The Throughout his Throughout history there have been mighty empires and

powerful leaders who have come and gone but today on truth for life we'll take a

look at a perfect king and an extraordinary kingdom that was

revealed thousands of years ago when a baby was born.

So what does all of that mean for us today?

Alistairbegg is teaching from Isaiah Chapter 9 and verse 7. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end on the throne of

David and over his kingdom to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forever more,

the zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this. amen.

I spend a little while yesterday afternoon with one of my old friends Sir Winston Churchill.

He did not appear to me, do not be alarmed by this, except as he appeared to me on my laptop, on my iPad.

He was in my mind for a number of reasons and I went back and listened to a few of his speeches during the Second World War.

I think the reason that I was there in my thinking was because of this whole notion of a kingdom that would never come to an end.

And I was thinking in my limited life of kingdoms that I had known or experienced or had cognizance of.

I was 13 on the 30th of January 1965 when Sir Winston Churchill's funeral took place in London I

remember that it was on the TV in black and white and I had grown up admiring those speeches.

And as I went back just to check a little,

I thought I wonder how long Winston really lasted

after the success of the Second World War.

Well, the Second World War ended in May of 1945,

and at that time as a wartime leader, Winston Churchill enjoyed the approval 83% approval of the people.

Within two months, in July, he and his government experienced a crushing defeat as the Conservative

government was swept out of power. The kingdom was over, the leader was silenced, the proud speeches had, with a stroke of a pen with the

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