The King Reigns
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
The kingdom of God is a concrete reality with a reigning King and a clear mission. Today, R.C. Sproul encourages Christians to heed Christ's command to bear witness to His kingdom.
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| 0:00.0 | Jesus doesn't say the kingdom of God is within you. |
| 0:03.0 | Jesus says the kingdom of God is among you. |
| 0:06.0 | Where the king is, there is the kingdom. |
| 0:10.0 | Disciples are standing there at the Mount of Ascension. |
| 0:16.0 | Jesus is about now to leave. |
| 0:18.0 | They return to his father and they say, just before you go, Jesus, |
| 0:22.7 | just one last question. What was the question? |
| 0:30.3 | Notice what Jesus says to the Pharisees. He says, if you see me casting out Satan by the finger of God, then you know that what? |
| 0:42.4 | The kingdom of God has come upon you. |
| 0:47.1 | That is, it has come. |
| 0:48.8 | It has been inaugurated. |
| 0:50.8 | It's been initiated. |
| 0:53.1 | Another statement he makes, which I think has been very unfortunately mistranslated in many |
| 0:59.0 | versions of the English text to read this way, again as a result of attempts to spiritualize |
| 1:04.0 | the Christian faith too much. |
| 1:06.0 | How many of you have ever heard this statement, the kingdom of God is within you? |
| 1:09.0 | Have you ever heard that? The kingdom of God is within you. Have ever heard that? The kingdom of |
| 1:12.0 | God is within you. In other words, that Christ's kingdom is found within your heart, within |
| 1:17.3 | your mind, that's spiritual in that sense. Jesus doesn't say the kingdom of God is within you. Jesus |
| 1:25.4 | says the kingdom of God is among you. Jesus says, the kingdom of God is among you. And there |
| 1:29.5 | is a significant difference. Where the king is, there is the kingdom. There is a sense in which |
| 1:37.2 | inwardly we participate in the kingdom of God. But the kingdom of God is not some kind of subjective |
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