Mission: We have been called to make citizens of God’s kingdom from Jews and Gentiles
This mission comes with a promise: Christ will be with us
v20, “For the hope of Israel, I am bound with these chains.”
Paul quotes Isaiah 6, ”
“Go to this people and say:
“Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand;
And seeing you will see, and not perceive;
For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
Their ears are hard of hearing,
And their eyes they have closed,””
When God hardens someone’s heart it is a form of judgment.
The Kingdom of God = The Gospel
The Kingdom & the Redeemer King
A people, a place, and a rule
God operates consistently throughout Old and New Testaments–entirely by grace