Kingdom Seekers Kingdom Speakers

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Kingdom Seekers Kingdom Speakers

• Jesus John the Baptist Abigail King David
• Onesiphorus Apostle Paul

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Living by Faith What is Unseen

• Romans 4 He is the father of us all
  (Abraham). As it is written "I have made you a
  father of many nations. He is our father in the
  sight of God, in whom he believed the God who
  gives life to the dead and calls things that are
  not as though they were.
• 2 Corinthians 57 We live by faith, not by
  sight.

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Seek First the Kingdom of God. Mt. 633

• Mark 411 He told them, The secret of the
  kingdom of God has been given to you.
• Luke 112 (Jesus said) "When you pray, say "
  'Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom
  come.
• Luke 1720,21Jesus replied, "The kingdom of God
  does not come with your careful observation, nor
  will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,'
  because the kingdom of God is within you.
• Luke 2229 And I confer on you a kingdom, just
  as my Father conferred one on me

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Seek First the Kingdom of God. Mt. 633

• If you seek the Kingdom of God first, youll
  experience it.

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Abigail - 1 Sam. 25

• This story follows Samuel Anointing David as
  future king, story of Goliath, Samuels death.
• Then David moved down into the Desert of Maon. A
  certain man in Maon, who had property there at
  Carmel, was very wealthy. He had a thousand goats
  and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing
  in Carmel. His name was Nabal and his wife's name
  was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful
  woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was surly and
  mean in his dealings.

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Abigail - 1 Sam. 25

• "Go up to Nabal at Carmel and greet him in my
  name. Say to him 'Long life to you! Good health
  to you and your household! And good health to all
  that is yours! your flocks and shepherds were
  kept safe Therefore be favorable toward my young
  men, since we come at a festive time. Please give
  your servants and your son David whatever you can
  find for them.' "

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Abigail - 1 Sam. 25

• Nabal answered, "Who is this David? Who is this
  son of Jesse? Many servants are breaking away
  from their masters these days. Why should I take
  my bread and water, and the meat I have
  slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men
  coming from who knows where?"

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Abigail Acts

• Abigail lost no time. She took two hundred loaves
  of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep,
  five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of
  raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs,
  and loaded them on donkeys. Then she told her
  servants, "Go on ahead I'll follow you." But she
  did not tell her husband Nabal.

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Abigail to David

• "Now since the LORD has kept you, my master, from
  bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your
  own hands, as surely as the LORD lives and as you
  live, may your enemies and all who intend to harm
  my master be like Nabal. And let this gift, which
  your servant has brought to my master, be given
  to the men who follow you. Please forgive your
  servant's offense, for the LORD will certainly
  make a lasting dynasty for my master, because he
  fights the LORD's battles. Let no wrongdoing be
  found in you as long as you live.

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Abigail to David

• Even though someone is pursuing you to take your
  life, the life of my master will be bound
  securely in the bundle of the living by the LORD
  your God. But the lives of your enemies he will
  hurl away as from the pocket of a sling. When the
  LORD has done for my master every good thing he
  promised concerning him and has appointed him
  leader over Israel, my master will not have on
  his conscience the staggering burden of needless
  bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when
  the LORD has brought my master success, remember
  your servant."

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Kingdom Strategy of Abigail

• Reminded him of who he is in Gods Kingdom.
• You are in Gods pouch you are the stone of
  God.
• Recalled past victories fight the Lords
  battles Addressed him as the king.
• Affirmed, though not yet seen, the prophetic
  anointing of Samuel Lasting dynasty
• Challenged him to remember Gods values against
  needless bloodshed.

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John the Baptist of Jesus

• Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins
  of the world.
• John 1 "This was he of whom I said, 'He who
  comes after me has surpassed me because he was
  before me.' "
• unable to untie His sandal
• He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and
  with fire.
• John 330 He must become greater I must become
  less.

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Dark Days of John the Baptist Matt. 11

• In Prison he sent his disciples to ask him,
  "Are you the one who was to come, or should we
  expect someone else?"
• Jesus replied, "Go back and report to John what
  you hear and see The blind receive sight, the
  lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the
  deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news
  is preached to the poor. Blessed is the man who
  does not fall away on account of me."

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Kingdom Strategy of Jesus

• Matthew 11 Then what did you go out to see? A
  prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a
  prophet. This is the one about whom it is
  written " 'I will send my messenger ahead of
  you, who will prepare your way before you. I
  tell you the truth Among those born of women
  there has not risen anyone greater than John the
  Baptist yet he who is least in the kingdom of
  heaven is greater than he

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Kingdom Strategy of Jesus

• From the days of John the Baptist until now,
  the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully
  advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it. For
  all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until
  John. And if you are willing to accept it, he is
  the Elijah who was to come. He who has ears, let
  him hear.

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Onesiphorus Apostle Paul

• 2 Timothy 18, 9 Paul to Timothy So do
  not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or
  ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in
  suffering for the gospel, by the power of God,
  who has saved us and called us to a holy lifenot
  because of anything we have done but because of
  his own purpose and grace. This grace was given
  us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time

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Onesiphorus Apostle Paul

• V15-18 You know that everyone in the province
  of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and
  Hermogenes. May the Lord show mercy to the
  household of Onesiphorus, because he often
  refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains. On
  the contrary, when he was in Rome, he searched
  hard for me until he found me. May the Lord grant
  that he will find mercy from the Lord on that
  day! You know very well in how many ways he
  helped me in Ephesus.

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Kingdom Strategy of Onesiphorus

• If you seek the Kingdom of God first youll see
  the Kingdom.
• Support your spiritual leaders - even against the
  nap.
• Speak the coming Kingdom of God to others. This
  is who you are in Jesus!

• Even in dark days
• He saw beyond the natural
• Often refreshed Paul
• Honored Paul while experiencing prison
• Refreshed Paul in prison
• Search for Paul hard in Rome

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Called to Encourage - Hebrews 313

• But encourage one another daily, as long as it
  is called Today, so that none of you may be
  hardened by sin's deceitfulness