Comments on: Today’s devotional: where is the Kingdom of God? /blog/index.php/2010/02/10/todays-devotional-where-is-the-kingdom-of-god/ News and happenings from around Gospel.com Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:17:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 By: Abraham /blog/index.php/2010/02/10/todays-devotional-where-is-the-kingdom-of-god/comment-page-1/#comment-47249 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:57:19 +0000 /blog/?p=3690#comment-47249 The kingdom of God is within us.As citizens of heaven we have our rights and responsibilities here on earth.We eagerly look forward to our new home where there are no tears and peace for evermore.

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]]> By: Daphne Gibbs /blog/index.php/2010/02/10/todays-devotional-where-is-the-kingdom-of-god/comment-page-1/#comment-38469 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:34:43 +0000 /blog/?p=3690#comment-38469 Jesus gave his disciples and us a five point commission;
to heal the sick
Cleanse the lepers
cast out demons
raise the dead
and preach the kingdom of God

Obeying this brings the kingdom of God more fully into focus and the things of earth go strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace.

]]> By: Dale Fincher /blog/index.php/2010/02/10/todays-devotional-where-is-the-kingdom-of-god/comment-page-1/#comment-38354 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:50:50 +0000 /blog/?p=3690#comment-38354 Carattini is a friend of mine and I appreciate her thoughts.

Onto the reflection of this blog, we have to understand something quite deep in Biblical theology that is very often overlooked in our popular views of Jesus and our purpose on earth.

“Kingdom of heaven” and “kingdom of God” are synonymous phrases used by Jesus (depending on the gospel you are reading). And they do not mean “heaven” as we usually talk about it. It isn’t about our souls floating away if we just believe the right things.

The Kingdom of God is a geo-political rule of the Jewish Messiah over all the earth. God is king of the whole world, king of the nations, residing in Jerusalem. This is the theme of the entire Scripture, all the way to Revelation. All the talk of pearly gates and streets of God are not descriptions of a heaven we go to after death. It’s God’s capital city, the New Jerusalem (as opposed to the old Jerusalem), where Jesus will sit in David’s throne forever.

Jesus is inviting us into this even now, to bring the presence of this kingdom before the King finally arrives. This is why Paul calls us “citizens” and why Jesus tells us we need to forsake our dying allegiences (family, lands, friends, etc) for “his sake,” these allegiances that keep us from the Kingdom and walking in it daily.

This is the only way the Lord’s Prayer makes sense… and why the “kingdom is within you” has its starting point as an invasion of God from within, not without, as he spreads his goodness throughout the earth, prearing for his coming. Then the New Earth will be made (Isa 65, Rev 21) and the country we seek will be one where we will be appropriately human, body and soul.

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