The Coming of the Kingdom

Ballard Campus 4-03-11 Pastor Justin Holcomb

Tags: Video, MMA, Repentance

Luke 17:20-37

The Coming of the Kingdom

Ella May's story in Wenatachee at Zach's Tournament

Church planter's kid - Spinobifita means her life will last less than 35 years

She has experienced the Kingdom of God, she is filled with the Ghost

If your focus in on Jesus they you don't have to be bitter even if your life is hard

She is still waiting for the conclusion of the Kingdom of God to be full unveiling of the Kingdom when she will be a ballerina

We have been waiting for someone to fix things and make things right. God's people began to get prophesies about the coming king who will fix everything. Daniel 7 - There came one like the son of man

Jesus uses this language of the Son of man whose kingdom will not be destroyed

Jesus' Kingdom Is Coming

The kingdom broke into our world with Jesus.

Where is it? God is patient and planning an epic finish even with all the evil and horror of this life

There is no Kingdom without the Cross

Sin is the problem it must be dealth with.

Jesus came first to identify and deal with Sin

Jesus will come a second time as a glorious warrior to slay the dragon and inaugurate his Kingdom

Jesus says the second coming will be massive, sudden, unexpected, and obvious.

Will You Be in Jesus' Kingdom or Be Condemned

Lot's Wife - Jesus is affirming the truth of a miracle where she became salt

Gen 19 - Sodom and Gomorrah are incernerated while Lot's wife looks back longingly

Am I a person like Lot's Wife who is looking back longingly to my life of worldly sin? Am I condoning things I should be condemning? Am I tollerating sin that I have left?

KEEP GOING

True Chiristians have conflicted desires but their deepest desires are for Jesus not worldly folly

Jesus is affirming the truth of the Great Flood

Gen 6 - Noah's story is a forshadowing of the end. The World was judged by water and God's people are brought to a new world

The second mass judgement will be through fire

"Most people are far more prepared for a vacation than they are for eternal life"

Jesus is our humble servant king who was forshadowed by the Ark.

God shuts the door of he ark because God decide when his offer of grace come to and end and only judgement remains

The Butchered story of Noah

Noah was a good guy, everyone else was bad, be good and you get a boat = Moralism = legalism = Crap

The Bible's Story of Noah

Noah was a deeply evil man who only did evil all the time just like everyone else. God gave grace to one man and his family. He was given what he didn't deserve.