(MUSIC) 00:00:00.66\00:00:33.70 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS, AND WELCOME ONCE AGAIN TO 00:00:33.70\00:00:35.23 SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:00:35.23\00:00:37.17 A VERY SPECIAL AND WARM WELCOME TO OUR FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS 00:00:37.17\00:00:40.84 THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD, WATCHING ON THE VARIOUS 00:00:40.84\00:00:43.30 TELEVISION NETWORKS AND ALSO OUR FRIENDS JOINING US LIVE VIA THE 00:00:43.30\00:00:46.14 WEBSITE - PART OF OUR EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY CLASS. A 00:00:46.14\00:00:50.91 VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR MEMBERS HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH. 00:00:50.91\00:00:54.15 GOOD TO SEE YOU ALL HERE ON THIS BEAUTIFUL SABBATH MORNING. 00:00:54.15\00:00:57.02 THANKS FOR COMING AND JOINING US AS WE STUDY GOD'S WORD 00:00:57.02\00:01:00.69 TOGETHER. WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH OUR LESSON QUARTERLY 00:01:00.69\00:01:03.63 DEALING WITH THE GOSPEL OF LUKE, AND TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES IN 00:01:03.63\00:01:05.79 LESSON #11. THE LESSON IS ENTITLED THE KINGDOM OF GOD . 00:01:05.79\00:01:10.60 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH TODAY'S STUDY, AND 00:01:10.60\00:01:14.37 FOR ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE THIS OFFER, YOU JUST 00:01:14.37\00:01:17.14 NEED TO CALL OUR RESOURCE LINE. THE BOOK IS CALLED THREE STEPS 00:01:17.14\00:01:20.04 TO HEAVEN AND THE PHONE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966. AGAIN, THAT 00:01:20.04\00:01:27.12 NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 - THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE. 00:01:27.12\00:01:33.39 ASK FOR THE BOOK OR OFFER #102 AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THE 00:01:33.39\00:01:38.19 BOOK TO YOU - THREE STEPS TO HEAVEN - JUST A GREAT RESOURCE 00:01:38.19\00:01:40.86 FOR STUDY, TO DRAW YOU CLOSER TO JESUS. AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE 00:01:40.86\00:01:45.77 TO INVITE OUR CHORISTERS TO COME FORWARD AND THEY'RE GOING TO 00:01:45.77\00:01:49.04 LEAD US IN SOME HYMNS AS WE BEGIN OUR TIME TOGETHER. 00:01:49.04\00:01:54.18 >>OUR FIRST ONE IS #223 - CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS - WE'RE 00:01:54.18\00:01:59.68 GOING TO DO THE SECOND - THE FIRST, SECOND, AND FOURTH 00:01:59.68\00:02:02.52 STANZAS - #223 - JOIN WITH US. (MUSIC) 00:02:02.52\00:02:15.93 >>CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS, THE LAMB UPON HIS THRONE; HARK! 00:02:15.93\00:02:24.17 HOW THE HEAV'NLY ANTHEM DROWNS ALL MUSIC BUT ITS OWN! 00:02:24.17\00:02:32.41 AWAKE, MY SOUL AND SING OF HIM WHO DIED FOR THEE, AND HAIL HIM 00:02:32.41\00:02:42.86 AS THY MATCHLESS KING THROUGH ALL ETERNITY. 00:02:42.86\00:02:50.13 CROWN HIM THE LORD OF LOVE! BEHOLD HIS HANDS AND SIDE- THOSE 00:02:50.13\00:02:59.17 WOUNDS, YET VISIBLE ABOVE, IN BEAUTY GLORIFIED. 00:02:59.17\00:03:07.92 NO ANGEL IN THE SKY CAN FULLY BEAR THAT SIGHT, BUT DOWNWARD 00:03:07.92\00:03:17.69 BENDS HIS WONDERING EYE AT MYSTERIES SO GREAT. 00:03:17.69\00:03:26.10 CROWN HIM THE LORD OF YEARS, THE POTENTATE OF TIME, CREATOR OF 00:03:26.10\00:03:37.85 THE ROLLING SPHERES, INEFFABLY SUBLIME! 00:03:37.85\00:03:44.95 ALL HAIL! REDEEMER, HAIL! FOR THOU HAS DIED FOR ME; THY 00:03:44.95\00:03:54.60 PRAISE SHALL NEVER, NEVER FAIL THROUGHOUT ETERNITY. 00:03:54.60\00:04:06.31 >>AMEN. 00:04:06.31\00:04:08.41 >>WE'RE SO GLAD TO WELCOME WILLIAM BYAS AND JESSICA, HIS 00:04:08.41\00:04:11.65 WIFE, TO JOIN US HERE AT GRANITE BAY, TODAY, AND SO WE LOVE IT 00:04:11.65\00:04:14.65 WHEN WILLIAM PLAYS OUR PIANO. OUR NEXT SONG IS #4 IN THE THEME 00:04:14.65\00:04:21.66 OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, PRAISE MY SOUL THE KING OF HEAVEN. 00:04:21.66\00:04:25.79 THIS IS A GORGEOUS SONG AND WE'RE GOING TO DO THE FIRST, THE 00:04:25.79\00:04:29.10 SECOND, AND THE FOURTH STANZAS - #4. 00:04:29.10\00:04:34.47 (MUSIC) 00:04:34.47\00:04:44.18 PRAISE, MY SOUL, THE KING OF HEAVEN; TO HIS FEET THY 00:04:44.18\00:04:53.49 TRIBUTE BRING. RANSOMED, HEALED, RESTORED, 00:04:53.49\00:05:00.06 FORGIVEN, WHO LIKE THEE HIS PRAISE SHOULD SING? 00:05:00.06\00:05:07.47 PRAISE HIM, PRAISE HIM, ALLELUIA, PRAISE THE 00:05:07.47\00:05:14.21 EVERLASTING KING. PRAISE HIM FOR HIS GRACE AND 00:05:14.21\00:05:23.35 FAVOR TO OUR FATHERS IN DISTRESS. 00:05:23.35\00:05:30.93 PRAISE HIM, STILL THE SAME FOREVER, SLOW TO CHIDE AND 00:05:30.93\00:05:37.87 SWIFT TO BLESS; PRAISE HIM, PRAISE HIM, ALLELUIA, GLORIOUS 00:05:37.87\00:05:46.51 IN HIS FAITHFULNESS. ANGELS, HELP US TO ADORE HIM: YE 00:05:46.51\00:05:58.25 BEHOLD HIM FACE TO FACE; SUN AND MOON, BOW DOWN BEFORE HIM: 00:05:58.25\00:06:07.26 DWELLERS ALL IN TIME AND SPACE. PRAISE HIM, PRAISE HIM, 00:06:07.26\00:06:14.77 ALLELUIA, PRAISE WITH US THE GOD OF GRACE. 00:06:14.77\00:06:25.05 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SINGING ALONG WITH US. 00:06:25.05\00:06:27.55 AND WE WELCOME PASTOR ROSS UP TO DO OUR OPENING PRAYER. 00:06:27.55\00:06:34.12 >>LET US BOW OUR HEADS. DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK 00:06:34.12\00:06:37.96 YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY, ONCE AGAIN, FOR US TO GATHER TOGETHER 00:06:37.96\00:06:40.10 ON THIS SABBATH TO STUDY YOUR WORD. 00:06:40.10\00:06:42.16 LORD, WE ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND 00:06:42.16\00:06:44.83 OUR MINDS. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT LESSON - 00:06:44.83\00:06:47.00 IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD - THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 00:06:47.00\00:06:49.47 THAT, OF COURSE, IS OUR FOCUS AND WE JUST ASK YOUR BLESSING, 00:06:49.47\00:06:53.14 LORD, AS WE STUDY TOGETHER. IN JESUS NAME, AMEN. 00:06:53.14\00:06:56.95 THANK YOU, SINGERS. AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO INVITE 00:06:56.95\00:06:59.81 CHUCK HOLTRY TO MAKE HIS WAY TO THE FRONT. 00:06:59.81\00:07:02.22 HE IS OUR AFCOE DIRECTOR. 00:07:02.22\00:07:03.95 AFCOE IS THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF EVANGELISM. 00:07:03.95\00:07:07.59 AND ONE OF THE THINGS AFCOE LIKES TO DO EVERY YEAR IS TO 00:07:07.59\00:07:10.89 TAKE A GROUP OF GRADUATES ON A MISSION TRIP TO SOME DISTANT 00:07:10.89\00:07:14.66 PLACE. NOW THIS PAST DECEMBER, WE HAD A 00:07:14.66\00:07:17.33 TEAM THAT WENT TO NEPAL AND I THINK WE DID GIVE A LITTLE 00:07:17.33\00:07:20.77 MISSION REPORT ON THE TEAM OVER THERE. 00:07:20.77\00:07:23.27 CHUCK WAS NOT WITH THE GROUP THAT WENT TO NEPAL, HE WAS 00:07:23.27\00:07:26.11 ACTUALLY OVER IN THAILAND, PREPARING THE WAY FOR AN 00:07:26.11\00:07:29.34 UPCOMING MISSION EXCURSION TO THAILAND. 00:07:29.34\00:07:32.48 SO CHUCK, WHAT WERE YOU DOING THIS PAST DECEMBER IN THAILAND? 00:07:32.48\00:07:35.52 >>I HAD A FRIEND OF MINE WHO SAID, "WE WOULD LIKE TO DO SOME 00:07:35.52\00:07:37.32 WORK IN THAILAND AMONG A REFUGEE GROUP OF PEOPLE - THE KAREN 00:07:37.32\00:07:41.29 PEOPLE - SOME OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THEM. 00:07:41.29\00:07:43.22 REFUGEES FROM BURMA, OR MYANMAR, ARE GOING OVER INTO THAILAND. 00:07:43.22\00:07:46.73 >>SO YOU WERE THERE FOR SEVERAL WEEKS AND I KNOW YOU DID SOME 00:07:46.73\00:07:49.33 PREACHING/TEACHING WHILE YOU WERE THERE? 00:07:49.33\00:07:51.53 >>YES, WE WERE SPECIFICALLY TRAINING KAREN PASTORS - 00:07:51.53\00:07:53.77 MOST OF THEM DON'T GET FORMAL TRAINING. 00:07:53.77\00:07:55.77 WE'RE TRAINING THEM HOW TO DO EVANGELISM AS WELL AS DOING 00:07:55.77\00:07:57.84 PUBLIC EVANGELISM AT NIGHT AND TEACHING THEM HOW TO DO IT. 00:07:57.84\00:07:59.87 AND THEN WE DID SOME WEEK OF PRAYER - A WEEK OF PRAYER AT THE 00:07:59.87\00:08:02.94 REFUGEE CAMP AND SOME OTHER ORPHANAGES. SO IT WAS BUSY. 00:08:02.94\00:08:06.18 >>WE'VE GOT SOME PICTURES THAT I THINK YOU KIND OF WANT TO SHARE 00:08:06.18\00:08:08.22 WITH US A LITTLE BIT. TELL US ABOUT THESE PICTURES. 00:08:08.22\00:08:10.12 >>OKAY, THIS PICTURE RIGHT HERE IS ALMOST ICONIC THAILAND; 00:08:10.12\00:08:14.82 HOWEVER, THIS IS THE REFUGEE CAMP. IT'S THE LARGEST KAREN 00:08:14.82\00:08:17.73 REFUGEE CAMP IN THAILAND. IT'S CALLED MAE LA CAMP. 00:08:17.73\00:08:20.76 THERE ARE 50,000 PEOPLE SQUEEZED INTO THREE SQUARE KILOMETERS 00:08:20.76\00:08:23.90 HERE. JUST THE - INCREDIBLE PLACE. 00:08:23.90\00:08:27.34 THE NEXT SLIDE - THIS - I PUT THIS SLIDE JUST TO GIVE YOU A 00:08:27.34\00:08:31.77 FEEL - HOW CLOSE BURMA, WHICH IS NOW MYANMAR - IS TO THAILAND. 00:08:31.77\00:08:35.84 ONE SIDE OF THE BRIDGE IS BURMA. THE OTHER SIDE IS THAILAND. 00:08:35.84\00:08:41.02 PEOPLE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE WALKING BACK FREELY, BUT THEY 00:08:41.02\00:08:43.65 DO. IT'S PRETTY OPEN LAND. THAT'S A NO-MAN'S LAND. 00:08:43.65\00:08:46.05 YOU SEE SOME OF THE PEOPLE STANDING RIGHT THERE. 00:08:46.05\00:08:48.12 BUT THERE'S A FLOOD OF REFUGEES. 00:08:48.12\00:08:50.89 THE BURMESE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT LIKE THE KAREN PEOPLE - 00:08:50.89\00:08:53.53 PERSECUTES THEM - AND THEY COME ACROSS TO THE THAILAND SIDE. 00:08:53.53\00:08:56.90 THAILAND DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THEM. 00:08:56.90\00:08:58.70 THEY PUT THEM IN REFUGEE CAMPS. AND SO, WE'RE WORKING 00:08:58.70\00:09:00.47 SPECIFICALLY - WE WERE WORKING WITH - AND THIS COMING DECEMBER 00:09:00.47\00:09:02.64 WE'LL BE WORKING SPECIFICALLY WITH THE KAREN PEOPLE. 00:09:02.64\00:09:05.07 WE'VE GOT SOME MORE PICTURES, TELLING US ABOUT SOME OF THE 00:09:05.07\00:09:07.11 THINGS THAT WERE HAPPENING WHILE YOU WERE THERE. 00:09:07.11\00:09:09.04 >>THIS WAS OUR OUTDOOR EVANGELISTIC SERIES AND WE HAD 00:09:09.04\00:09:13.88 ABOUT A HUNDRED PEOPLE - TWO-THIRDS OF THEM WERE CHILDREN 00:09:13.88\00:09:18.42 - COME EVERY NIGHT. WE WERE WITHIN HEARING DISTANCE 00:09:18.42\00:09:20.99 OF THE RIVER AND SO WE KNEW - WE COULDN'T GUARANTEE IT, BUT 00:09:20.99\00:09:24.79 WE'RE ALMOST POSITIVE THAT A LOT OF THE PEOPLE COMING IN OUR 00:09:24.79\00:09:26.59 AUDIENCE EVERY NIGHT WERE COMING OVER FROM THE MYANMAR - COMING 00:09:26.59\00:09:29.36 OVER TO HEAR THE EVANGELISTIC SERIES AND GOING BACK. 00:09:29.36\00:09:31.00 OUR GOAL IS WHEN WE GO BACK THIS DECEMBER, WE'LL BE RUNNING SIX 00:09:31.00\00:09:33.77 SITES IN THE SAME AREA SIMULTANEOUSLY. 00:09:33.77\00:09:36.04 WE DID ONE THIS LAST YEAR - IN FACT, THE NEXT SLIDE SHOWS YOU - 00:09:36.04\00:09:40.04 THIS IS THE SAME PLACE IN THE DAYTIME. 00:09:40.04\00:09:42.48 I WANT YOU TO SEE. I FELT SO NEAT. 00:09:42.48\00:09:44.65 I WAS DOING AN EVANGELISTIC SERIES UNDERNEATH A TREE. 00:09:44.65\00:09:47.28 AT NIGHT TIME - YOU CAN'T SEE IT AS WELL, BUT IN THE DAY TIME, 00:09:47.28\00:09:49.75 JUST ONE MASSIVE TREE. 00:09:49.75\00:09:51.05 WE WERE KIND OF IN A VACANT LOT THERE, ABOUT A HUNDRED - TWO 00:09:51.05\00:09:54.39 HUNDRED YARDS FROM THE RIVER WITH MYANMAR. 00:09:54.39\00:09:56.42 THE NEXT SLIDE SHOWS THE OTHER PART. 00:09:56.42\00:10:00.00 WE DID A WEEK OF PRAYER AT A REFUGEE CAMP. 00:10:00.00\00:10:02.23 AND ADRA RUNS THE SCHOOL - THERE ARE 800 STUDENTS HERE AT THIS 00:10:02.23\00:10:06.17 HIGH SCHOOL ON THE REFUGEE CAMP. MANY OF THE STUDENTS THERE ARE 00:10:06.17\00:10:10.14 ADVENTISTS, BUT THERE'S A LOT THAT ARE NOT ADVENTIST. 00:10:10.14\00:10:12.44 THEY DO A WEEK OF PRAYER ONCE A YEAR. 00:10:12.44\00:10:15.01 THEY BRING IN OUTSIDE SPEAKERS. THE NEXT SLIDE GIVES YOU A 00:10:15.01\00:10:17.71 LITTLE PICTURE WITH THE SCHOOL. THIS IS THE MAIN SCHOOL 00:10:17.71\00:10:19.61 BUILDING. THERE ARE CURTAINS HANGING IN 00:10:19.61\00:10:23.28 BETWEEN CLASSES. IT IS HALF-INCH PLYWOOD COVERED 00:10:23.28\00:10:27.22 WITH BLACK PAINT - THAT IS THE CHALKBOARDS. 00:10:27.22\00:10:29.89 I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE - I'M A TEACHER - I'VE BEEN TO A 00:10:29.89\00:10:33.50 LOT OF SCHOOLS AND I DREAMED FOR NICER THINGS IN MY SCHOOLS AND 00:10:33.50\00:10:36.23 I WAS HUMBLED WHEN I WAS THERE BECAUSE THIS IS - WHAT THEY'RE 00:10:36.23\00:10:39.13 OPERATING WITH IS SO MUCH LESS THAN WHAT WE'RE WILLING TO 00:10:39.13\00:10:41.77 OPERATE WITH AND YET GOD IS MOVING. 00:10:41.77\00:10:44.21 THESE YOUNG PEOPLE WOULD SIT AND LISTEN TO ME SPEAK FOR AN HOUR 00:10:44.21\00:10:46.88 AND MAKE NOT A WORD. I WAS AMAZED BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, 00:10:46.88\00:10:51.58 ESPECIALLY THROUGH A TRANSLATOR, IT CAN GET BORING AT TIMES. WE 00:10:51.58\00:10:53.92 HAD TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE AND THEY LISTENED THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH. 00:10:53.92\00:10:56.15 JUST A REALLY NEAT EXPERIENCE THAT WE HAD THERE IN THAILAND. 00:10:56.15\00:11:00.09 THE NEXT SLIDE - I WANT TO CLOSE WITH THIS ONE BECAUSE - SEE THE 00:11:00.09\00:11:03.43 LADY STANDING NEXT TO ME? HER NAME IS HELEN HALL. 00:11:03.43\00:11:08.50 WHEN SHE WAS 42 YEARS OLD, SHE WAS IN AUSTRALIA AND SHE GOT A 00:11:08.50\00:11:12.33 CALL ON HER HEART TO GO AND BECOME A MISSIONARY TO THAILAND. 00:11:12.33\00:11:14.84 THAT WAS 34 YEARS AGO. SHE ONLY GOES BACK TO GET HER VISA. 00:11:14.84\00:11:19.24 34 YEARS SHE'S DEDICATED HERSELF SPECIFICALLY TO TEACHING 00:11:19.24\00:11:23.14 KAREN YOUNG PEOPLE. SHE IS THE PRINCIPAL OF THE 00:11:23.14\00:11:26.01 SCHOOL I WAS JUST SHOWING YOU ABOUT. 00:11:26.01\00:11:28.68 HELEN IS - SHE'S INDOMITABLE - THAT'S THE BEST WAY I CAN 00:11:28.68\00:11:32.59 DESCRIBE HER. THERE IS NOTHING THAT STOPS HER. 00:11:32.59\00:11:34.56 SHE WILL ARGUE WITH OFFICIALS WHEN IT'S RIGHT TO ARGUE, THEN 00:11:34.56\00:11:37.16 SHE'LL BACK OFF WHEN SHE KNOWS SHE'S GOING TO GET NOWHERE. 00:11:37.16\00:11:39.26 SHE KNOWS HOW TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO MAKE HER CHILDREN 00:11:39.26\00:11:42.13 SUCCEED. HER YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE THE 00:11:42.13\00:11:45.20 HIGHEST RATE OF GOING ON TO COLLEGE FROM THE REFUGEE CAMP 00:11:45.20\00:11:50.94 BECAUSE OF THE WORK THAT SHE PUTS INTO THEM THERE AND FIFTY 00:11:50.94\00:11:54.64 TO SIXTY OF HER YOUNG PEOPLE ARE BAPTIZED EVERY YEAR AND BECOME 00:11:54.64\00:11:57.55 FAITHFUL MEMBERS OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:11:57.55\00:11:59.55 SO JUST A TREMENDOUS WORK THAT HELEN'S DOING THERE, AND WHEN I 00:11:59.55\00:12:02.42 SAW HER COURAGE AND HER WILLINGNESS TO POUR HER LIFE 00:12:02.42\00:12:05.12 INTO IT, IT JUST ENCOURAGED ME. AND I THINK I WANT TO SHARE THE 00:12:05.12\00:12:09.49 STORY WITH YOU AS WELL. GOD HAS GIVEN US A CALLING. 00:12:09.49\00:12:11.89 HE'S NOT ASKING FOR A WEEK HERE OR A WEEK THERE, ALTHOUGH THAT'S 00:12:11.89\00:12:17.00 GREAT TO DO AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT THIS COMING 00:12:17.00\00:12:18.93 DECEMBER. GOD IS ASKING FOR US TO GIVE OUR 00:12:18.93\00:12:21.54 LIVES IN SERVICE, WHERE HE CALLS US. 00:12:21.54\00:12:24.61 IT MAY NOT BE THAILAND, IT MAY BE SACRAMENTO, BUT WHEREVER GOD 00:12:24.61\00:12:27.64 CALLS US, TO GIVE OUR LIVES ONE HUNDRED PERCENT THERE. 00:12:27.64\00:12:30.38 >>AMEN. WELL, THANK YOU, CHUCK, FOR 00:12:30.38\00:12:32.01 SHARING THAT WITH US. IT'S EXCITING. 00:12:32.01\00:12:33.62 WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE TEAM GOING BACK THERE THIS 00:12:33.62\00:12:35.35 DECEMBER AND THEN SHARING WITH US A MISSION REPORT FOLLOWING 00:12:35.35\00:12:38.59 THIS EVANGELISTIC EFFORT AND OUTREACH AND SOME HEALTH WORK 00:12:38.59\00:12:41.79 THAT THEY'RE DOING. IF YOU'D LIKE MORE INFORMATION 00:12:41.79\00:12:44.29 ABOUT THE UPCOMING AFCOE/THAILAND MISSION TRIP, 00:12:44.29\00:12:46.59 PLEASE BE SURE TO CONTACT CHUCK. YOU CAN GET AHOLD OF HIM AT 00:12:46.59\00:12:49.16 AMAZING FACTS, THROUGH THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE. 00:12:49.16\00:12:51.83 WELL, PASTOR DOUG, AT THIS TIME WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN OUR LESSON. 00:12:51.83\00:12:54.10 AGAIN, AS WE MENTIONED EARLIER, IT'S LESSON #11 ENTITLED THE 00:12:54.10\00:12:56.37 KINGDOM OF GOD AND PASTOR DOUG WILL BE BRINGING US OUR LESSON 00:12:56.37\00:13:00.61 TODAY. THANK YOU, PASTOR. >>HI. HAPPY SABBATH. 00:13:00.61\00:13:04.45 HELLO EVERYBODY. HI FRIENDS, WHO ARE STUDYING 00:13:04.45\00:13:06.72 WITH US - PART OF OUR AMAZING FACTS SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS OTHER 00:13:06.72\00:13:10.19 PLACES. YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS SAY THE SAME 00:13:10.19\00:13:12.85 THING EVERY TIME WE START SABBATH SCHOOL. 00:13:12.85\00:13:14.69 ACROSS THE STREET AND AROUND THE WORLD JUST KEEPING THINKING OF 00:13:14.69\00:13:18.83 OTHER WAYS OF SAYING PLANETARY SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS, OR 00:13:18.83\00:13:22.40 SOMETHING LIKE THAT. WE'RE JUST GLAD THAT WE HAVE 00:13:22.40\00:13:24.90 PEOPLE WHO ARE STUDYING ALL OVER - VIA THE INTERNET AND WE ARE 00:13:24.90\00:13:28.70 GOING TO CONTINUE WITH OUR STUDY THROUGH THE BOOK OF LUKE. 00:13:28.70\00:13:32.17 WE'RE DEALING WITH THE LESSON #11 TODAY TALKING ABOUT A 00:13:32.17\00:13:35.91 CENTRAL THEME OF THE BIBLE: THE KINGDOM OF GOD - THE KINGDOM OF 00:13:35.91\00:13:40.42 GOD - AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND THE MEMORY VERSE COMES FROM 00:13:40.42\00:13:44.29 LUKE CHAPTER 13, VERSE 29 AND I INVITE YOU TO SAY THAT WITH ME. 00:13:44.29\00:13:49.56 LUKE 13:29, YOU READY? "AND THEY SHALL COME FROM THE 00:13:49.56\00:13:53.63 EAST, AND FROM THE WEST, AND FROM THE NORTH, AND FROM THE 00:13:53.63\00:13:57.70 SOUTH, AND SHALL SIT DOWN IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD." 00:13:57.70\00:14:01.54 LUKE 13:29 - NOW, THIS WAS ACTUALLY A LITTLE BIT DISTURBING 00:14:01.54\00:14:08.14 - THIS VERSE - TO THOSE THAT WERE LISTENING BECAUSE, FOR THE 00:14:08.14\00:14:12.45 JEWISH NATION, WHAT THEY WANTED WAS - THEY WANTED THEIR KINGDOM 00:14:12.45\00:14:16.35 TO BE RESTORED AND TO SPREAD EVERYWHERE ELSE AND, BASICALLY 00:14:16.35\00:14:22.49 DISPLACE - ALL OTHER KINGDOMS. 00:14:22.49\00:14:25.89 AND JESUS WAS SAYING, 'MANY WILL COME FROM THE EAST AND THE WEST 00:14:25.89\00:14:28.93 AND SIT DOWN IN THE KINGDOM WITH ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND JACOB AND 00:14:28.93\00:14:32.37 THE CHILDREN OF THE KINGDOM WILL BE CAST OUT.' 00:14:32.37\00:14:36.47 IN OTHER WORDS, THERE WOULD BE MANY FROM THE OUTSIDE THAT WOULD 00:14:36.47\00:14:39.57 COME IN AND SOME WHO ARE IN THE INSIDE THAT WOULD BE LEFT OUT. 00:14:39.57\00:14:43.21 AND SO QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD WERE NOT BASED ON 00:14:43.21\00:14:48.28 GENETICS OR DNA, BUT IT WAS A WILLINGNESS TO SERVE THE KING. 00:14:48.28\00:14:53.15 AND SO THIS WAS A CENTRAL TEACHING OF JESUS ALL THROUGH 00:14:53.15\00:14:57.69 THE NEW TESTAMENT. MATTER OF FACT, WE'RE GOING TO 00:14:57.69\00:14:59.93 LOOK AT A NUMBER OF VERSES AND ALONG THE WAY - I THINK I'VE GOT 00:14:59.93\00:15:02.63 A FEW OF YOU LINED UP WHO ARE GOING TO HELP ME LOOK UP SOME 00:15:02.63\00:15:05.80 VERSES. FIRST OF ALL, WHAT IS A KINGDOM? 00:15:05.80\00:15:09.20 A KINGDOM IS A POLITICAL OR TERRITORIAL UNIT RULED BY A 00:15:09.20\00:15:13.78 SOVEREIGN. THE REALM OF THE SOVEREIGN - OR 00:15:13.78\00:15:18.01 REALM - A SPHERE IN WHICH A THING IS DOMINATED. 00:15:18.01\00:15:20.68 NOW WHEN WE STUDY THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN AMERICA, WE'RE ALL A 00:15:20.68\00:15:23.89 LITTLE HANDICAPPED IN OUR UNDERSTANDING BECAUSE WE LIVE IN 00:15:23.89\00:15:25.95 A VERY DIFFERENT KIND OF A REPUBLIC. 00:15:25.95\00:15:28.52 WE DON'T HAVE A KING. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT AMERICA 00:15:28.52\00:15:31.89 WAS FOUNDED ON IS WE WANTED TO HAVE A GOVERNMENT WITHOUT A KING 00:15:31.89\00:15:35.73 AND A CHURCH WITHOUT A POPE. WE WANTED THERE TO BE FREEDOM IN 00:15:35.73\00:15:38.97 THE GOVERNMENT AND FREEDOM IN THE RELIGION. 00:15:38.97\00:15:43.20 AND - BUT A KINGDOM - ESPECIALLY MANY OF THESE ANCIENT KINGDOMS 00:15:43.20\00:15:47.91 - THE KING NOT ONLY EXPECTED TO BE OBEYED AS THE LAW, HE 00:15:47.91\00:15:54.02 EXPECTED TO BE THE ADMINISTRATOR AS THE CENTER OF GOVERNMENT AND 00:15:54.02\00:15:57.82 HE EXPECTED TO BE WORSHIPED AS A GOD. 00:15:57.82\00:16:01.12 NOW WE KNOW THERE WERE MANY EARTHLY MONARCHS THAT WANTED ALL 00:16:01.12\00:16:05.79 THOSE THINGS AND DIDN'T DESERVE THEM. BUT, YOU KNOW, 00:16:05.79\00:16:08.80 THE PHARAOHS, THEY NOT ONLY EXPECTED TO ADMINISTRATE AND BE 00:16:08.80\00:16:11.97 THE LAW GIVERS AND THE JUDGES, THEY ASKED FOR WORSHIP. 00:16:11.97\00:16:15.97 AND THE CAESARS ASKED FOR WORSHIP. 00:16:15.97\00:16:20.48 HE DIDN'T START OUT THIS WAY, BUT ALEXANDER THE GREAT, LATER 00:16:20.48\00:16:23.51 ON, HE ASKED FOR WORSHIP. WHAT ABOUT KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR? 00:16:23.51\00:16:27.02 WHAT ABOUT KING DARIUS? THEY WORSHIPED THE KING. 00:16:27.02\00:16:31.72 AND SO NOW, FOR HUMANS, THAT'S VERY INAPPROPRIATE. 00:16:31.72\00:16:35.42 BUT WHEN WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD, IS IT 00:16:35.42\00:16:38.26 APPROPRIATE TO WORSHIP OUR KING? AND SO WHEN PEOPLE SAY, 'I WANT 00:16:38.26\00:16:41.93 JESUS AS MY LORD AND MY KING' - DO WE KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? 00:16:41.93\00:16:46.33 THE THIEF THAT WAS ON THE CROSS - YOU KNOW, THE ONE PERSON JESUS 00:16:46.33\00:16:49.90 SAVED WHEN HE WAS ON THE CROSS WAS THAT THIEF. AND HE SAID, 00:16:49.90\00:16:54.04 'LORD, REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU COME INTO YOUR KINGDOM.' 00:16:54.04\00:17:00.35 SO HE CALLED HIM 'LORD' AND 'KING' AND JESUS COULD SAVE HIM. 00:17:00.35\00:17:04.92 HE COULD BECOME A CITIZEN IN JESUS' KINGDOM BECAUSE OF HIS 00:17:04.92\00:17:08.52 PLEA - HIS DECLARATION - AND HE RECOGNIZED JESUS. 00:17:08.52\00:17:11.86 HOW COULD YOU SEE JESUS AS A KING IN THAT CONDITION? 00:17:11.86\00:17:14.76 HERE CHRIST WAS HANGING ON A CROSS AND HE'S - HE'S, YOU KNOW, 00:17:14.76\00:17:19.10 HE'S BEATEN AND HE'S BLOODY AND HE'S PALE AND DYING AND NOT 00:17:19.10\00:17:22.67 CLOTHED LIKE A KING AND THIS THIEF CALLED HIM 'KING.' SO 00:17:22.67\00:17:27.58 OBVIOUSLY, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD, IT'S 00:17:27.58\00:17:30.35 DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE WOULD TYPICALLY THINK OF. IT'S A 00:17:30.35\00:17:34.32 SPIRITUAL KINGDOM, FOR ONE THING, IN THIS WORLD. NOW THIS 00:17:34.32\00:17:37.85 IS THE CENTRAL MESSAGE OF JESUS THAT YOU FIND THROUGH THE BIBLE. 00:17:37.85\00:17:40.86 FOR INSTANCE, LOOK IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 3, VERSE 1, "IN THOSE 00:17:40.86\00:17:44.86 DAYS CAME JOHN THE BAPTIST, PREACHING IN THE WILDERNESS OF 00:17:44.86\00:17:48.20 JUDAEA," - WHAT'S THE FIRST THING JOHN SAID? 00:17:48.20\00:17:50.33 - "REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS COMING IN TWO 00:17:50.33\00:17:55.77 THOUSAND YEARS." WHAT DID HE SAY? 00:17:55.77\00:18:00.04 "AT HAND" - WHAT DOES 'AT HAND' MEAN? 00:18:00.04\00:18:02.04 SIMPLE TRANSLATION IS 'WITHIN REACH.' IT MEANS IT'S HERE. 00:18:02.04\00:18:06.61 YOU CAN REACH IT. AND THEN WHAT DID JESUS - NOW 00:18:06.61\00:18:09.78 THAT'S JOHN THE BAPTIST; WHAT DID JESUS SAY? 00:18:09.78\00:18:11.49 MATTHEW 4:17, "FROM THAT TIME JESUS BEGAN TO PREACH" - FIRST 00:18:11.49\00:18:16.49 THING OUT OF HIS MOUTH -"'REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF 00:18:16.49\00:18:19.49 HEAVEN IS AT HAND.'" BY THE WAY, YOU NOTICE THAT BOTH WITH JOHN 00:18:19.49\00:18:23.20 AND BOTH WITH JESUS, THE FIRST WORD OF THE GOSPEL IS WHAT? 00:18:23.20\00:18:26.47 REPENT. MEANING, ENTRANCE INTO THIS KINGDOM, ONE OF THE 00:18:26.47\00:18:32.87 PREREQUISITES, IS HUMBLING YOURSELF IN REPENTANCE. 00:18:32.87\00:18:37.11 THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD WHERE YOU 00:18:37.11\00:18:40.68 ENTER BY FORCE, BY STRENGTH, BY HOW BIG AND STRONG AND TALL, 00:18:40.68\00:18:44.19 AND RICH, AND POWERFUL YOU ARE. 00:18:44.19\00:18:46.09 NO, YOU GET INTO THIS KINGDOM BY REPENTANCE. 00:18:46.09\00:18:49.29 BUT THIS IS THE KINGDOM THAT'S GOING TO LAST. 00:18:49.29\00:18:52.86 NOW, THE SUBJECT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS SO IMPORTANT TO 00:18:52.86\00:18:57.33 UNDERSTAND BECAUSE WHEN JESUS CAME THE FIRST TIME, DID THE 00:18:57.33\00:19:01.60 APOSTLES UNDERSTAND THE SUBJECT OF THE KINGDOM? I'M NOT TALKING 00:19:01.60\00:19:05.37 ABOUT JUST THE JEWS, THE APOSTLES - HOW LONG WAS IT THAT 00:19:05.37\00:19:09.64 THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE SUBJECT OF THE KINGDOM? 00:19:09.64\00:19:12.55 WAS IT SIX MONTHS INTO JESUS' MINISTRY? 00:19:12.55\00:19:15.92 WERE THEY CONFUSED ABOUT THE KINGDOM A YEAR INTO JESUS' 00:19:15.92\00:19:19.15 MINISTRY? AFTER TWO YEARS WALKING WITH 00:19:19.15\00:19:21.89 JESUS, DID THEY FINALLY UNDERSTAND THE KINGDOM? 00:19:21.89\00:19:24.03 HOW ABOUT THREE AND A HALF YEARS BEFORE THE CROSS? 00:19:24.03\00:19:27.13 WERE THEY STILL CONFUSED ABOUT THE KINGDOM? 00:19:27.13\00:19:28.96 HOW ABOUT AFTER THE RESURRECTION? 00:19:28.96\00:19:31.73 WERE THEY STILL MIXED UP ABOUT THE KINGDOM? 00:19:31.73\00:19:33.50 THEY WERE, RIGHT AFTER THE RESURRECTION, STILL. 00:19:33.50\00:19:36.24 YOU READ - WE'RE GOING TO GET TO IT LATER, BUT THEY ASKED HIM, 00:19:36.24\00:19:39.34 BEFORE HE ASCENDED TO HEAVEN, 'WILL YOU, AT THIS TIME, 00:19:39.34\00:19:42.61 ESTABLISH THE KINGDOM?' THEY WERE THINKING THAT HE WAS 00:19:42.61\00:19:44.98 JUST GOING TO THROW SOME KIND OF WHAMMY ON THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND 00:19:44.98\00:19:47.68 THAT JESUS WAS GOING TO SET HIMSELF UP AS THE DESCENDANT OF 00:19:47.68\00:19:51.15 DAVID AND THEY WOULD HAVE AN EARTHLY KINGDOM. 00:19:51.15\00:19:53.39 IS IT POSSIBLE THAT GOD'S PEOPLE COULD, ONCE AGAIN, BE 00:19:53.39\00:19:58.33 CONFUSED ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE KINGDOM? 'OH, NOT US. 00:19:58.33\00:20:02.23 WE HAVE IT ALL FIGURED OUT.' COULD THE DEVIL DO THE SAME 00:20:02.23\00:20:06.84 THING TO US NOW THAT HE DID TO THE APOSTLES WHEN JESUS CAME THE 00:20:06.84\00:20:09.60 FIRST TIME? THAT WE REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND 00:20:09.60\00:20:12.07 WHAT KIND OF KINGDOM IT IS. I THINK THERE'S A GOOD 00:20:12.07\00:20:15.18 PROBABILITY. IF IT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING 00:20:15.18\00:20:17.75 JESUS IS TEACHING, THEN IT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS 00:20:17.75\00:20:21.58 FOR SATAN TO CONFUSE. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? 00:20:21.58\00:20:25.42 NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE SUBJECT OF THE KINGDOM IS. 00:20:25.42\00:20:28.66 YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE GOSPEL STORY, IN THE - YOU KNOW, THE 00:20:28.66\00:20:33.50 GOSPEL DOESN'T BEGIN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, THE GOSPEL BEGINS IN 00:20:33.50\00:20:36.93 THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE GOSPEL STORY IS ABOUT RAISING UP A 00:20:36.93\00:20:40.60 KINGDOM. GOD TOOK A NATION OF POORLY EDUCATED SLAVES AND HE 00:20:40.60\00:20:48.88 TURNED THEM INTO A KINGDOM. ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 00:20:48.88\00:20:51.75 WHEN MOSES LED THEM OUT, THEY HAD TO START FROM SCRATCH AND 00:20:51.75\00:20:54.35 THEY TURNED INTO A KINGDOM. AND GOD WANTS TO DO THAT ONCE 00:20:54.35\00:20:58.22 AGAIN. HE'S GOT THIS SPIRITUAL KINGDOM 00:20:58.22\00:21:00.76 THAT HE'S ESTABLISHING HERE IN THIS WORLD. 00:21:00.76\00:21:03.53 ALRIGHT, THAT TAKES US TO OUR FIRST SECTION, UNDER SUNDAY, FOR 00:21:03.53\00:21:06.66 - THE FIRST PART IT SAYS, CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KINGDOM . 00:21:06.66\00:21:10.03 NOW I'M GOING TO HAVE SOMEBODY READ LUKE 11:2 IN JUST A MOMENT. 00:21:10.03\00:21:13.87 WHO'S GOT THAT LINED UP? 00:21:13.87\00:21:15.54 OKAY, RICHARD, WE'LL HAVE YOU IN A MOMENT. 00:21:15.54\00:21:17.21 AND I'M GOING TO READ JOHN 13:34, JESUS SAID, "A NEW 00:21:17.21\00:21:20.81 COMMANDMENT I GIVE TO YOU, THAT YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER; AS I HAVE 00:21:20.81\00:21:25.31 LOVED YOU, THAT YOU ALSO LOVE ONE ANOTHER." 00:21:25.31\00:21:28.32 WHAT IS THE FOUNDATION PRINCIPLE IN GOD'S KINGDOM? 00:21:28.32\00:21:30.95 LOVE. WHAT'S THE FOUNDATION PRINCIPLE 00:21:30.95\00:21:34.26 IN MANY EARTHLY KINGDOMS? FEAR. YEAH, IT'S BASED ON THE 00:21:34.26\00:21:40.90 POWER OF THE KING, BUT IT'S - IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT THE KING 00:21:40.90\00:21:46.20 WANTS - WHAT DID NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAY TO GET EVERYBODY TO BOW TO 00:21:46.20\00:21:51.44 HIS IMAGE? 'YOU'LL HURT MY FEELINGS'? 00:21:51.44\00:21:54.48 OR DID HE SAY, 'YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO THE FURNACE.' AND WHAT DID 00:21:54.48\00:21:57.81 DARIUS SAY TO GET EVERYBODY TO RECOGNIZE HIS AUTHORITY? 00:21:57.81\00:22:00.72 'YOU'RE GOING TO A LION'S DEN.' AND IF YOU'RE A ROMAN CAESAR, 00:22:00.72\00:22:04.19 'IF YOU DON'T SERVE ME YOU'RE GOING TO BE CRUCIFIED.' IF 00:22:04.19\00:22:06.92 YOU'RE A CITIZEN, YOU'RE BEHEADED. 00:22:06.92\00:22:08.82 IF YOU'RE A NON-CITIZEN, YOU'RE CRUCIFIED. 00:22:08.82\00:22:10.79 AND SO PEOPLE - THE MOTIVE FOR OBEYING THE KING WASN'T LOVE, IT 00:22:10.79\00:22:16.20 WAS FEAR. JESUS SAID IT'S A DIFFERENT KIND 00:22:16.20\00:22:18.83 OF KINGDOM - DIFFERENT KIND OF MOTIVE - MOTIVATED BY LOVE. 00:22:18.83\00:22:22.74 NOW IF YOU LOOK IN LUKE 4, VERSE 42 - WE'LL READ THROUGH 44 AND 00:22:22.74\00:22:27.31 THEN WE'LL GO TO LUKE 11:2. IT SAYS, "NOW WHEN IT WAS DAY, 00:22:27.31\00:22:32.21 HE DEPARTED AND WENT INTO A DESERTED PLACE. 00:22:32.21\00:22:34.15 AND THE CROWD SOUGHT HIM AND CAME TO HIM, AND TRIED TO KEEP 00:22:34.15\00:22:38.29 HIM FROM LEAVING THEM; BUT HE SAID TO THEM, 'I MUST PREACH THE 00:22:38.29\00:22:41.99 KINGDOM OF GOD TO THE OTHER CITIES ALSO, BECAUSE FOR THIS 00:22:41.99\00:22:45.99 PURPOSE I HAVE BEEN SENT.' AND" - IT SAYS - "HE WAS PREACHING IN 00:22:45.99\00:22:49.60 THE SYNAGOGUES OF GALILEE." AS JESUS TRAVELED AROUND, WHAT 00:22:49.60\00:22:52.57 WAS HIS MISSION? 'I MUST PREACH THE KINGDOM OF 00:22:52.57\00:22:55.27 GOD.' ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US LUKE 11:2. 00:22:55.27\00:22:59.84 >>"SO HE SAID TO THEM, 'WHEN YOU PRAY, SAY: OUR FATHER IN 00:22:59.84\00:23:04.61 HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME. YOUR KINGDOM COME. 00:23:04.61\00:23:07.95 YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.'" 00:23:07.95\00:23:12.22 >>ALRIGHT, SO ONE OF THE FIRST PETITIONS IN THE LORD'S PRAYER 00:23:12.22\00:23:14.89 IS REGARDING WHAT? THY KINGDOM COME. 00:23:14.89\00:23:18.36 WOULD YOU PRAY FOR SOMETHING THAT ALREADY EXISTED? 00:23:18.36\00:23:21.40 WHY WOULD YOU PRAY GOD'S KINGDOM COME IF IT ISN'T ALREADY HERE? 00:23:21.40\00:23:28.57 AND WHEN WE SAY 'GOD'S KINGDOM COME' - COME WHERE? 00:23:28.57\00:23:31.87 IS THAT TALKING ABOUT THE SECOND COMING, OR IT IS TALKING ABOUT 00:23:31.87\00:23:35.34 THE KINGDOM COMING WITHIN US? OR MAYBE BOTH? 00:23:35.34\00:23:39.28 SO AS WE GET ALONG IN OUR STUDY ON THE KINGDOM, WE'RE GOING TO 00:23:39.28\00:23:43.62 FIND THAT THERE'S REALLY TWO DIMENSIONS OF THE STUDY ON WHAT 00:23:43.62\00:23:46.65 THIS KINGDOM IS. BUT THERE IT IS IN THE LORD'S PRAYER. 00:23:46.65\00:23:49.09 NOW, YOU DON'T FIND THIS IN LUKE SO YOU HAVE TO GO TO MATTHEW. 00:23:49.09\00:23:52.53 BUT IF YOU GO TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 6, VERSE 13, THERE IS ONE 00:23:52.53\00:23:55.56 ADDITIONAL POINT THAT MATTHEW MAKES REGARDING THE LORD'S 00:23:55.56\00:23:59.10 PRAYER, THAT IS NOT MENTIONED IN LUKE. 00:23:59.10\00:24:01.04 MATTHEW 6:13 - AT THE END OF THE LORD'S PRAYER IT SAYS, 'FOR 00:24:01.04\00:24:04.34 YOURS IS THE KINGDOM, THE POWER, AND THE GLORY FOREVER, AMEN.' 00:24:04.34\00:24:09.38 AND SO YOU'VE GOT THE KINGDOM MENTIONED AS ONE OF THE 00:24:09.38\00:24:12.01 PETITIONS IN THE PRAYER AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE KINGDOM 00:24:12.01\00:24:14.52 MENTIONED AS A DECLARATION AT THE END OF THE PRAYER, BUT THE 00:24:14.52\00:24:17.69 LORD'S PRAYER IS SANDWICHED IN THE CONTEXT OF A DIFFERENT 00:24:17.69\00:24:21.72 KINGDOM. WHY IS THAT? BECAUSE IN OUR WORLD TODAY, 00:24:21.72\00:24:26.26 THERE ARE TWO KINGDOMS IN CONFLICT. 00:24:26.26\00:24:29.33 IF I COULD SUMMARIZE THE MOTIVES OF THOSE TWO KINGDOMS, IT WOULD 00:24:29.33\00:24:33.47 BE LOVE AND SELFISHNESS. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT 00:24:33.47\00:24:38.01 THOSE ARE THE TWO FORCES I FEEL FIGHTING WITHIN ME ALL THE TIME 00:24:38.01\00:24:41.31 AND IT'S REALLY EASY TO SURRENDER TO SELFISHNESS. 00:24:41.31\00:24:44.95 IT'S KIND OF NATURAL, MATTER OF FACT. 00:24:44.95\00:24:46.82 JUST ALWAYS THINK ABOUT YOURSELF AND EVERY DECISION AND THE 00:24:46.82\00:24:49.88 CONTEXT OF YOUR LIFE ALL REVOLVES AROUND 'IT'S ALL ABOUT 00:24:49.88\00:24:53.42 ME, ISN'T IT?' 'IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.' 'I DID IT 00:24:53.42\00:24:56.32 MY WAY.' I MEAN, THAT'S THIS KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD. 00:24:56.32\00:25:00.20 IT'S ALL PULLING THIS DIRECTION. 00:25:00.20\00:25:03.53 CHRIST'S KINGDOM IS THE POLAR OPPOSITE. 00:25:03.53\00:25:06.60 HE SAID, 'LOVE THE LORD, LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR' - THAT'S GOING 00:25:06.60\00:25:10.61 THAT DIRECTION - 'AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF.' SO IT STARTS BY A 00:25:10.61\00:25:12.77 LOVE THAT GOES OUT. THE KINGDOM OF THE DEVIL IS ALL 00:25:12.77\00:25:17.01 ABOUT A LOVE THAT GOES IN AND YOU'LL ULTIMATELY - IT'S A 00:25:17.01\00:25:20.48 VORTEX OF SELF-DESTRUCTION. EVENTUALLY, YOU WILL DESTROY 00:25:20.48\00:25:24.35 YOURSELF WITH SELF LOVE IF YOU MAKE YOURSELF YOUR KING. 00:25:24.35\00:25:28.42 THAT'S THE KINGDOM OF THE DEVIL - SATAN WANTED TO BE GOD. 00:25:28.42\00:25:33.53 THE WORLD FELL BECAUSE EVE - AND THEN FOLLOWING IN HER, ADAM - 00:25:33.53\00:25:37.47 DECIDED TO PUT THEMSELVES FIRST. 'YOU WILL BE AS GOD.' 'DON'T 00:25:37.47\00:25:40.80 MAKE GOD YOUR GOD, YOU BE GOD.' AND SO YOU'VE GOT THESE TWO 00:25:40.80\00:25:44.11 MOTIVES - THESE TWO KINGDOMS THAT ARE AT WAR WITH EACH OTHER. 00:25:44.11\00:25:47.48 DID JESUS RECOGNIZE THE DEVIL, AT LEAST AS KIDNAPPING THIS 00:25:47.48\00:25:52.45 WORLD, AND HE WAS THE KING, OF SORTS? 00:25:52.45\00:25:54.95 CHRIST SAID, 'THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD COMES.' WHY DID - WHY DID 00:25:54.95\00:25:59.49 THE DEVIL SAY TO JESUS, 'FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP ME AND I'LL 00:25:59.49\00:26:02.12 GIVE ALL THESE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD'? 00:26:02.12\00:26:04.39 WHAT DID THE DEVIL SHOW JESUS IN VISION? 00:26:04.39\00:26:05.86 HE MADE ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD PASS BEFORE HIM AND HE 00:26:05.86\00:26:08.83 SAID, 'FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP ME AND I'LL GIVE ALL THIS TO YOU.' 00:26:08.83\00:26:12.13 WHY IS HE CLAIMING THAT? BECAUSE HE SAID, 'THESE PEOPLE 00:26:12.13\00:26:17.01 ON THIS PLANET WORSHIP ME.' - WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS. 00:26:17.01\00:26:21.61 THAT'S WHY, WHEN THE DEVIL CAME TO REPRESENT OUR WORLD AT THIS 00:26:21.61\00:26:24.35 HEAVENLY MEETING, IN THE BOOK OF JOB, GOD SAID TO SATAN, 00:26:24.35\00:26:27.78 'WHERE'D YOU COME FROM?' HE SAID, 'I CAME FROM MY KINGDOM. 00:26:27.78\00:26:30.22 I CAME FROM THE EARTH.' AND GOD SAID, 'IT'S NOT ALL YOUR KINGDOM 00:26:30.22\00:26:34.42 BECAUSE I'VE GOT AN AMBASSADOR THERE, HIS NAME'S JOB.' AND SO 00:26:34.42\00:26:38.53 THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE GOSPEL IS WE'RE TRYING TO TAKE BACK 00:26:38.53\00:26:42.80 THIS WORLD FOR CHRIST BECAUSE HE - IT'S HIS. HE MADE IT. 00:26:42.80\00:26:47.74 SO THERE'S THIS - THIS BATTLE BETWEEN THESE TWO KINGDOMS. 00:26:47.74\00:26:51.57 NOW MOST OF THE TIME IN THE BIBLE IT'S CALLED THE KINGDOM OF 00:26:51.57\00:26:56.34 HEAVEN - IN A LOT OF THE PARABLES OF JESUS. 00:26:56.34\00:26:58.48 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF 00:26:58.48\00:27:01.42 HEAVEN, YOU'D BE SURPRISED THAT SOMETIMES IT'S REFERRED TO AS 00:27:01.42\00:27:03.99 THE KINGDOM OF THE HEAVENS . 00:27:03.99\00:27:06.15 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, AT LEAST ONE TIME, IT CALLS IT THE 00:27:06.15\00:27:09.39 KINGDOM OF CHRIST AND GOD . LET'S READ THIS TO YOU. 00:27:09.39\00:27:13.33 EPHESIANS 5:5, "FOR THIS YOU KNOW, THAT NO FORNICATOR, 00:27:13.33\00:27:17.50 UNCLEAN PERSON, NOR COVETOUS MAN, WHO IS AN IDOLATER, HAS ANY 00:27:17.50\00:27:22.20 INHERITANCE IN THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST AND GOD." 00:27:22.20\00:27:26.74 - SO YOU'VE GOT CHRIST AND GOD - IT'S THE SAME KINGDOM - KINGDOM 00:27:26.74\00:27:29.54 OF HEAVEN, KINGDOM OF CHRIST, KINGDOM OF GOD. 00:27:29.54\00:27:31.48 AND THIS WAS THE CENTRAL TEACHING OF JESUS' MINISTRY. 00:27:31.48\00:27:35.48 SO I'M JUST GOING TO READ YOU TWO VERSES THAT ARE SIMILAR - 00:27:35.48\00:27:38.39 MATTHEW 9:35 - AND IT SAYS, "THEN JESUS WENT ABOUT ALL THE 00:27:38.39\00:27:43.89 CITIES AND THE VILLAGES," - YOU KNOW, THIS IS A GREAT VERSE. 00:27:43.89\00:27:46.96 IF YOU WANT TO SUMMARIZE THE MINISTRY OF CHRISTIANITY - DID 00:27:46.96\00:27:50.83 JESUS HAVE A COUNTRY MINISTRY? HE WENT TO THE VILLAGES. 'HE 00:27:50.83\00:27:56.27 WENT ABOUT ALL THE CITIES' - DID HE HAVE A CITY MINISTRY? HUH? 00:27:56.27\00:27:58.34 YEAH, WE ALL - WE ALL WISH WE COULD JUST MOVE TO THE COUNTRY - 00:27:58.34\00:28:02.38 HAVE COUNTRY LIVING. JESUS HAD A CITY MINISTRY. 00:28:02.38\00:28:05.35 HE HAD A COUNTRY MINISTRY. HE WENT TO THE CITIES AND THE 00:28:05.35\00:28:08.48 VILLAGES TEACHING. WAS JESUS A PREACHER? 00:28:08.48\00:28:10.55 OR A TEACHER? OR WAS HE BOTH? 00:28:10.55\00:28:13.19 "TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES" - DID JESUS USE THE CHURCH AS A 00:28:13.19\00:28:17.56 BASIS FOR HIS MINISTRY? IN THE VILLAGES AND IN THE 00:28:17.56\00:28:21.70 CITIES HE DID IT THROUGH A CHURCH. 00:28:21.70\00:28:23.26 THAT'S WHY WE BELIEVE IN CHURCH-BASED MEDIA - "PREACHING" 00:28:23.26\00:28:26.57 - OH, HE'S NOT ONLY A TEACHER, HE'S A PREACHER, PREACHING WHAT? 00:28:26.57\00:28:29.80 "THE GOSPEL" - THE GOOD NEWS - "OF THE KINGDOM, AND HEALING 00:28:29.80\00:28:35.44 EVERY SICKNESS AND EVERY DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE." 00:28:35.44\00:28:38.45 THAT ONE VERSE SORT OF JUST ENCAPSULATES THE WHOLE PANORAMA 00:28:38.45\00:28:42.05 OF WHAT JESUS' MINISTRY WAS ABOUT. 00:28:42.05\00:28:43.85 IT MENTIONS THIS AGAIN - THAT WAS MATTHEW 9:35 - I'M ACTUALLY 00:28:43.85\00:28:47.29 GOING BACKWARDS - MATTHEW 4:23 - "AND JESUS WENT ABOUT ALL 00:28:47.29\00:28:52.06 GALILEE, TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES, PREACHING THE GOSPEL 00:28:52.06\00:28:55.70 OF THE KINGDOM, AND HEALING ALL KINDS OF SICKNESS AND ALL KINDS 00:28:55.70\00:28:58.37 OF DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE." HE WENT EVERYWHERE, HEALING 00:28:58.37\00:29:02.20 EVERYTHING, PREACHING THE GOOD NEWS, BUT IT WAS ALL ABOUT THE 00:29:02.20\00:29:05.77 KINGDOM - A DIFFERENT KINGDOM. NOW DID JESUS ESTABLISH HIS 00:29:05.77\00:29:11.35 KINGDOM WHEN HE WAS HERE ON EARTH? 00:29:11.35\00:29:13.11 WHEN HE WAS BEING TRIED - WHY DID THEY CRUCIFY JESUS? 00:29:13.11\00:29:18.45 YOU KNOW WHAT THE JEWS SAID TO PILATE? 00:29:18.45\00:29:21.82 NOW HERE THEY ARE TRYING TO GET RID OF JESUS. 00:29:21.82\00:29:23.69 THEY SAID, 'HE HAS DECLARED HIMSELF KING.' THEY THOUGHT THAT 00:29:23.69\00:29:26.86 WAS THE COUP DE GRAS. WHY? 00:29:26.86\00:29:29.93 BECAUSE THERE WAS NO KING BUT CAESAR. 00:29:29.93\00:29:31.97 AND WHEN THEY TRIED THAT WITH PILATE, PILATE TALKED TO JESUS - 00:29:31.97\00:29:35.04 HE SAID, 'ARE YOU A KING?' AND JESUS SAID, 'MY KINGDOM IS 00:29:35.04\00:29:38.94 NOT OF THIS WORLD, YET.' ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 00:29:38.94\00:29:44.18 BECAUSE CHRISTIANITY HAD NOT SPREAD. 00:29:44.18\00:29:47.18 BUT PILATE WENT BACK OUT AFTER TALKING TO JESUS - HE WENT BACK 00:29:47.18\00:29:52.19 AND SAID, 'I FIND NO FAULT IN HIM. 00:29:52.19\00:29:53.79 HE'S NOT TRYING TO BE A KING.' 00:29:53.79\00:29:55.12 WHAT DID THEY PUT ABOVE JESUS' HEAD WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED HIM? 00:29:55.12\00:29:57.39 'THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS' AND THE JEWS WANTED PILATE TO 00:29:57.39\00:30:04.47 CHANGE THAT TO SAY, 'HE SAID HE WAS THE KING OF THE JEWS'. 00:30:04.47\00:30:07.54 FINALLY PILATE FINALLY DEVELOPS A LITTLE BIT OF BACKBONE. 00:30:07.54\00:30:11.31 HE SAYS, 'WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN, I HAVE WRITTEN. I'M NOT CHANGING 00:30:11.31\00:30:13.68 IT.' BECAUSE HE WAS THE KING OF THE JEWS. BUT, YOU KNOW, 00:30:13.68\00:30:17.81 THAT WAS A CAPITAL OFFENSE IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 00:30:17.81\00:30:19.75 IF ANYONE CLAIMED TO BE A KING OTHER THAN CAESAR, THAT WAS IT. 00:30:19.75\00:30:24.69 THERE WAS NO OTHER KING BUT CAESAR. 00:30:24.69\00:30:27.52 NOW YOU COULD BE A VASSAL KING, LIKE HEROD. 00:30:27.52\00:30:31.49 IN OTHER WORDS, YOU EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION 'KING OF KINGS'? 00:30:31.49\00:30:34.46 FOR INSTANCE, THE KING OF PERSIA HAD 127 OTHER KINGS UNDER HIM. 00:30:34.46\00:30:40.37 AND WHEN YOU READ ABOUT KING JEHOIACHIN, HE SAT AT THE KING'S 00:30:40.37\00:30:45.34 TABLE WITH THE OTHER KINGS UNDERNEATH EVIL MERODOCH. 00:30:45.34\00:30:48.61 AND SO IT TALKS ABOUT KINGS THAT WERE VASSAL KINGS - 00:30:48.61\00:30:52.68 OR SUBSERVIENT KINGS TO THE KING. 00:30:52.68\00:30:56.35 BUT SO KING HEROD WAS A VASSAL KING, BUT THE SUPREME KING IN 00:30:56.35\00:31:01.92 THE TIME OF THE CAESARS IT WAS THE CAESAR - IT WAS AUGUSTUS OR 00:31:01.92\00:31:06.13 IT WAS TITUS OR TIBERIUS OR WHOEVER IT MIGHT BE AT THE TIME. 00:31:06.13\00:31:08.50 ALRIGHT, STILL GOING HERE, LUKE 1:32. 00:31:08.50\00:31:13.20 NOW WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE ROOTS FOR THIS 00:31:13.20\00:31:16.64 KINGDOM, LUKE 1:32 AND 33, "HE WILL BE GREAT, AND WILL BE 00:31:16.64\00:31:20.74 CALLED THE SON OF THE HIGHEST;" - SPEAKING OF JESUS - "AND THE 00:31:20.74\00:31:24.21 LORD GOD WILL GIVE HIM THE THRONE OF HIS FATHER DAVID. 00:31:24.21\00:31:29.55 AND HE WILL REIGN OVER THE HOUSE OF JACOB FOREVER, AND OF HIS 00:31:29.55\00:31:33.36 KINGDOM THERE WILL BE NO END." SO IT MAKES IT SOUND LIKE A 00:31:33.36\00:31:37.43 KINGDOM BEGAN WITH WHAT BIBLE CHARACTER? OF THE HOUSE OF WHO? 00:31:37.43\00:31:44.87 AND JESUS, THEY OFTEN SAID, 'SON OF - DAVID.' AND WHO DOES DAVID 00:31:44.87\00:31:51.84 REPRESENT? HE WAS THE ANOINTED SHEPHERD, KING. 00:31:51.84\00:31:56.18 IS JESUS A SHEPHERD? KING? 00:31:56.18\00:31:59.11 WHO LOVED HIS SHEEP AND WAS WILLING TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR 00:31:59.11\00:32:02.62 HIS SHEEP? DAVID, JESUS. 00:32:02.62\00:32:05.15 WHO WEPT OVER JERUSALEM? DAVID, JESUS. 00:32:05.15\00:32:08.22 WHO EXPERIENCED THE LOSS OF A SON HANGING IN A TREE? 00:32:08.22\00:32:12.63 GOD THE FATHER, DAVID. 00:32:12.63\00:32:15.96 I MEAN, IF YOU LOOK AT THE ANALOGIES BETWEEN DAVID AND 00:32:15.96\00:32:18.23 JESUS - BUT WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE CARRIED OFF TO 00:32:18.23\00:32:21.44 BABYLON, TEN OF THE TRIBES THAT HAD CHOSEN ANOTHER KING, THEY 00:32:21.44\00:32:24.57 PRETTY MUCH DISPERSED AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S TRACES OF THEM YOU 00:32:24.57\00:32:28.31 CAN FIND IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD - 00:32:28.31\00:32:30.81 THE TEN TRIBES. YOU EVER HEARD OF THE WORLD WIDE CHURCH OF GOD? 00:32:30.81\00:32:33.58 A LOT OF DEAR PEOPLE BUT THEY WERE A LITTLE MIXED UP ON 00:32:33.58\00:32:37.72 THEIR THEOLOGY ABOUT THE TEN TRIBES. 00:32:37.72\00:32:39.45 THEY WERE SURE THE EUROPEANS WERE THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL. 00:32:39.45\00:32:41.62 AND, YOU KNOW, OUR MORMON FRIENDS, A LOT OF JUST WONDERFUL 00:32:41.62\00:32:46.09 MORMON PEOPLE OUT THERE, BUT THEY'RE A LITTLE CONFUSED ON THE 00:32:46.09\00:32:48.16 TEN TRIBES. THEY BELIEVE THE AMERICAN 00:32:48.16\00:32:49.90 INDIANS ARE THOSE MISSING TEN TRIBES. 00:32:49.90\00:32:51.73 ARE YOU AWARE OF THAT? THAT'S GOOD. 00:32:51.73\00:32:55.70 THAT MEANS YOU'RE NOT READING THE BOOK OF MORMON. 00:32:55.70\00:32:57.11 IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT. BUT - AND IT'S BECOME QUITE A 00:32:57.11\00:33:02.31 PICKLE FOR THE MORMONS NOW, BECAUSE DNA TESTING SHOWS THAT 00:33:02.31\00:33:04.81 THE NATIVE AMERICANS AREN'T EVEN SLIGHTLY RELATED TO THE JEWS, 00:33:04.81\00:33:09.88 THEY'RE RELATED TO THE PEOPLE OF MONGOLIA, CHINA. 00:33:09.88\00:33:13.12 THAT'S PRETTY EASY TO SUBSTANTIATE. 00:33:13.12\00:33:15.16 BUT THE TEN TRIBES, THEY WERE CAPTURED BY THE ASSYRIANS AND IT 00:33:15.16\00:33:20.80 TELLS THAT THEY INTERMARRIED AND BECAME - THEY DISPERSED AND 00:33:20.80\00:33:25.30 LOST A LOT OF THEIR IDENTITY. 00:33:25.30\00:33:26.57 LATER, SOME OF THEM CAME BACK AND LIVED IN SAMARIA. 00:33:26.57\00:33:29.14 THEY WERE CALLED SAMARITANS, BUT THEY WERE, SORT OF, AMALGAMATED 00:33:29.14\00:33:31.67 JEWS AND ASSYRIANS AND EVERYTHING ELSE IN BETWEEN. 00:33:31.67\00:33:34.81 BUT THE TRIBE OF JUDAH - WHAT TRIBE DID DAVID COME FROM? 00:33:34.81\00:33:39.01 THE TRIBE OF JUDAH REMAINED FAIRLY PURE. 00:33:39.01\00:33:43.15 CARRIED TO BABYLON, THEY CAME BACK. THAT'S WHERE YOU GET THE 00:33:43.15\00:33:46.12 WORD 'JEW' - JEWS ARE NOT ALL FROM THE DIFFERENT TRIBES. 00:33:46.12\00:33:48.89 JEWS ARE TALKING ABOUT THE GROUP THAT CAME FROM THE TRIBE OF 00:33:48.89\00:33:51.76 JUDAH - IT'S JUST A SHORTENED FORM OF THAT. THE OTHERS ARE 00:33:51.76\00:33:54.26 HEBREWS, TECHNICALLY, OR ISRAELITES. THE LINE OF DAVID. 00:33:54.26\00:34:00.74 EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE CARRIED OFF CAPTIVE, YOU NOTICE WHAT IT 00:34:00.74\00:34:03.57 DOES? THE FIRST THING IT SAYS IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 1? 00:34:03.57\00:34:06.34 WHAT'S IT TRACING IN CHAPTER 1 OF MATTHEW? WHY DOES IT TRACE 00:34:06.34\00:34:10.65 THE GENEALOGY OF DAVID - OF JESUS, SORRY - TO DAVID? 00:34:10.65\00:34:14.55 IT'S SHOWING THAT JESUS WAS LITERALLY TAKING THE THRONE. 00:34:14.55\00:34:21.39 HE WAS THE ONE WHO WOULD ESTABLISH WHAT DAVID STARTED. 00:34:21.39\00:34:25.19 AND GOD MADE A PROPHECY TO DAVID. 00:34:25.19\00:34:28.03 HE SAID, 'YOUR SON THAT WILL COME FROM YOU, HE WILL BUILD ME 00:34:28.03\00:34:30.27 A HOUSE THAT WILL LAST FOREVER.' WAS THAT JUST TALKING ABOUT 00:34:30.27\00:34:33.60 SOLOMON OR WAS IT TALKING ABOUT JESUS, THE SON OF DAVID? 00:34:33.60\00:34:36.71 CHRIST SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS AND IN 00:34:36.71\00:34:39.07 THREE DAYS I'LL MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS.' AND WHAT WAS HE 00:34:39.07\00:34:41.21 SPEAKING OF? HIS BODY. WHAT IS THE CHURCH CALLED? 00:34:41.21\00:34:44.48 THE BODY OF CHRIST. AND SO IT WAS ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD 00:34:44.48\00:34:47.52 THIS SON OF DAVID WOULD RAISE UP THE BODY OF CHRIST. 00:34:47.52\00:34:51.42 AND, YEAH, THIS IS JUST, TO ME, A VERY EXCITING TRUTH. 00:34:51.42\00:34:54.39 ALRIGHT, SO - BY THE WAY, IN THE BOOK OF LUKE, THE PHRASE 00:34:54.39\00:34:58.93 'KINGDOM' IS MENTIONED FORTY TIMES. 00:34:58.93\00:35:00.90 REVELATION 11:15, "THEN THE SEVENTH ANGEL SOUNDED: AND THERE 00:35:00.90\00:35:07.27 WERE LOUD VOICES IN HEAVEN, SAYING, 'THE KINGDOMS OF THIS 00:35:07.27\00:35:11.17 WORLD HAVE BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF OUR LORD" - 00:35:11.17\00:35:14.81 NOW, IS THAT PAST TENSE OR FUTURE TENSE? 00:35:14.81\00:35:17.11 REVELATION 11 WHEN THE SEVENTH ANGEL SOUNDS, IS THAT PAST OR 00:35:17.11\00:35:21.92 FUTURE? IT'S IN THE FUTURE. 00:35:21.92\00:35:24.62 AND THAT SEVENTH ANGEL SOUNDS AND IT SAYS, "THE KINGDOMS OF 00:35:24.62\00:35:27.29 THIS WORLD HAVE BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF OUR LORD" - THAT 00:35:27.29\00:35:30.69 MEANS THEY'RE NOT YET, BUT THEY WILL BE. ARE YOU ALL WITH ME? 00:35:30.69\00:35:35.00 "AND HE WILL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER!" 00:35:35.00\00:35:37.67 WILL JESUS ULTIMATELY REIGN ON EARTH? 00:35:37.67\00:35:43.47 YEAH, HE WILL. DOES THE NEW JERUSALEM COME DOWN 00:35:43.47\00:35:47.41 OUT OF HEAVEN? >>YES. 00:35:47.41\00:35:49.68 >>AND IT'S THE CAPITAL FOR THAT NEW KINGDOM. 00:35:49.68\00:35:51.08 ALRIGHT, THAT WAS ALL PART 1. 00:35:51.08\00:35:52.85 MONDAY, PART 2 - CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KINGDOM - PART 2 - IT'S 00:35:52.85\00:35:55.25 VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD. 00:35:55.25\00:35:58.85 LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN LUKE AND SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME MATTHEW 00:35:58.85\00:36:01.62 18:4 - WHO'S GOT THAT? OKAY, KIM. 00:36:01.62\00:36:04.36 IF YOU LOOK IN LUKE 18:15, "THEN THEY ALSO BROUGHT INFANTS TO 00:36:04.36\00:36:08.73 HIM THAT HE MIGHT TOUCH THEM; BUT WHEN THE DISCIPLES SAW IT, 00:36:08.73\00:36:11.67 THEY REBUKED THEM. BUT JESUS CALLED TO THEM AND 00:36:11.67\00:36:14.14 SAID, 'LET THE LITTLE CHILDREN COME TO ME, AND DO NOT FORBID 00:36:14.14\00:36:17.27 THEM; FOR OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 00:36:17.27\00:36:21.74 ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER DOES NOT RECEIVE THE KINGDOM OF 00:36:21.74\00:36:25.38 GOD AS A LITTLE CHILD WILL BY NO MEANS ENTER IT.'" WHAT 00:36:25.38\00:36:29.68 TYPICALLY QUALIFIES A PERSON TO HAVE A CABINET POSITION IN THE 00:36:29.68\00:36:32.79 REALM OF SOME POWERFUL MONARCH? HOW BRIGHT A COUNSELOR WILL 00:36:32.79\00:36:38.76 THEY BE? HOW STRONG? ARE THEY A GREAT WARRIOR? 00:36:38.76\00:36:42.13 ARE THEY A GREAT ADMINISTRATOR? AND WHAT DOES JESUS SAY IS A 00:36:42.13\00:36:46.60 CRITERIA FOR BEING IN HIS KINGDOM? 00:36:46.60\00:36:48.87 DO YOU HAVE THE HEART OF A CHILD? DO YOU TRUST? 00:36:48.87\00:36:52.17 SIMPLE CHILD-LIKE TRUST. ARE YOU HUMBLE? 00:36:52.17\00:36:55.31 OF COURSE, NOT ALL LITTLE CHILDREN ARE HUMBLE, BUT THEY 00:36:55.31\00:36:59.85 USED TO BE. SOMETHING HAPPENED. 00:36:59.85\00:37:01.68 2 KINGS 5:14 - I ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS WAS INTERESTING WHEN NAAMAN 00:37:01.68\00:37:06.55 WAS WASHED OF HIS LEPROSY - "SO HE WENT DOWN AND HE DIPPED 00:37:06.55\00:37:10.69 HIMSELF SEVEN TIMES IN THE JORDAN, ACCORDING TO THE SAYING 00:37:10.69\00:37:13.43 OF THE MAN OF GOD; AND HIS FLESH WAS RESTORED LIKE THE FLESH OF 00:37:13.43\00:37:16.73 A LITTLE CHILD, AND HE WAS CLEAN." 00:37:16.73\00:37:19.33 NAAMAN WAS CLEANSED OF HIS LEPROSY AND HE GETS FLESH LIKE A 00:37:19.33\00:37:23.20 LITTLE CHILD AND THEN WHAT HE DOES, HE GOES BACK TO ELISHA AND 00:37:23.20\00:37:26.91 HE SAYS, 'CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE ME - GIVE ME SOME EARTH FROM 00:37:26.91\00:37:30.98 ISRAEL TO TAKE BACK TO SYRIA? FOR NOW ON I WILL ONLY WORSHIP 00:37:30.98\00:37:36.82 GOD. IN SYRIA, MY KING WORSHIPS ANOTHER GOD AND I'LL BE 00:37:36.82\00:37:42.76 SURROUNDED BY THAT, BUT I'M ONLY GOING TO PRAY TO THE TRUE GOD 00:37:42.76\00:37:46.19 IN A FOREIGN LAND.' ISN'T THAT A PICTURE OF WHAT THE CHRISTIAN 00:37:46.19\00:37:50.53 IS? WE WORSHIP THE TRUE KING IN A FOREIGN LAND. 00:37:50.53\00:37:56.04 YOU KNOW WHAT AN EMBASSY IS? AN EMBASSY IS THE OUTPOST OF 00:37:56.04\00:38:00.94 ONE KINGDOM WITHIN ANOTHER KINGDOM. AND IF YOU GO TO AN 00:38:00.94\00:38:06.48 EMBASSY, IF YOU GO TO SOME OF THE MANY EMBASSIES IN 00:38:06.48\00:38:08.92 WASHINGTON, D.C., IF YOU CAN GET WITHIN THE BORDERS, YOU'LL FIND 00:38:08.92\00:38:11.69 OUT THEY SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF THEIR HOME KINGDOM. 00:38:11.69\00:38:13.56 MANY TIMES THEY WEAR THE ATTIRE OF THEIR HOME KINGDOM. 00:38:13.56\00:38:17.09 EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE IN IT - THEY'RE SURROUNDED BY A 00:38:17.09\00:38:20.13 DIFFERENT KINGDOM - AND THEY EAT THE FOOD OF THEIR HOME KINGDOM. 00:38:20.13\00:38:24.80 I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS IN CAMEROON, AFRICA, I GOT IN THE 00:38:24.80\00:38:28.50 ELEVATOR WITH A MARINE AND HE WAS ALL DRESSED UP IN HIS MARINE 00:38:28.50\00:38:32.01 BLUES WITH THE SHINY BRASS BUTTONS - IT'S A VERY STRIKING 00:38:32.01\00:38:36.41 UNIFORM - AND SO, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY AND 00:38:36.41\00:38:40.22 TWO AMERICANS - I STARTED TALKING TO HIM. 00:38:40.22\00:38:41.92 HE SAID, 'I'M PART OF THE EMBASSY HERE AND WE'RE GETTING 00:38:41.92\00:38:45.19 READY TO CELEBRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY. 00:38:45.19\00:38:48.19 AND I THOUGHT, WELL, HERE WE ARE IN CAMEROON, AFRICA, BUT THEY 00:38:48.19\00:38:51.13 SAID, 'AS FAR AS WE'RE CONCERNED, WITHIN THE EMBASSY, 00:38:51.13\00:38:53.90 IT'S THE UNITED STATES AND WE'RE GOING TO CELEBRATE THE FOURTH 00:38:53.90\00:38:57.77 OF THE JULY EVEN THOUGH WE'RE IN CAMEROON, AFRICA.' 00:38:57.77\00:39:00.84 AND SO, WHEN WE GATHER AS A CHURCH, THIS IS LIKE AN EMBASSY 00:39:00.84\00:39:04.97 AND WE CELEBRATE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN HEAVEN. 00:39:04.97\00:39:09.68 WE GO ALONG WITH WHAT THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST ARE HERE. 00:39:09.68\00:39:12.95 IT'S A DIFFERENT - IT'S AN ENCLAVE OF ANOTHER WORLD. 00:39:12.95\00:39:16.45 ALRIGHT, READ FOR US MATTHEW 18:4. 00:39:16.45\00:39:18.92 >>"THEREFORE WHOEVER HUMBLES HIMSELF AS THIS LITTLE CHILD IS 00:39:18.92\00:39:22.12 THE GREATEST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." 00:39:22.12\00:39:25.03 >>HOW DIFFERENT FROM WHAT WE VALUE AS GREAT IN THIS WORLD - 00:39:25.03\00:39:32.70 IN THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD. 00:39:32.70\00:39:34.07 YOU KNOW, I HOPE I'VE MADE SOME PROGRESS BUT, THROUGH TRIAL AND 00:39:34.07\00:39:40.38 ERROR ALONG THE WAY, I THINK THE LORD HAS TOLD ME ONE OF THE 00:39:40.38\00:39:43.68 THINGS HE VALUES THE MOST IS HUMILITY. 00:39:43.68\00:39:46.55 THAT - AND THE THING - YOU'RE NEVER MORE LIKE THE DEVIL THAN 00:39:46.55\00:39:50.09 WHEN YOU'RE PROUD. THAT'S TRUE. 00:39:50.09\00:39:53.12 AND YOU'RE NEVER MORE LIKE CHRIST THAN WHEN YOU'RE HUMBLE. 00:39:53.12\00:39:56.42 AND, I'M NOT SAYING I'VE ARRIVED, I JUST SAID I THINK 00:39:56.42\00:39:59.23 I'VE LEARNED SOMETHING ALONG THE WAY. 00:39:59.23\00:40:01.16 AND A HAUGHTY SPIRIT GOES - WHAT? BEFORE A FALL. 00:40:01.16\00:40:05.50 IT SAYS WHEN YOU HUMBLE YOURSELF LIKE A LITTLE CHILD THAT'S - 00:40:05.50\00:40:09.20 GOD CAN WORK THROUGH THAT - WHEN WE'RE PROUD AND WE THINK THAT 00:40:09.20\00:40:12.14 WE'VE GOT GOD WITHIN - THAT WE'RE, YOU KNOW - I'M NOT 00:40:12.14\00:40:15.21 TALKING ABOUT HAVING GOD - THAT WE ARE GODS IS WHAT I MEANT TO 00:40:15.21\00:40:18.05 SAY, THEN GOD CAN'T WORK WITH US. 00:40:18.05\00:40:20.12 OKAY, LUKE 18:24 - THAT'S ONE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE 00:40:20.12\00:40:23.62 KINGDOM THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM OUR WORLD. 00:40:23.62\00:40:25.79 LUKE 18:24, "AND WHEN JESUS SAW THAT HE BECAME VERY SORROWFUL, 00:40:25.79\00:40:30.26 HE SAID," - HE SAW THE RICH MAN WALK AWAY - "'HOW HARD IT IS FOR 00:40:30.26\00:40:34.70 THOSE WHO HAVE RICHES TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD! 00:40:34.70\00:40:37.70 FOR IT IS EASIER FOR A CAMEL TO GO THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE 00:40:37.70\00:40:41.20 THAN FOR A RICH MAN TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD.' AND THOSE WHO 00:40:41.20\00:40:44.61 HEARD IT SAID, 'WHO THEN CAN BE SAVED?' BUT HE SAID, 00:40:44.61\00:40:47.64 'THE THINGS WHICH ARE IMPOSSIBLE WITH MEN ARE POSSIBLE WITH 00:40:47.64\00:40:49.61 GOD.'" HOW DIFFERENT THAT IS FROM THE WORLD TODAY. 00:40:49.61\00:40:52.78 WHEN YOU TALK TO PEOPLE TODAY ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEIR 00:40:52.78\00:40:57.12 GOALS ARE, IT OFTEN HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH 'I WANT TO 00:40:57.12\00:41:00.96 BE POPULAR, I WANT TO BE POWERFUL, I WANT TO BE WEALTHY" 00:41:00.96\00:41:04.83 - AND THE WEALTH OFTEN GOES WITH - IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH WEALTH YOU 00:41:04.83\00:41:07.60 CAN HAVE SOME POWER AND POPULARITY - YOU CAN BUY IT. 00:41:07.60\00:41:09.73 BUT THE LORD SAYS, 'NO, THAT'S NOT WHERE THE POWER COMES FROM. 00:41:09.73\00:41:14.44 THAT'S NOT WHERE THE PRESTIGE COMES FROM IN MY KINGDOM.' 00:41:14.44\00:41:18.07 IT'S THROUGH HUMILITY. IF WE'RE PREOCCUPIED WITH 00:41:18.07\00:41:21.58 ACCUMULATING EARTHLY RICHES TO HOARD AND TO STORE DOWN HERE, 00:41:21.58\00:41:26.68 THEN THAT'S THE WRONG SPIRIT. WHERE DOES JESUS SAY WE SHOULD 00:41:26.68\00:41:31.55 BE STORING IT? IN HEAVEN. 00:41:31.55\00:41:34.22 IS THAT JUST IMAGINARY OR IS THAT REAL? 00:41:34.22\00:41:36.76 THERE'S A REAL KINGDOM OF HEAVEN AND THERE'S REAL GIFTS THAT ARE 00:41:36.76\00:41:40.96 BEING STORED THERE. WHEN WE INVEST IN GOD'S KINGDOM, 00:41:40.96\00:41:43.67 IT'S REALLY SO WE CAN REACH PEOPLE BECAUSE THE MONEY DOESN'T 00:41:43.67\00:41:47.00 GO TO HEAVEN. THE MONEY AFFECTS PEOPLE WHO GO 00:41:47.00\00:41:49.50 TO HEAVEN AND HOW LONG DO THEY LAST THERE? FOREVER. 00:41:49.50\00:41:53.38 YOU'LL SEE THE RESULTS OF THAT INVESTMENT. 00:41:53.38\00:41:55.94 OKAY, AND SO IT'S NOT RICHES. 00:41:55.94\00:41:59.15 JEREMIAH SAYS, IN CHAPTER 9, VERSE 23, "THUS SAYS THE LORD: 00:41:59.15\00:42:03.65 'LET NOT THE WISE MAN GLORY IN HIS WISDOM, LET NOT THE MIGHTY 00:42:03.65\00:42:07.92 MAN GLORY IN HIS MIGHT," - NOW I'D LIKE TO BE WISER. 00:42:07.92\00:42:10.73 I WOULDN'T MIND BEING MIGHTIER - "NOR LET THE RICH MAN GLORY IN 00:42:10.73\00:42:13.66 HIS RICHES;" - I THINK MOST OF US WOULDN'T MIND MORE RICHES, 00:42:13.66\00:42:16.16 BUT LISTEN TO WHAT THE LORD SAYS - AND THIS IS OLD TESTAMENT - 00:42:16.16\00:42:19.70 "BUT LET HIM WHO GLORIES GLORY IN THIS, THAT HE UNDERSTANDS AND 00:42:19.70\00:42:24.27 KNOWS ME." - WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY IS THE 00:42:24.27\00:42:27.41 MOST VALUABLE THING FOR US TO TREASURE? 00:42:27.41\00:42:29.18 'DO YOU KNOW ME?' KNOWING ME IS MORE IMPORTANT 00:42:29.18\00:42:33.72 THAN BEING PHYSICALLY MIGHTY OR FINANCIALLY RICH OR BEING 00:42:33.72\00:42:37.42 INTELLECTUALLY SHARP. DO YOU KNOW ME? 00:42:37.42\00:42:42.42 - "THAT I AM THE LORD, EXERCISING LOVINGKINDNESS, 00:42:42.42\00:42:45.39 JUDGMENT, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE EARTH. 00:42:45.39\00:42:47.53 FOR IN THESE I DELIGHT,'" - THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS VERY DIFFERENT 00:42:47.53\00:42:50.50 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT. YOU KNOW, IN THE WORLD, IT'S AN 00:42:50.50\00:42:53.70 EYE FOR AN EYE - YOU GET EVEN. GOD SAYS 'TURN THE OTHER CHEEK. 00:42:53.70\00:42:57.87 NOW, KEEP IN MIND, EYE FOR AN EYE IS A BIBLICAL PHRASE, BUT 00:42:57.87\00:43:02.04 IT'S TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING THE GOVERNMENT DOES, NOT 00:43:02.04\00:43:03.91 INDIVIDUALS. THAT'S HOW A GOVERNMENT FOLLOWS CIVIL LAW. 00:43:03.91\00:43:06.48 BUT INDIVIDUALLY, THE LORD TALKS ABOUT FORGIVING. 00:43:06.48\00:43:10.69 IN THE WORLD, YOU GET EVEN WITH YOUR ENEMIES, BUT IN THE BIBLE 00:43:10.69\00:43:14.89 KINGDOM, YOU LOVE YOUR ENEMIES. THAT'S NOT NATURAL, IS IT? 00:43:14.89\00:43:19.16 YOU START LOOKING AT THE FOUNDATION PRINCIPLES OF GOD'S 00:43:19.16\00:43:21.36 KINGDOM AND IT IS REALLY STRANGE. 00:43:21.36\00:43:23.83 IF YOU WANTED TO ESTABLISH A NEW RELIGION HERE IN THE WORLD - 00:43:23.83\00:43:27.54 AND SOME ARE DOING THIS - YOU'D SAY, 'FOLLOW MY TEACHINGS AND 00:43:27.54\00:43:32.37 YOU'LL BE HEALTHY' - YOU'LL NEVER GET SICK - 'AND YOU'LL BE 00:43:32.37\00:43:35.94 WEALTHY, AND YOU'LL HAVE POWER, AND YOU'LL BE WORSHIPED BY 00:43:35.94\00:43:40.08 OTHERS.' YOU KNOW, THERE ARE ACTUALLY CHRISTIAN PASTORS THAT 00:43:40.08\00:43:41.78 ARE PUTTING THAT FORWARD TO PEOPLE AND THEY SEEM TO BE 00:43:41.78\00:43:46.05 THRIVING. YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE IT'S A MESSAGE PEOPLE KIND OF 00:43:46.05\00:43:49.02 LIKE. IT APPEALS TO OUR CARNAL NATURES. 00:43:49.02\00:43:50.93 BUT WHAT DID JESUS SAY? FOLLOW ME AND YOU'LL BE HATED 00:43:50.93\00:43:57.60 AND PERSECUTED. IF THEY HATED ME THEY'RE GOING 00:43:57.60\00:43:59.17 TO HATE YOU. TAKE UP YOUR CROSS. 00:43:59.17\00:44:00.74 BE CRUCIFIED WITH ME AND YOU'LL HAVE PEACE AND JOY AND BLESSING. 00:44:00.74\00:44:06.94 HE THAT SEEKS TO SAVE HIS LIFE WILL LOSE IT. 00:44:06.94\00:44:10.68 HE THAT LOSES HIS LIFE OR LETS GO FOR MY SAKE, HE WILL FIND IT. 00:44:10.68\00:44:14.85 IT'S OPPOSITE FROM THE WORLD. AND YET, PEOPLE STILL FOLLOW 00:44:14.85\00:44:21.32 JESUS EVEN THOUGH THEY KNEW THAT, BECAUSE WHEN THEY TRIED 00:44:21.32\00:44:24.43 IT, THEY FOUND THAT IT WORKED. THEY HAD THAT PEACE. 00:44:24.43\00:44:26.36 I JUST WANT TO QUOTE SOMETHING FROM JOHN STOTT. 00:44:26.36\00:44:29.60 HE SAY, "GREATNESS IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS MEASURED IN 00:44:29.60\00:44:32.93 TERMS OF OBEDIENCE. YOU KNOW THE LORD SAID THERE'S A 00:44:32.93\00:44:36.71 LOT OF FOLKS OUT THERE THAT SAY, 'LORD, LORD,' BUT THEY DON'T 00:44:36.71\00:44:39.51 DO. HOW DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE IS REALLY YOUR KING? 00:44:39.51\00:44:42.68 WHEN YOU OBEY HIM. WHEN YOU FOLLOW HIM. 00:44:42.68\00:44:47.62 AND JESUS - AND, BY THE WAY, THAT WAS MATTHEW CHAPTER 7, 00:44:47.62\00:44:50.79 VERSE 21. IT SAYS IN EPHESIANS 1:4, "JUST 00:44:50.79\00:44:56.09 AS HE CHOSE US IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, THAT 00:44:56.09\00:44:58.73 WE SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLAME BEFORE HIM IN LOVE." 00:44:58.73\00:45:02.06 ALRIGHT, I WANT TO GO DOWN TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD ALREADY NOT 00:45:02.06\00:45:07.24 YET - AND SO THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THE TWO FORMS OF GOD'S 00:45:07.24\00:45:12.34 KINGDOM: THE INTERNAL KINGDOM AND THE EXTERNAL KINGDOM. 00:45:12.34\00:45:15.71 AND IF YOU LOOK - SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME LUKE 17:20 00:45:15.71\00:45:18.35 - WHO'S GOT THAT? OKAY. 00:45:18.35\00:45:20.48 LOOK IN MARK 4:11, "AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'TO YOU IT HAS BEEN 00:45:20.48\00:45:24.95 GIVEN TO KNOW THE MYSTERY OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD; BUT TO THOSE 00:45:24.95\00:45:28.69 WHO ARE OUTSIDE, ALL THINGS COME IN PARABLES," - 00:45:28.69\00:45:31.53 SO WHAT DO WE KNOW RIGHT AWAY ABOUT THE KINGDOM? 00:45:31.53\00:45:33.50 THERE'S SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM. 00:45:33.50\00:45:37.97 AM I MAKING THAT UP OR DID JESUS SAY IT? 00:45:37.97\00:45:40.70 HE CALLS IT THE MYSTERY OF THE KINGDOM. 00:45:40.70\00:45:42.60 IT'S NOT THE FIRST KINGDOM - WHEN HE SAYS 'THE KINGDOM OF GOD 00:45:42.60\00:45:46.14 IS AT HAND,' THAT SPIRITUAL INTERNAL KINGDOM - 00:45:46.14\00:45:49.34 THERE'S SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS ABOUT IT. 00:45:49.34\00:45:51.58 AND IT COULD BE SPREADING - YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY, WHEN YOU SEE A 00:45:51.58\00:45:55.08 KINGDOM SPREADING YOU CAN SEE THEIR OUTPOSTS AND THEIR FLAGS 00:45:55.08\00:45:57.72 AND THEIR ARMIES AND - BUT JESUS' KINGDOM, IT'S SPREADING 00:45:57.72\00:46:01.16 ON THE INSIDE. IT'S IN PEOPLE'S HEARTS. 00:46:01.16\00:46:03.56 IT'S WHAT THEY BELIEVE. HARD TO MEASURE. 00:46:03.56\00:46:06.03 ALRIGHT, READ FOR US, PLEASE, LUKE 17:20. 00:46:06.03\00:46:08.00 >>"NOW WHEN HE WAS ASKED BY THE PHARISEES WHEN THE KINGDOM OF 00:46:08.00\00:46:11.07 GOD WOULD COME, HE ANSWERED THEM AND SAID, 'THE KINGDOM OF GOD 00:46:11.07\00:46:13.87 DOES NOT COME WITH OBSERVATION; NOR WILL THEY SAY, 'SEE HERE!' 00:46:13.87\00:46:18.21 OR 'SEE THERE!' FOR INDEED, THE KINGDOM OF GOD 00:46:18.21\00:46:21.88 IS WITHIN YOU." >>ALRIGHT, IS THAT CLEAR? 00:46:21.88\00:46:25.65 WHEN CHRIST FIRST BEGAN TO TALK ABOUT HIS KINGDOM, WHEN HE SAID, 00:46:25.65\00:46:30.02 'THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND' WAS IT THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM OR 00:46:30.02\00:46:33.39 THE LITERAL, PHYSICAL KINGDOM? IT WAS THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM 00:46:33.39\00:46:37.56 THAT WAS THERE. AND SO, IT'S THE INTERNAL ONE. 00:46:37.56\00:46:42.50 IT SAYS, 'THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU.' SO WHO REIGNS IN 00:46:42.50\00:46:48.50 YOUR HEART? THAT'S HOW YOU DETERMINE IF YOU 00:46:48.50\00:46:51.17 ARE A CHILD OF GOD IS 'IS GOD REIGNING IN MY HEART? 00:46:51.17\00:46:53.94 AM I SURRENDERING TO HIS WORD AND TO HIS WILL?' 00:46:53.94\00:46:56.38 PHILIPPIANS 3:20, "FOR OUR CITIZENSHIP IS IN HEAVEN, FROM 00:46:56.38\00:47:02.12 WHICH WE ALSO EAGERLY WAIT FOR THE SAVIOR, THE LORD JESUS 00:47:02.12\00:47:06.29 CHRIST," - SO THERE'S A TEMPORARY TIME WHERE YOU'VE GOT 00:47:06.29\00:47:09.69 A SPIRITUAL KINGDOM ON THE INSIDE AND YOU'RE GETTING READY 00:47:09.69\00:47:12.69 FOR THE LITERAL KINGDOM THAT'S ALSO ON THE OUTSIDE. 00:47:12.69\00:47:16.16 AND SO IT STARTS OUT WITH THE INTERNAL KINGDOM. 00:47:16.16\00:47:18.83 AND THEN WE'VE GOT ANOTHER VERSE HERE THAT MAKES THAT CLEAR AND 00:47:18.83\00:47:23.14 THAT'S - WELL, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, GO WITH ME TO ACTS CHAPTER 00:47:23.14\00:47:27.18 1. I'M JUST GOING TO READ A PASSAGE HERE - ACTS 1, VERSE 1 - 00:47:27.18\00:47:31.28 NOW WE'RE STUDYING THE BOOK OF LUKE; WHO WROTE ACTS? 00:47:31.28\00:47:34.35 >>LUKE. >>LUKE DID. 00:47:34.35\00:47:36.32 MATTER OF FACT, THEY'RE BOTH WRITTEN TO THE SAME CHARACTER, 00:47:36.32\00:47:38.09 A GUY BY THE NAME OF THEOPHILUS. 00:47:38.09\00:47:39.79 AND HE SAYS, "THE FORMER ACCOUNT I MADE, O THEOPHILUS, OF ALL 00:47:39.79\00:47:44.09 THAT JESUS BEGAN BOTH TO DO AND TEACH, UNTIL THE DAY IN WHICH HE 00:47:44.09\00:47:47.50 WAS TAKEN UP, AFTER THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT HAD GIVEN 00:47:47.50\00:47:50.20 COMMANDMENTS TO THE APOSTLES WHOM HE HAD CHOSEN, TO WHOM HE 00:47:50.20\00:47:54.24 HAD PRESENTED HIMSELF ALIVE AFTER HIS SUFFERING BY MANY 00:47:54.24\00:47:57.44 INFALLIBLE PROOFS, BEING SEEN BY THEM DURING FORTY DAYS AND 00:47:57.44\00:48:01.38 SPEAKING OF THE THINGS PERTAINING TO THE KINGDOM" - 00:48:01.38\00:48:04.51 WHAT DID HE TALK ABOUT? 00:48:04.51\00:48:06.08 - "THINGS PERTAINING TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 00:48:06.08\00:48:08.62 AND BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WITH THEM, HE COMMANDED THEM NOT 00:48:08.62\00:48:11.62 TO DEPART FROM JERUSALEM, BUT TO WAIT FOR THE PROMISE OF THE 00:48:11.62\00:48:14.59 FATHER, 'WHICH,' HE SAID, 'YOU HAVE HEARD FROM ME; FOR JOHN 00:48:14.59\00:48:18.89 TRULY BAPTIZED WITH WATER, BUT YOU SHALL BE BAPTIZED WITH THE 00:48:18.89\00:48:21.60 HOLY SPIRIT NOT MANY DAYS FROM NOW.' THEREFORE, WHEN THEY HAD 00:48:21.60\00:48:25.17 COME TOGETHER THEY ASKED HIM," - NOTICE, IS THIS BEFORE OR AFTER 00:48:25.17\00:48:28.14 THE RESURRECTION? THIS IS HAPPENING AFTER THE 00:48:28.14\00:48:30.74 RESURRECTION BUT BEFORE THE ASCENSION OF JESUS. 00:48:30.74\00:48:34.58 THERE WAS A FORTY-DAY PERIOD OF TIME FROM THE TIME WHEN JESUS 00:48:34.58\00:48:38.31 ROSE FROM THE DEAD UNTIL HE ASCENDED. 00:48:38.31\00:48:41.12 HE ASCENDED FORTY DAYS AFTER HIS RESURRECTION, THEN THERE WERE 00:48:41.12\00:48:44.55 TEN MORE DAYS UNTIL PENTECOST - THAT'S WHY PENTECOST IS CALLED 00:48:44.55\00:48:47.09 PENTECOST, BECAUSE PENTECOST CAME FIFTY DAYS AFTER THE 00:48:47.09\00:48:49.86 PASSOVER. SO DURING THOSE FORTY DAYS, DID 00:48:49.86\00:48:53.19 THEY STILL UNDERSTAND THE KINGDOM? 00:48:53.19\00:48:55.00 - "THEY ASKED HIM, SAYING, 'LORD, WILL YOU AT THIS TIME 00:48:55.00\00:48:57.87 RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL?' AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'IT IS NOT 00:48:57.87\00:49:02.00 FOR YOU TO KNOW TIMES OR SEASONS WHICH THE FATHER HAS PUT IN HIS 00:49:02.00\00:49:05.41 OWN AUTHORITY.'" NOW YOU KNOW WHAT HE'S REPEATING HERE? 00:49:05.41\00:49:07.81 WHEN HE SPEAKS ABOUT THE SECOND COMING, THE LITERAL KINGDOM, 00:49:07.81\00:49:10.91 WHO KNOWS THE DAY AND THE HOUR? 00:49:10.91\00:49:13.15 >>NO ONE. >>NOBODY. 00:49:13.15\00:49:14.82 THE BIBLE SAYS IT'S NOT FOR YOU TO KNOW THE TIMES AND SEASONS. 00:49:14.82\00:49:18.82 WE DON'T KNOW. IS IT GOING TO HAPPEN? 00:49:18.82\00:49:20.69 >>YES. >>ABSOLUTELY. I BELIEVE SOON. 00:49:20.69\00:49:23.16 "BUT YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME 00:49:23.16\00:49:26.33 UPON YOU; AND YOU AND YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES TO ME IN JERUSALEM, 00:49:26.33\00:49:30.23 AND IN ALL JUDEA AND SAMARIA, AND TO THE END OF THE EARTH.'" 00:49:30.23\00:49:33.80 NOW, THIS IS UNDER THE SECTION FOR THURSDAY UNDER WITNESSING - 00:49:33.80\00:49:37.47 AND I'M JUST KIND OF JUMPING AHEAD THERE, QUICKLY. 00:49:37.47\00:49:39.57 WHEN A KING WAS COMING, DID HE JUST PLOP OUT ON THE GROUND AND 00:49:39.57\00:49:46.45 SAY, 'SURPRISE!'? OR DID A KING OFTEN SEND 00:49:46.45\00:49:49.42 REPRESENTATIVES BEFORE HIM TO PREPARE THE WAY? 00:49:49.42\00:49:52.85 WHEN JOHN THE BAPTIST BEGAN TO PREACH, HE SAID, 'I'M THE VOICE 00:49:52.85\00:49:55.79 OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS. PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD. 00:49:55.79\00:49:59.33 SO SOME HAD A JOB OF GOING BEFORE THE KING TO PREPARE THE 00:49:59.33\00:50:02.43 WAY. IS OUR KING COMING? DO WE HAVE A JOB OF PREPARING 00:50:02.43\00:50:06.77 THE WAY SO OTHERS ARE READY TO RECEIVE HIM WHEN HE COMES? 00:50:06.77\00:50:13.17 AND THAT'S UNDER THE SECTION OF WITNESSING . 00:50:13.17\00:50:16.04 SO THERE IS A PHYSICAL KINGDOM THAT HAPPENS WHEN JESUS COMES. 00:50:16.04\00:50:19.61 WHEN DOES THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM BEGIN? IT BEGAN BACK IN THE 00:50:19.61\00:50:26.82 GARDEN OF EDEN WITH THE SACRIFICE OF THE FIRST LAMB. 00:50:26.82\00:50:29.16 YOU CAN'T SAY THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM BEGAN JUST WHEN JESUS 00:50:29.16\00:50:32.93 SAID, 'THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND.' COULD SOMEONE BE PART 00:50:32.93\00:50:36.13 OF GOD'S SPIRITUAL KINGDOM IN THE DAYS OF ABEL OR ENOCH? 00:50:36.13\00:50:39.93 WHENEVER ANYONE INVITED GOD TO BE THE KING OF THEIR LIFE, 00:50:39.93\00:50:43.57 THEY WERE PART OF THAT KINGDOM. 00:50:43.57\00:50:45.11 BUT IN A MORE DEFINITE SENSE, WHEN JESUS BEGAN PREACHING 'THE 00:50:45.11\00:50:49.28 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND' AND JOHN THE BAPTIST BEGAN 00:50:49.28\00:50:52.35 PREACHING, HE WAS GETTING READY TO PAY THE PRICE FOR THE KINGDOM 00:50:52.35\00:50:55.25 WITH HIS LIFE, IT WAS IN A MUCH FULLER SENSE. 00:50:55.25\00:50:57.85 BUT THEN THERE IS A LITERAL KINGDOM THAT IS COMING AND 00:50:57.85\00:51:01.86 THAT'S THE SECOND COMING. NOW, THIS IS - YOU KNOW, DANIEL, 00:51:01.86\00:51:05.56 YOU JUST CAN'T BEAT IT. YOU KNOW WHAT THE CENTRAL 00:51:05.56\00:51:07.03 MESSAGE IS IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL? 00:51:07.03\00:51:08.66 THE KINGDOM. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE KINGDOM. 00:51:08.66\00:51:10.97 HERE'S THE PROPHECY - YOU KNOW, THE GREAT IMAGE, DANIEL CHAPTER 00:51:10.97\00:51:14.00 2 - AND YOU GO TO VERSE 44, IT TALKS ABOUT ALL THESE DIFFERENT 00:51:14.00\00:51:17.54 KINGS AND, YOU REMEMBER, THE GOLD IS WHAT KINGDOM? 00:51:17.54\00:51:20.08 >>BABYLON. >>BABYLON. 00:51:20.08\00:51:21.51 SILVER IS MEDO-PERSIA. THE BRONZE IS - >>GREECE. 00:51:21.51\00:51:24.38 THE IRON IS - >>ROME. >>ROME. 00:51:24.38\00:51:28.45 AND THE IRON AND CLAY IS - >>PAPACY. 00:51:28.45\00:51:31.25 >>IT'S THE - YEAH, IT'S THE CO-MINGLING OF RELIGION IN THE - 00:51:31.25\00:51:33.99 EUROPE - AND THE BREAKDOWN OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 00:51:33.99\00:51:36.19 AND THEN WHAT? A STONE COMES. 00:51:36.19\00:51:39.16 AND YOU READ HERE IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2:44, "AND IN THE DAYS 00:51:39.16\00:51:43.10 OF THESE KINGS" - WHICH IS WHERE WE'RE LIVING NOW - "THE GOD OF 00:51:43.10\00:51:46.67 HEAVEN WILL SET UP A KINGDOM WHICH SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED; 00:51:46.67\00:51:49.84 AND THE KINGDOM SHALL NOT BE LEFT TO OTHER PEOPLE;" - NOW 00:51:49.84\00:51:53.41 SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT WAS WHEN JESUS CAME THE FIRST TIME, BUT 00:51:53.41\00:51:56.14 ARE THERE STILL OTHER KINGDOMS FIGHTING FOR DOMINANCE IN THE 00:51:56.14\00:51:58.95 WORLD FROM THE TIME OF CHRIST'S FIRST COMING TILL NOW? 00:51:58.95\00:52:01.38 ABSOLUTELY. KINGDOM WILL RISE AGAINST 00:52:01.38\00:52:04.02 KINGDOM AND NATION AGAINST NATION. 00:52:04.02\00:52:05.82 WE'RE STILL LIVING DURING THAT TIME. 00:52:05.82\00:52:07.49 ARE THERE WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS? 00:52:07.49\00:52:09.19 SO THERE'S BATTLES BETWEEN KINGDOMS HERE AND THERE'S STILL 00:52:09.19\00:52:12.29 A BATTLE BETWEEN CHRIST'S KINGDOM AND THE DEVIL'S KINGDOM 00:52:12.29\00:52:14.90 IN THIS WORLD, BUT THE TIME IS COMING WHEN IT'S ALL GOING TO BE 00:52:14.90\00:52:18.13 OVER AND THERE'LL ONLY BE ONE KINGDOM AND THAT'S WHAT DANIEL'S 00:52:18.13\00:52:22.34 TALKING ABOUT. - "IT SHALL BREAK IN PIECES AND 00:52:22.34\00:52:24.27 CONSUME ALL THESE KINGDOMS AND IT SHALL STAND FOREVER." 00:52:24.27\00:52:28.44 'NOW I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN 00:52:28.44\00:52:32.68 AND THE FIRST EARTH HAD PASSED AWAY. 00:52:32.68\00:52:34.82 AND ALSO THERE WAS NO MORE SEA. 00:52:34.82\00:52:36.99 AND I, JOHN, SAW THE HOLY CITY, THE NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN 00:52:36.99\00:52:41.09 FROM HEAVEN FROM GOD PREPARED AS A BRIDE, ADORNED FOR HER 00:52:41.09\00:52:44.59 HUSBAND, AND I HEARD A LOUD VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING, 00:52:44.59\00:52:47.66 'BEHOLD THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN AND HE WILL DWELL WITH 00:52:47.66\00:52:51.97 THEM AND THEY WILL BE HIS PEOPLE AND GOD HIMSELF WILL BE THEIR 00:52:51.97\00:52:54.60 GOD AND THE EARTH WILL BE FULL OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD AS 00:52:54.60\00:52:57.87 THE WATERS COVER THE SEA.' IS THERE GOING TO BE ANY OTHER 00:52:57.87\00:53:00.54 CONTESTING KINGDOM AFTER THE MILLENNIUM? YOU KNOW WHAT THE 00:53:00.54\00:53:06.01 BATTLE - THE FINAL BATTLE - OF ARMAGEDDON IS? AFTER THE NEW 00:53:06.01\00:53:09.15 JERUSALEM COMES DOWN WHAND GOG AND MAGOG - ALL THE WICKED 00:53:09.15\00:53:11.85 WHO HAVE EVER LIVED TRY TO ASSAULT THE CITY OF GOD - IS 00:53:11.85\00:53:14.46 THE FINAL BATTLE BETWEEN TWO CONTESTING KINGDOMS. 00:53:14.46\00:53:17.43 AND THEN JESUS COMES UP ON HIS WHITE THRONE. 00:53:17.43\00:53:19.76 WHAT DOES A THRONE REPRESENT? HE REIGNS. 00:53:19.76\00:53:22.33 AND THERE'S THIS GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT AND ALL THE 00:53:22.33\00:53:25.03 OTHER KINGDOMS ARE SUBDUED. THEY ARE ALL JUDGED. 00:53:25.03\00:53:28.00 THEY ARE ALL PUNISHED. HOW MANY PARABLES DID JESUS TELL 00:53:28.00\00:53:30.84 ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD THAT TALKED ABOUT A KING COMING AND 00:53:30.84\00:53:33.61 HE WILL JUDGE THOSE WHO HAD REJECTED HIM? 00:53:33.61\00:53:36.28 AND SO, THIS IS ALL THE CULMINATION OF THE BATTLE 00:53:36.28\00:53:39.31 BETWEEN THE TWO KINGDOMS THAT WE SEE IN THE WORLD HERE TODAY. 00:53:39.31\00:53:42.92 SO IS THERE GOING TO BE A TIME WHEN THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD 00:53:42.92\00:53:46.05 BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF THE LORD AND HIS CHRIST? 00:53:46.05\00:53:50.53 IT'S TALKING ABOUT GOD THE FATHER AND GOD THE SON. 00:53:50.53\00:53:52.76 YEAH, THERE IS GOING TO BE NO MORE BATTLE BETWEEN KINGDOMS. 00:53:52.76\00:53:57.17 NOW, IF YOU WANT TO BE A CITIZEN IN GOD'S KINGDOM, WHEN DOES 00:53:57.17\00:54:01.17 THAT BEGIN? WHEN JESUS COMES? YOU KNOW, THERE WILL BE NO MORE 00:54:01.17\00:54:05.54 VISAS ISSUED AT THE SECOND COMING. 00:54:05.54\00:54:11.75 IF YOU WANT TO BE A CITIZEN OF GOD'S KINGDOM WHEN HE COMES, YOU 00:54:11.75\00:54:18.59 MUST NOW APPLY FOR YOUR VISA AND BECOME NATURALIZED BEFORE HE 00:54:18.59\00:54:24.83 COMES. ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 00:54:24.83\00:54:26.86 IT'LL BE TOO LATE THEN BECAUSE HE KNOWS WHO ARE HIS NOW. 00:54:26.86\00:54:32.03 YOU CAN'T - I MEAN, HOW'S HE GOING TO KNOW IF YOU'RE LOYAL? 00:54:32.03\00:54:34.57 SURE, EVERYBODY'S GOING TO SAY, 'OH, YEAH, YEAH, I'VE DECIDED TO 00:54:34.57\00:54:36.17 CHANGE AND I'M GOING TO WORSHIP YOU.' AND IT'S ONLY REALLY GOING 00:54:36.17\00:54:41.04 TO BE NOW THAT WE HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THE LORD THE 00:54:41.04\00:54:44.11 CHIEF OF OUR LIFE AND TO BECOME CITIZENS IN HIS KINGDOM. 00:54:44.11\00:54:48.92 WHAT IS THE CONSTITUTION FOR GOD'S KINGDOM? 00:54:48.92\00:54:51.25 WHAT'S OUR CONSTITUTION - NORTH AMERICA? YOU KNOW, 'WE THE 00:54:51.25\00:54:56.32 PEOPLE ARE ENDOWED WITH CERTAIN RIGHTS BY OUR CREATOR'? 00:54:56.32\00:54:59.63 THE BIBLE IS THE CONSTITUTION AND THE PROMISES OF THE BIBLE. 00:54:59.63\00:55:06.67 YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT THE - THE MOTIVES ARE AND 00:55:06.67\00:55:09.67 THE FOUNDATIONAL TEACHINGS FOR THE CONSTITUTION OF JESUS' 00:55:09.67\00:55:12.57 KINGDOM, YOU CAN READ BASICALLY THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT THERE IN 00:55:12.57\00:55:16.41 MATTHEW CHAPTER 5 THROUGH 7. IT JUST TALKS ABOUT THE SPIRIT 00:55:16.41\00:55:19.38 OF CHRIST AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE PART OF THAT KINGDOM. 00:55:19.38\00:55:22.75 WHO IS INVITED TO BE PART OF GOD'S KINGDOM? WHOSOEVER WILL. 00:55:22.75\00:55:27.46 LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT DAVID. 00:55:27.46\00:55:28.96 YOU MIGHT THINK 'I'M NOT QUALIFIED. 00:55:28.96\00:55:30.86 I'M NOT GOOD ENOUGH. I'M NOT SMART ENOUGH. 00:55:30.86\00:55:32.56 I'M NOT RICH ENOUGH.' YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT 00:55:32.56\00:55:34.46 HOW DAVID STARTED HIS KINGDOM? 00:55:34.46\00:55:36.16 1 SAMUEL - THIS IS MY LAST VERSE - 1 SAMUEL 22:2, "AND EVERYONE 00:55:36.16\00:55:41.00 WHO WAS IN DISTRESS, EVERYONE WHO WAS IN DEBT, AND EVERYONE 00:55:41.00\00:55:46.51 WHO WAS DISCONTENTED" - THE POOR IN SPIRIT - "GATHERED TO HIM. 00:55:46.51\00:55:51.18 SO HE BECAME A CAPTAIN OVER THEM. 00:55:51.18\00:55:53.75 AND THERE WERE ABOUT FOUR HUNDRED MEN WITH HIM." 00:55:53.75\00:55:56.32 THEY GREW INTO DAVID'S MIGHTY MEN THAT LATER GREW INTO THE 00:55:56.32\00:55:58.19 CABINET OF HIS KINGDOM. HOW DID THEY START OUT? 00:55:58.19\00:56:00.96 POOR AND WRETCHED - 'BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT.' - 00:56:00.96\00:56:04.56 WHO DID JESUS USE TO START HIS KINGDOM? 00:56:04.56\00:56:07.13 DID HE GO TO THE UNIVERSITIES OF JERUSALEM? 00:56:07.13\00:56:09.86 DID HE GO TO THE MILITARY ACADEMIES? OR DID JESUS GO AND 00:56:09.86\00:56:14.60 GET FISHERMEN, TAX COLLECTORS, SHEPHERDS - ALL THAT WERE IN 00:56:14.60\00:56:18.44 DISTRESS, ALL THAT WERE IN DEBT, AND ALL THAT WERE POOR AND HE 00:56:18.44\00:56:23.24 MADE A KINGDOM OUT OF THEM THAT TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN AND 00:56:23.24\00:56:25.81 THAT MEANS THAT EVERYBODY HERE, EVERYONE WATCHING, YOU CAN 00:56:25.81\00:56:29.02 QUALIFY TO BE PART OF GOD'S KINGDOM. 00:56:29.02\00:56:30.79 WE HAVE RUN OUT OF TIME, BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU HOW TO DO THAT. 00:56:30.79\00:56:33.29 WE HAVE A FREE BOOK I HOPE YOU'LL SEND FOR AND IT'S CALLED 00:56:33.29\00:56:36.36 THREE STEPS TO HEAVEN . 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