The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

Matthew 11 verse 12 and from the days of John the Baptist until now Jesus says the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force

You remember what happened to John the Baptist? He preached repentance He preached the kingdom of God was at hand and what happened to John he was vilified

John was imprisoned and eventually he was put to death What did

Jesus do he picked up that same message and then Jesus was vilified he was

Arrested and Jesus was put to death So both

John the Baptist and Jesus because they preached a message that was unpopular

They were demonized Some of you may be discouraged by what's happening in the world today and you look around and they say the the kingdom of God seems

To be shrinking. I mean, that's kind of how it looks that the kingdom of God is shrinking and shrinking.

That's not true It's growing because we never lose anybody a true believer

Endures, so we're always adding Every new generation. We're just adding adding adding it's getting bigger bigger and bigger