Kingdom of God

doctrine · 9 episodes

217The Early Days of Christ's Ministry 26 May 2025 33:34¶ 101 “I will give you this definition. It’s not inspired and there are others that are also good, but looking on it in terms of…” 34:12¶ 102 “It's a redemptive kingdom. It’s a historical kingdom. Our king is in heaven. We’re not waiting for him to return and sit on a…” 32:30¶ 98 “This would seem to be a good place to at least mention that, but there was a phrase that Matthew just used – the…”

215The Life of John the Baptizer 21 Apr 2025 4:21¶ 13 “The words at hand are important. Our dispensationalist friends tend to say, “Well, at hand but not here.” That’s not what at hand means.…” 7:14¶ 19 “I throw that out there largely so that if any of our listeners were ever enmeshed in that they can say, “Oh yeah, I…” 7:49¶ 20 “The fact that it’s not quite what Israel expected is beside the point. It’s not what modern dispensationalists and premillennialists expect either, but it…”

191Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah, and Daniel 29 Apr 2024 34:57¶ 89 “Then there’s another kingdom after that that remains unnamed. It’s different from all other kingdoms. It’s obviously brutal. It stomps on things. It’s very…” 34:07¶ 87 “Nebuchadnezzar is hyper about this and promotes Daniel and his friends, but he doesn’t get it and the next chapter proves that. But for…” 33:26¶ 85 “In the days of these kingdoms, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed. It will fill the…”

173Retrospective 21 Aug 2023 28:57¶ 97 “Exactly, and yet there is a difference, to be sure. So we here in the 21st century are somewhere across the line. Jesus has…” 29:18¶ 98 “Most of the citizens of the kingdom right now are in heaven. If you calculate the possibilities and the population of 4,000 years of…” 29:45¶ 99 “Well, the king’s in heaven and the bulk of his people are in heaven. It seems like a good name somehow,” but that doesn’t…”

164Holiness to the Lord 12 Jun 2023 16:41¶ 47 “In other words, the kingdom of God is going to be where it’s at. It’s going to be the most important of all kingdoms.…” 19:22¶ 56 “Things that are clear are there’s a time of trouble coming that’s described here as war, and may of course simply be a literal…” 17:10¶ 48 “God is giving us through visual metaphors the idea that he’s making this thing, this kingdom, this worship very visual, vivid, prominent, so that…”

157The Handwriting on the Wall 20 Feb 2023 30:41¶ 132 “What they did for a time is protect God’s people, nurture and preserve the line of promise and the Word of God and the…” 31:14¶ 133 “God gives the kingdom to who he will and sets over it the basest of men. He overturns, he overturns, he overturns until he…” 32:25¶ 135 “There’s very little in Daniel that goes beyond that, except the sweeping vision of his triumph. Most of the things that have to do…”

147The Course of Empire 5 Dec 2022 24:16¶ 88 “So when the kingdom of God entered the history of the ancient world, it had to deal with all this stuff, all this garbage,…” 22:46¶ 84 “Nebuchadnezzar thus has his answer. God has planned out the history of the world. The world is not an independent chaotic force that’s moving…” 25:55¶ 91 “Exactly. If it was just sort of a ghosty-like thing it might just zip through them and grab some things along the way and…”

137Unto Us A Child Is Born 26 Sep 2022 29:55¶ 114 “He’s coming as a child, a divine child, God come in the flesh, God with us, but his work has a beginning that seems…” 32:13¶ 133 “Any time – who’s measuring the time here? Who’s setting the parameters? Who’s setting the goalposts? Well, it’s been 2,000 years so far and…” 39:10¶ 161 “So God does have an agenda. It involves peace – peace first of all between God and men, but lest we make light of…”

40Sociology of the Sabbath 4 Oct 2020 21:59¶ 70 “God worked six days and rested, and we’re his image. God stopped creating. His work had a definitive end. They can look and see…” 25:32¶ 77 “Yes indeed. When the prophets show us Messiah’s kingdom it is, to borrow the title of one painting, a peaceable kingdom where the wolf…” 26:36¶ 78 “But this is predicated upon the success of the gospel, of the Great Commission, of people coming to faith in Christ, and of the…”