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- Let me ask you a question. Will the organized church bring his kingdom in?
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- Jesus Christ himself will bring his kingdom in when the
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- Heavenly Father sees fit to send him.
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- Beginning in Luke 13 22, and he went through the cities and villages teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem.
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- Russell, he seems to have his mind fixed on Jerusalem. Why? That's right.
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- He went through the cities and villages. I cannot see him rushing or running through these villages.
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- He apparently was taking his time and teaching.
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- I think he is called a preacher only once or twice and he's always a teacher teaching the truth.
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- But he is pressing toward Jerusalem. He's continuing to move.
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- Now in 9 and 15 Luke told us, and it came to pass when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.
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- David, he sets his face to go to Jerusalem, but the thing on his mind was when it came time to be received up.
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- What's he talking about? Seems to me that he should be talking about his death, his crucifixion.
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- It must have been horrible, and it was. Isn't it amazing,
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- Verge, that as horrible and awful as the crucifixion was,
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- Christ sets his face to go to Jerusalem so he can be received up.
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- He can be received up. That was the thing that mounted something to him.
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- He's on his way there. He's on his way to Jerusalem to die.
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- We're all on our way to die. From the day we're born we begin to die.
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- This is his last journey on earth. 23.
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- Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved?
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- And he said unto them, strive to enter in at the straight gate, for many,
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- I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. Now, Russell, this shall not be able.
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- What's he referring to? They have nothing to do with it, do they?
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- But they will seek to go in. The world will be full of people seeking heaven.
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- I thank everybody that has been born. Unless they know the difference, they plan to go to heaven.
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- We see the East full of such belief. But he says that they will seek to enter, but they will not be able.
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- Now, David, not to be able, how powerful a statement is that?
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- Yes. 25. When once the master of the house, and who is that?
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- Joy? God the Father has risen up and has shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying,
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- Lord, Lord, open unto us, and he shall answer and say unto you,
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- I know you not, whence you are. Then shall you begin to say, we have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
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- What do you mean you don't know us? But he shall say,
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- I tell you, I know you not, whence you are. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
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- All ye workers of iniquity. Verge, can you be almost saved?
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- You either are or you ain't. What an awful statement our
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- Lord has made here. Sends chills down my spine.
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- 28. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you shall see
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- Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
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- What does that tell us about the ability to see, David? Yes, they'll be able to see us in the kingdom of God, but we'll not be able to see them or even know that they are.
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- I think a lot about heaven, of what it'll be like.
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- Will I recognize people? Will I see people that have left this earth and gone there?
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- I can only suppose what it'll be like. I haven't made the trip yet. 29.
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- And they shall come from the east and from the west and from the north and from the south and shall set down in the kingdom of God.
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- Now, David, I want you to explain to us why they shall set down.
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- All right, embellish that a little bit. All right, but we're admonished to work in this world.
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- Clarence, why did they set down? Why will they set down?
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- All right, all good reasons. Bill? Yes.
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- Yes, the answer was in there somewhere. No, we set down because our work is finished.
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- Why? Yes. While we are in the world and we're admonished to work, but the work is not going to get you to heaven.
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- But I think all of you would agree that each of us have a task to do.
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- I hope we know what it is. But someday that'll be over. Now, some of you, you'll finish one task and go on to another.
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- Personally, I'm drawing close to the end of mine. Yet there may be great things ahead of me.
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- But my work will be finished then. Your work will be finished then. No longer can you fulfill your role in this world because you are in the other world.
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- And all of these people that he mentioned, their work was finished. I ask the question sometimes when we're in Romans, why did...
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- Now, Paul finished his work when he died. Is that not right,
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- Russell? But was his work finished? All right.
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- Your work will finish when time ceases. And time has ceased here, at least in this age.
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- So all of your answers were right. Thirty and behold, there are last which shall be first and there are first which shall be last.
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- Now, exactly why the question was asked back over here, then said one unto him, are there few that be saved?
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- He didn't answer that question per se. There were those coming and going all of the time as he approached
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- Jerusalem this last time. It was noticeable. There came a day when it was written and they all forsook him.
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- That's in Mark 14 and 50. He made it abundantly clear that it would cost you to follow him.
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- That in our sophisticated and soft affluence, think otherwise is heresy.
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- Since this was a speculative question, Jesus didn't answer it directly.
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- He's saying to this man, make sure of your salvation. Now, why can you not make sure of someone else's?
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- That's right. I cannot read your heart. Make sure that you're saved.
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- Well, we open a little different thought when we get to 31 and I'm going to quit.
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- That many are saved who are not some of Isaac, Abraham, and Jacob's seed is absolutely right.
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- Yes. Yes. Yes.
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- That's right. Sure.
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- That's so right. You are not chosen.
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- You are not one that received me. That's so right.
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- Anything else from anyone? Yes. In all of our worry, in all of our anxiousness, in our hurrying and everything, does that speed up his work?
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- No. His work will be done as he sees fit. So we should not worry about anything.
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- Yes. Yes. That's right.
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- Beautiful. Beautiful truth. Yeah.
