Getting a Kingdom’s Perspective Pt2: Returning to a Kingdom Concept

Getting a Kingdom’s Perspective Pt2:Returning to a Kingdom Concept Genesis 1:28 – 3:15 Luke 4:18-19

Getting a Kingdom’s Perspective Pt2:Returning to a Kingdom Concept • The Kingdom of God is the: • Authority of God, • Rule of God • Reign of God

Getting a Kingdom’s Perspective Pt2:Returning to a Kingdom Concept • The Old Testament revealed the promise of this coming Kingdom • The New Testament fulfills the promise of the coming Kingdom • There is a “Present Kingdom” that has come and “Future Kingdom” which is coming

Getting a Kingdom’s Perspective Pt2:Returning to a Kingdom Concept • (Lk 4:18-19). “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

Getting a Kingdom’s Perspective Pt2:Returning to a Kingdom Concept Kingdom Characteristics • King – (God) The Sovereign Authority/Ruler/Reign over a Kingdom • Heirs – The Royal lineage of a King, usually the inheritor of the Kings kingdom • Land – (Earth) would be territory belonging to a Kingdom • Laws – Regulations and principles established in a Kingdom by a Sovereign • Authority and applicable to its people E. Privileges- Rights and benefits of heirs and citizens F. Armed Forces – Provides security for the Kingdom and its citizens

Getting a Kingdom’s Perspective Pt2:Returning to a Kingdom Concept • Define Covenant • In the ancient Middle East, covenants were the means of regulating relations between social, political and royal entities. • In Biblical terms, A Covenant is usually a bond in blood sovereignly administered. Scripture points rather consistently to the concept of a “bond” or “relationship” • the covenant is the primary agent that God uses to reveal the nature of His love and His desire of relationship with His creation. Through this guise God reveals Himself to be relational God. In essence: • “I will be your God and you will be My people”

Getting a Kingdom’s Perspective Pt2:Returning to a Kingdom Concept • A Covenant would contain either one or two essential features that distinguishes it: • Promissory Covenant • God provides a unilateral (obligating only one) and unconditional pledge despite the recipient. (means to an end) • Obligatory Covenant • God provides a pledge with various stipulations to which the recipient agrees to adhere

Getting a Kingdom’s Perspective Pt2:Returning to a Kingdom Concept • A major component of God’s Covenant: • OBEDIENCE to the King’s Commands • Disobedience which is refusal to comply is linked with “treason” or “rebellion” in a Kingdom which is punishable by death

Getting a Kingdom’s Perspective Pt2:Returning to a Kingdom Concept • Edenic Covenant: God’s promise of redemption (Gen 3:15) • Noahic Covenant: God promises the preservation of man (Gen 9:9) • Abrahamic Covenant: granting blessings through Abram’s Seed (Gen 15:18) • Mt. Sinai Covenant: Designating Israel as God’s Chosen people (Exod 19:5-6) • Levitical Covenant: promising everlasting priesthood (Num25:12-13) • Davidic Covenant: Messianic salvation promised through Davids dynasty (2Sam 23:5)

Getting a Kingdom’s Perspective Pt2:Returning to a Kingdom Concept • Define a Constitution • It is a Statement of fundamental laws: a statement outlining the basic laws or principles by which a kingdom, country or organization is governed

Getting a Kingdom’s Perspective Pt2:Returning to a Kingdom Concept • God spoke the Law (Ex. 20:1) • God wrote the Law (Ex: 24:12/31:18/32:15,16) • God told Moses to place the Law in the Ark of Covenant (Ex 25:16)

Getting a Kingdom’s Perspective Pt2:Returning to a Kingdom Concept • The purpose of Covenant is to create a relationship • The purpose of Law is to regulate the existing relationship

Getting a Kingdom’s Perspective Pt2:Returning to a Kingdom Concept • Two problems with the Law • The Law arouses mans sinful nature (Rom 7:5) • The flesh can not live up to the standard of the Law (Rom 7:25)

Getting a Kingdom’s Perspective Pt2:Returning to a Kingdom Concept • ‍31‍ “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— ‍32‍ not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. ‍33‍But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. ‍34‍ No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” Jubilee!! Jer. 31:31-34

Getting a Kingdom’s Perspective Pt2: Returning to a Kingdom Concept