Planting Churches among the City's Poor - Volume 1

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e. Oppresses human beings through harassment, slander, fear, accusation, and death, Heb. 2.14-15

f. Resists and persecutes God’s people, Eph. 6.10-18

7. Two manifestations of the Kingdom of God: The Already/Not Yet Kingdom (Oscar Cullman, Christ and Time , George Ladd, The Presence of the Future ) a. The first advent: the rebellious prince bound and his house looted and God’s reign come in the presence of Jesus Christ b. The second advent: the rebellious prince destroyed and his rule confounded with the full manifestation of God’s kingly power in a recreated heaven and earth

D. The Christo-centric order: Messiah Yeshua of Nazareth as centerpiece in both God’s revelation and rule

Jesus’ message was the Kingdom of God. It was the center and circumference of all He taught and did. . . . The Kingdom of God is the master-conception, the master-plan, the master-purpose, the master-will that gathers everything up into itself and gives it redemption, coherence, purpose, goal.

~ E. Stanley Jones. Is the Kingdom of God Realism?

1. Messiah’s mission : to destroy the works of the devil, 1 John 3.8

2. Messiah’s birth : invasion of God into Satan’s dominion, Luke 1.31-33

3. Messiah’s message : the Kingdom’s proclamation and inauguration, Mark1.14-15

4. Messiah’s teaching : the ethics of the Kingdom, Matt.5-7

5. Messiah’s miracles : his kingly authority and power, Mark 2.8-12

6. Messiah’s exorcisms : the defeat of the devil and his angels, Luke 11.14-20