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What is the Kingdom of God? · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: Probably thinks more in terms of the Kingdom of Heaven
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  Speaker 1: as something out there that we go to, rather than
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  Speaker 1: how the New Testament actually brings us that truth and doctrine.
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  Speaker 1: The good news of the Kingdom of God is that
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  Speaker 1: Heaven has broken into Earth's story. He is reconciling all
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  Speaker 1: things to himself, and he has done that by bringing
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God here. We tend to think about escape.
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  Speaker 1: We need to get out of the sin cursed, fallen
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  Speaker 1: world so that Jesus can bring us to that better
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  Speaker 1: spiritual existence out there. And that is the farthest thing
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  Speaker 1: from the teaching of the New Testament itself. It was
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  Speaker 1: good news that the Messiah had arrived to bring the
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  Speaker 1: rule of God into history, because there were promises about
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  Speaker 1: the rule of God through Messiah that meant the world
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  Speaker 1: would be saved and healed. There would be peace, there
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  Speaker 1: would be salvations, The families of the earth were returned
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  Speaker 1: to worship Yahweh nations were going to come to God.
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  Speaker 1: This Messiah would bring justice and righteousness and the law
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  Speaker 1: of God to the world.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever wondered what exactly is the Kingdom of God?
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  Speaker 2: Most think of kingdoms as physical empires, with borders and armies.
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  Speaker 2: But if the Most High God created everything, wouldn't that
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  Speaker 2: make the entire earth his kingdom Already? The answer lies
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  Speaker 2: hidden in plain sight within the Bible. In Luke's Gospel,
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  Speaker 2: Yeshua made a startling declaration. The Kingdom of God does
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  Speaker 2: not come with observable signs. People won't say, look here
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  Speaker 2: it is or there it is because the Kingdom of
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  Speaker 2: God is among you. Some translations say within you. And
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  Speaker 2: this distinction changes everything. Think about it. Yeshua walked among
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  Speaker 2: his disciples as the living embodiment of God's kingdom. But
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  Speaker 2: after his ascension, where do we look to find it?
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  Speaker 2: Paul provides the key in Romans. The Kingdom of God
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  Speaker 2: is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace,
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  Speaker 2: and joy in the Holy Spirit. Notice these are all
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  Speaker 2: internal experiences, conditions of the heart and soul that transform
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  Speaker 2: how we see and interact with the world. Remarkably, when
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  Speaker 2: someone truly encounters the Holy Spirit, these very qualities become
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  Speaker 2: evident in their life. It's the unmistakable signature that God's
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  Speaker 2: Kingdom is operating within them. Are you living in the
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  Speaker 2: Kingdom of God? Stay sober, stay alert?
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  Speaker 3: A kingdom is a king's dominion, the place where a
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  Speaker 3: king's will is carried out. On one hand, we see
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  Speaker 3: that the Kingdom of God is not of this world.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus answered, my Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. On
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  Speaker 3: the other hand, we recognize that we are to bring
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  Speaker 3: the Kingdom of God to this earth. Your Kingdom come,
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  Speaker 3: Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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  Speaker 3: The Kingdom of God is both otherworldly and something that
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  Speaker 3: should be established here on earth. Do we have a
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  Speaker 3: contradiction here? By no means both realities of the Kingdom
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  Speaker 3: can be true at the same time. The Kingdom of
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  Speaker 3: God is both then and there and here and now.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, the Kingdom of God is within you. Because
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  Speaker 3: the Kingdom of God is then and there, we don't
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  Speaker 3: need to worry. We know our futures are secure. Because
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  Speaker 3: the Kingdom of God is here and now, we don't
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  Speaker 3: need to wait.
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  Speaker 1: We know our authority works here too.
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  Speaker 3: The Kingdom of God isn't supposed to stay anywhere, It's
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  Speaker 3: supposed to go everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: When Jesus came and began to minister this was his message.
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  Speaker 4: Repent or literally, rethink your life, because the Kingdom of
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  Speaker 4: God is at hand. In fact, it's interesting when Jesus
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  Speaker 4: has finished his three and a half years of ministry,
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  Speaker 4: he's gone to the cross, he's risen from the dead,
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  Speaker 4: he's spending time with the disciples. The Bible says he
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  Speaker 4: spends forty days with them and he talks to them
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  Speaker 4: of things pertaining to the Kingdom of God. Now here's
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  Speaker 4: what most Christians do today. Most Christians are focused on
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  Speaker 4: the Kingdom of Heaven. Now, the Kingdom of Heaven basically
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  Speaker 4: is this. It's you're going to go and you're going
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  Speaker 4: to spend eternity with God. And we are focused on
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  Speaker 4: where we're going to go after we die, after Jesus
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  Speaker 4: comes back after the thousand year reign in the eternal kingdom.
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  Speaker 4: That's where we're focused. The Kingdom of Heaven. But the
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  Speaker 4: Kingdom of God is a system. But most people think, well,
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  Speaker 4: it's heaven. No, the Kingdom of God is a system.
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  Speaker 4: Jesus said to pray in the Lord's prayer, he said,
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  Speaker 4: pray your Kingdom come. Your will be done on earth
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  Speaker 4: as it is in heaven. That is the best description
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  Speaker 4: of the Kingdom of God. The will of God being
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  Speaker 4: done today in your life, in my life, in the
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  Speaker 4: earth just like it is in heaven. That's God's will
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  Speaker 4: for us today. And instead of focusing on eternity the
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  Speaker 4: kingdom of Heaven, we need to focus on God's will
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  Speaker 4: being done today in our hearts, in our lives, in
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  Speaker 4: this earth, just like it is in heaven.
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  Speaker 5: When BoNT that which cannot be shaken and which will
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  Speaker 5: remain is the Kingdom. Now, what is the kingdom? Because
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  Speaker 5: I want to preach on the church today, but I
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  Speaker 5: want to preach on the Church in the light of
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  Speaker 5: the Kingdom. What is the Kingdom of God? It's one
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  Speaker 5: of those phrases that we band around, Lord, let your
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  Speaker 5: Kingdom come.
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  Speaker 1: What is it?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's not a geographical place in the sense, but
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  Speaker 5: it's where wherever the lordship of Jesus Christ is received
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  Speaker 5: and embraced. There the Kingdom of God has come. Wherever
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  Speaker 5: someone happily he bows in the and says Jesus's Lord.
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  Speaker 5: There the Kingdom of God has come. Wherever the works
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  Speaker 5: of darkness are destroyed in someone's life and they are
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  Speaker 5: liberated by the Gospel, the Kingdom of God has come.
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  Speaker 5: The Kingdom of God is the rule and reign of
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  Speaker 5: the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 6: The Kingdom of God. The word kingdom is a compound word.
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  Speaker 6: It means king's dominion. What does it mean king's dominion.
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  Speaker 6: It's the realm over which the king rules. So the
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  Speaker 6: king's dominion. The Kingdom of God comes into my life
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  Speaker 6: when I allow my life to be the realm over
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  Speaker 6: which the king reigns. So I yield my life to
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  Speaker 6: the God as the sovereign king of my life. Then
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  Speaker 6: what do I do? Then He makes me the king
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  Speaker 6: of an assignment.
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  Speaker 7: The Kingdom of God. The message of Jesus was the
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  Speaker 7: message of the Kingdom of God. Jesus was born a king.
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  Speaker 7: In fact, Herod was threatened by Jesus because Jesus was
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  Speaker 7: a king. Jesus's message was about the kingdom. In fact,
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  Speaker 7: there was way more references about the kingdom than even
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  Speaker 7: the message of salvation. And Jesus' portrayal of salvation is
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  Speaker 7: it's an entrance of the kingdom. The miracles were invasion
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  Speaker 7: of that kingdom. Jesus also died, and there was an
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  Speaker 7: inscription over him that he was the king of the Jews.
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  Speaker 7: Jesus taught about the kingdom after his resurrection, and Jesus
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  Speaker 7: is coming back as a king so the message of
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  Speaker 7: Christianity is about the Kingdom. In fact, the gospel. The
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  Speaker 7: word gospel means good news. The gospel is in the message.
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  Speaker 7: It's a description of the message.
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  Speaker 5: And what is that message?
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  Speaker 7: The Kingdom of God. That there is a kingdom that
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  Speaker 7: has a king, and this king provides us a new life,
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  Speaker 7: and through salvation we entered into his kingdom. It's a
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  Speaker 7: spiritual kingdom because he rules over our lives and over
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  Speaker 7: our hearts. The Kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 8: In the parable of the sower, you see the breadth
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  Speaker 8: of the kingdom. The field is the world. In the
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  Speaker 8: parable of the Terrors, you see the length of the
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  Speaker 8: kingdom grows until the final harvest. The parable of the
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  Speaker 8: mustard seed, you see the height of the kingdom. It's
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  Speaker 8: like a tree. And in the parable of the eleven
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  Speaker 8: you see the depth of the kingdom. It penetrates everything.
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  Speaker 8: There's divine genius in these stories that is completely oblivious
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  Speaker 8: to the unconverted mind and even to many Christians.
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  Speaker 2: Tell it.
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  Speaker 9: Jesus constantly spoke about the Kingdom of God. But what
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  Speaker 9: is it and where is it? Many think it's a
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  Speaker 9: physical place, a kingdom with walls and a throne, But
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  Speaker 9: Jesus said in Luke seventeen twenty one, the Kingdom of
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  Speaker 9: God is within you. It's not about geography. It's about transformation,
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  Speaker 9: a changed heart, a renewed mind, and a life that
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  Speaker 9: reflects God's will. So the question isn't where is the
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  Speaker 9: Kingdom of God? But is it growing in you?
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  Speaker 10: Talks about in the Bible the Kingdom of Heaven, which
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  Speaker 10: is the same as the Kingdom of God, and it
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  Speaker 10: tells us in one place that it is the kingdom
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  Speaker 10: of God's dear son, who is the Jesus, which tells
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  Speaker 10: us that it's the Kingdom of God Kingdom of Heaven,
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  Speaker 10: but it's still the Kingdom of Jesus. Is basically all
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  Speaker 10: God's way of doing things. But you got to receive God.
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  Speaker 10: You have to make the decision from your soul to
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  Speaker 10: choose to have a relationship with God. And you can
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  Speaker 10: also choose to refuse. But what God did was he
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  Speaker 10: made himself a man. Fan talks about in the Bible
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  Speaker 10: the kingdom the screen.
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  Speaker 1: How do people seek the kingdom?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly what I said.
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  Speaker 11: Number one, They got to get to the king.
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  Speaker 6: Because the center of a kingdom is a person, not
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  Speaker 6: an organization.
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  Speaker 9: Hear that this is the king.
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  Speaker 8: Here, a king is.
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  Speaker 2: The source of a kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: It comes out of.
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  Speaker 6: His very own birthright eye.
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  Speaker 11: So you can first seek the King.
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  Speaker 10: That's why Christ says, if you come.
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  Speaker 6: Unto me, then you'll know the Kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 10: One time he told the disciples, he says, the Kingdom
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  Speaker 10: of God is with you.
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  Speaker 6: I mean he was with them, he said, but it
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  Speaker 6: shall be in you later.
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  Speaker 1: Why I'm gonna take the spirit of the governor of
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  Speaker 1: the King, put.
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  Speaker 7: Him in you later.
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  Speaker 11: On the day of panicost hen't breathe on them.
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  Speaker 4: They literally receive the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: Because the kingdom is a person first, then it has
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  Speaker 1: lived out in.
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  Speaker 11: Administration on a personal level. The Kingdom of God represents
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  Speaker 11: God's spiritual rule in the hearts of those who willingly
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  Speaker 11: submit to him. Jesus emphasized the necessity of being born
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  Speaker 11: again through repentance and faith to enter this kingdom. It
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  Speaker 11: is a realm where God's authority is recognized and individuals
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  Speaker 11: become part of this kingdom through their relationship with Christ. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 11: there is a future dimension to the Kingdom of God,
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  Speaker 11: where Christ will establish his physical reign on Earth during
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  Speaker 11: the millennium. This future manifestation is often referred to as
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  Speaker 11: the Kingdom of Glory.