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Kingdom LivingSession I of V

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Friday, September 26, 14

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It’s called the“Good News”


What is the Gospel?


A Place for Eternity


What is Heaven?


“For God so loved the world that He

gave His only Son…”


What is John 3:16?


“To save people from their sins”


Why did Jesus die on the Cross?


The Kingdom of Heaven


What is the Gospel of Jesus?


What is the Gospel of the Kingdom of God?


Into the wardrobe…

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From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

Matthew 4:17


And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.

Matthew 4:23

Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.

Mark 1:14

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Beyond the Gospel of Sin Management



Beyond the Gospel of Sin Management

Eternal Life - “Thinking about this has to be scriptural to seek the knowledge. Scripture is the place that God has deposited in public way the knowledge we need to have eternal life...and I don’t mean go to Heaven when we die. That will take care of itself.”

The Gospels of Sin Management - “Forgiveness, Liberation or Church centered gospels, are not gospels of regeneration and new life now in the present Kingdom of God under the living Lord Jesus Christ. It is often presented if we had never sinned we would have no use for Christ.”

Grace - “Is the gospel only what to do about sin? Grace is often taught as only for guilt. This misunderstands grace. Go to your Bibles for a thorough, inductive study of grace. You have to think of yourself in presenting Christ to the world - is it primarily what to do about sin?”

Dallas Willard, 2007 Harvey Fellows Institute Lectures


Beyond the Gospel of Sin Management (continued)

Is faith more than “Fire Insurance” & “Life Insurance”?

“Are we eating what we are selling? What we are selling is irrelevant to our real existence and without power over daily life.”

Helmut Thielicke, Pastor, WWII Germany (as quoted in The Divine Conspiracy, Dallas Willard, p. 39)


Beyond the Gospel of Sin Management (continued)

Do we live by a Bar Code faith?

“Grace is cheap for those who need it.” (Willard, 37)


“The knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven has been given to you.”

Matthew 13:11


You will have complete and free access to God's Kingdom,

keys to open any, every door: no more barriers

between Heaven and Earth.

Matthew 16:19 (The Message)


There’s more to my Father’s Kingdom than what you get or avoid when you die...



The Kingdom (def.) - The reign of a loving God whose Kingdom (governance) of love is now here for His sons & daughters.



There is a Kingdom...

By Jesus!

So, what is this Kingdom like?


Let us venture further up, further in…


About half an hour later—or it might have been half a hundred years later, for time there is not like time here—Lucy stood with her dear friend, her oldest Narnian friend, the Faun Tumnus, looking down over the wall of that garden, and seeing all Narnia spread out below. But when you looked down you found that this hill was much higher than you had thought: it sank down with shining cliffs, thousands of feet below them and trees in that lower world looked no bigger than grains of green salt. Then she turned inward again and stood with her back to the wall and looked at the garden.

“I see,” she said at last, thoughtfully. “I see now. This garden is like the stable. It is far bigger inside than it was outside.”

“Of course, Daughter of Eve,” said the Faun. “The further up and the further in you go, the bigger everything gets. The inside is larger than the outside.”

Lucy looked hard at the garden and saw that it was not really a garden but a whole world, with its own rivers and woods and sea and mountains. But they were not strange: she knew them all.

“I see,” she said. “This is still Narnia, and more real and more beautiful than the Narnia down below, just as it was more real and more beautiful than the Narnia outside the stable door! I see . . . world within world, Narnia within Narnia. . . .” “Yes,” said Mr. Tumnus, “like an onion: except that as you continue to go in and in, each circle is larger than the last.”


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