Expected End » Lessons http://expectedend.com For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:18:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 The Kingdom of Heaven is Like: http://expectedend.com/2009/08/27/the-kingdom-of-heaven-is-like/ http://expectedend.com/2009/08/27/the-kingdom-of-heaven-is-like/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:10:02 +0000 allen http://expectedend.com/?p=227 The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man
Struggling past and present associations who try to replace the dominate role God and family should have in his life.
One day he yields to the gentle prodding of the Spirit and who, though  late in life, begins to live a fulfilling, abundant, and rewarding life he could never have dreamed of.

The Kingdom of Heaven is like a woman
A woman who was hurt and torn by parents and siblings who seemed to be so needy but beyond her ability to help. But who resolves to raise her children up in the fear and admonition of the Lord

The Kingdom of Heaven is like a young woman
who has witness devastating turmoil in her family. Unfaithfulness, selfishness, bitterness, lack of love. But she looks within finds the God given strength to smile. To excel at school. To pray and meditate upon the word. She has learned that there is one who will never leave her nor forsake her. Who has nothing but thoughts of love and peace towards her and promises her a future and a hope.

The Kingdom of Heaven is like a woman
who is little in her own eyes but who allows the very big God within her to guide here and direct her as she works as a resource and a consolation to people all over the community.

The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man
who faces a number of mountain high obstacles to enjoying a peaceful, productive, and spiritual life for himself and his children. Though at times the the way seems dim, he does not give up. He trusts in God who is working within and so he keeps fighting, he keeps struggling. As as he does, the light at the end of the tunnel gets brighter and brighter and larger and larger and nearer and nearer.

The Kingdom of Heaven is like a woman
who as struggled with past relationships and been hurt. Though the hurt was in a public fashion, she did not withdraw into the shadows, but launched a church and a ministry which is poised to bless the world.

What is your parable of the Kingdom?

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  • Recruited
    • Before the foundations of the world. Ephesians 1:4 he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love
    • In our mothers womb Jeremiah 1:5, Isaiah 49:1
    • While we were yet in our sins. (Romans 5:6-11)
    • Called and drawn by God John 6:44
    • At the right time
  • Inducted –Federal law requires everyone who enlists or re-enlists in the Armed Forces of the United States to take the enlistment oath.
    • Baptized in water and the Spirit Matthew 28:19
    • Receiving the Holy Spirit as an earnest Ephesians 1:13,14
    • Becoming Sons and Daughters of God, subjects of the Kingdom John 1:12,13
  • Trained
    • Taught by the Holy Spirit 1 John 2:27
    • Taught by trials and sufferings James 1:2-4 (esprit de corps group spirit; sense of pride)
    • Taught by the elders in the faith Ephesians 4:11-16
    • Taught by obedience though and through suffering Hebrews 5:8 *Jesus’ example
  • Commissioned
    • Disciples given “Great Commission” to preach the gospel of the Kingdom throughout the world. (Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) varies)
  • Equipped
    • Weapons II Corinthians 10:3-4 (Kathairesis destruction/extinction)
    • Signs and wonders follow verifying the word Mark 16:15-18,Acts 4:30
    • God equips us for the work He commissions us for
    • Spirit guides us into truth, directs, shows us things to come John 16:13,  Isaiah 30:21 (errors to the left)
    • Spirit gives us word to speak Matthew 10:19,20  1 Corinthians 2:4
    • The scriptures our guide II Timothy 3:16,17  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
    • Elder members of the body as guides
  • Deployed
    • Everyone a mission field determined by God Acts 1:8 ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judæa, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
    • Jerusalem
      • The home front
      • Churchianity
    • Judea
      • Believers who need the their faith fanned
      • Babes in Christ
      • Those wandering from the faith
    • Samaria
      • The so-called heretics, apostates
      • The pseudo-Christian faiths (JW, SDA, Mormons)
    • The ends of the earth
      • The unsaved
      • The new age, the Muslim, Hindu, animist, pagan, Wiccan, Buddhist, the atheist/agnostic
      • or those with no religion at all
  • Promoted
    • Humility rather than aggressiveness or a competitive spirit is rewarded
      • Luke 14:11, For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled. And he who humbles himself shall be promoted.
      • James 4:10, “Humble yourselves before the Lord and He will promote you.”
      • 1 Pet. 5:5-6, God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
    • Self-control
      • 1 Corinthians 9:24,25  Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible
    • Endurance
      • Endurance and patience are attributes of a winner
      • ”The race is not given to the swift nor the strong but to those who endureth to the end.” ??? no such bible verse, but
      • Ecclesiastes 9:11 11 ¶I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
      • Zechariah 4:6: … Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
    • Obedience
      • I Samuel 15:22: And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
      • 1 Peter 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
      • God does the exalting (Thou shalt toot thine own horn lest it shall  be tooted not)
      • Joshua 3:7  “And the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you as I was with Moses.”
  • Commended
    • II Timothy 4:7-8  I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing
    • God is glorified in promotion: Revelation 4:9-11  9 And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, 10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
    • Matthew 25:23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. 24
    • Matthew 24:14:And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

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