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Yours Is The Kingdom Forever!
(Mt6:13; Rev5:9-10)
God is righteous (Ps11:7).
With righteousness He establishes His kingdom and
With righteousness He rules His kingdom.
Faith is welcoming the kingdom ruled by a scepter of justice and sustaining the relationship with
His kingdom (Ps45:6-7), and
The life of this faith is giving one's life for His kingdom and His righteousness (Mt6:33).
As "righteousness" refers to law,
Every nation has law and is governed by that law.
A nation's standing is determined by its constitutional government
While its fate is decided by who holds its power.
Adam was banished from the Garden of Eden (Ge3:24) because
He ate the forbidden fruit and broke the word of God, the law (Ge2:17, 3:4-6),
Being deceived by the words of the devil,
The unrighteous who challenged the heavenly throne (Is14:12-15; Eze28:15).
God called Abram "Abraham" for
Many kings and nations would come from him (Ge10:5, 17:5-6).
God fulfilled His prophecy regarding Abraham's descendants becoming
Strangers in a country not their own for four generations (Ge15:13-16) and
Delivering them from the ruler of that kingdom (Ex12:40-41).
In the desert, the kingdom of priests which
God ruled with the Law was born "“ that is, Israel (Ex19:6).
God commanded them to build the sanctuary and place the Testimony in it (Ex25:8, 40:20-21) to
Remind them how God brought them out of Egypt (Dt26:8) and
How they passed through many kings and overcame them.
However, they rejected God as their king and made a man to be their king (1Sa8:5-20), and
Eventually became a sinful nation and people who sinned by serving other gods (Is1:4).
Consequently, the kingdom divided into the Northern and the Southern Kingdoms,
Both of which collapsed in the end.
Yeshua came and said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days" (Jn2:19), because
He would tear down the kingdom ruled by the Law and raise a new kingdom ruled by His word.
He upset the Jews who, though had no sovereignty, still had the Temple and thus
Longed for the restoration of the kingdom of priests (Mt26:61; Ac1:6).
Nevertheless, Yeshua is the Word who was in the bosom of the Father,
The righteousness of God who came in the flesh, as the kingdom of heaven (Mt3:2, 4:17; Jn1:1, 14).
Refusing to be their king, as He died Yeshua said, "It is finished" (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1) Kept the Father's command and testified the Father's and His own righteousness
(Jn10:18; Rm3:23-26, 5:18);
2) Judged the devil, the unrighteousness prince of the world (Eze28:15; Jn12:31, 16:11; 1Jn3:8); and
3) With His blood purchased men, making them a kingdom, and offered to the Father (Rev5:9-10).
After He rose, He sat on the heavenly throne as
The King of kings who will judge the living and the dead (Ac5:30; 1Ti6:15; 2Ti4:1).
The Holy Spirit came as the Ruler to believers as a spiritual territory (Mk9:1) and
Established the kingdom of Christ on earth, the church (Mt16:16-19).
The man of the Spirit is a soldier of Christ (2Ti2:3-13) who
Gladly fights and overcomes suffering, and
Goes to the ends of the earth to testify Yeshua to all nations and win souls (Mt28:19; Ac1:8) for
The advancement and the expansion of the kingdom where Yeshua alone reigns as Christ, as
He longs to receive a rich welcome into that eternal kingdom (2Pe1:10-11) and
Sit on the throne next to the King and reign with Him forever (Lk22:28-30).
O Lord,
The kingdom of Christ is my life, my soul!
While we are on earth
Let us give our life for the advancement of Your kingdom, Your church and offer up it to You.
And when Your kingdom comes let us all be absorbed in it. Amen.