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- God’s reign is a saving reign. The kingdom of God provides a holistic understanding of salvation, including not only what we are saved from, but also what we are saved for: We are saved from death and for life. We are saved from shame and for glory. We are saved from slavery and for freedom. We are saved from sin and for following our Savior.
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Jan 20, 2017 · The Bible can make a distinction between the reign of God in all of God’s sweeping sovereignty — the reign of God under which everybody falls, whether they even believe in God or not — and what might be called that subset of God’s sweeping reign under which there is life, under which there is salvation.
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The kingdom is first and foremost a statement about God. God is king, and he is coming as king to set right what our sin made wrong. The phrase “kingdom of God” could just as easily be translated “reign of God” or “kingship of God.” The message of the kingdom is about God’s royal power directed by his self-giving love. Claiming that the kingdom of ...
God the Creator-King reigns over all his creatures, but he also reignsthroughhis people. This was his design from the beginning. Adam and Eve were commissioned as royal representatives of the king, called to steward his creation and spread the blessings of his reign throughout the earth. Instead, they chose to seek their own path to power and glory...
The Bible is the story of God making his good creation a glorious kingdom. It all started in the garden, where God commissioned his people to go to the ends of the earth to make the rest of the world like Eden. The garden kingdom was meant to become a global kingdom where people would rejoice and the world would flourish under God’s loving reign. A...
This understanding of the kingdom of God may be new to you, but it would not have been surprising to the first-century crowds listening to Jesus. Their collective hope was that God would come as king to redeem his people and restore his creation. What surprised them about Jesus’s proclamation was not what the kingdom is, butwho would bring it and h...
- Jeremy Treat
The New Testament plainly reveals that God himself became incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ to establish his own kingdom over the earth. God’s reign and human mediation come together in the person of Jesus. Hebrews 1:1–4 introduces us to “a Son” who is both divine and human (Heb. 1:2).
Jul 22, 2011 · The reign of God is the dynamic rule of God’s saving love. That’s what we mean by the reign of God, what Jesus meant by it -- that we begin to live, all of us and all of creation,...
Sep 8, 2017 · The answer is, the kingdom of God is God’s reign — his sovereign action in the world to redeem and deliver a people and then at a future time finish it and renew his people and the universe completely.
Jul 28, 2011 · One Scripture commentator has described the Reign of God as the dynamic rule of God’s saving or healing love, that which makes us whole and all that we can be. That’s the Reign of God....
