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[1] {forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors}
This is legal ground. Cf.
# Eph 4:32
which is grace. Under law forgiveness is conditioned upon a like
spirit in us; under grace we are forgiven for Christ's sake, and
exhorted to forgive because we have been forgiven.
# Mt 18:32
» See Note "Mt 26:28"
# Eph 4:32 Mt 18:32 26:28
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[1] {kingdom of God}
The kingdom of God is to be distinguished from the
kingdom of heaven
» See Note "Mt 3:2"
in five respects: (1) The kingdom of God is universal, including all
moral intelligences willingly subject to the will of God, whether
angels, the Church, or saints of past or future dispensations
# Lu 13:28,29 Heb 12:22,23
while the kingdom of heaven is Messianic, mediatorial, and Davidic, and
has for its object the establishment of the kingdom of God in the earth
# 1Co 15:24,25
(2) The kingdom of God is entered only by the new birth
# Joh 3:3,5-7
the kingdom of heaven, during this age, is the sphere of a
profession which may be real or false
» See Note "Mt 13:3"
# Mt 25:1,11,12
(3) Since the kingdom of heaven is the earthly sphere of the
universal kingdom of God, the two have almost all things in common.
For this reason many parables and other teachings are spoken of the
kingdom of heaven in Matthew, and of the kingdom of God in Mark and
Luke. It is the omissions which are significant. The parables of the
wheat and tares, and of the net
# Mt 13:24-30,36-43,47-50
are not spoken of the kingdom of God. In that kingdom there are neither
tares nor bad fish. But the parable of the leaven
# Mt 13:33
is spoken of the kingdom of God also, for, alas, even the true doctrines
of the kingdom are leavened with the errors of which the Pharisees,
Sadducees, and the Herodians were the representatives.
» See Note "Mt 13:33"
(4) The kingdom of God "comes not with outward show"
# Lu 17:20
but is chiefly that which is inward and spiritual
# Ro 14:17
while the kingdom of heaven is organic, and is to be manifested in
glory on the earth.
(See "Kingdom (O.T.)," Zech 12.8, note; (N.T.), Lu 1.31-33 1co
15.24, note; Mt 17.2, note.)
» See Note "Zec 12:8"
# Lu 1:31-33
» See Note "1Co 15:24"
» See Note "Mt 17:2"
(5) The kingdom of heaven merges into the kingdom of God when Christ,
having put all enemies under his feet, "shall have delivered up the
kingdom to God, even the Father"
# 1Co 15:24-28
» See Note "Mt 3:2"
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[1] {Devils}
Devils, lit demons. To the reality and personality of demons the N.T.
scriptures bear abundant testimony. As to their origin nothing is
clearly revealed, but they are not to be confounded with the angels
mentioned in
# 2Pe 2:4 Jude 1:6
Summary: Demons are spirits
# Mt 12:43,45
are Satan's emissaries
# Mt 12:26,27 25:41
and so numerous as to make Satan's power practically ubiquitous.
# Mr 5:9
They are capable of entering and controlling both men and beasts
# Mr 5:8,11-13
and earnestly seek embodiment, without which, apparently, they are
powerless for evil.
# Mr 5:8,11-13 Mt 12:43,44 Mr 5:10-12
Demon influence and demon possession are discriminated in the N. T.
Instances of the latter are
# Mt 4:24 8:16,28,33 9:32 12:22 Mr 1:32 5:15,16 Lu 8:35 Ac 8:7 16:16
They are unclean, sullen, violent, and malicious
# Mt 8:28 9:23 10:1 12:43
# Mr 1:23 5:3-5 9:17,20 Lu 6:18 9:39
They know Jesus Christ as Most High God, and recognize His supreme
authority
# Mt 8:31,32 Mr 1:24 Ac 19:15 Jas 2:19
They know their eternal fate to be one of torment
# Mt 8:29 Lu 8:31
They inflict physical maladies
# Mt 12:22 17:15-18 Lu 13:16
but mental disease is to be distinguished from the disorder of mind due
to demonical control. Demon influence may manifest itself in religion
asceticism and formalism
# 1Ti 4:1-3
degenerating into uncleanness
# 2Pe 2:10-12
The sign of demon influence in religion is departing from the faith,
i.e. the body of revealed truth in the Scriptures.
# 1Ti 4:1
The demons maintain especially a conflict with believers who would be
spiritual.
# Eph 6:12 1Ti 4:1-3
All unbelievers are open to demon possession
# Eph 2:2
The believer's resources, prayer and bodily control
# Mt 17:21
"the whole armour of God"
# Eph 6:13-18
Exorcism in the name of Jesus Christ
# Ac 16:18
was practised for demon possession. One of the awful features of
the apocalyptic judgments in which this age will end is an irruption of
demons out the abyss.
# Re 9:1-11