If you feel like your world has been turned upside down, then you are just like the disciples of Yeshua (Jesus). After the Passover, everything they thought they knew was gone. But by Pentecost they understood what the Lord had actually spoken to them, and they were prepared to be that to the world. And God will remove your past conditioning to prepare you to move forward as His ambassadors to this world.

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Show Notes:

Between Passover and Pentecost, the disciples of Yeshua (Jesus) went through a time of deep preparation. They were thrown into turmoil and confusion as their concepts about Yeshua’s purpose were turned upside down. Yeshua had told them plainly what would happen, but they had to go through a time of transition until they were able to understand and move in what the Lord had shown them. We too have been in a transition where we are coming to understand and move in what God has shown us.

For the disciples, Pentecost was a completion of the old things and a launching pad into a whole new day. And we have the same experience in Christ. We go through a transition that seems like turmoil and confusion. But we come out of that with an understanding of God’s Word and an ability to move forward. Pentecost means that the past is not something we are stuck in but something that has prepared us to be God’s representatives to the earth. We have a purpose to fulfill. The Lord has placed us here for a reason. We are His ambassadors.

We may live here on earth, but our citizenship is in heaven. We have been transplanted here from heaven; we are a colony of the Kingdom. As ambassadors of Christ, we still reside in the Kingdom that we represent. As a colony from the Kingdom of Heaven, we are an exact replica of that Kingdom on the earth. We are a manifestation of the Lord’s government, ways, thoughts, morality, miracles, and everything else about His Kingdom. Therefore, we leave the past behind and press on toward the goal of our high calling in Christ.

Key Verses:

• Philippians 3:1–14. “Forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal.”
• Philippians 3:15–21. “Our citizenship is in heaven.”
• Ephesians 3:19. “Be filled up to all the fullness of God.”
• 2 Corinthians 5:20. “We are ambassadors for Christ.”
• John 18:36. “Jesus answered, ‘My kingdom is not of this world.’”
• John 15:18–19. “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.”
• John 17:14–15. “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. … Keep them from the evil one.”

Quotes:

• “You can’t go back and make everything right that was wrong. You just rejoice in God and know that He’s moving you forward. So let’s all start by just rejoicing in the Lord.”
• “Don’t confuse the future with the past. Don’t try to recreate what we had in the past, what we did in the past, who you were in the past, what we were in the past together.”
• “We are to have the experience of the life of Christ filling us. We are to be filled, as Christ was, to all the fullness of God in this day, in this life. And we’re to have that so living in us that we’re able to impart it to others.”

Takeaways:

1. The process of God taking us out of everything we have known in the past seems difficult. But He does that so we can understand and walk in what we were unable to understand or walk in before.
2. Let us be like Paul and say that all we gained in the past is loss in comparison to the fullness that God has called us to walk in. We leave everything of the past in the past and keep moving forward.
3. You are a colony of the Kingdom of Heaven. You are the picture of the Kingdom that God is wanting to bring forth on this earth. You are the ambassadors of that Kingdom and the ones who impart that Kingdom to the people of this world.

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