The Kingdom

I.  The kingdom refers to God’s domain.  

     A.  The kingdom is where God lives.

1.  It is an invisible realm.  The throne of God is the 

            center of the kingdom.  The spiritual realm.

2.  The kingdom is realized when what happens here 

            on earth is at it is in heaven.  

3.  The kingdom comes in the presence of the Holy Spirit.

            Worship and prayer can cause heaven to invade earth.

B.  Faith brings God’s world into our world.

    1.  “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence

of things not seen.”  (Hebrews 11:1)

  2.  When we pray we loose what is in heaven to be loosed

on earth.

   3.  Faith is the connection by way of prayer. 

   4.  When does the kingdom come?  

a.  It comes in the presence of the Spirit of God.

b.  Whenever miracles or healings occur it breaks

                through.

     C.  Jesus spent 40 days teaching His disciples the kingdom.

       1.  Easter is resurrection Sunday.  Pentecost is Pentecost 

Sunday.  Pentecost also means 50.  Subtract 40 from 50

will give you the number of days the disciples spent in the
            upper room.  That number is ten.

      2.  On resurrection Sunday, Jesus breathed on the apostles

and told them to receive the Holy Spirit.  They were 

then indwelt with the Holy Spirit.  However, they were

not filled with the Holy Spirit because that came on 

Pentecost Sunday.

      3.  All Christians are indwelt with the Holy Spirit but not

all Christians are filled with the Holy Spirit.  You must

pray for God to fill you with the Holy Spirit.

      4.  Through baptism we are indwelt with the Holy Spirit

which is our salvation.

      5.  To be baptized in the Holy Spirit is to be filled with

the Spirit and this equips us with power to carry forth

the Great Commission.  (Matthew 28:16-20).

II.  Do you know when the presence of God is near?

     A.  He’s showing up but do you know it?

1.  Some people feel a sensation in their body.  Some feel

            His actual presence by sensing it around them.  Some

            may want to feel like crying when God’s presence is

             near.  People have different experiences.

2.  The glory of God is when God is in your midst.  When

            God is in your midst healing takes place as well as 

            miracles.  Thus, the question is, “How can we ask God

            to come in or midst?”

B.  We can change the atmosphere of our environment.

   1.  Our internal environment can change our external 

environment.  Unfortunately, the external environment

can also change our internal environment.

   2.  We are to live consciously that the Holy Spirit is within

us and to be aware of His presence.

   3.  The Bible says we are to allow the Holy Spirit to flow

through is like a river to help others.  Too many

          Christians have imprisoned the Holy Spirit instead.

   4.  Being aware of the Holy Spirit within us, and seeking to

do God’s will by being obedient, we can release the Holy

Spirit into the atmosphere to change that environment.

   5.  For example, going to a jail and the prisoner feels 

horrible and without hope.  By praying with this person

you can release the Holy Spirit of God into that jail

cell and change that entire environment by the power,

dunamis, of God.  Giving that person hope.

   6.  By being obedient, for we cannot save or heal anyone,

we allow the Holy Spirit to do the work.  In so doing,

we have allowed the kingdom of God to break through.

Heaven will have actually invaded earth.