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This kingdom is also Christ's kingdom under God. He is appointed eternally as the Servant par excellence, the Head and Mediator of His people. It is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has chosen us in Him from before the foundation of the earth and redeemed us by His blood and merited f
The subjects of Christ's kingdom are His people. The substance of the kingdom is the holy seed (Is. 6:13), which seed shall serve Him in the kingdom. He shall see His seed; He shall call God's seed. "I will bring Thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west, I will say to the north, 'Give u
In I Corinthians 15, the apostle does not teach that Christ will one day cease being the king of the kingdom of God under God His Father. But he teaches that the goal of Christ’s reign is the subduing of all His enemies. When He accomplishes this at His second coming and when at the same time He per
Christ, the Son of God in human nature, who died for our sins on the accursed tree, and was raised for our justification, who is exalted at the right hand of God the Father, and who will come again in glory, was anointed from before the foundation of the world to be the only visible representative o
That this kingdom is also called the kingdom of Christ does not at all alter the fact that God is King in the most absolute sense. Rather, that, it is called the kingdom of Christ, signifies that He has been ordained and anointed of God to rule in the Name of God and that, too, in human nature. In t
This kingdom is the heavenly kingdom which shall be realized in the new heavens and the new earth when Christ comes again. It is well to emphasize this in our day, for one of the great errors of today's church is to make this kingdom of Christ an earthly kingdom realized here in this present history
That Christ was triumphant as the mighty Lord of His kingdom was proven in His resurrection from the dead on the third day and His exaltation at the right hand of God. We believe that now King Jesus is enthroned in the heavens in highest glory as God determined from eternity. To Him has been given a
When we speak of this kingdom, we speak of a royal commonwealth where Christ is the absolute sovereign of a kingdom bestowed on Him by the Father. The subjects are His elect people, the character of this kingdom is spiritual, and is realized in the cross of Christ. The reason that these mysteries ar
The kingdom, rather, consists in spiritual blessings and graces wrought in us by God. We serve Christ in the strength of these blessings, righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Notice that the sphere of the kingdom is in the Holy Spirit, not in the flesh, not in the things of the flesh, no
but rather that even in this world, there is a part of heaven that is brought back into this world that God's people experience in this kingdom already now here. That will be the fullness of it, and this will be in part and always mixed with so much trouble and difficulty because of sin, but there i