The Kingdom of God: What Jesus Preached Most

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Well, Michael, do you have
anything that just grinds your

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gears?
Grinds my gears.

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Rustles your jimmies, gets under
your skin.

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Oh yeah, yeah, six of your
crops.

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Pet peeves and I asked chat for
other words for pet peeves.

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Things that frost my cookies,
burns my biscuits, gets my goat,

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boils my blood, sours my milk,
cooks my grits.

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That's nice, cooks well.
Cooking grits is a good thing.

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Hey, I don't get mad.
Come on, Chad.

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Yeah.
Flips my flapjacks.

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Haven't I haven't heard that
one.

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Chaps my hide.
Chaps on hide, That's a good

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one.
Yeah, I was like rough.

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Yeah, there's there's a lot of
good words for pet peeves.

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I don't know, have we done this
for a Bantry?

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I think we have.
I think the reason I bring it

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up, we did pet peeves at Impact
this past week.

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And your daughter?
Made some great contributions.

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Which one?
Well, Chloe was like, oh, I've

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got a Google note I've been
working on this for like I've

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got like 100 pet peeves and
didn't know the best part were

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her pet peeves.
Like, So what I did is I had

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everyone write down one to three
pet peeves on a piece of paper.

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She probably gave you 20.
She gave me 4 so she didn't in a

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in a good way to just mix it up
and I mix up all the pet peeves.

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I would read them and guess who
it is.

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And I had people do more than
one if they wanted to.

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So they like time it for like
the last one.

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And her pet peeves were like, I
really like dishonest people.

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Like they, it was like, it was,
it was like, it was hilarious

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'cause like we were like, is
that a pet peeve or is that

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like, you just are morally
upright or you know what I mean?

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But it's funny.
It offends her.

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No, yeah, yeah.
But they were, she was like, had

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a huge list.
I wish I would have put all of

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them down.
But what are some What are some

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good pet peeves that just really
get you going?

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Yeah, I'm, I'm not sure that
this falls strictly into pet

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peeve, but the other, So my
third eldest and 3rd youngest,

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smack dab in the middle child
has gotten her learner's permit.

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So we have done three times
driving up here.

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On one of those trips, it had
rained very, very heavily the

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night before.
I think this this is recording

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this on Monday.
So this would have been Sunday,

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Saturday evening.
Yeah, it did rain like crazy.

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It's.
Been raining every day.

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Every day it's been raining,
but.

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And I was driving down Montague
Plantation.

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So for all of you, we've given
you enough information you kind

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of figure out.
Yeah.

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Kyogia, locate us if you don't
already know where we live.

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I was driving down Montague
Plantation.

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I'm like there Looks like
there's a huge hole in the road.

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Oh boy.
And I turned around and

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scattered out.
I was like, yeah, there was a

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straight up sewer.
Not like the not like the

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runoff.
Oh, you're gonna catch you.

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This is like chunks floating in
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But it was high.
Oh, man.

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And the lid was off of it.
Wow.

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And those manholes are huge.
And it wasn't as bad as what I

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thought it was going to be
because I was like, got my I.

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I called Diamond one, got my
flashlight out and was like

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warning drivers like don't hit
this.

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And some drivers just didn't pay
attention.

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They hit it at speed and if they
hit it at speed, it's fine.

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They just.
And then I'd smell sewer smell

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because they were like, but so I
was like, I might be doing more

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harm than good because there
were a couple of them that

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slowed down and then like they
scooted over and like, oh, your

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tires going to hit it dead on
going slow.

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But I did watch out for
motorcycles because like if a

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motorcycle hits that, that could
be a really bad day.

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But yeah, so out of that, I
don't want to be the, you know,

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I always want to be like, if I
see something that needs someone

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to take action, I want to be
that person and will go, OK, I

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will step up and take action.
Because how many other people

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probably drove by that and was
like, oh, that's not good.

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But then just kept driving and
then like, didn't call, didn't,

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you know, stop to help people
out.

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I don't know if I've always been
that way.

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Maybe I have.
But I remember in the Navy, if

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you came across something that
was bad, you couldn't leave

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because you had to stay there to
warn other people like, hey,

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there is a live wire here.
That way you know, you're.

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So the first person there is
basically has to control the

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scene.
Make sure no.

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And then the next person that
comes, you can be like, go get

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the command Master Chief, go get
the command duty officer,

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whoever you need to get at that
point in time.

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So maybe that's kind of been
drilled with my fingers out.

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I don't know.
Yeah, that's probably not a pet

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pet peeve, but true form, you
know, Chloe's following.

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The apple does not fall far from
the tree, so I'm not going to

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say who put this, but someone
did put people that's bumped

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their leg up and down really,
really fast.

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And, you know, people are like,
oh, you're calling out my dad.

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So that was funny.
Yeah, that does happen,

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especially like if I, if it's at
the end of the day and I'm a

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little bit tired.
Yeah, I don't know, like it's my

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body's natural reaction to being
a little fatigued.

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That knee will start going up
and down, especially if it's

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like if, if my knee my, my
foot's underneath my knee kind.

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Of like, you kind of gotta,
yeah, get it going.

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Like you're doing it, you're
doing it right now.

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It's great.
I don't know if you deal with

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this at work.
I don't know if you have like

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huge distributionalists and
every now and then people will

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like reply all to an e-mail.
That's a bad. 10 My goodness.

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And even especially they're
like, they just like say thanks.

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That's not does not help the
conversation at all.

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The true pet peeve is the person
that starts.

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Who?
Starts it and doesn't put that

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distro all in the BCC.
For everyone out there, blind

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carbon copy, if you have a large
distribution list, you put that

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in the BCC and then you can even
say, hey, I have put, you know

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all of this department in the
blind carbon copy so you know

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who is going out.
That's right.

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You can tell people, yeah.
Yeah, that's right.

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And and then when you reply all
like you only have like in the

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two line or the CC line, you
only have people that would need

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to get response.
So that's the first mistake

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happens and then people go stop
replying all in the reply all.

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We've had them go on for day
like for a day and a half

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before.
Like someone had to go into the

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mail server and like.
Try to RIP.

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RIP stuff out.
Yeah, and it seems like it's

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always like the same for people
like the offenders.

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They just keep doing it.
This is different.

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This is not a pet peeve.
This brings me great delight

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when I'm not leading a call.
We, we have a couple people who

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are really bad at muting.
And so there's like a huge call

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with like 30 people or 50 people
or 100 people.

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And there's like two people who
either accidentally have their

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camera on or they don't mute
themselves and they're like

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talking to their spouse or their
kids and they're and it's, it's

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great.
One call, one worker.

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There is like this was a big
call.

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The CEO was leading it.
There's 300 people on this call.

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It's great.
It's like an important call.

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Like when our, it's like one of
those things, I think it's just

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a culture thing.
And a lot of companies probably

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it's like if the CEO's doing the
call, like I'll hear from my

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boss and other people, it's
like, hey, you're going to be on

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this call and you're going to be
on early.

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We're going to be engaged and
it's good.

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It's like it's a big deal.
You can't.

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He's like if you've thrown up
for other calls, no big deals.

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Everyone's on and all of a
sudden halfway and he just

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talked like the 1st 10 minutes
and then he's out of there

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anyway.
It's like you just pay attention

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to the beginning and you just
hear this.

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So take that down.
Fox No, no, no.

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Zach only pays attention during
the beginning and then once the

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CEO is out he's he's checked out
too.

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Just just for all the Fox people
listening.

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The the translate I give extra
attention to the CEO, but during

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this call you just heard a giant
flush.

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Oh, no, no, no, no.
No, no.

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Are you on?
What platform are you on?

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Is this?
Was years ago.

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We were, it was before we used
Teams.

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It was like Dream.
It was some like, I don't know

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what the platform was, some
weird platform that wasn't a

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good one where you couldn't like
just mute everyone.

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Right and well, and because on
teams, if if your mic goes off

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your picture highlights or at
least your initials, so you

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would know who it's from because
I I've I've experienced the

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exact same thing years ago.
It was just a phone till and we

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heard some crazy noise.
It was like, and it's like dude

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wiping himself.
And then we hear the flush.

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We're like, oh, no.
And we kind of figured it out.

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And we I like, texted someone.
I was like, you need to go get

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your boy.
Tell him he's not on mute.

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And maybe, you know, you know,
sometimes things are more

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important than a call,
especially for this guy.

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Like, he wasn't like a key
player.

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Like you could have just hung up
if nature calls you what I'm

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saying.
Right, Right.

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I'm always parent.
I'm like quadruple checking.

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I'm on mute.
Like if I have to say anything

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or I'm sneezing, I'm like, I'm
just making sure because I've

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seen people.
Yeah.

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Boys go in there.
So that was all time that was

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back.
That was probably like 20, 18 or

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something.
It was back before it was like

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we didn't even do video chats.
It was like you even like I

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think called into a number or
something.

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So it was a long time.
You had to enter in your.

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Yeah.
It was like code and stuff this.

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Doesn't seem like so long ago
now.

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Like archaic, like, what were we
doing?

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Yeah.
Also, this is not and we can we

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can jump after this but or get
into.

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No, we gotta keep.
We need an hour of pet.

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Peeves my best we have this guy
who he's awesome.

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He's we're at the same position
and we like a bunch of us get on

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a call 5 or 6 and he is the one.
He doesn't always forget to mute

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himself, but he doesn't.
He's always, we're always like

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have like a side chat like Mika.
We're like, oh, I wonder what so

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and so is eating today.
Can you hear like the serial?

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It's like we always know or like
he's it's like great.

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We have like this whole side
commentary on it and it just

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brings me so much joy.
Yeah.

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That's the best.
Yeah.

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So I was victim to this one
time.

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I had to be in a meeting, and I
also had to drop Chloe off

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somewhere.
And this was year.

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This is probably 2016.
And she had, I don't know if you

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like if you know Chloe's
penchant for oatmeal.

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Oh, I don't think I know.
This she loves oatmeal.

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She's, she's an old soul, I
guess is what some people.

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Are we talking classic or
Peaches and cream?

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Or are we talking or everything?
Probably classic with maybe a

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little cinnamon sugar or maybe a
little touch butter or something

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like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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But she had had that, she put
that in there and, you know,

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shut the door.
I'm on mute and, and stuff.

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But I had to, she's out of the
car now and I'm talking and

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stuff and like I have to, you
know, put on my brakes pretty,

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pretty good or something because
I'm driving back and her bowl

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goes and it's like the the spoon
is like, you know, making this

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like someone's like sounds like
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And I was like, sorry, you know,
I was like, do you explain it

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there, you know?
Yeah, How much do you go into

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detail?
Last thing I'll say Chloe did

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have a good one, like blanking
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One of her, one of hers I
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hated these cliche quotes.
She hears a lot.

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I can't remember what it is, but
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about a girl.
It's like she was just a girl.

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I was trying to look at Chuck.
It was like, it's something I

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think you would, you would hear
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But then the other one was boys
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She's like, people just say boys
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people just say boys will be
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He's like, don't like that.
I think that boys will be boys.

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There's some merit to that
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far.
It should be used to excuse, you

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know, amoral boyish behavior,
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throwing it at a pond or
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wrestling or, you know, that
kind of that kind of stuff.

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The kind of stuff that, you
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location, but the kind of stuff
that, you know, educational

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institutions, like, try to lock
down because it's disrupted to a

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classroom.
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needs to.
I don't know what the solution

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is, but yeah, I do understand.
Like if someone's, if they're

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being, you know, wrong in it,
you know, you can't just excuse

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bad behavior.
But I don't know that all bad

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behavior rises to the level that
we were told that it should, you

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know?
Yeah, I was trying to look up

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this quote, she said.
It was something like she

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believes she could, and so she
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It's.
Like she believes she could.

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And she's like, I just hear this
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Like I just, I've heard it too
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So anyway, it was good pet
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I hope a pet peeve of our
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hearing about the Kingdom of God
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lot about that coming up very
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You might be exhausted by the
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notes say an exhaustive
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I love it.
Well, let's go ahead and take it

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to the next level.
From the hearts of the Low

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Country in South Carolina.
It's the Take Two podcast where

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we take theology to the next
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The Kingdom of God.
Is that hand?

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Is that hand?
Yeah, Yeah, We've all heard

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that.
That's scriptural.

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It's one of those interesting
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if you spend any time in church,
you've heard a lot.

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But I think if you ask people
like hey, define for me the

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Kingdom of God, you would get
all sorts of different answers.

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Kingdom, God, Kingdom of Heaven.
Yeah, yeah.

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It's like, you know, those
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you don't pay attention to them.
And then some, I think maybe 10

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years ago I was talking to Joe
was like, well, you know, some

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people make this huge
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heaven and this gospel, Kingdom
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Like what did this this writer
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Is it heaven?
Is it God's reign here on earth?

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Those are good questions.
And I think that it's good to

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like, think of How would I
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Because I, I think also, if you
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like what, what was most central
or what did you just talk about

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the most in the Gospels?
I think a lot of people might

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say things like the cross or
help or or or social things.

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Which he didn't.
Which?

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Yeah, he didn't.
Or you might be like, hey, I'm

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super spiritual, the Gospel.
What's up about the cross?

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It's like the Kingdom of God
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term in terms of volume.
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God may be like them too.
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like he fills that in with, you
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the smallest seed and it grows
up and the birds are in the

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leaves and stuff.
You're like, what are we talking

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about, Jesus?
Yeah, yeah.

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And so much time.
So I'm excited.

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I think this podcast is going to
have a lot of scripture.

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So buckle up, Maybe get your
Bible out.

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We might be just like moving.
I'm going to be reading up.

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Scripture a lot and so first
question I want to ask is let's

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get the definition.
What is the Kingdom of God?

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And I think a good take away is
it's good to think God's rule,

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God's reign, not necessarily
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you think of Kingdom, Kingdom.
Domain domain.

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It's king.
It's the domain of the king.

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And it, I think it's a little
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Kingdom of God because, you
know, where's God?

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Where is God ruling?
How is he ruling?

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Because once it's, you could
say, oh, he's been rolling.

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Forever.
He's sovereign over all

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everything, so he's ruling into.
The conversation.

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But there's going to be a fuller
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I love it and I borrowed
there's.

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I wish I would have brought it
but I just am out of source

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today.
Michael beat me here.

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He has his Bible.
I don't.

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It's like man.
It's we're going to talk about

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this at a different podcast, but
I'm wearing our new shirt.

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Yeah, he's like on top of his
game.

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I'm barely surviving.
I was going to bring George

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Eldon Ladd.
He is this guy.

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I don't know when he wrote,
maybe 100 years ago or

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something.
He's got like this short little

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book.
It's like 120 pages and it's on

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the Kingdom of God.
And he really takes a lot of

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time to develop the already and
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He talks a lot about what you
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mountain ranges.
He does a lot of that kind of

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thing and he's like historical
pre mill like and he bases a lot

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of that on the Kingdom of God
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And it's like a it's like a
short read, which is nice.

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It's not this like encyclopedia.
And he makes this really good

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point that it you really want to
think God's dynamic and

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sovereign reign.
It's not not the physical realm,

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but God's reign.
It's his redemptive action in

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the world through Christ.
It exists wherever God's will is

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done and authority is
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Kingdom of God is not the church
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It's not like, oh, the church is
the Kingdom, the church, you

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know, maybe help impact the
Kingdom, but it's not, it's not

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the exact same thing either.
So maybe we can look at some of

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these scriptures and at least
just start rapid firing some of

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these out there.
OK, you may just hit let's.

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Hit it.
All right, so Matthew 610 says

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your Kingdom come, your will be
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heaven.
Hopefully that's a familiar

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quote to most people.
And and and the implication

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there is.
It has.

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It's not here yet.
It's not here yet, Yeah.

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So you gotta be thinking, OK, in
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'S not here, and it's somewhat
tied up with his will being

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done.
Yeah, yeah, there's this.

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Connection.
Yeah, yeah.

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And it's maybe his Kingdom is
somewhere, but we want it here

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on Earth, and we want the same
fullness on Earth, but it is

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some other places.
I like it.

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That's a great way to be
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You want me to keep going, just
keep going.

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Luke 1720 through 21 The Kingdom
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that you can be can that can be
observed, for behold, the

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Kingdom of God is in the midst.
Of you so.

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So it's not here, but it's
right.

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Here, Yeah.
Yeah, that's confusing.

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Matthew 1228.
But if it is by the Spirit of

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God that I cast out demons, then
the Kingdom of God has come upon

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you.
And Jesus was casting out

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demons, so Kingdom of God
connected with Jesus was right

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there.
And then we get Old Testament

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reference.
Psalm One O 319 Grammys Favorite

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Sexual verses in all the Bible.
The Lord has established His

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throne in the heavens, and His
Kingdom rules over all.

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And so in some capacity, it
rules over everything.

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And so we'll spend the next a
little bit kind of unpacking the

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different ways the Kingdom is
talked about and maybe we can

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get some clarity to this very
important topic and we'll talk

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about it in that framework of
the already or not yet.

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So we've hinted at this a little
bit, but let's let's just hit

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some verses where the Kingdom of
God is present.

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OK, Matthew 32 repent for the
Kingdom of God is at hand.

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Let's you hear that?
That's I think Jim Carrey quotes

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that on some Ace Ventura movie,
but I digress.

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That's great.
And you you mentioned this

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because?
It's in popular culture.

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It's yeah, yeah, especially,
yeah, especially people, people

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have heard that and even you
were mentioning this at the top.

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Do you, do you have something on
your mind about Kingdom of

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Heaven versus Kingdom of God?
I know that people make a

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distinction about it and
sometimes and it, I'm sure some

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people will be like, OK, pot,
you know, welcome to the kettle

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or something for me saying this,
but I think sometimes people

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maybe overly pick at things and
like try to make a distinction

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that may not be there, but maybe
there is.

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I, I, I haven't done like AI
have not sat down and been like,

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I've got to do a thorough word,
word study of the Kingdom of God

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versus Kingdom of Heaven to try
to sort that out.

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I just know that some people
have and have seen differences,

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but I, I haven't looked closely.
So I I would want to reserve

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judgement, but I'll say it's not
on the top of my.

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List it's yeah, and I think
that's good.

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It's ordering.
I have also not researched it.

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I'll tell you what I've heard
said, which is great just to say

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what you've heard and not have
backed did.

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Greg Coco say.
It yeah, Greg Coco said it.

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So you know what's true I heard
and it was from a it's from a

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good source.
Can't remember what the podcast

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or what I was listening to, but
it was, it was like a reputable

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source.
They were saying you were read

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in Matthew's Gospel, Kingdom of
Heaven.

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It's much more Jewish.
And in that culture, you didn't

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say Kingdom of God because you
didn't say you stayed away from

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saying heaven might represent
God.

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And that's where you see it the
most.

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But I think that aligns, sorry
to interrupt with, because Jesus

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would say, you know, don't swear
by the the temple, don't swear

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by heaven.
So maybe that's they use that

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kind of pseudo language.
It's like a workaround.

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So that that's what I've heard
is the primary.

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I think that doesn't account for
maybe all the time that it's

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used.
But I think if you look at the

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numbers, what I read slash
listened to was that Matthew's

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like the primary offender.
And that's that's like a simple

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explanation.
So, you know, people go go look

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that up.
Very similar to your Matthew 3

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text.
You read Matthew 417, it says

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from that time.
Jesus began to preach saying

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repent for the Kingdom of heaven
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So similar, very similar
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We'll keep moving on.
Luke 10 says he'll be sick in it

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and say to them, the Kingdom of
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I like this.
We're getting out of the gospel

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because I think you see the high
concentration in the Gospels.

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You still see it in the
epistles, but but a little bit

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less.
Paul writes for the Kingdom of

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God is not a matter of eating
and drinking, but of

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righteousness and peace and joy
in the Holy Spirit.

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And then in Colossians, he
writes, he has delivered us from

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the domain of darkness and
transferred us to the Kingdom of

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his beloved Son.
So that's just a few scriptures,

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but the kingdom's here, baby.
We're in the Kingdom.

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Isn't it great?
Right.

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Yeah.
So nothing less left to happen.

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It's all it's all done.
So you could you could read

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those and walk away and say the
Kingdom of God is here and you

448
00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:02,720
wouldn't be wrong by saying the
Kingdom of.

449
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,400
God, in a sense, it is here,
yeah.

450
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,240
Let's look at a few other verses
that will say, you know, though

451
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,600
the Kingdom has been
inaugurated, it has been fully

452
00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,000
consumed.
What does Scripture say?

453
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,440
And the confusing thing is like
we read some of these in Matthew

454
00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,320
3 and 4, this this next one
comes out of Matthew 6.

455
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,880
Right, right.
So again, it's the one from the

456
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:22,440
model prayer.
Your Kingdom come, your will be

457
00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:23,800
done on earth as it is in
heaven.

458
00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,960
So it's praying that it will
come here and be maybe even more

459
00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,000
fuller.
Yeah, and it's interesting that

460
00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,760
he says he starts out saying
either John the Baptist, Jesus,

461
00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,320
repent, Kingdom is here, and
then he's like, it's not here.

462
00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,040
Like after, you know, and I
don't know that Matthew's going

463
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,640
total chronological, but it's
interesting in the same gospel,

464
00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,520
he's going kind of back and
forth.

465
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,400
John 3 familiar text with
Nicodemus.

466
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,320
Truly, truly, I say to you,
unless one is born again, he

467
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:53,200
cannot see the Kingdom of God.
And John's kind of this outlier

468
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,920
against the synoptic gospels
where it doesn't talk as much

469
00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,680
about the Kingdom of God, but it
talked a lot about being this

470
00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:02,760
born again imagery that's a
little bit different, but

471
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:03,960
speaking to the same thing in
here.

472
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:05,680
It's like clearly clearly
connected.

473
00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,960
Second, Peter 111 says, For in
this way there will be richly

474
00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:13,880
provided for you an entrance
into the eternal Kingdom of our

475
00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,720
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
So there seems to be something

476
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,200
that needs to be done to gain
insurance because it's not not

477
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,200
here.
And then Revelation 11/15 says

478
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,120
the Kingdom of the world has
become, has become the Kingdom

479
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,880
of our Lord and of his Christ,
and he shall reign forever and

480
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:31,080
ever.
Yeah, that's a good one.

481
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:32,120
You know what that's from, don't
you?

482
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,120
What's that from?
Hallelujah Chorus.

483
00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,120
I was like, there's no, I was
like anachronistically.

484
00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:39,560
That's not one of the rings.
I was like trying to rap.

485
00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:41,480
I was like.
Where's that one of the rings?

486
00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,320
And.
I guess it's not from the

487
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,280
Halloween chorus.
The Halloween chorus took that

488
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:50,120
from there.
But man, that's a that's a a

489
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:55,560
huge, you know, the music comes
down and you know, the Kingdom

490
00:22:55,640 --> 00:23:00,160
of the world has come and it's
like, look, it's just, it's just

491
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,840
like it's like, oh, it's here.
It's like this fanfare.

492
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,800
It's probably one of the best
songs ever, right?

493
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,280
Honestly, no shade.
Great song.

494
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,680
I and also if you don't know
this by now, I do.

495
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,960
One of my sin issues is I do
like being a contrarian

496
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,120
sometimes and that's like I'm
getting better than when I was

497
00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:17,000
in high school.
I was the worst.

498
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,360
I would always just, you know,
fight people.

499
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:20,800
But I thought it might be
helpful because you talked about

500
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,840
this in our worship service
yesterday, like we're talking

501
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:25,840
about this already, not yet,
because that that's basically

502
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,640
what we just looked at is the
kingdom's here, but not yet

503
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:29,800
totally.
Yeah.

504
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,320
So to kind of talk what I was
talking about.

505
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:32,160
Yeah, I think that was.
Great.

506
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,280
Yeah.
So, well, really, this, our

507
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,640
worship was motivated out of the
tragedy in Texas.

508
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:43,440
So we're recording about a week
after that camp of girls, you

509
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,920
know, lots of lost life, all
that rain.

510
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,440
And Jill just asked if we could
sing that song that we ended

511
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:53,200
with, which is one day with
which has when we all get to

512
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:54,920
heaven, tagged onto it.
So I was like, you know, how do

513
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:56,680
we build that in there?
And I was like, well, yeah, we

514
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,240
are.
We have that one day that we're

515
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,440
looking forward to.
God's been faithful to us.

516
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,680
We opened up with great as thy
faithfulness, and then we sang.

517
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,160
He makes all things new because
that's part of his faithfulness

518
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,480
to us.
And then at this song on that

519
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,120
day by City of Light, all these
great songs has this phrase.

520
00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:16,680
You know, we're going to be
looking forward to that day, but

521
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,200
we're going to keep on singing.
The actual lyrics are we're

522
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,080
going to keep on singing on that
day, but it indicates that until

523
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:24,240
that day is.
Happening.

524
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:28,600
We have work to do.
We, we are, we are praising him.

525
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,880
We are, we are, we are in the
middle of doing it.

526
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,480
And I was thinking about how
best to communicate it because,

527
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,200
you know, we talk about this,
the mountain range, but it's not

528
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,520
always easy to verbalize it.
So that I'm sitting down and I

529
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:44,640
look up because we're about to
start our VBS slash Bible camp.

530
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:49,160
And we have like these, you
know, mountain ranges from, you

531
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,760
know, the Midwest because it's
like a Western theme.

532
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,640
So it's not like the Rockies,
but it's like those, you know,

533
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:58,640
the, the, I don't know, like
what you'd find in New Mexico

534
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,520
And yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you could clearly see, you

535
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:05,840
know, a closer Ridge and then a
higher Ridge that was farther

536
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:09,240
behind.
And maybe there's something

537
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,280
continuous in between them.
Right.

538
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,080
Yeah.
Or, but maybe there's like this

539
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,480
big valley there that you can't
see in between them.

540
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,680
You can't really tell from that
vantage point, from that

541
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,560
picture.
You're not close enough yet to

542
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:23,440
see the distance between that
closer peak and that big peak.

543
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,520
Is it all one thing or is?
There some separation.

544
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,080
Yeah.
That's such a good picture

545
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,080
because you can imagine like
when you're a kid, like running

546
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,800
up this big hill and you're
like, oh, this is like it looks

547
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,080
so close, this like house or
whatever this sport you're

548
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,160
running to.
But I think I think that's great

549
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,560
where the prophets, you know,
prophesying, it's like did not

550
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,360
necessarily see that, but that's
kind of where we find ourselves.

551
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:45,760
Yeah.
So just tie that off like we're

552
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,040
in that valley right now.
We're in between the, the, the

553
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:52,400
inauguration of the new covenant
and, and I think new covenant is

554
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:58,560
probably closely synonymous with
the idea of the Kingdom, the

555
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,280
Kingdom of God.
So that's been kicked off, it's

556
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:05,280
been inaugurated, but it hasn't
been fully consummated with the,

557
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,320
the final return.
And so we're in this already not

558
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,920
yet time period.
And that that is great.

559
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,080
What's talk core themes of
Kingdom theology.

560
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,440
If there is a Kingdom, you
would, And I'm trying to think

561
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,120
this other this I was listening
to, I was listening to a lot of

562
00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:20,880
podcasts.
This was weeks ago, man.

563
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,240
Maybe I'll look this up because
I'm just babbling.

564
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:28,160
But it was like the way Kingdom
is translated, I don't know the

565
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,520
way in the English from the
Greek that something gets lost

566
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,080
where our minds a lot of times
do think more.

567
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:39,080
We think less rain, but more.
This is where I'm at.

568
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:40,560
I'm rolling over the United is
it?

569
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,440
Arcade.
Maybe it's that.

570
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:43,040
Maybe.
It's Arcade.

571
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:47,720
Arcade has this idea of
beginning and kind of setting

572
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:53,320
the architecture and the rule,
the kind of the boundary of what

573
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:57,240
a what it would be.
So I I might you know rulership

574
00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,320
is sometimes.
Yeah, no, that's like a better.

575
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,160
And I think with our English
translation, it has been Kingdom

576
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,640
that's like just in the English,
the way we talk.

577
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,960
And it's like it should be more
reign, rulership, something.

578
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,080
And that that captures it better
because I think it's easy to be

579
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:14,800
Kingdom and you just
automatically think, oh, there's

580
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,200
this Kingdom in Germany.
And it's like so, so physical

581
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,240
that that's great.
I'm glad you know what you're

582
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,720
talking about.
Hopefully you you think there's

583
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,200
a Kingdom, you know, there is a
king.

584
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,440
And so everything is connected
to this king.

585
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:28,680
Right.
And in the same way, like

586
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,840
there's a rulership, there's a
ruler, yeah, there's got to be

587
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,160
someone who's in charge.
And.

588
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,840
And I think that that that
arcade is just one of those

589
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,840
great words because it's because
you think of architect

590
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,920
architecture, all the things
that we're laying the foundation

591
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,720
and then the reality has to sit
in on that.

592
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:47,800
And so, you know, God created
everything.

593
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,360
He's the ruler, He's the
beginning.

594
00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:53,240
RK also has the, you know, like
the archaeological has that root

595
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,120
because it's like we're going
back to the beginning.

596
00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:58,200
So God is the beginning.
He said all this stuff you know,

597
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,760
down and, and it's his rulership
that ultimately is he's building

598
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,680
up.
I, I love that and I think that

599
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,560
helps us think about it more.
Luke 1 talking about this king,

600
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,000
says that this king, he will
reign over the House of Jacob

601
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,040
Forever and of his Kingdom there
will be no ends.

602
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,360
Matthew 28 says all authority in
heaven and on earth has been

603
00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:19,720
given to me.
Jesus is talking about him

604
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,600
having all this authority.
And then Revelation 19 towards

605
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,040
the end of our New Testament, on
his robe and on his thigh he has

606
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,480
a name written, King of Kings.
So.

607
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,560
Tattoos are fine is what I got
from that.

608
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,040
Yeah, Leviticus.
Yeah, get out of here.

609
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,920
Revelation has spoken and you
see everything with the King

610
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:38,880
Kingdom.
If you just tie it to Jesus, it

611
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,080
helps, helps us think about it
more.

612
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,320
Let's talk the nature.
Of the Kingdom.

613
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:48,240
This Kingdom is hidden,
subversive and transformative.

614
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,080
Let's look at some of these
passages that talk about, you

615
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,160
know, what's the you know, I
think Jesus does a good job of

616
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,560
giving us all these analogies.
Matthew 13 says the Kingdom of

617
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:01,120
heaven is like treasure that's
hidden in a field.

618
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,280
And he'll go on to talk about
people, like, selling everything

619
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,960
for that again.
Later on, he'll say, again, the

620
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:10,400
Kingdom of heaven is like a net
that was thrown into the sea.

621
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:12,040
Very.
That's interesting.

622
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,840
Interesting.
Yeah, that it's pulling out some

623
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,200
things.
And other yeah.

624
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:17,040
That's right.
Yeah.

625
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:18,880
Yeah.
That's that's a great picture

626
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,320
like to ponder and be like, OK,
I think that helps maybe inform

627
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,080
a lot of maybe some of your
other theologies too.

628
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,360
Like keeping going, Luke 13
says, what is the Kingdom of God

629
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,240
like?
It is like a grain of mustard

630
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,120
seed.
So I've even looted that one

631
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:33,520
earlier.
Didn't know it was in your nuts.

632
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:34,640
So.
You nailed it.

633
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,400
And this is one of those, you
know, I think this is going to

634
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,920
maybe we can do a separate
podcast down the road, but this

635
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,720
is the one you're ever talking
to a post meal person and you're

636
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,160
like, how can you think the
world's getting better and

637
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:45,120
better?
And they're like Kingdom of

638
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:46,600
God's like a mustard seed
brother.

639
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,720
It's growing like we're we're
we're going towards this golden

640
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,000
age.
Of course post meal is the way.

641
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,360
And then you hit him with John
1836.

642
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:59,280
My Kingdom is not of this world.
But but those are interesting

643
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,080
passages and I think it speaks
to the complexity or trying to

644
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:06,160
like grapple with this Kingdom.
And this is a totally different

645
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,640
podcast, but we're doing the
Sunday school on, you know,

646
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,160
persecuted church and that kind
of thing.

647
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,320
And it is very which.
Somehow I've missed both of

648
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,680
those.
Yeah, and maybe I would like to

649
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,840
do a Sunday school, I mean a
podcast on some of this because

650
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:22,000
it's it's hard for me to wrap my
mind around it where persecution

651
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,840
is bad persecution, Christian is
getting persecuted a lot.

652
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,120
This inter compared a lot.
And then you also look

653
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,680
statistically from a numeric
standpoint, we've got more

654
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:31,080
Christians today than ever
before.

655
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,440
At the same time, maybe not as a
percentage cause the world, but

656
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,880
it's like it's like.
But gross numbers but.

657
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,920
Gross number, it's like 2 point
something professing billion

658
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:40,520
Christians.
It's like, you know, and so you

659
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,480
see these people making their
different arguments.

660
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,960
I mean like the gospel's crowing
so much in Africa and Asia and.

661
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,080
Maybe it is about the same
percentage though, because.

662
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:49,760
It's not, it's not dramatically
different, yeah.

663
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:54,120
You know all the believers of
the past are not truly

664
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,000
believers.
Yeah, no, that, that, that's the

665
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,200
other thing.
More more proclaiming than

666
00:30:58,200 --> 00:30:59,880
professing.
And then what I've been

667
00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:01,880
grappling with, it's like, it's
great.

668
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,320
Everyone's up in a different
perspective.

669
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,040
Well, this that, let's make that
a different podcast.

670
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,240
I'm going to go off on a
tangent.

671
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:10,120
Let's talk about who's in this
Kingdom, who belongs to the

672
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,960
Kingdom, Entrance to the Kingdom
we're going to see is by new

673
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,280
birth, humility, child.
Like faith.

674
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:19,720
Matthew 5 says blessed are the
poor in spirit, for theirs is

675
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,840
the Kingdom of heaven.
From the sermon on the mounts,

676
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,200
Matthew 18 unless you turn and
become like children, you'll

677
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,880
never enter the Kingdom of
heaven.

678
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,400
John 3 unless one is born again,
he cannot see the Kingdom of

679
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:32,400
God.
In first Corinthians.

680
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,400
Looking at Paul, do you not know
that the unrighteous will not

681
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,800
inherit the Kingdom of God?
So it kind of gives you a good

682
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,520
picture of who's who's in, who's
out.

683
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,680
Yeah.
And striking that three of these

684
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:49,320
well two of them talk about
children and then and then the

685
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:55,000
first one's is poor in spirit.
I wonder if the Luke kind of

686
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,360
parallel to that one where it
just says poor do they?

687
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,840
Also is theirs also the Kingdom
of heaven?

688
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,160
Only one way to find out.
We should, we should.

689
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,880
We should look at that while I
pull that up.

690
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,880
I'll talk about the proclamation
of the Kingdom.

691
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,080
Because you would think if it if
there is a Kingdom, I feel like

692
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,480
that's very Kingdom languages
this heralding this good news

693
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,600
of.
These people have, if not

694
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,720
trumpets, I mean if not tuba is
probably trumpets proclaiming

695
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:26,120
the Kingdom.
As for you James, Adam, Jesus

696
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,720
and the apostles herald the
Kingdom as both like here and

697
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,720
near and urgent, but still yet
to come.

698
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,320
Mark 115 says repent and believe
in the gospel.

699
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:39,200
Acts 2831 says proclaiming the
Kingdom of God and teaching

700
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,120
about the Lord Jesus Christ with
all boldness and without

701
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,920
hindrance.
So you see both of those kind of

702
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,360
going forth.
I found this parallel passage.

703
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:51,600
Luke 620 says blessed are you
who are poorer for yours is the

704
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,760
Kingdom of God.
So we we see that going back to

705
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,920
the proclamation of the Kingdom.
I like this.

706
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,280
It's like, from my
understanding, if you go back

707
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:04,920
to, you know, Roman times here,
that that this is a thing you

708
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,960
herald the emperor.
It's like, yeah.

709
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,040
It's like this thing that you
do.

710
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,000
So this is this is the kind of
language that would resonate

711
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,240
with people in the day of like,
oh, you know, Caesar's conquered

712
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,280
this and it's great.
It's like no, Jesus Christ has

713
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:19,920
conquered.
And you can see this is very

714
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,560
strong language ushering in the
Kingdom.

715
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,720
And then what we look forward to
the consummation of the Kingdom.

716
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:30,680
We're going back to Daniel 2.
Old Testament says the God of

717
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,480
heaven will set up a Kingdom
that shall never be destroyed.

718
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,400
First Corinthians 15 says then
comes the end.

719
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,960
Glad spends a lot of time on
this for his historic Capri

720
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,400
mill.
When he delivers the Kingdom to

721
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:46,440
God the Father after destroying
every rule and every authority

722
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,680
and power and he's going to base
a lot of his millennial reign

723
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:50,920
on, you know, when it's Jesus
reigning.

724
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,080
He's got to destroy everything
in totality, every rule, every

725
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,520
authority, death and revelation
says behold 21, three and four

726
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,520
says, behold, the dwelling place
of God is with man.

727
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,040
He will wipe away every tear and
that will be a good sign.

728
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,360
The Kingdom has been consummated
a little little difference than

729
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,120
it does today.
So we've talked about

730
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:16,120
proclamation and consummation.
And if I use those terms away

731
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:21,040
from here, I said, hey, there is
something proclaimed and then a

732
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:26,960
time later it was consummated.
You might think of a wedding and

733
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,800
a marriage, right, Right.
And that, that same imagery is

734
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:34,800
used throughout and, and, and
the Jewish sense that would

735
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,719
that's, you know, you'd have
this Patrolville, you'd have

736
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:42,159
this wine ceremony.
The father of the groom would go

737
00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:47,400
out and seek whom he thought was
a suitable spouse for his son

738
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,560
and he would drag her.
Can I use those words?

739
00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:52,719
Be careful.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

740
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,719
I.
Got you to to mimic.

741
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,120
You know you can't come unless
the Father.

742
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,200
Brings.
You and he would take her too

743
00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:03,360
and he would say, you know, and
then they would accept each

744
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,600
other and they would do that by
drinking wine and that would

745
00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:13,040
proclaim we're betrothed.
And then the groom would go off

746
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:17,480
for a period of time and worked
on the House.

747
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,920
Often times like renovating the,
you know, the whatever portion

748
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,920
of his father's house he would
go and then he would come back

749
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,320
and there would be the
celebration and then the

750
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,400
consummation and and then it'd
be in those fullness.

751
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,080
Oh, I love that.
That's such a good picture.

752
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,120
Yeah.
When we went to Israel, it was

753
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,880
like, you could see like we're a
house, Like you could see like

754
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,320
this, like, hey, here's the Suns
and they're subdividing and all

755
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:40,480
this stuff.
But that.

756
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,880
I like that because that does.
That's a good picture of his

757
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,880
Kingdom.
OK, but not.

758
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,120
This is that's where we're at
we're like in that in that

759
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,040
state.
That's a good way to think about

760
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:51,560
it.
Some things to think through.

761
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,400
We've talked about some of these
this already not yet framework.

762
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,920
The present reality is that the
Kingdom has broken in but

763
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,920
there's this future hope where
full victory over death sin and

764
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,840
Satan still to come.
Hebrews 2 doesn't say talk about

765
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,040
the Kingdom of God per SE, but
it says in verse 8.

766
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,800
At present we don't see
everything that's objection to

767
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:13,160
Him yet, but and.
If you pair that up with the

768
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,960
Corinthians passage we just
talked about, you know, yeah.

769
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:20,200
Beautiful, you mentioned this
modernism dragging, you know,

770
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,680
it's this net that's cast that
you've got to be born again.

771
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:27,240
It's hard to you know when
you're born ready or not.

772
00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:31,880
Here you come, right?
Ephesians 2 classic text verse

773
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,760
8:00 and 9:00 For my grace,
you've been saved through faith.

774
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,960
It's a gift of God.
We look at the Kingdom of God

775
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,080
and I think people can
prioritize different things.

776
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:45,480
You know, if you look at the
maybe liberal theologians, if

777
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,200
they're going to take anything
from the Kingdom of God, they're

778
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,760
going to talk about the ethical
implications and this the

779
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:50,800
justice.
We'll see.

780
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,000
The Beatitudes summarizes
Kingdom ethic pretty, pretty

781
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,480
well.
We read about the fruit of the

782
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:57,880
spirit.
Those in the Kingdom are going

783
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:02,880
to live a certain way and then
the Kingdom is expanding.

784
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,080
We talked about that.
That's the church is not the

785
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,960
Kingdom, but the church is used
by God.

786
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:09,920
To bring in the.
To bring in the Kingdom, yeah.

787
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,200
That's very nice.
I like that so much.

788
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:16,160
Matthew 28/19/20, Acts 1/8, this
great, Great Commission to make

789
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,280
disciples.
This is what we do.

790
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,680
And in this Kingdom there will
be justice and mercy.

791
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,760
We see.
It's a lot of these Old

792
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,520
Testament texts are really, you
know, looking forward to when

793
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,760
things will be made right.
And so when I think of the

794
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,040
Kingdom versus the church, I
think I was thinking through

795
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,200
this too, is like, you know, the
church is called to do certain

796
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,880
things, but the church is not
necessarily the Kingdom where,

797
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,200
you know, in your workplace or
you know, you're teaching,

798
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,240
you're not acting in your church
capacity, but you are bringing

799
00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:49,800
the Kingdom to to the world.
And so see how how God uses

800
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,000
that.
So we've got got this chart,

801
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,360
Michael, if I don't know if you
want to run through this and

802
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,920
give your thoughts on it about
some common misunderstandings

803
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,160
about the Kingdom of God and and
some corrections.

804
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,600
Yeah.
So one of the common

805
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,480
misunderstandings is that the
Kingdom is only future.

806
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,040
And I think we've kind of talked
this a lot, that in a sense it

807
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,920
is future, the fullness of it is
future, but in a sense it's here

808
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:18,120
with us now.
Kingdom is only political.

809
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:22,040
And that is the Kingdom will be,
in a sense, political because we

810
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,400
think, you know, Jesus is going
to come down.

811
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:27,440
He's going to set up his rule
and reign, but that rule and

812
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:31,240
reign is not just a political
boundary, but it's also, you

813
00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:33,240
know, his spiritual the
awakening.

814
00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:36,000
And we just talked about the
ethical things about it break

815
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,320
here.
And if you want to, the Kingdom

816
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,600
is not equal to the church.
We talked about that.

817
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,280
And if you go back to I was even
thinking about this when you

818
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,840
were just talking about, you
know, the church kind of helps

819
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:49,720
usher in, but you know, the
bride and the groom, the, you

820
00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:52,680
know, the the bride that
marriage is not the bride

821
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,600
herself.
But maybe she's like going out

822
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:56,240
and talking like, hey, this is
going to happen.

823
00:38:56,240 --> 00:38:58,320
This is big.
You need to come to the wedding.

824
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,120
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's good because I'm,

825
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,640
I'm always hesitant to be like,
I'm building the Kingdom of God.

826
00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:04,280
It's like God uses me.
I'm trying.

827
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:06,600
I always try to be careful with
that too, but I think that's a

828
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:07,680
good way.
It's like, yeah, you're telling

829
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:09,600
people all about the Kingdom of
God.

830
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:13,040
That's so good.
The Kingdom is internal only,

831
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,360
no, it's both inward for us, but
it's cosmic.

832
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:20,400
It's but it's his rule and reign
over all creation going back to

833
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,760
that Corinthians passage.
And then the Kingdom will bring

834
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,200
moral reform.
And that is true.

835
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:31,280
But it's also like this, you
know, to be in it, you kind of

836
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,840
already have to have that
supernatural rebirth that we

837
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:38,480
talked about to, to to be in it.
So and it's that spirit enabled

838
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:39,840
living.
We talked about the fruit of the

839
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,240
spirit.
And that is to harken back to

840
00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:43,360
our banter.
One of my pet peeves when people

841
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,800
say fruits of the spirit and you
passed, you said fruit of the

842
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,200
spirit.
Now, because I'm right there

843
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,800
with you, Revelations, don't
tell me you've been written

844
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,840
Psalms one O 3.
You were written Psalm one O 3.

845
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:54,400
That's great.
I love it.

846
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:58,640
Here's a definition at the end
that I was going back and forth

847
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,120
and like putting together
different sources and basing it

848
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,640
on this conversation that
ChatGPT may have helped me put

849
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:06,760
together some of George Ladd's
thoughts with some of my

850
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:08,800
thoughts, with some of, you
know, Piper's thoughts and these

851
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,600
things.
And we came up with the Kingdom

852
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:14,200
of God is the dynamic sovereign
reign of God breaking into human

853
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,360
history through Jesus Christ.
It's not a location, but the

854
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,080
redemptive rule of God wherever
His will is done.

855
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,880
The Kingdom was inaugurated in
Jesus first coming, is present

856
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,440
through a spirit and the church,
and will be consummated at his

857
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:28,400
return.
Entrance into the Kingdom

858
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,920
requires repentance, faith, and
new birth.

859
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,440
Kingdom citizens live under
Christ's lordship, displaying

860
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:38,080
the ethics of the age to come.
I like that definition because

861
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,160
it kind of hits like all of
these different things.

862
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,440
And I'm like, oh, I like that
because it is tricky.

863
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,800
Like once you start talking
about it, there's so you know,

864
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:46,840
there's so many different
verses.

865
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:50,280
So what I'm excited about next
podcast on the Kingdom of God.

866
00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:55,000
I just want to trace this kind
of motif throughout scripture,

867
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,480
especially in the light of Ezra,
Nehemiah.

868
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,400
It's like, this is what this is
what they thought they were

869
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,800
ushering in and they didn't.
And so while that was on her

870
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:08,000
mind, I was like, Oh, this is
perfect to kind of look at this

871
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,920
big picture topic and then let's
look through Scripture and just

872
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,840
hit all the high points where
this theme is like everywhere

873
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,120
you turn you see this kingship.
Motif Yeah, that's good.

874
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:17,400
That's good.
I think this will preach.

875
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:21,520
I think you you when, whenever
jaws out next time you just

876
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,080
preach on the Kingdom of God.
Hey, maybe I will.

877
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:25,760
Maybe I will.
We'll see.

878
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:27,760
I shouldn't commit to anything,
but yeah, you know, we'll see.

879
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,080
We'll see what happens on any
closing thoughts on the Kingdom

880
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:34,200
of God.
No, it's here and we want it to

881
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:35,680
be more here.
Oh, I love it.

882
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,320
That's our take.
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883
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,520
Two.
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884
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,040
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885
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