Heaven, Part 4: The Return of the King
November 9, 2025 / Pastor Tom Van Kempen / Oxford Assembly of God
I. The Kingdom was
Genesis 1:26 (NLT) “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”
1. God gave the kingdom to his
2. The kingdom was through
Genesis 3:17 (NIV) cursed is the ground because of you: through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles
3. A was
II. The Kingdom was by
1. reigned
2. The returned
1) He reintroduces the kingdom
2) He defeats the enemy
3. The Kingdom is
1) We have a mission to accomplish
2) We have a battle to fight
3) God has provided tools and weapons to win
III. The Kingdom is fully
Revelation 22:3a (NKJV) And there will be no more curse
Matthew 19:28-30 (NIV) Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.
1. Jesus will reign as king
Revelation 22:3b (NKJV) the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him.”
Revelation 22:5 (NKJV) . . . And they shall reign forever and ever.
2. Jesus will his
3. We will be restored as and