256 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:21,000 Okay, and in the story, the seed is what? 257 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:31,000 The word of God. 258 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:39,000 I was going to say, well, the word of God. 259 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:47,000 We already have the word of God, but we don't have it to its fully understanding. 260 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:51,000 To its fullest extent. 261 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:55,000 Okay, good. 262 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,000 Larry, you with me? 263 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,000 Yeah, well, and that's where lost people are, right? 264 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:05,000 So they encounter the word of God and they have no idea what God's intentions are. 265 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,000 And sometimes as young Christians or as a Christian in a certain area of your life, 266 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,000 you run into God's word, it's clear he wants something to happen. 267 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,000 He's making a change and you don't know what the change is until God reveals it. 268 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,000 That's good. 269 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,000 Okay, last one, wheat and tares. 270 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,000 I'm trying to get through this. 271 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,000 We do have the other part to do yet. 272 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,000 This is the summary part. 273 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000 Okay, wheat and tares. 274 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,000 So this is the one where the guy has a servant's quilt and so he buys good seed as far as he knows. 275 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:35,000 And then he hasn't gotten so, but when it comes up, it comes up full of wheat and tares. 276 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,000 Tares look like wheat, but they aren't edible. 277 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,000 So it's wheat and tares. 278 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:44,000 And then he says the enemy did this. 279 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,000 The enemy sowed the tares. 280 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000 And they said, well, should we just tear out all the tares then? 281 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,000 They're no good to tear them out and burn them. 282 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,000 And he says, no, no, wait until the harvest. 283 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,000 Then at the harvest, we'll tear out the wheat, we'll burn the wheat, 284 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,000 tear out the tares and burn them and we'll harvest the wheat into the barns. 285 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:03,000 So they'll sort the wheat and tares at the end. 286 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,000 Okay, and so is this already or not yet or both? 287 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,000 It's not yet. 288 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,000 The sorting hasn't been done yet. 289 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,000 Right, sorting has not been done yet. 290 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:20,000 I don't think I slept on angels harvesting and taking everything from us. 291 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,000 Yeah, so not yet is pretty clear. 292 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,000 How about as you see already, Jace? 293 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,000 I can see already because... 294 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:35,000 It's basically what the will is today because we already have all that we think we have, 295 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:42,000 that we all we have, but we're not yet to what we all have. 296 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:50,000 And once the tares get harvested, once we all get harvested and go live with him, 297 00:29:50,000 --> 00:30:00,000 that's when we have a free life with him and that is representing the wheat being put into the barn 298 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,000 and the tares being grown, which represents... 299 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:10,000 Okay, so yeah, that last part you got into not yet, so you were talking about both sides of it, 300 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:16,000 but he's saying that already the wheat being already present, we're already here, Christians are already here. 301 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,000 And so that means already is true because we have the wheat already, 302 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,000 even though it's still mixed in with the tares at the moment. 303 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:27,000 If we didn't have any wheat, if no one was Christians, then that would all be not yet. 304 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,000 But since some people are and some people aren't, then that's already not yet, it's a few. 305 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,000 Josh? 306 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,000 I have something like that here. 307 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,000 Sure, please do. 308 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:40,000 So it's already been sown, our this is already in process and we... 309 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,000 There you go, beautiful. 310 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:47,000 Okay, now we're going to follow, you'll see a kind of goofy looking arrow that goes out to the right. 311 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:53,000 So that whole box has an arrow that goes up and up to the right and to the right and then down. 312 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,000 And it's the big fat arrow on the right hand side. 313 00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:00,000 Okay, so now what we're talking about is in light of the last three lessons. 314 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:06,000 And so if you have to play catch up in your mind to kind of combine them all together in light of already not yet, 315 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,000 in light of the idea that if you're in one place, you might not understand the other. 316 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,000 Did Jesus do something, did something happen? 317 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:17,000 So we talked about, for example, which I didn't put on here, we talked about how exorcisms is a sign of the kingdom of God coming 318 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,000 because it affects the demons and evil spirits, chases them away. 319 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,000 So that's a sign of the kingdom of God like that. 320 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,000 So we're putting all that together now in what we're going to look at right here. 321 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:31,000 And the first where it says NM, that first blank is Nature Miracles. 322 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,000 Okay, and so... 323 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:38,000 And then under it you can put IE and it says calm storm. 324 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,000 So for example, you remember this story, Jesus, now it's not a parable. 325 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,000 It's about Jesus, he's a sleeve in the back of the boat, 326 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,000 we wake him up, Lord, we're drowning, it's terrible. 327 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:49,000 Jesus gets up, walks up and says, oh you little faith, and he calms the storm. 328 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,000 He says, stop, all the winds and the rain, stop. 329 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:58,000 So Nature Miracles such as calming the storm, but that's not the only one that he did. 330 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,000 Right? 331 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,000 Argue for an inaugurated kingdom of God. 332 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:09,000 At least when Jesus was on the earth, he was controlling things. 333 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,000 The earth responded to his commands. 334 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,000 The earth recognized him as king. 335 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,000 There's a bunch of those things. 336 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:21,000 There's one in particular, the madman that comes out of the decapitalists. 337 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,000 Does the priest of spirits and the pigs... 338 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,000 Yeah, same story. 339 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,000 But the guy says, why are you accosting us? 340 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,000 He said, are you going to torment us before the day? 341 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,000 And the demons recognize Jesus. 342 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:40,000 So he is a recognized king, and if a recognized king enters the kingdom 343 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:45,000 and begins to do things and there's no one stopping him, then his kingdom has begun. 344 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,000 His kingdom is doing something, it's starting, it's moving. 345 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,000 Right? 346 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:55,000 And so the Nature Miracles, exorcisms, recognized by demons, all of those things 347 00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:00,000 instigate that Jesus was the king and he was invading, if you will. 348 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,000 So the kingdom was inaugurated, and I gave you the word inaugurated there. 349 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,000 Then it says, in Christ. 350 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000 The capital C there is Christ. 351 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,000 I probably can let you guess that one because that would have been a pretty easy one. 352 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:15,000 For in Christ, then equal sign, it says N-C. 353 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,000 Anyone take a stab at that one? 354 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,000 If we're in Christ, then N-C. 355 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:22,000 In the reference of the Sanctiurethians 517 for the Bible people, you'll get there, no problem. 356 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,000 New creature, right? 357 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,000 A new creature or a new creation, right? 358 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000 Depending on your translation of the Bible. 359 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:33,000 So that also speaks of an inaugurated kingdom of God. 360 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:39,000 Paul is talking about, if you're in Christ, then you are a new creation. 361 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,000 You've been made new, right? 362 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,000 So that's indicating that you're now in a new kingdom. 363 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,000 You're a new place. 364 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,000 You're part of something new or different from what you used to be. 365 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,000 Right? 366 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000 You could say translated, but he didn't say that. 367 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,000 You could say transformed, but he didn't say transformed. 368 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,000 He said made a new creation. 369 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,000 So we're human beings. 370 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,000 We were created by, you know, the way God wired the universe. 371 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,000 DNA goes together. 372 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:11,000 Papa sperm and mama egg and it starts to grow and then pretty soon you got a human being, right? 373 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:15,000 While it's still in the womb and then it's born and then you got a child and a child grows to be a man and so on. 374 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,000 That's a creation of God. 375 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,000 It's the way God set it up. 376 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:24,000 But when you accept Christ and begin to live in Christ, you become a new creation. 377 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:25,000 Okay? 378 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,000 And that's 2nd Corinthians 517. 379 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,000 All right. 380 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:34,000 Then the New Testament also talks about dying with Christ in baptism. 381 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,000 I gave you that one. 382 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,000 Go ahead. 383 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,000 Is that something you say when it's baptism? 384 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,000 Yep. 385 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,000 Buried with him in baptism, risen again in new life, right? 386 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,000 And that's based on the scriptures. 387 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,000 And then I gave you the capital I there. 388 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:50,000 Because that's, what do you think the capital I stands for? 389 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,000 I've said it like five times since we started. 390 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,000 Inaugurated. 391 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,000 Right? 392 00:34:54,000 --> 00:35:01,000 So our baptism into Christ inaugurates or begins the kingdom of God's work in us. 393 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,000 Not that you have to be baptized to be saved. 394 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,000 Right? 395 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,000 You can be baptized into Jesus without water. 396 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,000 You get that happens when you get saved. 397 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,000 But the baptism that we do here is a picture of it. 398 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:16,000 It's making it clear to everybody that now I'm not living as I was, but living as I am now. 399 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,000 Okay? 400 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:21,000 And Paul uses the phrase, newness of life. 401 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,000 And I know there's only two blanks there, but you can squeeze it in. 402 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,000 No problem. 403 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,000 Newness of life. 404 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,000 Okay? 405 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,000 So under that capital I, you're going to put newness of life. 406 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,000 I'm actually going to read the verses because he doesn't use those exact phrase. 407 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,000 I'd like you to be familiar with it if you ever need it down the road. 408 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,000 Okay? 409 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,000 Romans 6. 410 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,000 Praise the Jesus. 411 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,000 Praise the Lord. 412 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,000 Okay? 413 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,000 Romans 6. 414 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:50,000 And verse 3 says, or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus 415 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,000 have been baptized into His death? 416 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:56,720 Therefore, we have been buried with Him through baptism into death in order that as Christ 417 00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:03,560 was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might lack in newness 418 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,000 of life. 419 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:11,240 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall 420 00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:14,640 be also in the likeness of His resurrection. 421 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:22,320 So Paul there is equating, connecting, coming into Christ, becoming a Christian with newness 422 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:23,320 of life. 423 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:24,320 Okay? 424 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,160 So you're not what you used to be. 425 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:33,600 And then we get capital S. Give me a word that always begins with a capital S. Think 426 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,120 about your Vivals for a second. 427 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,640 Salvation doesn't always begin with a spirit. 428 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:38,640 It's correct. 429 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,760 So the word spirit when it's referring to the Holy Spirit is always with a capital 430 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:42,760 S. 431 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:43,760 Yes, capital S. 432 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:44,760 From? 433 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:49,760 Yes, from Romans 6, 3 to 5, all around to the left and back. 434 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,280 And it's spirit. 435 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,400 And then the second word is pledge. 436 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,600 P-L-E-D-G-E. 437 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:56,600 Pledge. 438 00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,320 Like the stuff that you clean, like you dust with. 439 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:00,320 Pledge. 440 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:01,320 Spirit pledge. 441 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:02,320 Pledge. 442 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:03,320 P-L-E-D-G-E. 443 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:04,320 Pledge. 444 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:12,320 It's like wedge with a P-L. Okay? 445 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:13,320 Spirit pledge. 446 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:22,000 And so the idea is that as we achieve newness of life, we have been given the Holy Spirit 447 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,080 that God pledged to us. 448 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,480 And that kind of cements the deal. 449 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:31,880 So we become, we're anchored into the kingdom if you will. 450 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:39,760 The Holy Spirit has a lot of ministry in us, but he is the pledge of what's coming. 451 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,040 And something else happens, which I'll get to in a second, but I want to look at that 452 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,880 verse real quick, so I make sure I give you the right reference. 453 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:49,040 I can remember it was 1 Corinthians 5 or 2 Corinthians 5 right now. 454 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:52,040 1 Corinthians 5 says... 455 00:37:52,040 --> 00:38:02,040 Oh, that was going to be 2 Corinthians 5. 456 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,040 Yes. 457 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:08,280 It says here, 2 Corinthians 5, 5. 458 00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:14,000 So that reference is 2 Corinthians or just C-O-R 5, 5. 459 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:20,320 And it says, Now he who prepared us for this very purpose is God who gave to us the Spirit 460 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,720 as a pledge. 461 00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:26,280 And that Spirit is capital S and it's talking about the Holy Spirit of God. 462 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:27,280 Okay? 463 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:31,040 So this is the part of the equation when you talk about the kingdom of God that's really 464 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:32,040 important. 465 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:36,200 We always think of the kingdom of God like the Holy Spirit is in charge of me. 466 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,080 But Jesus is the king of the kingdom of God. 467 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,960 The Holy Spirit is not the kingdom of the kingdom of God. 468 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:41,960 Jesus is. 469 00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,520 So what's the difference between Jesus and the Holy Spirit? 470 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,360 Like Jesus being in you, not a lot of difference, right? 471 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,520 When we say God is in me or Jesus is in my heart, we're talking about the Holy Spirit 472 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,520 really has taken up residence. 473 00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:53,680 That's what we're talking about. 474 00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,760 But there is a difference in this thing that we're going to look at right here. 475 00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:57,760 Okay? 476 00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:04,200 So then it says H, 2 blanks, H, S and it's Holy Spirit. 477 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:08,200 Places in agreement and it got chopped a little bit on the photocopy there. 478 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:09,200 Can you see agreement? 479 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,680 Can you see the whole thing? 480 00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:12,680 Okay. 481 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:20,440 With, so it's Holy Spirit places in agreement with creation, that C word there in the middle 482 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:34,800 is creation, groaning, G-R-O-A-N-I-N-G, groaning for renewal. 483 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:40,520 I submit to you, let your mind grasp what I'm about to explain, okay? 484 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:41,960 Dig deep for here for one second. 485 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:48,560 I submit to you that all creation before the fall was the kingdom of God. 486 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:55,040 Back the fall, it was subjected to the death of Adam and Eve and it has been in trouble 487 00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:56,800 ever since. 488 00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:01,680 God makes that very clear in Genesis 3 when he explains how the creation will suffer. 489 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:07,320 Paul is saying all creation is groaning for renewal, with creation groaning for renewal. 490 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,400 So that's what tornadoes are. 491 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:10,840 That's what earthquakes are. 492 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:12,760 That's what diseases are. 493 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:14,960 All of that, all of those are natural examples. 494 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:18,680 Now can they be the wrath of God like God sends a disease wipe? 495 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:19,680 Absolutely. 496 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:21,080 Can God send an army to wipe out another country? 497 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:22,080 Sure, he can. 498 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:23,640 All of that's possible. 499 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:29,240 But the natural suffering and punishment and yuckiness of creation, a good part of it 500 00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:32,080 is the groaning for renewal. 501 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,800 So what is it groaning for? 502 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:39,640 It's groaning to be made again into the image, if you will, of the kingdom of God. 503 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:40,960 Do you understand? 504 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,200 So it desires to be God's kingdom. 505 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:44,520 It was created to be God's kingdom. 506 00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:45,520 It desires that. 507 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,280 It's aching for that. 508 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,000 Lost people are the same way, whether they'll admit it or not. 509 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,120 They yearn for a proper relationship with God. 510 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,240 Then you get saved, you get the Holy Spirit. 511 00:40:55,240 --> 00:40:57,040 So it's perfect from then on, right? 512 00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:58,040 No. 513 00:40:58,040 --> 00:40:59,540 No, it's not. 514 00:40:59,540 --> 00:41:04,400 The Holy Spirit, actually what the Holy Spirit does is it fills us with a desire, if I can 515 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:12,200 say it that way, it gives us a true yearning, a godly yearning for the fulfillment of the 516 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:13,840 kingdom of God. 517 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,360 So you're going to suffer in this lifetime in basic things that go on. 518 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,400 There is sorrow and sighing on the highway of holiness. 519 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,160 With basic things going, you're going to suffer. 520 00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:26,600 But in the middle of your worst moments, you have kind of two roads that you can go down. 521 00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:28,880 You can go, well, I'm going to try to meet my own needs. 522 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:29,880 I'm going to stab people in the back. 523 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:31,360 I'm going to step up people's foreheads. 524 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:32,360 I'm going to steal. 525 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,360 I'm going to, whatever, I'm going to sell drugs. 526 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:38,200 I'm going to be a prostitute or use a prostitute to feel better. 527 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:42,280 We get all these different options that you can do, right? 528 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:48,040 But if the Holy Spirit is in you yearning for renewal, so you want to be with God, that's 529 00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:49,040 what you really want. 530 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:53,440 So you're yearning for renewal, then it overcomes the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes 531 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:54,760 and the pride of life. 532 00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,920 And instead, we walk in the pathway that is the kingdom of God that will take us where 533 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:00,120 God is eventually going to be. 534 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,000 Now, creation is the same way. 535 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:08,560 So in some sense, we are in correlation or connected to the way creation is. 536 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:12,120 Creation is stuck waiting for God to do the final work. 537 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,320 And so are we in a sense. 538 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,240 But we have the down payment, the pledge. 539 00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:17,880 We know it's coming. 540 00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:18,880 We've got it. 541 00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:19,880 It's sealed. 542 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:20,880 It's done. 543 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:22,720 The contract is signed in blood, right? 544 00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:25,960 So when you get in that moment where you feel like you could do something that you shouldn't 545 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,880 do and your flesh tries to lead you in that direction, instead you lean into the Holy Spirit. 546 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:34,800 You let the Holy Spirit lead you and you will feel, man, like when I have to resist sin, 547 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:40,400 like sin comes in and I know I'm intentionally choosing not to sin, that's tiring. 548 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:41,400 It's hard. 549 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:46,280 It's like, well, this would just be so much easier to just yield or give in to do that. 550 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:50,840 And then I'll feel a little better for a while and then I'll pay for it later kind of thing, 551 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:52,440 right? 552 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:56,000 But when you realize that the Holy Spirit within you is really yearning for a time where it's 553 00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:00,520 not going to be like that anymore, then it's easier to walk that road, right? 554 00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:04,400 It's easier to just say, well, I'm just not going to do it and just go to bed, you know, 555 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,080 or just go eat something healthy or whatever. 556 00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:12,040 And so the idea is not that the Holy Spirit comes into a person and makes everything perfect, 557 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,120 because you'd expect the Kingdom of God would be like that. 558 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,920 Now the Holy Spirit's in me, now the Kingdom of God is in me, everything's perfect, because 559 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,520 this is all subject to the Kingdom of God, right? 560 00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,840 Except this is also still the creation. 561 00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:27,160 My body is still flesh, so I'm still yearning in the flesh for the things and my eyes are 562 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:28,400 still eyes and so on. 563 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:32,920 I'm still yearning for the things that I shouldn't in the flesh. 564 00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:37,360 And that's what it talks about when Paul talks about simple desires, talks about the flesh, 565 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:42,840 talks about, you know, fleshly desires, that kind of thing, because those things all lead 566 00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:43,840 to death. 567 00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:48,640 And we want to know, I don't want to yield to that, I want to walk in the Holy Spirit. 568 00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,680 So that's where the Holy Spirit brings us to a place. 569 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:55,000 If he could fix everything, boom, he would do that. 570 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:59,200 But if he does that, the moment he does that, nobody else gets saved. 571 00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:00,480 That's it, it's done. 572 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,080 Once he does that, nobody else gets saved. 573 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:06,160 I'll say, real quick, God is perfect, His Kingdom is perfect, but we can't hone in or 574 00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:07,400 handle it on His perfection. 575 00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:12,240 We have to wait for us to be perfect, to be in that perfect Kingdom. 576 00:44:12,240 --> 00:44:16,680 And that's the idea of already not yet, exactly. 577 00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:18,960 And I just want to say real quick, I was working with him. 578 00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:21,960 If Holy Spirit places an agreement, then what's that whole thing? 579 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:22,960 I didn't see it. 580 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:25,800 Okay, but with creation, groaning for renewal. 581 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:27,200 Groaning for renewal. 582 00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:31,920 Okay, then the arrow is just a little over to the right and down. 583 00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:36,920 Now giving you this, finally, what we'll get is the new heaven and the new earth. 584 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,080 So remember, this is all about the Kingdom of God. 585 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,040 It's not about us, even though we're learning a lot about us, it's really about the Kingdom 586 00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:43,040 of God. 587 00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:49,280 So finally, the final resting place, the final permanent place of the Kingdom of God is the 588 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,240 new heaven and the new earth. 589 00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:52,240 Okay? 590 00:44:52,240 --> 00:44:59,880 And it's laid out clearly in Revelation 21.1, which I'll read to you real quick. 591 00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:05,360 Revelation 21.1, and I saw a new heaven and a new earth. 592 00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:10,080 For the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and he goes on to say, and there is 593 00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,000 no longer any sea, and he describes some more. 594 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:14,000 Okay? 595 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:18,120 So the point is, that's the final resting place, or the final fullness of the Kingdom 596 00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:22,520 of God is in the new heaven and the new earth, which, nice to know, we will also be there 597 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:23,920 if we are followers of Christ. 598 00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:24,920 Right? 599 00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,600 So we'll be in the new heaven and the new earth when the time comes. 600 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:34,520 And then I put here the word presence, and we will have open access to God in the new 601 00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:35,920 heaven and the new earth. 602 00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:37,480 So there is no temple. 603 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:42,000 See, they have the temple, and if you'll recall, the Ark of the Covenant was thought to be 604 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,320 like God's footstool on the earth. 605 00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,400 So they were going into the presence of God. 606 00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,760 Well, now you don't have to have that anymore, because in the new heaven and the new earth, 607 00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:51,320 we have the full presence of God. 608 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:52,320 You have any time. 609 00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:54,280 You can walk up to God anytime and say, hey, he doesn't go. 610 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:55,280 Right? 611 00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:56,800 And you probably won't, because he's much more reverent than that. 612 00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:02,600 But the point is, you will have full access to God. 613 00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,360 And that's made clear in Revelation 21, 3, and 22, and I'm not going to go and read that 614 00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:10,080 right this second in the interest of time, because you're welcome to read those verses 615 00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:11,080 later. 616 00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:13,840 And then there are some things that will not be present. 617 00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:15,920 And we'll play a little game here. 618 00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,520 So what is the first thing that will not be present in the new heaven and the new earth, 619 00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:20,520 and it starts with a D? 620 00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:21,520 Death. 621 00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:22,520 Death. 622 00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:23,520 Very good. 623 00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:24,520 No death. 624 00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:25,520 What is death? 625 00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:28,160 No death in the new heaven and the new earth. 626 00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:32,360 Interestingly enough, until the fall, there was no death in this heaven or earth. 627 00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:36,600 Adam and Eve didn't have death before they sent against God, so there was no death. 628 00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:40,760 So the death that we deal with now has become a regular occurrence to us, and it's because 629 00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,040 of the fall. 630 00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:44,040 But there's another one. 631 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:45,040 This one's harder. 632 00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:50,480 It's kind of almost the same thing in a way, but it's on a very intense scale. 633 00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,120 Something else that there is no, and it starts with a D? 634 00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:54,120 The function. 635 00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:55,640 No, not disease. 636 00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:57,440 There is no disease, you're right. 637 00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,040 Nope, not destruction. 638 00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:00,440 There is no destruction, probably. 639 00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:04,480 It could be vision, but it could be an inner and on something. 640 00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:05,480 It's decay. 641 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:07,600 No decay. 642 00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:14,040 So the idea is, so mostly things die and then decay. 643 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,120 That's how that mostly goes, so now you're not going to have that anymore. 644 00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:18,400 But also means no aging. 645 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,600 So you don't get old and moldy. 646 00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,040 You don't get creaky bones. 647 00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,240 So there's no death and there's no decay. 648 00:47:25,240 --> 00:47:27,680 And then the S, we probably could get pretty easily. 649 00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,320 There's no sadness or sorrow. 650 00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,720 Now there's definitely no sin, right? 651 00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:36,680 But what's listed there is no sadness or sorrow. 652 00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:40,520 And it even says that even if you should find a reason to be sad, God will wipe the very 653 00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,720 tears from your eyes himself. 654 00:47:42,720 --> 00:47:48,080 So there's no sadness or sorrow in the new heaven, the new earth for sure. 655 00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:56,680 And it is filled with light and the light is from God's glory. 656 00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,960 The throne does shed the light, but it's from his glory, right? 657 00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:05,840 And God's throne is in part the eminence of God's glory or the vision of God's glory. 658 00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:07,320 So let me just, we're going to go aside for a minute. 659 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,280 Let's put our thinking caps on again. 660 00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:17,080 Why would God's throne be the perfect semblance or the perfect example of God's glory? 661 00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:20,680 Yeah, it's this kingdom. 662 00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:22,920 The throne represents the fact that it's God's kingdom. 663 00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:25,320 This is all we're talking about, the kingdom of God. 664 00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:27,240 So God's glory. 665 00:48:27,240 --> 00:48:30,520 And when you see the glory in the Bible, it's a shine of light on something. 666 00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:32,320 In this case, the throne shines a light. 667 00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:34,320 Well, what is it shining a light on? 668 00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:35,320 Everything. 669 00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:39,080 Because once you get to the new heaven, the new earth, it's all good. 670 00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:40,320 There is no bad anymore. 671 00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:41,320 It's all good. 672 00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,000 So it shines a light on everything. 673 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:46,400 And that is clear in Revelation 21-23. 674 00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:51,880 So now, say that again. 675 00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:57,800 On the line that says light from God's glory. 676 00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:03,560 So the whole thing was there's no death, decay, sorrow, and then light from God's glory. 677 00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:04,560 And it's Revelation 21-23. 678 00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:05,560 Yep, no problem at all. 679 00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,880 The first, it is 2 Corinthians 5-5. 680 00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:19,840 I had to look it up, the 2 Corinthians 5-5. 681 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:21,640 Or just second, 2 core. 682 00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:27,560 I always put 2 core. 683 00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:30,640 So now we're going to get into the possible for a second here. 684 00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:34,560 Because there's a possible stopping point between here and what we just saw. 685 00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:36,040 So what did we say? 686 00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:43,320 The kingdom of God is already here, but not yet here in its fullness. 687 00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:46,480 When will it be here in its fullness? 688 00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,560 Completely everywhere in its fullness, the new heaven, the new earth. 689 00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,880 But there is a possible stopping point between here and there. 690 00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:55,760 It's not purgatory. 691 00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:57,920 That's not biblical. 692 00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,680 It is what's called the literal 1000 year reign. 693 00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:05,200 So if you follow the arrow over, it says literal. 694 00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:08,360 The first line is 1000. 695 00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:10,280 That says year. 696 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:11,280 And then it's reign. 697 00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:12,280 The blank is reign. 698 00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:15,520 So the first blank is 1000 and the next blank is reign. 699 00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:17,160 R-E-I-G-N. 700 00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,520 Not reign like falls from the sky, but reign of a king. 701 00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:21,520 R-E-I-G-N. 702 00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:24,200 Probably wouldn't you say R-E-I-N. 703 00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:28,600 No, R-E-I-G-N. 704 00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:32,320 Don't mess with my spelling because I'm not that good of a speller. 705 00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:33,320 Give you doubt in myself. 706 00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:36,560 I misspelled what? 707 00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:39,440 Where is it? 708 00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:42,120 Oh, excuse me. 709 00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:43,120 I don't see it. 710 00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:44,120 Thanks to that. 711 00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:45,120 Thanks to you. 712 00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:46,120 Thanks to you. 713 00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:47,120 Thanks to you. 714 00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:48,120 Thanks to you. 715 00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:49,120 Thanks to you. 716 00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:50,120 Oh, I see. 717 00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:51,120 Yes. 718 00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:52,120 There we go. 719 00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:53,120 All right. 720 00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:54,120 I see it. 721 00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:55,120 Pro positive. 722 00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:56,120 My spelling is not always great. 723 00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:59,280 I love word for the spell checking feature. 724 00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:07,160 So in Revelation 20 verses 1 through 10, it talks about a literal 1000 year reign. 725 00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:11,400 So there is, it could be based on what he saw, and I'll just give you a little, just 726 00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:12,400 a snippet of it. 727 00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:15,120 You can see, and I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the abyss and 728 00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:16,120 a great chain in his hand. 729 00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:20,080 And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who was the devil and Satan, and bound 730 00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:25,040 him for a thousand years, and threw him into the abyss and shut it and sealed it over, 731 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:29,000 over him so that he should not deceive the nations any longer until the thousand years 732 00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:30,160 were completed. 733 00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:33,520 After these things, he must be released for a short time. 734 00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:36,760 And I saw thrones and they sat upon them and it goes on down to verse 7. 735 00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:40,720 It says, and when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison and 736 00:51:40,720 --> 00:51:44,400 will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog, 737 00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,640 Magog, and so on. 738 00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:49,640 So here's the problem. 739 00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:56,760 There is a raging debate amongst theologians and has been since 80, 90. 740 00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:03,200 So there literally has never been a time when people had a complete unified agreement about 741 00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,880 what those verses actually mean. 742 00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:09,720 And in particular, in one way. 743 00:52:09,720 --> 00:52:15,920 The question is, based on what Revelation says, between three little, what are called 744 00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:16,920 pre-fixes. 745 00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:18,920 There we go, pre-fixes. 746 00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:22,800 And I put them at the top under the arrow. 747 00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:28,080 The first one is pre, then it says post, and then it says a-dash. 748 00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:34,320 So if there is a literal thousand year reign on the earth, then the question is, do we 749 00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:37,320 leave first or does it happen first? 750 00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:42,360 So in other words, do we leave, go to heaven, get pulled out by Jesus as a church, get pulled 751 00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:47,480 out, and then there's a thousand year reign of Christ on earth and we come back with him 752 00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:51,800 in reign or the martyrs come back with him in reign, sort through that kind of thing. 753 00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,200 So one possibility is what's called pre-millennialism. 754 00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:59,440 So you hear people say that, pre-millennialism means you believe in a literal thousand year 755 00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:05,600 reign of Christ on the earth and you believe that we will be gone first, possibly returning 756 00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,440 to reign during that time or not, whatever you believe about that. 757 00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:13,520 But the point is that the church will be called first before the literal thousand year reign. 758 00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,320 Then there's post-millennialism. 759 00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,520 These guys will punch each other in the face. 760 00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:20,480 They feel so strongly about these two positions. 761 00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:21,480 It's that bad. 762 00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:25,640 The black rooms have erupted into not shooting each other but yelling at each other at the 763 00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:30,960 very least over whether they were pre-millennial or post-millennial. 764 00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:36,640 Post-millennial means we will be, stay here, the church will stay here, Jesus will come, 765 00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:42,680 bind Satan and reign on the earth for a thousand years at the end of which only the church 766 00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:47,400 goes to heaven and then you have a new earth and everybody else goes out. 767 00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,520 So that's the difference between pre or post-millennialism. 768 00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:52,160 The millennial is the thousand years. 769 00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:53,520 A millennia is a thousand years. 770 00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:56,880 The millennial is a thousand years of Jesus reigning on the earth. 771 00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:58,440 Pre-millennial, we leave first. 772 00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:00,440 Maybe we come back with him and reign. 773 00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,280 Post-millennial, we don't leave first. 774 00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:03,840 We come back after a thousand years. 775 00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:05,360 That's those two positions. 776 00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:08,920 So I bet you Josh can tell us what a millennial means. 777 00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:09,920 Neither. 778 00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:11,600 Yeah, it means neither. 779 00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:16,240 So the a millennialists do not believe in a literal thousand year reign. 780 00:54:16,240 --> 00:54:20,920 They think that John was seeing the church age, the reign of the church, the way the 781 00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:23,480 church was going to work and bring the kingdom of God, etc. 782 00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,560 That God's people would bind Satan. 783 00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:27,760 God's people would overcome. 784 00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:31,080 That Jesus initiated it. 785 00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:36,080 Now the issue is, you could take this into a room of five or six guys who love Jesus 786 00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:40,640 and have studied their Bibles a lot and even in that same room to this day, 2024, people 787 00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:41,640 will still disagree on it. 788 00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,760 Now what did I say about disagreeing on these kinds of doctrines? 789 00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:48,200 When we talked about that, do not divide over them. 790 00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,400 There's a pastor at a conference. 791 00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,360 I don't stand up in a room with 5,000 people there when he's speaking. 792 00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:59,680 He says, well for all you post-millennialists, he says, I'm sorry, I'll see. 793 00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:00,960 We'll be gone by then. 794 00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:05,920 So you just have fun during the millennial or during the tribulation or whatever. 795 00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:11,800 And so because they usually believe it's the pre-millennialists believe that the church 796 00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:15,720 is pulled out, then the tribulation, then the thousand year reign. 797 00:55:15,720 --> 00:55:21,840 And the post-millennialists believe the church stay through the tribulation, then the thousand 798 00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:24,160 year reign, and then the church is vindicated at the end of that. 799 00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,440 So there's different ways to do it. 800 00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:28,680 The bottom line is I would not fight over it. 801 00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,240 Is there a literal thousand year reign? 802 00:55:30,240 --> 00:55:34,480 I mean, if you read the Bible, it looks like there is a literal thousand year reign. 803 00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:41,040 He said he saw a literal thousand year reign, so a thousand years of Satan being bound. 804 00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:45,520 So what we know for a fact that would be worth fighting over is the kingdom of God, Jesus 805 00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:46,520 comes and reigns. 806 00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:50,240 And so if you assume Jesus comes and reigns, then it's going to go the way Jesus wanted 807 00:55:50,240 --> 00:55:51,240 us to go. 808 00:55:51,240 --> 00:55:53,200 And so there's three things that are always the case. 809 00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:57,040 The first one is starts with a J. Talk about Jesus. 810 00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:59,120 Jesus would bring what? 811 00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:01,120 Starts with a J. Justice. 812 00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:02,120 That's right. 813 00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:03,880 So justice would be supreme. 814 00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:08,360 There would not be anymore getting away with anything. 815 00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:09,360 Justice would reign. 816 00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:10,360 Okay? 817 00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:11,360 So that's what it looks like. 818 00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:15,000 So if Jesus came, something starts with a P. You would expect? 819 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:16,000 Peace. 820 00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:17,000 Very good. 821 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:18,000 So it's justice and peace. 822 00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:21,200 The last one, I would be amazed if anybody could get it. 823 00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:26,200 Starts with an F. It's a weird word that we hardly even use anymore, but it's... 824 00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:27,200 Prohibition? 825 00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:28,200 No, it's not. 826 00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,560 It's a good word, though. 827 00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:32,560 It is flourishing. 828 00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:37,360 As I said, it's a weird word that very few people even still use. 829 00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:40,960 O-U-R, like flour. 830 00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:44,720 I-S-H-I-N-G. 831 00:56:44,720 --> 00:56:45,720 Flourishing. 832 00:56:45,720 --> 00:56:47,480 That's the word. 833 00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:48,480 Flourishing. 834 00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:49,480 Okay? 835 00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:52,880 And what it means is that people will do well. 836 00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:54,480 The planet will do well. 837 00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:55,480 Everything will do well. 838 00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:59,320 And you would expect that under a just and peaceful ruler who can enforce everything 839 00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:00,320 that he says. 840 00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:01,440 It will go his way. 841 00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:05,040 And when things go his way, people prosper. 842 00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:06,040 Okay? 843 00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:09,400 All right, that takes us to the two, the number two. 844 00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:11,560 And we've only got just a little bit left. 845 00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:12,720 Okay? 846 00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:17,120 And so really what we want to talk about now is based on everything that we've seen, 847 00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:21,400 Kingdom of God, it is present already, but not yet. 848 00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:25,960 We have the Holy Spirit pledge in us, so we are yearning for the final renewal. 849 00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,480 New heaven and the new earth will bring it about completely. 850 00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:31,200 So it really comes down to what do we do about it? 851 00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:32,200 Okay? 852 00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:34,360 And this is where the rubber meets the road, so to speak. 853 00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:35,360 All right? 854 00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:36,800 So you've got a two down there. 855 00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:40,480 If you go up on the left hand side of your page, you'll see a two and a circle. 856 00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:41,960 We're jumping to the two. 857 00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:42,960 Okay? 858 00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:44,120 You see a reference there. 859 00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:49,440 It is Luke 17, verses 1 through 21. 860 00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:59,360 And he said to his disciples, it is inevitable that stumbling will come. 861 00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:01,880 Stumbling blocks will come, but woe to him through whom they come. 862 00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:05,320 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, down to verse 863 00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:06,320 4. 864 00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:10,880 And he sins against you seven times a day and returns to you seven times saying, I repent, 865 00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:11,880 forgive him. 866 00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:13,560 Skipping down to verse 7. 867 00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:17,480 But which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he 868 00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:21,160 has come in from the field, come immediately and sit down to eat. 869 00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:25,120 But will he not say to him, prepare something for me to eat, and properly clothe yourself 870 00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:29,240 and serve me until I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink. 871 00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:32,120 That's talking about the relationship between a servant and his master. 872 00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:37,600 He does not thank the slave because he did the things which were commanded, does he? 873 00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:43,080 So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded, you say, we are unworthy slaves. 874 00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,480 We have done only that which we ought to have done. 875 00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:48,160 And it goes on from there down through verse 21. 876 00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:53,200 20 and 21 say this, now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of 877 00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:57,660 God was coming, he answered them and said, the kingdom of God is not coming with signs 878 00:58:57,660 --> 00:58:58,660 to be observed. 879 00:58:58,660 --> 00:59:03,240 Nor will they say, look, here it is, or there it is. 880 00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:06,320 For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst. 881 00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:09,200 And that's that word that I told you when we studied it before. 882 00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:14,880 It means in you, among you, and within you. 883 00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:20,240 And so now we're going to talk about, based on those 21 verses, there are five points. 884 00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:24,920 And if you meet these five points, you're following the core values, if you will, of 885 00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:26,920 the kingdom of God. 886 00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:27,920 Based on those 21 verses. 887 00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:30,920 The first one is, starts with an F, of course. 888 00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:34,280 No, does not follow. 889 00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:38,520 Jesus died for the forgiveness of sins. 890 00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:40,280 So as he forgive, we must forgive. 891 00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:43,160 The kingdom of God includes forgiveness. 892 00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:44,880 You must forgive. 893 00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:48,520 In fact, what does he say after he teaches them the Lord's prayer? 894 00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:54,600 If you cannot forgive, you cannot be forgiven. 895 00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:58,560 So forgiveness is a core value of the kingdom of God. 896 00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:00,480 So go around forgiving people. 897 01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:02,920 Forgive them for what they've done to you, absolutely. 898 01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:08,320 But if they say, I'm horrible, I lied, I stole, I cheated, or I did these bad things, 899 01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:12,760 then you tell them, look, God will forgive you if you just accept Jesus Christ your 900 01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:13,760 Lord's. 901 01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:14,760 Your sins can be forgiven. 902 01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:18,720 So we not only pronounce forgiveness when we forgive people, but we also pronounce forgiveness 903 01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:21,840 of sins so that people can be forgiven. 904 01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:24,300 Forgiveness is a core value of the kingdom of God. 905 01:00:24,300 --> 01:00:32,680 The next one also starts with F. It is faith. 906 01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:36,080 So we are a people of faith. 907 01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:39,200 And everything in the kingdom of God should be founded on faith. 908 01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:46,440 In fact, anything that is not faith is doubt or sin. 909 01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:47,760 So if it's not faith, it's doubt. 910 01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:49,480 If it's doubt, it's sin. 911 01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:54,840 So basically everything we should be believing, faith, trusting God, trusting His promises, 912 01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:55,840 walking in faith. 913 01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:58,400 We walk not by sight, but by faith. 914 01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:00,720 So everything is faith in the kingdom of God. 915 01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:02,200 The next one's a little trickier. 916 01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:05,240 Starts with an H. Good. 917 01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:06,240 Very good. 918 01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:07,240 Humility. 919 01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:08,240 That's amazing. 920 01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:09,240 Yes, humility. 921 01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:14,400 Humility is H-U-M-I-L-I-T-Y. 922 01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:15,400 Humility. 923 01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:20,920 Now somebody will remember that I've taught on humility a couple of times and I remind 924 01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:24,240 you that humility is not the same thing as any kind of humbleness. 925 01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:27,360 It's not saying I'm no good. 926 01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:32,920 What is the definition of humility, biblically speaking? 927 01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:33,920 Properly placed confidence. 928 01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:34,920 I like that one. 929 01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:35,920 What? 930 01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:37,560 Yes, knowing your place. 931 01:01:37,560 --> 01:01:39,640 So we know our place. 932 01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:40,640 God is God. 933 01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:41,640 I am not. 934 01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:42,640 You'll hear me say that often. 935 01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:43,640 That's biblical humility. 936 01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:44,640 God is God. 937 01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:45,640 God is perfect. 938 01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:46,640 I am not. 939 01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:47,640 God is righteous. 940 01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:50,080 I am righteous only because God makes me righteous. 941 01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:51,960 So we know where we stand. 942 01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:55,000 Humility is a core value of the kingdom of God. 943 01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:56,960 In fact, Jesus exhibits it beautifully. 944 01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:57,960 Does he not? 945 01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:00,680 He submitted himself to death, even death on a cross. 946 01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:03,000 Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus. 947 01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:06,320 He submitted himself to death, even death on a cross. 948 01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:07,720 He did not consider equality with God. 949 01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:08,720 A thing to be grasped. 950 01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:10,600 That's the kingdom of God. 951 01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:12,240 That's humility. 952 01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:13,240 Understand your place. 953 01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:14,600 His place was to come and die for sins. 954 01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:15,600 He understood his place. 955 01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:16,600 Good. 956 01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:17,600 Good word. 957 01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:18,680 All right. 958 01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:21,200 Next one starts with an S. 959 01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:23,200 Kingdom of God, core value? 960 01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:24,200 Salvation. 961 01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:26,600 No, not salvation. 962 01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,000 Salvation is the door, if you will, or the way in. 963 01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:32,400 But once we're in, service. 964 01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:33,400 God is a servant. 965 01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:34,480 Jesus is a servant. 966 01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:37,080 The greatest amongst you shall be your servant. 967 01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:38,080 It's service. 968 01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:39,080 We serve. 969 01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:40,080 That's what we do. 970 01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:43,760 If you die serving and you're doing it because you're serving Jesus, you will be considered 971 01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:45,200 a martyr in the faith. 972 01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:49,880 If you die stealing or if you die lying or whatever, not so much. 973 01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:50,880 So we serve. 974 01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:51,880 That's something we do. 975 01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:52,880 It's service. 976 01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:53,880 Or servanthood. 977 01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:55,680 Jesus was a servant. 978 01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:59,560 In fact, the Old Testament very clearly paints a picture of him as the suffering servant 979 01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:01,680 of mankind. 980 01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:03,520 And God was a servant. 981 01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:08,680 God created everything that we have and then started Adam and Eve to enjoy it. 982 01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:09,920 He did that for them. 983 01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:14,640 And then after they sinned against him and they needed salvation, he killed an animal, 984 01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:18,400 the first ever sacrifice, and made them clothing. 985 01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:22,160 He pronounced what we call a curse, really, but it's not really a curse. 986 01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:23,840 He told them how things would work now. 987 01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:27,360 He gave them a new picture of what marriage would be like so they could survive under 988 01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:29,720 the circumstances they've now put themselves in. 989 01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:32,640 He took them out, cast them out of the Garden of Eden. 990 01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:36,640 That was a service because if they had eaten of the tree of life after they'd eaten the 991 01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:38,920 tree of the Knowledge of the Good and Evil, they'd have been like that forever. 992 01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:39,920 And eternally condemned. 993 01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:40,920 Crazy. 994 01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:41,920 Thank you, Jesus. 995 01:03:41,920 --> 01:03:42,920 So it's all service. 996 01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:49,240 The core value so far is forgiveness, faith, humility, and service. 997 01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:53,040 And the last one, I'm grateful for this one, starts with a T. 998 01:03:53,040 --> 01:03:54,040 No. 999 01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:57,480 Although the kingdom of God is all about truth. 1000 01:03:57,480 --> 01:03:58,480 You're right. 1001 01:03:58,480 --> 01:03:59,480 Trust. 1002 01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:00,480 Nope. 1003 01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:01,480 Not trust. 1004 01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:02,480 Trust would fall under faith, I think. 1005 01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:03,480 Not teaching. 1006 01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:04,480 Thankfulness. 1007 01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:05,480 It's gratitude. 1008 01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:06,480 Right? 1009 01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:12,240 So the core value of the kingdom of God is thankfulness. 1010 01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:15,960 If we know where we stand and we know what we got, we darn well should be thankful for 1011 01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:16,960 it, right? 1012 01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:19,840 If you have humility, it'll lead you to thankfulness. 1013 01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:23,240 And when you serve, you should be grateful that you were allowed to serve. 1014 01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:25,240 Okay. 1015 01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:29,840 So in that passage of scripture, he did say very clearly that his kingdom is not of this 1016 01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:36,600 world and yet it is already amongst you in you, in midst of you, and so on. 1017 01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:39,360 And I put there internal and not of this world. 1018 01:04:39,360 --> 01:04:43,560 And then you got just a little passage there, which you may know enough, Galatians 5. 1019 01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:44,560 Okay. 1020 01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:46,840 So Galatians 5, 15 to 25. 1021 01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:49,280 And in light of the lateness of the hour, we won't go there and read it. 1022 01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:51,720 I encourage you to take a good look at it at some point in time. 1023 01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:54,360 And I broke it down here enough for you. 1024 01:04:54,360 --> 01:05:00,000 The first part, 19 to 21, is about the flesh, and you know what? 1025 01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:04,200 We are going to read the excerpts, just because you need to hear this, because it's just that 1026 01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:05,200 good. 1027 01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:06,360 I need to hear it again. 1028 01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,080 I've read it 50 times and I need to hear it again. 1029 01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:10,080 Okay. 1030 01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:11,080 So here we go. 1031 01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:15,120 So this is Galatians 5, 19 through 21. 1032 01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:21,240 And it says, now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are immorality, impurity, sensuality, 1033 01:05:21,240 --> 01:05:27,400 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, 1034 01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:32,840 factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these of which I forewarn you, 1035 01:05:32,840 --> 01:05:38,400 just as I forewarned you, that those who practice such things shall not inherit the 1036 01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:39,400 kingdom of God. 1037 01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:44,760 So in other words, if you were doing these things, even though you claim to be a Christian, 1038 01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:48,960 according to what it says here, you will not inherit the kingdom of God. 1039 01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:52,360 Which will be a real problem when there is only the kingdom of God and hell. 1040 01:05:52,360 --> 01:05:54,480 It's going to be a problem. 1041 01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:57,280 And then it goes into 22 to 25. 1042 01:05:57,280 --> 01:05:58,280 This is the other side of it. 1043 01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:02,240 It says, but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, 1044 01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:04,400 faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. 1045 01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:06,200 Against such things there is no law. 1046 01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:11,400 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 1047 01:06:11,400 --> 01:06:15,840 So we put to death our flesh with its passions and desires. 1048 01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:20,320 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. 1049 01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:23,800 And the last blank on your page, if you didn't fill it in, it's there. 1050 01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:26,120 Capital S, Spirit. 1051 01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:28,680 So the key then, I mean sum it up and we're done. 1052 01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:29,680 Here we go. 1053 01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:30,960 The key is this. 1054 01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:35,920 In my understanding, my best understanding of the Scriptures, the kingdom of God is already 1055 01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:37,320 and not yet. 1056 01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:43,240 But what we do have in fullness is the pledge of God in his Holy Spirit in us. 1057 01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:46,800 And we must subject ourselves to the Holy Spirit. 1058 01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:51,400 We must resist or put away the deeds of the flesh. 1059 01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:52,400 That is the other kingdom. 1060 01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:53,900 It's very clear. 1061 01:06:53,900 --> 01:06:57,320 If you choose the kingdom of Satan over the kingdom of God, then you will get what you 1062 01:06:57,320 --> 01:06:58,320 chose. 1063 01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:00,320 It's that simple. 1064 01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:02,960 And so don't choose the kingdom of Satan over the kingdom of God. 1065 01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:04,520 Rather choose the kingdom of God. 1066 01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:05,520 Walk in the Spirit. 1067 01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:10,860 The Spirit, of course, is of the kingdom of God because he is the pledge of God. 1068 01:07:10,860 --> 01:07:14,000 His main purpose, he does give us gifts. 1069 01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:15,840 That's great, he gives spiritual gifts. 1070 01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:17,880 He heals us and he seals us. 1071 01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:19,480 I mean he regenerates us from our sin. 1072 01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:20,560 He seals us. 1073 01:07:20,560 --> 01:07:21,960 He protects us from falling. 1074 01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:23,320 He does a lot of things. 1075 01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:30,320 But his main purpose is to bring us into agreement with creation that we also will groan for 1076 01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:32,880 the final revealing of the kingdom of God. 1077 01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:37,280 If you're satisfied with the things of this earth, then you're not groaning for the kingdom 1078 01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:38,280 of God. 1079 01:07:38,280 --> 01:07:41,560 If you're searching after a car and you get a car and you're like, yay me, got a car, 1080 01:07:41,560 --> 01:07:44,120 that's great, I'm living the high life now, everything's perfect. 1081 01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:45,520 And that day you're great. 1082 01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:48,880 And then the next day you have an opportunity to serve Jesus and you choose not to do it 1083 01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:51,120 because you're great, you got a car. 1084 01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:55,280 You're choosing the kingdom of the world over the kingdom of God. 1085 01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:56,280 So be aware. 1086 01:07:56,280 --> 01:08:00,080 In fact, it says he who is friends with the world is the enemy to God. 1087 01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:01,960 So we choose to kingdom of God. 1088 01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:06,720 We set our standards accordingly and that is we allow, as His Holy Spirit reigns in us, 1089 01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:10,800 He leads us to guide us to help us understand, to convict us of sin, help us understand scripture 1090 01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:11,960 and that kind of thing. 1091 01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:18,560 And then with the ultimate goal of we desire the coming of the kingdom of God, we want 1092 01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:19,560 the fulfillment of it. 1093 01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:25,760 Now you have the ability to extend the kingdom of God on earth already because you can tell 1094 01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:28,400 people about Jesus, they get saved, they get the Holy Spirit now there in the kingdom 1095 01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:29,640 of God. 1096 01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:32,260 You can do good and overcome evil. 1097 01:08:32,260 --> 01:08:36,440 You can walk in these core values, practice forgiveness toward people, help people be 1098 01:08:36,440 --> 01:08:38,680 forgiven, help people forgive each other. 1099 01:08:38,680 --> 01:08:42,040 You can practice faith, you can practice humility, you can practice servanthood, you can teach 1100 01:08:42,040 --> 01:08:44,760 others to do the same, you can be grateful, you can teach others the same. 1101 01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:50,360 You have the ability to extend the kingdom of God in your sphere of influence now. 1102 01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:53,760 And amazingly, the more you extend the kingdom of God, sometimes the more doors God will 1103 01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:57,320 open up to so you can extend it even further. 1104 01:08:57,320 --> 01:09:04,760 But that being said, understand that choosing the kingdom of God, choosing the Holy Spirit, 1105 01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:10,840 choosing God's fruit of the Spirit and walking by the Spirit, that's necessary. 1106 01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:17,680 If you don't do that, if you choose the deeds of the flesh, you could be called to account. 1107 01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:20,240 You will reap what you sow, God is not mocked. 1108 01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:21,240 He's not playing. 1109 01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:25,280 He didn't die so you could play your way through life. 1110 01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:29,240 He died so you could be part of the kingdom of God and come to be with him in eternity. 1111 01:09:29,240 --> 01:09:30,240 Okay? 1112 01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:31,240 So that's the kingdom of God. 1113 01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:32,240 So real quick, two things. 1114 01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:35,240 One, I get candy to young people. 1115 01:09:35,240 --> 01:09:37,680 So I'm trying to say I'm old. 1116 01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:39,080 I'm a little old here. 1117 01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:40,080 Yes you are. 1118 01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:41,080 For local bread, you're very old. 1119 01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:45,080 Yes, so local bread, you're very old. 1120 01:09:45,080 --> 01:09:46,080 Okay? 1121 01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:47,080 Alright. 1122 01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:48,080 Let's see. 1123 01:09:48,080 --> 01:09:51,080 So we need Danny. 1124 01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:52,080 Okay? 1125 01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:59,320 When a person is in Christ, he would be called what? 1126 01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:03,320 I'm going to shotgun the candy because we were running a long time. 1127 01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:06,040 Very good. 1128 01:10:06,040 --> 01:10:07,040 Anybody that gets it gets it. 1129 01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:08,040 Ready? 1130 01:10:08,040 --> 01:10:09,040 Here it goes. 1131 01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:10,040 Sorry Hannah. 1132 01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:12,640 I, Ashley Dan loves you very much. 1133 01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:13,640 Okay. 1134 01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:14,640 Alright? 1135 01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:24,320 Um, Chris, give me any two core values of the kingdom of God. 1136 01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:27,000 They're under the two on the right hand side. 1137 01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:28,000 Any two core values. 1138 01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:32,860 Oh okay they do. 1139 01:10:32,860 --> 01:10:34,660 Some. 1140 01:10:34,660 --> 01:10:36,980 Go ahead. 1141 01:10:36,980 --> 01:10:39,900 One! 1142 01:10:39,900 --> 01:10:43,880 Cure them with a sponge. 1143 01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:45,140 So guess what. 1144 01:10:45,140 --> 01:10:46,300 5 or 6? 1145 01:10:46,300 --> 01:10:47,300 3. 1146 01:10:47,300 --> 01:10:48,300 And. 1147 01:10:48,300 --> 01:10:50,160 There you go. 1148 01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:52,540 5 or 6. 1149 01:10:52,540 --> 01:10:53,980 5. 1150 01:10:53,980 --> 01:10:54,980 Hmm. 1151 01:10:54,980 --> 01:10:55,980 Thanks. 1152 01:10:55,980 --> 01:11:02,620 Josh totally knew I was gonna over throw it. Okay. All right. Who do we got so? 1153 01:11:03,700 --> 01:11:05,140 Okay 1154 01:11:05,140 --> 01:11:08,700 You still need candy. All right, but I got one big one 1155 01:11:10,140 --> 01:11:14,820 That I'm not sure anybody can get it'll be for anybody in the room because I'm not sure if anybody will get it's a hard one 1156 01:11:14,820 --> 01:11:22,460 All right, so three things that will not exist in the new heaven on the earth Jason. Okay 1157 01:11:25,540 --> 01:11:30,180 Look at that. He got two of the three. Okay, here we go. All right now 1158 01:11:31,780 --> 01:11:34,460 There's a time limit on this question 90 seconds 1159 01:11:35,060 --> 01:11:38,380 Okay, if you'll notice there is a phrase 1160 01:11:38,380 --> 01:11:42,420 That is completed on this page in the background 1161 01:11:45,500 --> 01:11:47,860 It began three weeks ago 1162 01:11:51,260 --> 01:11:54,660 No, it ends with ME exclamation points, so 1163 01:11:54,660 --> 01:12:04,180 No, if I were if I were trying to figure it out, I'd be doing what Alicia's doing and Chris my kingdom come yes