Myron Golden and Bishop Wayne Malcolm discuss the kingdom of God as fundamentally relational, built on three core relationships: with God, with self, and with others. They reference Matthew 6:33 on seeking the kingdom first and note how the 400-year gap between the Old and New Testaments, shaped by Greek democratic ideas, changed how we understand what "kingdom" means.
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Hello, YouTube. Myron golden here and I'm going to introduce you to Bishop Wayne Malcolm, the business bishop all the way from the uk. We had him here in studio a couple of weeks ago. He absolutely blew our minds. He was dropping gold bars out of his mouth, showing us business principles from the Bible. That absolutely blew us away. Make sure you're sitting down, not standing up. I don't want you to fall down and hurt yourself. But I am telling you, he is about to blow you away. And here is Bishop Wayne Malcolm. I am here today. We are here today. We're gonna have an unbelievable day today. We have our regular Bible study coming up in about an hour and I've got my dear friend, one of my mentors, a gentleman who knows who's got insight into the Word and kingdom entrepreneurship like nobody I know on planet Earth. And when you put these principles into place, it will change your life for the rest of your life. Bishop Wayne Malcolm, welcome. Glad to have you here, brother.
I am so excited to be with you. Myron Golden.
Right back at you, brother. Right back at you. I met Bishop.
12 years, no longer than that, 14 years ago in the UK. I spoke at his church and spoke at a conference that he had. And I was just blown away that this guy knew all this stuff. And we just stayed connected over the years. We did a conference in North Carolina together a couple years ago, well, probably back in 2014 or 15. And it was just unbelievable. So you guys are in for a treat. We're just gonna have a conversation this morning. We're gonna come back this. Well, obviously we're gonna have Bible study at 10, which I'm going to be talking about some stuff and you're welcome to chime in if you'd like. And then we are going to be back tonight from 5 to 7pm tonight and then from 5 to 7pm tomorrow night. I promise you, if you do not miss a session, you will not be disappointed. So glad to have you all here. Glad to have you all here in the room. Glad to have you all here in the zoom and Bishop, very glad to have you here. So I going to start off by asking you a question. And like, I, I think one of the biggest problems that people have when it comes to the Bible in their lives, not just business, but their lives, is they don't understand that the Bible is not a book that God gave us so we could have religion.
Absolutely.
But it's a book that he gave us so we could have guidance, so we could have instruction, so we could understand Heaven's government for earth. And that's what the whole concept of kingdom is about. And I know a lot of people use, a lot of people who like use kingdom as a buzzword so they can attract attention and then you go to whatever their thing is and they don't know the kingdom from an anthill.
Right.
And so one of the verses in scripture which I believe solves all social problems. Okay. And you can disagree with me if you want to because I've been wrong before. It's been a while, but I have been wrong.
But one of the verses in scripture that I believe would solve all social problems is Matthew 6:33. But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. But the problem is if you ask a thousand people what the kingdom of God is, you might get 65 different answers. You might get 900 different answers. Right? And if my assertion is if you don't know what the kingdom of God is and you're searching for it, when you find it, how will you know you found it?
Yeah. Right.
So if you don't know what it is and you find it, you're going to keep on looking. So some of the most profound kingdom principles I've ever heard taught, I've heard you teach them. Jesus Christ himself, who is salvation. His name Yeshua means salvation.
Right?
So Jesus Christ, who is salvation, when he preached the gospel, he didn't preach the gospel of salvation, he preached the gospel of the kingdom.
Right.
Because he understood something that Christianity or modern day churchianity, a lot of pastors don't understand, a lot of people don't understand that the purpose of salvation is to re. Establish kingdom. So pick up where I just left off and share what your thoughts are. And by the way, if you disagree, let me know.
Well, I certainly don't disagree and I can't remember when you were last wrong.
Okay, here it goes, Here it goes.
But look, I'm really, really happy to be here and to be talking about my favorite subject which, which, which is the kingdom of God because I think the Bible is fundamentally about the King and his kingdom. Yes sir, I think we, we are bound to reach all the wrong conclusions if we approach the Bible as a, as, as a religious book about, about how to do religion.
Right, so good.
The Bible is more about, about relationship. All right, so there, I guess there are three critical relationships that the Bible is about.
So, so I'm going to ask you to speak up now. Bishop Wayne Malcolm is from the UK and They're very, very proper over there. So I'm going to ask you to use your preacher voice because we don't have assisted sound in here. I mean, I don't know if we get assisted sound in here. We can't right now. We go later some. So the people in, in the room can hear you.
Well, careful what you wish for.
Here goes. And turn on the volume.
Okay, So I think we are bound to reach the wrong conclusions if we approach the Bible as a religious book.
The Bible is more of a relational book about three critical relationships.
Come on now.
First is your relationship with God, your creator. Second is your relationship with yourself. And third is your relationship with your fellow humans. That's Christ's answer to the question, what is the greatest commandment?
Come on now.
Greatest of all the commandments is to love God with all your heart, soul, mind, strength. And the second is like unto it, love your neighbour as yourself. And upon these two hang all the law and the prophets.
Come on now.
So if you come out of your biblical studies without enriched and enhanced relationship with God your creator, with yourself and with others, then you've perhaps missed the point. So kingdom, the kingdom of God is really the lens through which you are best going to get the mind of God from the Scriptures. All right, so the challenge for us is that we were born and raised in democracies, right? And there were no democracies in the Bible.
Wow. Say that one more time.
There were no democracies in the Bible. Democracy actually appears in the 400 years of silence. There's a gap between the Old Testament and the New Testament, and that gap lasted about 400 years. I sometimes preach a message called the blank page. And I say, let's turn to the blank page. And they're like, what? I say, yeah, between Malachi 4 and Matthew 1, in an actual Bible, there's a blank page. I say, let's turn to the blank page because that's what we're going to be reading from, because that sets the context for the New Testament. So many things are different in the New Testament than they are in the Old Testament because of everything that happened in those 400 years. But what happened was a lot of Greek philosophy began to dominate the worldview. And out of that you have the democratic system, which is perhaps the very best that we can do as human beings. Right? So I'm not knocking the system, but when Jesus preached and talked about the kingdom in his day, the kingdom made sense for us. We're still trying to understand what he means by the kingdom.
So that's, that's why people have such. That's one of the reasons why people have such a hard time understanding the concept of kingdom.
Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I'm tracking.
So I'm. So I think what I'm going to do is I want to quote a passage. It's Proverbs 19:21. And it says, many are the plans in the mind of a man, but the purpose of God that will stand. Alright, so basically means a lot of good people have good ideas, but God is standing by his purpose.
What's that verse again?
19:21. Proverbs 19:21.
So many good people have many good ideas, but God is standing by his purpose. And the best definition for the word purpose is original intent.
Let's go.
All right, let's go. So I may have good ideas and they may even be great ideas, but God is only standing by or backing his original intent. All right, so it simply means God's going to get what he wanted in the beginning.
Right. And if I want God backing me, best thing I can do is align my plans with his purpose.
