The Life and Ministry of Jesus #6

The Kingdom of God

The Kingdom of God has to deal with our thoughts about an everlasting Kingdom ruled forever by Jesus Christ.

It is Abstract as to it’s physical presence - We believe in it, but we cannot yet quite comprehend it. We have knowledge of it, but we still do not perceive how it can be both now and in the future. It is our belief that there is more to the Kingdom of God than what meets the eye.

It’s about God’s saving action. Jesus is Announcing the Rule of God through the Work that HE has been called to do.

Through Scripture and Faith, we know that God rules now. But what Jesus was saying is God is coming to set up his rule in a new powerful, visible way, as He had said through the prophets. It was to come about through Jesus; it was to establish an eternal order where their would be no more sin to contend with!

Jesus, as the fulfillment of prophecy, It can be said that it was near… But there is yet to come a time when it will be completed and the reign of Christ will be forever strong, having once and for-all defeated evil.

Right now Satan is the called the prince of this world. Darkness - evil - reigns. But there is a time coming when the prince of this world will be driven out.

Jesus had now come to fight against Satan and the evil dominion of this world, healing disease and casting out demons. The time has come for all people to chose, whose side are you on.

Jesus has come to heal the broken hearted to set human kind free from the darkness of evil that Satan brings.

The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Volume 1: Introductory Articles C. The Kingdom of God

Jesus regarded himself as setting men and women free from the power of Satan, both physical (Luke 13:16) and spiritual (Luke 8:2). And to those who had fallen under the sway of evil he announced divine forgiveness (Mark 2:5, 10; Luke 7:47–48. He called people to a new life in which they love God and one another (Mark 12:28–34; Luke 10:25–28).

The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Volume 1: Introductory Articles C. The Kingdom of God

So God’s rule means his activity through Jesus as the Savior (Matt 1:21; Luke 1:77) and is effected through Jesus’ work and words and also supremely through his death as a ransom for the people, because the kingdom of God could not come to its consummation except by the suffering and resurrection of Jesus (cf. Matt 26:28; John 1:29).

Ken Hemphill says, “In the kingdom of God, I have found something far superior to personal fulfillment. I have found the heart of God. I have found my reason for being here.”