What Theonomy Gets Wrong | Kingsmen

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Well, what's interesting about the kingdom of God, Jesus comes in and says, I know, because you have to understand when

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Jesus is talking to Israel, they're in captivity to Rome. They are not they're not they don't have their own king.

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They don't have their own say. And so Jesus is starting to talk about a kingdom again, who's sitting on the throne of David, and they're getting excited.

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Like, yeah, yeah, let's get this done. I don't want to be under Rome anymore. Let's be a powerful nation again. And Jesus says,

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No, the kingdom is upside down. It's reversed in nature than what you think. This is

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Luke 17, verse 20. He says, Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered,

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The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that you can observe. Now, this is important.

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Within Christian nationalism and theonomy, there's this push and a drive to where we'll be able to see the actual physical changes of God's kingdom coming down onto earth.

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Now, some could argue, well, John, you know, that was before Jesus rose from the grave. Nope, because the Apostle Paul and the disciples keep the same mentality.

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We'll see this here in just a little bit. And that doesn't mean that the kingdom of God isn't here.

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It's here. But the location is a little bit different. Typically, a kingdom, you have to have a king, you have to have people, and you have to have a location, right?

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That's the kingdom. Well, we have that, and this is how Jesus describes it. This is Luke 17, 21.

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Nor will you say, nor will they say, look, here it is, or there. For behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you or within you.

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The point of it is, when the Holy Spirit comes to dwell within us, we become the representation of the king to the people.

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And the kingdom, the people are Christ's church, right? We are a part of this kingdom.

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Now, the spiritual nature of it is definitely present here, but the world can't see it.

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I mean, literally, Jesus says, unless you're born again, you will not see the kingdom of God. So when you're trying to prove to people that you're a part of a king, with a king and a part of a kingdom that they should see and respect, they're not going to because they can't see it.

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It's a spiritual kingdom. So this is why Peter, in 1 Peter 2, one of Jesus' disciples, which

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I think continues to carry on the idea that our kingdom is not physical yet.

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It's not come to consummation. It's not fully here in the ways in which we think it will be in the new heavens and the new earth.

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So 1 Peter 2, 11 says, Beloved, I urge you, I implore you, I push you as, listen to this, sojourners and exiles.

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So this is after Christ's resurrection, okay? He's talking to the church.

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And the mentality they're supposed to have is that the world they live in is not their home. Like sojourners and exiles means that you're living in such a way where you're a citizen of somewhere else.

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So we literally live in the sphere of two kingdoms. The king lives within me. I'm a part of his kingdom.

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My citizenship is not here. But yet, I am physically still in the kingdom of darkness.

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And because of that, listen to how he finishes his verse, to abstain from the passions of the flesh which wage war against the soul.

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So our allegiance to Christ and understanding his kingdom is going to cause an automatic fight and war within us.

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We're going to have an adversary, kingdom of darkness versus kingdom of light. So first of all, we have to understand the upside -down nature of the kingdom.

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We definitely have to understand the spiritual nature of the kingdom being that it is within us. It's a part of us.

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We are a part of the kingdom now. We're not waiting to be a part of it. It's now, guys. It's so good.

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Look, we aren't left without a purpose and a mission. Our king says, I am with you, and I lead you, and I'm among you.