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#Religion
#Kingdom of God
#Complete in Christ
#Heir
#Condemnation
#Justification
#Eternal Life
#Duane Vander Klok
#Colossians 1:12-13
#Isaiah 9:6-7
#Romans 8:17
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Walking by Faith | Everlasting | July 9, 2021
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- female: Thank you for watching today.
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- I pray that the message you're about to hear will empower you
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- to use your voice, help change the way you think, and refresh
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- your spirit.
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- If you'd like to follow along with Pastor's notes, you can
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- find them on the "On Demand" page of walkingbyfaith.tv or on
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- our app.
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- The Bible tells us that Jesus has broken us out of the kingdom
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- of darkness and placed us into the kingdom of his love.
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- With that, we're starting a new series called "Jailbreak."
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- In today's message, Pastor Duane is going to dive into the
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- explanation of everlasting life.
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- Let's jump right in.
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- Pastor Duane Vander Klok: So, kingdom of God.
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- Jesus appears and, like, shows up preaching.
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- I mean, he didn't, like, poof, appear in a puff of smoke.
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- And he begins to preach and his first message is, "Rethink
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- your life.
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- God's kingdom is here."
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- Rethink your life.
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- Some translations say, "Repent."
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- Rethink your life.
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- God's kingdom is here.
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- In Matthew 13, Jesus gives--in that one day, he gives
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- seven parables.
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- Every one of his parables begin the same way, "The kingdom of
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- God is like..."
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- Not "Christianity is like a kingdom," but it is a kingdom.
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- Jesus said to his disciples in John's Gospel, he says, "I
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- bestow upon you a kingdom, just like my Father bestowed a
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- kingdom upon me."
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- What Jesus left us was not religion.
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- What Jesus left us was a kingdom.
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- Jesus said, "But seek first the kingdom of God and
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- his righteousness."
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- In Acts chapter 1, verse 3, Jesus is with his disciples.
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- He's risen from the dead.
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- He's with them for 40 days and the Bible says he speaks to them
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- of things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
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- In Jesus's mind, Christianity is a kingdom.
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- He left us a kingdom.
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- Acts chapter 8, Philip goes down to Samaria.
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- He's preaching Christ to them.
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- It says, "As they believed Philip's preaching the things
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- concerning the kingdom of God."
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- What did they preach?
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- The kingdom.
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- Jesus said, "This gospel of the kingdom will be preached to all
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- the world and then the end will come."
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- So what Jesus has left us is a kingdom, and you and I are part
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- of his kingdom.
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- So Colossians chapter 1, and verse 12, "Who has made it
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- possible for you to claim your share of the inheritance with
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- the saints in the kingdom of light."
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- So he says here that what has happened is God has
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- qualified you.
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- You are not qualified because of the things that you've done or
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- haven't done, but you are qualified because God has
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- qualified you for your share of the inheritance.
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- Different translation, "Always thankful to the Father who has
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- made us fit to share all the wonderful things that belong to
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- those in the kingdom of light."
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- So we as believers, we have an inheritance that we
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- have received.
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- God says he qualifies us.
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- Now, here's the thing.
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- So often what happens is we condemn ourselves.
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- In fact, the Bible tells us in 1 John that you need to reassure
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- your heart because your heart will often condemn you.
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- You'll look back at the things that you've done wrong, you'll
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- look back to the places you've missed it, you look at the
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- things that you haven't done, and you will feel condemned.
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- But the Bible says you need to assure your heart.
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- When your heart condemns you, you need to talk to your heart
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- and you need to say, "Heart, listen to me.
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- He that knew no sin became sin for me that I might be made the
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- righteousness of God in Christ.
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- I do not qualify because of the things I've done.
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- I qualify because of the things that he has done."
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- All right, then the 13th verse, "Who has rescued us out of the
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- power of darkness and established us as citizens in
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- the kingdom of his beloved Son."
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- So he has taken us out from under Satan's dominion, his
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- kingdom, and he has made you a citizen in the kingdom of his
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- beloved Son.
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- The regular King James Bible says he's translated us.
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- How many ever saw Star Trek?
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- Kirk would go, "Scotty, beam us up," and vroom, they'd just
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- disappear in one place and show up there in the
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- transporter room.
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- Well, literally that's what God did to you.
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- He took you from the kingdom of darkness, and he translated you
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- into the kingdom of the Son of his love.
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- Jordan's Translation, sometimes referred to as the Cotton Patch
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- Translation, it says, "It was the Father who sprang us from
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- the jailhouse of darkness and turned us loose into the new
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- world of his beloved Son."
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- I love that, jailbreak.
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- All right, because of what's-- because of what Adam and Eve
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- did, we were in prison, but God had a prison break and he got us
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- out from under that jail house of darkness, and look, he turned
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- us loose into the kingdom of his beloved Son in that new world.
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- He turns you loose.
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- How many of you've ever stood even on the shore of
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- Lake Michigan?
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- And you look out there and as far as you can see,
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- there's water.
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- Now when we get into the kingdom of God, he turns us loose.
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- And however much we can enjoy the kingdom and receive the
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- benefits of the kingdom, there is so much more.
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- It's like a sea that's out there.
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- He turns us loose and says, "Go for it," right, in this kingdom,
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- because there's benefits for being in the kingdom.
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- In fact, King David, 3.000 years ago, said, "Bless the Lord, O my
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- soul, and forget not all his benefits; who forgives all my
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- iniquities, who heals all my diseases, who redeems my life
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- from destruction, who satisfies my mouth with good things so
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- that my youth is renewed like the eagles."
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- He's talkin' about the benefits of being in the kingdom.
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- So we're in this kingdom.
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- We've been translated out from darkness under Satan's domain
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- into the kingdom of the Son of his love.
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- When we typically think about Christianity, people don't think
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- about it as a kingdom, about being translated out from under
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- Satan's domain and brought into the kingdom of the Son of
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- his love.
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- Even the best known verse in the Bible, John 3:16, how many--
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- everybody knows John 3:16.
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- I mean, people that don't even know what's in the Bible know
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- John 3:16.
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- "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son
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- that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
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- everlasting life."
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- Those two words, "everlasting life," in the Greek there's just
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- one word and it only has three letters: Z-O-E.
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- So, eternal life is something you receive from God and it's
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- the very life that God has.
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- It's the life that he gave to Jesus, and then the Bible says
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- it's the life that he, Jesus, has given to us believers.
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- Translators should be careful to avoid expressions that mean no
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- more than a timeless continuation of life after death
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- because eternal life does not begin when you die.
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- Eternal life, God's life, comes into you the moment you receive
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- Jesus as the Lord of your life and are translated out of the
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- kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of the Son of his love.
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- Even 3.000 years ago, King David is writing the 23rd Psalm and he
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- says, "He prepares a table before me in the presence of
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- my enemies."
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- Do you know what's on that table?
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- Listen, there's some victory on that table.
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- There's peace on that table.
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- There's joy on the table.
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- There's deliverance on the table.
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- There's provision on the table.
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- And I'm telling you, there's bread on the table.
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- There's some bread.
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- And in the New Testament, Jesus said that healing is the
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- children's bread.
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- So there's healing on the table, and there's victory, and there's
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- deliverance, and there's provision on the table because
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- salvation doesn't begin when you die.
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- Salvation, eternal life, the life of God, comes into you
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- instantly when you're translated out of the kingdom of darkness
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- into the kingdom of the Son of his love, right?
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- Now, a kingdom is really the place where the king's
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- domain is.
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- That's where the kingdom is.
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- And the kingdom of God operates through the Word of the King.
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- That's the Bible.
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- We can say it this way.
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- The Bible is spiritual law.
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- It is the law of the kingdom.
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- And by the way, when you have a kingdom, it infers a government.
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- You can't have a kingdom without a government.
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- In fact, in Isaiah 9, it says this, "For unto us a child is
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- born and unto us a Son is given.
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- And the government--" what's gonna be on his shoulders?
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- "The government will be on his shoulders.
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- And his name will be called Wonderful Counsel, or Almighty
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- God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
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- And of the increase of his government and peace there will
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- be no end.
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- And upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish--
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- to order it, to establish it with judgment and justice from
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- this time forward and forever more.
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- And the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this."
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- Now, you and I, we are part of that kingdom.
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- Ephesians 3:6 says that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs.
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- So we're an heir within the kingdom of God.
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- In fact, Romans 8 says it more specifically.
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- It says, "And if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint
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- heirs with Christ."
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- You are a joint heir with Christ.
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- Now, Ephesians just takes the first part and says
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- you're heirs.
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- Well, Romans 8 says, yeah, you're heirs, verse 17, but
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- you're more than an heir.
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- You're a joint heir.
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- So being a joint heir means this, that when somebody gets
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- something, it doesn't mean there's anything less for you.
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- It doesn't--there's no less because somebody received
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- something, right?
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- If it's divided up in many parts, you get less, but when
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- you're a joint heir, everything that's there is for you.
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- And you are a joint heir with-- In other words, everything
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- that's for Jesus is for you.
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- You are a joint heir with Christ.
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- You are part of the kingdom.
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- So stop begging because the Father has qualified you for
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- your share of the inheritance, Colossians 1, verse 12.
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- You have legal rights.
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- You're a citizen.
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- You are not a part of the earth-cursed survival system any
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- longer, but you're a part of the kingdom of God.
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- So we're gonna go back to the book of Genesis.
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- Now, most people think about the Bible in a nutshell as being
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- John 3:16, and in some ways this really is true.
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- But the most important parts of your Bible are Genesis 3,
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- Genesis 12, Genesis 15, and Genesis 22.
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- If you can understand those three chapters, the truths that
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- are laid out in those--excuse me, those four chapters of the
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- Bible, you will have a grasp that 99% of Christians do not
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- have and cannot have without understanding those things
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- in Genesis.
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- But we're gonna go back all the way to Genesis chapter 1, verse
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- 26, "Then God says, 'Let us make man in our image, according to
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- our likeness.
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- Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of
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- the air, over the cattle, over all the earth, over every
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- creeping thing that creeps on the earth.'
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- So the Lord God made man in his own image.
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- In the image of God he created him; male and female he
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- created them."
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- So you were created to have dominion.
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- That's what you were created for.
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- Let him have dominion.
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- "Then God blessed them, and God said to them, 'Be fruitful
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- and multiply.
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- Fill the earth, subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of
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- the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living thing that
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- moves on the earth.'"
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- God said, "Let them rule," so man had jurisdiction over the
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- entire earth.
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- He was God's sub-ruler.
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- Satan comes, tempts Adam and Eve.
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- They bow their knee to Satan.
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- And literally, what Satan did is he took the authority, the
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- dominion that Adam and Eve had, and he began to use that
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- dominion because they had bowed their knee to him.
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- In fact, when Jesus was tempted in the New Testament, Luke's
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- Gospel chapter 4, "The devil, taking him into a high mountain
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- or a high place, shows him all the kingdoms of the world in a
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- moment of time.
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- And the Devil said to him, 'All this authority or dominion I
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- will give you and their glory, for it has been delivered to me,
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- and I give it to whomsoever I wish.
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- Therefore, if you will worship me, all will be yours.'"
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- Now, notice a couple of things.
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- He said all the kingdoms of the world and their glory had been
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- delivered to him.
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- Who did that?
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- Adam and Eve did that when they bowed their knee to Satan.
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- And notice he said, "And I can give it to whomsoever I wish."
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- He said that dominion is transferrable.
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- He said, "Adam--God transferred it to Adam.
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- Adam transferred it to me.
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- And if you'll worship me, I'll transfer it to you."
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- Now, if he's lying, there's no temptation.
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- But there's a temptation because Satan had all of that dominion.
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- He got it when man and woman bowed their knee to Satan, which
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- is why the Bible says, 1 John 5:19, "For we know for a fact
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- that we are of God, and the whole world around us lies under
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- the power of the evil one, opposing God and his precepts."
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- The whole world lies in the power of who?
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- The evil one.
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- Romans 5:12, "Therefore, just as through one man sin into the
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- world, and death through sin, thus death spread to all men,
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- because all sinned."
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- When Adam and Eve bowed their knee to Satan, death, sin,
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- sickness, disease, prejudice, war, famine, every evil thing we
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- can think of, it came in.
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- Satan took that power, that dominion that man had.
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- So Hebrews 12, verse 14, this one's worthwhile looking at.
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- If you've got a Bible, you got your device, look at this.
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- "In as much then as the children have partaken of flesh and
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- blood," you live in a flesh and blood body, "he, Jesus, himself
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- likewise shared in the same," Jesus came in a flesh and blood
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- body like yours, "that through death," listen, "he might
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- destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil."
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- Now, listen to me.
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- Listen carefully.
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- Who had the power of death according to the Bible?
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- Who had the power of death?
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- "Destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,"
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- just in case you missed it.
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- Who had the power of death?
- 00:17:07.575 --> 00:17:08.976
- One more time, who had the power of death?
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- How many of you have heard, "Why didn't God--Why did God
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- take them?
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- Why did God kill them?"
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- How many of you have heard that?
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- Who had the power of death?
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- The devil.
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- The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 15, "The last enemy that will be
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- destroyed is death."
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- Now, Jesus has already done everything that's necessary.
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- In the book of Revelation, it says he's got the keys of Hades
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- and of death.
- 00:17:37.805 --> 00:17:39.307
- So now, he is, the Bible says, 2 Corinthians 4, verse 4, the god,
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- small G, of this world.
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- Jesus said the prince of this world is coming.
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- The prince of this world is coming, speaking of the devil.
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- He said, "He has nothing in me."
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- Ephesians 2:2, "The prince of the power of the air, the spirit
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- that now works in the children of disobedience."
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- He's called the prince.
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- He's called the ruler.
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- It's all the result of man's sin.
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- In fact, Genesis chapter 3, man has sinned.
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- God says this, "Cursed is the ground because of--" because
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- of who?
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- Because of you, Adam.
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- You're the one that led all of his problems in.
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- "Cursed is the ground because of you."
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- And notice it says, "Through painful toil, you will
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- eat food."
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- Now, the earth was under Adam's jurisdiction.
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- That's why he says, "Because of you."
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- Because of what you've done, these things have come into this
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- world, right?
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- And notice he says, "Painful toil."
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- Hebrews 2, verse 7, "You made him a little lower than
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- the angels.
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- You crowned him with glory and honor.
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- You set him over all the works of your hands and you put all
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- things in subjection under his feet."
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- So that was Adam's original position.
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- Satan came, usurped that authority, took it when he bowed
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- his knee.
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- As a man, the human being, we still have authority in the
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- earth, but it has been under Satan's domain.
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- But that's why you got translated out from under the
- 00:19:07.228 --> 00:19:09.697
- kingdom of darkness.
- 00:19:09.697 --> 00:19:11.632
- Psalms 115 says, "The heavens, even the heavens, are the
- 00:19:11.699 --> 00:19:14.468
- Lord's, but the earth he has given to the children of men."
- 00:19:14.468 --> 00:19:18.306
- So when Adam and Eve sinned, it was like God was looking on--he
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- was on the outside.
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- "The earth is the Lord's, the fullness thereof, the sea and
- 00:19:24.745 --> 00:19:26.847
- all that dwell therein."
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- He owned it but he had given dominion to man, who in turn
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- gave dominion to Satan.
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- That was our introduction for today's
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- message, so here we get to the meat.
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- Genesis 12, verse 1, "Now the Lord has said to Abram, 'Get out
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- from your country, from your family, from your father's house
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- to a land I'll show you and I will make you a great nation.'"
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- Very important, "I will bless you and I'll make your name
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- great, and you'll be a blessing.
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- I will bless those who curse you."
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- This is God's foreign policy today.
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- "I will bless those who bless you.
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- I will curse those who curse you.
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- And in you, all the families of the earth will be blessed."
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- Listen, everything's God's doing--in theological circles,
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- they called this eschatology.
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- Everything God's doing in the earth today and in the end times
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- all goes back to Genesis 12, Genesis 15, and Genesis 22.
- 00:20:18.499 --> 00:20:23.204
- That's where it all goes back to.
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- So God says, "I'll bless those who bless you.
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- I will curse those who curse you."
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- That's why as Christians, we bless Israel.
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- We stand with Israel.
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- We bless Jewish people.
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- We stand with Jewish people.
- 00:20:36.784 --> 00:20:38.219
- God says, "You bless them, I'll bless you."
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- He says, "You curse them, I will curse you."
- 00:20:40.688 --> 00:20:44.258
- Now, in what theologians called hermeneutics, which just means
- 00:20:44.258 --> 00:20:51.265
- Bible interpretation, when you interpret the Bible, there is
- 00:20:51.265 --> 00:20:54.502
- something that is referred to as double reference.
- 00:20:54.502 --> 00:20:57.872
- The principle of double reference.
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- So you look at something and it's true about one thing, but
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- it's also true about another thing.
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- Now, when God said, "I will make you a great nation," it's true
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- about Israel.
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- God has promises to the nation of Israel.
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- And what we see happening today in the Middle East, end times,
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- all of it, listen, all of it has to do with Israel.
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- All of it.
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- However, this is a Scripture which has double reference
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- because God said to Abraham, he says, "Your children are gonna
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- be like the sand of the sea, but they're also going to be like
- 00:21:36.644 --> 00:21:39.780
- the stars of the heavens."
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- So he has a heavenly spiritual seed and he also has a
- 00:21:43.451 --> 00:21:47.688
- natural seed.
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- So there is--God says, "I'll make you a great nation,"
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- Israel, but he's got another nation and it's called
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- the church.
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- In 1 Peter 2:9, it says this, "But you're a chosen generation,
- 00:21:56.664 --> 00:22:00.534
- a royal priesthood, a holy nation."
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- So there's not just a physical nation, there is a spiritual
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- nation or kingdom, alright?
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- And you and I, we are part of that spiritual nation.
- 00:22:11.045 --> 00:22:16.183
- So Abraham, back in Genesis, 4.000 years ago, he was looking
- 00:22:16.183 --> 00:22:23.758
- for what you and I are looking for.
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- The Bible says this in Hebrews chapter 11, verse 10, "His eyes
- 00:22:26.660 --> 00:22:31.599
- of faith were set on the city with unshakeable foundations,
- 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:38.672
- whose architect and builder is God."
- 00:22:38.672 --> 00:22:42.676
- King James, he was looking for a city.
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- Looking for a city.
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- He was waiting for this city whose builder and maker is God.
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- So Abraham was looking for a city.
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- Revelation chapter 21 says it this way, "Then I, John, saw the
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- holy city, the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from
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- God, prepared as a bride adorned for children--or for
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- her husband.
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- And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, 'Behold, the
- 00:23:10.404 --> 00:23:12.139
- tabernacle of God is with men, and he'll dwell with them, and
- 00:23:12.139 --> 00:23:15.042
- they will be his people.
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- And God himself will be with them and be their God.
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- God will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there will
- 00:23:17.878 --> 00:23:19.814
- be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.
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- There'll be no more pain, for the former things have
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- passed away.'
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- Then he who sits on the throne said, 'Behold, I make all
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- things new.'
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- And he said, 'Write, for these words are true and faithful.'
- 00:23:28.522 --> 00:23:31.759
- And he saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from
- 00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:37.364
- God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."
- 00:23:37.364 --> 00:23:41.969
- Abraham was looking for the heavenly city, the
- 00:23:41.969 --> 00:23:46.040
- new Jerusalem.
- 00:23:46.040 --> 00:23:47.374
- And here's the crazy thing.
- 00:23:47.374 --> 00:23:48.709
- Most Christians think, "Hey, I'm gonna die.
- 00:23:48.709 --> 00:23:50.044
- I'm gonna go there."
- 00:23:50.044 --> 00:23:51.378
- And you are, but it's temporary.
- 00:23:51.378 --> 00:23:54.181
- It is temporary.
- 00:23:54.181 --> 00:23:55.649
- To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
- 00:23:55.649 --> 00:23:59.119
- But you're not staying there.
- 00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:01.121
- When God moves and his city moves and comes down to earth,
- 00:24:01.121 --> 00:24:06.327
- you're comin' with it.
- 00:24:06.327 --> 00:24:08.529
- And Abraham, 4.000 years ago, was looking for that city.
- 00:24:08.529 --> 00:24:14.602
- That's where his faith was.
- 00:24:14.602 --> 00:24:17.004
- And the Bible says he believed God and it was accounted to him
- 00:24:17.004 --> 00:24:20.774
- for righteousness.
- 00:24:20.774 --> 00:24:23.310
- Pastor Duane Vander Klok: You know, so many of us, we try to
- 00:24:23.377 --> 00:24:25.379
- reach God without realizing that God has already reached down to
- 00:24:25.379 --> 00:24:30.217
- rescue us through Jesus.
- 00:24:30.217 --> 00:24:32.253
- And if you're watching today, but you know you're not right
- 00:24:32.253 --> 00:24:35.256
- with God, you're away from God, and you say, "I wanna be right.
- 00:24:35.256 --> 00:24:38.526
- I wanna be forgiven.
- 00:24:38.526 --> 00:24:39.860
- I wanna be a child of God," I wanna invite you right now to
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- bow your head and pray this prayer with me.
- 00:24:43.697 --> 00:24:45.666
- Make these words your own.
- 00:24:45.666 --> 00:24:47.001
- Just say, "Oh God, I believe Jesus died on the cross.
- 00:24:47.001 --> 00:24:51.505
- I believe his blood paid for my sins.
- 00:24:51.505 --> 00:24:54.775
- I believe that he rose again and I believe he's coming again.
- 00:24:54.775 --> 00:24:58.913
- Today, I receive the forgiveness that Jesus purchased for me.
- 00:24:58.913 --> 00:25:03.684
- And today, I give him all of my heart and all of my life.
- 00:25:03.684 --> 00:25:07.488
- I hold nothing back.
- 00:25:07.488 --> 00:25:09.823
- I thank you you've heard my prayer, that I'm a part of your
- 00:25:09.823 --> 00:25:13.594
- family today and forever.
- 00:25:13.594 --> 00:25:16.931
- In Jesus's name, amen."
- 00:25:16.931 --> 00:25:19.300
- Now, if you prayed that simple prayer from your heart, you are
- 00:25:19.300 --> 00:25:22.403
- right with God.
- 00:25:22.403 --> 00:25:23.737
- You're forgiven.
- 00:25:23.737 --> 00:25:25.072
- You're a part of his family on your way to heaven.
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- by faith.
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