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• John 31-6
• 31 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named
  Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council.
  2 He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we
  know you are a teacher who has come from God. For
  no one could perform the miraculous signs you are
  doing if God were not with him." 3 In reply
  Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can
  see the kingdom of God unless he is born again."
  4 "How can a man be born when he is old?"
  Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second
  time into his mother's womb to be born!" 5 Jesus
  answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter
  the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and
  the Spirit.

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Born Into the Kingdom Life
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• Matt 610
• Your kingdom come, your will be done
• Matt 633
• But seek first his kingdom and his
  righteousness, and all these things will be given
  to you as well.
• Luke 442-43
• 42 At daybreak Jesus went out to a solitary
  place. The people were looking for him and when
  they came to where he was, they tried to keep him
  from leaving them. 43 But he said, "I must preach
  the good news of the kingdom of God to the other
  towns also, because that is why I was sent."

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• What is this Idea?
• The Kingdom Life

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• When one hears the word kingdom, immediately
  many different ideas, concepts, and pictures,
  come to mind. Most of our concepts in life are
  the result of our culture, social development,
  and formal and informal education. We are
  products of our culture and interpret the world
  through our mental conditioning and our past
  orientation.

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• The concept of kingdom in its original and pure
  sense has been lost to our modern world, Kingdom
  as a concept does not exist anymore in the minds
  of people in Western civilization, particularly
  in the past few generations, because all the
  prototypes either have been destroyed or
  abandoned. Because there are no kingdoms or
  remnants of kingdoms left in the western world,
  we live in a generation where the true meaning of
  this great message ever told cannot be fully
  understood.
• This is why we must realign our thinking and our
  priorities to reflect a lifestyle in the Kingdom.
  Kingdom Life!

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• Rom 1417-18
• For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating
  and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy
  in the Holy Spirit, 18 because anyone who serves
  Christ in this way is pleasing to God

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1. The greatest secret to living an effective
Kingdom Life is understanding the principle and
power of priorities.
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1. The greatest secret to living an effective
Kingdom Life is understanding the principle and
power of priorities.

• Life on earth holds no greater challenge than the
  complicating daily demand of choosing among
  competing alternatives for our limited time.
• Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we
  make every day, and those decisions are
  determined by our priorities.

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Eight Areas Within The Kingdom Life A Balanced
Life With The Right Priorities Produces Personal
Growth
3. Ministry Life
2. Financial Life
1. Family Married Life
4. Personal Life
Balanced Life
5. Physical Life
8. Spiritual Life
6. Social Life
7. Work Life
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Taking Responsibility

• No More Excuses
• No More Blame Games

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Kingdom Life Means Mastering Self
4. Discipline
3. Discovery
5. Direction
SELF
1. Dedication
2. Denial
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1. The greatest secret to living an effective
Kingdom Life is understanding the principle and
power of priorities.

• How we use our time every day eventually defines
  our lives. Life was designed to be simple, not
  complicated, and the key to simplifying life is
  priority.
• Identifying the correct and right priority of
  life is the key to a successful and fulfilled
  life. So then, what is the principle and concept
  of priority?

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• Priority is defined as
• The principal thing.
• Putting first things first.
• Establishing the most important thing.
• Primary focus.
• Placing in order of importance.
• Placing highest value and worth upon.
• First among all others.

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2. The greatest tragedy in life is not death,
but life without a purposeful life with the wrong
priorities.
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2. The greatest tragedy in life is not death,
but life without a purposeful life with the wrong
priorities.

• The greatest challenges is knowing what to do
  first.
• The greatest mistake to life is to be busy but
  not effective.
• Lifes greatest failure is to be successful in
  the wrong assignment.
• Success in life is measured by our effectiveness
  and how one uses their time.

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• Time is the true measure of life. In fact, time
  is the currency of life. How you spend your time
  determines the quality of your life and death.
• You become what you buy with your time.
• When your priorities are correct, you preserve
  and protect your life, your time, your purposes,
  your energy and other important areas.

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• Failure to establish correct priority causes you
  to waste your two most important commodities
  Your time and your energy.
• Why is this principle of priority so important
  to our discussion of the Kingdom? Because if
  priority is the essence of life, then we should
  want to know what our priority in life should be
  so that we can life effectively.
• It may surprise you to know that most of the
  people in the world are driven by incorrect
  priorities that occupy and control their entire
  lives.

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2. The greatest tragedy in life is not death,
but life without a purposeful life with the wrong
priorities.

• What are these priorities that master most of the
  human race?
• According to Psychologist Abraham Maslow who,
  after studying the motivations of human behavior,
  concluded that all human behavior is driven by
  the same basic hierarchy of needs
• Water, food, clothes, housing, protection,
  security, preservation, self-actualization and
  significance.

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• What a tragedy, to think that the basic priority
  driving most humans is that of simple survival!
• Would it surprise you to learn that most
  religions are built around the promise to meet
  these very same needs as a priority?
• Priority in religious prayers and petitions is
  for personal needs. Human needs drive religion.
  Much of what we call faith is nothing more than
  striving for the very things on that list of
  needs.

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• THE PRIORITY OF GOD
• God established His priority at the beginning of
  creation and made it clear to mankind.
• When Jesus Christ came to the earth He came to
  reestablish Gods 1 priority.
• Matt 633
• But seek first his kingdom and his
  righteousness, and all these things will be given
  to you as well.
• Seek His Kingdom The Kingdom Life

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Activating the Blessing of the Kingdom Life -
2009

• Obedience
• Love
• Faith
• Righteousness
• Fear of God

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Five Rs of Responsibility

• Review - Looking at our lives.
• Repent - Change our minds.
• Restore - Make right our wrongs.
• Remit - Release the guilt.
• Reward Honesty brings reward.

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Kingdom Life 2009 - Divine