THY KINGDOM COME, #3, “Transformation” | Mac Hammond
Recap
Pastor Mac taught the third installment of his series entitled, “Thy Kingdom Come.” He reiterated how in the last days, there will come a mighty shaking of the world systems. This shaking will result in things being either removed or transformed. Our goal is to remain and continue. That means we must undergo a transformation. In this message, subtitled, “Transformation,” Pastor Mac tells us exactly how we can become transformed!
Dive Deeper
Scriptural reference:
Heb 12:26–27 “Then [at Mount Sinai] His voice shook the earth, but now He has given a promise: Yet once more I will shake and make tremble not only the earth but also the [starry] heavens. 27 Now this expression, Yet once more, indicates the final removal and transformation of all [that can be] shaken—that is, of that which has been created—in order that what cannot be shaken may remain and continue.” (Amp.)
The word “transformation” in this verse is important. The things that aren’t removed by the shaking will be the things that are transformed.
The attempted assassination of former President Trump caused a shaking to happen in the political system of the world. Pastor Mac surmised that this system won’t be able to last much longer without transformation.
Verse 27 says, “Yet once more, indicates the final removal and transformation of all [that can be] shaken—that is, of that which has been created—in order that what cannot be shaken may remain and continue.” This verse tells us the shaking will cause either the removal or the transformation of whatever is being shaken.
The implication is that we want to remain and continue; we don’t want to be shaken along with the world systems. However, if we are more dependent on the world systems than we are on God, we will be shaken.
Pastor Mac wanted us to remember this: YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE REMOVED!
However, you will be removed if you can be shaken and fail to correct it.
Removal doesn’t mean “from heaven.” This is not about your salvation. If you’re born again, you’re going to heaven. What this means is that if you can be shaken by the natural criteria that happens to the natural systems of this world, then you’re likely to be removed from the balance of this life along with all the other things that don’t take the step into transformation.
You don’t have to be shaken. You can be transformed. Transformation will produce a move into the kingdom that we’re right now in the process of receiving. Ours is not a physical kingdom. What is it? Luke 17:20 says, “Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation.” You won’t be able to observe the kingdom because it’s not physically manifest.
The kingdom is within you! When you become born again, the kingdom of God with all its provisions is immediately available to you.
How do you receive more of that kingdom? Matthew 6:33 says, “Seek you first the kingdom.” Don’t seek a natural resolution to the different systems that are failing. Seek the kingdom of God.
What is the kingdom? Romans 14:17 says, “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.” The kingdom is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
How does this information help us to move into a place of transformation?
Very simple. Romans 12:2 says, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” We’re not to be conformed to the world systems. We’re not to let everything that’s going on in the world define our expectation for life. Instead, we’re to be transformed.
Transformed! That’s the key world. We’re transformed by the renewing of our minds.
Yes, the kingdom is within you. Your mind is like a valve that when it’s turned properly to agree with your inner man—the real you—you’ll be transformed. You have to turn the valve of your mind to align it with the truth in your heart in order to change anything in this material arena.
Consequently, if you want to avoid conformity to the world and being shaken by the world system, then you must undergo a transformation by the renewing of your mind.
What must we renew our minds to? We renew our minds to the kingdom of God within us which is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Read About It
Heb 12:26–27 “Then [at Mount Sinai] His voice shook the earth, but now He has given a promise: Yet once more I will shake and make tremble not only the earth but also the [starry] heavens. 27 Now this expression, Yet once more, indicates the final removal and transformation of all [that can be] shaken—that is, of that which has been created—in order that what cannot be shaken may remain and continue.”
Luke 17:20, “Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation;”
Matt. 6:33, “But seek first the kingdom of God.”
Romans 14:17 says, “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.”
Romans 12:2, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Discussion Questions
Luke 17:20 says the kingdom of God does not come by observation. What does it mean it does not come “by observation?”
What are the two outcomes for the shaking that is going on in the world system?
Romans 14:17 describes the kingdom of God. What is the kingdom of God? And how do we receive more from that kingdom?

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