The Kingdom of God

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The Kingdom of God
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Three Windows A Growing Vision
The Exodus Event
The Davidic Monarchy
The Prophetic Promise
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The New Testament Coming of the Kingdom
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Three key words
1. Immediately or at once
2. Authority
Teaching
Summons
Over demons
Over sin
Over death
Over nature
3. Mystery
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The Mystery of the Kingdom
The Kingdom
Will come in the future
Has come is now present
Is near or at hand
Has been delayed
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Age to Come
The Christian Life
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The End
History
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Explaining the mystery Biblical language

• those who have once been enlightened, who have
  tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the
  Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the
  word of God and the powers of the coming age
  (Heb.64-5)

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These things happened to them as examples and
were written down as warnings for us, on whom the
fulfillment of the ages has come (1 Cor.1011)
He is Elijah, who was to come (Lk.1616
Mt.1111-12,14)
"What do you want with us, Son of God?" they
shouted. "Have you come here to torture us before
the appointed time? (Mt.829).
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The Presence of the Future in

• The Cross
• The Resurrection
• Pentecost

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Some Implications of the Kingdom

• The last days began with Jesus and at Pentecost.
• Every intervention of God since then is a
  breakthrough of the future age.
• The age to come and this age are now separated by
  a torn veil.

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Some Implications of the Kingdom

• The ministry of healing is to be understood in
  this context.
• This is the framework for discerning utopianism
  versus pietistic withdrawal.
• Christians are already not yet people.

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The Kingdom competing theologies
Dispensationalism
Cessationism
Restorationism
Reductionism
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The Reduced Jesus of traditional Protestantism
True in what it affirms Wrong it what it excludes
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The Reduced Jesus
Reduced
Jesus came to die
To forgive my sins
To secure my eternal future
Atonement justification
Passion and epistles
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Creedal Window
Eschatology!
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Age to Come
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The End
History
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The Eschatological Jesus
Jesus rediscovered For the first time In 2
millennia! The kingdom is all about Jesus!