Roberts writes that the Present Kingdom is when the prophesied child is born. Graeme Goldsworthy says in According to Plan, “The Gospel is the word about Jesus Christ and what he did for us in order to restore us to a right relationship with God” (Goldsworthy 73). This is it, this is what God has been promising. These are the words come into being. John 1:1-5, 9, says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it…The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming
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He grows up teaching, healing, preaching, and doing the work his Father has called him to do. And he ultimately gives his life to save both Jews and Gentiles alike. Not just the Israelites can be redeemed by Jesus’ sacrifice, but everyone receives an opportunity to be saved, too. “…Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:6-11 ESV). Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes in Christ the Center, “Even as the risen one, Jesus Christ remains the man Jesus in time and space. Because Jesus Christ is human, he is present in time and space; because Jesus Christ is God, he is eternally …show more content…
Humans stand between law and fulfillment. They have the law, but cannot fulfill it. Now Christ stands where humans have failed before the law. Christ as the center means that he is the fulfillment of the law. So he is in turn the boundary and the judgement of the human, but also the beginning of our new existence, its center. Christ as the center of human existence means that he is our judgment and justification” (Bonhoeffer, Christ the Center/Christology 60). Now that the truth is in us, it must be shared with all. This is what Roberts calls the Proclaimed Kingdom, for Acts 1:4, 8, says, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Jesus commands them to spread his word, to tell all nations about the good news of salvation. Jesus says in Matthew 28:19-20, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” This where we are today. We, who believe and have been saved, we are to share God’s wonderful gift with as many people as we can. Ephesians 2:8-9 says, “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may
He grows up teaching, healing, preaching, and doing the work his Father has called him to do. And he ultimately gives his life to save both Jews and Gentiles alike. Not just the Israelites can be redeemed by Jesus’ sacrifice, but everyone receives an opportunity to be saved, too. “…Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:6-11 ESV). Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes in Christ the Center, “Even as the risen one, Jesus Christ remains the man Jesus in time and space. Because Jesus Christ is human, he is present in time and space; because Jesus Christ is God, he is eternally …show more content…
Humans stand between law and fulfillment. They have the law, but cannot fulfill it. Now Christ stands where humans have failed before the law. Christ as the center means that he is the fulfillment of the law. So he is in turn the boundary and the judgement of the human, but also the beginning of our new existence, its center. Christ as the center of human existence means that he is our judgment and justification” (Bonhoeffer, Christ the Center/Christology 60). Now that the truth is in us, it must be shared with all. This is what Roberts calls the Proclaimed Kingdom, for Acts 1:4, 8, says, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Jesus commands them to spread his word, to tell all nations about the good news of salvation. Jesus says in Matthew 28:19-20, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” This where we are today. We, who believe and have been saved, we are to share God’s wonderful gift with as many people as we can. Ephesians 2:8-9 says, “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may