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July 20, 2025 - For the Church at the St. John Church of Christ
Politics #3 of 7:
Last week we talked about the first two principles of a Kingdom-first approach to earthly politics: earthly kingdoms rise and fall, and Jesus resisted efforts to establish a typical earthly kingdom. Principle #3 – Jesus inaugurated the eternal, universal Kingdom of God.
In Mark 1:15-16, Jesus announced the inauguration of the Kingdom of God. “The time has come, he said. “The kingdom of God has come near.” Repent and believe the good news!” Jesus established this kingdom, not by earthly political force, but in his life, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension into heaven. Jesus Christ is reigning today! His kingdom is bringing life, salvation, and healing to all who would enter it by faith.
Principle #4 – Jesus is creating Kingdom people. Christians are citizens of another Kingdom. The apostle Paul outlined this in Philippians 3:18-20 saying, “Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things, but our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Kingdom people are a multi-national, diverse, and united family. Revelation 7 gives us a beautiful picture of this diverse family where it says “every nation, tribe, people, and language” are standing before God and worshipping him. Jesus calls his Kingdom people to a kind of unity that confounds earthly political division.
Paul writes in Ephesians 2:14-16, “For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.” In a political age full of tendencies toward racial division and nationalism, the Church should exercise extreme caution about engaging in political practices that destroy our unity.
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