Kingdom purpose 3

The Kingdom of God is an Exodus!

Recap:

The last couple weeks we’ve been talking about the Kingdom of God has a 3 fold Purpose.

We started it with embassy:

The church in someway is an embassy of the kingdom of God. The people of God who are a part of the kingdom of God here on earth serve as a sort of embassy that transacts or represents the interest of our heavenly father here on earth.

A. Like the American Embassy stationed in other countries. They represent the country of origin.

B. As believers, We are here on earth but are ultimate allegiance is to another kingdom.

C. Like the story of David and Goliath. David represented the Kingdom of God.

The kingdom of God is an earnest.

Ephesians 1:13,14

13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

A. The kingdom of God exist in two realms already and the not yet. It is here, and is it is coming. It has manifested itself, and manifesting itself, and will fully manifest itself at the consummation and the restoration of all things.

B. So what we are experiencing now is an earnest a down payment on what to come.

C. So we experience kingdom life life the Kingsway to a degree upon salvation but the join the peace that we have now it’s just a down payment on west to come with the restoration in a consummation of all things.

D. Understanding the kingdom is already and not yet helps his department provide perspective for people who are wrestling with issues of the theodyssey good things happening to bad people.

E. We do not have the fullness of our inheritance so we still live in an imperfect world that functions in perfectly , and bad things happen to good people.

F. When you understand the kingdom is already and not yet, it influences our exegesis of Scripture and it shapes our doctrine. How we view the scriptures, it’s context and the it’s emphasis!

Now to the main point!

The kingdom of God is an exodus.

A. It is an exodus out of an inferior kingdom and inferior way of life and an entrance into life as God intended.

B. This is the good news that Jesus preached about when he talked about Kingdom. The good news is there is a way of life that is far more superior, far more for fulfilling, far more flourishing, and far more fruitful then the way of life a person has been living previously.

C. The kingdom of God liberate humanity from an inferior kingdom. When a person enters the kingdom of God they are exiting out of an inferior kingdom.

1. Like in the book of Exodus The people of God was in bondage, slavery and was inferior to the Egyptians.

2. The Book of Exodus becomes a type and shadow of what Jesus did at the cross.

D. This exodus out of an inferior kingdom is something that the Scriptures calls repentance.

E. You can have access to a different way of life a way of life that is consistent with your creators intent.

F. Repent means change of mind that result in a change of direction it’s literally a U-turn.

1. Repentance does not mean apology; repentance means an adjustment. Repentance has fruit.

Matthew 3;8 golly sorrows brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow springs death.

2. Repentance is an act of faith that says I believe what I am turning toward is greater than what I’m turning from.

3. The kingdom of God is not just verbal proclamation it is visibly demonstrated. Gods rule reign over everything and so things like exorcism and healing and all that were in the expression of the rule in the reign of God.

4. The gospel Has to be embodied before it’s transmitted. You can be a Christian in this life and not live the kingdom life.

Conclusion: let look and reflect on how we can walk out the Kingdom life.