Message Notes

The Kingdom of God

Today: Getting A Kingdom Worldview

July 4, 2004

 

1) A Kingdom Worldview knows that God wants all people to know Him, and that they can only know Him through Christ.

John 3:16-18 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

 

John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

 

Psalm 33:8 Let all the earth fear the LORD ; let all the people of the world revere him.

 

2 Peter 3:8-9 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. ⁹The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

 

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

John 1:12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—

 

A prayer to begin a relationship with Christ: Dear Jesus, thank you for proving your love for me by dying for me on the cross and paying for my sin.  Thank you for making a way to heaven for me.  Thank you for loving me and accepting me.  Today I accept you and your free gift of forgiveness. Please forgive me for my sins. I want to follow you and I want to love you and I want to get to know you. I turn to you and ask you to be the leader of my life. In Your name I pray.  Amen.

 

2) A Kingdom Worldview knows that the entire earth and all it contains belong to God. God’s Kingdom, therefore, is meant to be a worldwide endeavor, not a regional thing.

Psalm 24:1-2 The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; ² for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.

Luke 13:20-21 Again he asked, "What shall I compare the kingdom of God to? ²¹It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough."

 

Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

 

3) A Kingdom Worldview knows that the Christians of the world have a commanded responsibility to take the Gospel to all the nations, regardless of the cost.

Matthew 28:18-20 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

 

Acts 1:8-9 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." ⁹After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. 

 

Romans 10:13-15 for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” ¹⁴How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? ¹⁵And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

 

Mark 8:35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.

 

Luke 18:28-30 Peter said to him, "We have left all we had to follow you!"
²⁹"I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God ³⁰will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life."  

 

Bottom Line: AT FOSM, we believe that we must do OUR PART to take the Gospel to the nations. We seek to accomplish that by being involved in world missions wherever God leads us, and by adopting at least one unreached people group on the planet and taking the Gospel to them.