Jesus The King And His Kingdom

Each gospel writer presents Jesus from different perspectives. Matthew focuses on the royal nature of the Lord and how He established His Kingdom here on earth. This book will examine Jesus as King and the nature of His Kingdom.

According to the Lord Jesus Christ, our first priority must be to seek the kingdom of God. The aim of Matthew's Gospel is to help the Christian to fulfil that duty. To do this, we must above all honour, trust and serve the King himself, Jesus Christ. This commentary is, therefore, both Christ-centred and practical. Its focus is the King and his kingdom. The Gospel begins with the assertion that God's King has come to reign, to establish the kingdom of heaven. The time has come for Old Testament prophecy to be fulfilled and God's purpose of salvation to be put into effect. Our message, then, must call on men to believe in the King, to repent of sin and 'to seek first his kingdom and his righteousness'. In this way men and women will share in the salvation that the King came to bring, leading them also to work for the coming of the kingdom through the preaching of the gospel.

Jesus, the King of Glory, came as the expressed image of an invisible God, opened the portals of heaven and established the Kingdom of God in the earth. He brought the glory of the eternal realm the Father had given to him and gave it to all who dared to believe and follow him. He taught Kingdom principles, demonstrated Kingdom power, lived in perfect love, peace, faith, and unity; all in the power of the Holy Spirit. He declared that it was the Father living in him who was doing his work. He challenged us to have faith in him and do what he did and greater because he returned to heaven and poured out His spirit upon us. This book reveals 'Kingdom Secrets, ' paints the portrait of the 'King of Glory' and sounds the call for us to join him, and his Father in the habitation of his glory. Linda Hornsby grew up in a Christian home in Montgomery, Alabama as a Southern Baptist; and was well grounded in scripture by her mother and father. She was filled with the Holy Spirit in the 1970s and has been on fire for God ever since. Linda ministers at Bible conferences and personally to smaller groups. She is a five-fold minister to River Regions Praise Center, a ministry of The Shepherd's Fold Ministries in Montgomery, Alabama. Linda is anointed in the prophetic gifting and has been placed in the prophetic office by The Shepherd's Fold Ministries. She is an anointed Bible teacher and ministers publicly prophetically as well as words of wisdom and knowledge. She is the complete package as it relates to being a godly woman with a humble servant's heart. She and her husband, Lamar reside in Dothan, Alabama and travel to churches wherever the Lord leads.

From a popular pastor and radio host—Three Free Sins teaches that the only people who make any progress toward being better are those who know that God will still love them, regardless of how good they are. This book is about the misguided obsession with the management of sin that cripples too many Christians. It’s about the view that religion is all about sin…about how to hide side sin or how to stop sinning all together. In the Introduction, the author toys good-naturedly with an agitated caller on his radio program, teasing him in a segment where he offers three free sins. The offer is real. Not that Steve has the power to forgive sins, but he wants to make the point that Jesus has made the offer to cover all of our sins – not just three. Chapter one, titled “Teaching Frogs to Fly,” is even better. The gist of this chapter is that you can’t teach frogs to fly, just like you can’t teach people not to sin. Steve tells a story about a guy who has a frog, and he’s convinced he can teach the frog how to fly. The man keeps throwing the frog up in the air or up against walls – all to the poor frog’s demise. The message is that even though people can be better, they can never not sin—just like a frog can never learn to fly, no matter how much pressure is put on it. Steve continues through the book to show readers that while they can never manage sin, they can relax in knowing that they are completely forgiven—not just of three, but of all.

Tracing the powerful motif of the coming of the Son of man from Daniel through to Revelation, Andrew Perriman provides thought-provoking ideas about eschatological narrative. What was it like to hear the biblical proclamation of this coming for the first time in a cultural, political, and religious context very different from our own? How did early Christians think about the imminence of the promised day of the Lord? What difference did this message make to how they thought, lived, and spread the gospel message? This book engages the minds of jaded twenty-first-century postmoderns who have heard it all before. By seeing the fulfilment of much of New Testament apocalyptic in events of the first centuries, Perriman proposes that in some important sense we have moved beyond eschatology--into an age of renewed community and mission that is creational in its scope.ÊThe Coming of the Son of ManÊis important reading for those who want to engage in the debate concerning what church is--and will be.