One of the things that we shouldn't miss as well is that the gospel is ultimately not just about individuals coming to a saving faith.

It's also chiefly about what God promised to do has done and is now doing in the world.

And that is that Jesus is taking up reign as Lord of Lords and King of Kings.

And as you read, you know, I think it's just valuable, like as we read through the scriptures

to remind us about how that itself, how all of that plays itself out. And it all starts in Genesis

three with the curse. You know know God creates heaven on earth he

brings about his kingdom and puts Adam and Eve in it and they rebel against him they

basically say we want to be our own kings our own lords our own gods in the midst of declaring

the curse on them telling Eve Eve how she's gonna suffer,

telling Adam how he's gonna suffer,

he gives them a promise.

He will, this is the descendant of Eve,

will strike your head to the serpent,

and you will strike his heel.

It's this promise of like,

while I am removing my kingdom now, a new kingdom will eventually come.

The beauty of the gospel is that God is taking up rain on earth as it is in heaven.

As one theologian wrote, the gospel is not just a mechanism in which we get saved.

It is the reality that Jesus, son of God, now that he has been

crucified, has been designated Lord of Lords and King of Kings, and is inviting all of us under

his lordship, turning away from idols and trusting him, not so that we can escape this world and go to heaven, but so that so that as

he establishes his sovereign rule, we can be gospel people living and breathing examples of his new

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