The Kingdom of God: God’s Big Picture (Part 3)

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The Kingdom of GodGods Big Picture (Part 3)

• Matthew 610 The Bible
• The Sermon on the Mount

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The Blessing of God
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The Prophesied Kingdom

• In the days of those kings the God of heaven
  will set up a kingdom which will never be
  destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for
  another people it will crush and put an end to
  all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure
  forever. (Daniel 244)

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The Prophesied Kingdom

• Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the
  greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole
  heaven will be given to the people of the saints
  of the Highest One His kingdom will be an
  everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will
  serve and obey Him. (Daniel 727)

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The Blessing of God
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The Prophesied Kingdom

• The prophets proclaimed hope in the midst of
  despair
• No land, temple, sacrifices, or Davidic king in
  exile (see Psalm 89 and Deut. 30)

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The Restoration of Israel

• 41 As a soothing aroma I will accept you when I
  bring you out from the peoples and gather you
  from the lands where you are scattered and I
  will prove Myself holy among you in the sight of
  the nations. 42 And you will know that I am the
  LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel,
  into the land which I swore to give to your
  forefathers. (Ezekiel 2041-42)

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The Restoration of Israel

• 11 For thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I Myself
  will search for My sheep and seek them out. 12 As
  a shepherd cares for his herd in the day when he
  is among his scattered sheep, so I will care for
  My sheep and will deliver them from all the
  places to which they were scattered on a cloudy
  and gloomy day. 13 I will bring them out from the
  peoples and gather them from the countries and
  bring them to their own land and I will feed
  them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams,
  and in all the inhabited places of the land.
  (Ezekiel 3411-13)

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The Restoration of Israel

• 13 Behold, days are coming, declares the LORD,
  When the plowman will overtake the reaper and
  the treader of grapes him who sows seed when the
  mountains will drip sweet wine and all the hills
  will be dissolved. 14 Also I will restore the
  captivity of My people Israel, and they will
  rebuild the ruined cities and live in them they
  will also plant vineyards and drink their wine,
  and make gardens and eat their fruit. 15 I will
  also plant them on their land, and they will not
  again be rooted out from their land which I have
  given them, says the LORD your God. (Amos
  913-15)

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The Restoration of Israel

• 1 But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O
  Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel, Do not
  fear, for I have redeemed you I have called you
  by name you are Mine! 3 For I am the LORD your
  God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior 5 Do
  not fear, for I am with you I will bring your
  offspring from the east, and gather you from the
  west. 6 I will say to the north, Give them up!
  And to the south, Do not hold them back. Bring
  My sons from afar and My daughters from the ends
  of the earth, 7 Everyone who is called by My
  name, and whom I have created for My glory, whom
  I have formed, even whom I have made. (Isaiah
  431, 3, 5-7)

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The Restoration of Israel

• 36 Now therefore thus says the LORD God of
  Israel concerning this city of which you say, It
  is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by
  sword, by famine and by pestilence. 37 Behold,
  I will gather my people out of all the lands to
  which I have driven them in My anger, in My wrath
  and in great indignation and I will bring them
  back to this place and make them dwell in safety.
  (Jeremiah 3236-37)

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The Restoration of Israel

• 5 Behold, the days are coming, declares the
  LORD, When I will raise up for David a righteous
  Branch and He will reign as king and act wisely
  and do justice and righteousness in the land. 6
  In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will
  dwell securely and this is His name by which He
  will be called, The LORD our righteousness.(Jer
  emiah 235-6)

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The Restoration of Israel

• 7 Therefore behold, the days are coming,
  declares the LORD, when they will no longer say,
  As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of
  Israel from the land of Egypt, 8 but, As the
  LORD lives, who brought up and led back the
  descendants of the household of Israel from the
  north land and from all the countries where I had
  driven them. Then they will live on their own
  soil. (Jeremiah 237-8)

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The Restoration of Israel

• For they are not all Israel who are descended
  from Israel. (Romans 96)

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The Restoration of Israel

• 25 For I do not want you, brethren, to be
  uninformed of this mysteryso that you will not
  be wise in your own estimationthat a partial
  hardening has happened to Israel until the
  fullness of the Gentiles has come in 26 and so
  all Israel will be saved just as it is written,
  THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL
  REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB. 27 THIS IS MY
  COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS.
  28 From the standpoint of the gospel they are
  enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of
  Gods choice election they are beloved for
  the sake of the fathers 29 for the gifts and the
  calling of God are irrevocable. (Romans
  1125-29)

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The Restoration of Israel

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The Restoration of Israel

• For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of
  prophecy. (Revelation 1910)
• And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that
  you who have followed Me, in the regeneration
  when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious
  throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones,
  judging the twelve tribes of Israel. (Matthew
  1928)

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The Restoration of Israel

• 11 Then He said to me, Son of man, these bones
  are the whole house of Israel behold, they say,
  Our bones are dried up and our hope has
  perished. We are completely cut off. 12
  Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus says
  the Lord GOD, Behold, I will open your graves
  and cause you to come up out of your graves, My
  people and I will bring you into the land of
  Israel. 13 Then you will know that I am the LORD,
  when I have opened your graves and caused you to
  come up out of your graves, My people. 14 I will
  put My Spirit within you and you will come to
  life, and I will place you on your own land. Then
  you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken and
  done it, declares the LORD. (Ezekiel 3711-14)

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The Prophesied Kingdom Jew and Gentile

• 2 I will make you a great nation, and I will
  bless you, and make your name great and so you
  shall be a blessing 3 and I will bless those who
  bless you, and the one who curses you I will
  curse. And in you all the families of the earth
  will be blessed. (Genesis 122-3)

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The Prophesied Kingdom Jew and Gentile

• 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would
  justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the
  gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, ALL THE
  NATIONS WILL BE BLESSED IN YOU. Genesis 123 9
  So then those who are of faith are blessed with
  Abraham, the believer. 10 For as many as are of
  the works of the Law are under a curse for it is
  written, CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT ABIDE
  BY ALL THINGS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW, TO
  PERFORM THEM. Deut. 2726(Galatians 38-10)

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The Prophesied Kingdom Jew and Gentile

• 11 Now that no one is justified by the Law
  before God is evident for, THE RIGHTEOUS MAN
  SHALL LIVE BY FAITH. Hab. 24 12 However, the
  Law is not of faith on the contrary, HE WHO
  PRACTICES THEM SHALL LIVE BY THEM. 13 Christ
  redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having
  become a curse for usfor it is written, CURSED
  IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE Deut. 2123
  14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of
  Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we
  would receive the promise of the Spirit through
  faith. (Galatians 311-14)

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The Prophesied Kingdom Jew and Gentile

• The LORD says, It is too small a thing that You
  should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of
  Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of
  Israel I will also make You a light of the
  nations so that My salvation may reach to the end
  of the earth. (Isaiah 496)

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The Prophesied Kingdom The New Covenant

• 31 Behold, days are coming, declares the LORD,
  when I will make a new covenant with the house
  of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not
  like the covenant which I made with their fathers
  in the day I took them by the hand to bring them
  out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they
  broke, although I was a husband to them,
  declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 3131-32)

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The Prophesied Kingdom The New Covenant

• 33 But this is the covenant which I will make
  with the house of Israel after those days,
  declares the LORD, I will put My law within them
  and on their heart I will write it and I will be
  their God, and they shall be My people. 34 They
  will not teach again, each man his neighbor and
  each man his brother, saying, Know the LORD,
  for they will all know Me, from the least of them
  to the greatest of them, declares the LORD, for
  I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I
  will remember no more. (Jeremiah 3133-34)

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The Prophesied Kingdom The Church and Israel?

• Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of
  faith who are sons of Abraham. (Galatians 37)
• 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in
  Christ Jesus 29 And if you belong to Christ,
  then you are Abrahams descendants, heirs
  according to promise. (Galatians 326, 29)

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The Prophesied Kingdom The Church and Israel?

• 23 I will vindicate the holiness of My great
  name which has been profaned among the nations,
  which you have profaned in their midst. Then the
  nations will know that I am the LORD, declares
  the Lord GOD, when I prove Myself holy among you
  in their sight. 24 For I will take you from the
  nations, gather you from all the lands and bring
  you into your own land. (Ezekiel 3623-24)

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The Prophesied Kingdom The Church and Israel?

• 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and
  you will be clean I will cleanse you from all
  your filthiness and from all your idols. 26
  Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a
  new spirit within you and I will remove the
  heart of stone from your flesh and give you a
  heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within
  you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you
  will be careful to observe My ordinances. 28 You
  will live in the land that I gave to your
  forefathers so you will be My people, and I will
  be your God. (Ezekiel 3626-28)

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The Prophesied Kingdom THE KING

• 6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be
  given to us and the government will rest on His
  shoulders and His name will be called Wonderful
  Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of
  Peace. 7 There will be no end to the increase of
  His government or of peace, on the throne of
  David and over his kingdom, to establish it and
  to uphold it with justice and righteousness from
  then on and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD
  Almighty will accomplish this. (Isaiah 96-7)

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The Prophesied Kingdom THE KING

• 31 But when the Son of Man comes in His glory,
  and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on
  His glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be
  gathered before Him and He will separate them
  from one another, as the shepherd separates the
  sheep from the goats 33 and He will put the
  sheep on His right, and the goats on the left. 34
  Then the King will say to those on His right,
  Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit
  the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
  of the world. (Matthew 2531-34)

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The Prophesied Kingdom THE KING

• The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom
  of our Lord and of His Christ and He will reign
  forever and ever. (Revelation 1115)

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The Prophesied Kingdom So What?

• If we endure, we will also reign with Him (2
  Timothy 212)
• And the Master said to him, Well done, good
  servant, because you have been faithful in a very
  little thing, you are to be in authority over ten
  cities. (Luke 1917)

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The Prophesied Kingdom So What?

• 13 For God rescued us from the domain of
  darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of
  His beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption,
  the forgiveness of sins. (Colossians 113-14)

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The Kingdom of GodGods Big Picture (Part 3)

• Matthew 610 The Bible
• The Sermon on the Mount