Understanding PRAISE & THANKS as a Kingdom citizen. They are part of the LANGUAGE aspect of Kingdom citizenship. They are the sacrifice we offer, the fruit of our Lips!

1. CONCEPT OF THE KINGDOM
SOLOMON APPIAH
WEEK 9 – Culture 8; Language 1; Fruit of Lips
July 19, 2016

2. • Welcome from the BREAK for the June Fast
• We’ll have a quick recap of what a KINGDOM is and
then start with a new set on seminars that have to
do with instruments of language—Lips, tongue and
mouth
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3. KING DOM KINGDOM
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GOD IS KING
JURISDICTION
(OFFICIAL
POWER;
A SYSTEM;
TERRITORY)
POWER ↔ DOMINION
TERRITORY ↔ DOMAIN

4. DEFINITION OF JURISDICTION
• THE OFFICIAL POWER to make legal decisions and
judgements
"the English court had no jurisdiction over the defendants"
SYNONYMS: authority, control, power, dominion, rule,
administration, command, sway, leadership, sovereignty,
ascendancy, hegemony, mastery
• A SYSTEM of law courts; a judicature
"in some jurisdictions there is a mandatory death sentence
for murder"
• THE TERRITORY or sphere of activity over which the legal
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5. BASIC CONCEPT OF HIS KINGDOM (MATT
6:33) – AS OUTLINED BY PROPHET ABU BAKO
i. THE KING
ii. TERRITORY
iii. LORDSHIP
iv. CULTURE
 Language, Beliefs, etc.
v. CONSTITUTION
vi. KEYS
vii. CITIZENSHIP
viii.LAW
ix. GIVING
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6. CULTURE IS MADE UP OF …
i. LANGUAGE
ii. Norms
iii. Customs
iv. Traditions
v. Symbols
vi. Roles
vii. Artifacts
viii.Values
ix. Ideas
x. Beliefs, Worldviews,
Attitudes
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7. CONCEPT OF
KINGDOM
KING DOM
LORDS
HIP CULTURE
LANGUAGE
Norms
Customs
Traditions
Symbols
Roles
Artifacts
Values
Ideas
Beliefs,
Worldviews,
Attitudes
CONSTI
TUTION
KEYS
CITIZEN
SHIP
LAW GIVING
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8. CONCEPT OF
KINGDOM
CULTURE
LANGUAGE
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9. FRUIT OF YOUR LIPS
PRAISE & THANKSGIVING

10. Psa 67:5-7 KJV
(5) Let the people PRAISE thee, O God; let all the people
PRAISE thee.
(6) Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even
our own God, shall bless us.
(7) God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear
him.
Psa 67:5 AMP Let the peoples PRAISE You [turn away from
their idols] and give THANKS to You, O God; let all the
peoples praise and give thanks to You!
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11. • The scripture says in v6 that the earth yields its
increase at a certain time i.e. when its
inhabitants/people PRAISE and THANK GOD.
• The response to people praising and thanking GOD
is threefold:
1. The earth yields her increase and
2. God, even our own God, blesses us
3. The ends of the earth fear GOD as a result of His
Blessing us
The fear is as a result of the ends seeing GOD blessing
those who praise and thank Him
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12. • It is thus imperative to comprehend PRAISE and
THANKS and their spiritual significance in the NT
Kingdom Life
• Why is it only then shall the earth yield her increase?
• Many in life wonder … why am I not getting the
increase in my career, marriage, education, calling
etc.?
• The answer has to do with a proper understanding of
what PRAISE and THANKS are and whether or not we
offer them to GOD aright
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13. • Psa 22:3 KJV But thou art holy, O thou that
inhabitest the PRAISES of Israel.
• Psa 100:4 KJV Enter into his gates with
THANKSGIVING, and into his courts with PRAISE: be
thankful unto him, and bless his name.
• Ps 10 is an instruction
• PRAISE and THANKSGIVING are INHABITED by GOD
and they usher into God’s Gates and Courts
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14. • In every kingdom SACRIFICE is key to accessing the
supernatural and commanding blessings
• In the OT, man had to SACRIFICE animals and shed
blood, first fruits etc.
• In the NT because of Jesus’ SACRIFICE, we no longer
offer blood sacrifices but we still offer sacrifices
• Heb 13:15 KJV By him therefore let us offer the
SACRIFICE of praise to God continually, that is, the
fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
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15. QUESTION: When must this sacrifice be offered?
• Heb 13:15 KJV By him therefore let us offer the SACRIFICE
of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips
giving thanks to his name.
ANSWER: CONTINUALLY
• 1Th 5:17 KJV Pray without ceasing.
• Good sacrifice brings God’s favor
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16. 1Ki 3:3-5 KJV
(3) And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the
statutes of David his father: only he SACRIFICED and
burnt incense in high places.
(4) And the king went to Gibeon to SACRIFICE there;
for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt
offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
(5) In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a
dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give
thee.
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17. • SACRIFICE provokes GOD and opens physical &
spiritual doors
• The night Solomon offered GOD a significant
offering, GOD appeared to Him and asked him to
make a request for whatever he wanted
• Magnitude of sacrifice has nothing to do with
VOLUME per se but rather with what it cost the Giver
e.g. Parable of Widow’s Mite (Luke 21:1-4) in the NT
• The 2 mites of the Widow were more in value to God
than all the billions of Denarii the rich folks gave
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18. Our FRUIT is our SACRIFICE
Heb 13:15 KJV By him therefore let us offer the
SACRIFICE of praise to God continually, that is, the
FRUIT of our lips giving thanks to his name.
• Our LIPS bear FRUIT i.e. our words and sentences i.e.
what we say, declare, profess all the time
(continually)
• That fruit is what God accepts as SACRIFICE on His
Altar
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19. UNACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE
• Romans 12:1 tells us that believers must offer
acceptable SACRIFICE.
• One sacrifice is their BODIES including their LIPS
• Another is the FRUIT of their LIPS
• The SACRIFICE must be Holy and Acceptable
• If unacceptable, it is an insult to God’s altar
• E.g. of unholy sacrifice is loose unholy talk that does
not edify (Matthew 12:36)
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20. • Mat 12:36 AMP But I tell you, on the day of
judgment men will have to give account for every
idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak.
• E.g. of bad sacrifice is any idle (inoperative,
nonworking) word that comes out of our lips
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21. • HOW is it that we are expected to offer sacrifices on God’s
altar?
• ANS: We are Priests
Rev 1:6 AMP And formed us into a kingdom (a royal race),
priests to His God and Father--to Him be the glory and the
power and the majesty and the dominion throughout the
ages and forever and ever. Amen (so be it). [Exod. 19:6; Isa.
61:6.]
Rev 5:10 AMP And You have made them a kingdom (royal
race) and priests to our God, and they shall reign [as kings]
over the earth! [Exod. 19:6; Isa. 61:6.]
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22. • In the OT, only Levi qualified for the Priesthood. In the NT,
being born of the Word qualifies us for Kingship and
Priesthood
• One of the main functions of the PRIEST is to stand in the
gap b/n God and Man via interceding through the offering
of SACRIFICES
• One of the main SACRIFICES we offer is the FRUIT of our LIPS
• What we say can harm or bless us.
• Pro 18:21 AMP Death and life are in the power of the
tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the FRUIT of it
[for death or life]. [Matt. 12:37.]
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23. • The improper use of our lips is the root cause of idolatry,
homosexuality etc.
Rom 1:19-21 AMP For that which is known about God is evident
to them and made plain in their inner consciousness, because
God [Himself] has shown it to them.
(20) For ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature
and attributes, that is, His eternal power and divinity, have been
made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the
things that have been made (His handiworks). So [men] are
without excuse [altogether without any defense or justification],
[Ps. 19: 1-4.]
(21) Because when they knew and recognized Him as God,
they did not honor and glorify Him as God or give Him thanks.
But instead they became futile and godless in their thinking [with
vain imaginings, foolish reasoning, and stupid speculations] and
their senseless minds were darkened.
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24. • God has revealed His invisible nature and attributes, that is,
His eternal power and divinity, through the things that have
been made/created—nature/creation
• Refusal to offer Him his SACRIFICE of PRAISE and THANKS
even after seeing His nature, attributes and power through
nature results in futility and godlessness in man’s thinking
[vain imaginings, foolish reasoning, and stupid speculations]
and also results in humanity’s senseless minds being
darkened
• The vice versa is also true! Thankfulness and Praise (good
fruit of our lips) results in usefulness, productivity and
godfulness in man’s thinking [productive imaginings,
sensible reasoning, and wise speculations] and this makes
man’s mind filled with LIGHT i.e. illumination.
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25. A consequence of not glorifying GOD, not praising
Him or not being thankful is foolishness & idolatry
Rom 1:21-23 AMP
(21) Because when they knew and recognized Him as God, they did not honor
and glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. But instead they became futile and
godless in their thinking [with vain imaginings, foolish reasoning, and stupid
speculations] and their senseless minds were darkened.
(22) Claiming to be wise, they became fools [professing to be smart, they made
simpletons of themselves].
(23) And by them the glory and majesty and excellence of the immortal God
were exchanged for and represented by images, resembling mortal man and
birds and beasts and reptiles.
(25) Because they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and
served the creature rather than the Creator, Who is blessed forever! Amen (so be
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26. ROOT cause of Homosexuality
Rom 1:24-28 AMP
(24) Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their [own] hearts to sexual impurity, to
the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves [abandoning them to the degrading
power of sin],
(25) Because they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the
creature rather than the Creator, Who is blessed forever! Amen (so be it). [Jer. 2:11.]
(26) For this reason God gave them over and abandoned them to vile affections and
degrading passions. For their women exchanged their natural function for an unnatural
and abnormal one,
(27) And the men also turned from natural relations with women and were set ablaze
(burning out, consumed) with lust for one another--men committing shameful acts with
men and suffering in their own bodies and personalities the inevitable consequences
and penalty of their wrong-doing and going astray, which was [their] fitting retribution.
(28) And so, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God or approve of Him or
consider Him worth the knowing, God gave them over to a base and condemned mind
to do things not proper or decent but loathsome,
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27. Homosexuality and Godlessness results in …
• Rom 1:28-32 AMP And so, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God or
approve of Him or consider Him worth the knowing, God gave them over to a
base and condemned mind to do things not proper or decent but loathsome,
(29) Until they were filled (permeated and saturated) with every kind of
unrighteousness, iniquity, grasping and covetous greed, and malice. [They
were] full of envy and jealousy, murder, strife, deceit and treachery, ill will and
cruel ways. [They were] secret backbiters and gossipers, (30) Slanderers,
hateful to and hating God, full of insolence, arrogance, [and] boasting;
inventors of new forms of evil, disobedient and undutiful to parents. (31) [They
were] without understanding, conscienceless and faithless, heartless and
loveless [and] merciless. (32) Though they are fully aware of God's righteous
decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them
themselves but approve and applaud others who practice them.
All of the above started from praise-lessness and ingratitude
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28. • A consequence of not glorifying GOD, praising Him or
being thankful is IDOLATRY
• A consequence of Idolatry is HOMOSEXUALITY
• Anything we place above God and His Word including
sexual orientation and appetites is IDOLATRY
• A consequence of the above is VIOLENCE
• SUMMARY: Idolatry, foolishness and homosexuality as well
as the consequences thereof all have one cause, one root
i.e. not praising GOD, not knowing Him and not being
thankful to Him
• We become what we KNOW, what we worship & what we
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29. • Heb 3:1 NASB Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of
a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High
Priest of our confession;
• Heb 3:1 KJV Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the
heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of
our profession, Christ Jesus;
Our words (the fruit of our lips) are the offerings we offer our
High Priest
WHO IS JESUS?
He is the Apostle and High Priest of the FRUIT of our LIPS i.e.
your proclamations, confessions, professions etc
Be careful what you say. Every word that comes out of your
mouth must be a prayer (1Thess 5:17; Eph 5:19; Col 3:16)
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30. Your every word must be fit for God’s Altar
• Col 3:16 KJV Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all
wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms
and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your
hearts to the Lord.
• Eph 5:19 AMP Speak out to one another in psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs, offering praise with voices [and
instruments] and making melody with all your heart to the
Lord,
• 1Th 5:17 KJV Pray without ceasing.
• 1Th 5:17 AMP Be unceasing in prayer [praying
perseveringly];
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31. Are our sacrifice really the FRUIT of our LIPS?
Rev 8:3-5 KJV
(3) And another angel came and stood at the altar, having
a golden censer; and there was given unto him much
incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints
upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
(4) And the smoke of the incense, which came with the
prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the
angel's hand.
(5) And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of
the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices,
and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
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32. Our prayers (including Praise and thanksgiving) mixed
with spiritual incense are:
1. offered on the Golden altar
2. ascended up before God out of the angel's hand
3. return to earth as answered prayers via voices,
and thunderings, and lightnings, and an
earthquake
• This is what transpired in Act 16:25-26
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33. Act 16:25-26 KJV
(25) And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang
praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
(26) And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so
that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and
immediately all the doors were opened, and every
one's bands were loosed.
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34. In summary,
…the FRUIT of our LIPS dictate
the extent, impact and quality of our lives &
the quality of our relationship with GOD &
His universe
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35. THANK YOU
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