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Kingdoms Collide

• Kingdom of Heaven

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Emperor Cult

• Spread throughout the empire

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Vienne, France
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Pula, Croatia
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Antioch of Pisidia
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Egypt
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Ephesus
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Tiberius
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Began at Beginning

• Luke 21 Now in those days a decree went out
  from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of
  all the inhabited earth.
• 2 This was the first census taken while
  Quirinius was governor of Syria.
• 3 And everyone was on his way to register for
  the census, each to his own city.
• 4 Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the
  city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David
  which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the
  house and family of David,

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• John 199 and he entered into the Praetorium
  again and said to Jesus, "Where are You from?"
  But Jesus gave him no answer.
• 10 So Pilate said to Him, "You do not speak to
  me? Do You not know that I have authority to
  release You, and I have authority to crucify
  You?"
• 11 Jesus answered, "You would have no authority
  over Me, unless it had been given you from above
  for this reason he who delivered Me to you has
  the greater sin."

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Verdict Overturned

• Acts 224 "But God raised Him up again, putting
  an end to the agony of death, since it was
  impossible for Him to be held in its power.

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Imperial Muscle Flexing

• Acts 1623 When they had struck them with many
  blows, they threw them into prison, commanding
  the jailer to guard them securely
• 24 and he, having received such a command, threw
  them into the inner prison and fastened their
  feet in the stocks.

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Unafraid

• 1625 But about midnight Paul and Silas were
  praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and
  the prisoners were listening to them

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Real Power Exerted

• 26 and suddenly there came a great earthquake,
  so that the foundations of the prison house were
  shaken and immediately all the doors were opened
  and everyone's chains were unfastened.
• 27 When the jailer awoke and saw the prison
  doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to
  kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had
  escaped.
• 28 But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying,
  "Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!"
• 29 And he called for lights and rushed in, and
  trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and
  Silas,
• 30 and after he brought them out, he said,
  "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

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Invasion

• Phil. 112 Now I want you to know, brethren,
  that my circumstances have turned out for the
  greater progress of the gospel,
• 13 so that my imprisonment in the cause of
  Christ has become well known throughout the whole
  praetorian guard and to everyone else,

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Whos Really in Charge?

• Acts 915 But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he
  is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name
  before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of
  Israel
• 2511 "If, then, I am a wrongdoer and have
  committed anything worthy of death, I do not
  refuse to die but if none of those things is
  true of which these men accuse me, no one can
  hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar."

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Win/Win

• 120 according to my earnest expectation and
  hope, that I will not be put to shame in
  anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will
  even now, as always, be exalted in my body,
  whether by life or by death.
• 21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is
  gain.
• 22 But if I am to live on in the flesh, this
  will mean fruitful labor for me and I do not
  know which to choose.
• 23 But I am hard-pressed from both directions,
  having the desire to depart and be with Christ,
  for that is very much better
• 24 yet to remain on in the flesh is more
  necessary for your sake.

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Why it Happened

• 26 who, although He existed in the form of God,
  did not regard equality with God a thing to be
  grasped,
• 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a
  bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of
  men.
• 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled
  Himself by becoming obedient to the point of
  death, even death on a cross.
• 9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him,
  and bestowed on Him the name which is above every
  name,
• 10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL
  BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and
  under the earth,
• 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus
  Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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Citizens

• 127 Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy
  of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come
  and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you
  that you are standing firm in one spirit, with
  one mind striving together for the faith of the
  gospel

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Act Like It

• Conduct- politeuomai
• pol-it-yoo'-om-ahee
• Middle voice of a derivative of G4177 to behave
  as a citizen (figuratively) - let conversation
  be, live.

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What to Trust In

• 32 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil
  workers, beware of the false circumcision
• 3 for we are the true circumcision, who worship
  in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus
  and put no confidence in the flesh,

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Our Citizenship

• 320 For our citizenship is in heaven, from
  which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord
  Jesus Christ
• 21 who will transform the body of our humble
  state into conformity with the body of His glory,
  by the exertion of the power that He has even to
  subject all things to Himself.

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• Dan 240 "Then there will be a fourth kingdom as
  strong as iron inasmuch as iron crushes and
  shatters all things, so, like iron that breaks in
  pieces, it will crush and break all these in
  pieces.
• 41 "In that you saw the feet and toes, partly of
  potter's clay and partly of iron, it will be a
  divided kingdom but it will have in it the
  toughness of iron, inasmuch as you saw the iron
  mixed with common clay.
• 42 "As the toes of the feet were partly of iron
  and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom
  will be strong and part of it will be brittle.
• 43 "And in that you saw the iron mixed with
  common clay, they will combine with one another
  in the seed of men but they will not adhere to
  one another, even as iron does not combine with
  pottery.
• 44 "In the days of those kings the God of heaven
  will set up a kingdom which will never be
  destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for
  another people it will crush and put an end to
  all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure
  forever.
• 45 "Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out
  of the mountain without hands and that it crushed
  the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and
  the gold, the great God has made known to the
  king what will take place in the future so the
  dream is true and its interpretation is
  trustworthy."

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League of Nations

• The League's goals included disarmament,
  preventing war through collective security,
  settling disputes between countries through
  negotiation, diplomacy and improving global
  quality of life.
• wiki

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Guns Wont Stop this kingdom

• Matt. 2653 "Or do you think that I cannot
  appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at
  My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
• 54 "How then will the Scriptures be fulfilled,
  which say that it must happen this way?"

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Live Worthy of King

• 1Peter 212 Keep your behavior excellent among
  the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they
  slander you as evildoers, they may because of
  your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify
  God in the day of visitation.