Kingdom of God Studies
Jesus came to earth as a messenger from God the Father. The message that He brought was not about Himself but the good news of the Kingdom of God. Luke 8:1 shows that proclaiming this good news was His customary activity, "Now it came to pass afterward that Jesus went through every city and village preaching and bringing glad tidings of the Kingdom of God". He says plainly in Luke 4:43 that this was His appointed task: "I must preach the Kingdom of God to other cities also: because for this purpose I have been sent. Jesus was not alone in preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. He charged His disciples with that responsibility and they followed through as He commanded. God intends the "gospel of the Kingdom of God" to fix our attention on the issue He wants to be the focus of our lives after we are called and converted, since it is the only hope for the resolution of mankind's numerous and presently unsolvable problems. The Kingdom of God is of such importance that, once we grasp the essence of its make-up, we can honestly say that it provided the basis and focus of the ministry of Jesus Christ and gives us our only clear focus of hope for the future.