Politics and the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 22:1-22)

While this sermon doesn’t engage the question of political engagement squarely, it does establish the fact that Jesus’ rule, reign, and Kingship touches down to earth in the here and now, not just in the “there and later,” as is often assumed. The fact that Jesus’ Gospel is the Gospel of the Kingdom of God means that it is inescapably political, and Christians ought to stop hiding from that reality and pretending that apolitical, “just preach the Gospel and leave the politics to the pagans,” thinking is biblical or holy.