the kingdom mystery

As I noted before, while I enjoy NSV's spin on the Kingdom Experiment, I have had real issue with the original material. In the original, the claim is that the Kingdom of God was like a person in a dark room, unable to see, bumping into another person in the room unable to see, and somehow together they go on this journey in the dark. Another claim was that the Kingdom was "not knowing, the Kingdom is just doing." I find this terribly un-Biblical and fortunately NSV's Worship team leader put together the following Scripture list that he shared during the music at this week's service.

• I Co 15:50ff - the Kingdom is a mystery but it is being revealed
• Dan 2:25ff - man cannot reveal these types of mysteries but God can (Dan 2.47)
• I Tim 3:14ff - there is reason for us to understand these mysteries
• Col 1:24ff - God does not want us to stay in a state of ignorance regarding His mysteries (Eph 1.3ff, Isa 45.3)

As noted in Colossians, the mystery is that Christ now lives in us, the hope of glory!

I'll let these words of Jesus recorded in Mt 13.10-11 provide only one reason why someone would think the Kingdom of God is about being in the dark. Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given."

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