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The Difference between a Rebellion and a Revolution What is the difference between a revolution and a rebellion? A rebellion is defined by what it stands against, whereas a revolution is defined by what it stands for. A rebel is just interested in fighting against something, whereas a revolutionist is fighting for something. A rebellion seeks to disrupt, bring down or destroy a bad ideology or system of government. A revolution seeks to transform it into something better. In simple terms, a rebellion seeks to destroy, while a revolution seeks to build something better. If you think you’re a revolutionist but find yourself only destroying and never building, I hate to tell you this, but you’re nothing more than a rebel! This book is not for rebels, it’s for revolutionaries who want to see the Church becoming what Christ intended for her. What happens after a revolution is even more important than the actual revolution itself! In fact, if people do not go into what the revolution was there to position them for then the revolution could end up being more de- structive to them than the bondage they were previously in. If people never move on to rebuild something the right way then they never had a revolu- tion, they only had a rebellion. If you’re in a prison surrounded by a vast desert and you happen to breakout and gain your “freedom”, you are now worse off than you were when in prison! You will die in the desert. It’s not just about your freedom it’s about going into a better place. After the Revolution to reject divine order, sound doctrine and the value of the local church. Unfortunately this is causing some to reject the transformation that God wants to bring them into. Most revolutions have a fringe fanatic that have lost sight of the true cause and have just become rebels leading a rebellion while thinking they’re leading a revolution. Some people see these “trouble makers” and mistak- enly think the whole revolution is nothing more than a rebellion. This is a shame because it’s slowing down churches from coming into the fullness of grace. It was a revolution that set Israel free from Egyptian bondage in order that they may enter the Promise Land. That “free” generation, however, did not enter their inheritance but stayed and suffered in the wilderness unto utter destruction. One of the most common events you saw occurring with Israel in the wilderness was a continual breaking out of rebellion. If all you do is break free from bad leadership and bad beliefs but fail to go into what God is building, you get stuck in a rebellion that will continue to manifest unto total destruction. What starts out as something good has the potential to end up in something terrible if you don’t have the next phase in mind! The wilderness is not true freedom./ It is a place, which if you spend too long there, will lead to confusion, disillusionment, rebellion, a returning to bondage, self-destruction and ultimately death. People who do not sequence with God at this crucial stage will end up just preaching rebellion and helping people to rebel against what God is actually doing. But this grace revolution must not be mistaken with the grace rebellion or associated with rebels. God is very serious about bringing his church into. The Difference between a Rebellion and a Revolution the fullness of New Covenant life and freedom and is using true revolu- tionaries who honor and value leadership to do this. These are people who do more than destroy or just get you free from something. They are people who are invested in building what God is building while destroying the religious trappings that hinder people from true New Covenant life. It’s great to be free from the wrong things but now we need to build on the right things and let grace empower and lead us into what God now has for the Church. This includes: • Kingdom divine order established in the church with grace-filled em- powering leadership. • Powerful, influential and fruitful local churches everywhere. • Establishing people in the all round sound doctrine of the Gospel of Grace. • Supernatural fruitfulness, growth, increase and multiplication in indi- viduals and churches. • Victory over bondage, addiction and temptation. • Living stones being built together in love and empowered in gifting. • A generation of faithful, loyal, church honoring, committed, hard working, servant-hearted, generous, powerful lovers of God arising! • Heaven coming to earth! So what is the state of the revolution? Right now we are seeing a divide growing between those that were just with us for the rebellion, and those that are moving forward in the revolution Perhaps the question is what are you involved in – a revolution or a After the Revolution rebellion? It’s time to get behind what God is doing next on the planet. And what is that? He is raising up influential local churches all over the world that are governed by strong grace-filled leaders who empower the church to display to the world what heaven looks like when it comes to a community of people here on earth! A community of people who walk with God and others in love, joy, peace, liberty, divine order, favor, health, prosperity, honor and purity with victory over sin, curse, fear, condemnation, sickness, poverty and all manner of evil. This Grace Revolution will not be finished until we are seeing this hap- pening all over the world! If we don’t see this happening then all we had was a grace rebellion! I’ve committed my life to this Grace Revolution and I’m going to see it through until the day I die! I’m a part of an incredible local church in Hong Kong that is building and establishing the Kingdom of God here on earth through Christ’s plan A for mankind – the Church! I’m also connected in working relationships with other churches, pastors and five fold ministry gifts all over the world that have a passion to see churches planted and established in grace and the Gospel of Christ impact- ing mankind.

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