Thy Kingdom Come!
Psalm 67 - A Call To Worship
Vss 1-2 A call for God's blessing for the purpose of world evangelization

The Aaronic blessing
Numbers 6:22-27

For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God. II Corinthians 4:15

Psalm 67
Vss 3-4 A call for the nations to bless the Lord in view of His righteous judgments
Vss 5-7 A call for the nations to bless the Lord in view of His coming Kingdom

Isaiah 9:2-3, 6-7
"The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light"
"Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end"

Fearful scenes are flung our way;
Masses jostle to a judgment day,
led by liars headed for fire;
death they ignore and demons admire;
helpless, hopeless, tricked, but proud --
who will go and love this crowd?

He who bravely met the test
leaves for us the scene impressed:
Who will die as Jesus died,
calmly setting self aside?
--- Byron Harting

Go into all the world

Light Bulb outreach

Partnering With Purpose
Ecclesiates 4:9 - Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

The Power of Partnership

• Partnership makes difficult tasks easy
• "You can do what I cannot do. I can do what you cannot do. Together we can do great things." - Mother Teresa
• Boys on the railroad tracks, linking arms, balancing both.

Faith Promise

• Working together for a common vision.
• Helping hearts with a common passion become partners for a greater vision.
• "We have not come together to compete with one another --- but to complete one another" - Bill McCartney

What is a Faith Promise?

• A means of giving to God when you don't have anything to give.
• • Trusting God for some of His money to use for evangelism.
  • CCC's method of determining our missions outreach.
• It is not based on your known resources, but on your faith.
• • You promise to give what you Heavenly Father will supply
  • "My daddy will pay this"
• An agreement between you and God.
• • No one will come or call to collect it.
  • This promise represents your personal goal of what you want to attempt for God.
• A plan for giving to God's work in addition to your regular tithes and offerings.
• • Tithe is 1/10 of your earned income
  • Offerings are your sacrificial gifts as the Holy Spirit leads
  • Alms are compassionate giving to relieve the oppressed or of giving to the poor.
• Faith Promise giving stretches the faith of the giver past its current boundaries.
• • This seeing how God supplies the funds.
  • Faith Promise giving enables every Christian to have a part in fulfilling the Great Commission.

What is 750,000 miles long, reaches around the earth 30 times, and grows 20 miles longer each day?
The line of people who are without Christ.

A missionary is one who never gets used to the sound of heathen footsteps on their way to a Christless eternity.

Simplify Your Life

Sermon in a sentence:
Acknowledge God and show Him gratitude and you will simplify your life.

"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." Galatians 2:20

"I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living." Psalms 27:13

"I will enter His gates with thanksgiving in my heart, I will enter His courts with praise, I will say this is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice for He has made me glad." Psalm 100

Living Life To The Full

• Philippians 4:4 "Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!"
• • A command and a way of life - Rejoice!
  • This is the most appropriate exhortation at this holiday season.
  • Whatever challenges our world faces, whatever trial may be bearing upon your soul, we can and should wholeheartedly rejoice over the angel's glorious pronouncement.
• Luke 2:10-11 "Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord."

We Are Blessed
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...
you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ...
you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...
you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...
you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace...
you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married...
you are very rare.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful...
you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.

If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder...
you are blessed because you can offer healing touch.

Seven Things To Be Thankful For:

1. For automatic dishwashers. They make it possible to get out of the kitchen before the family come in for their after-dinner snacks.
2. For husbands who attack small repair jobs around the house. They usually make them big enough to call in professionals.
3. For the bathtub -- the one place the family allows Mom some time to herself.
4. For children who put away their things and clean up after themselves. They're such a joy you hate to see them go home to their own parents.
5. For gardening. It's a relief to deal with dirt outside the house for a change.
6. For teenagers. They give parents an opportunity to learn a second language.
7. For smoke alarms. They let you know when the turkey's done.

The King's Justice

Sermon In A Sentence
The vision of the Kingdom will be fulfilled in Jesus Christ at His 2nd coming!

Serving the King and His Kingdom!

Jonah and Nahum
II Timothy 3:1-5
Habakkuk 2:2-3

"Those who worship false gods have turned their backs on all the mercies waiting for them from the Lord!" Jonah 2:8 TLB

"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum." --- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6

5 Key Words

• Presence - The Fear of the Lord
• Devotion - Your Focus on the Lord
• Passion - The Zeal of the Lord
• Godliness - The Holiness of the Lord
• Contentment - The Rest of the Lord

Preparing for Revival, Praying for harvest!
What we need:

• Attitude of Expectancy
• Childlike Faith
• Desperate Abandonment
• Spontaneous Order
• Burden for Souls

The Battle is NOW!
Baal worship in America?

• Government sanctioned religious persecutions against Christians
• Baals priests promoting immorality, sensuality and excess (licentiousness).
• Offering up children to the Baals - abortion
• Institutionalizing homosexuality - Same sex marriage - Civil unions - domestic partnerships

Jesus said,
"When you hear of wars and insurrection beginning, don't panic."

"True, wars must come, but the end won't follow immediately - for nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom,..."

"...and there will be great earthquakes and famines in many lands, and epidemics and terrifying things happening in the heavens."

"There will be strange events in the skies - warnings, evil omens and portents in the sun, moon and stars and down here on earth the nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas and strange tides."

"The courage of many people will falter because of the fearful fate they see coming upon the earth, for the stability of the very heavens will be broken up."

Consider God's intentions:

• Garden paradise
• - personal communion - tree of life
  
• Garden restoration
• - restoration - trees of life / river of life
  
  
• Revelation 19:7-9
• - Marriage Supper of the Lamb
  
• Revelation 19:11-14
• - The Soon Coming King
  
• Revelation 20:1-6
• - The Millennium
  
• Revelation 21:1-7
• - The New Heaven and the New Earth

The King of Kings
The Glory of the Lord is Risen Upon Us!

The Conquering Caleb
Taking The Kingdom By Force

Matthew 11:12

• "...the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force."
• The Kingdom is set forward with POWER!
• Violent men! =
• • Men whose mind is made up!
  • They don't care what it takes to obtain it!
• Abundant Life now! Greek - bios

The Conquering Caleb

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it." Numbers 13:30

"But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it." Numbers 14:24

Caleb - The Popeye spirit

Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him: "You know the word which the LORD said to Moses the man of God concerning you and me in Kadesh Barnea.." Joshua 14:6

Faith begins where the will of God is known!

Without wavering, not double-minded --
"He wholly followed the Lord"

Joshua 14:6-15

• Vss 6-9 The Consecration of Faith
• • But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. James 1:6-8
  • God had all of Caleb, we think we need more of God
  
  
• Vs 10 The Confession of Faith
• • "The Lord has kept me"
  • You can't have a testimony without a test!
  • "Man does not live by bread alone, but every word that proceeds from the mouth of God."
  
  
• Vs 11 The Courage of Faith
• • Faith is not - positive thinking - blind optimism - or just looking on the bright side!
  • Faith is acting on God's Word!
  • Just don't quit!
  
  
• Vs 12 The Claim of Faith
• • "Give me this mountain"
  • • Which one? The one where the giants were.
  • There was no life of ease for Caleb. He wanted to be where the challenges were.
  
  
• Vs 12 The Company of Faith
• • Caleb felt he could do anything - be anything - and go anywhere, if only the Lord was with him.
  • If God is with us - Victory is sure.
  • Romans 8:31 "If God is for us, who is against us?"
  
  
• Vs 12 The Confidence of Faith
• • "I'll be able to drive them out" as the Lord said.
  • Caleb had the divine promise of victory over his enemies, therefore he was confident of victory.
  • Self confidence is man acting without God
  • Faith is confidence upon the Lord.
  • I John 5:4 - This the victory = our faith!
  
  
• Vss 13-14 The Compensation of Faith
• • Caleb is rewarded because of his faithfulness. Hebron becomes his inheritance.
  • "Hebron" means "Fellowship" - Fellowship with the Lord is the reward of walking with God.
  
  
• Vss 15:14 The Conquest of Faith
• • Motto of the French Foreign Legion
  • "If I falter, push me on. If I stumble, pick me up. If I retreat, shoot me."

Faith honors God, and God honors faith!

• "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him." Hebrews 11: 6
• Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
• We can do nothing outside of faith!
• • Come to God, please God, find God, know God, receive from God, work for God
• God does not meet you at your point of need, He meets you at your point of faith!
• The living God is a faith God that has established a faith covenant with a faith people.

Faith is not believing that God can -- It is knowing that God will!

• I John 5:4 - This the victory = our faith!
• Romans 10:8 "This is the faith that we preach"
• Romans 10:17 "comes by hearing"
• • The condition is faith - a faith that originates with God
  • • Romans 10:9 - re: salvation
    • I Peter 2:24 - re: healing
    • John 8:31-32 - re: deliverance
    • III John 2; Philippians 4:19 - re: prosperity
    • I Corinthians 15:57 - re: victory
    • John 15:11 - re: Joy