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WHAT KINGDOM COMES?

WHAT KINGDOM COMES?

We have here no continuing city, but we seek one to come (Heb 12:14). Why all the Kingdom building then? We see it in politics, local, national and around the world. Men and women of renown trying to achieve something in their name, and seemingly accomplishing it.

However, it is the achievement of Satan that produces this world of greatness in humanity and government. A world that Satan has created, or actually perverted. He has perverted it with power, beauty and human grandeur. A world he offered to Jesus Christ in His great temptation (Matt 4), of which Jesus turned down, He would not except a Kingdom like that, one of Satan's design, as great and beautiful as it appeared.

RELIGIOUS KINGDOMS OF MEN

This Kingdom building even lived in religious men, great men and even though they accomplished great things, build kingdoms in their name, they failed to recognize Christ when he came. The man may die, but the spirit lives on. And it is a spirit of personal ambition and achievement - and it is of Satan.

The Lord never did and never will need that for His kingdom.  His is a kingdom at hand, without observation, within you and at such a place that no one can say, "low here or there." It is a kingdom known by the new birth in Christ, to be revealed on earth in those that can receive it. The rule of heaven over the earth.

WE HAVE EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW

Jesus was our example. He told Pilate, His kingdom was not of this earth. His Apostles never strived to build a kingdom on earth of greatness, nor the Apostle Paul who gave us so much of our Bible. He build no monument of beauty that displayed His name and greatness. Paul and the other apostles gave us that which the Kingdom is build upon.

We have here no continuing city, but we seek one to come (Heb 12:14).

Pastor Bill Ivy - Living Word Tabernacle, Campbell Missouri USA   www.livingwordtabernacle.com