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Kingdom Living
Session III of V
SimplyFollowJesus.com
@Simply2Jesus
Friday, September 26, 14

Are my aspirations for the highest paid
position for my greatest security?
Match the job with the annual income…
• Air Trafﬁc Control
• Anesthesiologist
• Attorney
• Chief Executive
• Pilot
• Psychiatrist
• $234,950
• $176,550
• $174,170
• $130,490
• $122,530
• $118,070

Do I fear the lowest paid positions?
Rank in order from low to high…
•Barista
•Film Projectionist
•Lifeguard
•Shampooer
•Ticket Taker

Answers:
Highest Paid Positions
• Anesthesiologist
• Chief Executive
• Psychiatrist
• Attorney
• Air Trafﬁc Control
• Pilot
• $234,950
• $176,550
• $174,170
• $130,490
• $122,530
• $118,070

Answers:
Lowest paid from the least
• Shampooer
• Barista
• Ticket Taker
• Lifeguard
• Film Projectionist

Do not be afraid, little ﬂock, for
your Father has been pleased to
give you the Kingdom.
Luke 12:32

Trust me, my Father wants you to enter
His Kingdom…now not later.
The Kingdom of God is more than my
retirement home (Heaven) Jesus bought
(the Cross) because I can't afford it. (Sin)

The Kingdom (def.)
The reign of a loving God
whose Kingdom
governance of the royal law
of love is now available for
His sons & daughters.

In review…
There is a Kingdom...
By Jesus!
This is the Kingdom...
Of Jesus!
So, how do I enter the Kingdom?

“What is the relationship between
the King and His subjects?”

“Follow Me”
means
Kingdom Followship
We are not leading.
We have not arrived.
We are not alone.

The Master
and
His apprentice

“Follow me.”
“A Disciple, or Apprentice…
is simply someone who has
decided to be with another
person, in order to become
capable of doing what that
person does or to become
what that person is.”
Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy, p. 282

Jesus college
A “Good” School
“The Lord is my Shepherd; I lack nothing…”
Psalm 23:1
Jesus' College is the only one in which God's truth can be really learned;
other schools may teach us what is to be believed, but Christ's alone can
show us how to believe it. Let us sit at the feet of Jesus, and by earnest
prayer call in his blessed aid that our dull wits may grow brighter, and
our feeble understandings may receive heavenly things.
CH Spurgeon, Morning & Evening - Luke 24:27

“Come to me, take my yoke,
and learn from me.” Matt. 11:28-29
“Deny yourself, pick up
your cross and follow me.”
Luke 9:23
“I am the Vine, you are
the branch. Stay in me”John 15:5
Three Kingdom Woods

Now if we are children,
then we are heirs—heirs
of God and co-heirs
with Christ, if indeed we
share in his sufferings in
order that we may also
share in his glory.
Romans 8:17

Our central message - our gospel - must be one that has
a natural tendency to produce disciples of Jesus, not just
avid consumers of religious goods and services.
Disciples are self-starters in Kingdom living on the road
with Jesus day in and day out. The gospel of life now in
the present Kingdom of the Heavens (Matthew 4:17)
will produce disciples. And then we organize our
“meetings”...in a way that intelligently develops
disciples and fosters their progressive transformation
into Christlikeness from the inside.
Dallas Willard, Foreword
Renovation of the Church by Kent Carlson & Mike Lueken

“C ome to me, all
y o u w h o a r e w e a r y
and burdened, and
I w i l l g i v e y o u
r est. Take m y y o ke
upon you and
l ear n from me, for
I a m g e n t l e a n d
humble in heart,
and you will find
r e s t f o r y o u r
so uls. F o r m y y o ke
i s easy and my
burden is light.”
Mat t h ew 11:28-30 SimplyFollowJesus.com

“It is not like teaching a horse to jump better but like
turning a horse into a winged creature. For a while,
mere lumps on the shoulders.” CS Lewis, Mere Christianity

Entering
the Kingdom of God

The Problem - My kingdom come, my will be done

On & Off Ramps & Roadblocks
- Not as Scribes & Pharisees - Legalism
Matthew 5:20
+ Doing the Father’s will - Obedience
Matthew 7:21
+ As a child - Trust
Matthew 18:3; John 3:3
-/+ Hard for the rich - Greed
Matthew 19:23
-/+ Taken if self sanctiﬁed - Pride
Matthew 21:31
Kingdom Travel on
“El Camino Real”
{The High Road}

5:20, “For I tell you that unless
your righteousness** surpasses
that of the Pharisees and the
teachers of the law…”
~ ~ ~
**Righteousness (def.)
Equity of Character;
Integrity; Virtue;
Purity of life; Rightness;
Correct thinking, feeling, & acting .
Repent: Think about your thinking
Kingdom Travel on
“The King’s Highway”
The character of legalism** is you always have to be thinking and you
can’t think fast enough to stay up with it. Dallas Willard

Let us venture further up, further in…

This is how I enter the
Kingdom...
In Jesus!

In summary…
There is a Kingdom...
By Jesus!
This is the Kingdom...
Of Jesus!
This is how I enter the Kingdom...
In Jesus!
So, how do I live in the Kingdom?

What is the Gospel of
Jesus?

What is the Gospel of
the Kingdom of God?

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