with Dr David J Rogers
(notes online at: riversedgechurchmgm.wordpress.com)
Foundational Scripture:
Matthew 6.33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
1.Keys to the Kingdom
Matthew 16.19 ESV
[Jesus saying] I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
2.Keys and Keyholder
• The keyholder has keys to everything, has authorized access, can give authorized access.
• Keys open, keys close, keys secure
• Responsible to the master of the keys for those spaces locked up.
3.Keyholder authority
Isaiah 22.22
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Revelation of John 3.7-8
“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. ‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.’”
Chamberlain – controls and charged with the direction and management of a chamber or of chambers, all the storerooms and storehouses of the king.
Chancellor – controls the justice and courts of the kingdom; keeps the seal of the king.
Genesis 41.40 – Joseph second to Pharaoh only
You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.”
*Understand that this is a type and shadow of our right relationship with the God of the Bible.
4.Adam was given them and lost them; Jesus will give them back.
Genesis 1.27-28
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 2.15
The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
Genesis 3.17-19
And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Mat 16.19 … I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven
5.Keys to the Kingdom
The First Key: Hear God for yourself
Matthew 16.17
And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.”
The Second Key: Belief in the Son of God, Jesus Christ
John 3.15-17
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned.
The Third Key: Pray the Prayer of Faith
Mark 11.24
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
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