Kingdom of God is defined as The Sovereign (self-determining) governing and reign of God over all creation, instituted on earth through the life, death, and resurrection of Christ!
Rev 5:9-10
And they sang a new song:
You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals,
Because you were slaughtered,
and you purchased people for God by your blood
from every tribe and language and people and nation
you made them a kingdom and priests to our God,
and they will reign on the earth!
All inclusive is Defined as, Including everything or everyone.
Ladies and gentlemen, the kingdom of God is all-inclusive! Your king has provided for us everything that pertains to life and godliness
2nd Peter 1:3 KJV
According as His divine hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and to virtue
The New International Version puts it this way
His divine power hath given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness.
In Philippians 4, we see it is his desire to fulfill all of our needs according to his riches and glory
We’ll explore three aspects of the Kingdom of God that make it a dream come true
The Kingdom of God : all inclusive
We’ll talk about….
Penalty Paid
Provisions Provided
A purchased people
Lets look at Rev 5:9-10 again,
And they sing a new song
You are worthy to take the scroll and to open the seals,
Because you were slaughtered,
And you purchased people for God by your blood
from every tribe and language and people and nation
you made them a kingdom and priests to our God
and they will reign on the earth!
Because Christ was slaughtered, the penalty was paid!
Overview of the Garden Fall:
Roman 5:12 KJV
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
Romans 3:9-10 NLT
Well then should we conclude that we Jews are better than others no not at all for we have already shown that all people, whether Jews or Gentiles, are under the power of sin.
As the scriptures say, no one is righteous, not even one
THAT WORD “ALL” IN THE GREEK MEANS…ALL!
Roman 3:22b-24 NIV
There is no difference between Jew and Gentile for all have sin and fall short of the glory of God and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
Rom 3:22b-24 MSG
Since we’ve compiled this long and sorry record as sinners both us and them and proved that we were utterly incapable of living the glorious lives God willed for us, God did it for us. Out of His sheer generosity He puts us in right standing with Himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we’re in and restored us to where He always wanted us to be. And He did it by the means of Jesus Christ.
John 3:16-17
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
John 1:29
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
Romans 5:12-21 MSG
12-14 You know the story of how Adam landed us in the dilemma we’re in—first sin, then death, and no one exempt from either sin or death. That sin disturbed relations with God in everything and everyone, but the extent of the disturbance was not clear until God spelled it out in detail to Moses. So death, this huge abyss separating us from God, dominated the landscape from Adam to Moses. Even those who didn’t sin precisely as Adam did by disobeying a specific command of God still had to experience this termination of life, this separation from God. But Adam, who got us into this, also points ahead to the One who will get us out of it.
15-17 Yet the rescuing gift is not exactly parallel to the death-dealing sin. If one man’s sin put crowds of people at the dead-end abyss of separation from God, just think what God’s gift poured through one man, Jesus Christ, will do! There’s no comparison between that death-dealing sin and this generous, life-giving gift. The verdict on that one sin was the death sentence; the verdict on the many sins that followed was this wonderful life sentence. If death got the upper hand through one man’s wrongdoing, can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes, absolute life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right, that the one man Jesus Christ provides?
18-19 Here it is in a nutshell: Just as one person did it wrong and got us in all this trouble with sin and death, another person did it right and got us out of it. But more than just getting us out of trouble, he got us into life! One man said no to God and put many people in the wrong; one man said yes to God and put many in the right.
PENALTY PAID!!!
THE Kingdom of God: All-inclusive
PART II: Provision Made
Let’s go back to the garden before the fall. God designed the Garden with everything that man needed. They wanted for nothing. Everything was there. All provisions were provided.
Should we expect anything less in the kingdom of God?
God is a good father and takes care of his children!
2 Peter 1:3
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue.
Phil 4:19
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Luke 4:18:19
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he had sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Matthew 15:29-31
…And He healed them all.
Acts 10:38
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
Heb 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
1 Peter 2:24 KJV
Jesus, Himself bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose we were healed.
Mark 11:22-24 KJV
Have faith in God.
For verily say unto you that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart,
But shall believe that those things which he said shall come to pass he shall have whatsoever he saith
Therefore I say unto you What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.
PART III: A PURCHASED PEOPLE
Planned Parenthood? Nahh
Purchased people could be touchy as well but not in the light of
Rom 6:17 KJV
But thanks be to God that, though you were once slaves to sin…
Jesus has set us free!
John 1:29
He took away the sin.
He took away the power of sin.
We are no longer under its rule.
WHO ARE THESE PURCHASED PEOPLE?
Whosoever will!
REVELATION 5:9-10
And they sang a new song
You are worthy to take the scroll and to open the seals,
Because you were slaughtered, (Penalty paid)
And you purchased people for God by your blood
From every tribe and language And people and nation
You made them a kingdom And priest to our God,
And they will reign on the earth.
The MSG Bible reads this way,
Don’t afraid or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.
There’s wholeness in the kingdom!
Who Was purchased by his blood,
We all were. The Price for our sins, past, present, and future, has been paid!
The kingdom is at hand!
From the beginning, God’s plan was playing; he wanted a family. He created us in his image and his likeness to express his love. The plan was sidetracked but God raised up Abraham and put the promise in him saying of you all the nations of the world will be blessed.
John 3:16
For God to love the world that’s all people that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever that’s all people believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Outside of the kingdom there is death and destruction!
Jesus died for the world.
The Jews, God’s people, were not exempt from this deception of the enemy to bring division.
Remember it was the Egyptians who the Jewish people slaves for 400 years.
Luke 14:16-23
Jesus replied a certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, come for everything is now ready. But they all alike begin to make excuses. The first said, I have just sold a bill and I must go and see it. Please excuse me. Another said, I have just bought 5 yoke of oxen, and I am on my way to try them out. Please excuse me. Still another said I just got married, so I can’t come. The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame. Sir, the servant said what you offered this has been done but there is still room. Then the master told his servant, go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.
Eph 4:16 KJV
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplier, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part make an increase for the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Gal 3:8-9 NIV
Understand then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: all nations will be blessed through you. So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
Eph 3:4-6 MSG
As you read over what I have written to you, you’ll be able to see for yourselves into the mystery of Christ. None of our ancestors understood this. Only in our time has it been made clear by God’s spirit through His holy apostles and prophets of this new order. The mystery is that people who have never heard of God and those who have heard of Him all their lives (What I’ve been calling outsiders and insiders) stand on the same ground before. They get the same offer, same help, same promises in Christ Jesus. The message is accessible and welcoming to everyone, across the board.
Gal 3:26-29
For you are all the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you be Christ’s, then your Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
UNIFIED AND EQUAL!!!!!
In the body of Christ there is no black or white, rich or poor…
What are some other things that the church has separated in?
Holy Spirit filled not believing in the baptism of the Holy Spirit
(if you are born again you have been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise)
Baptized by full immersion in Jesus name or in the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost
We have been graffed in (Rom 11:17).
Adopted Eph 1:3-7
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who had blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ according as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy without blame before Him in love: having predestinated us until the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He had made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace:
