04/14/2024 Church service

周日礼拜

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   God’s Kingdom Provision 上帝的国度规定

Matthew 5:3: God blesses those people who depend only on him. They belong to the kingdom of heaven!
马太福音 5:3 心灵贫穷的人有福了，因为天国是他们的。(1563)

Matthew 13:16,17: But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
马太福音 13:16,17:“但你们的眼睛是有福的，因为看得见；你们的耳朵也是有福的，因为听得见。 我实在告诉你们，以前有许多先知和义人曾渴望看见你们所看见的，听见你们所听见的，却未能如愿。
Matthew 13:11,12: He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.
马太福音 13:11,12: 耶稣回答说：“天国的奥秘只让你们知道，不让他们知道。 因为凡有的，还要给他更多，他就丰富有余；凡没有的，连他仅有的也要夺去。(page 1580)
Phil 4:19 - But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
腓立比书 4:19: 我的上帝必按照祂在基督耶稣里的荣耀，丰丰富富地赐给你们所需用的一切。(page 1907)

Luke 17:21 - For remember, the kingdom of God is within you.
路加福音 17:21: 人们不能说∶‘它在这儿’或者‘它在那儿！’因为上帝的王国在你们之中。” (page 1697)

1 Peter 1:23: For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.
彼 得 前 書 1:23: 你们已经重生，这新的生命不是来自于会死的种子，而是来自于不会死的种子。你们是通过上帝的永生信息得以重生的。(page 1966)

 

 

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God’s Kingdom Provision 2024
Matthew 13:10-16
Rainy Thursday Morning
I noticed most of us were driving in a lot more cautiously – and under the speed limit (which is unusual during the daily commute to work)
You have to drive differently in a situation like this.
The situations in our modern day are no different. This is not your grandfather’s world.
We are in the middle of an unpredictable storm that only seems to be building in its intensity.
How we navigate through this storm may make all of the difference in our future – and also determine how we get through this actual season.
Rom 8:18,19: I am convinced that any suffering we endure is less than nothing compared to the magnitude of glory that is about to be unveiled within us. The whole universe that God has made now waits for something great to happen. Everything is waiting with hope to find out who God's children really are.
“All of Heaven is waiting for you to recognize who you are.”
The Sunday Message is always meant to be heard and received.
Some people hear a sermon and feel that it wasn’t a good word – that it didn’t serve their needs. What if someone else heard the exact same message in an entirely different way on that same morning?
What if I preached a message that I knew not everyone would hear?
There is now a Great Awakening. …but are YOU awake?
It’s not just an awakening – but also a great shaking
- and only what is unshakeable will remain.
Heb 12 …we are receiving our rights to an unshakeable kingdom
Do you see what we’ve got? An unshakable kingdom! And do you see how thankful we must be? Not only thankful, but brimming with worship, deeply reverent before God. For God is not an indifferent bystander. He’s actively cleaning house, torching all that needs to burn, and he won’t quit until it’s all cleansed. God himself is Fire!
In a time a shaking, we learn to depend on God even more
Jesus said: “God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.” (Matthew 5:3)
“blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear.”
“Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you,
but not to them.”
Today’s message is one you must hear with your heart, rather than your ears
“Then his disciples approached Jesus and asked, “Why do you always speak to people in these hard-to-understand parables?”
He explained, “You’ve been given the intimate experience of insight into the hidden truths and mysteries of the realm of heaven’s kingdom, but they have not. For everyone who listens with an open heart will receive progressively more revelation until he has more than enough. But those who don’t listen with an open, teachable heart, even the understanding that they think they have will be taken from them.”
We as Believers have to TRANSCEND the global mindset and gain an understanding of our Divine positioning in the Kingdom of God.
It is something we can only comprehend by faith and revelation

Our citizenship is not primarily of this earth
As a born-again child of God, you are first and foremost a citizen of God’s Kingdom
one of the most influential and controversial figures of the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre: “The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
This planet – the nation – this government – cannot dictate whether your needs are met or not.
Your citizenship has been transferred from one kingdom to another
God has a plan for you far beyond the plans you may be hearing on the new reports
He is your source

To those who trust in the Lord… God is always Present. God has always Provided. God has always Protected.

Are we listening to the right voice?
“Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.”
Phil 4:19 - But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
We have to look to our shepherd as our source
“My cup runneth over with blessings”
We are New Covenant people – and we live in the Grace Zone
Jesus told us “all things are possible.”
We need to measure our possibilities through God’s love and grace toward us as His children (not of our own works)
Luke 17:21 - For remember, the kingdom of God is within you.
Abundance is an inside job

We pray, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.”
This should be our prayer – and our daily confession
Speaking God’s Will over our lives (not fear, or from our imagination)

Matt 16:19 – “And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.”

God’s will on this earth is to be done through us – and we have a finite amount of time to get it all done
We must be obedient – and we must be open to receiving and distributing God’s resources as He supplies them

We live by the Biblical Narrative
“Everything happens for a reason”
The Biblical view of time is linear. It is a straight line
Genesis to Revelation. Alpha to Omega. A beginning and an end. A set time

All of time – all of these events – are headed in one single direction
One day time shall end. ( )
“What will we do with the time we have left?”
The prophetic visions of God’s people have generally included an option of obedience to what God was showing us and directing us to do.
Our repentance – as individuals – and as God’s people – His church – and as a nation – can greatly impact the future.

There is a bigger storm coming. We must work while it is yet day
We see better in the daylight
Let us pray for the Light to shine and open our eyes
In order to walk in God’s Kingdom blessings, our eyes must be opened
“You’ve been given the intimate experience of insight into the hidden truths and mysteries of the realm of heaven’s kingdom, but they have not. For everyone who listens with an open heart will receive progressively more revelation until he has more than enough. But those who don’t listen with an open, teachable heart, even the understanding that they think they have will be taken from them.”
We are living somewhere in a period of Great Awakening
The Light is gradually shining in and on the hearts of men – many will finally see the world for what it is. Things have been coming to light for a long time for those who see.
It has become so obvious that it seems impossible that people are not discerning all of this.

Jesus said: “Although they listen carefully to everything I speak, they don’t understand a thing I say. They look and pretend to see, but the eyes of their hearts are closed.
Their minds are dull and slow to perceive, their ears are plugged and are hard of hearing, and they have deliberately shut their eyes to the truth.
Otherwise they would open their eyes to see, and open their ears to hear, and open their minds to understand. Then they would turn to me and let me instantly heal them.”

“Awake, thou that sleepest…”
“Their minds are dull and slow to perceive, their ears are plugged and are hard of hearing, and they have deliberately shut their eyes to the truth.”
We all know people like that.

We must pray for ourselves. Our churches. Our families. Our nation. Our world.
John 12:38 - “Lord, who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord’s power been revealed?”
John 12:40: “God blinded them and made them close-minded so that their eyes don’t see and their minds don’t understand. And they never turn to me for healing!”

As our eyes are opened – our work here is not finished – it is only begun.
We are to be God’s ministers of reconciliation as the world runs back to God.

Feel limited? ? Can you start with just a mustard seed of faith today?

It starts with us. It starts with you and me. Tiny ripples in a great big pond.
God is an everlasting ocean
Recognize YOUR need for GOD
Matthew 5: “God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
4 God blesses those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
5 God blesses those who are humble, for they will inherit the whole earth.
6 God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied.
7 God blesses those who are merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
8 God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God.
9 God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God.
10 God blesses those who are persecuted for doing right, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
To a world in darkness, we are the people who declare, “Let there be LIGHT.”
Arise and Shine
1 Thess 5: But you, beloved brothers and sisters, are not living in the dark, allowing that day to creep up on you like a thief coming to steal. For you are all children of the light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night nor to darkness.
…since we belong to the day, we must stay alert and clearheaded by placing the breastplate of faith and love over our hearts, and a helmet of the hope of salvation over our thoughts. 9 For God has not destined us to experience wrath but to possess salvation through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One. 10 He gave his life for us so that we may share in resurrection life in union with him—whether we’re awake or asleep. 11 Because of this, encourage the hearts of your fellow believers and support one another, just as you have already been doing.

Hillside United Methodist Church
3739 US 80
Phenix City  AL  36870
United States
Pastor: Mike J Koger

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