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WHERE IS GOD’S KINGDOM TODAY?
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9
Luke 11:14-20
Psalm 24
If ye are light in the Lord,
walk as children of light.
WHERE IS GOD’S KINGDOM TODAY?
God’s Kingdom bears no resemblance to any of men’s kingdoms. Theirs are worldly and material. God’s Kingdom is spiritual and invisible. The world’s kingdoms are in the power and dominion of Satan, the prince of this world (John 12:31). Under this malignant evil spirit, men walk in darkness, without hope, without life. Our Lord came to destroy Satan’s dark kingdom and to make way for His Kingdom of light. To demonstrate His power, Jesus cast out demons from those poor humans who were miserably possessed. By this divine act, He also demonstrated to the people that “the kingdom of God is come unto you” (Matt 12:28).
Where then is God’s Kingdom today? Christendom at large is not God’s Kingdom. Neither is it in any organisation or church, no matter how large or magnificent. The World Council of Churches promotes the worldwide ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT which is leading the Protestant Churches and the Orthodox Churches back to the fold of ROME. Are you being swept along? A ONE-WORLD CHURCH of some 1,300 million members will result. Will you be part of that? That is not the Kingdom of God!
Today, the Kingdom of God displays no physical organisation or structure. Neither does it manifest itself in mammoth crusades and rallies, or the effusion of “tongues and prophecies,” “signs and wonders.” But wherever souls are saved from Satan’s grasp and delivered from the power of darkness, they have been translated into the Kingdom of God’s dear Son (Col 1:13). In every such soul-saving situation, there the Kingdom of God is, implanted in the hearts and lives of liberated men and women. Believers everywhere are “temples of the Holy Ghost” (1 Cor 3:16) and wherever the Holy Ghost dwells, there we find God’s Kingdom, unseen but unmistakable.
THOUGHT: Our Lord said, “My kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:36).
PRAYER: Father, write my name in Thy Kingdom’s Book of Life.