Kingdom living 3 of 5

Kingdom LivingSession III of V

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Friday, September 26, 14

Are my aspirations for the highest paid position for my greatest security?

Match the job with the annual income…

• Air Traffic Control

• Anesthesiologist

• Attorney

• Chief Executive

• Pilot

• Psychiatrist

• $234,950

• $176,550

• $174,170

• $130,490

• $122,530

• $118,070


Do I fear the lowest paid positions?Rank in order from low to high…

•Barista

•Film Projectionist

•Lifeguard

•Shampooer

•Ticket Taker


Answers:Highest Paid Positions

• Anesthesiologist

• Chief Executive

• Psychiatrist

• Attorney

• Air Traffic Control

• Pilot

• $234,950

• $176,550

• $174,170

• $130,490

• $122,530

• $118,070


Answers:Lowest paid from the least

• Shampooer

• Barista

• Ticket Taker

• Lifeguard

• Film Projectionist


Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the Kingdom.

Luke 12:32


Trust me, my Father wants you to enter His Kingdom…now not later.

The Kingdom of God is more than my retirement home (Heaven) Jesus bought (the Cross) because I can't afford it. (Sin)


The Kingdom (def.)The reign of a loving God whose Kingdom governance of the royal law of love is now available for His sons & daughters.

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In review…

There is a Kingdom...By Jesus!

This is the Kingdom...Of Jesus!

So, how do I enter the Kingdom?Friday, September 26, 14

“What is the relationship between the King and His subjects?”


“Follow Me”means

Kingdom FollowshipWe are not leading. We have not arrived. We are not alone.


The Master and

His apprentice


“Follow me.”

“A Disciple, or Apprentice…is simply someone who has decided to be with another person, in order to become capable of doing what that person does or to become what that person is.”

Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy, p. 282


Jesus collegeA “Good” School

“The Lord is my Shepherd; I lack nothing…”Psalm 23:1


Jesus' College is the only one in which God's truth can be really learned; other schools may teach us what is to be believed, but Christ's alone can show us how to believe it. Let us sit at the feet of Jesus, and by earnest prayer call in his blessed aid that our dull wits may grow brighter, and our feeble understandings may receive heavenly things.

CH Spurgeon, Morning & Evening - Luke 24:27


“Come to me, take my yoke, and learn from me.” Matt. 11:28-29

“Deny yourself, pick up your cross and follow me.”

Luke 9:23

“I am the Vine, you are the branch. Stay in me” John 15:5

Three Kingdom Woods


Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs

of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also

share in his glory.Romans 8:17


Our central message - our gospel - must be one that has a natural tendency to produce disciples of Jesus, not just avid consumers of religious goods and services. Disciples are self-starters in Kingdom living on the road with Jesus day in and day out. The gospel of life now in the present Kingdom of the Heavens (Matthew 4:17) will produce disciples. And then we organize our “meetings”...in a way that intelligently develops disciples and fosters their progressive transformation into Christlikeness from the inside.

Dallas Willard, Foreword

Renovation of the Church by Kent Carlson & Mike Lueken


“ C o m e t o m e , a l l y o u w h o a r e w e a r y a n d b u r d e n e d , a n d I w i l l g i v e y o u r e s t . Ta k e m y y o k e u p o n y o u a n d l e a r n f r o m m e , f o r I a m g e n t l e a n d h u m b l e i n h e a r t , a n d y o u w i l l f i n d r e s t f o r y o u r s o u l s . F o r m y y o k e i s e a s y a n d m y b u r d e n i s l i g h t . ”

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“It is not like teaching a horse to jump better but like turning a horse into a winged creature. For a while, mere lumps on the shoulders.” CS Lewis, Mere Christianity


Entering the Kingdom of God



The Problem - My kingdom come, my will be done



On & Off Ramps & Roadblocks- Not as Scribes & Pharisees - Legalism

Matthew 5:20+ Doing the Father’s will - Obedience

Matthew 7:21+ As a child - Trust

Matthew 18:3; John 3:3-/+ Hard for the rich - Greed

Matthew 19:23-/+ Taken if self sanctified - Pride

Matthew 21:31

Kingdom Travel on “El Camino Real”

{The High Road}


5:20, “For I tell you that unless your righteousness** surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law…”

~ ~ ~**Righteousness (def.)

Equity of Character;Integrity; Virtue;

Purity of life; Rightness;Correct thinking, feeling, & acting .

Repent: Think about your thinking

Kingdom Travel on “The King’s Highway”

The character of legalism** is you always have to be thinking and you can’t think fast enough to stay up with it. Dallas Willard


Let us venture further up, further in…



This is how I enter the Kingdom...

In Jesus!Friday, September 26, 14

In summary…There is a Kingdom...

By Jesus!This is the Kingdom...

Of Jesus!This is how I enter the Kingdom...

In Jesus!So, how do I live in the Kingdom?


What is the Gospel of Jesus?


What is the Gospel of the Kingdom of God?



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