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So let's bring it home and say, well, what is a kingdom? A kingdom has a king that reigns over it.

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It's a dominion that has a king that reigns over it. So what is the kingdom of God?

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It is the place that God reigns. See, interestingly enough, Jesus talked probably more about the

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kingdom than almost anything else. 147 times he brings it up in the New Testament.

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Pretty important stuff. And of course, they understood a kingdom and they were looking

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forward to a messianic kingdom. They were looking forward to get rid of the Roman rule that was

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oppressing them and holding them down. They were looking for Jesus to come in there, set up camp,

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get rid of the bad guys, put in the good guys, let's rock this kingdom.

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And Jesus went on to say something that I wish I could have been a fly on the wall

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when he said it. Completely shocking. It doesn't get talked about. Perhaps it's been obscured.

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He said, the kingdom is within you. The kingdom of God is within you.

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Let's put everything that we just said together. The kingdom is a place where a king rules. The

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kingdom of God is a place where God rules. And that place is within you. Put those two together

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about what it means to prosper in all things as your soul prospers. See, we've got a mind,

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will, and emotions that can get in the way that can mess up living in the kingdom and walking

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in the ways of the kingdom. You'll often hear me with sayings that God has given me. One of them

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that you'll hear probably throughout is there's no lack in the kingdom.