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6th Dec 2023

The David Spoon Experience 12-6-23 part 2

1) A massively central message of Jesus Christ is about the Kingdom of God. Dr. George Ladd coined the phrase, “The Kingdom of God is where God is the King,” but God has spoken that to others as well, including yours truly, in a Psychology class. BTW, the Kingdom of God IS THE SAME as the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of Christ, the Kingdom of the Father, and the Kingdom of our Lord.

2) The idea is that the kingdom, the sphere, the realm, the arena, the place, the domain, the circumference, the dominion of God’s kingdom “is” WHEREVER God is King. But isn’t He king everywhere? His Kingship is WHERE He is wanted. His rule and His authority are everywhere. Remember that the message of Jesus was for then and for now. The kingdom is, and the kingdom is also not yet.

3) The “kingdom of heaven/God” in the preaching of Jesus as recounted in the Gospels is the reign of God that he brings about through Jesus Christ—i.e., the establishment of God’s rule in the hearts and lives of his people, the overcoming of all the forces of evil, the removal from the world of all the consequences of sin— (4:17; Mk 1:15).[1]

4) The key to understanding this is the key to accessing His Kingship. How do we access His Kingship? Jesus taught us clearly when He stated, From that time on, Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near” in Matthew 4:17. The second key is understanding what REPENT “really” means. This is the exact same message that John the Baptist preached.

5) It might be in my head, but as a Christian who goes through this walk with the Lord, I know that I need to find consistent refreshment. But because the vision that most people have about repentance is either the response to the guy with the sandwich board crying, “the end of the world is near,” which is pretty close, or we identify with the monks in Monty Python’s Holy Grail movie, where they beat themselves while chanting. Either way, these images are not close to His Truth.

 

[1] Barker, Kenneth L., ed. 2020. NIV Study Bible. Fully Revised Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.) 

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David Spoon was born and raised in a Jewish home in Detroit, Michigan. He attended a private Hebrew school called Hillel Hebrew Academy. David was bar mitzvah-ed at the age of thirteen. Not long after, he was involved in drug abuse and trafficking. After hearing the Gospel for the first time at age seventeen, David accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. A few months later, David had a dramatic experience with God. Immediately set free from years of excessive drug use, he committed himself to ministry and to furthering the Kingdom of God.

He attended Arizona Bible College, Northern Arizona University, and Life Pacific College, graduating summa-cum-laude in their Ministry and Leadership program. He also graduated with honors from Regent University with a master’s degree in Theological Studies and earned his Doctor of Ministry degree in Strategic Christian Ministry at Liberty University.

He is one of a few individuals holding ministerial ordinations from three separate denominations: Heritage Free Baptist Organization, 1981; Independent Pentecostal Ministers Association, 1985; and Vineyard Valley Association, 1988. He was also the Chaplain for the Flagstaff Police Department. In addition, David was the senior pastor of Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Flagstaff.

In addition, David started and co-hosted two different live Christian call-in radio talk shows. He hosted the very popular radio show “The David Spoon Experience” on KPRZ 1210 and a show called “To Know Him,” which aired on 88.9 on the F.M. dial-in Temecula, California at 1:00 p.m., Monday through Fridays. He was also the Director of Local Ministry for Salem Media Group in San Diego, California.

David is married to his best friend, Noelle. He has three children and seven grandchildren, plus their two dogs named Levi and Bert. On March 18th, 2019, he started “The David Spoon Experience” in Texas and is growing with his audience of awesome believers and non-believers alike.

He is the President of He Must Increase Ministry, a 501c3 ministry, and is hosting (again) the live daily radio show “The David Spoon Experience” with DJR Broadcasting in KAAM, on the 770 A.M. radio dial. The show is also on various apps and the Internet.

David is a Jewish-Christian, Bapti-Costal, Cal-Minian, Manifold Millennialist.

Just ask him.