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.
- People
alive then would not die before the kingdom would come.
- Jesus
said the KINGDOM IS AT HAND.
- 2000
years?
- Daniel
told to seal book til time of end.
- John
told to not seal it since time at hand.
- JOHN
must have been in time of end.
- TIME
OF THE END not END OF TIME.
- But
END of what?
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---
- Can
only mean HIS COMING is when some will be rewarded well and others not.
- TASTING
OF DEATH in verse 28 is losing the soul
- The
son coming in glory is noted because we need to lose our souls to gain
them again, and we gain them when the son of man comes.
This coming has to do with losing life now to gain it again later.
- But
those who saved their lives and refused to suffer for Him would lose
them forever WHEN THE SON COMES.
- A
REWARD would be given two thousand years ago!
- Losing
life for Jesus is TASTING DEATH.
- Taste
death whenever take cross.
- Being
mocked and taking it.
- He
meant some will not listen and take their crosses,since they will not
taste death THEN, but they certainly will taste it WHEN HE COMES.
- And
when they taste it then, they will never get it back.
- 40
years later Rome smashed Jerusalem,and they lost their lives.
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.
….
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?
- Christians
experienced victory when enemy stopped.
- In
heaven there is victory and not persecution.
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,.