066: AD Norris – I Believe in the Kingdom of God

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Hi everyone.
This is James diliberto and I’m

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guest hosting for this week to
talk.

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One of the things that I’ve
Loved about this podcast.

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Is that Levi and Chris have done
such a great job.

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Just getting a diversity of
speakers from different

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generations and countries and
time periods and a few weeks ago

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when they released episode 64 by
Brother Islip Collier, although

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the audio was rough and we
didn’t really know the year of

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the old tape.
I love that talk and I was so

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excited to get to listen to one
of those classic.

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Ye are Brethren who has left
such a legacy of written

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material.
That’s probably on most of our

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bookshelves.
But who must younger Generations

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would have never gotten a chance
to hear speak live.

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And as Levi said in that
episode, this is part of our

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communities Heritage and our
history and we’re really blessed

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in this age of technology to
actually have access to so much

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of their material to listen to
and if you’re new to the podcast

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to my my favorite back episodes
are similar.

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It’s so great having the
ability.

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Leti to put such spoken
personality to these writers and

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it really adds another dimension
to their contributions that we

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use regularly like brother
Dennis Colette in episode 52

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John Martin in 46 HP, Mansfield
and 22 the opening episode Bob

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Lloyd in episode 1 and episode
19.

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Harry tenants.
He is able which has probably my

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favorite talk of all time.
And if you listen to it, you’ll

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find out why but this week’s
talk is from another.

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Those old Brethren brother
Alfred Norris from the UK.

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This was delivered at the 1995
Eastern Christian Bible School

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in the US just a couple of fun
facts while you’re listening.

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I was recently talking to
Brother Brian Luke if his house

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and when I mentioned brother
Norris speaking and sharing it

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on this podcast Uncle Brian
reflected that when he opened

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his mouth it was like poetry he
had such a natural way with

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words it made you think he was
reading but he never looked

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down.
So precise was his language.

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Image you could have transcribed
it and had a well-written book.

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So that’s a lot coming from a
book publisher.

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And if you listen to it, you’ll
know what he means.

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It’s amazing and if you like
listening to brother Harry

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tenant, you will probably like
listening to brother Norris

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speaking.
It’s that similar style British

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structure and the way that they
speak another fun fact is that

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you is actually pretty small and
older brother in my meeting said

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that when he spoke here in
Melbourne Australia once when he

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walked in everyone Shocked
because he was one of the

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shortest speaking Brethren they
never met and they actually

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would bring a little stepping
stool up onto the platform so he

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could step on it and reach the
top of the podium which was

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funny telling me this fact.
But anyway, it helps me sort of

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get a picture in my mind his
voice betrays his size and that

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old British accent makes you
think that you’re watching a

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movie his arguments are just so
convincing his use of language

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is so amazing and yet he’s also
so jovial light-hearted very ER

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active at the audience in
conversational at times this

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talk is just going to pull you
in the entire Bible School

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series was a 6 talk series
delivered under the general

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theme of I believe in Jesus
Christ, and these are available

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on the GT extended podcast.
If you want to hear the rest of

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them, which I’m sure you will
this series is essentially

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taking fundamental first
principles from our statement of

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faith and powerfully affirming
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Biblically whilst unpacking the
so what aspect as in why they

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make a difference this is class.
Were five and it’s entitled.

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I believe in the kingdom of God
one of our most fundamental

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doctrines, but he opens it up in
a very interactive way and

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catches the audience and all of
us on our Tendencies to answer

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too quickly without thinking
through the spiritual extent of

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the question biblically and he
does an amazing job of affirming

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and yet expanding the concept
one of the things I’ve Loved

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about this class.
Is that over the past 10 years.

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I’ve probably listen to this
class 10 times.

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And I never get tired of it each
year.

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In fact when I first heard it, I
was so impacted by the way, it

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challenged my Paradigm about
what the kingdom of God is

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namely that it equals the
Millennium.

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But in reality that limited
definition didn’t fit the so

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many Old Testament and New
Testament passages that I had

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probably just relegated to the
back of my mind to figure out

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later.
But this class was the penny

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drop moment that figured all of
that out which set me up on my

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own path of Discovery so much so
that I own At least turned it

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into a whole six Study Bible
School series myself, but that

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all came out just from this talk
and I remember wishing when I

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first heard it that he was alive
so that I could give brother

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Norris a call and talk to him
about it as I’m sure you’ll

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understand from hearing this
class.

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You will see that he easily
could have done a whole series

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on this whole topic, but he
slots it into this bigger

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concept of I believe in Jesus
Christ, but nevertheless this

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was the Catalyst for me.
And I’m just so excited that it

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might be something amazing for
you to hear and please just

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enjoy listening to it.
So, this is Brother Alfred

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Morris on I believe in the
kingdom of God from 1995.

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You might like a little
explanation as to how are you

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going to manage to get through
the cities in this very short

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period left.
So this is the schedule.

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I think schedule at home.
I would have said schedule.

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This is the schedule today one
theme on the number 9.

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I believe in the kingdom of God
tomorrow a correction from my

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mistake, which has been
reproduced in the program two

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together numbers 10 and 11.
I believe in baptism for the

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remission of sins and in the
Holy Spirit.

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And on Sunday and the excitation
I want to incorporate the

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essential material of number 12.
I Believe In The Fellowship of

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saints, so we’ll get them all
live inside that way if God

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Wills.
I’d like you to indulge in a bit

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further vocal exercise.
I’m going to put you three

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questions and I think those who
would say is this so we’ll say

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aye those who don’t will say no
question.

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Number one.
They’re all about the kingdom of

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God.
Question is I all know remember

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is the kingdom of God in heaven.
I had about seven Nos and one.

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Yes, and I heard distinctly
about a hundred fifty-four

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abstentions.
Can we try again with your

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extensions with a louder number
of decibels is the kingdom of

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God in heaven?
I think there’s an overwhelming

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vote.
That is not.

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Thank you.
Is the kingdom of God presently

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on the Earth?
That’s another know is the

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kingdom of God in our hearts.
I think I heard it on stimulant

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which might have been a guess.
But anyway, the other women got

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in.
All three cases was no the

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kingdom of God is not in heaven.
The kingdom of God is Not on the

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earth.
The kingdom of God is not in our

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hearts before I adjudicate on
those.

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I’d like to recite what the
statement of faith has to say

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about the kingdom of God and
briefly indicate why it has to

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say it says it at Great length.
There’s a lot about the kingdom

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of God in the statement of
faith.

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I have about all thirteen or
fourteen Clauses and there could

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have been more all of which have
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So I left out the bits that we
can do without with the dotted

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lines.
And this is the abbreviated form

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of what the Birmingham amended
statement of faith has to say

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about the kingdom of God.
God will set up a kingdom on the

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earth which will overthrow all
others and change them into the

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kingdoms of our Lord and of his
Christ.

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Next the kingdom.
He that is Jesus Christ will

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establish will be the Kingdom of
Israel restored is a territory

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formerly occupied.
Next this restoration of the

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Kingdom again to Israel will
involve the ingathering of God’s

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chosen but scattered Nation the
Jews and the building again of

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Jerusalem to become the Throne
of the Lord and the Metropolis

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of the whole Earth.
Next the governing body of the

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Kingdom’s I established will be
the Brethren of Christ of all

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Nations developed by
resurrection and constituting

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with Christ as the head the
collective Seed of Abraham in

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whom All Nations will be
blessed.

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Next the kingdom of God.
Thus constituted will continue A

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Thousand Years.
Next a law will be established

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which will go forth to the
nation’s resulting in the

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abolition of war and filling the
Earth with the knowledge of the

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glory of Jehovah.
Next the mission of the Kingdom

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will visit of do all enemies and
finally death Itself by opening

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up the way of life to the
Nations which they will enter by

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faith during the Thousand Years
and in parentheses in reality

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that they’re closed.
Next and last but one at the

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close of the Thousand Years,
there will be a general

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resurrection and judgment.
And finally the get the

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government will then be
delivered up by Jesus to the

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father.
Now if you can see the

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overriding tenor of those
statements is to agree with the

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conclusions with you so vocally
gave a few minutes ago.

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The kingdom of God is primarily
concerned with a stage in

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history of a process which one’s
had the kingdom here before.

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Since which there has been a
large Hiatus with no kingdom of

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God here and at the end of which
there will be a new

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establishment of the Kingdom,
which will have first a rule

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over the Earth, but will rule
over partially unconverted

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people.
And then at the end of the

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second judgment will cause all
those who are unworthy to

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survive to be extinguished.
I will incorporate the remainder

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with the immortal Saints of the
first resurrection in that post

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millennial Glory.
We shall have no end and no no

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sin nor pain nor death.
So the kingdom of God starts

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with I don’t know where you’d
started the call of Abraham.

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I should think not certainty
with Saul.

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It goes on to the last king of
the house of Judah zedekiah.

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They profaned begin Prince to
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God said whose day is coming
when iniquities you’ll have an

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end.
Has a long gap down in which

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even though Israel does go back
for its wild to a land.

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That land is not strictly its
own.

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It belongs to the Romans and
their they are a kind of

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pilgrimage that the rule of an
Alien Nation and you can’t

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really call that God’s kingdom
but it is promised and the king

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is born.
He’s acknowledged of all his

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trust as Jesus of Nazareth the
king of the Jews but he never

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actually rains that is still in
the future though him until the

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last hundred and fifty years
very near in the future.

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Remember that we’ve been told
that for the last 250 years.

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It is very near in the future.
So somebody must be wrong about

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that.
But that’s the thing.

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We have to take it into our
account in understanding the

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kingdom of God and then it comes
in Earnest and it stays and the

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Earth is perpetually thereafter
to be regarded as God’s Kingdom.

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So no you said logically it is
not in heaven.

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And no you said logically it is
not upon the Earth and no you

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said logically it is not in our
hearts not what some people call

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a rain of Grace in the heart.
Well, I had one brother tell me

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this morning over breakfast.
I can’t stand Logic on how right

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he was because those two of you
who said yes to is the kingdom

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of God in heaven were right
though.

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The others went wrong. those few
who said the kingdom of God is

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on the earth were right just but
the others weren’t wrong.

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Those who said the kingdom of
God is not in our hearts were

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right on a certain
understanding.

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But the others went wrong.
But I’m trying to get up is this

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we do right to safeguard against
the idea that the kingdom of God

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is exclusively.
The place to which some people

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believe the Saints in God will
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If they have been faithful
namely Heaven the kingdom of God

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at least is not wholly wrapped
up in that concept that can

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easily reach the idea since he’s
not the kind of Kingdom we’re

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used to talking about there is
no relationship between heaven

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and gods existing Kingdom.
I’m going to come back to that.

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The second says yes, the Earth
is the right place for the

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kingdom of God and it once was
here that says Israel was

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scattered for the latest dime.
It hasn’t been here and it won’t

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be back until they having been
restored and the Lord Jesus

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Christ having come to Reign.
He sets his throne in Jerusalem,

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and there becomes the king of
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That’s the idea of the few of
God might be a rate of growth in

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our hearts while that’s
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He rescued in the minds of many
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Me too.
If you look at this, is that way

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We are well aware that you
talked to some people about the

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kingdom of God.
They say, ah, it isn’t real the

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material thing you’re talking
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It isn’t really the old
Israelites his kingdom upon the

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soil of Palestine.
It won’t ever really be that

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kind of thing.
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The kingdom of God is best
defined in the words of the Lord

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Jesus Christ to the Pharisees
the kingdom of God is within

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you.
And we indignantly rejected that

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idea that the kingdom of God is
pre-eminently that said no with

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a fairly loud voice when I asked
is the kingdom of God in our

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hearts. however Would you like
to turn to Psalm 103?

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And would you care to read to
me?

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From verses nineteen not to be
with me.

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Sorry Read With Me from verses
19 to the end of that Psalm

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Psalm 103.
The Lord hath prepared his

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throne in the heavens. and his
kingdom ruleth Over All Bless

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the Lord.
Ye his angels that excel in

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strength that do his
Commandments hearken unto the

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voice of the Lord bless the Lord
all you his Oaths you Ministers

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of his that do his pleasure
bless the Lord all his Works in

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all places of his Dominion bless
the Lord O my soul.

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Let me repeat the Lord hath
established his throne in the

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heavens and his kingdom ruleth
Over All bless the Lord all you

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his Works in all places of his
Dominion Throne Kingdom

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Dominion.
Is the kingdom of God in heaven

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try again?
You’re struck dumb.

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Well, the psalmist says he is.
He doesn’t say it’s the only

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place it is, but he says it’s
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The Lord has established his
throne and who sits on the

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throne of the king.
His kingdom ruleth over all who

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is the ruler of such a kingdom,
but God himself. all places of

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his Dominion whose Dominion
God’s Dominion It can’t be quite

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right kind of say that’s not
true.

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It can’t be quite enough to say
that isn’t now true.

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It wouldn’t be sensible to say
it may have been true in the day

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when that song was written.
It’s not true any longer.

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It’s obviously been all the true
all the time has there ever been

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a time.
We’ve got hasn’t ruled in the

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heavens.
Of course there has has there

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ever been a time as good
christadelphians.

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I ask you the question.
Has it ever been a time when

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God’s rule in heaven has been
challenged by service there.

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We who don’t believe that
Lucifer is the devil know the

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answer.
That one is no there has never

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been any such time.
God has always been ruler in the

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heavens will there ever be a
time when he will not be in full

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charge of everything in the
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And again, I’m sure you’ll
answer there has no reason they

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will not be such a Time.
So I’m going to check the guns

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that you’re all feeling.
Holy bleep engines that you’re

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weeping buckets of Tears for
your father.

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And you do agree that the
kingdom of God is in heaven.

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You must Would you like some
proof in the words of the Lord

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Jesus Christ?
Then turn with me please to a

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place that you’ve never heard of
before in Matthew chapter 6.

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Matthew chapter 6 verse nine
after this manner therefore pray

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GE Our Father which art in
heaven Hallowed be thy name thy

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kingdom come they will be done
in earth as it is in heaven.

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Give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our debts as we

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have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,

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but Deliver Us from Evil for in
the King James version thine is

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the kingdom and the power and
the glory forever. amen Now if

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thinking James does is to be
accepted because his absolutely

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overwhelming God’s is the
kingdom forever forever past and

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future.
His kingdom is to come from

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wherever it is now.
His will we hope and expect and

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desire shall be done on the
earth as well as present.

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It is done somewhere else namely
it happen.

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So David on the one hand. and
the son of David the king of

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Israel on the other both say in
effect the Lord hath established

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firmly founded his throne in the
heavens and his kingdom ruleth

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Over All but it’s obviously
true, isn’t it?

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Though we are right to cast out
the idea that that Kingdom means

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that Saints go there to enjoy
the kingdom with God the idea

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that God isn’t building his own
Heavens is absurd.

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Of course he is and all the
Angels acknowledge it when they

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do his pleasure and the Lord who
has gone to sit down with his

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father on his throne.
I know this isn’t desktop.

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This is the same thing.
And when Jesus after his

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resurrection says all authority
is given unto me in heaven and

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in Earth, he suggested he not
very strongly that the

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overriding control of everything
in the universe at all times

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rest ultimately in the hands of
God.

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But you may say that’s not
really what we were talking

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about.
We have been brought up to

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believe that the essentials of a
kingdom are a king on the throne

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and laws and the people and the
land.

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And that’s the way we look at it
enough returns.

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So we have say the Throne of st.
James’s Westminster and we have

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the queen normally a king but
this time for a lack of Kings it

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turned out to be a queen.
And we have laws that we have a

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government and we have the
territory of the United Kingdom

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extending from England in the
South to Scotland in the north

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currently to know that island in
the Northwest and also including

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whales in the extreme West.
That’s the kingdom the United

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Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland if we got all

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the ingredients throne and the
Queen and laws and landed the

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people.
That’s not the only imaginable

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type of kingdom is it?
That is what the kingdom of God

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was like of the days of Israel
with many failures.

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This is what it will be like in
the days when the Lord Jesus

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Christ comes back with many
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But at least we have a material
understanding of the Kingdom

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which we the christadelphians
are quite right to uphold and

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maintain there is to be a
kingdom of God like that just as

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there has be but no one in his
senses would say in the meantime

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got to stop raining.
For example the right to quote

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the words to and from
Nebuchadnezzar the most high

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real rulers in the Kingdom of
men and gives it to whomsoever

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he will.
Would it be right to quote

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Nebuchadnezzar’s own contract
confession when taken away from

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his seven-year status of the
beasts of the field.

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He says now I Nebuchadnezzar
honor the king of Heaven whose

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kingdom is an everlasting
Kingdom and his Dominion which

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shall have no end.
So obviously there is a

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permanent that and everlasting
from Everlasting to Everlasting

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Kingdom and kingship of God
which includes everything except

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anything which happens to rebel
against it.

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Anything that belongs to him?
He may not be allowed to rule

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that as he wishes but it belongs
to him doesn’t have taken it

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over from the days of Eden
onwards took the most his

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dominions, erecting the flagpole
insert the skull and crossbones

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on the top.
They committed an act of piracy

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against God’s kingdom God wasn’t
allowed to rule that anymore

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because of the sins of mankind.
But God is the king.

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He’s always by right to the king
is any part of the University’s

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does not acknowledge Him as king
then so much the worse for that

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part of the universe.
He is still by right-clicking

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and one day he will establish it
as temporarily and very

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partially he did in the days
when the chosen people lived in

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the Promised Land.
When Jesus says that his

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faithful should pray Our Father
which art in heaven Hallowed be

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thy name.
Thy kingdom come did he not mean

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that Kingdom which is currently
everywhere else, but here she’ll

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take in here as well.
Thy will be done in earth as it

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is in heaven.
Did he not mean that dominance

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of God’s will everywhere else
except here.

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We would like to come and
embrace the Earth as well.

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So they’re everywhere throughout
the wide dominions of God.

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He will be absolute ruler and no
one will any more challenges

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will So you see the kingdom of
God does have a happened to

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component.
Had a very important heavily

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component and if that happened
the lesson too because those of

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God’s people who dwell in the
heavens namely his angels are

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those Ministers of his which do
is pleasure.

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In their midst in their hearts
and in their minds God’s will is

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done.
They will have no thought of

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doing anything else.
There are billions is absolute.

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It’s such a standard for the
kind of obedience.

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We would like to see and expect
to see if they will exist upon

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the earth when God’s will will
be done here in that same

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utterly Flawless way that the
angels of God do it above Of

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course, you lose a monster.
And they are glad he does.

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And they praise His name
perpetually day and night.

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It is their desire to see the
same thing happened upon the

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Earth.
There’s as well as Gods it was

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the Angels who rejoiced when
Christ was born in that who sang

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glory to God in the highest and
on Earth peace amongst men in

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whom he is well pleased.
He was there who are looking

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forward to the day when that new
born king would inherit the

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earth as his kingdom.
Good deal more as well.

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Of course because by God’s
Providence the Conquering king

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of Israel has become one who
could say as I quoted already

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all power is given unto me in
heaven and in Earth.

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For whatever reason and whatever
way the Lord’s Dominion the Lord

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Jesus Dominion even currently
extends to having Authority

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amongst the angels of God in
heaven.

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And that can teach you something
too.

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You take any Earthly order of
Affairs?

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Imagine an establishment in
which the patriarch of it.

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Has been accustomed to giving
High office to Faithful Servants

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who have served in will have
many years, you know actual case

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very many years indeed then all
of a sudden the king becomes the

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father of a child.
What does he do?

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He takes that child and Pops him
in between his own position and

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the angels and that child has
authority over them, too.

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They become the Angels pledge to
obey the son of the owner and in

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an Earthly Association to be
Rebellion.

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The big massive grumbling on a
huge scale.

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Look the boss’s son has been
appointed over us who have

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served him so long and they
wouldn’t have liked it.

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We’re that kind of people and we
perhaps wouldn’t have liked it

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to trade Union movements and
Industrial unrest arises after

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that.
Very feeling that man is jealous

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of man and wants his own
position secure.

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But it’s not like that with the
angels.

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They serve God looking forward
as he looks forward to the time

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when his purpose will progress
yet further.

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They’re happy to do his will
even the mightiest of them.

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And if the mightiest of the
mighty whose name was God is

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great Governor.
He’ll could come to a woman of

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our race and rejoiced with her
as no doubt.

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He did and he said hail down
without highly favored blessed

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art thou amongst women and her
kingdom will be one who will

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rule over the House of David and
over the house of Jacob forever.

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Will he be king if that angel
could give that message without

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any shadow of regret that his
position would now move down a

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peg.
Then we can see the dangers are

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made of better stuff that weird
eye are they don’t you and I are

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they don’t know jealousy and
envy don’t know pride of place.

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They want to establish their own
position.

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00:26:01,600 –> 00:26:05,300
All they want is glory to God in
the highest and on Earth peace

440
00:26:05,600 –> 00:26:07,700
Goodwill amongst men in whom he
is wealthy.

441
00:26:08,900 –> 00:26:12,200
They could say with bloodless
that the king would come that he

442
00:26:12,200 –> 00:26:15,100
was about to be born and when he
was born could Rejoice with the

443
00:26:15,100 –> 00:26:18,300
glory to God in the highest and
our Darkness looking forward to

444
00:26:18,300 –> 00:26:22,100
the establishment of the glory
when they already subject to him

445
00:26:22,300 –> 00:26:25,300
will be allowed to do his will
and go and for example gather

446
00:26:25,300 –> 00:26:28,100
his win from the for adults and
bring them to his judgment seat.

447
00:26:29,900 –> 00:26:34,400
God certainly rules about and
the prayers of the Saints is Meg

448
00:26:34,400 –> 00:26:37,900
our ruler government’s your
angels be matched in a time soon

449
00:26:37,900 –> 00:26:41,500
to come by your rule below
amongst the Saints and the

450
00:26:41,500 –> 00:26:47,200
nation’s to in a letter way.
Maybe that is a little

451
00:26:47,200 –> 00:26:51,000
reflection of our own inherent
human weakness.

452
00:26:52,400 –> 00:26:55,400
In our reluctance to consider
that State of Affairs is forming

453
00:26:55,700 –> 00:26:58,900
a pattern upon which God’s rule
upon the Earth is going to be

454
00:26:58,900 –> 00:27:02,100
best.
But they shouldn’t be.

455
00:27:03,800 –> 00:27:06,700
Maybe when we repeat some words
of that prayers many of our

456
00:27:06,700 –> 00:27:10,400
prayers do with their public
prayers Our Father, which art in

457
00:27:10,400 –> 00:27:13,500
Heaven thy kingdom come
sometimes thy will be done in

458
00:27:13,500 –> 00:27:16,400
earth as it is in heaven.
Maybe there is a feeling that

459
00:27:16,700 –> 00:27:19,100
thy will be done needs careful
consideration.

460
00:27:21,400 –> 00:27:25,300
I’m sure that when many Jews had
that prayer thy will be done in

461
00:27:25,300 –> 00:27:27,200
earth.
They meant of course we want

462
00:27:27,200 –> 00:27:30,200
God’s will to be done in earth.
We want God to take up arms on

463
00:27:30,200 –> 00:27:34,700
our cause come get our enemies
remove our oppressors restore

464
00:27:34,700 –> 00:27:37,700
our dominions make us to be
dominant race and make the

465
00:27:37,700 –> 00:27:42,200
others do his will.
It was a selfish thy will be

466
00:27:42,200 –> 00:27:45,300
done that Israel would have
prayed it was not we would like

467
00:27:45,300 –> 00:27:47,400
to do with your will God.
It was we would like the other

468
00:27:47,400 –> 00:27:50,000
stuff to do your will God.
We like your will to be that we

469
00:27:50,000 –> 00:27:53,300
should be top Nation.
And then let’s it would have

470
00:27:53,300 –> 00:27:59,200
been a selfish prayer. in our
lives, it could be what it ought

471
00:27:59,200 –> 00:28:02,100
to be is just what it says.
We want your kingdom to come.

472
00:28:02,200 –> 00:28:06,100
Oh God.
We want your will to be done.

473
00:28:07,700 –> 00:28:14,800
We want everybody to do it.
We want to do it ourselves. and

474
00:28:14,800 –> 00:28:21,000
the Very King himself the prince
designate The Heir Apparent to

475
00:28:21,000 –> 00:28:24,200
the throne of God’s kingdom fell
down upon his face on the ground

476
00:28:24,400 –> 00:28:27,400
and weeping as it were great
separate perspiring it were

477
00:28:27,600 –> 00:28:31,000
great drops of blood cried in
his Agony not my will but thine

478
00:28:31,000 –> 00:28:36,700
be done He was the one who
taught us to pray thy kingdom

479
00:28:36,700 –> 00:28:42,800
come thy will be done in earth.
As it is in heaven.

480
00:28:45,400 –> 00:28:49,900
So so then for the Eternal
kingdom of God and his ultimate

481
00:28:49,900 –> 00:28:53,800
fruition upon the Earth as well,
but why is the earth an

482
00:28:53,800 –> 00:28:57,400
exception?
You see the language I’ve been

483
00:28:57,400 –> 00:29:00,400
using so far is that the kingdom
of God is world are Universal.

484
00:29:02,100 –> 00:29:04,900
Only the Earth is outside its
effective Dominion.

485
00:29:06,300 –> 00:29:09,400
And why is only the Earth
outside is effective Dominion

486
00:29:09,500 –> 00:29:14,200
answer because it’s opted out.
Because there came a time when

487
00:29:14,200 –> 00:29:18,600
our first parents.
At that point the obedient

488
00:29:18,600 –> 00:29:22,000
subjects of God.
Embarked Upon A cuz of that

489
00:29:22,000 –> 00:29:24,500
cause of action which robbed
them of their obedience.

490
00:29:26,200 –> 00:29:30,900
Rob God of his predominance in
their lives and converted them

491
00:29:30,900 –> 00:29:35,200
and us into a race in Rebellion
against our God who need

492
00:29:35,200 –> 00:29:39,800
restoration submission surrender
reconciliation before we can be

493
00:29:39,800 –> 00:29:43,300
in the state that Adam and Eve
were for I suppose a brief time

494
00:29:44,200 –> 00:29:49,400
before they sinned.
Got to give him the vinaigrette

495
00:29:49,400 –> 00:29:55,000
authority of the Earth.
God had given them very great

496
00:29:55,000 –> 00:29:59,000
Authority.
Let us make man in our image and

497
00:29:59,000 –> 00:30:04,300
after our likeness and let them
have dominion over the beasts of

498
00:30:04,300 –> 00:30:08,600
the field know the fish of the
sea and over the fowl of the

499
00:30:08,600 –> 00:30:12,200
air.
Even within the garden which

500
00:30:12,200 –> 00:30:15,400
they dwelt everything which they
saw to them.

501
00:30:15,400 –> 00:30:19,100
It was given.
They had absolute right to do is

502
00:30:19,100 –> 00:30:23,100
they willed with the Garden of
Eden so long as they kept

503
00:30:23,100 –> 00:30:26,500
outside the bounds of picking
the fruit of the tree of the

504
00:30:26,508 –> 00:30:31,300
knowledge of Good and Evil.
They could use the rest as their

505
00:30:31,300 –> 00:30:35,600
holy Wills wanted to use.
They were not Rebels against

506
00:30:35,600 –> 00:30:38,600
God.
They were not competitors with

507
00:30:38,600 –> 00:30:40,200
God.
They were not his Rivals.

508
00:30:40,500 –> 00:30:44,100
They were his obedient servants
given maxed authorities such as

509
00:30:44,100 –> 00:30:47,700
the Earth had not known such as
no other living creature had let

510
00:30:47,700 –> 00:30:51,900
us make man in our image after
our likeness and let them have

511
00:30:51,900 –> 00:30:56,000
dominion.
That was a three-tier system of

512
00:30:56,000 –> 00:30:58,700
authority.
There was God above with his

513
00:30:58,700 –> 00:31:02,700
angels exercising supervisory
authority over the new Earth.

514
00:31:04,100 –> 00:31:07,300
There were Adam and Eve and the
God’s hand entitled to rule the

515
00:31:07,300 –> 00:31:09,900
Garden of Eden dress it and keep
it as they will if they will was

516
00:31:09,900 –> 00:31:13,000
a Godly will.
And if they didn’t trust this

517
00:31:13,700 –> 00:31:15,400
upon the tree of the knowledge
of Good and Evil.

518
00:31:16,700 –> 00:31:19,600
And all nature was obedient to
them upon the Earth.

519
00:31:20,500 –> 00:31:24,800
There were no wild beasts.
There’s no thorns and thistles.

520
00:31:26,200 –> 00:31:29,700
There was no untoward thing
which Adam and Eve regretted and

521
00:31:29,700 –> 00:31:32,200
had to remove or couldn’t have
had to endure.

522
00:31:33,400 –> 00:31:37,000
Everything was Parmalee in that
which should must surely at that

523
00:31:37,000 –> 00:31:39,400
stage.
If the language is not used have

524
00:31:39,400 –> 00:31:41,700
been an integral part of the
kingdom of God.

525
00:31:44,600 –> 00:31:48,700
But it was fragile.
God’s dominion over it was

526
00:31:48,700 –> 00:31:50,600
precarious.
God had made it so.

527
00:31:52,300 –> 00:31:56,200
He had left it open to the man
and the wife to obey him gladly.

528
00:31:57,600 –> 00:32:01,600
Oh not to obey him totally.
Do you accept their advice

529
00:32:01,600 –> 00:32:05,400
arrived position between himself
and his other creation upon the

530
00:32:05,400 –> 00:32:07,900
Earth or to seek to better their
lot?

531
00:32:10,400 –> 00:32:11,900
And they came attempt to who
said.

532
00:32:13,300 –> 00:32:18,600
Ye shall not surely die.
For God just know that in the

533
00:32:18,600 –> 00:32:23,900
day you eat of this fruit.
You shall become as God. to know

534
00:32:23,900 –> 00:32:30,000
good and evil I said as God and
not as gods.

535
00:32:31,400 –> 00:32:37,000
As most of the visions do they
must say God as I did. but I

536
00:32:37,008 –> 00:32:40,600
lived on one side the gods of
the King James version not

537
00:32:40,600 –> 00:32:43,400
because it couldn’t
grammatically be so Elohim in

538
00:32:43,400 –> 00:32:46,600
that same passage could be
translated as the real plural

539
00:32:46,600 –> 00:32:51,200
and been Gods, but it usually
doesn’t Elohim is usually are

540
00:32:51,208 –> 00:32:55,700
real singular.
The winter example Elohim said

541
00:32:56,200 –> 00:32:57,600
appears.
It doesn’t mean Elohim.

542
00:32:57,600 –> 00:33:01,600
They said it’s a Lovin he said
Is a singular verb to go with a

543
00:33:01,608 –> 00:33:03,600
singular noun, even though it
looks plural.

544
00:33:05,300 –> 00:33:07,500
But I have no doubt that the
temperature said to even even

545
00:33:07,500 –> 00:33:10,600
understood him to me that they
had only to go through a certain

546
00:33:10,600 –> 00:33:17,200
process and they become like God
the God God himself. to know

547
00:33:17,200 –> 00:33:23,400
good and evil currently good and
evil rested from God say so that

548
00:33:24,100 –> 00:33:25,900
not partaking of the tree was
good.

549
00:33:27,000 –> 00:33:29,000
That partaking of the tree was
evil.

550
00:33:29,900 –> 00:33:34,100
The Temptation was find out
Place yourself outside God’s

551
00:33:34,100 –> 00:33:36,500
judgment on what is good and
evil and make yourselves the

552
00:33:36,500 –> 00:33:40,300
judges for if you do partake of
that fruit, you will be as God

553
00:33:40,500 –> 00:33:42,400
good and evil will die within
your grasp.

554
00:33:44,500 –> 00:33:46,800
Was it is not bitter taste of
tasty food?

555
00:33:48,400 –> 00:33:52,800
But to test the desirable
ambition and become independent.

556
00:33:53,800 –> 00:33:56,900
and Ray know of their lives of
their Dominion as effectively as

557
00:33:56,900 –> 00:34:02,500
absolutely as God reigned over
his and when the woman saw that

558
00:34:02,500 –> 00:34:06,400
the tree was good for food.
And the fruit that off to be

559
00:34:06,400 –> 00:34:09,400
desired to make one wise she
took of the fruit and she did

560
00:34:09,400 –> 00:34:12,800
eat.
She gave it to her husband and

561
00:34:12,800 –> 00:34:16,900
he did it.
That is broke.

562
00:34:19,900 –> 00:34:22,699
Halfway through a sentence
structure seems to have been

563
00:34:22,699 –> 00:34:27,699
right.
They partook and their and their

564
00:34:27,699 –> 00:34:31,300
eyes were open.
Even three more words can be

565
00:34:31,300 –> 00:34:35,400
added to it and they knew.
Yes, they’re partaking of the

566
00:34:35,600 –> 00:34:39,199
forbidden fruit had shown them
what they previously had not

567
00:34:39,199 –> 00:34:45,100
know.
But then we asked what did they

568
00:34:45,100 –> 00:34:48,699
know?
And the thing which came

569
00:34:48,699 –> 00:34:51,900
immediately to that awareness
over them of anything else.

570
00:34:51,900 –> 00:34:56,600
They might have learned by their
sin was that they were naked.

571
00:34:59,500 –> 00:35:03,000
If I suppose any of us had had
the right to have access to the

572
00:35:03,000 –> 00:35:05,300
Garden before that Dreadful
moment.

573
00:35:07,400 –> 00:35:09,800
And have been permitted to
engage in conversation with Adam

574
00:35:09,800 –> 00:35:14,700
and Eve that said to them by the
way, you know, you have got any

575
00:35:14,700 –> 00:35:18,400
clothes on.
I wonder how they would have

576
00:35:18,400 –> 00:35:22,900
answered.
It might have been close but a

577
00:35:22,900 –> 00:35:26,500
close.
And again clothes.

578
00:35:26,900 –> 00:35:30,300
What a close for.
Why do we have two dollar the

579
00:35:30,300 –> 00:35:34,600
other animals don’t?
So yes if they were.

580
00:35:35,900 –> 00:35:37,800
Brought to believe it was a
matter of any consequence.

581
00:35:39,400 –> 00:35:41,400
They have known before but they
had no clothes on.

582
00:35:42,500 –> 00:35:44,200
But now they knew in another
way.

583
00:35:45,600 –> 00:35:47,500
Even though they were by God’s
decree.

584
00:35:47,500 –> 00:35:51,000
If it shows one to another even
though by God’s free consent.

585
00:35:51,000 –> 00:35:54,600
They were entitled to enjoy one
another in the ultimate sense.

586
00:35:55,900 –> 00:35:59,500
They are now sinful Hearts would
have had awakened within them.

587
00:36:00,800 –> 00:36:04,900
It must be so.
The same kind of thoughts which

588
00:36:04,900 –> 00:36:09,100
can arise in yours.
On the occasions when you know

589
00:36:09,100 –> 00:36:15,000
that you are naked. or see
something else who is or nearly

590
00:36:15,000 –> 00:36:20,300
so and stretch your imagination
to if they were quite so what it

591
00:36:20,300 –> 00:36:24,900
would be like and there are the
Motions of sin all ready to

592
00:36:24,900 –> 00:36:29,200
burst out.
It’s awful growth of iniquity

593
00:36:29,200 –> 00:36:31,600
that cursed the Earth that they
are.

594
00:36:33,400 –> 00:36:37,000
And first fruits, it was
necessary to say something last

595
00:36:37,000 –> 00:36:45,000
night. they knew things they had
known before and it did them no

596
00:36:45,000 –> 00:36:48,500
good.
It made them unfit for God

597
00:36:48,500 –> 00:36:52,100
Society.
It made that God in the place

598
00:36:52,100 –> 00:36:54,000
where they had no longer any
title to live.

599
00:36:55,600 –> 00:36:57,800
It made the Tree of Life a
forbidden tree now.

600
00:36:59,500 –> 00:37:03,100
They were cast out.
Caribbean with a flaming sword

601
00:37:03,100 –> 00:37:04,800
kept the way of the Tree of
Life.

602
00:37:07,000 –> 00:37:10,100
And I have a sort of feeling in
my mind that when they were cast

603
00:37:10,100 –> 00:37:16,700
out. into a world where there
with thorns and thistles where

604
00:37:16,700 –> 00:37:19,000
the sweat of one’s face had to
be exercised to keep the down

605
00:37:19,000 –> 00:37:22,500
and make the crops and tame the
beasts and gather their wool.

606
00:37:24,800 –> 00:37:26,900
Where the thoughts of their
hearts were full of Desire one

607
00:37:26,900 –> 00:37:29,900
for another sometimes welcome
sometimes not.

608
00:37:30,900 –> 00:37:33,400
Well the man rule over the woman
the woman found it sometimes

609
00:37:33,400 –> 00:37:35,900
hard to Bear sometimes very
welcome.

610
00:37:37,400 –> 00:37:39,500
When the beasts were not all
tame anymore, but some

611
00:37:39,500 –> 00:37:43,600
worthwhile.
You have to take care in whose

612
00:37:43,600 –> 00:37:47,700
Beast you kept company and
choose your Fox and selection.

613
00:37:48,900 –> 00:37:51,400
I have an idea that from that
point on they might throw up

614
00:37:51,400 –> 00:37:56,100
while afraid the occasional
pilgrimage the place where the

615
00:37:56,100 –> 00:37:59,500
Caribbean were.
And the sword which turned every

616
00:37:59,500 –> 00:38:03,100
way was looking perhaps to see
if there was a way back and

617
00:38:03,107 –> 00:38:07,500
there was no way back.
I’m resigning themselves.

618
00:38:08,600 –> 00:38:14,100
To that small-scale partial dim
and foggy mediation with God

619
00:38:14,100 –> 00:38:16,200
that they might enjoy afterwards
by sacrifice.

620
00:38:17,900 –> 00:38:20,700
No longer would they hear the
voice of the Lord God as he

621
00:38:20,700 –> 00:38:23,600
walked in the garden in the cool
of the day and enjoy sweet

622
00:38:23,600 –> 00:38:27,000
converse with him and be at ease
though filled with all his

623
00:38:27,000 –> 00:38:31,100
company that has gone to give
place to something.

624
00:38:31,100 –> 00:38:34,700
I mentioned earlier this week.
Woe is me for I am a man of

625
00:38:34,700 –> 00:38:37,400
unclean lips and I dwell in the
midst of a people of unclean

626
00:38:37,400 –> 00:38:40,400
lips for mine eyes have seen the
king the Lord of hosts.

627
00:38:43,300 –> 00:38:48,400
So the Earth was cut out.
Away from the kingdom of God not

628
00:38:48,400 –> 00:38:51,800
where he couldn’t rule where he
couldn’t rule with the consent

629
00:38:51,800 –> 00:38:55,400
of His Highest creatures.
They didn’t want him to do.

630
00:38:56,600 –> 00:38:59,900
The world became full of evil
every imagination of the

631
00:38:59,900 –> 00:39:03,200
thoughts of nearly every man’s
heart was only evil continually.

632
00:39:04,900 –> 00:39:09,600
Noah’s flood only setback the
process of corruption a little

633
00:39:09,600 –> 00:39:13,000
while to get started again and
the Earth became and has

634
00:39:13,000 –> 00:39:15,200
remained largely corrupt once
more.

635
00:39:18,900 –> 00:39:20,600
I want to read you.
Now what I put down.

636
00:39:20,600 –> 00:39:24,100
This is just incredible the
kingdom of God before after him.

637
00:39:24,200 –> 00:39:26,800
We take up the other points as
to where the kingdom of God is

638
00:39:26,900 –> 00:39:31,500
and isn’t and will be and won’t
be so can we turn please?

639
00:39:33,300 –> 00:39:35,800
Well, yes, you may as well turn.
I’m getting muddled terms him

640
00:39:35,800 –> 00:39:40,100
239 part 235 by all means and I
did say I would read the Creed’s

641
00:39:40,100 –> 00:39:44,500
I’m now going to do so, this is
the creator have laid down as a

642
00:39:44,500 –> 00:39:47,400
possible acceptable way of
expressing our belief in the

643
00:39:47,400 –> 00:39:51,900
kingdom of God.
I believe in the kingdom of God.

644
00:39:53,100 –> 00:39:57,000
I believe that God most high who
rules in the Kingdom of men and

645
00:39:57,000 –> 00:40:00,300
did in times past choose Israel
as his special people will send

646
00:40:00,300 –> 00:40:03,700
back the Lord Jesus Christ his
son to be ruler over all the

647
00:40:03,700 –> 00:40:07,000
Earth raining through his holy
city Jerusalem the city of the

648
00:40:07,000 –> 00:40:10,400
great king until he shall have
put all enemies under his feet.

649
00:40:12,300 –> 00:40:13,800
I know that None Shall enjoy
forever.

650
00:40:13,800 –> 00:40:16,800
The blessings of that Kingdom
save those who have already

651
00:40:16,800 –> 00:40:19,000
submitted themselves under the
mighty hand of God.

652
00:40:20,300 –> 00:40:23,200
That’s what I pray.
Thy kingdom come thy will be

653
00:40:23,200 –> 00:40:24,700
done in earth as it is in
heaven.

654
00:40:25,400 –> 00:40:29,600
I pledge it is my duty to seek
to do his will even now behaving

655
00:40:29,600 –> 00:40:33,200
as a subject to that Kingdom
ought to behave seeking first of

656
00:40:33,200 –> 00:40:36,400
all his Rule and his
righteousness.

657
00:40:38,700 –> 00:40:41,300
So once you see that we believe
in God’s kingdom once you

658
00:40:41,300 –> 00:40:44,300
extracted even in terms of his
future rule on the Earth in our

659
00:40:44,300 –> 00:40:47,800
standard fashion, you still have
to say if I want to be there

660
00:40:47,800 –> 00:40:50,500
then.
I have to acknowledge and

661
00:40:50,500 –> 00:40:55,400
execute God’s Rule now.
But I will return to that we

662
00:40:55,400 –> 00:41:03,600
have spent together him 235 Lo
he comes the king of glory see

663
00:41:03,600 –> 00:44:08,500
the Royal Victor’s brow.
It was a changing pattern of

664
00:44:08,508 –> 00:44:11,400
light and shade upon the earth.
When once our first parents were

665
00:44:11,400 –> 00:44:19,000
expelled from Eden. the shade
largely predominated The large

666
00:44:19,000 –> 00:44:23,000
version only a few places as
special people come into our

667
00:44:23,000 –> 00:44:26,100
view.
Hey Belle, who died for his

668
00:44:26,100 –> 00:44:30,300
righteousness?
Know who was the just ground and

669
00:44:30,400 –> 00:44:32,500
prepared an ark to the saving of
his life.

670
00:44:34,000 –> 00:44:36,800
Abraham of Hoover’s we have been
reminded is written.

671
00:44:37,000 –> 00:44:38,900
He believed God and it was
reckoned to him for

672
00:44:38,900 –> 00:44:42,500
righteousness.
We’ve been in blemishes which

673
00:44:42,500 –> 00:44:46,300
God was pleased to forgive David
the man after God’s Own Heart.

674
00:44:47,500 –> 00:44:50,600
Hezekiah who would just hire had
a rain of matchless

675
00:44:50,600 –> 00:44:53,000
righteousness which none other
could equal in Israel.

676
00:44:54,300 –> 00:44:56,100
I love those little Testament
time.

677
00:44:56,400 –> 00:45:00,300
What were they Mira things
living in rebellious World

678
00:45:00,400 –> 00:45:04,800
consenting to the Rebellion they
saw or would be Servants of God

679
00:45:04,800 –> 00:45:07,700
acknowledging his Rule and doing
is they were told and seeking by

680
00:45:07,700 –> 00:45:11,000
their own behavior to further
his purpose Noah built the ark

681
00:45:11,900 –> 00:45:17,500
when the king of Heaven told him
to Abraham went to his country

682
00:45:17,500 –> 00:45:20,100
and from his Kindred and from
his father’s house into a place

683
00:45:20,100 –> 00:45:23,700
that God had showed him because
God from his Heavenly Throne

684
00:45:23,700 –> 00:45:29,900
told him to David reigned over
God’s people upon what the

685
00:45:29,900 –> 00:45:33,700
scriptures call now the Throne
of the Lord and Israel acted as

686
00:45:33,700 –> 00:45:36,400
the kingdom of God because God
had chosen that people but

687
00:45:36,600 –> 00:45:39,900
frequently acted very badly.
The capacity is the kingdom of

688
00:45:39,900 –> 00:45:43,100
God.
They’ll give him the charter

689
00:45:43,100 –> 00:45:45,600
which is they had a very
perfectly with the med the best

690
00:45:45,600 –> 00:45:48,500
approximation to God’s perfect
rule that the Earth had seen

691
00:45:48,500 –> 00:45:54,000
since he didn’t but they didn’t.
God had said if you will obey my

692
00:45:54,000 –> 00:45:56,300
voice indeed he shall be unto me
a peculiar Nation.

693
00:45:56,300 –> 00:45:59,300
He shall be to me a kingdom of
priests and a holy nation.

694
00:46:00,300 –> 00:46:02,100
They said in the Ecstasy of the
moment.

695
00:46:02,500 –> 00:46:04,500
All the Lord has spoken we will
do.

696
00:46:05,700 –> 00:46:07,100
You close your eyes and up
again.

697
00:46:07,100 –> 00:46:10,400
It has a golden calf.
That’s what they meant by their

698
00:46:10,400 –> 00:46:14,000
willingness to do all the laws
that spoken they would do it

699
00:46:14,000 –> 00:46:17,000
until they thought something
different something they most

700
00:46:17,000 –> 00:46:19,800
desire.
And so through the check in

701
00:46:19,800 –> 00:46:23,700
Israel, the checkered history of
Israel is a whole Israel divided

702
00:46:23,700 –> 00:46:27,200
Judea and Samaria you have this
same occasional Obedience of

703
00:46:27,200 –> 00:46:30,200
holy men who served God has
effectively their King.

704
00:46:31,500 –> 00:46:33,800
And if you’d like to look at it
this way there’s have where

705
00:46:33,800 –> 00:46:37,200
God’s will is done.
Here’s the Earth where by and

706
00:46:37,200 –> 00:46:42,400
large it is every now and then a
shaft of Praise goes up to God

707
00:46:42,400 –> 00:46:47,200
from some little piece of Earth
where a righteous man lives and

708
00:46:47,200 –> 00:46:49,700
the shaft of blessing comes down
from God to man a kind of

709
00:46:49,700 –> 00:46:52,500
Jacob’s Ladder joins together
the Heavenly Powers with the

710
00:46:52,500 –> 00:46:55,300
obedient man.
You might say God rules in a way

711
00:46:55,300 –> 00:46:58,000
in that bit of the earth.
The earth isn’t yet

712
00:46:58,200 –> 00:47:01,500
acknowledging his kingdom, but
Abraham is and Noah is and it is

713
00:47:01,500 –> 00:47:05,700
best moments.
Jacob did so no established.

714
00:47:06,800 –> 00:47:11,900
Until Israel had it between the
days of the Exodus and the death

715
00:47:11,900 –> 00:47:15,400
of zedekiah.
God’s rule was temporarily

716
00:47:15,400 –> 00:47:19,700
piecemealing precarious the
world those who acknowledges and

717
00:47:19,700 –> 00:47:22,400
look to God’s their King.
The Lord is our judge.

718
00:47:22,500 –> 00:47:25,300
The Lord is our lawgiver.
The Lord is our King wrote them

719
00:47:25,300 –> 00:47:29,000
from his idols here.
So it wasn’t the best in Israel

720
00:47:29,900 –> 00:47:34,200
there weren’t many best.
When the Lord Jesus Christ was

721
00:47:34,200 –> 00:47:37,100
born from beginning to end of
his mortal life than God was

722
00:47:37,100 –> 00:47:40,200
certainly acknowledged by him
utterly not my will but thine be

723
00:47:40,200 –> 00:47:43,200
done with not just in the
despair of Eden it was in the

724
00:47:43,300 –> 00:47:47,200
dedication of his whole life.
He became a fitting King for God

725
00:47:47,700 –> 00:47:50,500
when he acknowledged God’s
kingship in every walk of his

726
00:47:50,500 –> 00:47:54,600
life.
It’s a mark of what happened

727
00:47:54,600 –> 00:47:59,100
when Jesus died and rose again.
The letter to the Philippians

728
00:47:59,100 –> 00:48:01,700
can speak these words which are
partly taken more modern

729
00:48:01,700 –> 00:48:06,100
versions.
Let this mind be in you which

730
00:48:06,100 –> 00:48:10,600
was also in Christ Jesus.
Who being in the form of God

731
00:48:10,600 –> 00:48:14,100
counted in a surprise to be on
an equality with God but emptied

732
00:48:14,100 –> 00:48:17,700
himself and took upon himself
the form of a bond servant?

733
00:48:18,800 –> 00:48:20,500
It was made in the likeness of
men.

734
00:48:22,200 –> 00:48:25,700
Being found in fashion as a man.
He humbled himself.

735
00:48:27,000 –> 00:48:32,800
And became obedient unto death
even the death of the cross.

736
00:48:34,800 –> 00:48:39,000
Wherefore God also hath highly
exalted him and given him the

737
00:48:39,000 –> 00:48:43,000
name, which is above every name.
That at the name of Jesus every

738
00:48:43,000 –> 00:48:47,000
knee should bow of things in
heaven and things in Earth and

739
00:48:47,000 –> 00:48:50,500
things under the Earth and every
tongue shall confess that Jesus

740
00:48:50,500 –> 00:48:54,100
Christ is Lord to the glory of
God the Father.

741
00:48:55,600 –> 00:48:59,600
He became and remained utterly
obedient and humble.

742
00:49:00,800 –> 00:49:05,700
He sealed it by the cross.
He rose to a muchness Lori over

743
00:49:05,700 –> 00:49:08,500
which there was but one
exception and that was the one

744
00:49:08,500 –> 00:49:13,000
who gave him the glory.
obedience continued yet not this

745
00:49:13,000 –> 00:49:16,800
time hard one of billions
invested temptation, but inbuilt

746
00:49:16,800 –> 00:49:21,700
Allegiance gladly and readily
given perfectly to And the Lord

747
00:49:21,700 –> 00:49:24,600
gained the title to become the
king of the earth and much else

748
00:49:25,200 –> 00:49:29,200
for it was certain that whatever
Glory became his now in by

749
00:49:29,200 –> 00:49:30,700
whomever.
It was rendered.

750
00:49:30,800 –> 00:49:34,400
You would all go through him as
a transparency before his father

751
00:49:34,500 –> 00:49:39,700
to the glory of God the father
as we sang All the Glory all the

752
00:49:39,700 –> 00:49:43,800
glory be to God and him alone.
It’s the same thing and he Glory

753
00:49:43,800 –> 00:49:46,700
one paste.
Jesus is paid to his father to

754
00:49:47,300 –> 00:49:49,200
that’s the way the Lord wants
it.

755
00:49:50,400 –> 00:49:55,300
That’s the way why almost
universally the Lord’s will is

756
00:49:55,300 –> 00:49:57,500
that when we pray we shall
acknowledge that The Giver of

757
00:49:57,508 –> 00:50:01,900
answers is the almighty himself.
The Lord Jesus is the joyful

758
00:50:01,900 –> 00:50:05,900
mediation whatsoever.
Ye shall ask the father in my

759
00:50:05,900 –> 00:50:07,900
name.
He comes the pattern of

760
00:50:07,900 –> 00:50:12,600
Christian Grey.
And those Christians who joined

761
00:50:12,600 –> 00:50:16,000
the Lord in faith who live on
the earth who seek God’s Will

762
00:50:16,200 –> 00:50:20,000
and try to be this separated
people to God’s glory are called

763
00:50:21,000 –> 00:50:26,600
in the first letter of Peter
royal priesthood A peculiar

764
00:50:26,600 –> 00:50:29,800
people.
Royal peace to this Kingdom of

765
00:50:29,800 –> 00:50:33,400
Priests, of course, and peculiar
people is the same as it was in

766
00:50:33,400 –> 00:50:37,700
Exodus chapter 19, and Peter is
saying you become what Israel

767
00:50:37,700 –> 00:50:40,800
was promised God’s kingdom of
peace and God’s holy nation by

768
00:50:40,800 –> 00:50:44,300
believing in Jesus.
It isn’t going too far from

769
00:50:44,300 –> 00:50:46,100
that.
Is it to say that that little

770
00:50:46,100 –> 00:50:47,700
island of Believers as
acknowledge?

771
00:50:47,700 –> 00:50:51,300
God is King.
The day are as Peter and the

772
00:50:51,300 –> 00:50:55,300
Book of Revelation twice puts it
God’s kingdom and Priests that

773
00:50:55,300 –> 00:50:58,300
they are a Colossians puts it
translated into the kingdom of

774
00:50:58,308 –> 00:51:00,400
his son.
They’ll make the Earth their

775
00:51:00,400 –> 00:51:05,200
Kingdom, but they do themselves
serve God is King got his ruling

776
00:51:05,800 –> 00:51:09,100
a little bit in that him
perfectly obedient Arts.

777
00:51:10,100 –> 00:51:12,800
God’s kingdom comes in the face.
Oh, yes.

778
00:51:12,800 –> 00:51:17,000
There is now even now.
I remember the odds rulership

779
00:51:17,000 –> 00:51:19,800
surviving in the earth amongst
every obedient person but there

780
00:51:19,800 –> 00:51:23,600
aren’t many of them yet.
It’s very small scale can scale

781
00:51:23,800 –> 00:51:26,600
compared with the time when the
Lord will come back and rule in

782
00:51:26,600 –> 00:51:28,900
Mount Zion and before his angels
gloriously.

783
00:51:32,300 –> 00:51:36,000
This leads to the third question
to that you gave your emphatic.

784
00:51:36,000 –> 00:51:40,400
No.
Is the kingdom of God inside us

785
00:51:40,400 –> 00:51:43,800
or anyone?
You quite sure that wholehearted

786
00:51:43,800 –> 00:51:47,800
know was justified.
If so where you’re right

787
00:51:47,800 –> 00:51:50,700
yesterday in so you take my
heart it is thine own it shall

788
00:51:50,700 –> 00:51:54,800
be thy Royal throne.
Or is it perhaps it’s like

789
00:51:54,800 –> 00:52:00,200
inconsistency between the two.
Of course, we did say that those

790
00:52:00,200 –> 00:52:02,900
people who use that the kingdom
of God is within you ought not

791
00:52:02,900 –> 00:52:05,300
to use it in that way and
perhaps you might turn with me

792
00:52:05,300 –> 00:52:08,200
to Luke chapter 17 to find up
when they were or they weren’t

793
00:52:08,300 –> 00:52:24,900
right in doing what they did.
Luke chapter 17 verse 20 and

794
00:52:24,900 –> 00:52:27,800
when he was demanded of the
Pharisees when the kingdom of

795
00:52:27,800 –> 00:52:32,500
God should come.
He answered them the kingdom of

796
00:52:32,500 –> 00:52:35,100
God cometh.
Not with observation.

797
00:52:35,200 –> 00:52:38,200
Another Hill.
They say Lo here or Lo there for

798
00:52:38,200 –> 00:52:40,400
behold the kingdom of God is
within you.

799
00:52:43,100 –> 00:52:45,600
And the customer interpretation
of that is you not to look for

800
00:52:45,600 –> 00:52:49,600
the material Kingdom you not say
that it is or there it is for

801
00:52:49,900 –> 00:52:51,900
this is where it really is
inside you.

802
00:52:54,800 –> 00:52:57,400
I did not send that explicitly
said they were wrong because the

803
00:52:57,400 –> 00:53:01,100
word rendered within doesn’t
mean with it.

804
00:53:01,500 –> 00:53:07,900
It means among. so it can
Whatever the quote two or three

805
00:53:07,900 –> 00:53:11,600
historical passages from outside
the Bible where the king is in

806
00:53:11,600 –> 00:53:14,100
the midst of his troops and
among his the right kind of word

807
00:53:14,100 –> 00:53:14,700
to use.
There.

808
00:53:14,700 –> 00:53:16,400
He is in the hearts of any of
them.

809
00:53:16,500 –> 00:53:18,100
At least that is what he’s
talking about.

810
00:53:18,800 –> 00:53:20,800
He is there in the flesh walking
amongst them.

811
00:53:22,800 –> 00:53:25,100
On the other hand if you look in
the Bible for any parallels that

812
00:53:25,100 –> 00:53:27,900
word within or among.
Well, you got some rather

813
00:53:27,900 –> 00:53:31,500
surprising answers.
Woe unto you scribes and

814
00:53:31,500 –> 00:53:34,200
Pharisees Hypocrites for you
make clean the within of the cup

815
00:53:34,200 –> 00:53:37,500
and platter.
We don’t do them around.

816
00:53:37,500 –> 00:53:39,900
They need that dezzy.
You make clean the outside of

817
00:53:39,900 –> 00:53:42,400
the cup of the batter who you
make the within just one it

818
00:53:42,400 –> 00:53:45,100
always was full of unclean and
evil things.

819
00:53:45,600 –> 00:53:49,400
The inside is dirty.
The outside is clean.

820
00:53:50,500 –> 00:53:52,900
You might say well doesn’t that
prove what we say the kingdom of

821
00:53:52,900 –> 00:53:54,700
God gonna be inside of Jesse cup
can it?

822
00:53:55,700 –> 00:53:58,500
No he can’t do the word within
does refer to the inside of the

823
00:53:58,500 –> 00:54:01,400
Dixie cup.
So when the Lord said the

824
00:54:01,400 –> 00:54:04,800
kingdom of God is within you he
was not necessarily excluding

825
00:54:04,800 –> 00:54:08,100
the items that could be God
raining inside.

826
00:54:08,900 –> 00:54:11,200
And again, I quote you your
words of yesterday’s soaking

827
00:54:11,200 –> 00:54:13,500
chorus take my heart it is thine
own.

828
00:54:14,700 –> 00:54:21,000
It shall be thy Royal throne.
So is the kingdom of God inside

829
00:54:21,800 –> 00:54:25,500
not much of it?
Not perhaps the much of the

830
00:54:25,500 –> 00:54:28,800
time.
But if I acknowledge God in my

831
00:54:28,800 –> 00:54:32,300
heart and receive him inside
then I’m taking a step towards

832
00:54:32,300 –> 00:54:36,300
inheriting the ultimate Kingdom.
God has a foothold upon the

833
00:54:36,300 –> 00:54:39,700
Earth in my heart and in your
that you feel the same.

834
00:54:40,700 –> 00:54:44,200
This isn’t going very far.
But it would be wrong to deny

835
00:54:44,200 –> 00:54:49,000
God that Authority has the
kingdom of God does belong to

836
00:54:49,000 –> 00:54:53,300
him wherever he rules and he is
ruling in some degree in every

837
00:54:53,300 –> 00:54:57,000
faithful heart.
You can’t say Jesus didn’t mean

838
00:54:57,000 –> 00:54:59,800
that.
We hold it wasn’t true of the

839
00:54:59,800 –> 00:55:02,200
Pharisees who were questioning
him and there was anything but

840
00:55:02,200 –> 00:55:04,300
the kingdom of God inside their
wicked Hearts.

841
00:55:04,600 –> 00:55:08,500
It was a rebuke to them that it
was so people who look the way

842
00:55:08,500 –> 00:55:11,400
you are looking will even see
the kingdom the only way in

843
00:55:11,400 –> 00:55:14,800
which you can begin to look for
it and hope to find it is the

844
00:55:14,800 –> 00:55:18,200
kingdom of God is accepted
inside you is the thing you want

845
00:55:18,800 –> 00:55:21,700
then perhaps you’ll understand
about the other one then you

846
00:55:21,700 –> 00:55:24,300
know about the real coming the
great glory of the pending

847
00:55:24,300 –> 00:55:26,800
acquiescence of the Earth in the
rulership of God.

848
00:55:28,200 –> 00:55:29,600
The hearts little something
wrong.

849
00:55:30,800 –> 00:55:34,300
Their hearts were like Whited
sepulchres the Lord said full of

850
00:55:34,300 –> 00:55:36,900
dead men’s bones and of all
uncleanness, but they needn’t

851
00:55:36,900 –> 00:55:40,200
happy.
They could have been cleansed.

852
00:55:41,000 –> 00:55:45,500
God could have been pleased to
dwell in their company as please

853
00:55:45,500 –> 00:55:49,900
God now he could be pleased to
dwell in our company. in our

854
00:55:49,900 –> 00:55:54,800
Collective hearts You know the
individual Hearts as a first

855
00:55:54,800 –> 00:55:57,300
stage for us towards the glory
get to drive.

856
00:56:00,000 –> 00:56:04,200
Still knowing how possible.
How fleeting how precarious that

857
00:56:04,200 –> 00:56:08,900
is, we say, of course, that’s
our hope and expectation of

858
00:56:08,900 –> 00:56:12,800
better things to come.
And we do look forward to the

859
00:56:12,800 –> 00:56:15,800
time which is so rightly
emphasized in our statement and

860
00:56:15,800 –> 00:56:19,400
Anarchist the delphian
standpoint throughout when God’s

861
00:56:19,400 –> 00:56:22,700
Wayward people restored will
look upon Him whom they have

862
00:56:22,700 –> 00:56:26,200
pierced and mourn for him as One
Mourns for his only son and

863
00:56:26,200 –> 00:56:29,100
become his mortal agents during
the first period of his reign.

864
00:56:30,600 –> 00:56:33,700
We do look to the time when we
quick call dead will be brought

865
00:56:33,700 –> 00:56:37,700
before the Lord and if he is
able to exercise his continuing

866
00:56:37,700 –> 00:56:41,200
Mercy admitted to the kingdom
prepared for us from the

867
00:56:41,200 –> 00:56:46,000
foundation of the world.
We see God’s kingdom then as a

868
00:56:46,008 –> 00:56:50,300
two-layer Kingdom with the sun
ruling holy for his Saints and

869
00:56:50,300 –> 00:56:55,400
within and they within the New
Jerusalem worship God through

870
00:56:55,400 –> 00:56:59,900
him in a spiritual City that
hath no Temple Revelation 21 and

871
00:56:59,900 –> 00:57:04,000
to while the world is engaged in
its lesser worship with the

872
00:57:04,000 –> 00:57:06,400
temple, which it may please God
to establish in the city of

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00:57:06,400 –> 00:57:09,400
Jerusalem, perhaps Ezekiel four
sides.

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So the Saints become as now we
are taught to be the Temple of

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the Living God that there is no
affection and the world becomes

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the subject World taught to obey
him and worship.

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But all the time the world under
constraint.

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And the same from sheer Goodwill
and spontaneity looks that it’s

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having the king.
And his Heavenly delegate upon

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the throne.
This content and happy and spend

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its eternity occupied its prey.
She’s why we now pray seeking

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for its fulfillment in such
little Where’s God can bring to

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us now.
Thy kingdom come thy will be

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done in earth.
There will be nobody present in

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that final expected phase of
God’s rule upon the Earth has an

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immortal Denizen of it who does
not rejoice in spending his time

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in singing God’s presence.
anything else will not be at

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home there.
Do you realize that brothers and

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sisters if you and I Can’t bring
ourselves to get used to the

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idea.
Seeing God’s glory before our

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faces admiring it all the time
and praising the one whose it is

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and being thankful and rejoicing
in his presence.

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We wouldn’t be happy in the
kingdom of God.

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If we can.
We will be Blissful Beyond

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conception. thy kingdom come thy
will be done in earth.

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As it is in heaven.
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