Conclusion T/M
The purpose of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God is to reconcile people to God—not merely to deliver them from torment but to bring them into the fullness of God’s Presence and His plan for their life.
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (II Corinthians 5:20,21)
After we have been saved and filled with the Spirit there is a fullness of God to be sought.
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. (Ephesians 3:19)
The Lord Jesus did not come in order to grant us escape from Hell but to destroy the works of the devil.
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. (I John 3:8)
Hopefully the reader has a heart for God. Hopefully you desire above all else that God finds satisfaction in you as a son or daughter and that you may be able to serve Him each day of your life. This is salvation. This is eternal life. This is what the Lord Jesus came to bring about—a family of children who love God and long to do His perfect will every moment of every day for eternity.
Such a family is the reward earned by the Lord Jesus as He suffered and died for us. He shall see this result of the travail of His soul and be satisfied.
Let us not be among those who come short of the glory of God by placing an emphasis on escaping Hell rather than on coming to know the Lord.
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; (Philippians 3:10)
"That I may know him"! Let this be our strongest desire and motivation.
Let us encourage one another to know the Lord. Let us lay hold on eternal life and the fullness of the inheritance that has been offered to us. Let us be among those who grow to maturity in the Lord, accepting the crucifixion of our adamic nature, and thus become a tree of life from which the peoples of the earth can draw life and healing.
For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. (II Corinthians 4:11)
This is the message of our church and the fulfilling of the Great Commission.