it doesn't say the Kingdom is WITHIN US, it says among us, meaning Christ, among THEM in that time.
He was speaking to the Pharisees.
as for doc...if you got to know him, you'd like him.
but he goes against your fav doctrines...so there will be conflict.
<raise's hand>
Wow Zone i never noticed that before.
Luke 17:21 HCSB "no one will say Look here! or There! For you see the kingdom of God is among you."
Luke 17:21 NWT "neither will people be saying, See here! or, There! For look! the kingdom of God is in YOUR midst."
Luke 17:21 NRSV "nor will they say, Look, here it is! or There it is! For, in fact, the kingdom of God is among you."
Luke 17:21 KJV "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold the kingdom of God is within you."
Wow, I had no idea this was like this. Guess I am gonna return to the KJV being my root. This is insane. Jesus says in his gospel I stand at the door and knock.
Wow, i have always feared God my whole life even when I was younger because I knew God the Father was watching me. I would let people hit me and beat me because I knew God would be mad at me if I hit them back. This is truly amazing.
When I was 22 years old I said the sinners prayer and invited Jesus Christ into my heart and He came in and healed me took away my desire to smoke cigarettes like that. Every time in my life that I would back-slide and get into doing things God didn't want me to do I would start smoking cigarettes again. Every time I would repent and turn back to Jesus for what ever I was doing wrong I would immediatly stop smoking cigerettes again.
Perhaps the reason for this is when I got saved and asked Christ Jesus into my heart I had a dream that night I saw Jesus (my interptation of what I thought he looked like) walking through an old timey village dressed in white, followed by others dressed in white. He walked upto me and offered me a pack of malboro light cigarettes i reached out to grab them and He Jesus dropped them and stepped on them. Then the dream changed and I was in a old timey bathtub rinsing myself in blood. Jesus's Holy Precious Blood.
Since then I have had other dreams with Jesus in them: I was walking and praiseing yeshua what I thought was the name of Jesus. Jesus was sitting on a rock i walked up and said Hi Jesus he said "Cameran why are you so selfish?" then i woke up.
Another time i was walking and Jesus walked upto me and I said Jesus how am I doing Jesus said "Well your not so selfish anymore."
Thanks Zone has been a eye opener.