The Promises of God: Matthew 16:13-38
Do you remember a time when you felt really alive in a moment?
Read the Passage: Matthew 16:13-38
Main Idea – Jesus brings the Kingdom here and now.
What is communicated in this passage?
What is the difference between Kingdom Theology and Salvation Theology? Which one do you tend to believe more?
Kingdom Theology – I am raised to life as a citizen of a new place, with a new identity, a new king, with new power, new culture, and a new mission: let the kingdom come.
Salvation Theology – do what I have to do, to end up where I want to go
How do you know something looks like the true kingdom?
Ex. God’s intention for the church as an outpost for heaven.
Where Jesus is King
Where justice flows to the oppressed
Where healing comes to the broken
Where freedom comes to the captive
Where the dead are raised to life
How is the church a gift to people in the kingdom, and how may the world propose a counterfeit kingdom?
The Local Church, founded on the Gospel, rescued by Jesus, Given by God, empowered by the Spirit, is the hope of the world.
Importance of the Church — Think about the three main points from Sunday
True Christianity is never practiced alone.
a gathering of citizens called out from their
homes into some public place, an assembly.
Jesus loves the Church.
Jesus says, “I will build my church.”
The true Church is unstoppable.
The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.