1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 I feel the same, you find the God holding me 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,000 He's right for me 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,000 You're the sun set free 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:18,000 You're with me in peace 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,000 I'm a child of God 6 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Yes I am 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:30,000 In my mother's house 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,000 There's a place for me 9 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,000 I'm a child of God 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Yes I am 11 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,000 I am chosen, I'm forsaken 12 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,000 I am who you stand for 13 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,000 You are for me, not against me 14 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,000 I am who you say I am 15 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,000 I am chosen, I'm forsaken 16 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,000 I am who you say I am 17 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,000 You are for me, not against me 18 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,000 I am who you say I am 19 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Go pray and tell me 20 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,000 To be a sanctuary 21 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Tell me, child and true 22 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,000 With thanksgiving 23 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,000 I'll be a living 24 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Sanctuary of you 25 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Lord prepare me 26 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,000 To be a sanctuary 27 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Child and holy 28 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Child and true 29 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,000 With thanksgiving 30 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,000 I'll be a living 31 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Sanctuary 32 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Alright, so we are pretty deep in on the discussion of Kingdom of God 33 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,000 The first week, I'm just going to give you just a brief, very brief recap 34 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,000 We talked considerably about the King of the Kingdom 35 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,000 And we looked at how the Bible teaches very clearly 36 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:30,000 He would be a son of David, how he would rise, how he would take, and much more than that 37 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,000 How he would take his place as the King of the Kingdom 38 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,000 And then last week we talked about 39 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Two views of the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of God coming 40 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,000 One of those views essentially, without getting really detailed on, one of those views essentially 41 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Was that the Kingdom of God had already come, it was already here 42 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,000 In its fullness and there was nothing more coming, there was never going to be any more Kingdom of God than there already is 43 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,000 And kind of disallowed 44 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,000 The perusia, disallowed the end times where we get 45 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,000 Lifted by Jesus and go to heaven kind of thing. The other one of which then said 46 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,000 That the Kingdom of God has not yet come at all 47 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,000 And so it's all future, it has not yet come 48 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:18,000 And the problem with those obviously 49 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Is that to some degree they contradict scripture 50 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:26,000 And there's a couple of places where you go like, well what about this? What about that? 51 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,000 One of them for example basically says Jesus has to have been mistaken 52 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Because Jesus was preaching the coming of the Kingdom of God and so he had to have been mistaken 53 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,000 If he was preaching that, right? And it's not coming, and that kind of thing 54 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:42,000 So today we're going to look at the third and what I'll say is the final 55 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Theory on the Kingdom of God. I already burst the bubble 56 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Last week and said this is what I subscribe to, okay? But I'm going to ask you to do 57 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Your own thing, whatever that is. I hope that by the time we're done with this you'll go, yeah this makes a lot of sense to me 58 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,000 It fits and you'll go with that, but if not, if you prefer one or the other two 59 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,000 You and I are not going to fight over this, that could be a problem. We can debate it 60 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,000 We can talk about it if you want, whatever, but this is what 61 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:10,000 This is the piece that we need to have all three options to choose from 62 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,000 That's where we're at, right? So if you look on the middle of your worksheet 63 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Slightly above the middle of the page you'll see a number one circled and then next to it are the 64 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,000 Hardest two words you're going to write today, those two blanks 65 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Of all of these, these will be the hardest. And it is inaugurated 66 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Eschatology, okay? And so I'm going to spell it to the best of my ability 67 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,000 It's I-N-A-U-G, inaug 68 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Your, U-R-A-T-E-D, I-N-A-U-G 69 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,000 I-N-A-U-G, inaug, U-R-A-T-E-D 70 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Inaugurated. And it's like, the word means to 71 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Bring something about, bring it into being, to declare it's happening, to make it 72 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,000 To get it started. So obviously there's the president's inaugural speech because he 73 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Just became the president, right? The inauguration of the president is when the president 74 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Becomes the president, that kind of thing. So it's inaugurated. The second word is 75 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Eschatology, we had this word last week, it's E-S-C 76 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,000 H-A-T-O-L-O-G-Y. Anytime you see 77 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,000 In English language, anything that ends in O-L-G-Y, it usually means the study of something or 78 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Science of something. And the es-gate, that beginning, means we're talking about 79 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,000 The end times, right? So inaugurated eschatology is the 80 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Name of the doctrine that we are going to study today 81 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,000 About the kingdom of God. Remember the question is, what is the kingdom of God 82 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Overall, what is it, and has it come, etc. Inaugurated 83 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Eschatology gives us this theory that we're about to look at. 84 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,000 And they would certainly say it's not a theory. Now if you follow the arrow down around to the left 85 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Under the mountains there, under the hills, with a little open grave that's cut off 86 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,000 So the word at the top, under the hills there, is already 87 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,000 A-L-R-E-A-D-Y, already. And then the two words under it 88 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Is not yet. And this phrase is the key phrase 89 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,000 For inaugurated eschatology. Already, but not yet. 90 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Does anybody kind of see the contradiction there? It's already, but not yet. 91 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,000 Under the hills. Follow the arrow down to the left, it goes under the hills, 92 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Already, not yet. Under the hills, above the holding hands. 93 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Already, not yet. And so basically, you could call this 94 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,000 Already, not yet eschatology, if you wanted to, because it's like 95 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,000 It's all wound up into one thing. So if you don't want to ever deal with the word inaugurated 96 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Again, then you could just set that one aside and call it already, not yet, all those are words we know 97 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Eschatology. Alright? It means that it's the king of God 98 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Has already come, but it is not yet here in its fullness. 99 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,000 So just to give you a real quick example of this, let's say 100 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,000 It's the 21st of December and you get packages in the mail from grandma, grandpa 101 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Uncle, dad, mom, somebody who lives across the country, your brothers in the military 102 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,000 You get a package in the mail and it's wrapped in brown wrapping paper 103 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,000 And it's tied up with a bow and it says, do not open until 104 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,000 Christmas. That package has already come, but whatever's 105 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Inside of it is not yet. It's here, but it's not fully 106 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Explored. You don't know what it is, you can't see the inside of it. That's what we mean when we say 107 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,000 Already, not yet. It's here, but it's still not fully 108 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Here. It's not fully understood, fully in practice. So already 109 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Not yet is the key phrase for this type of eschatology 110 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,000 Then you'll see two hands, that's my best attempt to draw 111 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,000 Two hands holding there and the top one has a wedding ring 112 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,000 And the word on the left of the hands is present, P-R-E-S-E-N-T 113 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Present, and the word on the right is future. And so what this 114 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Eschatology does is it looks at all the parables of Jesus, all 115 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,000 The stories of Jesus, all the teachings of Jesus, and it says 116 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Okay, we realize there is tension between this parable and this 117 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:54,000 Parable. This parable over here seems to say the kingdom of God is not yet 118 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Come. This parable over here says the kingdom of God is already come. 119 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:02,000 So we realize there's tension there between those two parables, and 120 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Since they both have to be true, then it's already not yet. And so 121 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,000 It marries together the concepts from the different parables 122 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:14,000 The stories of Jesus, the teachings of Jesus, things that Jesus said, right? It marries those things 123 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:18,000 Together to come up with this combined idea of the kingdom 124 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Of God is already here, but it is not yet fulfilled. 125 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,000 It's not complete, okay? Which was true, interestingly 126 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Enough, that is the way it was in Jesus' day. When Jesus was teaching 127 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,000 He was clearly saying the kingdom of God is here, because He said so many things, a couple 128 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,000 Of will look at it before we're done, that said the kingdom of God is here, among you, with you, on you 129 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,000 We're doing it right now, this is the kingdom of God kind of thing. But also He said it was yet coming. 130 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:46,000 But there was that other one that said, remember there was that other theory, that said 131 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,000 When Jesus was saying it had already come, it had just already come. 132 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:54,000 And then they just disallowed His teachings of it's yet coming, He just said, well He was just mistaken 133 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,000 About that, right? And so we don't want to do that, we don't want to call Jesus mistaken 134 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,000 And He clearly teaches it already, and He clearly teaches it not yet 135 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,000 And this theory marries the two together, and it says, yes there's tension 136 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,000 And by the way, there is sometimes tension between me and my wife, even though we are married 137 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Right? It does happen, that's the nature of relationships, between me and my friends 138 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,000 Even though we are dedicated to one another, between me and my brothers in Christ, between me and the church 139 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Whatever, tension exists in relationships, and this says that the present 140 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Reality of the kingdom of God, and the future reality of the kingdom of God, while they are in tension 141 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,000 While there's tension between them, they are married together, okay? 142 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,000 So now we're working down, just straight down the page, just keep going straight down below that 143 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,000 And I've given you most of these words, because they're just bigger words, not all of them 144 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:42,000 But there's some of them there, so you see future consummation, okay? 145 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Right down below it says future consummation, that word is consummation 146 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,000 And consummation means something coming into completeness, or whatever 147 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,000 And then you see stair steps that go up to the right, and it says present 148 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Occurrence, so in other words, the kingdom of God is happening now, and by the way 149 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,000 I have personally seen the kingdom of God happening in my lifetime, so if someone wants to say to me 150 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,000 The kingdom of God is not at all calm yet, I would have a problem with that, because I've seen it 151 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,000 I've seen amazing things happen, that is God doing something, changing people, helping people 152 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Sustaining people, doing miracles, etc. All of those things are kingdom of God 153 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,000 Things, so I would say that's present occurrence, okay? However, I also 154 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:22,000 Understand that we've got a lot of messed up things going on in the world right now, we've got people that don't agree with 155 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,000 God, that fight against God, there are liars and thieves that seem to be prospering 156 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:30,000 I mean, it's just, it's a messed up place, and so I get that it is not done 157 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,000 We're not done yet, right? So you have present occurrence and consummation 158 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:38,000 In between them is a little clock, do you see the little clock? Now what's 159 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,000 Interesting about the little clock? It's going backwards, okay? 160 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,000 This is the key, in fact, I want to say to you, I'm about to expose to you 161 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,000 Take it if you want it, don't take it if you don't want it, okay? But I'm about to expose to you one of the 162 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Most important things about Christianity that most Christians don't get 163 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Okay? And it's tough to fathom, so keep your singing cap on right now, I'm going to give it to you 164 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Okay? The present occurrence, by our understanding 165 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:06,000 Present occurrence is what we see, what's happening, right? Or what happened in Jesus' day, that was his present occurrence 166 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,000 The future consummation of the kingdom of God seems like that will 167 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,000 Happen down the road, Jesus comes on August 4, 2049 168 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Right? That's the day, that's the Perugia, that's when the kingdom of God 169 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Comes in its fullness, that's what we think, I submit to you that Christianity 170 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Is founded on a different notion, okay? That's not 171 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Actually the way it works, the present day occurrence of the kingdom 172 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Of God is founded on, based on 173 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:38,000 The future arrival of the king, you follow that? So Jesus 174 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Is going to come, it's set, it's not like he might come, right? 175 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:46,000 And it's not like there's an appointment, like it's one o'clock on that day, we know that, so we're going to get 176 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Everything done the night before when he comes to show up at the house, we want to make sure he's all nice and clean and neat 177 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Or whatever, it's not like that, Jesus is for sure coming 178 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,000 In fact, I'll say to you that you can see this in its simplest form 179 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,000 When a Christian's struggling, and I've been there many times in my life, since I became a Christian 180 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:06,000 You know, in the last two and a half decades, whatever I've been through this, and I'm struggling 181 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,000 And I'll think about how, whatever I'm going through right now 182 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Is going to be done then, right? So I know one day I'll be 183 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:18,000 In heaven, and this will all be gone, how do I know 184 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,000 One day I'll be in heaven, and this will all be gone, because that's a fact 185 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Now so then what happens based on that fact? I have hope, I have faith 186 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:30,000 I make my decisions accordingly, right? I get up another day 187 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,000 I get out of bed, I eat, maybe I eat better than I would have otherwise 188 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,000 I cut out sinful behaviors, right? As we talked about on Sunday 189 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,000 I try to provide moral excellence, right? Why am I doing those things? 190 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,000 Well I'm doing those things because of the present occurrence of the Kingdom of God, right? 191 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:50,000 No, those things are the present occurrence of the Kingdom of God 192 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:54,000 I'm doing those things because of the future, in that moment, I'm doing those things because of the future 193 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,000 Consummation of the Kingdom of God. So we think of 194 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:02,000 What's happening right now is based on what happened yesterday 195 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Last year, last month, AD 33 or whatever year it was 196 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:10,000 For sure that Jesus died on the cross, 33, 34, 35 depending on what theologian 197 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Connects how many festivals together, blah blah blah, right? So that 198 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:18,000 The year that Jesus died, we say that what we're doing now is based on what Jesus did 199 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:22,000 But it actually isn't like that, you have to stretch your minds a little bit to understand 200 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,000 What your heart already knows, and that is that the salvation of Jesus which occurred 201 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,000 That day, that really almost three days, right? 202 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,000 So he was crucified and raised again on the third day but it wasn't a full three days 203 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:38,000 Those events, they were the consummation 204 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Of what the prophets looked for, right? All the prophets were waiting to see that 205 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Salvation, and why do prophets get out of bed and still talk about 206 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,000 What God wants them to say, even though they know they might get thrown in a well 207 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Or beaten or crucified, well not crucified back then, right? But flogged to death 208 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,000 Or drawn in quarter, why do they do that? Because they trust 209 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,000 In the way that God has made, which hasn't come, which wouldn't come for another 210 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Five hundred years or a thousand years, they were looking at the future consummation 211 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Of what God was pointing to, and it was affecting the kingdom of 212 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:14,000 God in them, so if you follow my logic, the idea 213 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Of this form of eschatology, this inaugurated eschatology 214 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Is that it's already not yet, and you almost could say 215 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,000 The coming future of the kingdom of God is before 216 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,000 The present reality of the kingdom of God, temporally speaking, like the clock 217 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Is working backwards, now the clock can only work backwards because does God ever break 218 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,000 His promises? No, God never breaks His promises, He said it will happen, it will happen 219 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,000 That's it, it's gonna happen, what day, I don't know, and He also said I can't know 220 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,000 So we know it's going to happen, and because of that, what's happening today is 221 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Based on that, the same thing happens to people who are not in the kingdom of God 222 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:54,000 So for example, you see this with people who maybe they're into Satan worship 223 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Or they're worshiping money, or they're worshiping sex, or whatever, right? 224 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,000 And when it looks imminent to them, that they'll no longer be able 225 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:06,000 To get the thing that they want, or that the thing that they want can no longer 226 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Provide for them the things that they want, right? So like for example, if they're worshiping 227 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Money, and suddenly it's obvious that they're not gonna have any money, what happens? 228 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:18,000 They break down, they stress out, they scramble, I'm gonna 229 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Fix this one way or another, right? They clutch it even harder, they'll work 230 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:26,000 More hours, they'll go up from 60 hours to 80 hours, they push, push, push, push 231 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Whatever, they do all of these things. Well what's happening there 232 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Is a present day occurrence of the kingdom of Satan 233 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Or the kingdom of, you call it money, but who's behind the money, right? 234 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,000 You call it adultery, but who's behind the adultery, whatever, the present day 235 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,000 Occurrence of the kingdom of evil, because they see a future 236 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:50,000 Consummation coming to be, which is that that kingdom falls 237 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:54,000 And when they start to think I'm gonna fall, I'm not gonna have what I want, then they take 238 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Steps to try to preserve that in the present day. So it 239 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,000 Works in both kingdoms, if you will, and I know everybody wants to call 240 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:06,000 The kingdom of Satan like it's multiple kingdoms, cause we wanna 241 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:10,000 Have whether it's the kingdom of money, the kingdom of sex, whatever, but it really isn't like that, all of those 242 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:14,000 False gods all kind of boil down to one thing, okay? So this inaugurated 243 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Eschatology is not simply saying that the kingdom of God 244 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,000 Began when Jesus walked on the earth, that is incorrect 245 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:26,000 The kingdom of God did not begin, God has always been king, right? And 246 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:30,000 He didn't start being king when Jesus came, he was king in Moses' day 247 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:34,000 He was king in Abraham's day, he was king in Isaac's day, any of them that got saved 248 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Got saved believing in a way that God was going to make, which was the future 249 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,000 Consummation of the arrival of a messiah 250 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Or whatever they believed, whatever they knew, right? Some of them just said, whatever way you make God, that's fine by me 251 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,000 I'm good, I'm totally in, whatever way you make, and they didn't have any concept of a coming messiah 252 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:54,000 But some of them had a good concept of a coming messiah, and some of them even understood 253 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,000 That He would be a suffering messiah, right? It depends on who you're looking at 254 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,000 And they were living out a present day occurrence of the kingdom of God 255 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Based on a future consummation, as if you could say the clock was working backwards 256 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,000 Now it's not, the clock is still working forwards, time is still unveiling 257 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:14,000 And we are moving closer to the future consummation becoming a present 258 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:18,000 Occurrence, okay? So I hope I didn't lose you there, the bottom line is 259 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:22,000 The thing that Jesus is yet to do is the most exciting thing 260 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:26,000 That we'll see if it happens in our lifetime in the kingdom of God, probably 261 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:30,000 Maybe after our own salvation, okay? Another example of this 262 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,000 That theologians have used is D-Day versus V-Day 263 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,000 So we're talking about World War II, obviously when we say here D-Day, that's when they 264 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:42,000 Invaded Europe, when the allies invaded Europe, it was D-Day, disembarkment day 265 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:46,000 Right? So they invaded Europe, and from the moment they invaded Europe 266 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:50,000 It was a certainty, I didn't know what the outworld was going to look like, but it was a 267 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:54,000 Certainty that the allies would win the war, it was settled, really, they didn't have victory 268 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,000 But from the moment they managed to get into Europe, there was a question whether they would get in or not 269 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:02,000 But once they got in, they pretty much knew they would win, now what would the cost be, how long would it take 270 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:06,000 What would the process be, etc. They didn't know for sure 271 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,000 But they pretty much knew it was going to be done by the time, if they could get in there, they pretty much knew 272 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:14,000 It was going to be done, they could see their own war engine, they could see the resources that they had 273 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,000 They knew that the rest of the world was all, everybody was behind them, everybody was producing 274 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:22,000 At the massive rate that they were, the United States was at the point where they were producing 275 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:26,000 100 tanks a day, or whatever, it's like, you almost couldn't have enough men to operate 276 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:30,000 The tanks, you know, the war engine was so moving that once they 277 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Burst that bubble, that border of Europe, there was almost no way they could lose 278 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:38,000 But they hadn't won, so they had the present day occurrence 279 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Of invading Europe, but they did not have the future consummation of the victory 280 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:46,000 In Europe, they got that on V-Day, okay, now the ultimate 281 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:50,000 V-Day then, for us, is the Perusia, and that's what goes in the word 282 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:54,000 There, starts with a P, it's the only other kind of tricky one to spell 283 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:58,000 It's the Perusia, it's P-A-R-O-U-S-I-A 284 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:02,000 And that's generally when Jesus comes back for his church, that's what we're really talking about 285 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:06,000 Now you can get into more detail as far as what order of events 286 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,000 Some people think there's going to be a tribulation before the church is pulled 287 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Some people think that the church will be pulled and then the tribulation, some people think that 288 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:18,000 There will be a literal thousand year reign, that's a big question, Revelation 20 talks about an 289 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Actual reign, Jesus reigns on the earth with the church kind of under 290 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,000 Him, and he reigns over all mankind on the earth for a thousand years before 291 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:30,000 And the order of the events exactly is hotly debated, is that a literal 292 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:34,000 Reign, is it a figurative reign, will it happen before the Perusia, will it happen 293 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,000 After, so you can hotly debate those things, but you don't have to hotly 294 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:42,000 Debate them to be a Christian, you don't have to do that, in fact I don't really recommend 295 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,000 You do that, but you do kind of have to have in your 296 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:50,000 Mind what is your motivation or what is God trying to say to you 297 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:54,000 About the kingdom of God, and that's what this four lessons is all about 298 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,000 So now if you'll notice that, that has a big kind of arrow down to the right 299 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:02,000 All of that, the present occurrence, future consummation, V-Day, Perusia 300 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,000 Then there's an arrow down to the right, and we start on the top of this patch of 301 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Blanks over here with the G, and I'm going to give you that one, it's growing 302 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:14,000 So the kingdom of God is pictured in the New Testament 303 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:18,000 As growing, there's no doubt about that, in fact 304 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:22,000 Jesus was talking about a growing that would get going, that would 305 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,000 Really start taking off, it's growing, and so we're going to play a little game 306 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:30,000 With these, the better we play the game the faster we'll get through them 307 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:34,000 So we're going to start down on the left hand side, there was a parable that Jesus gave 308 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,000 About growing, or about the kingdom of God and its growing type nature 309 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,000 And it's a small word, and the second word starts with an S 310 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:46,000 One of RJ's favorite parables I think, and are you going to take a stab at it? If it's a small word 311 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:50,000 It's probably what? The sower, it's a parable of the sower 312 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:54,000 That's right, and so the parable of the sower is the farmer going out 313 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:58,000 Drops some seed along the way, and you see in that 314 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,000 The primary qualification for entering the kingdom of God and experiencing the kingdom of God 315 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,000 Is to be near the word, near the truth, near what's 316 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Being delivered from God, and so if you're just in the proximity, right, so 317 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:14,000 The trail, the road, could have got the kingdom of God, but it 318 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Really doesn't get a chance to because the birds pick it up and eat it before the seed can take root 319 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,000 The thin soil gets the kingdom of God, but there's no real roots 320 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:26,000 You know, there, then the thorny soil gets the kingdom of God 321 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,000 But then the thorns, the cares and the riches of this world choke it out, there's no real fruit from it 322 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:34,000 And then finally the sower drops some seed where it was meant to be, which is on the field 323 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,000 And the kingdom of God goes hog wild and produces fruit a thousand fold 324 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:42,000 Or whatever, okay, so that's the parable of the sower, and it's talking 325 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,000 About the kingdom of God growing from the teaching of God very clearly 326 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:50,000 The next one, okay, I gave you the first letter of every one, parable, give it to me 327 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:54,000 The mustard seed, parable of the mustard seed, easy one 328 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,000 For this purpose, for what they're talking about, the mustard seed is such a small seed 329 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:02,000 Planted, boom, grows up, big bush, everybody shelters in it, so 330 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:06,000 In the parable, the key point, the huge point is 331 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Tiny seed, big bush, right, by the way, the mustard seed is not the 332 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,000 Small seed, and the big bush it produces is not the biggest bush, right, or the biggest tree 333 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,000 That wasn't the point, it was just the connection between this tiny thing produces this great big thing 334 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:22,000 And so the kingdom of God is produced as growing, is pictured as growing 335 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Okay, going straight down, we got small word, then starts with an L 336 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,000 I'm gonna take a stab at it, these are all parables, and fairly famous 337 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:34,000 The, the, what, it's an L, yep, the, 338 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Hint, we don't call it this anymore, and we do, because the Bible says so 339 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:42,000 But people don't, okay, it's the leaven, the leaven, right 340 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:46,000 So the kingdom of God is like leaven, leaven works through a batch of dough 341 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:50,000 And the whole dough expands, right, expands through the whole batch of dough, and the dough expands 342 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,000 And then you can make bread out of it, so kingdom of God is pictured as yeast 343 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:58,000 Elsewhere, sin is also pictured as yeast, but it's in a different 344 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:02,000 Context, okay, so we're not talking about that, we're talking about the parable of the leaven, he says 345 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,000 The kingdom of God is like that, and it expands, okay, now we're down on the bottom 346 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:10,000 This one shouldn't be too hard, three blanks, small word in the middle 347 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,000 First word starts with a T, third word starts with a W, I did do it a little bit tricky, so it could be a little harder 348 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:18,000 Aren't that many parables that are blank and blank 349 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Correct, tares and wheat, that's right, tares and wheat 350 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,000 Okay, and we talked this one through just a little bit last week, and it was an argument 351 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,000 For those who were saying that the kingdom of God was going to come in the future 352 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,000 They use it to say, in the future, Jesus is going to harvest and sort everything, right 353 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Okay, so the tares and the wheat supports a coming kingdom 354 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:42,000 But notice it also supports a kingdom in the present because you do have wheat 355 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:46,000 You do have a good producing crop, it's just infected with a bad producing crop, right 356 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,000 And then we're going to work our way up the right hand side 357 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,000 And the next one then says small word, then a second word that starts with a D 358 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,000 The D, I mentioned this one last week, and most people hadn't heard of it I think 359 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:02,000 Once, dinosaurs, the dragnet, very good 360 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,000 She looked back at her last week's worksheet and found it, good job 361 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,000 Okay, you're a researcher and a half, yes, the dragnet 362 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,000 And the dragnet, Aaron reminded us last week that the dragnet is the parable 363 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,000 He was, I think, the only one who really kind of remembered it, was the parable 364 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Was the fish, and he takes out all the good fish and he 365 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:26,000 Gets rid of all the bad fish, right, and so this idea that eventually there will be a sorting 366 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,000 But notice, there are good fish, right, the netting 367 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Nets good fish, it just also nets some bad fish, and the bad fish ultimately have to be dealt with 368 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:38,000 But in the meantime, we're netting good fish, so we have the 369 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,000 Already but not yet harvest of good fish, alright, so this one we're going to play a little game with 370 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,000 Alright, and I've given you, so this is like 371 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,000 What's that show, spin the wheel, Wheel of Fortune, except you don't make any money at all 372 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,000 Never, nothing, okay, yes, so you can't buy a bottle yet 373 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,000 Because you haven't got one right yet, sorry, sorry, okay 374 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:02,000 So if you need a consonant, you can go, but if you can get it right off 375 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,000 First word has three letters and it starts with a T, second word has 376 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:10,000 Four letters, starts with an S, the next word has a G at the beginning 377 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,000 And a G at the end, total of seven letters, the next word starts with an S 378 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:18,000 And has a T, the third letter from the end, so I've given you 379 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,000 S, T, and G, there are no other STs and Gs in there, you want to take a stab at it 380 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,000 You can ask for a consonant, if you get it, I'll give you three strikes as a group 381 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Before you lose 382 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:34,000 So there are four words total, there's two on the top 383 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,000 One long one across the middle, and then one, yep, okay, anybody want a consonant? 384 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Anybody want a consonant? 385 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:46,000 You can get an R, yes sir, and so there is an R, the fourth letter on the bottom word is an R 386 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:50,000 So it's S, space, space, R, and the second letter 387 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:54,000 In the middle row is an R, so it's GR 388 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:58,000 So we've got two Rs, now you can buy a bottle, go 389 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:02,000 Yes sir, lots of Es, okay, the third letter in the first word is an E 390 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:06,000 So it's T, space, E, the two middle letters of the 391 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Second word are Es, so it's S, E, E, and then in the long word 392 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,000 At the bottom it's S, E, so the second letter is an E, and then right after 393 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,000 The R, there's an E, so you've got S, E, space, R, E, 394 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,000 T, space, space, need a consonant 395 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,000 Or you can just guess it if you can guess it 396 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,000 Okay, letter N, okay, yes sir, there is an N 397 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,000 So the next to the last letter in the middle row, so it goes 398 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,000 NG, which is probably not a surprise, lots of words end in 399 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,000 NG, so now you could get a vowel if you want a vowel, the seed 400 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:46,000 Growing secretly, that is correct, the seed growing 401 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,000 Secretly, and so with that 402 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,000 Amazing revelation, we will read this very short parable 403 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:58,000 From the Bible, imagine that 404 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,000 It's in Mark chapter 4, I think 405 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,000 26-29, I think it's Mark, yep, okay, here we go 406 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,000 The king of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil, and goes 407 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,000 To bed at night, and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts up and grows 408 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,000 How he himself does not know, in other words he doesn't know how the seed grows 409 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,000 The soil produces crops by itself, first the blade, then the head 410 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:26,000 Then the mature grain in the head, but when the crop permits, he immediately 411 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,000 Puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come, so this 412 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:34,000 Is a parable about the seed growing without the 413 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Person knowing how, it's all about that, it's all about the fact 414 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:42,000 That it's growing, and the fact that he doesn't really know how the system works 415 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:46,000 Okay, and we can say that there's the kingdom of God 416 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,000 Already, not yet fully, present, growing 417 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:54,000 But we don't really know how it's growing, and then you can 418 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:58,000 Imagine that somebody who doesn't like that, and I could be that 419 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,000 Person very easily, I like to know, like I want to nail it down man 420 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,000 Let's figure out how this thing works, I'm the guy that disassembles electronics when they stop 421 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,000 Working to figure out how they work, I still do that to this day, okay 422 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,000 So not that I do figure out how they work, I just try to figure out how they work, but anyway, so I'm that 423 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,000 Guy, yeah, I'm that guy, so if you can see 424 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,000 That you can't figure out how it's growing, then you can see how easy it would be to say 425 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,000 It's just already done, it's not growing, it's just already here, there's no more coming 426 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,000 Right, so you're denying the fact that it's growing, in order to not have to deal with it 427 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,000 Or, you could say, well it hasn't come yet, we can't understand it now, because it hasn't come yet 428 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,000 But if it's here present, then it's in your face, and the kingdom of God is advancing 429 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:42,000 And you can't quite figure out how it's advancing, but that is just 430 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:46,000 Distressing, you know, for some personalities it's just distressing 431 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,000 And that's why we have the other two theories, which are quite extreme 432 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:54,000 Okay, so we're gonna go down now, go basically 433 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,000 Straight to the left on the other side of that squiggly line, which that's a little arrow 434 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,000 In the middle of it there, and you've got three words, okay, and you see the last one I've given you 435 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:06,000 It's end, and the top one is the opposite of end, and it is 436 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:10,000 Beginning, very good, so the kingdom of God 437 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,000 Exists, there's the end, and what is the end of the waiting, or the 438 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:18,000 When will the complete consummation of the kingdom of God be? 439 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,000 The perusia, right, when Jesus comes again, the second coming of Christ, so that's the end 440 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,000 That's the fulfillment, that's the complete consummation, if you will 441 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,000 Whether or not he begins a thousand year reign, or whatever, he's coming and it's done 442 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,000 The beginning of the kingdom of God is in the beginning, it's all the way back 443 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,000 In the beginning, but now wait a minute, does it actually flip around? 444 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,000 Is anybody okay with it flipping around? I'm pretty okay with it 445 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,000 What if the beginning is when Jesus comes again, and it's in totality 446 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,000 And we're working to get there, I understand time, tick-tock, tick-tock 447 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:54,000 We're working to get there, but it's in totality at that moment in time 448 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,000 And everything else is actually founded on that moment, you can only do that 449 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,000 If 100% for sure he's coming, then everything else is founded on that moment 450 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,000 Either way, it's fine, there's a beginning and there's an end, if that's 451 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,000 The beginning of it, that's really the totality of it, right, then you could 452 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:14,000 Almost say the end of it was when Adam sinned, and he gave up the kingship 453 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,000 Himself, and who gave Adam the kingship again? God did 454 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:22,000 So prior to that, the kingdom was God, and Adam and Eve 455 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,000 So you can look at it however you want to look at it, but here's 456 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,000 What's really important, between the beginning and the end is the 457 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,000 Starts with a P, you want to take a stab at it, it's harder, nope, Perugia's later 458 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,000 You can say the present, that would work, the process 459 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,000 The present, the present day occurrence, present occurrence, the process, we're getting there 460 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,000 How are we moving between the two points, if you will 461 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,000 Whatever word you want to use there, it starts with a P, okay, and then now you've got just a little bit left 462 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,000 We're almost done, but we have a little bit of scripture we're going to do too, but we're almost done 463 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,000 So we've got an arrow leaving end, it goes down between the NG and 464 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:02,000 King, which is like kingdom, okay, it goes down between there 465 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,000 Then it goes up the D on the right hand side, it goes through the crown 466 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,000 And it goes all the way up to the question which is in the upper right hand corner 467 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,000 And it says, if there are kingdom values 468 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:18,000 In other words, if there are rules by which this kingdom works, not rules 469 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,000 Like don't do this, don't do that, but if there are guidelines, like gravity 470 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:26,000 The earth has gravity, is it the way people think it is, I don't know 471 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,000 But if you let go of something, it falls, so we know how things work, we expect 472 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,000 To let go of things and they fall, we're like oh and they don't fall, we go, whoa, that's weird 473 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:38,000 That's not supposed to happen, right, there are ways things work, that's what I mean 474 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,000 So if there are ways things work in the kingdom, when 475 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,000 Not where, but when should they be? 476 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:50,000 Yes, today, okay, I like both those answers, alright, so if you look on the 477 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,000 Blanks underneath, what I put was, in us 478 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,000 More and more, based on what Jesus taught, if you are 479 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:02,000 Saved, the kingdom of God is in you, and I can back that up beautifully 480 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:06,000 With Jesus' words from Luke 17 481 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,000 Verses 20 and 21, you might even kinda like, sorta like 482 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,000 I might be slipping into your head right now before I even go there and read them, cause they are 483 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,000 Kinda, especially when you think about the kingdom of God being in you, or whatever 484 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,000 You might have heard a phrase from there or something, but I'll read it, it's Luke 17, 20 485 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,000 Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God 486 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,000 Was coming, oh, imagine that, there were holy men who wanted to know when the kingdom God was coming 487 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:34,000 Not new, okay, having been 488 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,000 Questioned by them, he answered them and said, the kingdom of God is not coming with 489 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,000 Signs to be observed, nor will they say, look 490 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,000 Here it is, there it is, for behold the kingdom 491 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,000 Of God is in your midst, there's that word again, okay, now this is 492 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,000 The New American Standard Version, if you went and read a King James Bible, that 493 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,000 Last word there would be translated differently, if you go read an NIV Bible, that word 494 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,000 Last there would be translated differently, so when you see a word in the Bible 495 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,000 In three different translations, it's translated differently, what does that tell you? 496 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,000 That would be a good way to do it, but there is an inference 497 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,000 Right, it tells you, there's gotta be something, why would somebody translate the same word, Josh 498 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,000 You're kind of almost our resident linguist, why would somebody translate the same 499 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:22,000 Word into the same language and translate it three different ways? Nuance? 500 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,000 Good, I like that, context, good, I like that, both of those things are true 501 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,000 So it's situational, now mind you, we would link the situation to 502 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:34,000 What Jesus is saying here, what is he saying, he's talking about the kingdom of God, he's talking about the fact 503 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,000 That they cannot see it, they cannot see exactly when it comes 504 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,000 By interpreting signs, etc., but rather it is in 505 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:46,000 And this one says, in your midst, so the three common translations 506 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,000 You see midst, I've given you already, the one right under the 21 507 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:54,000 Is among, A-M-O-N-G, among 508 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,000 And the one in the middle is within, so now we have the kingdom 509 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:02,000 Of God among us, in other words it's here 510 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,000 We're all here and it's here like somebody moving through a party, the kingdom of God is here 511 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,000 Moving through the party with us, that's among us, within us 512 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,000 Is in here, the kingdom of God is in here, and 513 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,000 In your midst means the kingdom of God is present 514 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:22,000 Theoretically, observably so, so you can be aware of it 515 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:26,000 It's not moving through, it's here, it's here now 516 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,000 In your midst, it's in the middle of you, it's in between you 517 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,000 So essentially, all three of those things say something about the kingdom of God 518 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,000 And I submit to you that the original Greek word that's there says all three of those things 519 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,000 And as Josh and RJ were saying, that people are just breaking them down 520 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,000 Trying to take, well we really think it's more like this one, we really think it's more like this one 521 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:50,000 More like that one, you might even be able to link them to the theology that they like 522 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:54,000 Or the version of eschatology that they like, so if for example, they say 523 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,000 Well the kingdom of God has already come, it's already come, it's already done 524 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:02,000 So if something new is coming, which one would you like the best out of within, among, or midst? 525 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:06,000 Well it's not within, because then new people would not have new experiences 526 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,000 Of the kingdom of God, so you gotta rule that one out, because the kingdom of God is already done, it's already here 527 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,000 There's no new experiences of the kingdom of God, so it's not within 528 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,000 It's not really, the difference between among and midst is subtle 529 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,000 But there is a difference, I think I would go with midst, it's just already here 530 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:26,000 Right, so that would fit the best with that eschatology 531 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:30,000 And if you like eschatology to say that it's coming yet, like it's not here at all yet 532 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,000 And it's coming yet, then you would probably go with 533 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,000 Among, because it's there, but you can't really do anything about it 534 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:42,000 It's just, it's like, it's walking through the party, but we can't touch it, we can't see it, we can't 535 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,000 It's hidden, right? The point is, you could see how people would 536 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,000 Look for a certain thing and find a certain thing, I submit to you, it's all free 537 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,000 And that's what Jesus meant, it is in us, the Holy Spirit of God 538 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:58,000 It is in us, Holy Spirit of God, present in me, changes me constantly, I'm affected by the Kingdom of God 539 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,000 It is in our midst, so it is here, present 540 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:06,000 When we are together, and it is among us 541 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:10,000 Meaning, like, when two Christians come together, it's there 542 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:14,000 Right, so it shows up, that kind of thing, or two or more Christians 543 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,000 Okay, whatever you do with that, go back to the original question, if there are Kingdom 544 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:22,000 Values, when should they be? Now, they should be now 545 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,000 And they should be in us, because the Holy Spirit of God is in us, and they should 546 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:31,000 Be growing in us, and we talked a little bit about that on Sunday, okay? So I'm just going to read a couple of Scriptures 547 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,000 And then I'm done, first one I wanted to be sure and read was Mark 548 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:39,000 Chapter 1, verses 14 and 15, now there's a ton 549 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:45,000 And you could literally spend, I mean, we have a really fun Saturday afternoon of 4 or 5 hours 550 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,000 Easy, going through Kingdom of God Scriptures and looking at it, and going, okay, how does this affect me? 551 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:53,000 What should I do about this? That kind of thing, it's a great topic 552 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,000 Okay, so Mark Chapter 1, verses 14 and 15 says, and after John had been taken into custody 553 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,000 Jesus came into Galilee preaching the Gospel of God, and saying, the time 554 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,000 Is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand 555 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:09,000 Repent, and believe in the Gospel, so Jesus was talking there 556 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:13,000 About the Kingdom of God being present, those who were previous were waiting for it 557 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,000 He didn't say, the time has come, the time is now 558 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,000 He said, the time has been fulfilled, the waiting is over, if you will 559 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,000 Matthew 12 560 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,000 22 to 29 561 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,000 Is right here, and it says 562 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:37,000 Then there was brought to him a demon possessed man, who was blind and dumb 563 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:41,000 And he healed him, so that the dumb man spoke and saw, and all the multitudes were amazed 564 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:45,000 And began to say, this man cannot be the son of David, can he? Remember that from the first week? 565 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,000 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, this man cast out demons 566 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,000 Only by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons, and knowing their thought 567 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:57,000 He said to them, any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste 568 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:01,000 And any city or house divided against itself shall not stand 569 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:05,000 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself, how then shall his kingdom stand? 570 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:09,000 And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? 571 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,000 Oh, that hurts, consequently, they shall be your judges 572 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,000 And here it goes, you ready? But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God 573 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,000 Then the kingdom of God has come upon you 574 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,000 Or how can anyone enter the strong man's house and carry off his property unless he first binds the strong man? 575 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:29,000 And then he will plunder his house, so as Jesus said 576 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,000 It is here, I'm doing this by God, it is now 577 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,000 And I have seen demons cast out with my very own eyes, it happens 578 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,000 And the kingdom of God is present, okay? 579 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:45,000 John 18, we can do a bunch, but we're going to do one more, John 18, 36 580 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:49,000 On 18 581 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,000 Jesus answered, my kingdom is not of this world 582 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,000 If my kingdom were of this world, then my servants would be fighting 583 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:01,000 That I might not be delivered up to the Jews, but as it is, my kingdom is not of this realm 584 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:05,000 We're talking about a kingdom that exists 585 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,000 In time, in a way that we don't normally think about it 586 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:13,000 In a spiritual realm, in the way that we don't normally interact with it 587 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:17,000 In an authority of God that we don't have, can't touch, can't limit 588 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:21,000 Can't know exactly how it's going to go, right? 589 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:25,000 But what you can do is work, if you will, or submit, if you will 590 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,000 Yourself to allowing the kingdom of God principles to more and more 591 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:33,000 Manifest in you and through you to the world, because that's what we're supposed to be doing 592 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:37,000 If the kingdom of God is in us, and if it's not, you're not saved, that'd be a real problem 593 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:41,000 You need to give your life to the Lord and get saved, but if it is, then it ought to be 594 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:45,000 More and more growing. I was talking with a relatively young 595 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:49,000 Believer earlier today, this is my closing illustration, and he was talking about 596 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:53,000 How he indulges in certain activities, and those 597 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,000 Activities are not said in scripture to be sinned, however, for me 598 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:01,000 At a certain point in time, God said no more, don't do that anymore 599 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,000 And I committed to not do it anymore, and then even after that, I was kind of tricked by the enemy 600 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,000 Into doing it twice, even after I said I would never do it again 601 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,000 And I shared my testimony with him. Now as a young believer 602 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:17,000 What could he do? He could go, oh you're right, it's wrong to ever do that 603 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:21,000 I should never do that ever again. He could do that. Or he could say 604 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,000 Well, I need to check with my father, check with God, and see is God saying 605 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,000 Hey, don't do this anymore, and he could grow from it if God says don't do it anymore, then he could do that 606 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,000 Or he could reasonably continue to do it, because for him it's not sin, the Bible doesn't say it's sin 607 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,000 He can do it if he wants to do it, right? It doesn't hurt anything based on that 608 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:41,000 Now it is a potentially addictive behavior, so there could be a problem down the road 609 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:45,000 And if there is, God's big enough to handle it, it's not a problem, okay? 610 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:49,000 So I was cautious when I was talking to him and explaining, so for me, God 611 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,000 Grew, God affected me in the kingdom of God, he changed something in me 612 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:57,000 And he eventually said, I want you to not do that anymore, and then 613 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,000 After I, to prove God's point, beautifully to prove God's point 614 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,000 After I said I would never do it anymore, I was tricked twice 615 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:09,000 To do that very thing that I purpose myself, and I had made a decision, and in both times 616 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:13,000 I was tricked, I thought I was not doing what I was actually doing 617 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,000 I'm like, I'm not gonna do it, I can't do it, I'm making steps, I already said I'm not gonna do it 618 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:21,000 And then after I did it, the enemy said, huh, see? 619 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,000 I'm like, oh God, I did it again, and I repented and turned back to the Lord 620 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,000 Now, it's been almost 20 years and I've not done it, okay? And so the point is, the kingdom of God 621 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:33,000 Is at work, and it's gonna be at work in Tony Tate, differently than RJ 622 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,000 Differently than Tim, differently than Larry, differently than Nancy, right? So, can I 623 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,000 Look, should we look at a believer then, and say, okay 624 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:45,000 Well, I don't see kingdom principles growing in you 625 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:49,000 So I gotta judge you as not saved, wrong answer, in fact 626 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,000 Here's my two cents on that, don't ever judge anybody as not saved, if they flat out 627 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:57,000 Tell you they're not saved, you can take their profession, but other than that, don't ever judge 628 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:01,000 Anybody as not saved, that's what it means when it says, judge not lest you be judged 629 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,000 That's God's job, not our job, but should, let's say somebody 630 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,000 Is, say they're a believer, and they're indulging in sin, can I go to them and say 631 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,000 Hey, that thing is sin, and if you say you're a believer, then you should drop that thing 632 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:17,000 Like a hot potato, because it's sin, yes, you can do that, that's what Matthew 18 is all about 633 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:21,000 And if you save them from their sin, pull them back from their sin, then 634 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:25,000 They'll be in a much better place, and you'll be in a much better place with them, and so on 635 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:29,000 Right, they'll all be good, so the kingdom advances as we all work together 636 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:33,000 And try to allow the kingdom in each one of us to advance the way God wants to 637 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,000 You run on ahead and you say, hey, God told Pastor Dan, don't eat any more candy, I gotta give up candy 638 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:41,000 I can never eat candy again, well 639 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,000 You're running on ahead of God, unless God tells you to give up candy, I was a 640 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,000 Christian for quite a while before God told me to give it up, and it really only happened in a very 641 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:53,000 Certain way, in a very certain circumstances, and there's nothing wrong with it as far as the 642 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:57,000 Bible is concerned, so it's not sin, it 643 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,000 Debatably would be sin if I went back and ate candy now, the only reason 644 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:05,000 I would think it would be sin is because a number of times I've had to pray to God and say, God, please help me do this 645 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:09,000 Then it might be sin because it's wasted effort, I asked God for miraculous intervention 646 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:13,000 He gave it, and I'm wasting that effort because I'm going back, but he's not told me that I'll never 647 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,000 Eat candy ever again, so the king of God is like that, it's like 648 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:21,000 If you ever lay in your bed at night and you're trying to sleep and you hear the wind blow, and the trees 649 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:25,000 Are rattling, or maybe the shutters, or the glass in the windows have been blowing pretty hard 650 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:29,000 Do you see the wind? No, but you know the wind is there, you know what it's like, you know what it's doing 651 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:33,000 You can even picture in your own mind the shingles blowing off your house and having to fix them the next day 652 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:37,000 You can picture all of that, because that's the nature of something 653 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:41,000 When we know it, we know it, even though we don't know it 654 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:45,000 We can't nail it down, name it, pin it, trace it, couldn't draw it for somebody 655 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:49,000 But we know it, and that's the nature of the kingdom of God, when you're saved 656 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:53,000 You know what the kingdom of God is, and you know what it isn't 657 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:57,000 According to this, it's present, I believe it's present 658 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,000 But it's not present in its fullness, I still fall, I still make mistakes 659 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:05,000 I'm still human, you know, in too high a percentage perhaps 660 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:09,000 So that's like that, but when you see 661 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:13,000 The amazing acts of God and you know that the kingdom is present, the only thing I would 662 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,000 Take away from this really, if you do believe this 663 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,000 I think you should do the inaugurated eschatology, and ask yourself 664 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:25,000 What's really important? Is not what happened to me yesterday, it's not the mistakes I made last month 665 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,000 Or what happened to me when I was a kid, it's not 666 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:33,000 The decisions and the effect of the kingdom of God today are based on one thing 667 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:37,000 And what is that one thing? Not a rhetorical question, what is that one thing? 668 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:41,000 The decisions that we're making today, and the effect of the kingdom of God in us today is based on one thing 669 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:45,000 What is it? It's not the crucifixion, although without the crucifixion we'd be in real trouble 670 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:49,000 It's the second coming of Christ, it's the fact that he is going to bring the kingdom to fulfillment 671 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:53,000 Understand, if he brings the kingdom to fulfillment and you're living outside the borders 672 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:57,000 You ain't getting in, that's all there is to it 673 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:01,000 When it's sealed and done, it's done, right? And so that's why we live now 674 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,000 And that's why Paul says I press toward the goal, that's why we talk about 675 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:09,000 Like we did on Sunday, growing in moral excellence and becoming better and better to the point of love 676 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:13,000 And so on, expressing more, that's why we talk about the fruits of the Holy Spirit 677 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,000 The Holy Spirit produces fruit, fruit is produced like growing of the kingdom of God 678 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:21,000 And all of that, it's all about that, and it's all based on the fact that we know with certainty 679 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:25,000 That it will come to a fulfillment and it will be done 680 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:29,000 One more week, one more time next week 681 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:33,000 And what we're going to do is maybe boil it down and then we're going to talk about 682 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:37,000 Actual kingdom principles, what Jesus taught and what we need to do 683 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:41,000 How we can put them into practice, alright? So we're going to close in prayer at this time 684 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:45,000 And Chris, I have candy for you, don't forget, okay? 685 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:49,000 The only person I've ever met in New York, the teens are slacking off today 686 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,000 Give Chris their numbers and call them off, Jason was in New York, I feel like 687 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:55,000 Let's pray, Father in heaven, I praise you so much for the giving of your kingdom 688 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:59,000 Into the hands of foolish men, I think about in Psalm 8 where David says 689 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:03,000 What an amazing miracle it is that you set us to be over your creation 690 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:07,000 You did it with Adam and Eve, and Adam and Eve sinned against you and it's been 691 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:11,000 I mean, I can't say it's been a downhill slide since then because that really isn't true 692 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:15,000 It's just been messed up since then, and then Jesus of course was the second Adam and he took back 693 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:19,000 The kingdom and ultimately the kingdom will come in its fullness 694 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:23,000 And we are really looking forward to that day, I am looking forward to the day where I have 695 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:27,000 No reason ever again to cry and even if I should you'd be there to wipe my tears 696 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:31,000 I'm looking forward to the day in which I don't have to wonder whether the pain in my groin 697 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:35,000 Is another kidney stone, I don't have to wonder whether or not I'll get dementia like my dad 698 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:39,000 I don't have to wonder whether or not our country will begin to be ruled by 699 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:43,000 People who have very unbiblical values or whether 700 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:47,000 Somebody will break into my house or any of that, and I try not to worry about 701 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:51,000 Any of it now because I'm trusting in you and I know you have everything well under control 702 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:55,000 But the fact is we live in a world where those things are still a reality because the fullness 703 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:59,000 Of the kingdom has not yet come, and so we're really looking forward to that day 704 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:03,000 We ask you to bless us as we sort out deep teachings of the word and 705 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:07,000 If anyone is really struggling because of it, they're just like, I'm just not ready for that 706 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:11,000 Then Lord, we know that you're okay with that and you can comfort and you can strengthen 707 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:15,000 And you can shore up the walls of both faith and discipline and we can walk out 708 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:19,000 Our part, whatever our part is, whatever we know so far 709 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:23,000 Of the king of God and be grateful for the opportunity to do so 710 00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:27,000 That's just special blessings upon those in healing and on us as we go out and try to live kingdom principles 711 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:33,000 This week and study them next week. We pray all this in Jesus name.