Volume 65 December 2026-January 2026 : Mokanoki

We are immigrants

Author : Russ Molosiwa

By now if you have been following my argument about the Kingdom, you should be able to understand why Botswana should not be declared a Christian Country. Batswana should be taught how to enter into the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom is a government  in a country.   

Isaiah 9:45 says God formed the Earth to be inhabited. He planted citizens of His heavenly country here as immigrants on Earth, so they could turn it into a conclave of Heaven.

We are immigrants. We live on Earth but are not from the Earth. You and I were sent here by Father out of His own womb. He made us as spin beings like Himself, then clothed us in an “earth made from the dust of the ground, to fit us for inhabiting this physical world.

We live here but we are not from here. Our homeland is Heaven, and as immigrants, our here, both individually and collectively, should unmistakably cultivate  a culture of our homeland.

People should be able to walk into our presence or our homes or our churches and feel like they have walked into another country.

They should..be-able to tell immediately by our language, dress, manners, attitude; and behavior that we are not of this world. Our culture should stand out so clearly that no one can mistake it.

Life with Jesus was always this way, which is why He attracted so much attention.

People either loved Him or hated Him, accepted Him or rejected Him but no one ignored Him. Everywhere He went He brought Kingdom culture. Throngs of people surrounded Him because He showed them the power, quality, nature, and irresistible appeal of a culture that could make them victors in life rather than victims-and then He told them how to get it.

One of the biggest struggles Jesus` disciples faced was learning how to shift their thinking and their behavior from the worldly culture of their birth to the Kingdom culture they had entered when they answered Jesus` call to follow Him.

Every day He challenged their behavior, beliefs, values, thoughts, perceptions, assumptions, and expectations. They had to learn, for example, that what the world calls a “miracle” is everyday activity in the Kingdom of Heaven.

After the death of His cousin, John the Baptist, Jesus withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed Him on foot from the towns. When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, He had compassion on them and healed their sick.

As evening approached, the disciples came to Him and said, “This is a remote place, and it`s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”
Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”

“We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered. “Bring them here to Me,” He said. And He directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up12 basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was about 5000 men, besides women and children (Matthew 14:13-21).

Culture reflects government. In the world`s culture, some people go hungry. Some people are poor or sick or lacking some of the basic necessities for a high quality of life. Inequities abound, and injustice is rampant.

Not in Kingdom culture. Wherever Jesus went, sick people were made well-because there is no sickness in the Kingdom. Hungry people were fed and satisfied because there is no hunger or lack of any kind in the Kingdom.

When 5000 people in a remote place needed to be fed, Jesus did the natural thing (from the Kingdom perspective) He fed them.

His disciples wanted to send the people away to buy food because they were approaching the situation from a point of view of lack. Jesus, however, knew there was no lack because He had unlimited access to the unlimited resources of His Father`s Kingdom.

When Jesus took those five loaves and two fish from His disciples, He took them out of capitalism and into Kingdomism. Once inside that new economy, the very in atoms in that fish and bread began to behave differently.

They began to split and reproduce nuclear scientists know that once you split one atom, every other atom can split itself. It is called multiplication.

Jesus performed the first atomic act with bread and fish, because in the Kingdom you can actually hand out atoms.

What we call a miracle was simply normal activity in the Kingdom. And it should be normal activity for all who manifest Kingdom culture.

Therefore, as many Batswana enter into the Kingdom of God  they will become  Kingdom citizens, we should be known by our culture, and that culture should change the lives of everyone around us. Sickness, poverty, lack, hunger, fear, discouragement, defeat, curses, greed, lust, envy, jealousy, hatred, violence-none of these exist where Kingdom living prevails.

The reason is simple: Kingdom culture reflects the life and environment of Heaven. None of those things are found in Heaven, so they should not be found in Heaven`s culture on Earth.

If we reach that level people in the world will be irresistibly attracted to our community that manifests such a culture? No you know why Christianity as  religion is not the answer to our problems.

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