THY KINGDOM COME

February 13, 2011
MF Blume


Luke 11:20 KJV  But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.



God cast satan out of heaven and when we specifically cast out devils, the kingdom is come because it is heaven extended into the earth.

Mark 9:1 KJV  And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.

Matthew 16:24-28 KJV  Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.  (25)  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.  (26)  For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?  (27)  For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.  (28)  Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.


This is not the coming that we look forward to in our future.

Notice verse 25 26 27 all begin with FOR….reason for  what was just said.

Follow Jesus FOR… because you will lose your life later if you do not lose it now by taking the cross.

BECAUSE… You profit nothing if you gain the whole world and yet forever lose your soul

BECAUSE… the Son of man will come in glory and reward every man---

This coming has to do with losing life now to gain it again later.

HISTORY

Many thousands of Jews were slaughtered, on one occasion as many as fifty thousand valiant men, together with women and children. The soldiers spared neither old nor young, neither the pregnant nor babes in arms. On one occasion Vespasian send six thousand young men as slaves to Achaia, to dig on the Isthmus. Thirty thousand Jewish combatants were sold into bondage. In desperation, five thousand threw themselves off of high cliffs.

The city of Jerusalem was well fortified and had three walls. Therefore the Roman forces approached in full force to storm the city; and after much work, the first and second walls conquered and taken. At this same time, an innumerable multitude of people died of hunger, as Josephus wrote. The best of friends would often come to blows over a small piece of bread; children would often rip food from their parents' mouths. Neither brother nor sister had mercy upon the other. A bushel of corn was more precious than gold. Driven by hunger, some ate manure; some, the cinches of their saddles; some, the leather stripped from their shields; some still had hay in their mouths when their bodies were found; some sought to escape starvation by means of their own filth. So many died of starvation that 115,000 corpses were found in the city and buried. Hegesippus reported that, at one gate alone, several thousand were carried out, and that 600,000 dies because of the siege.
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The total number of captives who remained alive came to ninety-seven thousand; however, at the beginning of the siege, ten times one hundred thousand were in the city, the majority of them strangers and not residents, although all were of Jewish descent and blood.

(Taste death now, and find it again later.)


KINGDOM COME when these people still alive.


How could this be the kingdom come?

We reflect heaven by having victory…when Kingdom comes then no persecution like this.

When we do not have victory over the enemy the kingdom is not here,.