God’s Kingdom is Always Expanding!

Brent LokkerBlazing Fire Church

May 24, 2014

God’s Kingdom is Always...IncreasingAdvancingExpandingSaturating

OvercomingWinning!

Kingdom = The King’s Domain

“Your Kingdom come; Your will be doneOn earth as it is in heaven.” (Matt. 6:10)

Of the increase of His government and peacethere shall be no end (KJV)

Isaiah 9:7

His dominion will grow continually and to peacethere will be no end (Lexham English Bible)

To extend his dominion in boundless peace (NJB)

His royal power will continue to grow;His Kingdom will always be at peace (GNT)

His ruling authority will grow, and they’ll beno limits to the wholeness He brings. (MSG)

His ruling authority will grow,    and there’ll be no limits to the

wholeness he brings.He’ll rule from the historic David throne

    over that promised kingdom.He’ll put that kingdom on a firm footing

    and keep it goingWith fair dealing and right living,

    beginning now and lasting always.The zeal of God-of-the-Angel-Armies

    will do all this.

The rest of Isaiah 9:7 (Message Bible)

Five Scriptures showing God’s expanding Kingdom

We are going from Brighter to Brighter!

The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day! (Proverbs 4:18 NIV)

We are going from Grace to Grace!

For out of His fullness (abundance) we have all received [all had a share and we were all supplied with] one grace after another and spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing and even favor upon favor and gift [heaped] upon gift.(John 1:16 AMP)

We are going from Strength to Strength!

They make their way from strength to strength... (Psalm 84:7 NKJV)

We are going from Faith to Faith!

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith.” (Romans 1:17 NKJV)

We are going from Glory to Glory!

All of us are looking with unveiled faces at the glory of the Lord as if we were looking in a mirror. We are being transformed into that same image from one degree of glory to the next degree of glory. This comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3:18 CEB)

According to these verses, we can accurately say that the Church is currently walking in the greatest brightness, grace, strength, faith, and glory that it ever has!

“Synergy of the Ages”

Marilyn Ga

Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised. God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours.

Hebrews 11:39-40 (Message Bible)

"There shall come a breathand the breath shall bring the windand the wind shall bring the rainand the rain shall bring the floods

and floods and floodsand the floods shall bring the torrents and torrents and torrents

So shall they be saved like falling leaves from the mighty oaksswept by a hurricane in a great forest.Arms and legs shall come down from heavenand there shall be no ebb.”