Conclusion'

What an abortion of the Gospel of the Kingdom modern teaching is! It does not preach or speak of the Kingdom of God because there is no Kingdom life or power in it. It is an invention of man, an invention designed (however unwittingly) to prevent Christ from destroying the works of Satan in the earth.

The Kingdom of God is God in Christ in the saints ruling over all the works of God’s hands. Because of this the Spirit of God works without ceasing, building the members of the Body of Christ into a perfect man, into the measure of maturity as measured by the fullness of the stature of Christ.

The Kingdom of God is the doing of God’s will in the earth. The Kingdom of God establishes, not waives, the Divine moral standard.

The Kingdom of God will come to the earth as soon as the saints, the members of the Body of Christ, have been brought into total, restful union with God through Christ. It is only as Jesus and God are dwelling in us, have perfect and complete control over us, and we are being joyously obedient to Their will, that it is possible for us to return with Christ and be of help to the nations of the earth.

Let us ask the Lord to remove totally from our heart and mind the concept that the Christian salvation is the Divine apology for the behaviour of God’s elect. We have been predestined from the creation of the world to be changed into the moral image of the Lord Jesus. But it remains for us to lay hold on that to which we have been called or else we will die in the wilderness of unbelief and disobedience, just as a generation of unbelieving Israelites died in the wilderness and never entered their predestined land of promise (Genesis 15:18).

I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. (Jude 1:5)

The greatest era of all is here. The Kingdom of God, the doing of God’s will in the earth, is at hand. Let each of us set aside his own life, take up his cross, and follow Jesus. As we count ourselves crucified with the Lord Jesus and then proceed to live by the power of His resurrection life we shall gain the upper hand over sin. We shall proceed to destroy all the works of the devil in the earth, beginning with our own personality.

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