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Greetings,
The government of God is the empowerment of Holy Spirit working in the human heart and mind. This is where the law of God is written. That law is the Father’s love given as a desire to those who willingly receive it. This is the writing of the character, nature, way, power, and authority transforming who we are from within. This is what empowers our thoughts and beliefs to be life-giving to our world. This is the internal government of the Kingdom of God. Leaders in the New Covenant are not the government of the church. They are simply governors serving the Holy Spirit for the will of God in all things. Every individual is responsible for the presence and purpose of God in their life. They are responsible to seek to be a participating member of the body of Christ for the will of our heavenly Father.
New Covenant governors cannot rob God’s people of carrying the responsibility of their covenant with God nor the blessing of His presence in their lives. The government is not what comes to the body, but it’s the design of the body and it’s the fuel in the body. The design of the body is for each individual to grow in knowing who they are in Christ and who Christ is in them. The fuel of the government of God is the manifest presence of Holy Spirit in each believer. This empowers each one’s response of faith. These truths are realized by each one turning to the Jesus whereby He is Lord by His Spirit working in and through each member of Christ’s body. Every believer is a part of the royal priesthood of God in Christ. We are all kings and priests unto our God.
Revelation 1:5 To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, 6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
The leaders of the Church are NOT the government of God. Those who are responsible to lead in the Church are covenant governors to serve the body of Christ in fulfilling the identity, testimony, and purpose of being kings and priests to our God and Father. The shadow of this was seen in the Old Covenant priests and Levites. It was not God’s desire to merely have one tribe in the role of carrying the covenant and presence of God. He has always desired that all of His people fulfill this role.
1 Chronicles 15:14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel. 15 And the children of the Levites bore the ark of God on their shoulders, by its poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD.
The ark of God contained the presence of God along with the testimony of His Law and Spirit. In the days of Noah, the ark was a boat that carried the family of God’s people that would be left behind in the earth to fulfill God’s purpose and plan as the wicked were removed in the waters of the flood. God’s presence rested with Noah and his family for a furtherance of His plan in the earth. For the Israelites, the ark as the covenant was the sanctified container carried by the priests upon poles as they journeyed in their chosen path by God. The priests had the responsibility of carrying the ark in a way that demonstrated that the presence of God in the ark was what directed their path. That ark was the testimony of God’s presence resting with His people for His covenant purpose and plan in the earth. In the New Covenant, the ark that contains God’s presence is the body of Christ. God resting in our lives is the source of His covenantal purpose in our world. Leaders must lead to activate, facilitate, and release those they lead to embrace their role as members of the body that carries God’s manifest presence for His kingdom to come and His will to be done upon the earth as it is in heaven. Leaders are not called to minister on behalf of the body of Christ. They are called to equip each member for the work of the ministry. That ministry is the testimony of God’s love to the world. It is a ministry of God’s manifest presence and purpose to the nations of the world. Each member is meant to do their share in functioning together with others for the identity, testimony, and purpose of the body of Christ.
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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