The nature of Jesus’ commission from the Father will help us in our understanding for how Jesus’ disciples are also sent. We will see that at the foundation, Jesus is sent to display what the Kingdom and rule of God looks like on the earth.
Observations & Conclusions: How was Jesus sent to reveal the Kingdom of God?
- Love – Jesus was sent to show the love of God
– “For God so loved the world…” - Life – Jesus was sent to deliver life by the gospel
– “…but have eternal life” - Lost – Jesus was sent to seek and save the lost
– “…but to save the world through him” - Liberty – Jesus was sent to proclaim spiritual freedom
– “…but whoever does not believe stands condemned already” - Light – Jesus was sent to reveal the Father
– “…but men loved darkness” - Lead – Jesus was sent to testify to the truth
– “…but whoever lives by the truth comes into the light”
Application:
- Believe
- Repent
- Live by the truth
- Worship
Matthew 4:17
“From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
Mark 1:14-15
“After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”
1 John 4:9-10
“This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
Romans 5:8
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
James 1:14-15
“Each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.”
John 10:10
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
Romans 3:25-26
“God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.”
Luke 4:17-19
“The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
John 8:34-36
“Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
John 12:44-46
“Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me. I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.”
Luke 10:16
“Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects Him who sent me.”
John 18:37
“You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”
John 1:14
“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
John 14:6
“Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
James 2:19-22
“You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.”
Galatians 2:20
“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”