King of Your Heart and King of the Nations | Sermon 07/31/22

Christ the Angel of the Covenant and the Dominion Mandate

Praise God, I'm so thankful to be able to deliver a sermon again to you guys. It's always a terrifying thing to be standing up here, rightfully so, rightfully so. One thing we forgot to mention, which is extremely awesome, is actually we have two baptisms happening after service.

So the way it's going to work is that after the sermon is completed, Wade will come up here and he will perform the baptisms and then we will do the sacrament together, which is a glorious thing. So praise God for that.

I'm very, very excited. So go ahead guys, open up your Bibles to 1 Corinthians 15, starting in verse 20, alright? So in the last sermon, we went over the angel of the covenant, or the messenger of the covenant.

He was the one who made the Father known to the people of the old covenant. But now, that angel, right, the messenger, has made himself known to the world. This was the word made flesh, Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, the one whom the covenant with Abraham was dependent upon.

Remember, Hebrews 6, 13, we went through this a few times in the last sermon, it states that God swore upon himself to uphold his covenant with Abraham. Therefore, the success of the birth of the Messiah was not dependent upon the Israelites.

Instead, blessings were contingent upon their obedience. It was by no surprise to God that the Israelites were disobedient. For all people were under the headship of Adam at that time. Even man's nature reflects that of his first father.

The Hebrew word for the nature of man, remember, is Adam. It was also this Adam who was given the dominion mandate in Genesis, which states this, Genesis 128, and God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.

Yet in his failure, because Adam was a failure, he was still expected to take dominion. Think about it. But the fullness of his rule was limited by his fallen nature. The fullness of the dominion mandate could not occur.

We needed someone greater. So God made himself known to the Israelites through the prophets and saints of old in his Son, Jesus Christ, remember John 118. No one has ever seen the Father except the unique and only Son who has made him known.

And he brought to fulfillment the incarnation, the second person of the Trinity, the Logos, took on flesh, and it was all of history that was bound up in him, and he made it successful even through the failure of the sons of Adam.

However, upon God taking upon himself Adam, the nature of man, we find a cosmic shift occur within the state of man in his fallen relationship with God. That was called Emmanuel, which is God with us.

The New Covenant, the Great Commission, and Christ's Headship

The death, burial, and resurrection of the God-man, Jesus Christ, brought about the new covenant in which the sons of Adam are made new through the blood of their creator. The messenger of the covenant now became the initiator of that covenant.

This affects the relationship between man and God from born in sin to born again. We have been brought near by the blood of Christ, and now God has given us what we like to call the Dominion Mandate 2 .0, sort of speak of, with the Great Commission, and this is the Great Commission in Matthew 28, verses 18 through 20.

This is right before Jesus' ascension into heaven after the resurrection, right? This is what it says. And Jesus came and said to them, all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.

And behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Therefore, the fulfillment, embodiment, and the success of the Great Commission was sealed at the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He was the second Adam in which we are born again through the blood of Jesus Christ to fulfill the Great Commission and the Dominion Mandate.

No longer are we children of wrath. We exist as Christians under the federal headship of Christ, as citizens of a holy nation, the people of the King, the same King from old who has now made himself known to the world for all are without excuse.

And it is true that even those who reject Christ's completed work, they're not correct. They're living in delusion. Okay? And that is the point of this sermon, to truly understand what it means to be now in Christ, to be under his headship.

And we must understand then how we are to live when Christ is not only King of our hearts, but King of the nations. Again, in order to understand humanity, life, family, government, we must have a clear grasp on the relationship between Christ's headship, his people, and the redemption of the world.

We were shown how Christ governed the affairs of men while they existed under the headship of Adam and the failed kings. Now we must understand how all things are being placed under the feet of Christ by the power of the Father until he returns again with all power, glory, and honor when the last enemy to be defeated is death and the meek inherit the earth through the kingship and governance of the God-man Jesus Christ.

Hold on to this. We are post-incarnation, post-cross, living in the spiritual reign of Christ where all his enemies are being placed under his feet, where his scepter splits the heads of the kings of men, and his blood transforms our hearts of stone into hearts of flesh in which the nations will come to obey their creator.

And this must occur. It must happen because it's wrapped up in Christ's completed work under his perfect headship through the blood of the new covenant poured out for us for the redemption of our sins and of the world through the proclamation of the gospel by the feet of his people.

We have a responsibility. Understand this. The enemy is fleeing. We are to chase, maim, and destroy by the power of the authority of Christ. If we truly live as Christ is king, only then can we truly love our neighbor.

And my hope today is for us to be convicted to see how we have failed as Christ's people and that the wrath of God abides on our unbelieving neighbors because our abdication of the kingship of Christ.

Romans 10, 14 through 15 states,. How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him who they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?

And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news. Paul almost paraphrases this from Isaiah 52, 6 through 10, which states this,.

Their rulers wail, declares the Lord. And continually all the day my name is despised. Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak, here I am. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, your God reigns.

The voice of your watchmen, they lift up their voice. Together they sing for joy, for eye to eye they see the return of the Lord to Zion. Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the Lord has comforted his people.

He has redeemed Jerusalem. The Lord has barred his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. So the gospel of Jesus Christ, guys, contains the gospel of the kingdom.

And the success of the gospel of the kingdom is predicated on the headship of Christ. So we must act as if Christ is truly king in order to love God and love our neighbor, which means we need to act as Christians under the headship of Christ and preach the good news to our neighbors.

If we do not, the wrath of God abides on them. So let's pray. Lord, I thank you for this day. I thank you for your service. All glory is given to you. Lord, we are people who are failures. We are sinners.

You say, any of us who say that we are without sin, that the truth is not in us. Jesus, you were the only one without sin. You were the only one in perfection, yet you, Lord, gave yourself up for us. You are fully God and fully man.

You, Lord, are reversing the curse as far as it is found, and we praise you. Lord, let our hearts be open to your word today. Get me out of the way, Lord, and let your word shine through. I love you and I thank you.

In Jesus' name, amen. So remember, guys, the topic of this sermon is Christ as king of the nations and king of our hearts. So we must ask ourselves the question, how then shall we live as Christians? And there's two sections of scripture that we'll use for the backdrop of this topic.

The first is 1 Corinthians 15, 20 through 27, which will detail the authority in which the new covenant and the redemption of the world is held secure. And the second section of scripture that we're going to go through is Colossians 2, 1 through 15, which perfectly describes the foundation for the Christian life and the authority of our resurrected Messiah.

Let's start with 1 Corinthians 15, 20. Follow along with me in your words. Hear the words of the living and true God. But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

For as by a man came death, by a man has also come the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die. So also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order. Christ the first fruits. Then at the coming, at his coming, those who belong to Christ.

Then comes the end when he delivers the kingdom to God, the Father, after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

It's quite amazing. It's one of the most awesome promises in scripture that we have, the kingship and reign of Christ. But when reading this scripture, we must remember the context. Here we have Paul addressing the church in Corinth and reiterating the truth of the gospel after he has laid out the groundwork for the workings and order of the church, which is happening earlier in the book of 1 Corinthians.

The church in Corinth struggled with divisions, sexual immorality, even unity within the church. And Paul in previous sections lays out the biblical foundations to address each issue. From church discipline, biblical principles of marriage, to how to live amongst one another in unity.

Paul in 1 Corinthians also has some of the most detailed addressing of the spiritual gifts. Now they ought to function within the body at that time. Following suit, Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 now reminds the church in Corinth of the foundation through which all of their faith is presupposed.

It's this, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the gospel of the kingdom, and then the bodily resurrection for all who believe in Christ. We find in 1 Corinthians 15, verses 3 through 18, the proclamation of the historical reality that death has been defeated through Jesus Christ.

We then find Paul addressing the church, stating that if Christ was not raised from the dead, we would still be in our sins. Paul is now addressing those in Corinth that may have been questioning whether or not the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ occurred.

During this time, there was a massive influx of Gnostic and Platonic philosophy that rejected the material reality, that material reality could actually hold something good and pure, that this realm is what the Gnostics and some of the Platonic philosophers thought was merely a shadow of the perfect.

However, the point Paul is making is that there was a reason for the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. And if you deny his bodily resurrection, then you deny all that the scriptures have taught, which are the very foundation on which the incarnation, death, burial, and resurrection occurred.

As we noted in the last sermon, that the Logos, the second person of the Trinity, was deeply involved within all of human history, more specifically though to Israel, with regards to bring about the fulfillment of his promise with Abraham, a promise of which he swore on himself since there was no one greater.

The Old Testament spoke of one who was to come to take away the sin of Adam by his power of his own death and resurrection. This is the one who was to inaugurate a new covenant, one in which he reigns supreme as their king.

Now, Paul, in 1 Corinthians 15, verse 21, he begins to make sure that the church in Corinth fully understands the implications of Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection. Because first, we are told, by one man came death for all.

Verse 21, it says, for as by a man came death, by a man has also come the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. So we're first going to hang on the topic of Adam and his headship in order to understand the beautifulness of the headship we now have inherited through Jesus Christ, okay?

We must first understand our fallen nature and what happens to humanity from that nature in order then to understand what it means to be redeemed under the headship of Jesus Christ, okay? The first man that we have is Adam.

He was the proto-man, the first human created by God. It says he was taken from the dust of the earth and life was breathed into him by God. Isaiah 45 says that the earth was formed and God created man upon the earth.

He's the first human created by God. He was our federal representative. It was through his disobedience that we are made sinners. However, before we dig more into the federal headship of Adam, let's take a look at what the scriptures say Adam was made to do.

You heard me talk about it in the first place. It was called the dominion mandate. But that was the first call to action for Adam in the garden. This is what man was created to do, and I'm going to read it again from Genesis 126 -28.

Then God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him. Male and female he created them. And God blessed them and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

So what we have here is the dominion mandate, and this is not just a direction or a suggestion. The creation mandate in Genesis, it details the very reason for the existence of humanity. Do you understand that?

We're told here why we were created. It's hard to really fathom why we're here. It's one of those deep questions. Why am I here? Where am I going when I die, right? Well, in order to understand that, we first must submit ourselves to the superiority of Scripture to even to begin to understand why we as people exist.

Therefore, we must humble ourselves for without this perfect revelation, without Scripture, we would be lost in our sin, unable to understand even exactly what and why we are the way we are. Isn't that amazing?

Scripture tells us the very simple reason of our existence is to take dominion, to reflect the image of God to all of his creation. God states in the creation mandate there that we are made in his image and likeness to rule and to subdue, to be fruitful and multiply, to cultivate the earth.

Therefore, when God made man, it was good. Adam's rule in the creation mandate ought then to be good. It ought to represent the image of God to the beast of the earth, sea, and the wind perfectly. The reign and rule of Adam would have only been through him, but his posterity as well, his offspring, right?

In multiplying, the earth as a garden would have been perpetually renewed through the beautiful work of image of God bearers. That's if Adam never fell. We must understand that the Bible demonstrates that only people are made in the image of God.

Not the animals, not the plants, not the earth, not the universe, but humanity is the only creation of God made in his image, and we must understand because the fall of man is so important because it is us made in the image of God that fell.

To really understand the depth of our depravity, you must understand that we are the only creation of God made in his image. Genesis 9 -6 states this, whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood shall be shed.

For God made man in his own image. Psalm 8 -5 states this, it says, yet you have made him a little lower than the heavily beings and crowned him with glory and honor. That means there was a responsibility for man to reflect this image to the rest of God's creation in perfection.

Hang on to that, in perfection. We are to work out the image of God to the benefit of the world in all that was within it. That is what was expected of Adam, to rule without death, to reign without sin, to live in communion with God, to reflect his glory to the rest of his creation, to subdue in peace, to take dominion for the benefit of his creation.

This was to be the headship in which Adam was to reflect. First Corinthians 11 -3 tells us this, but I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Male and female made equal in terms of being made in the image of God, right? But in roles complementary. Male to rule and lead, feminine to be the helpmeet, Genesis 2 -18 states that, both when done in communion with God, according to his headship and character would be done perfectly, the world would then have benefited through the rule and reign of humanity to the glory of God alone.

With regards to First Corinthians 15, though, we find that Adam, through his flesh, he was a representation for the rest of his offspring. Why? What does it say? For in Adam all die. His posterity would then have been wrapped up in his representation.

This is his federal headship that is what we represent. Paul is showing here the purpose of the bodily resurrection. There's a reason why God took upon flesh. Adam created in the flesh with human nature was to reflect the glory of God through his image and likeness to all of creation.

But Adam in his flesh and nature sinned against the holy and righteous God, and his posterity would now be that of a broken image. They would inherit a sin nature that would be reflected to all of mankind.

R .C. Sproul, I think, states what's happened in the garden beautifully. He says, in the garden there was a cosmic offense against God in which Adam was a mere creature from the dirt who defiled the creator, the preeminent God, through disobedience.

The cosmic offense. I love the way R .C. Sproul states that. I like the way the KJV puts this verse as well. In 1 John 3, 4, it states,. Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law, for sin is the transgression of the law.

Well, Adam was commanded to not eat from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And we know he did. He transgressed the law of God and he sinned. Genesis 2, 15 through 16 states,. The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat. For in that day you eat it, you shall surely die.

We all know what happened from there, right? Adam took the fruit given to him by his wife Eve and ate of it. He then shifted the blame for the lack of his leadership onto his wife. At this time, this is what occurred.

We're told in the New Testament this is exactly what happened when sin entered the world. Romans 5, 12,. Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men in that moment when he ate.

Romans 3, 10 through 18 states this. This is for his posterity. No one is righteous, no, not one. No one understands, no one seeks God. All have turned aside, together they have become worthless. No one does good, not even one.

Their throat is an open grave, they use their tongues to deceive. The venom of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. In their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known.

There is no fear of God before their eyes. That's you in the posterity of Adam. That's me. Man, as Adam, in thinking he can do what is right, he assumed autonomy. He thought he was being a law unto himself.

He tried to dethrone the king of glory. When being commanded by God to not do something, and then doing that which you are commanded not to do, you are sinning. Autonomy in human relations, it is a lie.

Why? Because the wages of sin is death, and anyone who sins transgresses the law of God. Therefore, you are not a law unto yourself. It is not possible. You would be sinless. Autonomy is a lie. God is the only autonomous being, and his perfect character reflects the perfect law of God.

It's just so amazing. Man is not a law unto himself, but was created with the responsibility to reflect the perfect law and character of God to all creation. So at once, humanity made only ones in the image of God who were the pinnacle of God's creation, which he placed as people who were to reflect his glory, were now at the pinnacle of God's wrath.

Ephesians tells us that we are children of wrath, and the fundamental reality of human existence is the very real fact that we are fallen human beings, starting with Adam, dominoing into the rest of his posterity.

But in this fallen state, the dominion mandate did not disappear. It didn't disappear just because Adam sinned, God didn't say, now you're not expected to do as I commanded you to do. Listen, Genesis 3, 17 through 19 states, because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, you shall not eat of it.

Cursed is the ground because of you. In pain, you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, so you return from the ground, for out of it you were taken, for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

Man was expected still in this passage to rule and reign over all creation, but now the rule and the reign of the sons of Adam was a painful rule. The earth was fighting against the cosmic defier, the tilling of the ground was now to create sweat, thorns and thistles produced because the image of God bearers had defied the holy God.

Dominion and rule, not reflecting the perfect character of God, was now tainted with sin. It was a broken reflection of the image of God, and it brang into the world this, death, idolatry, sexual immorality, anger, rivalries, domination, not dominion, domination, cruelty, hatred, enmity, strife, division, malice, gossip, slander, drunkenness, orgies, and the like.

That is in whose headship we are born. In Adam we stand before God as the pinnacle vestibules for His wrath, awaiting cosmic judgment and condemnation. That is who we are. That is what comes from the headship of Adam.

You must understand that to understand the beauty in the headship of Jesus Christ, okay? However, during that time when sin enters the world through Adam, when Adam was cursed by God, the promise of the gospel was given during the cursing of the serpent.

Genesis 3 .15 states this, I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring. He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel. This is called the proto-evangelium, the very first promise of salvation given in the garden to Adam and Eve.

That there will be one who comes that will crush the head of the serpent, yet he will be bruised in the process, the seed in which the curse upon man will be lifted. For it says in Isaiah 9 .6 and 53 that the government will be on his shoulders and everlasting life will be given to all of those who believe.

It was then that the pre-incarnate Logos appeared to Adam and Eve and clothed them in the sacrifice of animal skins and sent them out of the garden. Though they were sent out of the garden though, they were never left without a mediator.

Jesus Christ has always been the Savior. In 1 Corinthians 15, right there in verse 21, we're being told about the headship of Adam. In Adam, all die. It's so much bigger than that. This is the reality of all who are in him.

It's a relationship in enmity with our creator. It's at odds with the creator of the universe. A relationship in which we cannot even truly understand what it means to be human without divine intervention.

Guys, the scriptures are divine intervention. They are a mercy given to all of mankind. It's either something that brings upon salvation through the knowledge of Jesus Christ or as a condemnation for spitting upon the mercy that God has granted us.

It's one or the other. However, it remains that prior to the incarnation, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fundamental reality of all human life is that they were under the headship of Adam.

Think about it. Therefore, the sons of Adam would reign as kings of men up until the coming of Christ. Just like we talked in the last sermon, we must also understand that God in his nature is king of the universe.

He's still king over all creation. Therefore, when the kings of the earth do not do as is expected of them, they suffer under the wrath of God. However, in Adam, in the flesh of the posterity of Adam, prior to the coming of Christ, death reigned.

Death reigned. Think of it this way. After the fall of man, Adam was still expected to fulfill the dominion mandate. You and I are expected to fulfill the dominion mandate. But, since he's fallen and sinful, the dominion mandate cannot be fulfilled by fallen man.

Humanity reigns under the headship of Adam, therefore death reigns under the rule of men. We must understand that any shed of grace and mercy that we find in the Old Testament was given by God. It was not something that man achieved on his own accord.

Man left to his sin begets nothing but sinfulness. God, rich in mercy through the mediator and promise of the gospel, in his glory he was patient with a sinful humanity. But all of this grace and mercy was predicated on the headship of Christ, on the one who was to come.

All of the mercy, all of the grace was not given to man because of who man is. No, it was given to man as a foreshadow of the rule and reign of the headship of Christ. So we must understand the following things.

Adam was a created being, humanity in nature, flesh in body. Adam sinned and his nature was corrupted and his flesh was as well to inevitably face death. All his posterity as well inherited his sinful nature and corrupted flesh.

Therefore, God took on human nature, Adam, and flesh. Jesus was obedient to the law. He was sinless, perfect in every way that Adam failed. He then sacrificed himself as our representation to appease the wrath of the Father.

He then defeated the grave and through faith in him, we are now under his headship as redeemed people. So Christ's headship versus Adam's looks like this. Christ's headship is this, fully God, fully man, not just man.

Perfect, succeeded without sin, seated at the right hand of the majesty on high, Hebrews 1, right? Rules with a glorified body with all power, authority, and honor. So what does that mean for the Christian?

Salvation is fully rooted and dependent on Christ and Christ never failed. The kingdom of God expands due to the rule and reign of the perfect King Jesus. That we are citizens of a holy nation, not under the headship of Adam.

Where death once reigned, grace reigns all the more. It's quite beautiful. The success of the gospel is not predicated on Adam, but the second Adam. As far as the curse is found, it is being lifted through the headship of Christ.

And we will one day have a resurrected body and live eternally with Christ. That is what we must understand with what Paul is showing us here in 1 Corinthians 15. If Christ never resurrected from the dead, our faith is in vain.

There's a reason why he took on flesh. Let us read the section again, 1 Corinthians 15, 21 through 26. For as by a man came death, by a man has also come the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

But each in his own order. Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father. After destroying every rule and every authority and power.

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. This is what it means, guys, to be alive in Jesus Christ. In every way, in every aspect of our lives, we are bound to God through the headship of Jesus Christ.

We are not only alive in body, but alive in spirit. To worship God in spirit and in truth. Think about this, in every aspect of our being, we were once dead in our trespasses and sins. But now in every aspect of our being, we are made alive in Christ.

The second Adam came, and we are now in his headship. And he is the perfect priest, prophet, and king. That is the reality of the world that we live in today. But there is also this. There is still two headships at play.

There is an unseen war that has already been won by Christ in which the gospel is conquering. Psalm 110 .1 states this, it says, The Lord said to my Lord, sit in my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.

Meaning this, that there are those who are still in Adam. Who rule and have power and authority. While the second Adam is still ruler of them all. Because the next verse from Psalm 110 .1 states this, The Lord sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter, speaking of Jesus in his reign now.

Rule in the midst of your enemies. Therefore guys, as Christians, we live in a world that is being conquered by God through the blood of Christ and the rule of his kingship. So we must understand this.

Since Christ is king, the dominion mandate can be fulfilled. Because in the exchange of the old covenant with the new covenant, The mandate success is not predicated on the fallen Adam. But on the success of Christ.

What does it say in Isaiah chapter 9? The government shall be on his shoulders. And to the increase of his government there shall be no end. When you take of the sacraments today, You are reminding yourself that Jesus Christ is king and lord of the universe and over all.

You are to remember that just like the Jews in Deuteronomy were to remember God constantly with the Passover. This is for you not to forget Christian. Jesus Christ has conquered the grave and he is king.

And you live under his headship, you are no longer under Adam. That is to remind you. Don't take it lightly, right? And it's shown to us with the dominion mandate how it can now be fulfilled in Christ in the great commission.

I'm going to read it again just so you can get that understanding of what's going on here. From the old into the new covenant. From the headship in Adam to now the headship in Christ. Matthew 28, 18 through 20.

The dominion mandate 2 .0. The great commission states,. And Jesus came and said to them, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.

And behold, I am with you always to the end of the age. So in 1 Corinthians 15, Paul is clearly reiterating the success of the gospel of Jesus Christ for salvation. But also, he's also preaching the truth of the gospel of the kingdom.

There's two. The rule and reign of Christ in every aspect is detailed to the church in Corinth. But there's a very reason why Christ took on flesh. It was for our salvation and for the redemption of the world.