Luke 17:20-37
Introduction: There are many opinions regarding the Kingdom of God today. On the one hand, some see the Kingdom as a totally future reality, and relegate Christ’s kingship to the ’sweet by and by’. On the other hand, others see the Kingdom as a merely internal enterprise, and work to bring forth a Utopian government where everyone simply co-exists. Our text quotes Jesus as saying, “The Kingdom is within you” (verse 21), is taken out of context and misinterpreted to mean that the Kingdom is in our hearts, which the whole rest of the Bible, nor this text support.
We do not desire to be on either side of this debate, but rather, we desire to see the truth that Jesus teaches in these verses concerning the true nature of the Kingdom. This is not an easy task. The answers that we uncover lead to more questions, but as we shall see, these questions are sufficiently answered in this text. (more…)
