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The Kingship of Jesus

03 Wednesday May 2017

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The power of Christ’s kingly rule is now present among gathered Christians (Luke 17:20-21), liberating people from false masters and enslaving idols. Among the disciples, the kingdom is a new human order in which power, money, recognition, and success are properly reordered in light of the registry of the kingdom. It is not that these things no longer matter but that they become transposed by the unleashing of Christ’s new creation – by service, generosity, and humility (Luke 6:17-29). Jesus’ kingship is not like human kingships, for it wins influence through suffering service, not coercive power. We enter it not through strength but through the weakness of repentance and the new birth (John 3) and becoming like a child (Matt 18:3-4).

Christ’s liberating rule is not fully here. All his disciples are to pray for it to come, according to Matthew 6:10, and at the end of time we will receive it in completion (Matt 25:34). But finally the day comes when the city of God will descend. It contains the throne of God – the seat of the kingdom (Rev 22:3) – from which the renewal of all things proceeds (Rev 21:3-6). This is the ecstatic enthronement depicted in Psalms 96-98. When God returns to rule, even the rivers will clap their hands and the mountains will sing for joy that their liberator has finally come (Ps 98:8; Rom 8:21-22). The freedom and joy of the kingdom of heaven will come to earth.

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Passionate Living

16 Friday Mar 2012

Posted by Keller Quoter in Christian Life, Jesus, The Second Coming

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Look at Titus 2:12–14. It says, ‘We wait for the blessed hope – the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.’ What does that lead to? We are waiting for the second coming, which is called the blessed hope, and that creates a people who are ‘eager to do what is good,’ passionate to do what is good; and, it says in verse 12, who are able to lead upright lives.

Let me pull all this together quickly. Do you think that if you believe in the return of Jesus Christ – a visible, personal, historical event in the future – that that makes you somebody like the people who stand on the street corner with a ‘The end is near!’ sign? For some reason they never shave; you feel like it is because they don’t really care what happens to this world because it is going to end any moment. So, if you believe in the second coming of Jesus Christ that could come any time, does that mean that you don’t care about this world? No, not at all.

When the Bible brings up the second coming of Christ, and by the way it does a lot – in the New Testament, it is mentioned close to three hundred times; one out of every thirteen verses is about the second coming – but it is never brought up to get you to speculate about the end. Jesus says that when he was on earth, even he didn’t know when the second coming was going to happen (Matthew 24:36). The whole point of bringing up the second coming – whenever it is brought up by Paul or John or Jesus or whoever – is always to get you passionate about living now, passionate about living here.

-Tim Keller

*Quote taken from Dr. Keller’s sermon, “Hope For Your Work”, 25 October 2009

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