Daily Bread - Nov 1 2006
Acts 1:3 - "To whom also He presented Himself alive by many convincing proofs after He had suffered being seen by them for forty days and speaking concerning the Kingdom of God."
Jesus continually presented the message of the Kingdom of God throughout the period of His earthly ministry. Jesus spoke of the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven 87 times. The first thing that Jesus said about the Kingdom of God was that it had to have first place in our lives if we wanted to be blessed, "seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all of these things shall be added unto you" (Matthew 6:33). Jesus testified that His power over all of the works of the devil was proof that the Kingdom of God had come (Matthew 12:28; Luke 8:1; Luke 9:11; 11:20). He also commanded the apostles and the seventy others whom He sent to demonstrate the authority of the Kingdom of God. They did so by exercising dominion and authority over every oppressing power of darkness that had afflicted man with devils, sickness, disease, and even death (Luke 9:2; 10:9).
Paul makes known to us that we have been translated from the kingdom of the world into the Kingdom of the Dear Son (Colossians 1:13; 2 Timothy 1:10; Hebrews 2:14). We may understand the Kingdom of God as the realm of the Spirit - the place from which the Lord Jesus Christ reigns supreme and the will and blessings of God are fully realized.
Blessings,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
www.abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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