The New Testament You Never Knew - Session 3 - The Life and Death of Jesus
The New Testament You Never Knew (N.T. Wright & Michael Bird) • 25m
When we see Jesus announcing the kingdom of God, we also see him doing all kinds of things like healing people and celebrating with all the wrong kind of folk—and then explaining this is what it looks like when God becomes King. *It is not what people expected.* Jesus did not come into this world just to reform, change, or tweak the existing world systems and power structures. Rather, he came as the King of all kings and the ruler of a new order: *the kingdom of God.*
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