Culture it is so much a part of who you are you do not even recognize it until you are in someone else’s culture. When people get married they have culture shock, because they never lived in a man’s or woman’s culture. Missionaries have culture shock when they live, not just vacation, in another country, because they realize how much they are the culture of their nation while living in another nation. We love our culture so much, we do not even realize the hardest thing to let go of is our culture, for the kingdom of God is a culture all of its own and most people do not enter into it, because they cannot let go of their own culture, whether genderly or nationally.

Paul said it this way, “There is neither Jew nor Greek; slave nor free; male nor female, for you are all one in Christ.” (Galatians 3:28) If you are debating whether women can preach or not; if you think your race is superior to another race; or if you think you have dominion over another human being, you have not entered into the kingdom culture, because the kingdom culture is not your culture nor is it my culture. The Lord invites us all into kingdom culture as children, for children are teachable, children are playful, children are God’s choice for His culture.

American culture does not honor the wise and older, they exalt the young and immature. So when you read in Psalm 92 “The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the LORD; they flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, to declare that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.” Because of culture we don’t realize one of the reasons we have luke warm messages, we have identity crisis, and acceptance of unrighteousness is because culturally we have let the youth lead and have not let the older bear fruit among us and declare who the Lord is. The kingdom honors everyone for it is a culture of honor.