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This message will help you better understand the glory which has been restored and the exaltation that He alone is worthy of, and will deepen your love and devotion for the One who loved you so mucheven unto deaththe death of the Cross!
Trace the incarnation of Christ and the glory He laid aside to take on the form of a human servant to His glory restored at the resurrection.
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King David was a great man of faith, yet he understood that he could do nothing apart from God. In this episode, Rabbi explores the wisdom of Psalm 34. Learn how worshiping in a community and focusing on God can bring order and satisfaction to your life.
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Sermon Overview
Scripture Passage: Acts 5:27-32
Being a Christian is a joyous thing; the reason we are not filled with joy in this Christian life could be a matter of disobedience.
Adrian Rogers says, “Obedience is the missing ingredient in so many Christians’ lives.”
What does it mean to truly obey Christ? What is the expedience of obedience?
In Acts 5, Peter and the other apostles have caused quite a stir by preaching about Jesus Christ. The religious authorities are trying to stop a revival the apostles began.
They command the apostles to stop preaching.
“Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, ‘We ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him’” (Acts 5:29-32).
In this text, we are first given the reason for obedience.
When God tells us to do something, our obedience is our duty and delight. We are indebted to God, our Lord and Savior, so we must decide to obey Him over men. Just as God cannot fail, act unjustly or deny Himself, He cannot force our loving obedience. It is not because His power is limited—it’s because of His very nature; He gives us a choice.
We can’t obey God unless we first know what it is that He wants us to do.
Once we know God’s will, we must be intentional about obeying it, and do so immediately. We will be held accountable for what we know, no matter what the cost. When He speaks, we must answer Him, regardless of circumstances. Only then can we see the supernatural rewards of our obedience:
-We receive the Holy Spirit.
-There is joy in our hearts.
-The Gospel is shared and believed.
When we obey God rather than men, we will see great multitudes of people come to Jesus Christ.
Apply it to your life
Would you like to have victory in your life? Know the will of God for your life and do it immediately, inflexible, and passionately.
Today, Pastor Jack teaches us that we need to defend the Word of God on our campuses and promote Pro-American capitalism. This nation was founded on freedom, and all of us, not just students, need to stand up for the truth.
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And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon. And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and them who dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he does great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceives them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, that had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Yeah, I suppose he would. I would say that if someone is able to bring fire down from heaven and to do miracles in the sight of men, he’s going to deceive a few people. People are going to believe in and be impressed by what he does.
Now, this one that comes along, this one that has the horns like a lamb and speaks like a dragon is one who, well the Lamb of God is Christ, the dragon is the devil. So we’ve got one who, what shall we say, looks Christian but speaks devilish—one who appears to be a minister of righteousness but in fact is actually working out the devil’s agenda? A sobering thought, isn’t it?
And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, except he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that has understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred three score and six.
Now, we’ve got a fascinating study ahead of us! This is the famous mark of the beast. You may have heard of it somewhere down the line. What is this mark of the beast? and how does it work?
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Welcome to victorious faith.
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We believe you will be blessed, encouraged and receive fresh faith to begin your day as you listen to today's message with international missionary and Bible teacher Cherry Campbell.
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Good.
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Welcome to victorious faith.
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Cherry Campbell.
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This morning I'm going to continue sharing with you the message I began sharing with you yesterday in a series we've been studying for the last few weeks called the Kingdom of God. Or you could even call it.
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Understanding the Kingdom.
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God, what it is and how it operates.
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However, this message and the messages that I'm going to be sharing with you in the days to come are from a class that I taught some years ago on this subject.
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Kingdom of God, so join me now in our live class for Part 4 of this series called 2 Kingdom Kingdom.
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Two systems.
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And we mentioned that the Gospel of the Kingdom is not just preaching salvation. It is not just preaching the cross and the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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And yet, that's not the whole Kingdom of God message.
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Not the whole gospel.
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Because the whole gospel means everything that is in heaven needs to be brought together.
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The Earth needs to become a colony of heaven, which is a reproduction of heaven that the same things in heaven will be done on Earth, and that is the whole gospel.
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That means that the prosperity of heaven will become the same prosperity on Earth.
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The health and life that's in heaven will be the health and life that we live in on.
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Earth. That all the strength, all the anointing, all the power. All the victory that is in heaven can be our strength. And an anointing in our power and our victory on the Earth. We can live in the same thing here and now as is in heaven. Because Jesus.
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Came to bring heaven to earth. The Kingdom of God.
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Onto the earth and you want to question me? But Jesus himself said it right here in Matthew 6.
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Isn't Cherry speaking?
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Yeah.
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This is the word of God.
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Is what Jesus?
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Jesus said Matthew 610. What we read your Kingdom come and you.
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Be done on.
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Just like it is in heaven, just the same as it is in heaven.
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What's in?
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Let it be.
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The same here on the earth. Hallelujah. Amen.
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And you know in Deuteronomy 11.
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I think it's 21 or 22. Deuteronomy 11.
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Moses is giving the law and he says if you obey all my commands, God said the commands that I give you today that you will have days of heaven on Earth.
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Deuteronomy 11/21 and the King James version. It says that you may have days of heaven on the earth.
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Now some translation says as many days.
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Of heaven on.
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So there you can see either a quantity of days.
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As many days or the way it says in the King James.
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Days of heaven.
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A.
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I believe it's both. The quality of days of heaven on Earth and the quantity of days of heaven on earth that means long.
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Of heaven on earth.
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Was God's.
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Just simply that was.
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His blessing and his promise, just simply for obeying.
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He.
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If you obey my commands, this is what you'll have and this.
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Under the Old Testament.
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Is not even.
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After Jesus went to the.
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It was before Jesus went to the cross.
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Even under the old covenant laws.
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God had a promise that they.
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Have heaven on earth.
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How much more do we have it in the new covenant in the New Testament now that Jesus has died on the cross to save us of our sins and to redeem us from the curse and to bring the Kingdom of God to earth?
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Amen. Praise God.
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Praise God. And then we also saw that Jesus came not to first set up a physical Kingdom, but a spirit.
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Kingdom and we said that the disciples and all of Israel were looking for their deliverer.
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Had.
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Many prophets had prophesied.
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A deliverer.
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Will come.
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Who will deliver you?
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And they were under Roman oppression and Roman *******.
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Was very heavy oppression.
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And they were looking for their.
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And every Sabbath day they would read the.
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About the deliverer.
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And they.
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Looking for him and Jesus came and said the Kingdom of God has come to you.
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And So what are the disciples all thinking? Oh, excited.
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Yeah, he's going to come and set.
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The Kingdom.
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Here in a throne, and we're going to put him on the throne and he's going to overthrow the Romans and drive.
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Romans out.
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Here and.
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They were very surprised on the night that Jesus was arrested and they were in the garden of Gethsemane and the soldiers came and arrested Jesus and Peter drew his sword.
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He is ready to fight.
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He is ready to take over.
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He is ready to defeat the Romans.
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Is ready to rise up.
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And ready to forcefully put Jesus on a throne.
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And Jesus turned him and said put away your sword.
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We're not going to do that right now.
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They were ready to.
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They were not ready to surrender and that's why they fled into the night when they all promised that they would never leave him. They were ready to never leave him unto death, but not unto surrender.
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And that's why they fled in the night.
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And then they went back to fishing. Many of them, after Jesus was crucified, they thought their their all their hopes.
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Had been destroyed.
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Their expectation for a king and a Kingdom to come that they had been so eagerly expecting, and they thought for sure it had come.
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And then it seemed like it was lost.
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Jesus is gone. He's dead now.
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And it seemed that their hopes were destroyed.
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That we know Jesus was raised from the dead and then he went back to the disciples and we read in acts chapter one, verse three that for 40 days he talked with them.
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And what did you talk about?
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The Kingdom of God.
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And he kept talking about the Kingdom.
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They're thinking.
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Now you talk about the Kingdom before.
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And you died. But you're back here again and you're still talking about this Kingdom coming.
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And So what did they ask? In acts? Chapter one, verse 6.
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Are you now?
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To restore the Kingdom to Israel.
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Their hopes are up again.
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Maybe now we're going to have this physical Kingdom and Jesus said in verse 7 it's not for you to know.
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The times that have been set by the father in verse eight though he.
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But you go and you preach the gospel in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and then to the uttermost parts of the.
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What?
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The Gospel of the Kingdom of God don't think right now about the establishment of the physical Kingdom, but you go preach about the spiritual Kingdom.
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You see, the first time Jesus came, he did not come to set up a physical Kingdom, but a spiritual Kingdom.
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He did not come to deliver them from Rome but to deliver them from sin.
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And to deliver us and all of mankind from sin.
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But we do know Jesus promised he will come again. And even as Jesus in acts, Chapter 1 was raised up and he disappeared in the clouds, out of their sight.
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2 angels came to them and they said to these men men, why are you standing looking up into the clouds?
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The same Jesus will come back the same way that you saw him go. He will come back again.
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So our expectation Jesus said I will come back again and when we look in revelation see the second coming is still in the future.
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Have not yet seen it.
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It's in the future. It's in revelation, and in chapter 19, verses 11 to 16, we see that Jesus comes riding on a White Horse.
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And his name is called Faithful and True, and he's called the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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And it says that he will strike down the nations and rule them.
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With an iron scepter.
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That is a forceful physical rule on the Earth.
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At that time, Jesus will.
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A throne on.
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It will be in Jerusalem, in Israel and he.
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Rule over.
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Of the earth for 1000 years, that will be the establishment of the physical Kingdom.
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But we are not yet in that time, we have not seen it.
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Has not yet come and so.
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Are still.
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In this period of time, under the Great Commission, when Jesus said go into all the world and preach the gospel of the Kingdom of God, and we are supposed to preach, this is a spiritual Kingdom of God established on the earth.
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We must walk in.
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And we must bring this Kingdom of God to earth through preaching it and through believing it and living in it.
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Now that's a quick review, but I want to.
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On now.
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And let's go to Colossians chapter.
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Now, what are our three keywords to define a Kingdom?
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They are government.
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The Government of God and.
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The system of God and.
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The laws of God, Amen.
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Now we've just talked about the.
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I've talked about establishing the government. I want to focus on the second word now.
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This system, the system of.
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Now let's look in Colossians chapter 1.
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And verses 12 and 13, giving thanks to the father who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the Saints.
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In the Kingdom of Light.
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For he.
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Rescued us from the Dominion of Darkness and brought us into the Kingdom of the son he loves.
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Verse 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Now in these two verses, or especially verse 13, we see the two kingdoms and I want to say there are two kingdoms.
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They are the Kingdom of light.
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And the Kingdom of darkness.
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Also called the Kingdom of God.
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And the Kingdom of the world.
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God is the ruler of the king over the Kingdom of God, and Satan is the ruler or the king over the Kingdom of this world.
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Now another name for the Kingdom of God is also the Kingdom of Christ.
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Also called the Kingdom of Heaven, and I want you to understand this.
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Want to explain this to you?
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Heaven is not the same.
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Thing as the Kingdom of heaven.
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A lot of people get that mixed up, especially, you know, in the gospels we see in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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That sometimes we read the Kingdom of God, and sometimes we read the Kingdom of heaven and people have gotten confused over that thinking.
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They.
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Are they the same?
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And sometimes when they talk about the Kingdom of heaven, they're thinking about heaven.
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But let me explain it like this.
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Heaven is not the same thing as the Kingdom of heaven. Heaven is a place.
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Just like Earth is a place.
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But the Kingdom of Heaven is a government.
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Heaven is a place the Kingdom of heaven is a government, but the Kingdom of heaven and the Kingdom of God are the same.
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They are both the government of.
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God is not the king over 2 kingdoms. He's the king of one Kingdom.
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And so that will help you to understand it that when you read about Kingdom of God and Kingdom of Heaven, it's talking about the same thing, but it's not always necessarily just talking about heaven.
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So the Kingdom of Darkness has another name.
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Also called the Kingdom of this world.
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And also in Ephesians Chapter 2 verse 2 it says the ruler of the Kingdom of the air.
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So it's also called the Kingdom of the air.
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Now these are two.
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There are two systems of operating.
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Two ways of doing things.
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Two different worldviews, two different ways of thinking, ways of talking and ways of doing.
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What you just heard was part four in a series of messages that I've been sharing with you over the last few weeks called the Kingdom of.
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Or you could even call it understanding the Kingdom of God what it is and how it operates. This message is from a class that I taught some years ago called the Kingdom of God.
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So join me again tomorrow as we will continue this lesson.
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Remember, God loves you.
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You are blessed and highly favored by the Lord.
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