Faith and the Kingdom of Heaven: You Can't Have One Without the Other

By Ken Giles

Apostle Ken Giles' Faith and the Kingdom of Heaven: You Can't Have One Without the Other is a book that will inspire you to pray more, have the faith to believe more, and power of God to do more for the kingdom of heaven. As the title says, "Faith and the kingdom of heaven: you can't have one without the other."

-Pastor Robert Thi

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Apr 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685563653

Ken Giles

Apostle Ken Giles began full-time ministry in 1993 as a missions leader in Dallas while at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship under Dr. Tony Evans. He later served as assistant executive director of their community development corporation.In addition to book writing, Apostle Ken Giles and his wife, Pastor Sheila Giles, are actively engaged in teaching and preaching the word of God and training, equipping, and raising up Christian leaders as founders of the International Alliance of Christian Leaders.

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FAITH

and the

KINGDOM

of

HEAVEN

You Can’t Have One Without The Other

Apostle Ken Giles

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my wife, Pastor Sheila M. Giles, for her love, honor, and reverence for God and her love, honor, and respect for me.

Acknowledgments

I magnify the Lord our God for who He is and all the good things He has done. Specifically, I am grateful to Him for the awesome word He has given me to share concerning His kingdom.

Also, for my wife, Pastor Sheila M. Giles, who is an awesome and tremendous woman of God. Without her weight in the fight of the vision, mission, and work the Lord has entrusted to me, this book and our shared success would not be possible.

Additionally, my wife and I are grateful for the prayers and support of those who partner with us within the International Alliance of Christian Leaders.

Table of Contents

Dedication 5

Acknowledgments 7

Preface 11

Introduction 13

The Wholesale Food Club Analogy 13

Section One

Faith Is Reflective of One’s Belief in God 17

Chapter 1 19

Chapter 2 31

Section Two

Faith Is Reflective of One’s Belief in God’s Authority 47

Chapter 3 49

Chapter 4 63

Chapter 5 75

Section Three

Faith Is Reflective of One’s Belief in God’s Word 89

Chapter 6 91

Chapter 7 103

About the Author 113

Preface

This book will give you a clearer view of God and His kingdom. With that view, your faith will grow and increase in God and His word and authority. Resulting in you living a bolder, brighter, and more blessed Christian life.

Introduction

The Wholesale Food Club Analogy

It’s vital for us to know and understand as Christians the very essence of this theme and thesis: that without faith, not only can you not access the kingdom of heaven, but without faith, you cannot live, flourish, be blessed, or prosper in the kingdom of heaven. The faith of the believer is, if I had to use an analogy, like the Wholesale Food card. In the past, a person couldn’t even get into the club unless they had a Wholesale Food card. They stood at the door and checked it and said, If you don’t have your Wholesale Food card, no entry. Now, they don’t even bother to check you at the door. They figured out if people want to go through and sightsee, let them sightsee. Individuals can look all they want, but they can’t get a thing if they don’t have a Wholesale Food card. When a person gets to the register, the checker doesn’t care if they have one basket full or ten baskets full. No card…no check out.

A shopper can purchase nothing in Wholesale Food without first presenting to the cashier the Wholesale Food card. The card enables a person to make a purchase because they are a Wholesale Food Club member. It is okay for them to access the products and services of the Wholesale Food Club because they are a member. That is what that card signifies. With the kingdom of heaven, faith is both the card and the currency of the kingdom of heaven. Faith not only gets you in, but it also gives you access to all the blessings, privileges, promises, and prosperity that God has purposed and ordained for the life of those who are His. Faith and the kingdom of heaven; you can’t have one without the other.

Genesis 1:1

Some people have the tendency to believe that the kingdom of heaven did not arrive until Jesus Christ, God in the form of man, arrived in the New Testament (Luke 11:14–20). However, since Jesus Christ is God, the kingdom represents the King, and the King is representative of the kingdom. There is the Kingdom in the natural: Earth and visible heaven (sky and galaxies). Additionally, there is the kingdom in the spiritual, which is not visible and is only accessible in the rebirth of accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior (John 3:3–8). Anytime you access the King and where He sits on His throne, then you have accessed the kingdom. What I’d like to suggest to you is that in Genesis 1:1, when it says, In the beginning, God, the King established who He is. He created His kingdom from that very moment. In the beginning, God and God reveals what He was doing after He reveals Himself. In the beginning, God created His kingdom. The scripture says, God created the heavens and the earth. The King made and established His kingdom. He’s from eternity past to eternity future, and there’s no way to comprehend all of who He is. Even though we will enter eternity, we will never fully comprehend God because we’ll never get to the end of God because there is no end of Him, whether you go backward or whether you go forward. God is, as He revealed to Moses when he stood before the burning bush, The Great I Am. In effect, God was saying to Moses and the Hebrew people, I’ve always existed, and I always will. That is why in Exodus 3:14, the Lord told Moses to tell the sons of Israel, Tell them ‘I Am’ sent you. The Hebrew translation of I Am is the the one who exists.

The word for God out of the Hebrew in Genesis 1:1 is the word Elohim. God has many names throughout Scripture, but the first name that He gave Himself is interesting. Man has called Him many things. When Abraham was on Mount Moriah in Genesis 22, he called the Lord Jehovah-Jireh because he discovered that God was his provider. In Genesis 16, when Hagar was pregnant with her son and in the desert, she called Him Jehovah-Roi. For she said to the Lord, You are the God who sees. In Exodus 17:15, after the Lord gave Israel victory over the Amalekites, Moses built an altar and named it The Lord is My Banner (Jehovah-Nissi).

So, men have given God many names, but God identifies Himself as Elohim. He says, In the beginning, God. The word here Elohim translates as Supreme Ruler and Supreme Judge. Before God even tells us anything about His kingdom and the establishment of it, He’s letting us know that He is Lord and that He is King. That He is Master and everyone and everything is subject to His authority. In the twenty-fourth division of Psalms, in verses 1 and 2, it states, The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, the world and those who dwell in it. For He has founded it upon the Seas and established it upon the rivers. The King James Version says, upon the floods. What God wants us to know is that He is. He exists. There’s never been a time when He didn’t exist, and He is both Supreme Ruler and Supreme Judge of His kingdom. There is no authority greater than His. Why is that important to know?

Some Christians think that their problems are bigger than God or their circumstances are bigger than the God who created the universe. Yet still, some Christians are fearful of the things of Satan but lack reverence toward God. Let’s remember what the prophet Isaiah communicated. In Isaiah 8:12–13, the Spirit of God reveals that what a man, woman, boy, or girl fears becomes their god. Anything that a person fears more than God has become their god. That’s not to say there aren’t some scary things in life or that there are not some tremendous challenges and difficulties and trials that one may have to endure. However, don’t forget the God who is the Supreme Ruler and Supreme Judge. Don’t forget that He orders the whole universe, the heavens, and the earth.

Scientists have this toy called the Hubble telescope and what they discovered is that there are black holes out in the universe. Through these black