In chapter four, we began discussing what our dearest Lord Jesus Christ referred to as the \u201cGospel of the Kingdom\u201d or the \u201cWord of the Kingdom\u201d, otherwise called the Kingdom-word \u2013 Matt. 24:14; Matt. 13:19.<\/p>\n
Specifically, we considered five of twelve features of this Gospel. In this final chapter, we will continue the count from chapter four, by taking a look at the rest of the characteristics of the Word of the Kingdom.<\/p>\n
6. The Gospel of the Kingdom takes us to the mandate of mankind before the fall in the Garden of Eden i.e. to have dominion or kingdom on earth \u2013 Matt.19:8b; Gen. 1:26.<\/p>\n
Actually, there is no dis-connection between the first mandate of God for mankind which is to have dominion or be in charge on earth, and the Kingdom message of Jesus.<\/p>\n
You know, to have dominion and to have kingdom is functionally the same thing. Yes, our Lord Jesus Christ came as the Last Adam to make us overwhelmingly succeed where the first Adam failed.<\/p>\n
7. The Gospel of the Kingdom of God goes beyond the believer as a son of God, to the believer as God\u2019s regent in life \u2013 Rom. 5:17; 1 Pet.2:9; 2 Cor.5:20a.<\/p>\n
In the Lord\u2019s Prayer, our Lord clearly taught that God was our Heavenly Father and King. So, we are His sons\/daughters and His Royal representatives or ambassadors in a physical world.<\/p>\n
8. This gospel goes beyond God as our Father to God as our King – Matt. 6:9- 10a.<\/p>\n
When you have a father who is a king, you have to learn to relate with him in both ways, depending on what you are \u2018looking for\u2019 \u2013 Heb. 5:7-8.<\/p>\n
For example, it is because to God your Father belongs the Kingdom, the power and the glory forever that He can deliver you from all evil.<\/p>\n
Yes, the Kingship of God refers to His Sovereignty.<\/p>\n
In other words, God rightly does what He likes and cannot be manipulated or controlled by anyone.<\/p>\n
So, God\u2019s people need to understand that He made them for His pleasure, not for ours \u2013 Rev. 4:11; Col. 1:16.<\/p>\n
This will make them take whatever God allows to come their way graciously, knowing that it is serving a higher royal purpose \u2013 Rom. 8:28.<\/p>\n
Yes, being a sovereign, God works all things together for good according to His purpose, not ours.<\/p>\n
9. The Gospel of the Kingdom goes beyond the idea of escaping from your current difficulties to Heaven, to the idea of overcoming the difficulties of earth – Jn.16:33; Rev. 2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3:5, 12, 21.<\/p>\n
10. The Good news of the Kingdom of God goes beyond the Church as the Kingdom of God, to the earth as His Kingdom – Matt.13:38, 41.<\/p>\n
Beloved Servant of God, no king is happy when you limit his kingdom, because his kingdom is his treasure since it ministers to his essence as a king. So is it with God.<\/p>\n
The earth is God\u2019s physical Kingdom and Heaven is His spiritual Kingdom \u2013 Matt.5:34-35. If there is no earthly Kingdom, Apostle Paul would not refer to a \u201cHeavenly Kingdom\u201d in 2 Tim. 4:18.<\/p>\n
You know, the Kingdom of God existed before the Church and will continue even after the Church-age.<\/p>\n
Actually God wants His Kingdom to be in the Church on earth as it is in Heaven \u2013 Lk. 12:32; Eph. 1:10; Col. 3:1-3.<\/p>\n
Dear servant of God, the Church is to be an assembly of ruling or Kingdom people through whom God\u2019s spiritual Kingdom is realized on His physical earth, including in the Church-on-earth herself \u2013 Matt. 16:16-19. It is all because believers, unlike God, are a hundred percent spiritual and a hundred percent physical.<\/p>\n
Now, to bring about God\u2019s rule or influence and what He has ordained on earth, the Church or believer\u2019s must practically live out their estate of being a hundred percent spiritual and a hundred percent physical, not one without the other, or in different proportions.<\/p>\n
You know, this is how Jesus will live when He comes physically for the second time on earth.<\/p>\n
He will be fully a spiritual King and a physical King to \u2018kingdomize\u2019 the whole earth.<\/p>\n
This is what the Church or believers are to be now \u2013 1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 1:6.<\/p>\n
The Church needs the Kingdom of God or what God has ordained her self \u2013 Lk.12:30-32.<\/p>\n
11. The Gospel of the Kingdom of God goes be-yond Satan as our enemy to religion as an enemy – Mk.7:13.<\/p>\n
You know, Satan is defeated and so He hides behind religion as an operational opposition because it can-not be fully defeated now \u2013 Jas. 3:15; 2 Cor. 11:14.<\/p>\n
It is because as long as mankind lives on this earth, they would have a choice between their ways of pleasing God, which is the religion system and God\u2019s ways through which we will please Him, being the Kingdom system or arrangement.<\/p>\n
Now, your attitude to the religion system is to expose it and leave it alone, for people to decide between that and the Kingdom system of our Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n
12. The Gospel of God\u2019s Kingdom goes beyond our love for God to God\u2019s love for us -1 Jn. 4:19.<\/p>\n
Dear Servant of God, religion focuses you on the love you should have for God and your sacrifice for God\u2019s sake. The Kingdom of God however, focuses you on God\u2019s love and sacrifice for you.<\/p>\n
When you know and believe God\u2019s love and sacrifice for you, you will love Him properly.<\/p>\n
Yes, you cannot love God as expected without focusing on God\u2019s love for you. And the best demonstration of God\u2019s love and sacrifice is the dying of Jesus on the Cross \u2013 Jn. 3:16; 15:13.<\/p>\n
Beloved, the total of twelve features that we have discussed in the last two chapters form the Gospel that Jesus preached and taught.<\/p>\n
This Gospel of the Kingdom is an important maturity-message because it brings in the end, a \u2018time of maturity\u2019 \u2013 Matt. 24:14.<\/p>\n
So, our dearest Lord and Savior Jesus Christ prophesied that this Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in \u201call the world\u201d (or the orderly arrangement of men) with the aim that all people-groups would experience it, before the end of the Church-age.<\/p>\n
Again, our Jesus said in the Great Commission for us to teach \u201call\u201d that He commanded.<\/p>\n
This way, you will be free from the \u201cblood of all men\u201d \u2013 Acts 20:24, 26. Yes, our Jesus commands you to do so as His Servant, because that is how to finish the Ministry He gave you with joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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