Kingdom View!
Study one man looks up; some others look up. Several looked up; 100% lookup
People look because of fear, Armageddon, the end of all things; what causes us to look up?
When my life is falling apart, when sickness, failure, sin, what is there to look up to?
Luke 21:28 When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.
So heavenly minded not earthly good, wrong, looking up is keeping Kingdom view
Kingdom View!
Key to growth in the church and us Luke 17 fear, the Kingdom of God
Luke 17:20-21 Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed… because the kingdom of God is in your midst.
Right question assuming the wrong answer; future talked about but Christ now
Our Kingdom view must see the now Kingdom of God!
Continuity of Kingdom, creation, fall, Noah, Abraham, Christ, Consummation
Look up God has always kept his people; Jesus declared destruction and safety
Pella windows, Pella Iowa, Flight to Pella, still looking up for God’s redemption
Taught to pray kingdom come, wait, coming or came?
Pray for God’s kingdom to come but understanding his kingdom is now in us
Flood hurricane, rowboat barely floating, I’ll come back, in a helicopter, no rowboat
Our Kingdom view must see the Kingdom of God’s power!
To grow in God, we must understand the authority and power of God now in us!
1 Cor 4:20 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.
Not just saying the right words, slandered responded in kindness, power to live Christ
Power is not about just making things go right, but the ability for us to live right
The kingdom is now, look up see it, but also kingdom is to come, to who
Luke 17:33 Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.
Right before, remember Lot’s wife; she was clinging to the old world, missing new
Halloween is coming, and it is easy for fear from the power of darkness to overcome us
First letter 1Thess, the church persecuted, sex, friction, live holy, love, power
The world promises peace and security; only security is found in the kingdom, with power
Ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us…
We have the power to overcome every attack in our lives
The early church understood power; Philip brings the gospel, had been follower sorcerer
Acts 8:12 But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized…
They followed the sorcerer call him the great power of God until saw kingdom power
Are you looking up? Do you see the kingdom of God now in power, that's growing
Revelation 12:10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.
Don’t let the accuser of this world have any power over you