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Thanks Keith very much.

Appreciate that.

Good morning everybody.

Good to be back.

Glad to be back.

Happy to be among the living as they say.

So we're here to be together.

We're glad that we can worship God once again together.

What are you talking about?

It's like this.

Jesus is going to talk about the kingdom and he says, the kingdom of God is like this and he's going to make some examples and give us a parable about that.

But as we consider that question, what is the kingdom of God? Like and what can I compare it to?

We find that in the chapter will be reading 13 Verse 18.

We talked about the context a little bit here.

The fact is that Jesus has now coming to a new region and we have been talkin about the word of God, right?

We've been talkin about the gospel accounts of what Jesus had to say.

And so, when we think about the word of Christ, the word of God, both of the same thing to find by different terms that we think about that.

We're, we're confined by the word of God were controlled by the word of God.

And we are compelled by the word of God.

A powerful, the word of God is.

And as we consider the word of God, we've been going through the word of God chronologically through, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in the Life of Christ and we've entered into Luke Chapter 13 here.

And we're talking about a transitional period where he's going from Judea into prayer and then he's going to make his final way to Jerusalem to go to the cross.

And as we look at the background of this particular passage, we got to remember what we talked about and bible class this morning and the context is dealing with repentance as he begins to talk about the kingdom of God here in this context.

But in Chapter 13 beginning and verse 1 through 9 as Keith just read talks about natural disasters.

Why there's spiritual application That you can make two natural disasters that one of the disaster said he talks about was the fact that the pilot had ordered the Roman soldiers to kill the galileans who were offering up sacrifices to God and they took the blood of Those whom they slaughtered and mixed it in with the animals and they themselves, would offer up sacrifices with that blood.

And so they blasphemes God's people but they also blaspheme the offering of the sacrifice they blaspheme God.

And so this was a Calamity, this was a disaster.

This was a tragedy that was taking place and Jesus said in remedy to all of that repent, Repent.

And then he talks about the Tower of Siloam.

Been so long, there was a huge Tower and people would pass by it every day.

And one day the tower fell and killed a bunch of people.

Both Jews and Gentiles.

Now in both these stories, the Jews thought that God was exacting Revenge upon sinful Jews, Because I thought that just like job's friends.

When job's friend, friends came to job, they wanted to know what Joe did that caused God?

To give him such a hard time.

and we are a couple weeks ago, three weeks ago, last time I was here, we talked about John chapter 9 and John chapter 9.

There was a man that was born blind and Jesus healed him.

And the people there thought that this man was born blind because of his parents.

The parents said and somehow that's been affected this man's physical life and Jesus said it had nothing to do with his parents.

This is a physical ailment of tragedy.

Something that was brought Upon A Calamity, a problem in issue of life.

And we talked about other calamities this morning, we talked about plane crashes.

And we talked about 9/11, we talked about school, shootings, and all of these things, we're taking multiple lines are taking women and children are taken away often, questioned God as to why this goes on the way it does.

And that if he was a god, Love, you wouldn't allow this to happen, but he is a god of love and that's the point that he's talking about here.

When he starts talking about the baron fig tree which represented Israel, Israel were the chosen people of God and they produce no fruit.

I saw Jesus or so here, the old stration of the Fig Tree is given and, therefore, God wants to destroy the Fig Tree because it wasn't bearing fruit.

But Jesus steps into the picture.

He says let's be patient.

Let's get it more time.

I'll dig a trench around it.

I'll fertilize it.

I'll take care of it for some time and if then it does to produce fruit then we'll we'll go ahead and we'll destroy that tree.

But what Jesus was actually showing there was a picture of Grace And we learn from 2nd Peter chapter 3 and verse not 9 that God is Not slack concerning his, his a patient, but his long-suffering toward us, not wishing that.

Anyone should perish but that all should come to repentance.

And so that's the idea that go to hell, everyone to obey the gospel.

There in lies the difference.

A lot of people want to obey certain things in their lives, but it's not the gospel.

A lot of people want to obey tradition, but they're not, the gospel, Jesus has presented the world with one gospel.

And in this book, we call the vital.

We find it in the New Testament.

The teachings of Jesus, the teachers that produce faith.

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God and it's by that face by that Covenant and Hebrews chapter 10 verse.

The Bible tells us that we are Sanctified or Sanctified by this New Covenant by the Gospel of Jesus Christ and nothing else will sanctifies.

But that and so salvation comes through Jesus Christ by the gospel that he preached.

And when he preached did, he brought conflict We talked about that.

Also this morning, the God of Peace, the Prince of Peace, he preached the kingdom of peace and yet he brought a sword.

And that's sort of the word of God, and he calls it a sword because it's that word of God that separates people from one another.

Among the Jews.

It's separated those who wanted to believe in Jesus from their mothers and fathers at from the rest of their families who didn't believe.

In Jesus, they rejected Jesus.

And so this caused tension and turmoil, and Agony within those families that their own children would follow someone called Jesus, rather than Moses.

They were traditionally falling from their young age and so we find here that Jesus is coming to talk about Grace talking about the kingdom.

That brings peace through his teaching.

And Israel's not producing fruit and then finally Living on Tulsa Time.

I put that in there, simply because we're all living on borrowed time.

Right?

I like the country song so tough.

Sometimes it better.

But we're all living on borrowed time.

And the time is given to us and we have to do and live the way according to God wants us to do.

And with what, in that time frame, we all know, when our time is up, as they understood the beauty behind the stories that he told about those tragedies, you don't know if those people are going to hell are going to heaven.

But what Jesus was most concerned about was this That you repent that you live a life of repentance before these disasters happen.

And so it is, when we go to the airport and we're getting ready to board the plane, don't we go to God In Prayer?

Don't we return of our sins?

Sure, we do sure, we do these are things.

We must do.

What we got to do it every day of Our Lives.

Not just when we go on plane trips or boat trips or what have you, but that's the nature of the Kingdom.

A kingdom is a group of people that belong to this institution started by Jesus Christ.

And this group of people lives a life of Faith but as they live a life of Faith, they seen along the way.

And so Jesus comes along and says I want my people to repent And those people who are living by faith, who are part of my kingdom, when they repent they remain in the Kingdom.

So you have to repent first of all to get into the kingdom, but then you have to continue repenting to remain in the Kingdom.

Otherwise, we'll be cast out of the kingdom.

And so, this is the point, Jesus was making.

He says, do you think that they were worse, Sinners, and all the other men who dwell in Jerusalem until you know, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

The Jews were accustomed to thinking that bad things happen to Sinners, and good things happen to those who are faithful, will, actually good things.

Happened to the Jews and every bad thing happens to the Gentiles and their basic understanding I think I told you the story before but I remember as a young man with turning 12 or 13 and I remember looking in the mirror for the first time and be holding fee holding that thing, you call a pimple.

A pimple and I remember my brother Bruce coming in saying that pimple, what did you do?

That's the way people think and God does not act that way because imagine every one of us would be dead already because all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

It's so God is patient and long-suffering toward each of us as we consider living faithfully and repenting as we do to do.