
PARADOX: The Nature of the Kingdom of God
Luke 17:20-21--The kingdom of God is within you.
Part 1—INSIDE OUT
2 Corinthians 6:8-10
Paradox—Something absurd or contradictory;
conflicting with conventional wisdom
Paradox 1: The first will be last and the last will be first
Matthew 19:30
John 6:60 & 66; Matt. 25:21; Matt. 20:2; Matt. 6:33
Paradox 2: To save my life I must lose it
Luke 9:24-26
John 12:24; John 3:30; Acts 20:24
Jim Eliot—“He is no fool to give up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.?
Jesus—“What would it profit to gain the whole world and lose your own soul??