The Kingdom of God
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 21 October 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The first coming of Christ inaugurated the kingdom of God, a kingdom that will be fully manifest at the end of time. Today, R.C. Sproul explains the nature of God's kingdom and how it relates to the mission of the church.
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| 0:00.0 | Our King reigns now, and for us to put the Kingdom of God entirely in the future is to |
| 0:07.2 | miss one of the most significant points of the New Testament. Our Prince has already |
| 0:13.5 | come. He has initiated the Kingdom of God, but what is future is its final consummation. |
| 0:28.2 | In the Baptist declared, repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. Jesus said the time |
| 0:34.0 | is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe in the gospel. What |
| 0:39.6 | is this Kingdom? Where is this Kingdom? Is it a reality now or something in the future? |
| 0:46.2 | This is the Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind as we work our way through our C. Sprouls |
| 0:51.2 | Foundation series. These questions about the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, |
| 0:57.2 | are important to answer, especially as kings and leaders rise and fall in our own day. In the |
| 1:03.4 | midst of tragedy and the midst of Christian persecution, does our King reign right now? Stay with us |
| 1:09.8 | as our C. Sproul addresses what the Scriptures mean when they speak of the Kingdom of God. Here's |
| 1:15.3 | Dr. Sproul. I remember when I was a boy that I would hear strange expression from time to time, |
| 1:23.8 | somebody would look at a big massive structure of building and say that building will last |
| 1:28.9 | until Kingdom come, or this war is going to last until Kingdom come. I wasn't sure as a child |
| 1:37.6 | what that expression meant. I didn't know what Kingdom come was referring to. And then of course, |
| 1:44.6 | I learned the Lord's Prayer. And the Lord's Prayer begins our Father who art in heaven. |
| 1:50.2 | And the very first petition of the Lord's Prayer is that the name of God would be revered and |
| 1:55.8 | sanctified, hallowed be thy name, and then moves immediately to what? Thy Kingdom |
| 2:04.7 | come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Now that indicates that the Kingdom of God |
| 2:24.2 | is already clearly manifest and present in heaven. The will of God is done every moment in heaven. |
| 2:34.2 | The angels that surround the throne of God and the part of saints that are in His presence |
| 2:41.0 | are not engaged in disobedience and in sin. Whatever God declares, whatever He wills is accomplished |
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