Insight
What I want to do in this last of the 6 roots for the Kingdom IQ series is to draw a clear picture of how ministry gifts, supernatural graces, Church traditions and sacraments, and spiritual abilities all have their deepest meanings firmly rooted in the expression of the coming kingdom of God. We saw this in the mystery of fellowship life, which is difficult to understand outside of the reality of the family of God practicing life together here on earth. When we see the kingdom coming, we realize that fellowship life is our natural submission to the kingdom culture of reconciliation, family, and the one Body of Christ. In the same way, we will have difficulty understanding supernatural gifts like speaking in tongues or healing unless we see them as the expression of another world breaking into ours. When you think of the supernatural and miracles as the healing expressions of another totally healed world being poured out into our broken world, they don't seem that odd at all. The heavenly kingdom of God is ready to be delivered and practiced here on the earth as you walk in your sonship, as you are filled with the Holy Spirit, and as you continue to announce Father’s heart to the world around you. Every practice, every discipline, and every supernatural moment is a taste and a connection with the heavenly, eternal kingdom of God. So let’s go on and set in motion things in the Church that are preparing us for our eternal practice with God.

Challenge
One of the more glorious expressions of this supernatural reality is the Scripture. With the Holy Spirit as your guide, you can actually experience the Scriptures as well as just read them. As you get to know the words, the Word comes and illuminates them, draws connections in and through them, and all of a sudden you know God--you know truth--better than you did before. The Scripture itself is a miraculous and heavenly gift. Let’s take some time to talk about this gift of supernatural Scripture, and let's get committed to meeting together for teaching and instruction about the heart of God and his words for us! We serve an infinite God, which means we can be what kind of learners?

Yes! We can be eternal students of the endless beauty of God! This is a kingdom way. Digging deep into the Scripture is a foundational requirement for a healthy supernatural life. Let’s start now!

Start thinking from now: After the Kingdom IQ season, what will be your special tools for learning the Bible and receiving the apostle’s teachings (Acts 2:42)?
Clarity
The Bible is not the messiah. The Bible is not the fourth member of the Trinity. We worship the author, not the book. What the Bible is, however, is an indispensable tool in discovering God. There are so many dimensions to the Scripture we could dive into here, but for time's sake, we'll just talk about a couple of the many reasons to have a strong understanding of and respect for it.

First, Jesus knew it. Jesus quoted only the scripture when both referencing history and when he was dealing with the devil (“For it is written…” Matthew 4). He did not reference any other ancient works or popular writings, nor did he invent his own bumper stickers (like “Devil, Let Me Take the Wheel”). No, he referred to all three sections of the scripture of that time (which is our Old Testament)—the Law and the Prophets and the Writings (the Psalms)—when he said, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms [part of the Writings]” (Luke 24:44). If Jesus knew it so intimately, doesn't that tell us something about what it was to him? We must think like Jesus did about the Scripture: it is our framework for history and it is a powerful tool in spiritual warfare.

Remember how so much of our kingdom IQ teaching has focused on our agreement with the word of God over our lives, over our identity, over t