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We're going to be reading from 
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of Luke. 
Let Luke chapter 11 would begin 

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reading in verse 1. 
The Bible says it happened that 

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while Jesus was praying in a 
certain place after he had 

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finished one of his disciples 
said to him, Lord teach us to 

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pray. 
Just as John also taught his 

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disciples must have been an 
amazing thing to hear. 

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Someone like John the Baptist 
Pray to God. 

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Someone who had had such 
intimate in remarkable and 

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encounters with God unique in 
the history of the world. 

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There were other prophets, but 
that was not a common 

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experience, given to men and 
women over and over throughout 

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the years. 
What John new of God's Eternal 

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purpose. 
The tasks that had been laid 

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upon his shoulders, the burden 
that he felt for his people, and

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for the unfolding of God's 
purpose. 

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And what it must have been to 
your him. 

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Pray, but all the more, what 
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Pray, we only have a few 
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list or record in detail the 
words that he spoke on occasions

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like that. 
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prayer that he prayed for his 
disciples and then later, the 

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prayer that was brief and 
repetitious. 

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In The Garden of Gethsemane, as 
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deliverance, if it were 
possible, but he prayed many 

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times in his life, he who knew 
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way than John the Baptist or any
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And he had been in the bosom of 
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flesh to dwell Among Us what 
message of been to hear him 

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pray. 
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him were not surprised that they
would ask. 

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Teach us to pray and he did in 
verse 2. 

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He said to them, when you pray, 
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Hallowed Be Your Name, Your 
Kingdom come. 

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Now he said more than that, and 
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look at the rest of this model 
or instructive prayer. 

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That Jesus presented to his 
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We're going to focus our 
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Online. 
Your kingdom come. 

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This comes into the theme of the
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If you have not been with us in 
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this meeting is the 
establishment and increase of 

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the kingdom of God. 
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consider what Jesus meant when 
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Your kingdom come. 
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talking about the establishment 
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God. 
I think this merits a little bit

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of review from what we spoke 
about last evening. 

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What is the kingdom of God is 
the kingdom of God present in 

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the world today, if so? 
When was it established, is it 

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now all that it will ever be or 
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is that future stage going to be
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Or is it going to be tragic and 
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If the kingdom will grow and 
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How exactly would that happen? 
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questions. 
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this lesson, but first, we need 
to understand what the kingdom 

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is. 
The word Kingdom carries for 

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essential ideas within its 
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We have them represented in the 
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kingdom, refers to a rank, a 
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A rank is the power to rule then
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expression or exercise of rule. 
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people over which the rule is 
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And finally, there is the time 
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and the authority is being 
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Now the phrase kingdom of God or
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gospel Kingdom of Heaven. 
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rank rule realm and reign of God
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God, because he is, God has the 
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Earth. 
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Pleasure says, the fourth 
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Revelation. 
It was made according to his 

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will and it exists. 
Rightly only, according to his 

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purposes, he rules over the 
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brings certain things 
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And by his Revelations, which 
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creatures, what he wants them to
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Grant certain creatures, the 
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to their own will, some of which
are actually contrary to his 

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revelation. 
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spiritual and material visible 
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without beginning, or end from 
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In the New Testament, these 
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around the person and work of 
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Jesus has received the Kingdom 
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rank. 
And a rule and a realm and a 

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reign of his own. 
His rank was given to him by God

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the Father his rule also 
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permissions and Revelations. 
His realm is the whole universe 

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material and physical and 
visible and invisible. 

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His Reign had a beginning and 
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concludes what it accomplishes 
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Now, it's vital here to remember
the Bible story. 

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Last evening, I suggested that 
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down into four related sections 
creation, corruption, correction

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and completion in the first 
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God made the universe. 
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and receive glory in and through
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And then, in the midst of the 
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his Temple and on the earth, he 
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which he would dwell and he 
filled that temple with humans 

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or at least that was his 
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He put humans as priests within 
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Ministers of the sanctuary. 
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bearers and Tate, the spread of 
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throughout the world. 
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very good because it was 
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According to the rule of God, 
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was good. 
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and in order, however, in the 
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the corruption things change 
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And for the worse, Humanity was 
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God. 
God's rule was abandoned in his 

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kingdom, became broken and 
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Things were no longer the way 
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all kinds of problems and evils 
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to its deepest and most 
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And in the midst of God's realm 
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established seeking to wrench 
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the Creator. 
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the kingdom of darkness as the 
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Now, at this moment, God might 
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it would have been a very 
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because it was no longer 
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which he created it, but instead
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the Bible story, The correction 
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plan to restore and redeem 
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rebellion and to destroy Satan. 
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everything back to his stage of 
goodness. 

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Once More by reclaiming, it 
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Now we should note that Jesus 
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beginning of this story. 
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like John chapter 1 and 
Colossians chapter 1, that all 

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things were created through him.
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made, that was made by his word 
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All things came into existence 
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structure and purpose and 
stability. 

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Here, we learn that God's 
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kingdom over to Jesus because 
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some important works. 
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what the Bible calls the 
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Acts chapter 3 and verse 21. 
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understand that the work of 
Christ is not merely a work of 

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salvation. 
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it to that exclusively but Jesus
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of Christ is a work of 
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creation back to God's purpose. 
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What can be saved? 
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cannot be saved. 
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Messiah would come with spirit 
and with fire with blessings, 

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but also with judgment those who
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kingdom are gathered together as
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called The Church of the Lord 
Jesus Christ. 

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Finally beginning, to accomplish
all that God intended Humanity 

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to accomplish from the start. 
When the Bible story ends, in 

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the last section of completion, 
we see a glorious vision of what

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it will look like when Jesus 
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All that God intended in the 
universe, the story is essential

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to appreciating some of the 
things that we're going to 

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consider. 
Today, I want to begin with 

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three questions, which will 
explain the establishment of the

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kingdom of God. 
How did? 

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Jesus receive his rank. 
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Begin. 
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expressed. 
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questions will know, a great 
deal of significant information 

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about the Bible story and 
especially about this Kingdom 

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concept. 
Now, you'll note that when I ask

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these questions I'm putting them
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of revealing to you. 
You that I understand these 

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things have already happened. 
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There are many people in the 
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of these things have happened 
and they put them off into a 

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future stage. 
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Jesus, as we consider the Bible 
answers to these three 

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questions. 
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very plainly that a futuristic 
understanding of the kingdom of 

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Christ. 
Cannot be supported by 

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scripture. 
The Bible is very plain in 

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explaining how Jesus received 
his rank that is his right or 

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his authority to rule, it was 
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Jesus said in Matthew 28:18, all
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in heaven and on Earth, of 
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his death and his resurrection, 
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teaches it was because of his 
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Direction that he received this 
Authority. 

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The Authority was a reward 
conditioned on his victory, over

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Satan and sin and the curses of 
sin chiefly among them death and

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this victory was accomplished by
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And the resurrection of course 
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Jesus coming to Earth and being 
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During his time on Earth. 
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God is in your midst. 
The kingdom of God has come upon

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you because in him, the kingdom 
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Its presence was already 
underway, but it was not merely 

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his life, but his death, which 
established the kingdom, fully 

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and provided, the means for 
Rebels for Sinners and the 

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kingdom of Satan to be pardoned.
And Got back into the kingdom of

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God in Matthew chapter 16 and 
verse 18. 

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Jesus famously told, his 
Apostles, that death would not 

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stop him, from establishing his 
congregation, his church, and 

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creating a people for himself in
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That little did Satan know that.
It was actually through Jesus 

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death, that he would establish 
it and would defeat death and 

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sin. 
As the Bible says in Hebrews 

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chapter 2, Verses 14 and 15, he 
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because after he died, he rose 
again to life Everlasting and he

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manifests his resurrection by 
many convincing proofs. 

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And then the Bible says that 
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And in his Ascension, the 
scripture tells us that he led a

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host of captives in his train 
that unusual statement. 

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Found in Psalm 68 verse 18, but 
it's quoted in Ephesians 4:8 and

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the Apostle Paul applies it. 
To the Ascension of Jesus 

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Christ. 
It refers to Jesus, taking the 

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defeated devil and the evil 
spirits and demons and making a 

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spectacle of them before the 
Holy Angels. 

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And before God himself, as he 
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Apostles, on the The other side 
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The scripture says he was joined
by an innumerable company of 

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Angels, the heavenly host in all
of its glory and fullness and 

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they March together with him in 
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And behind him in Chains where 
the old agitators and enemies of

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God's kingdom, Satan, and all of
his spiritual forces and powers,

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and they were LED in this 
Victorious. 

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Aid through the Gates of Heaven 
into the very presence of God 

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the father in Daniel chapter 7 
verses 13 through 14. 

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The Bible tells us what happens 
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Daniel was caught up into the 
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the Clouds Of Heaven one. 
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now sometimes when he read a 
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the son of man coming with the 
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from up there, he's seeing 
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Heaven up. 
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Coming up to the Ancient of 
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father. 
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and to Was given dominion and 
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the peoples and Nations and Men 
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him. 
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several different ways. 
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received up into heaven, and sat
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Acts 2 verse 34, Peter quoting. 
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Jesus ascended, the Lord said to
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told Jesus sit at my right hand 
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footstool for your feet. 
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evening, but last evening, we 
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of footstool for your feet Was 
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enemies being subjugated and 
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rule of a king, sometimes by 
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sometimes by being made his 
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out of the state of rebellion 
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once lived. 
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God the father said, sit at my 
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enemies a footstool for your 
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Throne of his father David to 
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He gave him that Throne not on 
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heaven, it was not a chair. 
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in the Nation of God's old 
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before in Philippians 2:5-11. 
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claimed the right to rule over 
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nature because he had equality 
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himself and he became a man. 
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purposes even to the point of Of
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And for this reason also God 
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on him the name which is above 
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So that at the name of Jesus 
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are in heaven and on the earth 
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every tongue will confess that 
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glory of God, the father. 
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given to him on the basis of the
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and Resurrection. 
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because he has accomplished that
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received, has already begun. 
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because all of the language that
we have just read about sitting 

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down on a throne at God's right 
hand and being given a kingdom 

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and given dominion and being 
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Exalted over all peoples and 
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every name. 
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language. 
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official installment of a king 
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that happened when Jesus 
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two, thousand years ago. 
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demonstrated, what had taken 
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signs on the Earth? 
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the Holy Spirit on the day of 
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Jerusalem in ad 70. 
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baptizer said that Messiah would
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spirit and in fire, that fire 
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God's judgment against 
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This was the great and terrible 
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foretold by the prophet Joel in 
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ER, to the baptism in the 
spirit, symbolized, all the 

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blessings that God gives to 
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kingdom, and the destruction of 
Jerusalem, symbolize the 

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Judgment against those who 
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removal of old Israel, and their
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spiritual Israel, the New 
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from heaven, the Church of our 
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And if we have ears to hear and 
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designed by God and they were 
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History to show us 
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unequivocally that Jesus Christ 
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raining. 
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question. 
Along this line that we need to 

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answer. 
How is the rule of Christ 

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expressed It's one thing to say 
that Jesus is King, but it's not

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much of a kingdom. 
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will and express our expect the 
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If I told you that I was the 
king of Madagascar, but nobody 

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in Madagascar. 
Knows it. 

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I've never been there. 
I've never met any of them. 

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They've never heard of me. 
They've never heard anything 

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that I've said, but I'm the king
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You'd say yes. 
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Not very impressive. 
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the universe if Jesus is in 
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earth? 
I don't know how Jesus rules 

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over angels. 
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says that God has placed the 
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I don't know how Jesus exercises
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dead. 
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Jesus said that Abraham and 
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And Jacob and all those Noble, 
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from the ages past. 
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Messiah. 
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exercises, his rule over 
infants, but I know that he does

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because Jesus said of such, is 
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I don't know how Jesus 
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lower creation, centipedes, and 
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octopuses are however, the you 
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Those and volcanoes and black 
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all that going the way that it 
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all those things but it doesn't 
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it. 
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affirms it, but the Bible does 
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How does Jesus rule over the 
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That's an important question to 
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Jesus, when he prophesied the 
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Matthew. 16:18 then said in 
verse 19 to the Apostle, Peter, 

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I will give to you the Keys of 
the Kingdom of Heaven and 

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whatever you bind on Earth will 
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whatever you loose on Earth will
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This language about Keys is an 
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For stewardship and authority. 
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custodian. 
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gone. 
Someone would have to take care 

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of it in his absence, and it 
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Peter, he would become the 
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the world. 
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authority to the church through 
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Now, that promise which was 
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extended to the whole College of
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16 through 21 and 26, John 16 
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John 20 verses 22 to 23. 
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the day of Pentecost when the 
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Helper and began to work in 
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And those to whom they gave the 
gifts of the Spirit until they 

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had received and delivered the 
complete body of the testimony 

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and teaching that constitutes, 
the will of King Jesus and 

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deposited it in the Holy 
scriptures so that it Be present

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for all believers in all ages, 
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And thus, those who would be 
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Jesus today. 
No, and obey his rule by 

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continuing steadfastly in the 
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That's what the Bible says. 
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already gone from the Earth but 
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And people said, what should we 
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And when they were pardoned and 
brought into his kingdom, they 

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continued steadfastly in the 
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verse 42 says. 
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there is no reason why Jesus 
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ruling and reigning. 
Now, his Reign was inaugurated 

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at his Ascension. 
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teaching of the Apostles. 
Apostles, which is now given to 

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us and the New Covenant 
scripture and in its 

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interpretation and application 
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and with all of this considered 
It's very common for someone to 

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object and say, well, if this is
the reign of Christ, it isn't 

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very impressive. 
I mean, just look at the 

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condition of the world, but 
there's much we could say about 

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that. 
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continues, will say more, but I 
think that the most important 

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response to that objection is to
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Christ is not the completion 
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The reign of Jesus Christ is the
ultimate manifestation of God's 

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purpose in the correction stage.
The reign of Jesus Christ is 

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about fixing the broken world. 
That's the very reason that it's

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happening. 
That's the reason it was 

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inaugurated to begin with. 
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everything is not yet the way 
that it should be, but because 

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of the reign of Jesus Christ, 
the power of God is now present 

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in the world for everything to 
get there in time. 

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So that brings us to our next 
question. 

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How is the kingdom of God 
practically manifest in our 

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lives? 
And in the lives of our families

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and our communities and in 
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How should we expect to see it 
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I believe that the Bible teaches
the kingdom of God in Christ is 

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Manifest and grows in four ways.
I remember when I talked about 

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the kingdom of God in Christ, 
I'm not only talking about the 

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institution of the church, 
that's part of this thing. 

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We're discussing, that's a 
society that is formed and 

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created through the work that 
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But I'm talking about the rank 
and Rule and realm and rain. 

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Reign of Jesus in all of its 
fullness. 

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How does that grow? 
How does it go? 

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How do we see it in the world? 
First, we see it through the 

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conversion of the Lost second. 
We see it through the 

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transformation of the saved into
the image of Jesus third. 

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We see it through the 
unification of Believers and 

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forth. 
We see it through the increase 

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of the knowledge of God. 
God, the education of humanity 

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to a better grasp of who God is 
and what God has done and what 

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God is doing and what God wills.
And as these four things 

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increase, then the church 
increases and the kingdom of 

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God, fills the Earth, more and 
more and more, where these 

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things are not present. 
The kingdom of God is Not. 

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Not yet present. 
That has the potential to be 

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there. 
It's been inaugurated, but it's 

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not there yet until these things
happen in history, the 

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conversion of the Lost involves 
the preaching of the Gospel that

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is the proclamation of God's 
work. 

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In ancient Israel, culminating 
in the Incarnation of Jesus 

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Christ, and his death and 
burial, and resurrection and 

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Ascension and glorious reign. 
Faith in Jesus, which were going

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to talk about tomorrow night 
submission to Jesus through some

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repentance and baptism resulting
in justification by the pardon 

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of our sins. 
This is how one who was 

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previously, a rebel against God 
in the Kingdom of Satan, or of 

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darkness is taken out of that 
condition in the Bible says in 

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Colossians chapter 1, verses 13 
and 14 translated out of the 

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kingdom of darkness and And into
the kingdom of the son of God's 

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love. 
Now the transformation of the 

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saved into the image of Christ 
is also necessary. 

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It's not enough for God to 
Simply forgive Sinners, just 

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pardoning criminals. 
Does not restore his rule over 

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the Earth, they're going to have
to change from criminals into 

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law-abiding, citizens from 
centers into something. 

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Greater something that obeys 
God's Commandments. 

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That's why they need to be 
transformed into the image of 

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Jesus. 
God created Humanity to be his 

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image Bearer. 
There was never anyone on Earth 

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who was more perfectly the image
bearer of God, then Jesus 

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Christ, he is the express image 
of the invisible. 

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God, the Bible says and thus, we
find our purpose in him. 

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We find the Fulfillment of the 
real reason we were made by our 

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Conformity Into His Image by are
following his pattern by are 

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imitating, him more and more. 
And this is a painful and 

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lifelong process. 
The Apostle Paul calls it being 

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led by the spirit of God and 
that doesn't sound too bad, but 

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then he goes on to discuss that 
being led by the spirit of God. 

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Involves the person, you used to
be dying. 

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And not dying easily, not dying 
in his sleep, but being 

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crucified mortified, put to 
death, you take the old 

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character, the old lifestyle, 
the old Ambitions, and loves, 

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and wishes, and dreams, and 
hopes. 

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Those that had bound you to 
Satan and made you part of his 

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00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:07,800
kingdom, and you kill those 
things. 

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So that when they die a new life
can be formed a life. 

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In the likeness of Jesus as the 
flesh. 

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No longer is the guiding 
principle of life. 

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It is replaced by the spirit, 
which has been LED and filled 

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and directed and educated. 
By the holy spirit of God, 

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through the teaching of the word
of God. 

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And over, the course of many 
years, a radical change takes 

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place. 
And one who was like, Satan, 

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Begins to resemble Jesus and 
each time a growth a movement 

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forward takes place. 
The kingdom of God is more 

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abundantly present in this 
world. 

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Then we have the unity of 
Believers, the unity of 

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Believers refers to the 
increasing Oneness of heart and 

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mind, and the supernatural 
christ-like. 

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Love that binds. 
All of Jesus followers together 

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into a great worldwide 
Brotherhood. 

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By their growing apprehension of
christ-like character. 

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And the truth of Christ is 
revealed in the apostles 

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00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:21,500
teaching. 
When you become more like Jesus,

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you grow closer to others who 
are doing the same and something

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amazing begins to happen. 
Old enemies. 

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Begin to be brothers and 
sisters, the oppressor and the 

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00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:39,400
oppressed embrace one, another 
and love one another and they 

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00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:44,900
take their swords and they beat 
them into plowshares and their 

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00:35:44,900 --> 00:35:48,800
Spears, and they beat them into 
pruning hooks because they've 

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changed and they're going to 
study war. 

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No more. 
That's what the Bible says 

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00:35:55,400 --> 00:36:01,100
happens in this world. 
When the kingdom of God comes to

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it. 
It and finally the knowledge of 

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00:36:03,700 --> 00:36:08,800
God refers to the understanding 
of God's self-revelation which 

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results in a fuller grasp of his
glory and majesty and a greater 

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00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:17,400
strength to triumph over the 
lies of the devil. 

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It is the result of Bible study 
and teaching and participation 

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00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,300
and worship and all aspects of 
the life of the church, which 

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God has designed for the 
edification of his people. 

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Now, you'll note that each of 
these Four principles are 

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mutually, codependent and 
supportive of one. 

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Another, in fact, in reality, 
one cannot occur without the 

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others and one necessarily leads
to the others. 

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You cannot turn to God, really. 
Without being transformed into 

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the image of Christ, you cannot 
be transformed into the image of

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00:36:51,300 --> 00:36:56,700
Christ without growing in love, 
for others who are experiencing 

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00:36:56,700 --> 00:36:59,600
the same. 
You cannot be transformed 

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00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:04,200
without growing in the Ruth, the
knowledge of the truth and will 

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00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:09,400
of Christ. 
And so these things all flow 

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together in one great, glorious 
Direction toward one ultimate 

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end. 
Jesus is making a redeemed. 

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00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:23,900
People in this world right now. 
By these principles, he is 

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00:37:23,900 --> 00:37:30,700
redeeming you and me, and all of
us by these principles. 

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And when he is finished, he will
take his people now converted 

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00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:45,100
transformed unified and 
enlightened, and he willfully 

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00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:49,300
deliver them from the curse by 
giving them immortality in the 

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00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:53,600
resurrection and utterly purging
from the universe, all the 

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00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:58,200
remaining vestiges of rebellion 
and satanic influence. 

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And then the Bible says, he will
give that rescued. 

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Creation over to God, the Father
for his eternal glory. 

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So that God, may be all in all. 
That is the kingdom of God, 

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that's how the kingdom of God, 
comes and grows and increases. 

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00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:23,000
Now in Matthew 6:10 and Luke 
chapter 11 verse 2. 

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Jesus taught his disciples that 
when they pray. 

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Are you one of his disciples 
then I should change that? 

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Shouldn't I should say when we 
pray, we should pray and open 

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00:38:41,100 --> 00:38:44,300
our prayers with the petition to
this effect. 

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Your kingdom, come. 
This is God's purpose and Jesus 

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00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:57,100
wants it to become our purpose 
as well and because God has made

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00:38:57,100 --> 00:39:02,200
us as his priests in this world 
he has made us with a tremendous

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00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:06,900
intercessory power. 
Where our petitions to him help 

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to bring his will to pass in the
world. 

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And so Jesus said, all of this 
can only happen. 

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If it begins to dominate our 
cries to God, the Father, 

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Father, your kingdom, come 
before you ask anything for 

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00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:28,500
yourself before you say, give us
this day, our daily bread and 

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00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:32,400
forgive us of our sins and do 
not lead us into temptation 

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00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,200
before you say anything about 
that. 

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Pray first for God's purpose to 
be accomplished your kingdom 

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00:39:40,900 --> 00:39:44,500
come. 
Now, some people who have seen 

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the problems with the idea that 
the reign of Christ is Future 

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00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,700
and will not begin until his 
second coming. 

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00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,100
We know that, that cannot be 
true. 

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00:39:55,100 --> 00:39:57,300
We know that Christ is raining 
now. 

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00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:02,200
So some people who have seen 
that have I think mistakenly 

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concluded that this prayer is no
longer appropriate for Christ. 

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People, I've heard people preach
that all of my life. in fact, I 

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think I've preached that before,
They suppose that when Jesus 

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said these words, when you pray,
pray your kingdom. 

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Come that. 
All he meant was that the 

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disciples should pray for the 
establishment of the Kingdom 

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00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,900
through his death. 
Resurrection Ascension, and the 

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00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:38,800
outpouring of the spirit. 
Now, if that was all that Jesus 

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meant, I would agree that we 
should no longer be asking for 

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that to happen. 
I'm not in the habit of praying 

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00:40:44,500 --> 00:40:47,600
for the Virgin birth. 
To take place because it already

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took place and I don't expect 
that. 

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It should ever happen again. 
And if Jesus meant pray for the 

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day of Pentecost, pray for my 
crucifixion and resurrection and

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00:41:00,300 --> 00:41:05,200
Ascension into Glory. 
If that's what he meant then we 

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ought not to pray that anymore. 
But I don't believe that's what 

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Jesus meant. 
This example, prayer, first of 

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all is given in the midst of The
Sermon, on the Mount, which was 

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designed to teach how we should 
live within his kingdom. 

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Not how people should live in 
the Old Testament, to prepare 

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for his kingdom. 
And most importantly, it is 

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given in the style of Hebrew 
poetry now, some of us might not

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00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,000
know much about Hebrew poetry. 
Some of us might not know much 

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00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,300
about any delish poetry and it 
can be a little difficult to 

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understand sometimes, but in 
Hebrew poetry, the chief 

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00:41:46,900 --> 00:41:51,300
characteristic of Hebrew poetry 
is a structure called 

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parallelism. 
Now depending on what printing 

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of the Bible you use, you will 
note that in certain parts of 

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the Bible. 
When a poem is being recorded, 

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you will see the Lions or sort 
of staggered like this into two 

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00:42:09,500 --> 00:42:12,600
verse sets. 
And that's how, you know, I'm 

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00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:16,100
reading a poem here, I'm not 
reading Pros. 

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00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:21,200
Now, the two verse sets are 
coupled together and they work 

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00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:25,700
together to get the message 
across by relating to one 

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00:42:25,700 --> 00:42:29,400
another somehow, the first verse
said, and the second verse set 

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00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:35,300
are parallel in some respects 
sometimes, they mean the same 

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00:42:35,300 --> 00:42:37,100
thing. 
The first and the second are 

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00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,100
just two ways of saying the same
thing. 

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00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,700
Sometimes the second verse set 
is the opposite of the first 

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00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,100
verse set. 
Sometimes the second verse set 

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00:42:45,100 --> 00:42:48,100
completes the idea of the first 
four set. 

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00:42:48,100 --> 00:42:50,200
The Beatitudes are written this 
way. 

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00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:56,400
Blessed are the poor in spirit. 
Why for theirs is the Kingdom of

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00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,600
Heaven. 
You say the second verse set, 

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00:42:58,900 --> 00:43:04,100
explains the first one. 
But the most common form of 

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00:43:04,100 --> 00:43:07,400
parallelism in Hebrew. 
Poetry is when they both 

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00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,700
basically mean the same thing. 
The second percent simply 

602
00:43:10,700 --> 00:43:14,800
repeats the idea of the First 
with greater Clarity, it 

603
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:19,500
amplifies, it and explains it. 
Such is the case in Matthew 6, 

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00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:24,500
and verse 10, when Jesus says 
that we ought always to pray 

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00:43:24,700 --> 00:43:29,800
your kingdom, come, he explains 
that he does not mean pray for 

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00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:37,600
the day of Pentecost to happen. 
He means pray your will be done 

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00:43:38,100 --> 00:43:45,600
on Earth as it is in heaven. 
That's how the kingdom comes. 

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00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,300
That's what it means for the 
kingdom of God, to be really 

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00:43:50,300 --> 00:43:53,400
present in this world. 
Not just for Jesus to be 

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00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:59,200
enthroned in glory, but for 
people on earth, To submit 

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00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:06,700
themselves to his Rule and to 
live out, his will on Earth as 

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00:44:06,700 --> 00:44:13,000
it is in heaven. 
Rather Steve's prayer was 

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00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,700
beautiful. 
I love to hear him pray and he 

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00:44:16,700 --> 00:44:22,100
painted for us, a very graphic 
picture of the disparity between

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00:44:22,100 --> 00:44:28,100
Earth and Heaven. but the 
purpose of the kingdom of God is

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00:44:28,100 --> 00:44:36,000
to bring Heaven to Earth, That 
is its purpose and it happens 

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00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:40,600
through the conversion of the 
lost, the transformation of the 

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00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:45,500
saved, into the image of Jesus 
Christ, the unification of 

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Believers, and the increase of 
the knowledge of God, Jesus is 

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00:44:51,900 --> 00:44:57,400
Calling on us to pray for the 
increase of the Kingdom to its 

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00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,900
completion. 
And that work remains to be done

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00:45:01,100 --> 00:45:05,300
in my life. 
And in yours and in all the 

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world, how does the kingdom of 
God in Christ? 

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00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:15,000
Come by the rebellious World, 
being conquered and reclaimed by

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00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:19,700
Jesus Through The Gospel and 
thus restored to the rule of 

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00:45:19,700 --> 00:45:24,100
God. 
This is God's will and he would 

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00:45:24,100 --> 00:45:26,900
have it become our will also