CITIZENS OF THE KINGDOM

KINGDOM CITIZENS 

Christ came to bring the Kingdom of God near; men entering that Kingdom become citizens thereof; becoming citizens they are responsible for its principles, its revelation, and its operations; and that it will come by processes of development which will go forward until an hour of crisis, when He will appear a second time, definitely taking action; and the Kingdom of God will then be established. By the victory of Truth the Kingdom must come.

Entrance into the Kingdom is made possible by Himself. He it is Who has brought the Kingdom near to men, He bestows its gifts, and administers its resources. He directs its responsible services. His own advent is to create the crisis when evil is to be destroyed, and the Kingdom to be established.

By the first advent the rule of God was revealed; the realm of the rule was claimed in His name; and the resources were provided that were necessary for the establishment of the material Kingdom upon spiritual foundations.

The process today is that of individual realization of the Kingdom; worldwide proclamation of the Kingdom by those in whom the Kingdom is realized; and corporate realization of all the breadth and beauty of the Kingdom within the Christian Church.

As in the previous article, the problem is today is that the man outside the Church has no clear vision of the Kingdom of God when he looks at the Church. Men need to know what the Kingdom of God will mean, when it is established on earth.

Have I entered the Kingdom? If I have not entered the Kingdom how shall I enter it? I can only enter it as He gives me that life from above that enables me to see it, and seeing it to obey it, and obeying it to become its citizen, and becoming its citizen to fulfill my responsibility while I wait for the flaming glory of his advent, and the ultimate triumph of God in the world.

Come quickly, Lord Jesus!