Overcomers' Guide To The Kingdom - Softcover

Harman, James T

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0963698443 ISBN 13: 9780963698445

Publisher: Prophecy Countdown Publications, 2011

Synopsis

NEW LOOK AT THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT

Get ready to climb back up the Mountain to listen to Christ's teachings once again. Though you may have read this great Sermon many times, discover exciting promises that many have missed. The purpose of this book is to help Christians be the Overcomers Jesus wants them to be and to help them gain their own entrance in the coming Kingdom. Learn what seeking the Kingdom of God is all about and be among the chosen few who will "enter into" the coming Kingdom. "Whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock." (Mat. 7:24) 

Also learn about: 

* The link between Beatitudes and Fruit of the Spirit

* What the "law of Christ" really is

* The critical importance of the "Lord's prayer"

* How to be an Overcomer 

* THE SIGN of Christ's soon Coming 

* A new song entitled: LOOKING FOR THE SON which has the message of how vitally important it is to be Watching for the Lord's return and the consequences to those who are not looking.

About this title

From the Author

About the author
 
This current book is really a sequel to THE KINGDOM. I sensed the need to provide further assistance for Christians to properly prepare for what lies ahead.  As I began writing, the Lord graciously reminded me that I need the instructions in this book as much as anyone else! While preparing to write the manuscript, I was confronted with a most astounding personal revelation:
 
"Therefore everyone who is of such character as to be habitually hearing these words of mine and habitually doing them, shall be likened to an intelligent man who is of such a nature that he built his house upon the rocky cliff." (Matthew 7:25 - Wuest New Testament)
 
Being totally honest with myself, I had to admit that I have not been habitually reading and hearing the words of my Lord in this important Sermon.  While I have been a disciple of Jesus Christ for several decades, have written numerous books on eschatology, and have always tried to follow the Lord in all that I do; I was taken aback by the words: habitually doing them. 
So while this book was originally intended to help Christians prepare for the coming Kingdom, the Lord showed me that I need this book as much as anyone else. 
 
When I finished writing the book, I sent a copy to Pastor Randy Shupe of The Way, the Truth and the Life Tabernacle in Arvada, Colorado.  Pastor Shupe was kind enough to write the following foreword:
 
"James Harman's previous work, THE KINGDOM as well as this sequel, OVERCOMERS' GUIDE TO THE KINGDOM  contain what must be viewed as the missing ingredient to what Scripture presents as "the gospel" namely, the message of the Kingdom of God. The often used phrase, "the gospel" actually means "good news."  What is widely presented today under the banner of "the gospel" is the isolated message of the need to be born again. What is not widely presented along with the vital need to be born again is the good news of the coming of the Kingdom of God as a real and viable alternative to living under the influence of the kingdoms of this present world. In stating that "My Kingdom is not of this world" (John 18:36), Jesus makes a clear declaration that His Kingdom is in direct opposition to all present earthly kingdoms, including the one in which we presently live, America. No earthly kingdom has ever been, or will ever be prior to the return of Christ, a manifestation of the Kingdom of God. This was the error of the zealous Puritans in proclaiming that America was founded to be a geographical manifestation of the Kingdom of God on earth:
 
"In the Virgin Wilderness of America, God was making His most significant attempt since ancient Israel to create a New Israel of people living in obedience to the law of God...The Puritans understood New England to be...a New Jerusalem, a model of Christ upon the Earth - A model of the Kingdom of Christ upon the Earth - We Americans were intended to be living proof to the rest of the world..."
(pages 22-23,"The Light & the Glory" by Peter Marshall)
 
It is my firm conviction that the present thrust of politically-minded Christians to dominate this country is the product of such erroneous Puritan theology. We Christians are not on this earth to dominate its unregenerate inhabitants, but rather to influence them with the real "good news" of the gospel that Jesus preached:

 "From this time Jesus began to PREACH and to SAY, 'REPENT, for the KINGDOM of Heaven is at hand...and He said to them, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men...now Jesus went about all Galilee....preaching the Gospel of the KINGDOM..." (Matthew 4:17-23)
 
The good news we are to preach includes the Kingdom. It is important to see that the exhortation Jesus makes in Matthew 4 is a precursor that leads right into rest of the message about the Kingdom of God; the contents of which this book you are about to read is all about. It is a message every born-again Christian needs to continue to meditate upon: how to live in the spiritual Kingdom of God while dwelling in a physical kingdom of this world that is under the sway of the Wicked One (1 Jn. 5:18-19).
 
Today's gospel is devoid of the dual emphasis Jesus placed on (1) the need to "Repent" and (2) "The Kingdom of Heaven" being at hand. The gospel has been diminished to the isolated message of "the new birth." The message of life in the Kingdom of God as depicted in Chapters 5-7 of the gospel of Matthew is about "the new life" that God's people are now called to live.
 
Most teachings I have heard about "the Sermon on the Mount" are an erroneous doctrinal pendulum swing as either being (1) a message to those who were under the dispensation of Old Covenant Law, or (2) are projected as instruction for saints living  in the future dispensation of the Millennial Reign of Christ on earth. Neither of these positions are true! The contents of the Sermon on the Mount are for New Covenant born-again believers like you and me!
 
It is quite significant to me that it is within the confines of the Sermon on the Mount that Jesus, the King of the Kingdom, presents the pathway to the Kingdom as being obtained only by entering a narrow gate - with a difficult way -  in order to walk on the other side of that gate (see Matthew 7:13-14).
 
It is the call to repentance that makes the gate narrow. Obeying the multitude of newly defined laws and principles contained within the Sermon on the Mount will make for the Christian walk to be a difficult and costly way to live as a follower of Christ.
 
Pastor Randy Shupe
The Way, the Truth and the Life Tabernacle

About the Author

Jim Harman has been a Christian for more than 33 years. He and his wife started Prophecy Countdown to prepare believers for Christ’s return. The burden of his heart is to see Christians know the joy of Christ’s triumph in their life as they become true overcomers; qualified and ready to rule and reign with Christ in the coming Kingdom.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prophecy Countdown Publications
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0963698443
• ISBN 13: 9780963698445
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100