![]() Satan will be bound and his deceitful activities suspended. During this reign, Christ will fulfill kingdom promises as He establishes righteousness, justice and peace throughout all creation.7 At the start of this period, saints will be resurrected bodily to join in the reign with Christ. The millennial reign of Christ is a further advancement of the kingdom whereby Jesus, through His second coming, brings His inaugurated kingdom to earth and makes it visible. Acknowledging this reign, Christians confess Christ as Lord and willingly submit to His rulership in their personal lives and welcome His authority over all creation. Thus, the kingdom of God is advanced in Jesus’ life, death, resurrection, ascension, and His present reign. ![]() As the Last Adam, Jesus in His humanity manifests the proper vice-regency of the kingdom of God for the purpose of redemption and restoration, which will ultimately usher in the glorious kingdom for which creation was destined. Through Adam’s fall the exercise of this dominion has been corrupted, and man needs redemption in order to glorify God and reign in accordance with His will. God’s plan, demonstrated throughout human history, has been to reveal His kingship on earth by delegating kingly dominion to human beings as His image bearers. Even the sinful rebellion of mankind cannot defeat Him, but instead serves and glorifies Him. His kingdom triumphs forever according to His will. God is the almighty Sovereign who reigns eternally over all His creation. The Scriptures direct that each one spiritually examine himself before partaking of the bread and the cup “until He come.” Those who worthily partake in this remembrance of Him feed upon Him to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace, have their union and communion with Him confirmed, and testify and renew their thankfulness and commitment to God and their mutual love and fellowship each with the other as members of the same mystical body. ![]() The Lord’s Supper is an ordinance of the New Testament, in which, by the giving and receiving of bread and wine, according to the appointment of Jesus Christ, His death is proclaimed. It has no saving or cleansing power, but it is the answer of a good conscience before God hence, it should be administered only to those who have, by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, realized the forgiveness of sins and possess the assurance of acceptance with God. ![]() Water baptism, the immersion of the believer, is a visible testimony to the work of regeneration and a mark of identification and union with Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ ascended into heaven, from whence He had come, and was exalted, taking His place at the right hand of the Father, where He makes intercession on behalf of all who come to God through Him.īaptism. The Lord Jesus offered Himself a sacrifice for sins, satisfied the justice of the Father, propitiated the wrath of God, reconciled God and man, and obtained an eternal inheritance. He was buried and arose bodily from the dead on the third day. In the days of His humiliation He lived a sinless life, performed miracles, taught the will of God, was crucified, and died. The Lord Jesus Christ is the revelation of God to man. He is truly God and truly man, the only mediator between God and man. He took on Himself man’s nature, with all of its essential properties except sin: Being conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, He embodied two perfect and distinct natures in one person. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is the Word, the eternal and true God who is of one substance and equal with the Father.
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