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Dr Myles Munroe - The Kingdom of Heaven

Dr Myles Munroe - The Kingdom of Heaven

In this past week, The Church would have focused on the seven last sayings of Jesus Christ with much appreciation,
sensitivity and somberness. However, it is the first saying of Jesus Christ which truly gives us our mandate as Kingdom
citizens, and reveals the truth about why Christ came in the first place.
Naturally there are many we could talk to about The Kingdom of Heaven, but God chose as his vehicle for this story, Dr.
Myles Munroe of Bahamas Faith Ministries International in Nassau, Bahamas. This astute Man of God has been teaching
and studying and meditating on the Kingdom message for the past 20 years and has churned out multiple books loaded
with fresh insight and understanding.

One of the Kingdom requirements is that we go into all the world and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is no wonder
then that we would catch up with this globe-trotter somewhere between the Ukraine, Trinidad and The Bahamas. Dr.
Myles Munroe expeditiously responded to our request via e-mail and pushed past fatigue to grant us a cyber interview.
Thank you Dr. Myles, surely the Governor is at work within you!

If you are curious as to who the Governor is, then hold on tight for you are about to take a refreshing journey with one of
the Gospel’s most brilliant minds who will help us to re-discover the Kingdom of Heaven.
In a recent teaching at BFMI, Dr. Myles elaborated on the role, purpose and power of The Holy Spirit in the Kingdom of
Heaven. He identifies the Holy Spirit as the Governor of The Kingdom. “The message of the Bible is not about a
religion, the message of the Bible is about a King and His Kingdom and His Royal Kids. The Bible is about a Kingdom,
that means it is about the dominion of a King over His territory.”

Dr. Myles said The Bible is a book on the Law of God. “Law has to do with judicial responsibility or governing. It
has to do with keeping standards and values in a country.”
With this understood, Dr. Myles quickly moved on to a definition for kingdom. “A kingdom is the governing
influence of a king over his territory impacting that territory with His will.”
The first saying of Jesus Christ is found in Matthew Chapter 4:17, “And from that time forward, Jesus began to
declare, proclaim or to preach, Repent because the Kingdom of Heaven has arrived.” The teacher wanted
hearers to understand that Christ came to introduce a government with a territory, and not a religion. “All
kingdoms have territories, the territory that is immediately under the King’s rule is called his domain. But all
kingdoms historically also have territories that are owned by the king, but they are not under his direct physical rule. That
territory takes on a different name, it is called a colony. Where the king lives physically is called his domain, where the
king rules, but not in the physical, is called his colony.”

The Bahamas was once a British colony; that season lasted for over 250 years. It was under the rulership of England,
but from a distance. We were called a colony of Britain until the time of our independence in July 1973.
“Earth is not in Heaven. Heaven has a King. Heaven therefore is the direct domain of that King, so when you refer
to Heaven, you refer to it as the Kingdom of God. Heaven is the original country, the home country, the domain of
God.”
Dr. Myles explained that God created the universe as an extension of His Kingdom. “Earth is a colony of Heaven.
(A foreign place) The purpose of a colony is to extend the kingdom of that king to that foreign place. Kings and kingdoms
administer their will in their colony through governors.”
Once again, Dr. Myles reflected on The Bahamas’ history where we received Governors from England who were
mandated to run these islands in the same manner as Britain.
“The way a king administrates a colony is through a governor. It is the way a king extends his influence to a
colony; he doesn’t do it directly, he sends a person to live in that colony representing him and that person is
called a governor.”

If you are truly absorbing this delicious and soul-satisfying Word, then you realize that Dr. Myles Munroe just equated the
role of the Holy Spirit to the role of a governor. After all, it is stated in The Bible that Our King, Jesus Christ sent a
representative to live within us and cause us to function as He does.
So how did Dr. Myles stumble upon this awesome revelation? “The teaching was inspired by simply reading the
Bible and reconnecting to the original and only message that Jesus Preached and taught. We must return to this very
important message as it is the original message of Jesus, Whom we claim to represent.”
Truthfully speaking, how many Believers are walking around preaching this message today? We find in Matthew 10:7
that Jesus specifically instructed the disciples to preach this one message: “The Kingdom of Heaven is at
hand” and it was Dr. Myles Munroe who caused many to realize it, and he shared what would happen if we
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heeded this directive.

BFMI, internet users, avid readers and television audiences are among those receiving the teachings, and they have
been transformed because their minds are renewed.
“I have taught this Kingdom message in over 50 nations and it continues. I just returned from Kiev Ukraine where
over 25,000 heard the message. We have received and continue to receive thousands of emails, letters and phone calls
attesting to the life-changing impact the Kingdom Message is having on the hearers, and we are glad. Many have said it
was the missing link in their search for spiritual fulfillment and answers many of their lingering questions beyond
Christianity. Hundreds of pastors and Bible schools have now adopted the Kingdom Book for their ministries.”

This is amazing, and it is what the apostles of the Book of Acts did, they turned the world upside down because they
were fresh. They were obedient to God, and to Jesus and they were a new thing which sent shock waves to people all
around. It brought about revolutionary change in that day. And so it is now!
“I have been teaching the Kingdom Message for over 20 years now, but it is just beginning to be received and
understood. I am presently working on my second book entitled “UNDERSTANDING THE KINGDOM”
which will provide detailed instructions about the Kingdom message. The most recent book I wrote titled
“REDISCOVERING THE KINGDOM” has now made it to the bestsellers list in the USA retail market and
continues to be a big seller.

Dr. Myles rightfully reminds that it is “the only message we have been given as the Body of Christ. “
Saints, our eyes have been opened to the truth that we are God’s colonies. Jesus is Our King and the Holy Spirit
which He sent, is our Governor. We have been made aware that Jesus asked us to preach a certain message –
The Gospel of Jesus Christ - with the assurance that signs and wonders would follow; that message is simply this,
“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

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