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  • Christ’s CHURCH -2- His Gospel of the Kingdom

    Christ’s CHURCH -2- His Gospel of the Kingdom

    Who’s Kingdom? Where is it? When?

    What is the Good News of the Kingdom?

    All questions of the Church and even those sceptics the Lord will choose — questions about when God will finally look more like a King in charge of His own Kingdom creation. This post is not exhaustive of course, but it brings Scripture from the Gospel into our conversation about the Kingdom of God.

    John tells us:

    Jesus IS the WORD of God and even more than that which we can see or hear.

    Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king,
    Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

    Gospel of John 15:6 – quote from previous talkofJesus.com post

    Jesus Christ rose from death! He brought Good News to the captives of death.

    Yet some seek to prove that God will never reign over death and the souls of His creation.

    psalm 14:1 fool says there is no god

    Scriptures

    Matthew 5,6,7 & 24 excerpts

    John 10 & 14 excerpts

    Acts of the Apostles 7:35-40

    The Revelation of Jesus Christ to John 22 excerpt

    Original talkofJESUS.com post

    The Gospel of the Kingdom – 2
    from May 30, 2014 – Topic: Kingdom of Heaven
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  • Christ’s CHURCH + His ‘saints’ on MISSION

    Christ’s CHURCH – Vision and Mission

    MULTIPLY

    our church Mission

    Our local church has a vision, a mission statement and much more. (Most likely you church does too.) Do you know your church vision? Does your pastor preach scripture to you and your church?

    In a brief look at traditional business plans of local churches I provide the saints (church members) with some food for thought.

    Do you have one related to God’s will?

    Here’s my Statement of Faith.

    Scriptures

    1 Timothy 1:15

    2 Corinthians 4:3

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    Mark 16:15-16

    Philippians 3:

    The Goal of Life [NASB heading]

    Original talkofJESUS.com post

    Mission – 1 – What?
    From July 17, 2015 – Topic: Mission
  • yāḏaʿ yāḏaʿ yāḏaʿ – Surely you know: יָדַע

    yāḏaʿ yāḏaʿ yāḏaʿ – Surely you know: יָדַע

    Whatever..

    Yada, yada, yada..

    Someone tried to share some wisdom with you, perhaps a Proverb or something, and you stop them short. You THINK you understand OR more likely there is NO WAY that you can ever understand. Really, they speak a language you DON”T understand, perhaps Yiddish, or God-forgive, Hebrew.

    yāḏaʿ (yaw-dah’) – יָדַע

    Yes, it’s from the Hebrew (not the Yiddish) Bible

    Surely you know..

    psalm 30 in Hebrew

    30 דִּבְרֵ֤י׀ אָג֥וּר בִּן־יָקֶ֗ה הַמַּ֫שָּׂ֥א נְאֻ֣ם הַ֭גֶּבֶר לְאִֽיתִיאֵ֑ל לְאִ֖יתִיאֵ֣ל וְאֻכָֽל׃

    2 כִּ֤י בַ֣עַר אָנֹכִ֣י מֵאִ֑ישׁ וְלֹֽא־בִינַ֖ת אָדָ֣ם לִֽי׃

    3 וְלֹֽא־לָמַ֥דְתִּי חָכְמָ֑ה וְדַ֖עַת קְדֹשִׁ֣ים אֵדָֽע׃

    4 מִ֤י עָלָֽה־שָׁמַ֨יִם׀ וַיֵּרַ֡ד מִ֤י אָֽסַף־ר֨וּחַ׀ בְּחָפְנָ֡יו מִ֤י צָֽרַר־מַ֨יִם׀ בַּשִּׂמְלָ֗ה מִ֭י הֵקִ֣ים כָּל־אַפְסֵי־אָ֑רֶץ מַה־שְּׁמ֥וֹ וּמַֽה־שֶּׁם־בְּ֝נ֗וֹ כִּ֣י תֵדָֽע׃

    You know Hebrew, right? (Or maybe not.) And of course you knew prophesy appears in other books of the Bible besides the ‘major’ and ‘minor’ Prophets. Right?

    A brief look at this prophet, Agur

    • His utterance: This has the sense of a prophetic word, inspired by God. Like Solomon earlier in the book (Proverbs 2:6), Agur understood that his words here came from God.
    • Many previous proverbs teach that humility is an essential aspect of wisdom. Here, with poetic exaggeration, Agur declared his own limitations when it comes to understanding and wisdom.

    “Philosophy had failed him, and revelation was his sole confidence.”

    Charles Spurgeon

    Scriptures

    Proverbs 30

    Original talkofJESUS.com post

    Prophesy in a Proverb
    from September 13, 2013 – Topic: Prophesy in a Proverb
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