Fullfilling Your Assignment According to The Gospel of The Kingdom of God
The gospel was preached primarily to the poor because they were desperate. Jesus said, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor” (Luke 4:18). The reason the poor enter the kingdom of God faster than the rich is because they are desperate. The rich man has to come to the end of himself. The poor are dependent, they are broken and they need help, they are ready for good news.
The poor and sick, the blind, the withered, the lame and demonized all rush into the kingdom of God. Those were the ones that followed the ministry of Christ.
Even in their state of being—sick, poor, and demonized, they knew they had a revelation that this man Jesus did not come to condemn them. He didn’t come to judge them. But He came to bring hope, to bring a kingdom that is not like the kingdom of the world.
In the kingdom of man, value is placed by position, power, fame and how much money someone has. The kingdom of God is the opposite. In God’s kingdom, a person’s status, power and name mean nothing. And how much money you have does not impress God.
Jesus said, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” (Matt. 19:24). Jesus was not saying that it is impossible for the rich to enter His kingdom. But often, when they have power, money, prestige and influence, they also tend to have pride and are not humble. They don’t need or depend on anyone, so when the kingdom comes to them, oftentimes they reason, they ponder and examine, and say within themselves: “I don’t need that, I have everything. I have money and houses. I have a nice car, position, fame and power. I’m number one in my own kingdom, in my society.” They don’t have the revelation or understanding of their need for the kingdom of God.
The poor who have been oppressed, who are in need of deliverance, those who have been run down are the ones that Jesus came to preach to. These are the ones who pressed into the kingdom and seized it because they had understanding of their own need. They understood that there is a kingdom that is higher than the kingdoms that have held them down. A kingdom that is higher than any political kingdom, religious kingdom, higher than the kingdoms of witchcraft, or even the kingdoms of sickness. Every one of these people who have come to Jesus, they pressed, they believed and seized the kingdom of God, and they were healed, delivered and set free.
