I had not really studied the idea of "Messiah" in much depth before I studied for this sermon. It is interesting that this concept was not developed by the close of the Old Testament canon (the writing of Malachi) and people still had very different ideas about the coming Christ by the time Jesus came on the scene. But when people heard Jesus talking about the "Kingdom of God," they thought about the Messiah. And to understand Jesus' teaching on the Kingdom, we have to understand how his teaching about himself as the One Sent by the Father (the Messiah) interacted with Jewish expectations and redefined who the promised Christ would be.
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