Part 6Part 6Living Right Side Up in an Upside Down World

Spiritual Theology O.T. God is King

Spiritual Formation N.T. Jesus is Lord

KING

Spiritual Community Great Commandment

Spiritual Mission Great Commission

KINGDOMGod’s reign in the hearts of people

Spiritual Values God’s way, not man’s

Spiritual Perspective God’s story, not ours

KINGDOM VALUES

1. God Exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…. Let us make man in our image.

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2. God Creates All Things. They are Good.Genesis 1:10, 12, 18, 21, 25 and God saw that it was good. (31) God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.

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3. Sin and Death Entered the World thru Man’s Rebellion. (Gen. 3-11)

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Gen. 2:15-17 the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”

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4. God Determines to Rescue and Redeem Humanity.Gen. 12:3 “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

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5. God Sent Jesus Christ to Redeem the World.2 Corinthians 5:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

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6. God is Working His Redemption thru the Holy Spirit and the Church.2 Cor. 4:4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

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6. God is Working His Redemption thru the Holy Spirit and the Church.Acts 13:2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

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6. God is Working His Redemption thru the Holy Spirit and the Church.

Acts 16:6 Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia.

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7. The Church Hopes for the Future Coming of Jesus.1 Corinthians 15:24-25 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

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8. The End of History: We Will Reign With Jesus in a New Heaven and New Earth.Revelation 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

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8. The End of History: We Will Reign With Jesus in a New Heaven and New Earth.Eph. 1:9-10 and he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.

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8. The End of History: We Will Reign With Jesus in a New Heaven and New Earth.Luke 22:28-30 You are those who have stood by me in my trials. And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

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8. The End of History: We Will Reign With Jesus in a New Heaven and New Earth.Revelation 11:15 The kingdom or the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ.

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PROGRESSION not PROFESSIONMatt. 7:21 Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord,” shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.Matt. 13:18-23; Luke 14:15-24; Matt 21:28-32

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PRIORITY and PROMISEMatt. 6:33 But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things shall be yours as well.

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PRIORITY and PROMISEMatt. 25:34 Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.’

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