The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven were great parts of Jesus' teaching while he was here of earth. What does it mean to us now?

1. The Kingdom

2. The Kingdom of God
1. Revelation-future
2. Transformation-internal
3. Manifestation-present

3. The Kingdom as Revelation
Future

4. Future revelation
The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon
the soil; and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day,
and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does
not know. The soil produces crops by itself; first the
blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the
head. But when the crop permits, he immediately puts
in the sickle, because the harvest has come.
Mark 4:26–29

5. Rapture
Behold the fig tree and all the trees; as soon as they
put forth leaves, you see it and know for yourselves
that summer is now near. So you also, when you see
these things happening, recognize that the kingdom of
God is near.
Luke 21:29–31

6. The end
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there
were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of
the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of
his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”
Revelation 11:15

7. The Beginning of the Millennial Reign
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the
trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up
together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in
the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
Therefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 4:16–18

8. The Kingdom as Transformation
Internal

9. Begins and Ends
Jesus was going throughout all Galilee, teaching in their
synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom,
and healing every kind of disease and every kind of
sickness among the people.
Matthew 4:23
Matthew 9:35
Teach Preach Heal Deliver

10. The Message
Jesus-The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at
hand; repent and believe in the gospel.
Mark 1:15
The gospel-euangelion, good news
The Kingdom is near
What did that mean to 1st century Jews?

11. The Kingdom Beginning
God created man in His own image, in the image of God
He created him; male and female He created them. God
blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over
the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over
every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 1:27–28

12. God’s Kingdom
Chosen people
Authority/power given
Instruction

13. Rebel against the Kingdom
Temptation and sin
Knowledge of good and evil
Man redefines good and evil

14. Chosen People
Abraham
For I have chosen him, so that he may command his
children and his household after him to keep the way of
the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the
LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken
about him.
Genesis 18:19

15. God’s Kingdom
Chosen people
Authority/power given
Instructions
Prophecy of Egyptian enslavement

16. Egyptian Enslavement
Exodus- God’s rescue of His Chosen People
God vs Pharaoh
“Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice to let
Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and besides, I will not
let Israel go.”
*Type of sin, redefine good & evil, calls people out

17. Song of the Sea
I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. The
LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become
my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my
father’s God, and I will exalt him.
The LORD will reign forever and ever.
Exodus 15:1b–2;18

18. A Marriage of Sorts
Sinai Covenant
Chosen people
Authority/power given
Instructions
A Kingdom ruled by God
Israel called to be a “City on a Hill”

19. A prophecy from a ruined Jerusalem
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him
who brings good news, who publishes peace, who
brings good news of happiness, who publishes
salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” The
voice of your watchmen—they lift up their voice;
together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they see the
return of the LORD to Zion. Break forth together into
singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the LORD has
comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem.

20. The LORD has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all
the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the
salvation of our God.
Isaiah 52:7–10

21. The Message
Jesus-The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at
hand; repent and believe in the gospel.
Mark 1:15
Our God reigns
Euangelion
New kingdom

22. The Gospel
The Good News
Chosen people
Authority/power given
Instruction

23. Parables
 Sower and seed-The Word and the heart of the
hearer
 Field sown with good and bad seed-being in Israel is
not the key to salvation
 Sown mustard seed-Gospel preached to whole
world
 Leaven and flour-the Gospel permeates the man
and society

24. Parables
 Treasure hidden in a field-found in scripture but
must take all of it. Not seeking but finding. It cost
you everything
 Pearl of great price-seeking salvation and finding it.
Cost you everything
 A dragnet-fishers of men. The whole earth

25. Gentiles included
…when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all
the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves
being thrown out. And they will come from east and
west and from north and south, and will recline at the
table in the kingdom of God. And behold, some are last
who will be first and some are first who will be last.
Luke 13:28b–30

26. Follow Jesus
If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions
and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in
heaven; and come, follow Me.
Matthew 19:21

27. New Kingdom of God
Powerful are the least important
scribes
Pharisees and Sadducees
rich
important

28. New Kingdom of God
The despised and powerless are the most important
children
poor
prostitutes
tax collectors
sinners

29. New Kingdom of God
Serve to be the greatest
But it is not this way with you, but the one who is the
greatest among you must become like the youngest,
and the leader like the servant.
Luke 22:26

30. New Kingdom of God
Jesus
Calls out a chosen people
Gives authority/power
Gives instruction

31. The Kingdom Manifestation
Present

32. Transformation
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he
cannot see the kingdom of God.
John 3:3
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and
the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
John 3:5

33. Not outside
…nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’ For
behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”
Luke 17:21
Hearing the call
Responding
Receiving salvation

34. A way of life
Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be
taken away from you and given to a people, producing
the fruit of it.
Matthew 21:43
Vine & Branches
…the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to
walk in the same manner as He walked.
1 John 2:6

35. Progressive journey
The scribe said to Him, “Right, Teacher; You have truly
stated that HE IS ONE, AND THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES
HIM; AND TO LOVE HIM WITH ALL THE HEART AND WITH ALL THE
UNDERSTANDING AND WITH ALL THE STRENGTH, AND TO LOVE
ONE’S NEIGHBOR AS HIMSELF, is much more than all burnt
offerings and sacrifices.” When Jesus saw that he had
answered intelligently, He said to him, “You are not far
from the kingdom of God.”
Mark 12:32–34

36. Instituting a new covenant
To these He also presented Himself alive after His
suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to
them over a period of forty days and speaking of the
things concerning the kingdom of God.
…but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has
come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses…
Acts 1:3; 8

37. Instituting a new covenant
All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on
earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and
the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe
all that I commanded you…
Chosen people
Authority/power
Instructions

38. The kingdom of heaven is a coming reality in which the
Lord will return, It is a reality we walk in everyday and a
manifestation of the kingdom of God within us.

39. To sum it up
But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY
NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, so that you
may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called
you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
1 Peter 2:9

40. The Kingdom