What Does It Mean The Kingdom Of Heaven Is At Hand?

What Does it Mean the Kingdom of Heaven Is at Hand?

Matthew 3:2

John the Baptist has blasted onto the scene. His subject was "Repent ye!" Repentance is when a person does a turnaround or an about-face, which means a 180-degree turn from the direction that the person was headed.

Malachi 3:1, Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.

Every military organization utilizes an about-face in their troop marching process. The leader of that troop sees what lies ahead. The troops are marching in a specific direction toward a specific destination. The leader may call the troops to halt, which means to stop proceeding further. Then he will call an about-face, thereby the troops will turn around in an organized fashion to face the direction from whence they came.

Spiritually speaking, this means to abandon the sort of egotism that prompts wrong activities like lying, cheating, tattling, vengeance, misuse, and extramarital perversion. An individual who repents quits revolting and starts to follow God's method of living that is given in his Word. The initial phase in turning to God is to concede our wrongdoing, as John asked. Then, at that point God will get us and help us to live in the way he wants us to live. Only God can dispose of sin and transgression. He does not anticipate that we should tidy up our lives before we come to him.

Repent is an articulation that has consistently been given to the people of God as a test to pivot, or to turn from.

Repent in the first Greek is metanoó or metanoia, which means to adjust your perspective or to change your mind. You are going one way, pivot, and change course.

Is repentance primarily for saved people? Those are the ones who, when they become cold and uninterested, are told to come back to God. Some may inquire if the unsaved individual is dependent upon repentance. The Philippian jailer was advised to "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31). At the point when an unsaved individual believes in Jesus, that individual is repenting.

Having faith in Christ means that a person is turning to Christ. When someone turns to Christ then that person must be turning away from something. Having faith and confidence in Christ implies that an individual is going to Christ. When somebody goes or comes to Christ then that individual should abandon or leave something else. Assuming an individual does not abandon that something, then that individual must not actually be going to Christ. Repentance is essential for someone who is beginning to believe.

The Kingdom of Heaven started when God himself came to earth as a man. This is what is meant by John when he said, “the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.” He implied that the kingdom of heaven is now available today in the Person of the King. The Jewish religious leaders were looking for an actual physical kingdom, not a spiritual one. So, one could say that the kingdom of heaven is a reality now in the present.

Today, Jesus Christ lives and reigns in the hearts of all believers, yet the Kingdom of Heaven will not be completely acknowledged until all evil on the planet is judged and eliminated. Christ first came to earth to live and fulfill the role of a suffering servant. One day, he will return as ruler and judge to govern over all the earth.

The individuals who come to Christ as Savior and recognize him as their Lord are converted into the realm, the kingdom of the Son. They have a place with Jesus now. Christians have a closer connection with Jesus than that of a subject of an earthly king. We are the bride; Christ is the groom. As subjects of the Kingdom of Heaven, we are to carry out God's orders. We humbly obey God because of our love for what Christ has done us.

John 14:15, If ye love me, keep my commandments.

John 15:5, I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

The exact wording of “the Kingdom of Heaven” is only found in the Gospel of Matthew over thirty times.

Matthew 3:2, 4:17, 5:3, 5:10, 5:19-20, 7:21, 8:11, 10:7, 11:11-12, 13:11, 13:24, 13:31, 13:33, 13:44-45, 13:47, 13:52, 16:19, 18:1, 18:3-4, 18:23, 19:12, 19:14, 19:23, 20:1, 22:2, 23:13, 25:1, 25:14

The wording “Kingdom of God” is utilized in the New Testament over seventy times, with five of those mentioned in the book of Matthew.