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The kingdom of God is fundamentally God’s sovereign rule
expressed and realized through the different stages of
redemptive history. This biblical doctrine derives from the
truth that God, as the one true, living, and eternal Ruler,
always existed and therefore reigns over His creation. [10]
True worship has a new temple; Jesus replaces the temporal
location. The people of God are now able to experience the
fullness of eternal life and the abundant blessings of the new
creation not available through land rights and a temporary
inheritance. [14]
Sin is our desire to substitute ourselves in the place of God,
whereas God discloses His grace in Jesus by substituting Himself
in our place. [17]
Whether the personal center is one’s career, relationships,
money, academic achievement, or sex, if an individual lives for
anything besides Jesus, then that functional god will abuse,
crush, and tyrannize one’s heart. [17]
The effect of the gospel, the entailment of the gospel, is the
inevitable transformation of men and women such that we begin to
love our neighbors where one we loved only ourselves. [21]
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