Yeah, the church has a message that can sanctify the entire world, change the entire world, convert the entire world. The power of the gospel message can benefit even the unregenerate, even the unregenerate who are stubborn in their hearts. But if they're living in a culture and a society that has been touched by the love of the gospel and the power of the gospel, they will begin to learn a standard of righteousness and holiness that's insisted on by the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. They no longer obey their witch doctors or their local tribal chieftains. They submit themselves and even bow the knee to a higher authority, Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
And the gospel of the kingdom and the gospel of Jesus Christ includes so much more than just a simple little gospel message. It is all the edicts and the way that the word was used in the first century, and the Lord Jesus Christ chose his words very carefully. The gospel of the kingdom is the gospel of the laws, the edicts, all the pronouncements, every single statute that the Lord Jesus represents that gives us His standard of holiness. And this is part of our gospel message. And when it sweeps over and overwhelms entire cultures, We're baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, giving them this vision of how they can come out from slavery to sin and be released from that into slavery to righteousness and freedom in the law of Christ.