The Peaceable Kingdom (Sun, Nov 13)

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Read along with Isaiah 65:17-25 here. 

Sermon excerpt: 

How will we know when the world is finished? 

Here’s a little bumper sticker answer for you, something simple enough that you’ll be able to hold on to it this week and maybe even remember if I ask you about it next week: we will know the world is finished because what is wrong in this world is made right in the kingdom. There will be peace, there will be rejoicing, and even the most vulnerable in our society will be blessed.

This kingdom has already begun, ushered in by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ but it won’t come fully until he comes again. In the meantime, we live in an “already but not yet” world, tasting and glimpsing the kingdom which has already come but knowing it’s not here completely yet.

Our job, as God’s partners given the task of finishing the world, is to watch for where God’s kingdom continues to break through and to support and nurture it wherever it is found.