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the lord's prayer
last week we looked at that one phrase in that prayer
by kingdom come
and we want to look at it
one more time
today
decide kingdom come
you know the coming of the kingdom of jesus
is quite complicated
it's not too complicated
once we look at it and try to understand is jesus would unfolded
uh... that we can't fully understand it we can't but it is complicated on the
surface and why is it complicated
because
it is both
now and not yet
and that makes it complicated
the kingdom that jesus came to bring
is present
and yet future
it is existing
right now
but it doesn't exist fully
until another day
this makes
this kingdom of god concept
very complicated
makes it complicated
and as we looked at that last time we looked at the whole aspect of the
kingdom of god
in the hearing now
that when jesus detained
skills up on earth
and when he comes with miracles in casting out demands
and even laying down his life in raising up from the dead
heat was saying the kingdom has come how do we know that well
john the baptist
who was the forerunner did jesus
had one message
peaceful this one message in different ways
but these words he repeated most
repent ford that kingdom of have lent his at hand
and what he met by at being at hand
the kingdom of heaven is here because king jesus is here
and as the forerunner he was trying to tell people
this kingdom of heaven
the kingdom of god
is about
jesus
the wall and *** upwardly to anti-u_s_ use
it's about
and wherever he is
wherever he did well zan exist
that kingdom of god
has come
what makes this complicated is the jesus came
in this
artfully being
he was born of the *** linda said was slight died on the cross for sins
penrose again from the dead on the third day
and he did all of this in inaugurating or in the michell families of the
kingdom that's what
makes this complicated
the kingdom has come
but it hasn't finally been consummated
but kingdom because com
but it's not in its completion
makes it hard
but it also gives us victory
in the days to come if you would like to read
about the kingdom of god i would recommend for your reading
the works of george belden lad
george eldon glad now that it's not easy reading
don't think you can adjust bonds through a lot of his things it's going to be
deep it's going to take into some doubts but one of these books that i have
walked in there and there are three of them actually i bbye brought today and
left a memnoch
my briefcase down here but the one i like the most is the gospel of the
kingdom
by george
eldon
ladd was a theologian any taught at fuller seminary out in california for
many years
uh... he died many years ago
but george eldon glad in the gospel of the kingdom said this that when we pray
the prayer that i can come
when we pray that it is a petition for god to rain
that's what that's about
when we pray
voight kingdom come
we are asking god to rain to manifest
he's keenly sovereignty and power
and support top-flight
enemy of righteousness and of his divine rule that god alone maybe team over the
world
that's what we're praying
where asking god to take up
rule
so when you pray by kingdom come what you're asking god to do
is too rainy rule in your life
that's what you're asking him
you can't pray this prayer lightly in safe all we have any way i wanted to
it's a submission to god dot kingdom come let it come to me
and what we're praying that were saying come over the earth
lead people come into your right just loving and merciful rule
that's the kingdom of god
well last week i i'd mentioned this concept that the kingdom of god is the
ruling reign of jesus
and one is the after he wants to
three people from their stands
that's the passage we just read revelation chapter one
that they had to him that's jesus who loves us
and has freed us from our sins by his blood
and what did he do he made us to be a kingdom
fascinating terminology
the ruling reign of jesus to free people from their sins
and also from satanic powers
you know the
devil if we want to call green deviled accuser as the evil one
is active in our world and what he's trying to do is blind us to where needed
jesus
and to keep us beat-up and bound up
jesus came to set you free from that
all of it
because the kingdom of god is the rule in green of jesus different people
from their says and from satanic oppression
from satanic powers
after something
he want you to pool with him
the ruling granted jesus to free people from their sins and satanic powers
is the kingdom of god but here's the purpose
so they might rule in rain with him on the earth
that's awesome
now you may have followed that a little bit last time
but i've added a few scriptures just for your thought feel logically so we can
use this framework
to move in did
luke seventeen
all right to look at the passages here that i have from the book of revelation
this is the last book of the bible
it is summing up all things
as we saw in revelation chapter one
jesus freeze people from their cn sylvain can be the kingdom
and serve god
that's what he's after
in revelation five ten
it is repeated
jesus
you have made them to be a kingdom in praise to serve our god
but now he hence the purpose
and day will reign
on the air
that's the first time we see that revelation
you made them to be a kingdom for this purpose
that day meaning you and me
would bring on the earth
that is picked up again and revelation chapter twenty
where it says in the final days
there is a group of people that come to life
they get their degrades open up they come back to life
and it says they waned with christ for a thousand years
and so what we see in the scheme of the kingdom
isn't sees asus com ernie's announced his kingdom
and with power he saves us
and he releases as from demonic oppression said he had
anne
forgives our sins in reading the system puts us in a new kingdom
and as we begin to move in that new kingdom
he is saying i want you to raid on earth
and that i chosen
that brain to last a thousand years
now let's get some people kinda confused
but in the course of events here's what's going to happen
jesus is on his way back
when we don't know
but when he shows up
he is not going to just suspended mayor some people think that
one time i i was in a
ordination council trader
uh... ordained coupla guys for ministry and and i asked the
i asked one of the guys a silverstein suspend the landowners
i'm one of the ministers behind me
he's not a landowner
he's coming in there
well he is coming in the year but he's coming too
that's a complicated answer for me
but to put it in us summary fashion is this
he's coming back to take charge
that's what he wants to do
you see jesus is in after i was just saying
hold on my favorite charities
and at the end of it all it's just all over and we just got out and then we go
for glad that's over
uh... is that what jesus is after
here's after coming back to burst
and taking what is rightfully yours
now listen to what happened here's what happened
you could read this
genesis chapter one suggest following summary fashion in genesis chapter one
this is this
god created male and female
and he told them here's what i want you to do
i want you to multiply
and fill the earth that's happening
event as we speak we're having children all being
born in this church
but he says this
multiply and fill the earth many says this
i want you to rule
spent interesting
rule of the fishes of the sea and the birds of the air
in other words
i have given up on earth
so that you do dot is saying you don't believe bull working with me adam and
even those who would follow
i want you to rule
and guess what happened
adam and eve receive that word
and they'd probably begin their first step senate but there was a deceiver
called satan
and he came in the attempted them to take afford ian there own power rather
than continuing to be under the authority of god
and ruling as his representative
well you know to be god's represent
within dont want you to rule
you do not have to be his representatives
you can't be card
yourself
and so they disobeyed god
he told them not to eat off the tree at the knowledge of good miva living a
separate line from the old figuring out why
without got involved
and they told him they eight
in death came upon the earth
but what the bible singers
is that adam and eve no hope you're following this week and a little
complicate but what adam needed
is they surrendered their rightful right to rule
and they gave it over to satan
and now he is called second corinthians four four
but god but this world lowered ci
and he is at work
in the world
so why do we have south
throwing in in hardship in evil quite a bad things happen to people why do we
get sick
why do things happen like that
it all goes back to this very thing at the very beginning of the bible
that there was at kingdom concept
i want you to rule people
but
became that way
and now we have a tech of runoff
taskmaster and dictator who beats us up and binds us up
and jesus
is going to beat him
and deliver the world and everyone who follows him
so what the people who put their faith in jesus today listed
if you today you put your fate when you're walking in jesus
you have tasted good things that are to come
but it is a taste it's not before completion
you've only got two tapes
but what is the case
i'm awoke guilty
i'm no longer shameful
i'm no longer blinded
high in the longer balance
and i get to walk in the
freedom of what the bible calls
the sons of god
people walk in freedom
anike taste
the good things
that god is going to bring on the earth in its folders when jesus returns
makes sense
there's a kingdom
adam and eve
it's called the world
and i want you
to rule
will rule
but we're gonna rule our way
we're going to be our own god
we're going to have our own destiny
and in doing so
they headed the kingdom they handed the world
over to an evil
dictator
and when jesus comes back
he is going to buy a home and bind up that
for a thousand years
that's where we get the passage of revelation twenty
applied is jesus want to do that literally
figuratively literally
it's because
he is redeeming
everything
the bible says that he's reconcile ng all fleece
to jesus
and other word splitting things that have been lost things that have
going under a different ruler here's reconcile inc
everything
to be under jesus and when he comes back to it happens
until then
it happens
only in those who follow jesus
make sense
okay howard st better
the kingdom is about ruling and raining
our ancient ancestors getaway
jesus
is giving it back
and that's the costs
i want you to rule
and rain
with me
now because we there just giving a summary fashion uh... the thousand-year
sentence
jesus is bouncing
and he is set up his rule
in jerusalem and he's sitting
all of the throne of david
bikini
of the israel and the king of the earth
and for a thousand years there's a piece
but according to god's mysterious a plan
that i can always fully explained or even understand
heat releases session after the thousand years guess what happens
he goes back out to deceive
and the world
ends up worse that it is today
with the battle of armageddon jesus comes to set up his ruling rain in the
second coming for a thousand years
but after satan is released
there's another battle
and it's called the battle of god you made god and when that battle hits
the destiny of disburse
is fire
can be burned up
is that a nuclear holocaust i don't know
but it's gonna burn up
and then what he's gonna do is create a new existence cold in new haven
and in newark
now if that sounds strange to you it does to me joined the club
but that's the plan of god
for the kingdom
and so we read in revelation chapter twenty verse four
fifties believers and followers of christ came to life
and they rainforest thousand years
but then after that time house in years the world is destroyed in a new world is
put in its place
and that's where we find revelation twenty two look at the passage
in the new evan in their words revelation twenty two vs three to five
you have it before you
in fact kingdom
in that eternal kingdom no longer will there be any covers
the throne of god in of the way and will be in the city
and his
servants
will serve them member how that's been repeated in
revelation chapter one
he's made it to be kingdom increase to serve
he wants us to rain on earth how do we do that by serving god
revelation five ten
so here is repeated the throne of god in the lamb will be in the city in his
service will servant
they will see his face
and his name will be on their foreheads
there will be no more night they will not need the way up
of the light
as his new light of the way up through or the light of the sun for the award
god will give them light and noticed this
and they will bring
they will reign
they will reign
forever
endeavor
the destiny of people
is to once again place ourself rightfully under the rule of god
n rule in brain with him with jesus that's the destiny
of people who follow christ
and he wants us to live here in that where we serve scale we don't tell them
to serve us
we serve him we live for him we had salt em we worship him and we do his bidding
or throughout all of the world
and forever and ever
we will reign
with him
so why is jesus coming back
it's coming back to stake claim to what was lost
that's the earth
he's gonna stake claim to a people
who have put their faith in him it and follow him and in that claim
he says come on
i want you to rain
wat
a gospel
now
we're ready for luke seventeen
they say in no we're not
as we've given uh... cliff's note version
but the kingdom
bball in jesus day
didn't get it
just like we don't care
and so it says in
luke seventeen verse twenty of what we looked at last week once on
uh... on being asked by the pharisees wind the kingdom of god would come to
see the expected something to come
when would it be
and jesus replied the coming of the kingdom is not something that can be
observed
nor will people say here it is are there it is because the
kingdom of god is in your best i'm with you *** king
you've got to be rightly aligned with me
and so here's the president work of the kingdom
is that jesus comes to live within a person
and establishes
his rule
he states acclaim on our life
he didn't tell the pharisees any other theology that i brought with you
he didn't tell them anything because the one thing they've resisted
was will you let me
if you won't let me rule you know
then i can tell you about rolling there
it all begins with a humble submission before jesus
and say jesus i received your as award
and savior
and i submit my life into you freed from my sense because of your blood
that's the wonder
of the gospel
but when he got alone with his disciples he said let me tell you what they were
asking
i will give them because they're resisting on the entry level
they are resisting on the inauguration of the kingdom they resist me in the
initial phase of the kingdom
if they don't get right
we can't get the rest of it but you
you
peter
chains
our skis repeater john
james
per phoneme
and he said to them here's what he said
in verse twenty two
many said to his disciples and he's talking about the consummation of the
kingdom
when it comes in glory
he said to his disciples the time is coming when you along to see one of the
days of the son of man
but you will not see it
people will tell you the areas
precarious
do not gore running
after them for the son of man
his day
will be
dot lightning which flashes
and lights up the sky from one into the other
but first
he must suffer many things
and be rejected
by his generation
what jesus tells his disciples who had already
chosen to follow after m
i'm gonna tell you about the kingdoms consummation
the future
what will happen
any preface is all of this to say this first
the kingdoms consummation
will be delayed
get that down
what jesus is teaching in this paragraph
is that the kingdoms consummation or its completion
in its final form
delayed
and he didn't tell that to the other guys
twenty didn't get it
this is why we understand jesus died and rose again over two thousand years ago
but he still hasn't come back he didn't tell us how long it be delayed he just
simply said it would be delayed
and i want to give you some things to give you hope in the delay
he tells them three things about how to keep hopeful
in the kingdom still way
the kingdom will be delayed here's how i want you to keep
hopeful
i want you to understand that the world's gonna get bad
and you're going along
for me too
so the first thing
his understanding
longing
well back to you about
i've walked with jesus for
forty years
and life
using easy
do you know what i'm talking about
have you ever had
bus transfers sickness that you couldn't explain
ukraine can you trusted god
the answer seems delayed because it isn't happening yet
and we go
have you ever said in those moments of your
didi authenticity before god
how long
have you ever done that
what jesus said rather than thinking something is peculiar or wrong with the
kingdom are wrong with you
are just want you to realize
in the delay of the kingdom there will be a longing
within you
all longing for cheeses
to come
inset
place
and so he's telling his first disciples
you can remain in hope
if you realize
belonging
you have for the king
by i know these longings at pat buchanan read about him job seven four
he says when i lie down i think how long before i get up
he was sick and hurting
a passage that i've already led you to
in psalm thirteen the first two verses four times that ask how long lore
how long
and as revolution continues to unfold
and revelation six ten there are people who had been be headed there are martyrs
for jesus
and their up in heaven and asking god how long
how long before you com
an advantage our blood and make that's right
and they were told
weight
way
calming
but you wait
i believe what jesus is trying to get
christ followers who were close to and then walking with them
is to realize the suffering in our day
and what it does ennis it can break your face in leavitt trampled on the ground
or you can build your faith if you realize longing
along for your comment
long
next thing that he said someone to give your warning
in this delay
there's a longing
and there's a warning
and here is the warning
you pragmatic people who want to quick fix to all the problems
you do
understand
this warning
there will be people comp
and they will actually speak in my name
and they will say i m the second coming of christ
that's what's on young moon get
he ought to hear his debt now
and i guess you got that issue cleared up
but in all of his wealth and he bought the university of bridgeport
but if you are listening to sun myung moon in the moonies teaching
but here's what jesus is saying i give you a warning
i'm not coming back in another form
i'm not coming back in another person it's not gonna be like will this person
does miracles in this person has a need truth and there's a person seems to
bring about global peace
doled
followed him
here's the big morning in this story
we better not
be clot
we better not be caught
indies
cults
anyone who ever tells you
i am god's gift
david koresh said it
and we had to have our guys bravely stormed the gates with guns unfurled
because he said
and the second coming of christ
jesus said this is going to happen so if you're going to remain hopeful
don't go grabbing after people
keep looking
waiting for me
i will come the way are left
you're gonna see me in the sky
to be like a lightning flashing
you will know
so don't get duped
by a bunch of dummies
the last thing that he says in this first section and we're just talking
about the delay and i can see that i will have to do away other things
but that's okay
so i do this before
not only is there a longing in ur
in a warning
but he explains this is with this all closed today
he gives a reason for the delay
there's a reason
and here's what he said the reason is
twenty five
he says
but first
the messiah jesus must suffer many things and be rejected by this
generation
here's the reason for the delay
the kingdom is not like in the kingdom of this world
before he's gonna ride i am on a horse a victory
he's gonna ride on a donkey
into drew slum and die
and that tells us something right
this kingdom
will be delayed
because i've got a gosport activity on a i'm going to do by dying on the cross
and i'm gonna free people
i may not seem like a delay 'cause he could come back right in the moment that
he died
and that's what they expected
that's what the first far worse thought
cpac
ask now
were supposed to live with that same kind of now into submission but he said
this kingdom is different
it is about my guest long before it is about
by coming back to set the world right
and i want you
so if we're going to be people of hope we have to grab these three things
we have to realize that there's gonna be longing and where there is a warning
uh... but there's also a resume for the delay and that is the gospel work of god
now how do i know that well i'll conclude
by reading
you a passage
the passage that i'm want to reduce from second peter
and here's what i'd like you to do
i'd like you did it is simply ballinger head i'll give you the passages chapter
three vs three to eleven
but i'd just like to read it in closing if u block me that privilege
so you just about your head and kind of close your eyes
because the kingdom that is coming and its completion is all underway
from our perspective
it's on the way
and here's the word
repeater
would give
his final letter before he died
above all
you must understand that in the last days scott first will calm scoffing
and following their own evil desires
they will say
where is this coming he promised
ever since our ancestors died everything goes on as it has
since the beginning of creation
but the day
deliberately forget
that long ago by god's word the heavens
came into being and birth was formed out of water and by water
and behind these waters also with the world of that time
was delusion and destroyed
bisa
singing word depressant heavens and earth
are reserved for fire
being kept
fred the day of judgment
and destruction of the ungodly
but do not forget
this one thing dear friends
with the lord
a day is like a thousand years
in a thousand years
are like a day
the lord is not slow
in keeping his promise
as some understand slowness
instead
he's patient with you
not morning anyone to perish
but every point
to come
to repentance
why is the kingdom
in its completion
delayed
in the sovereign plan of god
he delays the final coming
of cheese
so that you and i
might come into the kingdom through faith in christ right now
because he knows
he knows this
when jesus comes back to final time
it's too late
when he comes back
that consummation of the kingdom
will be sudden
and severe
keynotes
he comes back
the second time
the kingdom
will bring
incomplete
judge
and because he knows that
he delays
the kingdoms consummation
you see the heart of god is that he wants to judge no one
jesus said i didn't come into the world to judge it became to save
we read in the old testament that it's a strange work of god
to judge
his holy and just in he will do it
but in the heart of hearts
in the god of the universe
heart of a father
what bhoot
point join would there be if anyone suffer in eternity
he will do that when pushed to its completion he will do that but he says
it's a strange work
because i'm different
i want you
to be safe
the kingdom is on the way at this moment could come right now he could
but it's all underway in this moment
because god loves people
and he wants them
to live
for effort
and brain
so what does that mean about you
the kingdom is yours
simply
received the king
what does it mean about your family members
it means prairie
means talk to god
ask him to be a park
reach out to mark these for time off
what does it mean about your co-workers
it doesn't mean you got to carry a bible tomorrow to work
you gotta from pitt
urban religious doesn't mean any of it
it does mean live for the cane
and when the opportunities arise
killed him
about the king
because he's coming
and he wants them
what does it mean about
bombings in boston
shootings in newtown
means this
is coming