The Father's Kingdom Forever!
(Mt 6:13; Rev 5:9-10)
God is righteous (Ps 11:7).
With righteousness He establishes His kingdom and
With righteousness He rules His kingdom.
Faith is welcoming the kingdom that is ruled by His scepter of justice and maintaining the
relationship with His kingdom (Ps 45:6-7).
The life of this faith is giving one's life for His kingdom and His righteousness (Mt 6:33).
Righteousness refers to law and
Every nation has law and is governed by that law.
The level of a nation is determined by its constitutional government and
The fate of a nation is decided by the one who holds its power.
Adam was banished from the Garden of Eden (Ge 3:24) because
He ate the forbidden fruit and broke the word of God, the law (Ge 2:17, Ge 3:4-6)
Being deceived by the words of the devil,
The unrighteous who challenged the heavenly throne (Is 14:12-15; Eze 28:15).
God called Abram "Abraham, a father of many nations (Ge 10:5, Ge 17:5-6) for
Many kings and nations would come out from him.
God fulfilled His prophecy of Abraham's descendants being
Strangers in a country not their own for four generations (Ge 15:13-16) and
Delivering them from the ruler of that kingdom (Ex 12:40-41).
In the desert, the kingdom of priests where
God ruled with the Law of Moses was born “ that is, Israel (Ex 19:6).
In the sanctuary was the Testimony (Ex 25:8, Ex 40:20-21) which
Reminded them that God brought them out of Egypt (Dt 26:8) and that
God ruled from the mercy seat above the Testimony as their Ruler.
However, they rejected God as their king and
Made a man to be their king (1Sa 8:5-20), becoming
A wicked nation and people who sinned by serving other gods (Ps 1:4).
Subsequently, the nation divided into two kingdoms:
The Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom, both of which eventually collapsed.
Jesus said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days (Jn 2:19) because
Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,
He would tear down the kingdom ruled by the Law and
Raise a new kingdom ruled by His words, the truth, for He is the incarnate Word who was with the Father in the beginning (Jn 1:1, Jn 1:14),
The righteousness of God who came in flesh,
As the kingdom of heaven (Mt 3:2, Mt 4:17).
Thus, He refused to be their king.
As He died, Jesus said, "It is finished (Jn 19:30), declaring that He:
- Kept the Father's law, command and testified His righteousness and the Father's righteousness (Jn 10:18; Rm 5:18);
- Judged the devil, the unrighteous prince of the world (Eze 28:15; Jn 12:31, Jn 16:11; 1Jn 3:18); and
- With His blood purchased men, making them a kingdom, and offered it to the Father (Rev 5:9-10).
After He rose, He sat on the heavenly throne
Becoming the King of kings, the King of ages (Ac 5:30; 1Ti 6:15).
The Holy Spirit comes in the name Yeshua as the Ruler
To those who received His blood as a spiritual territory (Mk 9:1).
The man of the Spirit is
Made a soldier of Christ (2Ti 2:3-13).
Therefore, he overcomes whether he eats or starves, whether he lives or dies, and
Goes to the ends of the earth and testifies Jesus to all nations (Mt 28:19; Ac 1:8).
He does it for the advancement of the kingdom where Jesus alone reigns as Christ and
He longs for that kingdom to stand firm and its sovereignty to overwhelmingly govern.
O Lord,
Your kingdom is our life!
Let us give our life for its advancement.
And when Your kingdom comes, let us all be absorbed in it. Amen.