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Kingdom of Holy Love, December 31
The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord,
and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
Revelation 11:15
.
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 re-
moved, 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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