Series: Standing in the Presence of Kings

You have not been modified, you have been transformed. God doesn't just want to reform the church, he wants to transform the world.
In Acts 15, the apostles had gathered because Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles. The Pharisees (those who understood the Law) wanted the Gentiles to follow the Judeo Law. After the meeting in Acts 15, it was decided that the Gentiles were not required to follow the Old Testament Law. In the same way, as those from the New Age movement encounter God, are we going to hold them to our standards or only the key things that could adversely affect their relationship with God?
God favors both the righteous and the unrighteous. We are called to love our enemies and bless those who persecute us. We need to love in a felt way that has action on it. How does a holy nation behave to other nations? Honor all people, honor the king.

When we start to move into areas were God has given us promises, we begin to have resistance in our lives. We start to get accusations that attack who you are and who is God.
We need to learn how to customize without compromise. We have learned that we need to defend truth over relationships. Can you love people you don't agree with? Can you love someone and have your love benefit them to help them be successful when you don't agree with them as Daniel did with the kings he served? Friendship does not mean agreeing with someone's lifestyle. We are coming into a season in which we have a supernatural love that transcends the mind. Our mind may not like them, but your heart will totally be in love.

We are moving from denominationalism to family. In denominationalism the goal is to agree first, not relationship. Denominationalism reduces the unity of the spirit to the unity of the word.
We have to learn how to honor those that we don't agree with.
What would happen if we loved the people we didn't agree with? Can you honor someone who doesn't know the Lord? What if we could say when they put us in the lion's den, oh king may you live forever.
If you love your enemies, you destroy your enemies. The Lord wants to move us to the table of kings, but we need to learn how to behave in the palace.