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The King and His Kingdom


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Jesus had ONE message:

THE KINGDOM

From that time Jesus began to preach ,and to Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand(Mt.4:17)

The word repent is metanoeo and literally methink differently.

We repent to get forgiven, God says repent tokingdom!


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Matt.4:18-23

And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galiletwo brothers, Simon called Peter, and Ahis brother, casting a net into the sea; fwere fishermen. Then He said to them

Follow Me, and I will make you fishersmen. They immediately left their netsfollowed Him.


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Going on from there, He saw two othebrothers, James the son of Zebedee, an

his brother, in the boat with Zebedee th

father, mending their nets. He called th

and immediately they left the boat and

father, and followed Him.


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And Jesus went about all Galilee, teachtheir synagogues, preaching the gospel

kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickne

all kinds of disease among the people.


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In order to understand how God gets hto earth you must understand it in the

of connecting.

In the beginning God wired into our DNDESIRE and CAPACITY to CONNECT.


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Gen.2:7-8

And the Lord God formed man of the dthe ground, and breathed into his nostr

breath of life; and man became a living

The Lord God planted a garden eastwa

Eden, and there He put the man whom

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Gen.2:18;24-25

And the Lord God said, It is not good thashould be alone; I will make him a helper

comparable to him.

Therefore a man shall leave his father and

and be joined to his wife, and they shall b

one flesh. And they were both naked, the

and his wife, and were not ashamed.


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Gen.3:8-10

And they heard the sound of the Lord Godwalking in the garden in the cool of the daAdam and his wife hid themselves from thpresence of the Lord God among the tree

garden. Then the Lord God called to Adamsaid to him, Where are you? So he said,heard Your voice in the garden, and I was because I was naked; and I hid myself.


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Written into mans whole life is the NEED belong.

Sin introduced shame and shame will not connection.

Shame makes us hide, keeps us cloaked insecrecy, and causes us to walk in blind seawhat we neither understand nor are willinembrace.


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Jesus came to introduce us to the KINGHis Kingdom. They belong together inCONNECTION.

What that looks like is what we would c

COMMUNION. You can have church ba meeting demands no communion, bucant have Kingdom without communio


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Experts tell us there are 3 basic needsinherent in all human nature:

1.The Need to Belong

2. The need for significance

3. The need for security

The primary need is to belong

In a broken nest there are no whole eggs


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The central acute sickness of this age is thpeople do not belong to anything significa

Jesus came FIRST to invite you to BELONGbelieve.

Then based on that connection you find Rsignificance.

Then comes REAL security based on BELO


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Tell me something other than the KINGDOmeets mans greatest needs.

We, as the church, must offer the KINGDOits power NOT just church!

All meaning, life, redemption, and fulfillmfound in the KINGDOM!

Kingdom people are NOT hiding, not ASHAand not afraid to connect!

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