kingdom.life

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kingdom.life
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• take a moment to think

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• if you had only one word

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• one word

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• to describe your relationship to the world

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• the world in which you live

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• breathe

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• study

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• work

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• and play

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• what would that word be?

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• lets do this again.

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• I mean, who can really answer that when
• given only like 5 seconds to think about it?

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• so Im going to give you 5 more seconds.

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• thats 10 total seconds, for the
• leisure services students in here.

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• Okay.

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• if you had only one word

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• one word

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• to describe your relationship to the world

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• the world in which you live

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• breathe

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• study

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• work

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• and play

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• what would that word be?

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• OUT of the night that covers me,Black as the Pit
  from pole to pole,  
• I thank whatever gods may be     For my
  unconquerable soul.     
• In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not
  winced nor cried aloud.  
• Under the bludgeonings of chance     My head is
  bloody, but unbowed.     

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• Beyond this place of wrath and tears     Looms
  but the Horror of the shade,   
• And yet the menace of the years     Finds, and
  shall find, me unafraid.     
• It matters not how strait the gate,     How
  charged with punishments the scroll,  
• I am the master of my fate   I am the captain
  of my soul.
• Invictus by William Ernest Henry

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master captain

• William Ernest Henry is not the only one who
  thinks that our world is something for us to
  master, in which we are captains.

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master captain

• See if you can guess the authors of the following
  quotes

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master captain

• The difference between a successful person
• and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack
• of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
• Vince Lombardi

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• A person is a success if they get up in the
• morning and gets to bed at night and in
• between does what he wants to do.
• Bob Dylan

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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution
• to succeed is more important than
• any one thing.
• Abraham Lincoln

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not
• realize how close they were to success when
• they gave up.
• Thomas Edison

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• The big secret in life is that there is no big
• secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there
• if you're willing to work.
• Oprah Winfrey

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master captain

• All of these famous quotes share one common
  premise

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• You can do anything, if you just put your mind
  to it.

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master captain

• and this premise is based on another more
  slippery premise

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• Your world can, should, and even needs to be
  ruled by you.

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master captain

• in essence, your world is your kingdom for you to
  extend your rule and reign.

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master captain

• your
• ethnicity and nationality
• education
• work experience/career path
• political ideology and even
• religious preference
• all may act to serve this endthis goal of
  helping you to figure out how to be king of your
  kingdom.

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Christian quote

• switching gears what is your favorite verse, or
  inspirational Christian quote?

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Christian quote

• question
• do you know what Jesus is most often quoted
  talking about in the Gospels?
• answer
• the kingdom of God.

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• in fact do you know what Jesus central, all-
• encompassing message was?
• Repent, for the kingdom of God is near.

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• seriously. that was Jesus central message.

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kingdom.life

• in fact, Jesus is quoted as mentioning the
  kingdom of God close to 100 times by the four
  Gospel writers.

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• think about it 100 times.

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• 100 timesthats over twice as much as he is
  quoted mentioning love. Or faith.

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• its 3 times as much as he is quoted mentioning
  forgiveness.

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• question
• why dont any of Jesus kingdom quotes make our
  usual list of quotable quotes?
• answer
• because they go against our implicit
  understanding of our world, our position in it,
  and how we relate to it.

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• how scary is that?

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• could it be that Jesus central message is the
• one we are least wanting to hear?

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• I mean, how inspirational is
• Repent, for the kingdom of God is near,
• really?

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• nevertheless

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• how would our lives be different if we viewed
• this world FIRST as the realm in which God rules
• through the risen and living King Jesus?

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• how would our lives be different if we
• viewed ourselves FIRST as subjects of Jesus
• rather than as rulers with the responsibility of
• reigning?

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• what if the secret to living a full life had less
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• do with us reigning over our lives,
• and more to do with us learning how Jesus reigns
  
• and learning how to live under his reign?

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• then, maybe its a good thing that this kingdom
  is near and not far.

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• perhaps its even inspirational.

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• and maybe we should learn what it is,

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• what it looks like,

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• how it feels,

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• how to live in it,

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• and how to tell others about it,

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• so that the life we are living

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• and the life we are proclaiming

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• and the life were inviting others into

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• is the life that Jesus lived, proclaimed, and is
• inviting us intothe one where he is King.

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• life with Jesus kingdom.life

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