belong to a kingdom. That kingdom has its lifestyle. So Jesus said, when you pray, something need to be fundamental to your prayer. Something should be a primary concern. Something should be a primary preoccupation. Something should be what is the basis of our communion with God. In our cry to God, in our preoccupation, in our communion with God, is that God, your kingdom must come. Your kingdom must come. Your kingdom must be here. Your kingdom is not just something that will be in heaven. Do you know why? Do you know why? See, the earth does not belong to the devil. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. Psalm 24:1. Ever from time immemorial, God created man in his image so that everywhere man is, it will be resounded that the earth belongs to God. So, God want his kingdom. There are some rebels. These rebel, they are described as the gates of hell. And the gate of hell is concerned with the kingdom of God not reigning on earth. But the reality is that whether they like it or not, that kingdom will reign. And so the Lord is saying that what I came to do is that people are in the kingdom of darkness. That is why they are abusing the earth. That is why there is wickedness. That is why there is fornication, immorality, murder, stealing, arrogance, pride, selfishness, self-centeredness, self-centeredness, confusion. That is why you have all these things. But look, I am bringing a kingdom. I am bringing the kingdom of light. And when we establish this kingdom, you will see men that will have godly conduct. You will see men that will walk in love. You will see men that will walk in truth. You will see men that will walk in integrity. You will see faithful men. You will see honest men. O, that is the matter of the kingdom. And that is why as we are continuing this evening, you will see that immediately following that matter that the Lord raised, he said thy kingdom come, your will be done. I will come to that much later. All I just need to mention now is that anywhere the will of God is not done, the kingdom of God is not there. The hallmark that the kingdom of God is in a place is that the will of God is done. We will come to that matter later. But what I am concerned about today is the matter of "thy kingdom come." I don't know whether this matter has become a matter to your own heart. What is it that preoccupies you in prayer? What is your primary concern when you are talking with God? If God is to give you an opportunity to see, look, ask me for one thing, only one thing in this life I can do for you before you die, just ask me for one thing. What is the one thing you will ask? Do you remember that it was this kind of opportunity that Baba gave to Solomon? 1 Kings 3. When the Lord gave this opportunity to Solomon, do you see the preoccupation of Solomon? He said, "Look at this kingdom that you have given me to manage. I will not be able to manage your people and go in and out among them except I have correct wisdom. So that I can be able to, this work that you have given me to do, I will be able to do it well." And the Bible says what Solomon asked the Lord pleased the Lord. And the Lord said, "Ah! So what is bothering you is just what is bothering me. So your preoccupation is just what is my preoccupation." So what you are seeking for, so your primary concern is the work that I gave you. He said, "Look, you don't know anything. I will give... you will be successful in the work, O. But me too, I know what you need. I know what you need. I will overwhelm you with what you need. I will so much bless you. Look, you will be so crowded, you... I will give you that after you there will be nobody like you." Is that not what you find in that Matthew chapter 6 verse 33? He said, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. What will be added to you? These things shall be added. So in the mind of God, why you are primarily concerned with his kingdom, he will be adding your needs. So your primary concern should be his kingdom. As to your needs, the arrangement of God is that your needs should not be what you primarily seek. Your needs should be what will be consequential. Let me explain it. Let me use this simple illustration. Have you ever seen anybody who goes to the market and say, "Madam, okay you are selling rice. Please, sell jara [slang for bonus/extra] for me. How much is jara?" Please, the person selling the commodity, how will the person look at you? Like a normal person or like a mad person? The person will be wondering, is this person normal? Who come to the market to buy jara? It is after you have bought the main thing that they now put jara. You are supposed to tell me you want to buy rice. When you buy rice, I will now put jara on it. You don't come here to look for jara. But do you know that for many of us in this market space of life, our primary concern is jara? What is preoccupying your heart primarily is jara. You don't understand that jara is actually a consequential benefit. It's not supposed to be your primary concern. It's a secondary concern. After you have bought, the person will put jara. And you will notice that sometimes when you buy and the person don't put jara, you will say, "Ah madam, won't you put jara to what I have bought?" He say, "Okay, okay, just add some." Because it's a consequential benefit. May you not be living for what ought to be consequential. I pray you are not living for it. May you be living for what is the main thing, what is the main thing in this market space of life, in the name of Jesus. So the main thing in this market space—I'm saying market space according to the word of 1 Peter. He said we are pilgrims here, we are pilgrims and strangers. This place is not our home. We just came here to do some things to go back home. That's why I'm calling it a market space where you just come to do some trading and then you go back home. In this market space, may you be delivered from looking for jara all around the market. Because people who are all over the place looking for jara all around the market, they are people who are blind. They are people who don't understand the principles of life. This is the people we call the Gentiles. That is why the scripture says in Ephesians that they are hopelessly confused. The Bible says they move in the vanity of their mind, in the vanity. Look at Ephesians, look at Ephesians chapter 4. Look at how the Bible describes the Gentiles. May you not be hopelessly confused in the name of Jesus. Look at how the Bible describes the Gentiles, Ephesians chapter 4. Look at how the Bible describes them. Ephesians 4:17: "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind." Their mind is futile. Their mind is vain. With the Lord's authority, let me say this: live no longer as the ungodly do, for they are hopelessly confused. Ah! Are you getting the point? Because nobody goes to the market space and begins to say, "Meat seller, give me jara. Bean seller, give me jara." That person is a confused person. He's a confused person. What the person need to do is to focus on the main thing. Buy meat; jara will follow it. Buy beans; jara will follow it. If jara don't come, because some people are unfaithful, but we know that God is faithful. Who can never forget our labor of love? But men can even be unfaithful. When you buy, they don't put jara. You say, "Ah, what happened? You didn't add jara to what I bought." They will put small. They know you have right to jara. But when you enter the market and everybody selling a commodity, all you are saying is that I want to buy jara, I want to buy jara, I want to buy jara. You know there's already a problem already. What is the problem? The person speaking is hopelessly confused. May you not be hopelessly confused in the matters of life in the name of Jesus. So the Bible is telling us that with the authority of the Lord, let me say this: live no longer as the ungodly do. Don't live as the ungodly. Who are the ungodly? Our Lord Jesus described them. What to eat, what to drink, what to wear is the primary basis of their decision making. It's the first thing in their life. The first thing in their life is not the kingdom of God and his righteousness. They are not concerned about any kingdom. They don't operate like people in a kingdom. They don't understand the matter of divine assignment. They don't understand that there is a work. They don't have any relationship with a divine assignment or a divine duty. They don't know anything about divine purpose for life. All they want to do with their life is to eat and drink and tomorrow they will die. These are people who are hopelessly confused. And when you now see a believer whose priority—I mean the first thing that is the basis of decision making—is what to eat, what to drink, and what to wear, that believer has become hopelessly confused. That is the matter that by the spirit of the Lord, Apostle Paul was addressing. He said, look, with the Lord's authority, I am instructing you, I am commanding you, I am telling you this. It is important for you as a believer that you don't walk like the Gentiles walk because they walk in the futility of their mind. They walk as people who are hopelessly confused. They are hopeless people. Even if they may be driving a jeep of 200 billion dollars. That may be the jeep that they are driving; they are hopeless people. I want us to get that very straight. What make men to be hopeless and what make men to have hope is not a material concern. I want us to get that very straight. What make men to be hopeless and what make men to have hope is not anything material. I was speaking to a young man one day, we were discussing. I said poverty is not the lack of money; it's the lack of vision. I have done projects that runs into hundreds of thousand, even though I don't have one kobo. But because I have a vision. When men cannot see God to pursue, nothing follows after them. What ought to follow you have become the focus of your pursuit. Are you not hopelessly confused? Something is to be following you and now you are looking for the thing. You are going everywhere looking, and it's supposed to be following you. Is your life not confused? And you are saying all is well. Is that not the state of the Laodicean church? He said, "Now, you know, we are rich, we are comfortable, we have need of nothing." And the Lord said, "You don't know that you are miserable. You are blind. You are hopeless. You are wretched." What I'm trying to make you understand is that wretchedness, hopelessness, miserability has nothing to do with material concern. I'm telling you the truth. It has to do with what is not material. It has to do with what is the life priority of people. Because do you know what I found out? I've not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed beg for bread. I've not seen it. I've not seen the righteous forsaken nor the seed of the righteous begging for bread. I've not seen men who wholeheartedly follow God who don't have what to eat. Because God is faithful. God is not like the woman that you will buy ten congos of gari from and will not give you jara. God is not like that. If we buy even only one congo, God can decide to give you two or three cups as jara. That is God. He doesn't forget labor of love. He doesn't. Go and check Ephesians. He said, therefore, remain unshakeable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as we know that our labor in the Lord is not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:58. The Bible says God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. So, God is not like that your meat seller that you will buy even almost three cows from and will not even remember to do something and we still go around to still corner you. God is not like that. As you buy, I always remember this my customer. When I buy, buy, buy, he will remember, "This my customer!" When I buy, he will add... in fact after some times, when I come, he say, "Ah customer! You come today? O customer, customer, customer!" He's selling carrots and other things; he will just go and buy onions and give again to me. He say, "Take onions." If men can be that, to do that to customers who are primarily concerned with their business, they want you to progress and they're concerned about doing you good. If that is wicked men, what do you think a good God will do? May you be delivered from your blindness in the name of Jesus. I'm talking about the kingdom. Please don't forget where we are coming from. Because many times, sometimes when you are emphasizing something, people lose the focus of where we are coming from. And having seen that over the years in ministry, I have learned to always remind people of where we are coming from. Where we are coming from is the matter of the kingdom, that when Jesus was teaching men how to pray, Jesus was showing something that is fundamental. Jesus was not giving a format that every time you want to pray, just say, "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread..." every time. That's not what he was doing. That's not what he was doing because even in his own life, you don't see him praying just that way. But he was showing them something, something fundamental to prayer. And I saw something fundamental to prayer: acknowledging God for who he is, worship of God, men who are merciful. Remember we have taken that topic before sometimes last year. People don't know that when you are not merciful, it becomes a strong hindrance to your access in the place of prayer. It becomes a big problem to you accessing God if you are a person who keep people in prison—just imprison them in your heart, full of bitterness, grief, heart and pain. It blocks your own prayer life too. It works against you. But that is not the focus. We are only trying to say that he was speaking about some fundamental things. Then not so fundamental in what Jesus was talking about was the matter of the kingdom. The kingdom matters. He said, "Thy kingdom come." And I'm trying to make you see something, that when you see a man or a woman whose life priority is not the kingdom of God and his righteousness—that is, somebody that what comes first in his life is not the kingdom of God and his righteousness—that person is a Gentile. He's a Gentile in his mindset. He's a Gentile. So the matter of coming first, bringing the kingdom first, the matter of the kingdom first, is something that matters to Jesus. That the kingdom, the matter of divine assignment, the matter of divine purpose, the matter of what is the thing that is bothering God in this place... ask God, "I want to be bothered about what is bothering you." When the primary things that bother you in any situation is what is the interest of God in this matter? That is when that becomes your life occupation, when that becomes the primary thing that makes you take decision, then you are a man of the kingdom. And that becomes very, very important in our walk with God. Look at something in Luke chapter 9. Luke chapter 9, I just want to make reference to something there. Luke chapter 9, that's towards the end of the chapter, something that happened between Jesus and some people. That's from around verse 57. Luke chapter 9, from around verse 57 to be precise. Luke chapter 9 from verse 57. Let me just read through to the end; then we'll come back to looking at the text verse by verse. From verse 57, look at what the scripture says. It says: "Now it happened as Jesus journeyed on the road and someone said to him, 'Lord, I will follow you wherever you go.' And Jesus said to him, 'Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.'" Somebody was volunteering to follow Jesus and I don't know why Jesus made this statement. But what I can only say is that perhaps the mind of that person, that mind was clear to God. Maybe the Lord saw that the reason why he wanted to follow the Lord was that if I follow this man, accommodation will be sure. If I follow this man, there will be bread to eat. If I follow this man, I no go suffer, I no go beg for bread. God of miracle na my papa, O! Nothing may necessarily be wrong with that song; I'm only trying to say that maybe that was the preoccupation of that man. I don't know what was his preoccupation. So the Lord quickly said, "Sorry, O. You see, foxes, they even have accommodation. Birds of the air have nest; they have where to stay. But you see me? I'm a wanderer, O. I just wander here and there and there and there." And it appears we didn't hear anything about that man again. Nothing was said further than that about that story. Now the next man, he said: "Then another said... [no, not this time another said, then he, that is the Lord, said to another.] And he said to another, 'Follow me.' But he said, 'Lord, let me first go and bury my father.'" Is it not interesting? One man said, "I want to follow you." Luke chapter 9 from verse 57, that's where we are reading. One man said, "I want to follow you." The Lord said, "Foxes have holes, birds of the air have nest, but me I don't have where to lay my head." That was all that was said about that incident. Another incident, the Lord focus on a man and said, "You follow me." But he gave an excuse. What was the excuse? He said, "Let me first go and bury my father." And the Lord said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God." My question is that is the Lord saying that nobody should bury their parents? Once you bury your father, then you are a bad person. Is that what the Lord is saying? Of course not. Of course not. Another also said, "Lord, I will follow you, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house." But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." Now, you are looking at incidences here. In Luke 9:57, somebody wanted to follow the Lord. The Lord said, "Sorry, foxes have hole, birds of the air have nest, but me I don't have where to lay my head." That was all that was said about that incident. Another incident, the Lord focus on a man and said, "You follow me." But he gave an excuse. What was the excuse? He said, "Let me first go and bury my father." And the Lord said, "Let the dead bury their dead; you go and preach the kingdom of God." And at some point in my life, I was wondering: there's nothing really wrong about what these people said. Why is the response of Jesus this hard? But not until I saw the matter in Matthew 6:33 and how it relate to these verses. If you notice the two requests in these verses, the first one said—he didn't say, "Let me go and bury my father." What did he say? "Let me *first* go." First must be the kingdom. Other things can come second and third and fourth. Look at the other one again. He said, "Let me *first* go and bid them farewell." First must be the kingdom. So, you see what I'm trying to bring out of all of these things is that when Jesus said "thy kingdom come," you know what the Lord Jesus is looking for? The Lord is looking for men in whose priority the kingdom of God comes first. Jesus is saying, "O, may it be that we will find people in this life when we say, 'O, thy kingdom come,' the burden of that prayer is that may men begin to arise and emerge that the first thing they seek in life is the thing that bothers God in this place." Ask God, "I want to be bothered about what is bothering you." When the primary things that bother you in any situation is what is the interest of God in this matter? When that becomes your life occupation, when that becomes the primary thing that makes you take decision, then you are a man of the kingdom. And that becomes very, very important in our walk with God. What manner of man are you? What manner of man are you? What manner of woman are you? What manner of husband are you? What manner of father are you? What manner of teenager are you? What manner of youth are you? What manner of... what manner of Nigerian are you? Are you a Nigerian that God is thanking God you are a Nigerian because he say, "O! Have you seen my servant, my servant Matthew? O, a Nigerian that is different from every other Nigerian. He fears God and eschewed evil. Satan, can you see him? Can you see that one?" I mean I'm trying to make you see that God's primary concern is to find men whose primary concern is God. God's primary concern is to find men, people, individuals, whose primary concern is God. When God find those kind of men, then the kingdom of God is emerging in a place. The kingdom of God is emerging. The kingdom of God is coming. The kingdom of God is being established. But if you have 1,000 people who are saying, "Holy, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty," but in their mindset, what comes first is not God's kingdom and his righteousness, the kingdom of God has not come. The kingdom of God is not coming in such a place. The kingdom of God is not there. There is something about our mindset that relates to God's kingdom. We know people who are Gentiles by their mindset. And what is the mindset of the Gentiles? The first thing they seek, the first thing about their decision making is what to eat, what to drink, what to wear. That is the first thing that determines whatever they want to do. "How will this thing give me more money? How will this thing help me to finish my project? How will this thing pay me off? How will this thing..." that is the first thing in all their mentality. But when you see kingdom people, the first thing is how does this thing pleases God? How does this agree with God's divine assignment for my life? How does this thing agree with divine purpose? How is God pleased with this? What—will this thing give joy to God? Will this matter make God to be happy? If I put my hand into this, what will be the state of heart of Jesus? For such men, what has happened in the heart? The kingdom has come. We move from this point next Monday. I want you to talk to the Lord. We move from this point next Monday. I want you to talk to God. What manner of man are you? Are you hopelessly confused? Are you hopelessly confused? People who go to the market space wanting to buy jara are hopelessly confused. People who are not confused go to the market of life to lay their hand on the main things. The main things of this life is the interest of God, the concern of God, the burden of God, the kingdom of God, the righteousness of God. That's the main thing about this market space. This market space of life, that's the main thing about it. If that is not your main thing, then you are hopelessly confused. The Gentiles walk in the futility of their mind. May you be delivered from your blindness in the name of Jesus. I'm talking about the kingdom. Let us pray. [Music begins] [Speaker 3] This message is coming to you from Family Tent Ministry, a Christian ministry involved in reaching the lives of singles and married through preaching and teaching of God's word, discipleship, family life enrichment, social and community development and mission hints. Our regular activities are: Discipleship class, every Monday, 5 PM; Adolescent and Singles class, every first Saturday of every month at 10 AM; Marriage forum, second Saturday of every month at 10 AM; Family life seminars, regular school outreaches, and everyday counseling. For further counsel, you can reach us at our location, Life Camp, by the First Bridge, Iyeku community, next to Joyful Filling Station, along Ilorin road, Akure, Ondo state, Nigeria. You can also reach us through our social media handles: familytents@yahoo.plus.co.uk, familytentministry01@gmail.com, www.familytentministry.org. Our phone numbers are: 08033861136, 07033613848. God bless you all.