Words of Life|Pastor Balan Swaminathan|HIPM

Here is the summary of what was preached:

- Formation of pearl is a slow process. What you want may not happen immediately, but hold on, you are a kingdom citizen, God is working it out for you. 
- Formation of pearl happens in secret. Your value is hidden inside of you. Keep going, your king, your beloved is delighted in your inner beauty. 
- Pearl must be separated from the flesh to gain value. You cannot carry the worldly desire and passion inside of you, you need to separate yourself from the world. Because you are a kingdom citizen. You need to please only your king, that can be done only by having purity inside of you.

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Here is the summary of what was preached:

- Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden inside of us, joyfully we sacrifice everything within and around us to inherit the kingdom eternally 
- Two key aspects of the mystery - The Joy of finding the treasure & the willingness to sacrifice 
- We need to have the inexpressible joy of finding Jesus and for the hope of our inheritance in heaven 
- If that is lost in you, you need to come to the altar in tears for a fresh touch from above 
- We must be willing to sacrifice what we consider valuable and allow our abilities and talents to be used for the glory of God

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Here is the summary of what we spoke: 

- Jesus said, "Kingdom of heaven is like leaven". 
- A little leaven can influence the whole lump of dough 
- Kingdom of heaven appears out of proportion when compared with the world, but its rising, its rising 
- Yeast lies dormant until it comes into contact with the dough. Kingdom can't spread until we come in contact with the world 
- The leaven transforms the dead dough into a bread. Gospel has the power to transform lives. 
- We need to bring the Gospel in contact with the world.

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- Jesus is saying, the kingdom that I have come to proclaim, that kingdom that I have come to announce and establish in your midst right now is as small as the mustard seed 
- Right now its myself and my disciples, that’s all. This kingdom is not very big, tiny, barely be seen 
- Just wait, right now it is small, tiny, unnoticed, insignificant movement
- That tiny little seed was buried, rose on the third day and resulted in the birth and significant growth of the church
- Look at the churches all around today, there is an explosive exponential growth of churches all around the globe

"Any seed as tiny as mustard seed, plant and water with the Word of God and then get out of the way to watch God work".

Here is the summary of what we discussed:

- Mixture of good and bad being allowed in the Kingdom of Heaven, both professing Christians and true Christians 
- Weeds are sown among the wheat while men are asleep
   - Weed and wheat grow together and produce grain - we can't differentiate 
- Servants of the Master want to separate the weeds as they grow
   - But weeds are spared for the sake of the wheat 
- At the harvest time, weeds will be gathered together and burned first
   - Weeds are going to grow together until the day of harvest 
- We are naturally born as weeds,
   - We need to be born again and be born of water & spirit to become wheat

When the disciples asked Jesus in Matthew 13, "Why do You speak to them in parables?", Jesus said, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given".

The whole idea of sowing is multiplication. The kingdom of God also has to train its citizens in the book of the law and to multiply its citizen so that more will escape hell.

Kingdom parable talks about four types of lands. These four types of grounds are in the world, inside the church and everywhere.

The parable of the sower was studied as outlined below. Listen to the sermon to know more about the parable. 

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The most awesome power and position of national privilege is citizenship. We talked about the fallowing aspects of citizenship:

1. Power & privilege of citizenship
2. How to become a kingdom citizen?
3. When did that citizenship begin?
4. What about dual citizenship?
5. Is my citizenship visible?

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We talked about eight characteristics of a king and found all these perfectly fit to our Lord Jesus.

- A king is central to his kingdom 
- A king is the ultimate and only source of authority in his kingdom 
- The sovereignty of a king is inherent in his royal authority
- A king is never voted into power
- A king cannot be voted out of power
- A king’s word is law 
- A king personally owns everything in his domain 
- A king's decree is unchanging

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We understood four principles that are behind the keys:

- Keys represent authority
- Keys represent access
- Keys represent ownership
- Keys represent freedom

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Here is the summary of what we discussed.

- Like any other kingdom, Kingdom of God is also governed by a set of laws and principles called by Jesus as "keys of the Kingdom" 
- Mystery:1 Jesus said, "you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church"
- Mystery 2: Jesus said, I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven
- Mystery 3: The key to unlock the warehouse of haven is "prayer" - asking in Jesus name 
- Jesus put in the key of prayer and unlocked the warehouse of heaven to get bread & fish for 5000 - If that key worked for Jesus, it must work for the church today

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