Kingdom
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Intro and Tension
Intro and Tension
Champions League | Greatest Football competition | 2005 - Liverpool Won against AC Milan | Headline.
But if you stop there | Would get the news, but miss what happened
Greatest comeback of all time | Yes they won, but there was more to the story
When Jesus Came | Headline is salvation | Defeating death, resurrection is the headline
but if Gospel stops there for you - You’re missing something.
If your story is say a prayer and wait for heaven - You’re missing something
When Jesus baptised - Sent to desert, defeated temptation his very first message;
Turn and burn - No…
and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
gospel = Good news = Yes, going to cross | Yes salvation is here but also - Kingdom of God is at Hand
nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”
Midst of You | Yes - Jesus is the Kingdom of God | All through Matthew; Kingdom of heaven is like…Kingdom of heaven is like…
Throughout His ministries shows us by example what the Kingdom of Heaven is like.
Then preaches greatest ever sermon - Tells us how we should pray
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
So yes - Something is coming | Eternity is coming | But we are instructed to do something right now.
To pray to bring Something Down | To CAll Heaven…Down to EARTH.
Title: Your Kingdom Come, on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Series: small step man. Giant leap Kingdom.
The big thing God wants to tell us today - Yes Good news is Salvation | I came to do what I was going to do and Die -
but Also advancement Kingdom is to happen, here, on Earth.
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
Yes - Coming on Clouds - Yes there is an end game | But there is a game right now.
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
Not bought us a ticket - Transferred us - Now
[Champions league final - Yes final Whistle is coming | Do I stand here and do nothing | Shower coming - I’m gonna go home after the game - but there is something now
What is there to do?
When Peter got it - Knew who Jesus was; Jesus turned and said;
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Some think - Gates advancing
No - Gates already set up | Set up because Adam and Eve Sinned and gave world to satan
Adam and Eve sinned = Lost the Kingdom = The Fall
Jesus went down, into Death - but he got back up | And He bought the Kingdom up - First fruits of New Creation | and He has the Keys to the Kingdom
And He poured the Kingdom of God into you through Holy Spirit
for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
WITNESSES - You’ve SEEN and EXPERIENCED.
Recieve Power ? Convert people and wait for heaven? no - That’s not what the GREAT commission says
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
Mark 16:18 (ESV)
they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
The kingdom of God is at hand;
the big bucket in Queensland
So you have the Gift of the Holy Spirit and some Keys
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Keys don’t go to elevator to heaven - bring Heaven down to earth here.
Yes messy middle - garbage heap - there is sin, evil and gates - but you have some keys - and those gates that have been setup will not prevail.
Gates of Depression will not prevail / anxiety, vasse, the unsaved.
Listen Church
OT was the trailer
Jesus now invites us - into the Set of the Movie.
[mate when got part to GO] -
got letter of acceptance - had to audition - listen, you don’t have to audition to be on this set = called to be on this set.
we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
Gift of Holy Spirit | Been Called to be on set.
you have been MADE to make a small step for Man | Giant Leap for Kingdom.
Why set and not the ACTUAL movie.
Movie is coming - where all the garbage outside the set won’t exist but for now, Jesus wants more people on the set.
Playing a soccer match with known ending | Have victory - but more work to do before shower.
so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;
Been called to do more than get saved, say a prayer and die.
Called to advance His Kingdom here, on Earth, as it is in heaven.
Jesus came as the Kingdom of God - It’s not a physical kingdom - It’s a spiritual one.
and then He poured His Spirit out on you and you are to be a foretasting of Heaven.
Let me put some handles on this - What are the implications of this?
Expect a Mixture of Reactions
When Jesus talking about this in Sermon of mount;
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.
Salt on food = Heaps = Some people - Yuck. Some people - Yum
Your salt = Healing for some | Rubbing against
expect both reactions.
Coming up against norm. It’s ok - We are not to fall into ‘niceness’ we are to fall into obedience.
2. Seek First the Kingdom
Well, if kingdom of God is at hand - if we take step toward it | we must first seek it.
In Fact - Jesus tells us this
Story, pool, heads to paraplegic man
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
Smudged glasses - Clean them. As you get sanctified, you get clean so you can see.
Your kingdom come, your WILL be done, on EARTH, as it is in HEAVEN.
3. Have the courage to strip yourself away
Less of you | More of Him.
4. Pray the prayer
We should always be praying kingdom come.
Worshipping for Kingdom come. For HS to come.
Yes he is here | As we yield more to HS - Less of us, things change.
and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
When God Shows up - EVERYTHING CHANGES.
The kingdom of God is at hand - Yes = We know the ending | We know the Headline | We have the victory
but we can also have Kingdom here | You where saved to do more than say a prayer and die, so Church - Let’s Yearn for it.
Let’s pray that the kingdom come ,your will be done, on earth, as it is in heaven.
