765 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 1 Book 64 - But God! - (Kingdom of God) - Part 1

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 64 BUT GOD - (Kingdom of God) MATTHEW 6:33 All right, Matthew chapter 6 and we’re in Christ’s earthly ministry. All right Matthew chapter 6, the verse that we want to find (the "But seek") is verse 33, but let’s go back and see how Jesus builds up to that statement. Matthew 6:28-32a (Lilies) 30. Now, if you know how to read, what does that statement right there tell you? He’s talking to Jews! Matthew 6:32a The Gentiles didn’t call God their Father. The only gods they had were the idols and the pagan, mythological gods and goddesses. They didn’t know the God of the Bible. Your first priority, Jesus says, should be to "seek the kingdom of God." You hear so much today, "We’ve got to fill up the Kingdom. We’ve got to work for the Kingdom." One is the Kingdom of Heaven and the other one is the Kingdom of God. Why do we hear the Kingdom of Heaven on one hand and the Kingdom of God on the other? We’ll call that the Kingdom of God, because the Kingdom of God is that whole sphere of God’s Sovereignty over which He is in total control, which would include the heavens, the angelic hosts, all believers from day one until the end. Anytime you and I talk about things concerning the Word of God, it’s concerning the Kingdom of God, because it’s under His Sovereign grace and control. And so anytime that we have anything spiritual it pertains to the Kingdom of God. Now, on the other hand, the Kingdom of Heaven is in that circle that you have now labeled the Kingdom of God. Here you have the Kingdom of Heaven. It’s part of God’s domain. forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God:" But all right, what kingdom were the Twelve, or the Eleven, what were they really interested in? The earthly Kingdom of Heaven that Christ was one day going to set up! All right, so here I think the "Kingdom of God" is a direct reference to the earthly Kingdom of Heaven, even though it’s called the Kingdom of God. Now, what kingdom are they talking about? The earthly Kingdom! That earthly Kingdom that’s been promised ever since, you might say, the call of Abraham. It’s going to be a glorious earthly Kingdom. Now, that’s the Kingdom of Heaven. It’s in the Kingdom of God, because it’s in God’s Sovereignty. Is it talking about the earthly Kingdom, or it is talking about that invisible sphere of God’s influence. All right, let’s go back to the Old Testament and see how the concept of this earthly Kingdom begins to unfold. There is so little understanding amongst Christendom of this earthly Kingdom over which Christ will rule and reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Daniel chapter 2 and I might as well start at verse 31. I might as well share with my television audience what I shared with the studio audience. Daniel chapter 2 starting at verse 31 and he’s addressing King Nebuchadnezzar about his dream. Daniel says to Nebuchadnezzar: Daniel 2:31 "Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. All right and now he says in verse 32. Daniel 2:32-33 33. His legs of iron, his feet part iron and part of clay." All right, now here we have Gentile history, coming down from 606 BC up to the time of Christ and beyond when the Roman Empire disappeared. Now, let’s go on to Verse 34. I always use that word as a point in time. Closer and closer. All right, now look what happens. Daniel 2:34a Well, God’s power. Jesus Christ. All right, so here we have, prophetically speaking then, the coming of Jesus Christ, who is going to literally crush every vestige of these Gentile Empires. Daniel 2:34b "…stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were iron and clay, and brake them to pieces." Why does the stone strike the feet? Right now the Euro dollar, the last I read, is $1.39. It’s gone right by the dollar in value. Not America. Europe. All right, then he used two different poll figures. It would devastate our economy in a week’s time. All right, now as that stone, symbolically now, remember this is symbolism, but it’s a literal fact that as that stone strikes the feet, the revived Roman Empire, it is going to crush the iron and the clay. Then we’ve got, like I said, the revived Roman Empire and then the Babylonian. So, all of these empires are right back in every day’s news again today. All right, so he says, verse 34, reading it again. Daniel 2:34-35a Daniel 2:35b "…and the stone (Christ at His Second Coming) that smote the image became a great mountain, (And the word mountain in our Old Testament is a kingdom. So, Christ sets up a kingdom.) Because all I’m trying to establish is that there is coming an earthly Kingdom over which Christ will rule and reign. Daniel 7:13-14 #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible