For God's Glory

Most Christians today believe the glory of God is only something to be experienced, a feeling in worship or a moment in a service. But the early Church saw it differently.

To them, the glory of God was something to be lived out, and that is exactly what the New Testament commands: "Do all to the glory of God" (1Cor 10:31).

The Greek word for glory, doxa, speaks of reputation, honor, and weight.

To glorify God is to live in such a way that others see Him as He truly is.

By His power, we become mirrors that reflect His character, His worth, and His majesty, directing all praise and credit back to Him rather than to ourselves.

Jesus lived this way.

The apostles opened their letters with it.

For centuries, believers built hospitals, fed the hungry, confronted emperors, and crossed oceans, and when asked why, the answer was always the same: for the glory of God.

Then the Church turned inward.

Faith became private, personal, and centered on what God can do for me.

The result is a self-focused Christianity that is failing on continent after continent.

➡️ But this is the truth most Christians have never been taught: when a believer lives for the glory of God in Christ Jesus, their life changes.

Their family changes.

The world around them changes.

They become world changers.

It is time to recover the conviction that changed the world.

Robbie Patterson

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Kingdom Logic 2 & 3: What Is God? (and Who Made God?)

There are seven questions every believer must be able to answer, not with a rehearsed statement, but with the logic and Scripture behind the answer.

This teaching covers questions two and three.

God is spirit, eternal, unchanging, and perfect in power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.

He is one God in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and He has made Himself fully known in Jesus Christ, who reigns now as King.

This teaching also answers a question many ask: Why do I need Jesus?

Why can't I just come to God on my own? Scripture is clear.

No one knows the Father apart from the Son. Not by heritage, not by religion, and not by private spirituality.

There is one God, and there is one way to Him.

When someone asks, "Who made God?" they are not asking about the God of the Bible.

They are picturing a created being, something with a beginning. The true God never began. He is the uncreated Creator, and everything else exists because of Him.

Daniel 11:32 says the people who know their God shall be strong and do exploits.

The early Christians knew Him. That is why they would not compromise with a fallen world or bow to its demons in any form, why they outlasted Rome, and why they turned the world upside down.

Today the gods have new names, and the world still demands compromise, now disguised as neutrality and tolerance.

A shrunken view of God produces a shrunken Christianity that surrenders ground to darkness.

It is time to return to true biblical Christianity. When we know our God, we know the purpose of our lives and our role in the earth, and a people who know their God will never bow.

Jesus Christ is Lord, and every ruler, court, and culture answers to Him.

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Kingdom Logic #1: The Purpose of Life

There are seven questions every believer must be able to answer, not with a rehearsed statement, but with the logic and Scripture behind the answer.

This series takes them one at a time, starting with the most important: the purpose of your life.

You were made by God and for God, to glorify Him in the earth, and you are not your own.

➡️ Knowing this is what led Christians to change the world.

The early church walked into a world given over to demons and turned it upside down, toppling empires and pointing generations to Jesus Christ, because they knew their life's purpose.

➡️ Not knowing this truth has led many Christians into a dangerous attitude of self-preservation and a small view of Christianity that keeps faith private and hands cities and nations back to the demonic.

In 1 Timothy 4:1, Paul warns that in the last days some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, and their first target is always to keep you from your life's purpose.

Today that ground is being surrendered, even by believers in seats of authority who call their silence wisdom.

This teaching is a call for the church to settle its purpose, get back into the public square, and push back the darkness once again.

Every believer must know this answer, and every parent must make sure their children know it too.

Key Scriptures: 1 Timothy 4:1–2, Colossians 1:16, 1 Corinthians 6:19–20, 1 Corinthians 10:20, 2 Corinthians 5:15, Philippians 1:21, Acts 17:6, Acts 5:29, John 12:42–43, Psalm 94:16

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Kingdom Investment

Who are you really serving?

Jesus said those who give, pray, and fast to be seen by others "have their reward."

The word means "paid in full." The applause is the payment, and that is all they will ever get. But the Father who sees in secret will reward His faithful servants in eternity.

Paul put it plainly: "If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ" (Gal. 1:10).

Rewards are not a lesser motive.

They are part of faith itself.

"He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him" (Heb. 11:6).

There is a modern, self-focused version of Christianity that breeds selfishness. It chases recognition, performs for people, and builds its own kingdom. It gets paid now and has nothing waiting in eternity.

James warns, "Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God" (James 4:4).

That is exactly what is happening when the church seeks the approval of the world instead of the approval of God.

Many Christians have never been taught this. They have been handed a faith centered on themselves, and it is cheating them out of their eternal reward.

Paul warned, "Let no man beguile you of your reward" (Col. 2:18).

That is why this message matters. ⬅️

Biblical, Kingdom-focused Christianity produces selflessness. It serves in secret, needs no credit, and seeks first the kingdom of God (Matt. 6:33).

It glorifies God, not self, and its reward is eternal.

The early church lived this.

They did not change the world by focusing on their own spiritual growth.

They changed it by being Kingdom-minded, living to glorify God on earth and fully confident of their reward in eternity.

That faith transformed cultures and governments and pointed generation after generation to Jesus Christ, long after their own names were forgotten.

We cannot stay self-centered and self-focused.

We must lift up our eyes and see the harvest (John 4:35).

We must be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ.

And it is happening.

Believers everywhere are waking up to this Kingdom mindset.

We are returning to the world-overcoming faith of those who came before us (1 John 5:4), and once again that faith will change the world for the glory of God.

Every act of devotion is an investment. Stop investing in what is temporary. Invest in what is eternal.

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Christ the Redeemer

Abraham hoped for Christ the Redeemer. Moses wrote about Him. David sang about Him.

You get to have Him live in and through you. Don't neglect this great salvation.

You are not a late arrival to a two thousand year old religion.

You are standing in the middle of a plan that began in the garden and was fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

They saw His day from a distance. You know Him by name.

That changes who you are. And it changes what you are here to do.

God promised that through one Seed all the nations of the earth would be blessed.

That was never a private promise.

It was a global mission, carried by the prophets, assumed by the apostles, and advanced by the church for eighteen hundred years.

Somewhere along the way we traded the mission for a mood.

We made Christianity about personal comfort and left the world to whoever wanted it.

But God works in this world through redeemed people filled with His Spirit.

That is His will, His chosen method.

Which means passivity is not humility. It is disobedience.

Many believers may stand before Christ having missed an opportunity they can never get back. Not because they were unsaved, but because they were idle.

Eternal reward is given for what we did with the time, the gifting, and the authority we were handed here.

There is no second window.

➡️ This message is meant to equip and mature you for the work of the ministry, and to answer the question believers keep asking. What is God doing in the earth, and where do I fit in it?

You are in Him, seated with Him, carrying His authority, placed on purpose in this generation.

Live in such a way that people you will never meet, in generations not yet born, find Jesus because of how you lived today.

Christ is King. Live like it.

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👑Kingdom Stewards👑

Faithfulness: the missing ingredient.

"It is required in stewards that a man be found faithful."

Somewhere along the way, spiritual adultery stopped being called sin.

It got rebranded. "That's just how it is." "Separation of church and state." "Staying relevant."

In large part, spiritual adultery has replaced Christian faithfulness in much of the modern church, and many believers don't even see it happening.

It trains Christians out of the will of God.

It talks them out of obeying Him.

➡️ It makes them feel perfectly okay compromising with the culture of a fallen world.

James chapter 4 called it what it is: spiritual adultery, loving the world while claiming loyalty to God.

A large part of the modern church calls it wisdom and we are seeing the consequences of this in real time today.

This is the battle we face today, and why so many Christians are fighting Christ in the public square instead of standing for Him. ⬅️

Faithfulness has always meant pushing back. Faithfulness has always meant standing for God's purpose: His plan, His word, His will, His way.

And faithfulness has never been about pleading with an angry God to act.

The mindset of receiving by faith what God has already provided by grace must come back to the church. We are not pleading.

We are receiving what He has already given us in Jesus Christ.

Because the Christians who came before us were faithful kingdom stewards, they wove the principles of Christ into our culture, laws, and worldview in a way that pointed future generations to Jesus. They were right.

➡️ And it's a lack of Christian faithfulness that is allowing those things to be ripped out today.

We are getting back to true biblical faithfulness. But this is not achieved through willpower, but by leaning into the power of the Holy Spirit.

We are getting back to Kingdom stewardship.

We must be Christians who not only say that Jesus Christ is Lord of all, but then we live like it.

The Cause of Christ

We are designed to follow a cause, not just live a life of quiet devotion.

The early church carried a weight most modern believers have never felt: a sense of moral obligation. They could not walk away.

They could not stand by and watch the vulnerable go abused, the helpless go un-helped. Faith was never private for them.

Faith was a cause, the cause of Christ.

That cause changed governments. It changed unjust laws. It dismantled the traditions of demon worship across entire continents. It worked because the church refused to separate the Lordship of Jesus from the Kingship of Christ.

Modern Christianity is comfortable saying "Jesus is Lord." It grows uneasy the moment someone says "Christ is King," because King demands territory, not just devotion.

Jesus didn't send His church out with a suggestion. He declared total authority first, then commissioned. The gospel was never just an offer of forgiveness. It was, and is, a declaration of who rules.

If you have never felt the weight of that cause, you are not alone, and you are not without a way back.

This teaching is a call to feel it. To stop trading the mission for entertainment. To stop letting apathy hand ground back to the enemy while everyone else organizes for theirs.

To pick back up disciplined strength, real boundaries, and the courage the early church walked in.

The mission has not changed. It is time to obey it.

Christ is King. Live like it.

🌎World Changing Christianity🌍

Can you look at your children or your grandchildren and honestly say that you are living a life, and supporting ministries, that will make the world a better place for them and for the future? Many believers cannot.

Many know that their church, their pastor, their denomination will never stand for righteousness in the public square, will never push back against this increasingly evil culture.

In this teaching, I cover four principles that made the early church unstoppable, principles that must be brought back to our generation.

Scripture warns that it is possible to receive the grace of God in vain. It is not only returning to the works of the law for salvation after being saved by grace through faith, though that is a major part of it. In context, Paul is addressing something deeper: an unwillingness to suffer for righteousness' sake.

To show our purpose on this earth, Paul quotes Isaiah 49:8 which goes on to say, "say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places."

This shows our role in this new covenant.

We have the honor of telling the captives they are free, and of calling the wicked to be revealed, because everything has been made known to us. Every believer will stand before Jesus Christ one day and give an account, and it is because we understand this that we persuade men to turn to Christ and are willing to give our lives for the gospel.

This is what the early church understood.

They lived as the temple of the living God, not as people who simply knew the theology but as people whose lives proved it.

That truth has to stop being something we merely know and become the life we actually live. When it does, it becomes effective again, the way it was for the early church, and it is this same world-changing power the modern church is reawakening to.

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