Matthew 23:3738

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Matthew 2337-38

• O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the
  prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I
  have longed to gather your children together, as
  a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you
  were not willing.
• Look, your house is left to you desolate.

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Jesus the Storyteller (2)
Sermon No. 42 February 19, 2006 A.M. Sermon

• Parables of Judgment

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Luke 1720-21 (TNIV)

• Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when
  the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied,
  The coming of the kingdom of God is not
  something that can be observed, nor will people
  say Here it is, or there it is, because the
  kingdom of God is in your midst.

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Where Is God?

• God was in Christ, reconciling the world to
  himself (2 Cor 519).
• In him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead
  bodily (Col 29).
• We find the will of God in Christ Jesus (1
  Thess 518)

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Luke 1120

• If I cast out demons by the finger of God, then
  the kingdom of God has come upon you.
• -- Jesus

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Kingdom Past, Present, Future

• Past (in Jesus) Luke 1120
• Present (in Church) Col 113 Rev 19
• Future (in heaven) Acts 1422 2 Tim. 418 2
  Peter 111

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What Is The Kingdom?

• Not A Place, Not A Palace, But His PRESENCE.
• Gods Vision of the World Made Real in the Lives
  of His People
• We Must Have A Passion For His Presence!

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Parables of Judgment

• Kingdom Taken From Pharisees (Matt 2133-46)
• Those Invited Refuse To Come (Matt 221-10 //
  Luke 1415-23)
• Those Put In Charge Must Produce Return (Luke
  1911-27)

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Matthew 2337-38

• O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the
  prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I
  have longed to gather your children together, as
  a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you
  were not willing.
• Look, your house is left to you desolate.

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What Does He Expect?

• He Expects His House To Be Filled
• He Expects His Servants To Show Remarkable Return
• He Expects His People To Empty Themselves of
  Their Priorities, and Radically Embrace Kingdom
  Lives

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Matthew 1243-45

• When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes
  through arid places seeking rest and does not
  find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the
  house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the
  house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order.
  Then it goes and takes with it seven other
  spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in
  and live there. And the final condition of that
  man is worse than the first. That is how it will
  be with this wicked generation.
• -- Jesus