Col 1:13-17
13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.
17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
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What a glorious kingdom it is!
The beauty is inexpressible! The power unbreakable! The size immeasurable! The foundation is eternal!
What a kingdom that God has brought us into. It is hard to describe the sheer glory of the kingdom of his Son. Yet God has brought us into this kingdom. There is no other kingdom like it. No kingdom on earth or in heaven. Even in the heavens there is no kingdom comparable to the kingdom of the Son. There is no nation on earth. There is no sovereign state, no socialist state, no democratic state that is like this kingdom. There is no religious leader that has ever been able to declared that they have a kingdom. Mohammad did not declare that he had a kingdom. Buddha did not declare that he had a kingdom. No false prophet or world leader has been able to declare that they have kingdom. And all men who have ever declared that they have ushered in and brought with them a kingdom has never lasted since the fall of mankind. The only kingdom that has outlasted man's pathetic attempts to create a kingdom has been Satan and his kingdom of the world. Yet, by his own admonition he declared it was given to him and not created. Only Jesus declared that He had a kingdom. A kingdom that was, is, and is to come.
John 18:36-37
36 Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here."
37 Pilate therefore said to Him, "Are You a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."
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What you and I have been supernaturally transported from is an finite kingdom of satanic ruler-ship and brought into another kingdom. A kingdom that had no beginning and yet will have no end. A kingdom of pure light, life, love, and eternal power. A kingdom in which no army in heaven or on earth strong is enough to defeat it, no power great enough to usurp it, and no enemy powerful enough to destroy it. It's walls are impenetrable. It's servant's unstoppable. It's King invincible. A kingdom ordained to rule over all of God's creation. What could possibly compare to kingdom like this? Can this world's small insignificant kingdoms even cast a shadow upon the kingdom of the Son? Can Satan's kingdom of darkness even remotely measure up to a kingdom of this infinite magnitude?
What a shout of joy all ye saints should offer for our God has delivered us from the kingdom of darkness! Lift up a shout of praise unto the only most holy God who has redeemed us from a foreign kingdom, out of the hands of an evil ruler. Glory be to God alone and to His Son Jesus Christ.
O' what a glorious kingdom it is!
A kingdom with no judgment because there is no sin. A kingdom with no death because there is eternal life. A kingdom where there is no war because there is no rebellion. A kingdom where there is no pain or loss because there is no death.
And while we wait for the Father to send Jesus Christ, His Son, back to establish His kingdom over all creation, you and I walk and live and move in His kingdom right now. Every born again child of God can partake of His kingdom right now on this earth and in the midst of the enemy of God. And everything that was described can be enjoyed today as we live on this earth. We have been supernaturally transported from one kingdom into the kingdom of his Son!
And with my life I will witness on earth of Jesus and His glorious kingdom that is and is to come!
John 5:24-27
24 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
25 "Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.
26 "For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself,
27 "and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.
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