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1. Immediately or ‘at once’
2. Authority: Teaching, Summons, Over demons, Over sin. Over death, Over nature
3. Mystery
the New Testament’s three key words regarding the coming of the Kingdom
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Will come in the future
Has come – is now present
Is ‘near’ or ‘at hand’
Has been delayed
The presence of the future
The ‘already’ and the ‘not yet’
Enacted inaugurated eschatology
Living ‘between the times’
the mystery of the kingdom reflected in the language regarding the Kingdom.
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Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the princeof this world will be driven out. But I, when I am lifted upfrom the earth, will draw all men to myself." He said this toshow the kind of death he was going to die.John 12:31-33
Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that theScripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” …When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.”John 19:28-30
Darkness & earthquake Eschatology
Dead people appearing! Justification
how the presence of the future occurs in the Cross
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Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in theresurrection at the last day.” Jesus said to her, “I am theresurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live,even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in mewill never die.”John 11:24-26
The phenomenon of the Risen Body of Jesus
His body the model of our future bodies!
Soma-pneumaticos: Trans-physical reality
how the presence of the future occurs in the Resurrection,
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These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It's only nine inthe morning! No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: “In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit onall people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy … I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will beturned to darkness and the moon to blood before the comingof the great and glorious day of the Lord.”Acts 2:16-20
Hebrews: ‘The powers of the coming age’
Paul: The seal of the Spirit as deposit
Phenomena of ‘system overload’ by the Spirit
how the presence of the future occurs in the Pentecost
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Slide 141- The Tearing of the Temple veil, at Christ's death, allows the future and present to collide and exist at the same time.
how the presence of the future occurs in the the tearing of the Temple veil.
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List (in 1 sentence each) any six of the ten main implications of the Kingdom. (Implications of the Kingdomchapter, pp 79–89 of Breakthrough: Discovering the Kingdom by Derek Morphew)
1. The end has occurred in Jesus. Only God himself can be the end. Therfore Jesus is God.
2. The last days began with Jesus and in Pentecost. Since then we have been living in the last days.
3. Every intervention of God since the end came, is a break through of the powers of the future age, or eschatological.
4. Every element of the end is present, or available, in every breakthrough of the kingdom.
5. The age to come and this age are now separated by a thin veil, in fact a veil that has been torn from top to bottom.
6. The kingdom of God is the proper framework for one's view of church history, which bears witness to an acceleration phenomenon of kingdom interventions.
7. The kingdom is the proper framework for understanding world missions.
8. The Christian life is truly understood in this context.
9. The kingdom is the proper context for the ministry of healing.
10. This is the perspective for understanding the relationship between the church and society.
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The Truth
Positively stated-
Jesus
The Kingdom of God
Paul
The Freedom of Grace
John
Life of the coming ages
Error
Repudiated
Pharisaic Judaism
Legalism
Gnosticism
Dualism
Aspects of the shape of New Testament theology. (Slide 145)
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Match the Synoptic Gospels, John’s writings, Paul’s writings and Hebrews with their language ofeschatology and its contextualization. (Slides 146–147)
This present age- The law and the prophets
The age to come- The kingdom of God isforcefully advancing
Synoptics
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Match the Synoptic Gospels, John’s writings, Paul’s writings and Hebrews with their language ofeschatology and its contextualization. (Slides 146–147)
This present age- The law came throughMoses
The age to come- Grace and truth camethrough Jesus Christ
John
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Match the Synoptic Gospels, John’s writings, Paul’s writings and Hebrews with their language ofeschatology and its contextualization. (Slides 146–147)
This present age- The righteousness of God revealed in wrath/ Law
The age to come- The righteousness of Godrevealed in grace/ Grace
Paul
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Match the Synoptic Gospels, John’s writings, Paul’s writings and Hebrews with their language ofeschatology and its contextualization. (Slides 146–147)
This present age- The old covenant
The age to come- The new covenant
Hebrews
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Match the Synoptic Gospels, John’s writings, Paul’s writings and Hebrews with their language ofeschatology and its contextualization. (Slides 146–147)
This age- Wrath, darkness, death
The age to come- Eternal life (life of the ages)
John
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Gnosticism
the major heresy addressed by 33% of New Testament books
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Traditional Greek religions were waning: nature gods(Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto).
Philosophies were waning: not real, not satisfying theneed for experience (fate or chance).
The mystery religions met a need: personal, secretexperiences.
Christian gospel made massive inroads.
The mixture of these pre-existing pagan beliefs withChristianity produced Gnosticism.
the soil of Gnosticism’s origin
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Dualism--->( Spirit is Good – Body is Bad) ----> Reject Your Body-------> Asceticism
( Spirit is Good -Body is Bad)----- >Let It Go-->Licentiousness
Gnosticism’s ethics
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Word--- Logos-- Invisible Creative Power
The greatest revelation (John 1)
Cosmic fullness (Colossians 1-2)
The basis of his redeeming work (Hebrews)
In tangible reality (1 John 1:1-4)
To the cross (John 19:34-35; 1 John 4:6-8)
The criterion of orthodoxy (1 John 4:1-3)
A model for life (Philippians 2:1-13)
Flesh---- Bodyliness -----Full Humanity
how John brilliantly combats Gnosticism in his writing about Jesus’ Incarnation. (Slide 157)
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