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Understanding the Kingdom of God 0:01 Welcome to the men's global live stream. If you have a Bible, I just want you to hold 1 spot. It's in Mark chapter 4. If you don't have a Bible, don't sweat it. The verses will be on the screen. But I do wanna encourage0:12 you from a learning perspective to go ahead and click the download notes button, for a couple of reasons. You learn better when you write things down after you hear it. And then secondly, I wanna encourage, Everyman0:23 Nation who's a part of this global livestream to go back out and to get a group of guys together and and to teach it yourself, whether that's back in your church or back in your men's group. If you're joining us for0:35 the first time, we have started a new series called behind the door. And in part 1, the whole picture and theme of what's behind the door is this,0:47 that there is an experience in God that he wants for us, and many of us are experiencing some of God, but not all that he has0:59 for us. And that that that space of all that he has for us is called the Kingdom of God. He's a good father. He wants us to experience1:11 the abundant life and this super humanity and this super adventure that exists right alongside of the natural, material, invisible,1:23 and it's called the Kingdom of God. So in session 1, what we did is we just kinda raised our awareness through looking into God's word and letting God's word speak to1:35 us about this reality to which we actually belong. But after becoming aware of this reality that exists right1:47 alongside the natural, the material, and the visible, now what? How do we navigate within this realm called the Kingdom of1:58 God? Well, in part 2, we're gonna talk about how we do that. Right? And it involves 2 simple things. It involves choosing relationship with Jesus and being with Jesus to2:10 learn from Jesus, listen, the rhythms, the forces, the ways, the dynamics of the kingdom of God coming in2:22 us, coming through us, and the kingdom of God surrounding us. He is our model. He's our mentor. He's our teacher. He's our trainer2:34 in the ways, rhythms, forces, dynamics of the kingdom of God. Alright? So here's where we're going. We're gonna do just a tiny bit of review in the sense2:46 that we wanna define the kingdom of God again. We wanna wanna share our key verse, and then look at what does that mean, and how do we access the kingdom of God? Because the2:58 goal is is to get behind the doors that God presents to us. Where the kingdom is in play, we don't wanna blow by them. So we have to develop a kingdom lifestyle3:11 that has that awareness and has that insight. So in part 2, we're moving from just the awareness of the reality and maybe some lies that limit us from receiving that reality, some3:23 truths that get us into it. We're gonna move from awareness to insight. Okay? So let's review the definition of the kingdom of God. It's right there at the top of the notes. And the kingdom3:35 of God is this, it's a supernatural realm and reality where God's purposes, God's presence, and God's power are present, operating, and alongside3:47 the natural material and visible, listen, everywhere I am. So just for review, above you, below you, beneath you,3:59 beside you, in front of you, behind you, is this supernatural world and realm that has a king, it's a kingdom, it's a realm in which he operates,4:11 where his power is present, his person is present, his plans are advancing, and we can engage and experience it. But if we're not aware of it, we're4:23 gonna blow by these doors, these these kingdom doors and opportunities to get in to the super adventure called the Kingdom of God. And Jesus talks about4:34 this in the gospels. We pick the the passage from Matthew 16. He says this, I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever4:46 you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Now we unpacked that last time in a certain way, but we're gonna unpack it again and4:58 move from kind of awareness of, okay, the kingdom of God's a real thing. There's this super adventure, and it's it's amazing. It's there. I belong to it. God5:10 wants me to engage it. 2, okay, how do I have to arrange my life in view of that reality? 4 things. Number 1, I must daily recognize and accept5:23 my set of keys. Emphasis on my set. And it's important that when you think about the Kingdom of God, that you have an assignment in the Kingdom of5:35 God and that involves geography, context, spaces, and places, listen, that you uniquely occupy.5:48 So you gotta receive and accept your set of keys. You don't have my keys. I don't have your keys. My doors are not your doors because my life is not your5:59 life. The spaces and places that I occupy are different from the spaces and places that you occupy. So number 1, I must daily recognize and accept my set of keys for my6:11 day, for the doors that are gonna be made available to me. Second, I must daily be with Jesus to learn from Jesus. Right?6:23 Now, we're gonna go deeper into this, but but I wanna stress and emphasize in part 2 is that if you if you belong to the King and his kingdom6:35 and you're called into it and then you're called to participate in it, you gotta learn about it. There are ways and forces and and the6:46 person at the center of the kingdom of God who mentors and models and teaches us and trains us about the kingdom of God, who instructs us about the kingdom of God, who helps us think6:58 about, okay, how does this work? It's Jesus. He helps you think as a kingdom man so that you can live as a kingdom man, use7:10 your keys, unlock doors, whether what's behind that door is something for you, where the kingdom comes to you and in you, or it's something around7:22 you, or it's something that he's calling you to do, or it's in a situation. You learn the rhythm and dynamic and how to feel and sense and discern it from Jesus.7:34 So I must daily be with Jesus to learn from Jesus if I'm gonna be a kingdom man. Number 3, I must daily discern the7:45 doors I'm called to unlock and enter. Okay. That makes sense. Remember, it's your context, the spaces you occupy, the places where you are.7:57 And we say this a lot here at Everyman, where we work, where we live, where we pray, and where we play, where we go to the gym. Right? The places we find ourselves, that everywhere8:09 we are, the kingdom is. We said it We we talked about that in part 1. But we have to discern. Right? We have to kind of get a sense and feel, okay. That's a door,8:21 and God's calling me to take my key of faith and now step through the door. I have access through Jesus into this realm where something's8:33 going on and I'm gonna pop through that door. K? Number 4, I must daily and actively engage situations to advance God's8:45 will. Okay? And those last 2 kind of go to go together. If I discern doors okay. This is a door. I I'm it's me. It's on me. I'm called to go in and through my faith and8:57 the promise of God, I'm gonna go ahead and unlock that door because I have kingdom keys. So I'm gonna step step into this other space where something else is going on that's behind the9:09 door of the natural material and visible. That happened to me this morning. Okay? I went to the gym, I was there a little bit early. I was about to go9:20 in to a hit class and, there's a person that I know that that that came out and, you know, it was small talk at first. Okay. So there's the natural material. There's a person, we're doing9:32 small talk, you know, they asked me how things were going. I asked this person how they're they're doing and then they they shared a little something more. Like there9:44 was there was an issue with marriage and family and and then the request from the person that I was talking to at the gym said, so9:56 when you have thoughts, you know, just think about us. And I'm like, we're going outside. I said, come with me. And that's me discerning and actively engaging.10:08 Okay. And all I did was pray for this person and that was a kingdom moment that I could have blown by. Oh, I could have She could have said, oh yeah,10:20 just you know when you think about us in our family, you know, and you have some thoughts, you know just send some good thoughts our way. It was like, no I'm the man of God. I'm in that space. I'm a kingdom man. That's a10:31 door. I'm discerning the door. I uniquely am called into as a kingdom person, and there's kingdom stuff going on that I don't even know about in10:43 that marriage, with the parenting, with the husband, that stuff. And so I just went, let's go outside. And we just stepped right out the front door of the gym, public place, and10:55 I just started praying into this situation. Okay? So I'm not gonna do that unless I'm daily recognizing and accepting my set of keys to the kingdom, daily being11:07 with Jesus to kinda learn from Jesus. Okay. This is the rhythm and ways and forces of how the kingdom is at work all around you And then being ready to11:18 just kind of be in a situation and, you know, sometimes, those situations are are just small talk. But there was something offered that said,11:31 Kenny, I'm at work in this. I want to work in this. I need you to go through that door, get in that space where I'm already at work and there's a need that I wanna meet and11:43 I want you to to bring the 2 together. My works, this person's life, that need in that family. I need you to do it, not someone else.11:55 So you're not talking to someone else. There's not a there's not another dude in there that's gonna do what you're gonna do right now. Those opportunities come from, again,12:07 just kind of recognizing and accepting that you have keys, being with Jesus and learning from him, discerning the door you're called to enter, and actively engaging situations to do what? Advance12:20 God's will. Isn't that just absolutely mind blowing? Now when I left this person, I said, I want an12:32 update next time I see you. And in full faith, I was like, God, you called me into that. Now it's on you. I wanna hear what you did in that kingdom12:43 moment to advance your will and how that's ongoing, and I'm I'm out. God God's like, thank you. I'll take it over from here. And I'm big enough and loving12:55 enough and capable enough to get into that family through you guys uniting in prayer, and now it's on me and what I can do. So I did what only I can13:07 do as a kingdom man in a kingdom moment, and now God's gonna do what only he can do. Okay? Now this process that we just wrote down 1 2 3 4 about the daily thingsShow more In this video 0:01 Understanding the Kingdom of God13:19 The Parable of the Sower
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