{"id":45875,"date":"2022-10-01T02:04:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-key-virtues-of-the-lords-kingdom-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:04:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:04:35","slug":"the-key-virtues-of-the-lords-kingdom-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-key-virtues-of-the-lords-kingdom-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Key Virtues Of The Lord&#039;s Kingdom &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In comparing Isaiah 2:1-5, Isaiah 11:6-9, and Micah 4:1-4, we see the  coming kingdom of the Lord dramatically portrayed, as a kingdom of <strong> peace<\/strong>. In Romans 14:17, Paul adds two other key virtues of the kingdom, <strong>righteousness<\/strong><strong><\/strong> and <strong>joy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first essential virtue of the Lord&#8217;s kingdom is &#8220;righteousness.&#8221;  All the commandments of God are &#8220;righteousness&#8221; (Psalm 119:172 KJV),  and thus are the basis for righteousness. If folks would obey the two  greatest commandments (Matthew 22:37-39), it would eliminate all lying,  stealing, adultery, hatred, etc., and true biblical love would then  exist (Romans 15:1-3; cf. Colossians 3:1-15).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The second essential virtue of the kingdom is &#8220;peace.&#8221; Christ calls  us to be &#8220;peacemakers&#8221; (Matthew 5:9). As Christians, we serve the  &#8220;Prince of Peace&#8221; (Isaiah 9:6) and the &#8220;God of peace&#8221; (Romans 16:20).  Christians proclaim the &#8220;gospel of peace&#8221; (Romans 10:15 KJV).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The third essential virtue of the kingdom is &#8220;joy.&#8221; When sincere  brotherly love is displayed, there is joy among brethren (Philippians  2:2; 1 Peter 1:22).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, Paul states that all three of the essential virtues are  &#8220;in the Holy Spirit&#8221; (Romans 14:17 ESV), or in the teachings of the  Holy Spirit (Gal. 5:22; Ephesians 5:9; cf. Ephesians 5:18; Colossians  3:16).<\/p>\n<p>Paul goes on to say in Romans 14:18, that when one serves Christ  emphasizing the three above essential virtues, he is &#8220;acceptable to God,  and approved of men.&#8221; Not only does God accept Christians who display  these virtues, but these virtues are also generally held in high esteem  by folks who lead good moral lives (cf. 2 Corinthians 8:21).<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, what a beautiful word portrait Paul paints for us regarding the kingdom (church) of our Lord, illustrating the beautiful peace that passes all  understanding (Philippians 4:7; cf. Colossians 3:15) through Christ, our  Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In comparing Isaiah 2:1-5, Isaiah 11:6-9, and Micah 4:1-4, we see the coming kingdom of the Lord dramatically portrayed, as a kingdom of peace. In Romans 14:17, Paul adds two other key virtues of the kingdom, righteousness and joy. The first essential virtue of the Lord&#8217;s kingdom is &#8220;righteousness.&#8221; All the commandments of God are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-key-virtues-of-the-lords-kingdom-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Key Virtues Of The Lord&#039;s Kingdom &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}