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Kingdom Come
That’s a good question.
Have you ever wondered, Jesus when will the Kingdom come?
When will all this wrong be made right?
When will all this chaos finally be put to order?
When will the oppressors be dealt with?
When will sin no longer have a hold?
When will the curse no longer bind us?
When will the world, the flesh, and the devil be overcome?
When will war be no more?
When will evildoers be brought to justice?
When will righteousness and justice rule.
When will holiness fill the earth?
When will the Kingdom come?
When will death, and sorrow, and sickness be no more?
When with the righteous shine like the sun?
When will the glory of the LORD be the light of the earth?
When will the Kingdom of God and His Son come?
Even so LORD Jesus come quickly!
When?
I think we’ve all wondered that.
I know I’ve wondered that.
In days of despair.
In times of trial.
In moments of spiritual wrestling.
When evil seems to be winning.
When will the Kingdom come?
That’s a honest question, when asked honestly.
And if we are honest, I think it’s a question we’ve all asked, prayed, questioned.
When Jesus?
When?
And it’s a question the Pharisees asked of Jesus.
But it wasn’t a question of Kingdom curiousity, it was a challenge to the claims of Jesus as the Messiah.
See, the prophets had spoken the Word of the LORD.
They had said that there would be signs in the heavens, flashes of light, the sun going dark and the moon turning blood red.
But those signs hadn’t occompanied the arrival of Jesus.
Yes, the magi followed a sign in the heavens to the birth of King Jesus.
But the Pharisees knew that there must be more.
And Jesus would agree with them.
But Jesus understood scripture better than they did.
Let’s dig in.
The Kingdom Is In Your Midst
When Jesus?
That the question.
And Jesus says The Kingdom Is In Your Midst.
Jesus is basically going to answer the question in two ways.
The Kingdom Is Here and the Kingdom Is Coming
See the Pharisees could see that the Kingdom was in there midst because they were looking for signs in heaven instead of the sign righ in front of them.
Jesus is saying you’ve been looking for some fireworks in the sky when the Kingdom is standing right in front of you.
The Kingdom has come.
Everwhere Jesus went he went about proclaiming and demonstrating the KIngdom.
He was announcing and inviting all who would to come to the Kingdom.
The King came to make a way into the Kingdom.
The King came to show the way of the Kingdom.
The Kingdom was in their midst.
The Kingdom is here, Jesus said.
And by faith in King Jesus we, according to the author of Hebrews, already belong to this heavenly Kingdom.
It’s a Kingdom that cannot be shaken.
A Kingdom whose foundations are solid.
A kingdom of righteouesness and justice.
A kingdom that cannot be overthrown and will not colapse.
On Christ the Solid Rock I stand all other ground is sinking sand.
The foundation is Christ.
The Kingdom is secure.
And the King is standing right in front of the Pharsisees.
But they refused to believe because they were looking for signs in the heavens.
Those signs would come.
But when those signs come its too late.
The King Must Suffer
See what the Pharisees refused to see was that before the Kingdom could come in power and before the King could be raised triumphant they king had to suffer.
It’s the prophecy of Isaiah.
Jesus came announcing Is 61:1-2
But Jesus knew that for the captives to be freed the King had to Take the crushing of Is 53:4-9
They were looking for a sign of power when Jesus came to show the sign of sacrifice.
There would be no resurrection power if there was not first sacrificial love.
I think often we are like the Pharisees, looking for lightning bolts and shows of strength instead of listening to the lowly and showing love to the powerless.
We look at the wrong signs to find the Kingdom of God.
We look at the wrong people to find the Kingdom of God.
I think over the past few years as our country has grown ever more partisan and political.
We’ve have politicians promise hope and change.
We’ve had politicians promise to Make Us Great Again.
And yet we are just as broken and hopeless as we’ve been in decades.
Why?
Because we are Luke 17:22-23
We are running after false Messiahs.
We long to see the day of His coming and we grow impatient.
And we put our hope in people to change hearts and minds and governments.
We need Jesus.
Jesus is our only hope of Kingdom Come.
Be engaged in the culture and the world, but don’t chase after false Christ’s or false prophets who came a man is our deliverer or hope.
Jesus is the only one who can deliver on every promise.
We long for power.’
Jesus said before the Kingdom comes in Power the King must suffer.
Paul expresses this beautifully in Philippians 2:3-11
Because Jesus was willing to suffer Jesus was worthy to be exalted.
Because Jesus was willing to defeat the curse be death Jesus was giving the blessing of Life.
Because Jesus was willing to be laid on the stone table of the law and suffer the death of sinful man, and redeem us from the curse, HE become our Victory.
The King must suffer.
And because He was willing to suffer in our place we get a place in the Kingdom of God.
See, lighting will come, darkness will cover the land, the cross brought darkness over Jerusalem.
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