Apr 17, 2020
| by Darrius Hubbard
Finding the Kingdom of God. Luke 17:20-21.
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hello Antioch family and Facebook
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friends Pastor Darrius Hubbard here to share
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a word of encouragement with you today
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life can be full of pain suffering
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heartache and even loss and we can find
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ourselves out of hopelessness or
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anticipation looking and longing for a
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new world even you can find ourselves
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questioning God when the promise of his
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kingdom will come it’s because we want
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to see and feel the promise of a
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painless and peaceful life here and now
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but these longings and questions are not
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new to Jesus we see the very same
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question being asked of him in Luke
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chapter 17 verses 20 through 21 let’s
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read that together once being axed by
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the Pharisees when the kingdom of God
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would come jesus replied the coming of
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the kingdom of God is not something that
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can be observed nor will people say here
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it is or there it is because the kingdom
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of God isn’t is in your midst a few
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things that we see in these short verses
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here is that the kingdom of God coming
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does not look like what we would imagine
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it would look like it is not something
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that can be labeled box nor will it be
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something in flashing neon lights on top
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of a building we also see here with the
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Pharisees questions they were very much
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known for acting hostile questions to
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Tripp Jesus up and we see that in these
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verses that hostile observation doubting
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eyes are unable to receive or see the
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kingdom of God
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viewing this kingdom can only happen
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through faith in Christ
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lastly we see in these verses that seen
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the kingdom of God means understanding
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that we don’t look to buildings products
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movements wealth or even a virus-free
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world to find the kingdom of God with it
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we find that with
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and among us so as we place our faith
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and hope in Jesus Christ the King there
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is the kingdom he lives in us and we
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become carriers of the kingdom so our
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words deeds and thoughts confirm to the
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world around us that the kingdom is here
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so I wanted to encourage you today as
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you go about your day your week bring
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God’s kingdom to those around you by
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loving your enemies praying with others
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listening well using uplifting words and
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sharing the gospel god bless you guys