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Christ’s Kingdom of Love, December 28
The kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under
the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most
High.
Daniel 7:27
.
The government of the kingdom of Christ is like no earthly govern-
ment. It is a representation of the characters of those who compose the
kingdom.... His court is one where holy love presides and whose offices
and appointments are graced by the exercise of charity. He charges His
servants to bring pity and loving-kindness, His own attributes, into all their
office work....
The power of Christ alone can work the transformation in heart and
mind that all must experience who would partake with Him of the new life
in the kingdom of God.... In order to serve Him aright, we must be born of
the divine Spirit. This will purify the heart and renew the mind and give us a
new capacity for knowing and loving God. It will give us willing obedience
to all His requirements. This is true worship.
“Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that
shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed,
neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. But there the glorious Lord
will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams.... For the Lord is our
judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.... And
the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be
forgiven their iniquity” (
Isaiah 33:20-24
).
“Be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create,” the Lord exhorts;
“for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I will
rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall
be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.... And they shall build
houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit
of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and
another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine
elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.... They shall not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord” (
Isaiah 65:18-25
).
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