The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down by R. Albert Mohler Jr

Author:R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2017-11-26T16:00:00+00:00

THE COMING KINGDOM

This leads to a further question: According to Scripture, how does the kingdom of God come from heaven to earth? Many horribly wrong answers to that question have been given in history. Theological liberals in the early twentieth century argued that the kingdom of God arrived through moral reform and social justice. This view, sometimes called the “social gospel” and championed by theologians like Walter Rauschenbusch, saw the kingdom of God as something humanity itself could achieve through social action.

Theological conservatives have sometimes also erred in thinking that Christians can usher in the kingdom through political action and cultural influence. The problem with this way of thinking is, of course, that Jesus’ kingdom is not of this world (John 18:36). Political power and cultural influence are not unimportant, but they can never change the hearts of sinners nor provide the forgiveness of sins.

The Bible teaches that God’s kingdom only comes as God’s people preach God’s Word, which, coupled with God’s Spirit, produces life and obedience. To use the language of Paul, God’s Word and Spirit change the hearts of sinners such that they are rescued out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of his dear Son (Col. 1:13). As Phil Ryken put it, “The kingdom comes mainly through proclamation, through the announcement that Christ, who was crucified, is now King. . . . The only way people ever come into God’s kingdom is by hearing his heralds proclaim a crucified king.”3

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