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The Mind of Christ Part II—Thinking Eternally
[SLOW] It’s been said that the Christian life is the process of becoming who you already are.
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It’s been said that the Christian life is the process of becoming who you already are.
[SLOW] It’s been said that the Christian life is the process of becoming who you already are.
The idea is that you await a great and wonderful life, eternally with Jesus Christ, and the way you get there is by pursuing that end now.
Two weeks ago, we talked about having the ‘Mind of Christ.’
The pattern that we uncovered in the text is that the Spirit of God communicates through the spiritual in the church to the people of the church so that the people of the church grow spiritually.
And I wanted to spend some time developing the final part of the spiritual person.
We talked about it briefly, but the spiritual person thinks with the end in mind.
The spiritual person looks to the ultimate goal.
The spiritual person knows what the end is like, knows what the goal is, and lives their lives in pursuit of that end.
You can see where we get this.
The Apostle Paul writes,
But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”—
these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit.
For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
(, ESV)
Here Paul tells us that spiritual people have received a revelation.
Spiritual people know something about the end—the things that God has prepared for us—because the Spirit of God has revealed it to us.
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So, today, I want to start a 3-part miniseries here in the middle of our exploration of the letters to the Corinthians to look at three aspects of the revelation that God has revealed to us.
I want to look at three truths that the Spirit of God has made clear to us in the scriptures about the end, about God’s eternal Kingdom.
And as we look at those three truths, I want to uncover in as practical a way as possible, how we can live out those truths in our lives today.
I’m calling this series ‘Thinking Eternally,’ because even on this side of eternity, we can still think as eternal people, living for our inheritance in God’s Eternal Kingdom.
So, the first truth about the end and our topic for today is,
All Nations Will Be Present
The Psalmist sang this song,
All the nations you have made shall come
and worship before you, O Lord,
and shall glorify your name.
For you are great and do wondrous things;
you alone are God.
(, ESV)
When Jesus was preparing to ascend to heaven after rising from the dead, the disciples were speaking with Him.
So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” (, ESV)
They wanted to know the means to the end.
They wanted to know, is the end going to happen now or later, and if not now, ‘Then when?’
He [Jesus] said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
(, ESV)
Notice, Jesus isn’t willing to tell them the means.
He isn’t going to tell them how everything is going to unfold.
But, he tells them the end.
He tells them what is going to happen.
He points to this idea of the nations.
He tells them that they will tell people of all nations, even to the end of the earth, what they had seen and heard about Jesus.
They had a message for all the nations.
Further, Jesus said to the disciples,
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.”
(, ESV)
Jesus told the disciples to go to all nations to make more disciples, more followers of Jesus.
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The idea is that there is the Kingdom of God and the nations of this world.
As part of the demonstration that Jesus’s eternal Kingdom is supreme over every other Kingdom, Jesus tells the disciples to go to every nation on the earth to bring them into subjection under Christ’s Kingdom.
And notice, this isn’t an ‘if’ issue.
It’s not in the realm of possibility that the Gospel will not reach all the nations of the earth.
I say that for two reasons.
First, the Bible says it explicitly, ‘All the nations shall come and worship before you, O Lord’ ().
But second, and maybe you’ve never heard this, but the Gospel has already in some respects reached all the nations.
And you’re like, wait a minute!
I know there are tribes that have never even seen someone from another country and they don’t have the Gospel.
And that’s true.
But, every ‘tribe and tongue’ is what we think when we read ‘all nations’ through contemporary Western eyes.
We read every single people group on the planet—every tribe and every variation of ethnicity.
But, taxonomizing people groups is kind of a new thing.
The people of the ancient Hebrews didn’t do that.
They recognized about 70 unique people groups or nations that stemmed from Noah and his three sons as listed in , a chapter of scripture we call ‘The Table of Nations.’
You can go there if you want and count them up.
There should be 70 nations listed.
And we have evidence in the scriptures that the early disciples were thinking about those 70 nations.
Here’s one evidence.
The Apostle Paul seems to have had this in mind in when he told the Romans that he might be able to visit them when he heads to Spain.
He writes,
I hope to see you [the Romans] in passing as I go to Spain, and to be helped on my journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a while.
(, ESV)
So, here’s the odd thing.
Paul has never been to Rome.
There are Christians there that took the Gospel back from Jerusalem after Pentecost.
We know that they had been in contact with both Paul and Peter.
And Peter made many missionary journeys to them.
Paul wasn’t worried about getting to Rome, although he thought it might be a nice visit.
But, he needed to get to Spain.
Why was Spain so important?
Believe it or not, Isaiah told them Spain would be important many years before Jesus even came to earth.
The prophet Isaiah said,
“For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues.
And they shall come and shall see my glory, and I will set a sign among them.
And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands far away, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory.
And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
(, ESV)
I won’t get into all of those cities, but they’re all far away cities inhabited by some of the people of the original 70 nations that all other nations stemmed from.
You remember Tarshish from the story of Jonah.
Jonah tried to flee the presence of God by going to Tarshish because it was soooooo far away!
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