What did Jesus mean when He said, “The kingdom of God is within you”? | GotQuestions.org
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What did Jesus mean when He said, “The kingdom of God is within you”? What is the Kingdom of God? Where is the Kingdom of God according to Luke 17:21? Is it true that the kingdom of God is within man? When people ask, “ was Jesus a mystic ” do they have a valid reason according to Luke 17 21? In this video, Pastor Nelson with Bible Munch answers the question, "What did Jesus mean when He said, ‘The kingdom of God is within you’?"
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- Today's question is, what did Jesus mean when He said, "'The kingdom of God is within you '"?
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- In this video I'll answer that question from a biblical perspective. Then afterwards, as always,
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- I'll share some helpful resources, so stick around until the end. In Luke 17 verses 20–21,
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- Jesus says, "...the kingdom of God does not come with observation, nor will they say, "'See here!'
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- or, "'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you." NKJV. The context of Jesus' statement is a question put to Him by His Pharisee detractors who had asked when the kingdom of God would come in verse 20.
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- Jesus' answer was that the kingdom of God was not coming in the manner the Pharisees were expecting.
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- The kingdom would not be inaugurated by spectacle or splendor. There would be no great and magnificent leader who staked out a geographical claim and routed the
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- Romans. Rather, the kingdom would come silently and unseen, much as leaven works in a batch of dough.
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- See Matthew 13, verse 33. In fact, Jesus says the kingdom had already begun right under the
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- Pharisees' noses. God was ruling in the hearts of some people, and the King Himself was standing among them, although the
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- Pharisees were oblivious to that fact. Various translations rendered the Greek of Luke 17, verse 21 various ways.
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- The phrase translated, "...within you," in the KJV and NKJV is translated as, "...in
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- your midst," in the NIV, NASV, and NET, "...among you," in the NLT and HCSB, and "...in
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- the midst of you," in the ESV. Earlier versions of the NIV had "...within you," with a marginal note suggesting "...among
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- you." There is obviously a difference between saying, "...the kingdom of God is within you," and "...the
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- kingdom of God is among you." "...within you," comes off as an unfavorable translation, seeing that Jesus was speaking to the
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- Pharisees at the time. Jesus was surely not saying that the kingdom of God resided within the
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- Pharisees' hearts. The Pharisees opposed Jesus and had no relationship with God.
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- Jesus, in other places, denounced them as whitewashed tombs and hypocrites in Matthew 23, verse 27.
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- The better translation would be "...in your midst," or "...among you." Jesus was telling the Pharisees that He brought the kingdom of God to earth.
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- Jesus' presence in their midst gave them a taste of the kingdom life, as attested by the miracles that Jesus performed.
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- Elsewhere, Jesus mentions His miracles as definitive proof of the kingdom. "...if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you."
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- Luke 11, verse 20. There are three popular interpretations of Jesus' words in Luke 17, verse 21, that "...the
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- kingdom of God is within you," or "...among you." First, "...the kingdom of God is essentially inward, within man's heart."
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- Second, "...the kingdom is within your reach, if you make the right choices." And third, "...the
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- kingdom of God is in your midst, in the person and presence of Jesus."
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- The best of these interpretations, it seems, is the third. Jesus was inaugurating the kingdom as He changed the hearts of men one at a time.
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- For the time being, Christ's kingdom is not of this world. One day, however, the kingdom of God will be manifest on earth, and Jesus Christ will rule a physical kingdom from David's throne with Jerusalem as His capital.
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