Running to the Battle

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Running to the Battle

• Taking the battle to a level the enemy is
  unwilling or unable to go

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What do you know for sure?

• Dont focus on figuring out the details of the
  end
• It is not for you to know times or seasons which
  the Father has put in His own authority. Acts
  17
• What do we know to be the nature of God and his
  plan?

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What do you know for sure?

• Focus on receiving power and taking the kingdom
  to the ends of the earth
• But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit
  has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to
  Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria,
  and to the end of the earth. Acts 18

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Mindsets to Avoid

• Escapist or survival mentality, i. e.
  self-preservation mode
• Defeatist mentality - we arent going to win
  anyway
• Wait until Jesus comes mentality - cant happen
  now

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Mindsets to Adopt

• Faithful when he comes
• Relationships to God and people
• With our talents and attitudes towards the poor
• Seeking his kingdom and will
• Laying down our lives
• Violence against spirits until we overcome

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Nature of Our MessageGospel of the Kingdom

• Isa 527 How beautiful upon the mountains Are
  the feet of him who brings good news, Who
  proclaims peace, Who brings glad tidings of good
  things, Who proclaims salvation, Who says to
  Zion, Your God reigns!

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Destiny of the KingdomContinual Increase

• For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is
  given And the government will be upon His
  shoulder. Of the increase of His government and
  peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of
  David and over His kingdom, To order it and
  establish it with judgment and justice From that
  time forward, even forever. The zeal of the LORD
  of hosts will perform this. Isa. 96-7

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Destiny of the KingdomDestroy but not to be
Destroyed

• a stone struck the image on its feet, and broke
  them in pieces and became like chaff the wind
  carried them away so that no trace of them was
  found. And the stone filled the whole earth And
  in the days of these kings, God will set up a
  kingdom which shall never be destroyed it shall
  break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms,
  and it shall stand forever. Dan 234-44

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Destiny of the KingdomTo Grow until it fills all

• The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed,
  which is the least of all the seeds but when it
  is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes
  a tree. Another parable He spoke to them The
  kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman
  took and hid in three measures of meal till it
  was all leavened. Matthew 1331-33

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Destiny of the KingdomDethrone Usurpers

• There were loud voices in heaven, saying, The
  kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms
  of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign
  forever and ever! Revelation 1115

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Our Mission Recapture Earth

• The earth is the LORDS all its fullness, and
  those who dwell therein. Psalms 241
• Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the
  earth. Matthew 55

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Our Mission Recapture Earth

• Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as
  it is in heaven. Mt 610
• And I will give you the keys of the kingdom, and
  whatever you bind on earth will be bound in
  heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be
  loosed in heaven. Mt 1619

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Our Mission Make Disciples of all the Nations

• In the last days, the mountain of the LORDS
  house shall be established and many nations shall
  come and say, Let us go up to the house of God
  He will teach us His ways. For out of Zion the
  law shall go forth, He shall judge between many
  peoples, And rebuke strong nations afar off.
  Micah 41-3

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Our Mission Defeat the Enemy

• By Myself I have sworn, because you have not
  withheld your son, your only son -- your
  descendants shall possess the gate of their
  enemies. Gen 2217
• I will build My church, and the gates of Hades
  shall not prevail against it. Mt. 1618

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Our Mission Defeat the Enemy

• The LORD said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand,
  Till I make Your enemies Your footstool. The
  LORD shall send the rod of Your strength out of
  Zion. Rule in the midst of Your enemies! Your
  people shall be volunteers In the day of Your
  power. Psalms 1101-3

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Our Mission Defeat the Enemy

• For He must reign till He has put all enemies
  under His feet. The last enemy that will be
  destroyed is death. 1Corinthians 1525-26
• For this purpose the Son of God was manifested,
  that He might destroy the works of the devil.
  1John 38

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Our Mission Defeat the Enemy

• Nations shall come against you not because of I
  sent them to punish you. Whoever comes shall fall
  for your sake No weapon formed against you
  shall prosper, And every tongue which rises
  against you in judgment You shall condemn. This
  is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And
  their righteousness is from Me, Says the LORD.
  Isaiah 5415-17

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Our Mission Defeat the Enemy

• Now also many nations have gathered against you,
  Who say, Let her be defiled, And let our eye
  look upon Zion. But they do not know the
  thoughts of the LORD, Nor do they understand His
  counsel For He will gather them like sheaves to
  the threshing floor. Arise and thresh, O
  daughter of Zion Micah 411-13

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Certainty of Victory

• Why do the nations plot a vain thing? The kings
  take counsel together, Against the LORD and His
  Anointed, saying, Let us break Their bonds in
  pieces. He who sits in the heavens shall laugh.
  Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And
  distress them. Psalms 21-5

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Certainty of Victory

• You will rule over your oppressors. In the day
  the LORD gives you rest from your sorrow, your
  fear and your hard bondage, you will say How
  the oppressor has ceased, The LORD has broken the
  scepter of the rulers who ruled the nations in
  anger. Isaiah 142-6

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Certainty of Victory

• Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And the
  sound of your stringed instruments The maggot is
  spread under you, And worms cover you. How
  you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
  morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You
  who weakened the nations! Isaiah 1411-12

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Certainty of Victory

• The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as
  I have thought and purposed, so it shall stand
  I will break the Assyrian - his yoke and his
  burden shall be removed. This is the purpose that
  is purposed against the whole earth. For the
  LORD of hosts has purposed, And who will annul
  it? His hand is stretched out, And who will turn
  it back? Isaiah 1424-27

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Kingdom Response

• For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but
  mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, and
  being ready to punish all disobedience when your
  obedience is fulfilled. 2 Corinthians 104-6

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Kingdom Response

• He has not observed iniquity nor wickedness in
  Jacob. The shout of a King is among them. God
  brings them out of Egypt He has strength like a
  wild ox. For there is no sorcery nor any
  divination against Jacob. It now must be said of
  Jacob, Oh, what God has done! Look, a people
  rises like a lion It shall not lie down until it
  devours the prey. Numbers 2321-24

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Kingdom Response

• Do not throw away your confidence it will be
  richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that
  when you have done the will of God, you will
  receive what he has promised. For in just a very
  little while, He who is coming will come and
  will not delay.

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Kingdom Response

• But my righteous one will live by faith. And if
  he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him.
  But we are not of those who shrink back and are
  destroyed, but of those who believe and are
  saved. Hebrews 10 35-39