“But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.” Luke 11:20 (ESV) When God promised his coming kingdom in the Old Testament he promised deliverance from enemies. Now Jesus is casting out demons, demonstrating the power of God and delivering people from the Enemy of all enemies. And then he makes the most astonishing declaration that a Jew could make: the kingdom of God has come. Devout Jews had waited hundreds of years for the coming of God’s perfect kingdom. Jesus was saying that it had arrived! This was so monumental that it is hard to know what the people thought.
We know that Jesus only began the inauguration of the kingdom and it wouldn’t be completed until he left and returned again. But the fact remains that the kingdom of God has come upon us. Let us always remember this and live in this awareness. His power for transformation is available now.
