The "Secret" of the Kingdom - Popular Christian Videos

One of the most popular books on the New York Times Best Sellers List is the book The Secret. Essentially the book is about how you and I have the ability to attract to us what we concentrate on the most. The essence of the book sounds a lot like the Word of God. The Bible teaches us that as a man is in his heart so is he. We also discover in the Bible that Solomon admonishes the reader to guard their hearts with all diligence for out of the heart flows the issues (affairs) of life. So for whatever the author is terming a "secret", for the Born Again believer the book is actually no secret at all, rather it is actually old news.

However, there is a secret still, that so many Christians do not know, yet God wanted each of us to know and understand. A secret so powerful, so important that the only one God allowed to reveal it to us is Jesus. As a matter of fact the prophet Isaiah declared that Jesus would literally be coming with this secret, and that it would be Jesus responsibility to make that secret known to the world.

When Jesus arrived he found no easy reception for his revelation, but immediately he did find twelve who would eventually not only believe him, but would understand Jesus pronouncements. So much so, that these disciples would begin to declare the same secret that Jesus came to declare. As a matter of fact, Jesus instructed the first 12 disciples to not only act on the secret by telling others, but to also demonstrate what the secret came to offer all men.

More than maybe 1000 years before the arrival of Jesus on the earth in his physical form, Daniel foretold of this same secret to Nebuchadnezzar and later to Nebuchadnezzar's son who ascended the throne after the death of his father.

David often spoke of the sovereignty of God and His (God's) own authority to do with this secret whatever God wanted to do with this secret. David marveled at how God could be sovereign over the heavens and be sovereign over the earth at the same t