Emmaus Road Reformed Fellowship: What is God's Kingdom?

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

What is God's Kingdom?

We conjure up many different ideas in our minds when we hear a word like "king" or "kingdom". Some may think of the recent royal wedding of Prince William and Kate. Others think of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Depending on where we live, we have different perceptions of what we think of a “king.”

The Bible talks about a different sort of kingdom with a different kind of king. If you would like to hear more about God's kingdom, you are warmly welcomed to come and join us for our next Bible study tomorrow night (Wednesday, April 27). We will meet from 6:30 to 8 PM at 9257 Amsden Way in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Our time together will be spent in fellowship and discussion about God’s kingdom as we study 2 Samuel 7.

Our study is based on a book by D.A. Carson called The God Who is There. Tomorrow night we will talk about chapter 5, entitled “The God Who Reigns.”

We are in need of a certain kind of king. A king who is “perfectly righteous, who cannot be corrupted, who is entirely good, in whom there is never any taint of evil.” Jesus Christ is that King who inaugurated his kingdom in his first coming and has defeated death through his life, death, and resurrection.

Jesus is now reigning in heaven at the right hand of the Father, and his kingdom continues to go forth as sinners are saved through the preaching of the gospel. King Jesus will come again to consummate his kingdom when sin and death will be abolished and “God will be all in all” (1 Corinthians 15:28).

So, what is God's kingdom? The kingdom of God is the consummation of all things in perfect righteousness and holiness in the new heavens and new earth (Revelation 21:1-5). Hail King Jesus!

1 comment:

UnknownMay 5, 2011 at 9:20 AM
I apologize if this question is off-topic, but is the a-mil, postmill debate one within reformed theology only?
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About Us

We are a group of Christians meeting together in Eden Prairie for Bible Study and fellowship. We are discussing what the Bible says about the Triune God of the universe: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We seek to encourage each other in the Christian faith in order to better understand what we believe and why we believe it.

We are under the oversight of Redeemer Reformed Church in Golden Valley. It is our prayer that out of this Bible Study a new Confessional Reformed Church will begin in the south metro of the Twin Cities.

What We Believe

We are a Christian Church that believes in the Bible. We hold fast to "the faith that was once and for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 3). We confess and believe all that is taught in the Old and New Testaments, which are the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God. We summarize Scriptural teaching regarding the holy Trinity and Christ in the Ancient Ecumenical Creeds. We also confess the Three Forms of Unity. We confess to believe that these creeds and confessions are biblical; that is, they are faithful summaries of the teaching of Scripture.

We believe the Bible teaches us that we are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in the perfect righteousness of Christ alone, to the glory of God alone. As a historic, Confessional Reformed church, we trace our heritage from the Apostles through the ancient church to the Protestant Reformation.

What is your only comfort in life and in death?

That I, with body and soul, both in life and in death, am not my own, but belong to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ, who with his precious blood has fully satisfied for all my sins, and redeemed me from all the power of the devil; and so preserves me that without the will of my Father in heaven not a hair can fall from my head; indeed, that all things must work together for my salvation. Wherefore, by His Holy Spirit, He also assures me of eternal life, and makes me heartily willing and ready from now on to live unto Him.

- Heidelberg Catechism, Question and Answer 1

About Me

Ryan Kron

I grew up in a Christian home in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. I majored in Bible and Theology at Wheaton College, and then I spent two years studying under John Piper at The Bethlehem Institute in Minneapolis.

I received my Masters of Divinity degree at Westminster Seminary in California in 2006 where I studied under men such as W. Robert Godfrey and Michael Horton. From 2006 to 2010 I served as an Associate Pastor at Cloverdale United Reformed Church in Boise, ID.

In November 2010, I moved back to the Twin Cities with my wife, Colleen, and our infant son, Isaiah. I am currently serving as the Mission Work Pastor at Redeemer Reformed Church. My prayer is that God would use me to help build his church in the south metro area in the Twin Cities.