(274) “What Is the Kingdom to You?”

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To whom God would make known what is the riches

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of the glory of this mystery among you, among

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you Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope

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of glory. Exactly. He's the king and he gets

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to live inside of us. So the kingdom of God is

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within you. Right. And that's a mystery. God

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promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour out His Spirit

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on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring,

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where we contend for that promised outpouring,

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we equip for that outpouring, so that we may

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engage in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Buss.

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And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today.

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On my devotion time, my quiet time this morning,

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this is the thought that kind of rolled into

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my head that I want to share with you is, what

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is the kingdom of God to you? Thank you so much

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.org. Well, in my morning devotion time, I was

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just reading in Matthew about the kingdom of

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God. You know, that's what kind of was kind of

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ruling in me, the kingdom of God and the Lord's

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prayer. You know, that's found in Matthew chapter

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6. Well, in verse 7 it says, When ye pray, use

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not vain repetition as the heathen do, and he's

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referring to scribes and Pharisees, for they

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think that they shall be heard further much speaking.

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Be not ye therefore like unto them, for your

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Father knows what things ye have need of before

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ye ask him. And after this manner wherefore pray

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ye, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed

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or holy be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will

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be done in earth as it is in heaven. We're not

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going to read the rest of it. I want to concentrate

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on this. But how many churches all over the world

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will start with the Lord's Prayer, will do the

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doxology. Or have it someplace in the service.

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Or have it somewhere in the service. But how

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many know what it really means? It has become

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a vain repetition for a lot of people. Yeah,

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it really is. Because it's empty if you don't

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think about it. It's empty if it doesn't have

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meaning to you. So I was kind of contemplating

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on that. And, you know, when I read that and,

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you know, thy kingdom come, you know, there's

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a lot of verses. And I used to have in the, I

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had in the back of my Bible, I took it out of

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the Strong's Concordance and I copied it. on

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a copier of kingdom. And you'd be amazed how

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many scriptures are there relating to the kingdom

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of God. I mean, it's got many avenues, facets,

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like a diamond. It can go a lot of different

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directions. But what does it mean personally

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to the, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on

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earth as it is in heaven. So what is his will,

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thy will, I mean, Jesus' will. Or the Father.

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The Father's will be done that we can know what

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it is and not do what we want to do. Because

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most times we really want to do what we want

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to do. Yeah. Because that's our fleshly part

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of us, the flesh flash stuff we deal with. And

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I remember someone saying it's just like 90 %

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of your thinking is kind of what controls what's

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going on. And you need to get where 90 % of the

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Holy Spirit is listening to him. And then you

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got to, of course, that 90 % can help you outweigh

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that other 10%. Yes. But getting there. So I

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want to look in the book of Luke in chapter 17

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out of the Passion Translation. This is kind

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of gives a very good understanding of this, that

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the kingdom, it comes not by observation. So

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let's look at Luke chapter 17. And it's verses

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20 and 21. We were looking at the scripture in

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Matthew, so this is in Luke and this is in the

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TPT. Jesus was once asked by the Jewish religious

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leaders, when will God's kingdom realm come?

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Jesus responded, God's kingdom realm does not

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come simply by obeying principles or by waiting

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for signs. The kingdom is not discovered in one

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place. Or another one, for God's kingdom realm

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is already expanding within some of you. Later,

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Jesus addressed this again with his apostles

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saying, the time is coming when a great passion

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will be awakened within you to see me again.

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Yes, you will long to see the beginning of the

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days of the Son of Man, but you won't be able

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to find me. You will hear reports from some who

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will say, look, he has returned. He is over here

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or he's over there. Don't believe it or run after

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them, for their claims will be false. Wow. The

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day of the Son of Man will burst forth with the

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brightness of a lightning strike that shines

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from one end of the sky to the other, illuminating

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the earth. Wow. That's quite a description. Yeah,

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it really is quite amazing. Because there are

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so many interpretations of Scripture out there

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right now. And there's some big ones. There's

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some good ones, too. It's really good. Kind of

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what we learned through our history. I mean,

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we've been serving the Lord, me, 44 years here.

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And first, you know, Jesus was coming in 1988.

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That was a big one. You know, 88 reasons Jesus

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will come in 88. And I looked at a lot of them

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and they really look legit. You know, wow, this

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could happen. You know, and then in 1970s late,

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the prophetic word going around that Jesus is

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coming. And I thought, I want to live a little.

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And I backslid for some years. And I didn't know

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about actually 77 was a prophetic word going

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around because I was backslidden. And I might

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have, maybe I wouldn't have backslid so bad.

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But it's like the kingdom is within you. And

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so in our daily walk with the Lord, in our time

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of our devotion, we're building the kingdom.

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Because the kingdom of God, it's just all around

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you. And like it says in the Passion, I like

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it, kingdom realm. And even our convention, you

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know, Pastor Tony or Bishop Tony, Apostle Tony

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was talking about realms, different realms, things

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that operate in levels. They operate in realms.

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And it's like we're taken from glory to glory

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or we're taken from realm to realm. Maybe that's

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another way. to look at it. It doesn't quite

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say it, but that's kind of the concept that can

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be on a personal note. We go from greater glory

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to greater glory, from one realm to another realm.

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So we look at everything going around. We look

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at the war going on right now with Israel and

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Iran, and that pops a lot of scriptures up all

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over. You know, everybody's got their idea. This

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is it, you know. This is it. This is Ezekiel.

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This is Jeremiah. This is Psalm 83. And it really

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is in part, but it's not quite the end of the

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picture yet. There's things that still have to

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happen. There has to be a harvest first. We know,

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and we've talked about this before, like the

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presence of God coming down, that John Hinkle

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vision where the Holy Spirit came down and stood

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next to each person, and immediately they knew

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when their walk of God was. Things are going

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to happen before it's the end. But we're seeing

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preparations of things. Right. We know the Scripture

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talks the Antichrist who is going to walk and

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everybody's going to turn to him. Yeah, but that's

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after the one who restrains is no longer there.

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Yeah. Personally, I think that's the church.

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The intercessors are restraining that Antichrist

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kingdom from coming. And I looked that up in

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the Strongs about the kingdom of God. You know,

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that it comes not by observation. Yeah. You know,

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what we observe, what we see. And it says that

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in such a manner, it can be watched with your

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eyes, you know. So it's kind of, we're looking

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with our eyeballs, you know, to see everything

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that's happening. We're watching, you know, and

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now we can really watch because we've got. instant

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news from around the world. True. I mean, we

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can watch China Uncensored, you know, and you

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get a great picture of what's going on in China

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and what's happening with Taiwan. Sure. You know,

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and it's just, I mean, all these different ones

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that are specified. Different things. And where

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does this fit in the kingdom of God? Right. How

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does this fit? So we're analyzing. We're putting

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all these things we're hearing on our own personal

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think tank. And we're trying to decipher how

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this is going to work. Or we listen to somebody

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else's think tank to see what they are saying.

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Lots of opinions. But that doesn't mean you're

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going to see it with your eyes. Right. And that's

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our problem. to look with our physical eyes.

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And we tend to analyze with our worldly brains

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or, you know, maybe we've got enough scripture

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in there to analyze, but you have to have the

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Holy Spirit. You have to have the Holy Spirit.

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And when it comes to eschatology, I have an opinion.

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For what it's worth. We want to hear your opinion.

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You're going to anyway, right? So in John 14,

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Jesus is speaking to his disciples. You know,

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this is their last supper together. This is their

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last time to really fellowship together. And

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in verse 27, it says, Peace I leave with you.

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My peace I leave with you. He's leaving, right?

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They don't understand that he's leaving, but

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he's trying to get it through to them that he's

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leaving. My peace I give to you, not as the world

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gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be

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troubled, neither let it be afraid. You've heard

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me say to you, I'm going away and coming back

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to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice because

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I said I'm going to the Father, for my Father

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is greater than I. Here's verse 29. This is the

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key piece that gives me my position on eschatology.

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So eschatology, in case you don't know, is the

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study of the end times. Like, what's going to

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happen next? And there are lots of opinions out

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there about what is going to happen and in what

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sequence. And, you know, it's sort of like the...

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Scribes and Pharisees didn't recognize Jesus

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when he came because he didn't fit their eschatology.

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True. Okay. So Jesus said, and now I have told

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you before it comes that when it does come to

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pass, you may believe. In other words, let it

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come to pass before you interpret it. Don't interpret

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what you think is going to happen. Don't speculate

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about what you think is going to happen. Is this

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that? Is that this? Is this that? It was. on

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the day of Pentecost, that Peter said, this is

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that that was spoken of by the prophet Joel.

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Yeah. Okay. And then he quotes the prophet Joel.

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So when you get to the point in the scheme of

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things that it lines up with scripture, that's

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when you say, this is that. Right now, there's

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a lot of people saying, well, this might be that.

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And it might be. There are some of the things

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that do have to take place first. And the closer

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we walk with the Holy Spirit and the more, like

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Jesus said, if you loved me, you would rejoice.

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Yeah. When we love him, we can rejoice over the

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fulfillment of things. Yeah. Because when it

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boils right down to it, this idea of being a

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kingdom, having a kingdom, having the kingdom

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in you, having the kingdom operate in you, there's

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a kingdom because there's a king. If there wasn't

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a kingdom, there wouldn't be a king. So we know

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that our Father is the king of the universe,

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that Jesus is his embodiment on the earth, and

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he's the king. Jesus is the soon -coming, returning

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king. Yeah, so who's the king of your kingdom?

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Exactly. What kingdom are you? Yeah, what's the

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kingdom to you? Who is the king to you? Are you

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the king of your own kingdom? A lot of people,

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a lot of us, you know, we kind of think that

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we can be in control. Yeah, because a lot of

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this, it's a mystery. Right. And in Colossians,

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you know, chapter 1, and this is out of the King

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James. This is Paul. Wherefore, I am made a minister

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according to the dispensation of God, which is

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given to me for you to fulfill the word of God.

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even the mystery which has been hid from ages

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and from generations, but now is made manifest

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or known to the saints. Now you're talking 2

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,000 years ago now. Right. To whom God would

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make known what is the riches of the glory of

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this mystery among you, among you Gentiles, which

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is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Exactly.

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He's the king and he gets to live inside of us.

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So the kingdom of God is within you. Right. And

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that's a mystery. Kingdom is a mystery because

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we're trying to figure out, you know, we don't

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know from once we're like the wind. We don't

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know where it's coming from or where it's going.

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Right. And that's the way it is a lot of time.

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You know, even listening with the Holy Spirit.

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It doesn't give us the full picture all the time.

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Right. Because we might take a wrong turn. Exactly.

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Trying to. He can't trust us with all the details.

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Yeah, it's like going through the mountains or

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something. You know, you can go through Nebraska.

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You can go through Illinois, Indiana, and all

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the flat roads. Okay, so now you want to go to

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Kalampong or you want to go to Darjeeling. Yeah,

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yeah. And you got these hairpins. I mean, continual.

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Hairpins all the time. Hairpin turns. Hairpin

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turns that are just neck jerkers, you know. Yeah.

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You know, and if you have problems with motion,

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it's not fun, you know, because the road just

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curves and they're just carved out of the side

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of the mountain, you know. So, you know, God's

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path isn't always a straight line as we would

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like it. Yeah. Because that makes it predictable.

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Right. You can see down the highway a long way,

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you see what's coming. But when you're going

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around curves and that, you don't know really

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what's quite ahead. And like the expression we

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use, you know, I remember reading when you're

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taking your driver's ed class, you don't overdrive

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your headlights. I mean, you don't go faster

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than what you can stop from what your headlights

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will look at. Right. And so that's a good spiritual

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lesson too. Don't overdrive your headlights.

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You know, if you can't see what's coming around

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that corner, it'll go so fast where you're going

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to miss something. Yeah. You're going to miss

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a sign or a roadmap or something like that. Right.

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You know, that reminds me of years ago, I was

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canoeing on a river, and there was one thing

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that I learned about around every turn, you can

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just be guaranteed that there's going to be another

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turn. You know, that's about all you can see

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ahead is you can see to the next turn, and when

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you get to the next turn, you're going to find

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there's another turn out there. Maybe you'll

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find some rapids. Yeah, that might be. But it's

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the same thing on these mountain roads. You go

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around a curve, and sure enough, there's another

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curve. That's kind of where we live, too. Yeah.

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Wow, wow. So we read in Colossians, it was in

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127, that Christ in you is the hope of glory.

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Absolutely. And so I want to turn to Ephesians.

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This is chapter one. You know, everybody's favorite

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book. I love it. And especially if you follow

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Kenneth Hagin, too. I mean, this is the scriptures

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in here. He left his Bible open to the pulpit,

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on the pulpit, Ephesians 1. And he would frequently,

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during the day, go to the pulpit and just read

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the first chapter of Ephesians, you know, about

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the mystery of his will. Yeah, I think verse

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17, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father

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of glory, give unto you the spirit of wisdom,

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revelation, and the knowledge of him. Amen. That

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was one of his favorite verses, and I really

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like that. But I want to look in verse 4. We'll

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do verse 3. Blessed is the God and Father of

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our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with

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all spiritual blessings in heavenly places. According

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as he has chosen us in him before the foundation

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of the world. Beautiful. I mean, he chose us

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before we knew ourselves. Yeah. When you think

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about that, you think you really know yourself?

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You really don't. We've forgotten a lot, I think.

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We forgot a lot. Yeah. Wow. So he's chosen us

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before the foundation of the world that we should

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be holy and without blame before him in love.

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That's what our destiny is. And so we have to

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walk it out through the curves and the rapids

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and everything else we've got to go through.

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And having predestined us unto the adoption of

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children by Jesus Christ to himself according

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to the good pleasure of his will. Yes. You know,

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his will is a mystery, but it's for good pleasure.

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That's right. And for thy pleasure, what's that

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song we used to sing? And for thy pleasure we

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are created. Thou art worthy, O Lord. And sometimes

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we don't feel like we're walking in good pleasure.

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We go through our trials. Trials are not good

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pleasure, but we can't see the end of the story.

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Why did God let this happen? What's he trying

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to work out in us? You need to read my book,

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Rich Wounds. Wouldn't you agree? Yeah, I think

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so. Very much so, yeah. So to the praise of the

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glory of his grace, he's made us accepted in

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the beloved. Hallelujah. And we just got to read

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verse 7 too. In whom we have redemption through

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his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according

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to the riches of his grace, wherein he has abounded

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toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having

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made known unto us the mystery of his will, according

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to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed

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in himself. So we want to make Jesus smile. Yes.

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We really want to make him smile. And doesn't

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it make you smile when someone smiles at you?

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Yeah. And I try to do that. I do too. And people

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notice that. They'll smile back usually unless

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they're having a rough day. And sometimes they

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need that smile. But it's the same thing when

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we are looking at the Lord, if we just smile

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at him. Yeah. You know, that thankful heart makes

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him respond. So we go on in verse 10, that in

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the dispensation of the fullness of times, he

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might gather together in one all things in Christ,

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both which are in heaven and which are on earth,

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even in him. I mean, let's talk about the kingdom

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of God coming together. It's kind of like we

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had a prayer time for our devotions on Tuesday

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morning. And Jean Little was bringing the word

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forth and just finished everything and the phone

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rings and it's Clarice Fluitt. Yeah. You know,

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was coming with the word of the Lord, you know,

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for Jean. And she says, you know, I'm in my pee

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patch over here. You're in your pee patch over

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there. Yeah. You know, and sometimes when this

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big kingdom of God, we just might feel like we're

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just like little nothing. You know, but God has

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a plan whether your ministry is out there. Or

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if you have a hidden ministry like Timothy Bentz.

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Right. Or God will take you places where you

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couldn't go with a big ministry. Yeah. You couldn't

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go with a big name because you got the holy paparazzi

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following you, you know. Unholy maybe. Unholy

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paparazzi. Yeah, you got that too, you know.

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But if you stay hidden. But so he's gathering

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all things together. And in verse 11, and in

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who or in him we have obtained an inheritance.

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being predestined, what he wants us to do, according

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to the purpose of him who works everything after

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the counsel of his own will. Beautiful. Jesus'

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own will for us. And that's what the kingdom

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is to us personally. So what is the kingdom of

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God to you? What is he? Working out in your,

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you might be a loose cannon out there. Hopefully

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not. You know, you need to, you know, it's always

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good to have somebody over you that you can bounce

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things off. Someone in the Lord that has a lot

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of wisdom. Yes. Which may not be your brother

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or sister -in -law or something. It might be,

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you know, an apostle or a bishop that is really,

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you know, has revelation in that. And that's

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somebody you really like to be attached to. You

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know, people that are close to God that you need

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to surround yourself with. So that we should

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be to the praise of his glory who first trusted

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in Christ. Amen. So, you know, we're supposed

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to be a praise on the earth. Right. To his glory.

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To his glory. And that's an everyday thing. Yeah.

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To the praise. There was a song, I remember Ramona

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Dix of the Olive Branch wrote. Years ago, and

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I love it, to the praise of his glory, I am created.

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Yes. Yeah, and I thought, and that's where this

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was taken from. I thought, oh, and I just love

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that song. You know, but even when we don't feel

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like praising sometimes, you know, but it's a

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command. And that's how we stay on top of it.

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Yeah, you overcome. It's an overcoming thing

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that we have to walk in all the time. Yes. And

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it really helps you. When you don't feel like

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praising and you do it out of obedience, you

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just start because he said praise. And he says,

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in everything give thanks, for this is the will

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of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. So when

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we do it because we know that it's the right

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thing to do, even if we don't feel like it, but

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if you start it. You don't have to feel like

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it to start it. You just start and the feeling

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comes as you start because when you begin to

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praise, when you begin to give thanks and you

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put your eyes on Jesus, then the things of earth

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grow strangely dim. All of the clouds begin to

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go away, the dark things that are giving you

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ideas that are not. productive, those begin to

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flee because you're putting yourself into the

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light of his glory and worshiping him in his

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glory. He's the king, remember? He's the king.

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It's about the kingdom. So as we worship, it

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sets us free. Yeah, it's like that song. The

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tag of it is, even when I don't see it, you're

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working. Right. Even when I don't feel it, you're

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working. You never stop working. Right. You never

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stop working. Way maker. Yeah. You know, great.

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Hallelujah. So sometimes you have to get it in

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the song to remember, yeah, that's true. We see

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with our natural eyeballs unless you have the

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real gift of discernment to see what's happening

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around you. Yeah. Somebody just recently, please

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forgive me, I don't remember who it was, but

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I think it was somebody at the convention or

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maybe somebody I heard after that said something

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about the angels are singing to you to try and

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get you to pick up that song. And then you sing

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it. Sometimes I get songs in my head. It doesn't

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occur to me, or it didn't until I heard that,

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that I need to just sing it out. Sing it out.

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Because I've got songs going in my head all the

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time. But I don't always think to sing them out.

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So the angels are standing by, waiting for us

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to give the word, releasing the word, giving

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voice to the word. Psalm 103 .20 says, Bless

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the Lord, you his angels, who excel in strength,

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who do his word, heeding the voice of his word.

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The angels are standing around waiting for us

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to give voice to his word so that they can go

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to work and do what his word says. So as we listen,

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they're trying to help us. As we listen to the

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Holy Spirit, as we tune into that spirit realm

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where the angels have come to work with us, And

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if there's an angel singing to you and you think

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it's just a song in your head, go ahead and sing

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it out or go ahead and speak out the word that

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you're hearing in your spirit. And your voice,

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your voice activates them. The kingdom of God

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is a voice -activated kingdom. So that's another

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one of those mysteries that's a part of this,

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but that's how he designed it. Yeah. So this

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is just a great thing you could do for your own

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study. What is the kingdom of God for you? You

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can go and look up the word kingdom and see how

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that applies to you. I think that could really

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help you get some direction in a lot of ways.

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Because you talk about kingdom of God, the kingdom

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of heaven, and they're really the same. Right.

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So because the kingdom of God is operating in

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you, if you've welcomed the king to live inside

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of you. It will be a mystery revealed to you.

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Absolutely. It'll be mystery after mystery, day

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by day, all the time. He's ready to give you

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downloads if you just tune in. So Holy Spirit,

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we ask you to tune us into your spirit. We need

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more input from you. So Lord, we lay aside the

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distractions that are trying to keep us from

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hearing your voice, trying to keep us from accomplishing

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what you put us on this planet to accomplish.

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Lord, we submit to you. We humble ourselves before

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you and we recognize that we need you. We need

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your spirit. We need your word operating in us.

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Thank you for giving us that grace to overcome

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as we seek your kingdom, as we seek you as the

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king. Lord, we just want to have that relationship

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growing moment by moment from glory to glory

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in you and you in us. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.

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