reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

WHAT IS A KINGDOM? A KINGDOM IS A POLITICALLY ORGANIZED COMMUNITY OR MAJOR TERRITORIAL UNIT HAVING A MONARCHICAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT HEADED BY A KING OR QUEEN. WHAT IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN? HEAVEN IS A CITY CALLED NEW JERUSALEM. GOD REIGNS OVER ALL THE WORLD FROM THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN THERE ARE BOTH THE CHILDREN OF GOD, AND THE CHILDREN OF SATAN. MT:13:30 LET BOTH GROW TOGETHER UNTIL THE HARVEST: AND IN THE TIME OF HARVEST I WILL SAY TO THE REAPERS, GATHER YE TOGETHER FIRST THE TARES, AND BIND THEM IN BUNDLES TO BURN THEM: BUT GATHER THE WHEAT INTO MY BARN. WHEN THE LORD JESUS RETURNS FOR HIS BRIDE THE CHURCH, HE WILL SEND HIS ANGELS TO FIRST GATHER THE TARES, THE CHILDREN OF SATAN OUT OF HIS KINGDOM AND BIND THEM, AND BURN THEM. THEN SHALL THE ELECT OF GOD SHINE AS THE SUN, IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. MT:13:41 THE SON OF MAN SHALL SEND FORTH HIS ANGELS, AND THEY SHALL GATHER OUT OF HIS KINGDOM ALL THINGS THAT OFFEND, AND THEM WHICH DO INIQUITY; 42. AND SHALL CAST THEM INTO A FURNACE OF FIRE: THERE SHALL BE WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH. 43. THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS SHINE FORTH AS THE SUN IN THE KINGDOM OF THEIR FATHER. WHO HATH EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR. WHAT IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD? THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE, AND JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST. ONLY THE BORN AGAIN SAINTS OF GOD ARE IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. ROM:14:17 FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT MEAT AND DRINK: BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND PEACE, AND JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST. WHO ARE THE CITIZENS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD? THE CITIZENS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD ARE THE ELECT OF GOD, THE PREDESTINATED, THAT FOUND FAVOR WITH GOD BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. EPH:1:4 ACCORDING AS HE HATH CHOSEN US IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, THAT WE SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLAME BEFORE HIM IN LOVE. 5. HAVING PREDESTINATED US UNTO THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BY JESUS CHRIST TO HIMSELF, ACCORDING TO THE GOOD PLEASURE OF HIS WILL. GOD PREDESTINATED HIS ELECT TO BE ADOPTED INTO HIS FAMILY OF FAITH. ALL THAT GOD FOREKNEW HE DID PREDESTINATE, AND WHOM HE PREDESTINATED, THEM HE CALLS TO REPENTANCE, THEM HE JUSTIFIES, , AND THEM HE GLORIFIES, ROM:8:28 AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD, TO THEM WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE. 29. FOR WHOM HE DID FOREKNOW, HE ALSO DID PREDESTINATE TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON, THAT HE MIGHT BE THE FIRSTBORN AMONG MANY BRETHREN. 30;. MOREOVER WHOM HE DID PREDESTINATE, THEM HE ALSO CALLED: AND WHOM HE CALLED, THEM HE ALSO JUSTIFIED: AND WHOM HE JUSTIFIED, THEM HE ALSO GLORIFIED. WHEN A CHILD IS BORN INTO THE WORLD, BECAUSE OF THE ORIGINAL SIN OF ADAM; THE CHILD IS ALIVE PHYSICALLY BUT DEAD SPIRITUALLY, 1COR:15:22 FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE. IN THIS UNREGENERATED STATE, THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE CARNAL MINDED. THE CARNAL MIND IS THE FLESHLY MIND OF SENSE, AND REASON WITHOUT THE HOLY GHOST. THE CARNAL MIND IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAWS OF GOD, NEITHER IN DEED CAN BE. ROM:8:6 FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH; BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE. 7. BECAUSE THE CARNAL MIND IS ENMITY AGAINST GOD: FOR IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF GOD, NEITHER INDEED CAN BE. THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL MUST BE BROUGHT TO LIFE. IT IS THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL; THAT SHALL LIVE IN ETERNITY. FOR THE SOUL OF MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. 2COR:4:16 FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY THAT THE CHILD OF GOD BE BORN AGAIN. JN:3:4 NICODEMUS SAITH UNTO HIM, HOW CAN A MAN BE BORN WHEN HE IS OLD? CAN HE ENTER THE SECOND TIME INTO HIS MOTHER’S WOMB, AND BE BORN? 5. JESUS ANSWERED, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 6. THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT. HOW CAN A MAN BE BORN OF WATER WHEN HE IS OLD? THE ELECT ARE BORN OF WATER WHEN THEY ARE BAPTIZED. WHEN THE ELECT ARE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST; THEY ARE TRANSLATED OUT OF THE WORLD, AND INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST. GAL:3:27 FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST. AND WHEN THE ELECT OF GOD RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST, THEY BECOME A MEMBER OF THE BODY OF CHRIST. ONLY THE BORN AGAIN SAINTS OF GOD, THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND HAVE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST ARE IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 1COR:12:27 NOW YE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND MEMBERS IN PARTICULAR. WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT TO BE A MEMBER IN THE BODY OF CHRIST? ETERNAL LIFE IS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. 1JN:5:11 AND THIS IS THE RECORD, THAT GOD HATH GIVEN TO US ETERNAL LIFE, AND THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON. JESUS CHRIST PRAYED OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME, THY KINGDOM COME. WHEN DID THE KINGDOM OF GOD COME? AFTER THE DEATH, BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION, OF JESUS CHRIST; JESUS CAME TO HIS DISCIPLES AND BREATHED UPON THEM, AND SAID RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST. IT WAS AT THIS TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD CAME. JN:20:22 AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, HE BREATHED ON THEM, AND SAITH UNTO THEM, RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST. THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN CAME PREACHING IN THE WILDERNESS; SINCE THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS PREACHED, AND MEN PRESSED INTO IT. LK:16:16 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN: SINCE THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS PREACHED, AND EVERY MAN PRESSETH INTO IT. JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD BEFORE HE WAS BORN INTO THE WORLD. LK:1:13 BUT THE ANGEL SAID UNTO HIM, FEAR NOT, ZACHARIAS: FOR THY PRAYER IS HEARD; AND THY WIFE ELISABETH SHALL BEAR THEE A SON, AND THOU SHALT CALL HIS NAME JOHN. 14. AND THOU SHALT HAVE JOY AND GLADNESS; AND MANY SHALL REJOICE AT HIS BIRTH. 15. FOR HE SHALL BE GREAT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND SHALL DRINK NEITHER WINE NOR STRONG DRINK; AND HE SHALL BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, EVEN FROM HIS MOTHER’S WOMB. THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU. LK:17:20 AND WHEN HE WAS DEMANDED OF THE PHARISEES, WHEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD SHOULD COME, HE ANSWERED THEM AND SAID, THE KINGDOM OF GOD COMETH NOT WITH OBSERVATION: 21. NEITHER SHALL THEY SAY, LO HERE! OR, LO THERE! FOR, BEHOLD, THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU. THE CHILDREN OF SATAN CANNOT RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST, NEITHER CAN THEY ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD, BECAUSE THEY ARE FAITHLESS, THE HOLY GHOST MUST BE RECEIVED BY FAITH. JN:14:17 EVEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH; WHOM THE WORLD CANNOT RECEIVE, BECAUSE IT SEETH HIM NOT, NEITHER KNOWETH HIM: BUT YE KNOW HIM; FOR HE DWELLETH WITH YOU, AND SHALL BE IN YOU. IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME THIS PRESENT WORLD SHALL COME TO AN END. FIRST THERE WILL COME A FALLING AWAY, MEN RENOUNCING THEIR FAITH, AND WITHDRAWING THEIR SUPPORT FROM THE PHYSICAL CHURCH. THEN THE ANTICHRIST SHALL MAKE HIS APPEARANCE. WHEN SHALL ALL THESE DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS COME TOGETHER AND BE ONE CHURCH? ALL DENOMINATIONS WILL MOST LIKELY COME TOGETHER AND BE ONE PHYSICAL CHURCH WHEN THE ANTICHRIST MAKES WAR AGAINST THE SAINTS. RV:13:7 AND IT WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS, AND TO OVERCOME THEM: AND POWER WAS GIVEN HIM OVER ALL KINDREDS, AND TONGUES, AND NATIONS. THE ANTICHRIST SHALL REIGN FORTY TWO MONTHS. THEN THE LORD JESUS SHALL COME, AND HE SHALL KILL THE ANTICHRIST WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING, AND WITH THE SPIRIT FROM HIS MOUTH. 2THES:2:1 NOW WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, BY THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND BY OUR GATHERING TOGETHER UNTO HIM, 2. THAT YE BE NOT SOON SHAKEN IN MIND, OR BE TROUBLED, NEITHER BY SPIRIT, NOR BY WORD, NOR BY LETTER AS FROM US, AS THAT THE DAY OF CHRIST IS AT HAND. 3. LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS: FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME, EXCEPT THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST, AND THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION; 4. WHO OPPOSETH AND EXALTETH HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD, OR THAT IS WORSHIPPED; SO THAT HE AS GOD SITTETH IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, SHEWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD. 5. REMEMBER YE NOT, THAT, WHEN I WAS YET WITH YOU, I TOLD YOU THESE THINGS? 6. AND NOW YE KNOW WHAT WITHHOLDETH THAT HE MIGHT BE REVEALED IN HIS TIME. 7. FOR THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY DOTH ALREADY WORK: ONLY HE WHO NOW LETTETH WILL LET, UNTIL HE BE TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY. 8. AND THEN SHALL THAT WICKED BE REVEALED, WHOM THE LORD SHALL CONSUME WITH THE SPIRIT OF HIS MOUTH, AND SHALL DESTROY WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING: 9. EVEN HIM, WHOSE COMING IS AFTER THE WORKING OF SATAN WITH ALL POWER AND SIGNS AND LYING WONDERS, 10. AND WITH ALL DECEIVABLENESS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN THEM THAT PERISH; BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED NOT THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH, THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED. 11. AND FOR THIS CAUSE GOD SHALL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION, THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE A LIE: 12. THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE DAMNED WHO BELIEVED NOT THE TRUTH, BUT HAD PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. THE ANTICHRIST SHALL REIGN FORTY TWO MONTHS, AND CHRIST SHALL KILL THE ANTICHRIST WHEN HE RETURNS, THEREFORE , IF YOU WILL MARK THE DAY THE ANTICHRIST BEGINS TO REIGN, AND COUNT FORTY TWO MONTHS FROM THAT DATE YOU SHOULD BE VERY CLOSE TO THE DAY THAT JESUS RETURNS FOR HIS BRIDE THE CHURCH. RV:13:5 AND THERE WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS AND BLASPHEMIES; AND POWER WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO CONTINUE FORTY AND TWO MONTHS. BEFORE THE END OF THIS PRESENT WORLD ALL THE NATIONS SHALL BE REDUCED TO TEN PHYSICAL KINGDOMS THEN THE END SHALL COME. I BASE MY OPINION ON THE DREAM OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR. DN:2:1 AND IN THE SECOND YEAR OF THE REIGN OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR NEBUCHADNEZZAR DREAMED DREAMS, WHEREWITH HIS SPIRIT WAS TROUBLED, AND HIS SLEEP BRAKE FROM HIM. IN THIS DREAM NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAW AN IMAGE WHOSE BRIGHTNESS WAS EXCELLENT, AND FORM TERRIBLE. THE HEAD OF THE IMAGE WAS GOLD, THE ARMS AND BREAST WERE SILVER, THE BELLY, AND THIGHS WERE OF BRASS, THE LEGS WERE OF IRON, AND THE FEET WERE OF IRON AND CLAY. THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE IMAGE ARE WORLD EMPIRES, FOR EXAMPLE THE HEAD OF GOLD WAS NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S EMPIRE. DN:2:38 AND WHERESOEVER THE CHILDREN OF MEN DWELL, THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD AND THE FOWLS OF THE HEAVEN HATH HE GIVEN INTO THINE HAND, AND HATH MADE THEE RULER OVER THEM ALL. THOU ART THIS HEAD OF GOLD. THE KINGDOMS THAT COME AFTER NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S KINGDOM WERE INFERIOR. DN:2:39 AND AFTER THEE SHALL ARISE ANOTHER KINGDOM INFERIOR TO THEE, AND ANOTHER THIRD KINGDOM OF BRASS, WHICH SHALL BEAR RULE OVER ALL THE EARTH. DANIEL SPEAKING OF THE TOES OF THE IMAGE SAID THESE WORDS. DN:2:43 AND WHEREAS THOU SAWEST IRON MIXED WITH MIRY CLAY, THEY SHALL MINGLE THEMSELVES WITH THE SEED OF MEN: BUT THEY SHALL NOT CLEAVE ONE TO ANOTHER, EVEN AS IRON IS NOT MIXED WITH CLAY. 44. AND IN THE DAY OF THESE KINGS SHALL THE GOD OF HEAVEN SET UP A KINGDOM, WHICH SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED: AND THE KINGDOM SHALL NOT BE LEFT TO OTHER PEOPLE, BUT IT SHALL BREAK IN PIECES AND CONSUME ALL THESE KINGDOMS, AND IT SHALL STAND FOR EVER. AND I BASE MY OPINION ON THE PROPHECY OF THE APOSTLE JOHN. JOHN SPEAKS OF THE TEN KINGS OF TEN KINGDOMS. THEY GIVE THEIR POWER TO THE ANTICHRIST ONE HOUR WITH THE ANTICHRIST. RV:17:12 AND THE TEN HORNS WHICH THOU SAWEST ARE TEN KINGS, WHICH HAVE RECEIVED NO KINGDOM AS YET; BUT RECEIVE POWER AS KINGS ONE HOUR WITH THE BEAST, 13. THESE HAVE ONE MIND, AND SHALL GIVE THEIR POWER AND STRENGTH UNTO THE BEAST. IN THE WORLD TO COME JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, THE SON OF THE VIRGIN MARY SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM. THE FOLLOWING VERSES OF SCRIPTURE DESCRIBE THE CORONATION. DN:7:9 I BEHELD TILL THE THRONES WERE CAST DOWN, AND THE ANCIENT OF DAYS DID SIT, WHOSE GARMENT WAS WHITE AS SNOW, AND THE HAIR OF HIS HEAD LIKE THE PURE WOOL: HIS THRONE WAS LIKE THE FIERY FLAME, AND HIS WHEELS AS BURNING FIRE. 10. A FIERY STREAM ISSUED AND CAME FORTH FROM BEFORE HIM: THOUSAND THOUSANDS MINISTERED UNTO HIM, AND TEN THOUSAND TIMES TEN THOUSAND STOOD BEFORE HIM: THE JUDGMENT WAS SET, AND THE BOOKS WERE OPENED. 13. I SAW IN THE NIGHT VISIONS, AND, BEHOLD, ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN CAME WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN, AND CAME TO THE ANCIENT OF DAY, AND THEY BROUGHT HIM NEAR BEFORE HIM. 14. AND THERE WAS GIVEN HIM DOMINION, AND GLORY, AND A KINGDOM, THAT ALL PEOPLE, NATIONS, AND LANGUAGES, SHOULD SERVE HIM: HIS DOMINION IS AN EVERLASTING DOMINION, WHICH SHALL NOT PASS AWAY, AND HIS KINGDOM THAT WHICH SHALL NOT BE DESTROYED. HIS KINGDOM SHALL COVER THE WHOLE EARTH AND SHALL HAVE NO END. DN:2:44 AND IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS SHALL THE GOD OF HEAVEN, SET UP A KINGDOM, WHICH SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED: AND THE KINGDOM SHALL NOT BE LEFT TO OTHER PEOPLE, BUT IT SHALL BREAK IN PIECES AND CONSUME ALL THESE KINGDOMS, AND IT SHALL STAND FOR EVER. IF A PERSON WILL TAKE FAITH, AND ADD TO FAITH, VIRTUE, ETC. 2PT:1:4 WHEREBY ARE GIVEN UNTO US EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES: THAT BY THESE YE MIGHT BE PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE, HAVING ESCAPED THE CORRUPTION THAT IS IN THE WORLD THROUGH LUST. 5. AND BESIDE THIS, GIVING ALL DILIGENCE, ADD TO YOUR FAITH VIRTUE; AND TO VIRTURE KNOWLEDGE; 6. AND TO KNOWLEDGE TEMPERANCE; AND TO TEMPERANCE PATIENCE; AND TO PATIENCE GODLINESS; 7. AND TO GOLINESS BROTHERLY KINDNESS; AND TO BROTHERLY KINDNESS CHARITY. 11. FOR SO AN ENTRANCE SHALL BE MINISTERED UNTO YOU ABUNDANTLY INTO THE EVERLASTING KINGDOM OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. GOD PROMISED ABRAHAM, AND HIS SEED THAT HE WOULD INHERIT CANAAN LAND? AS LONG AS ABRAHAM LIVED GOD DID NOT GIVE TO ABRAHAM ENOUGH OF CANAAN LAND TO PUT HIS FOOT ON. BUT HE KNEW THAT HE WOULD INHERIT IT. ACTS:7:5 ABRAHAM SHALL BE HEIR, AND JOINT HEIRS WITH THE LORD JESUS IN THE KINGOM TO COME. GALATIANS 3:16