Ambassadors of I Am: Living Inside the Kingdom of God While Still on Earth

By Donald R. Turner

God did not create us for us; God created us for Himself.

From the time we accept Christ as Lord and Savior until we physically die; what do we do? We keep the Charge of the Lord; that is what we do. This charge is also The Law of the Kingdom.

The Law of The Kingdom is Love.

We are to love the Lord with all of our heart, soul, mind, and with all of our strength and we are to love our neighbor as we love our self. Love is patient and love is kind. God is Love. If it aint love it is just noise.

God, in his Word, instructs us to use Love as our battering ram against the gates of hell; He has declared that they shall not prevail against us.

The Bible is our only instruction manual on how to live this life inside the Kingdom of God while still on earth. Gods people are perishing due to lack of knowledge not weakness.

It is our obligation and duty to the King, to learn what we are to do and to do it with all of our might.

This book is designed to help us to live that Charge of The Lord, by committing our hearts (minds) to live in obedience to The Law of The Kingdom, Love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Nov 2, 2017
• ISBN: 9781512787528

Donald R. Turner

Donald states that in the Word, God says that He calls and ordains those to do His work even before He forms them in their mothers’ wombs. What can man add to or take away from that? He marvels at God’s preparation process. God’s call and preparation are his credentials.

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CONTENTS

Preface

Prologue: Trying to Catch the Wind

Chapter 1 In the Beginning—God’s Gift of the Kingdom

Chapter 2 How the Kingdom Was Lost

Chapter 3 How the Kingdom Was Redeemed

Chapter 4 Entering into and Living inside the Kingdom of God

Chapter 5 The Necessity of Being inside the Kingdom

Chapter 6 In the End—God’s Gift of the Kingdom

Chapter 7 Therefore, We Must Rescue Everyone We Can While There Is Time!

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PREFACE

God did not create us for us. God created us for Himself. Life is not about us, but it is about the one who created us. Life is not a game but a very serious matter, designed by God. Life must be lived according to God’s commandments and instructions, His design. God took six days to design or create life, and He gave each of His creatures their commandments and their instructions as creatures of His kingdom on earth.

God gave man dominion over His kingdom on earth, and God gave to the man the woman to help him. The man and the woman are the only two of the earthly creatures made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26–28). In the Hebrew language the word image means a representative figure (Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance). Therefore, the man and the woman are God’s representative figures and hence God’s ambassadors on earth (2 Corinthians 5:20).

We know that the first man and woman failed in their assignment as ambassadors.

An ambassador must communicate the desires of the King. Therefore, the interpretations and opinions of the ambassadors don’t matter in the kingdom. Adam and Eve disobeyed a command of God to not eat fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Interpretations and opinions give Satan a beachhead to operate from in our minds!

Never let yourself think that you are wiser then you are, simply obey God and refuse to do wrong. (Proverbs 3:7 GNB)

Thus, the kingdom of God severed relations with His kingdom on earth and cursed the life of the man and woman and all of their seed, due to the sin of disobedience of Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:16–19). Love and obedience are keys to keeping relations, the communication link, and the supply line from the home government, the kingdom of God, open and readily available to the ambassadors.

The curse of God on the kingdom on earth destined mankind to a life of suffering, sin, shame, vanity, murder, and all the other wicked and evil things that the wicked one, Satan, can think of, including death. God, in His love and mercy, would not allow mankind to enter into eternity in this fallen state. He therefore drove Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden before they ate from the tree of life and would live forever in this fallen state (Genesis 3:22–24).

The garden of Eden was life inside the kingdom for Adam and Eve. After God drove them out of the garden, the power, protection, presence, provision, and peace of the kingdom were no longer at their disposal. Adam and Eve had to go for what they know, and just like us, they didn’t know enough to get them where they needed to be. For them, life became total vanity, just like trying to catch the wind. Adam and Eve chose Satan as their spiritual father and were destined to spend eternity with Him. We all will spend eternity with our spiritual father.

Although Adam and Eve proved that they did not love God (1 John 5:3), God proved that He still loved them. Everybody does not love the Lord, but the Lord loves everybody. Everybody is God’s creation, but everybody is not God’s child, and only His children will spend eternity with Him.

As mentioned earlier, God drove Adam and Eve out of the garden before they ate from the tree of life, as they would have entered into eternity in their fallen state—the same state that Satan is in. Due to Satan’s disobedience, God put him out of the kingdom of heaven, destined to spend eternity in hell, without hope. To make sure this did not happen to mankind God created time.

Time—Its Reason and Its Season

Time is that period, within eternity, that God sends all mankind through in an effort to redeem mankind back to Him. It is during the course of time that we have the opportunity to choose God as our spiritual Father, by accepting Christ as our Lord and Savior and once again being ambassadors in God’s kingdom on earth.

Time is not everlasting, for time shall be no more. (Revelation 10:6)

However, in the fullness of time, God sent forth His Son, Jesus (Galatians 4:4–7).

Jesus’s sacrificial