Taking and Giving the Kingdom

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Taking and Giving the Kingdom

It was Christ’s pleasure165 to appoint that Kingdom to His disciples saying the time was fulfilled. He would not eat again until they ate166 in the Kingdom. When He did eat167 with them after the resurrection it was confirmation of the kingdom at hand.168 The people now had the right to be ruled by God.

Jesus sacrificed himself to set the people free from the rule of sin induced by the Pharisees and by Caesar, Pharaoh, and the Nimrods of the world. He appointed a Kingdom169 and explained that His government, the church, was not to exercise authority like the benefactors170 of other governments.

These direct statements were part of the fulfillment of Christ’s purpose and salvation. Even Rome had agreed Jesus was king.171 The Church serving the people seeking the kingdom fulfilled many of the roles of governments that subject people to the will of others. What the Church did was an essential part of Christ’s gospel of the kingdom at hand, which was to set the people free and maintain that liberty.

Jesus began to open their understanding to the present reality of the Kingdom of God, telling them that it was for the living not the dead. They were to wait in Jerusalem for a little while before the power would be restored to them.172 At Pentecost that power was restored, but it was not like other governments.

The Gospel of Christ taught virtuous souls how to live as free people under God. With forgiveness and thanksgiving, righteously pursuing justice, and mercy the people are moved toward God’s kingdom. The slothful, and unbelieving removed toward tribute and tyranny and the bondage of Balaam.

The Church is to be a servant of God by being a servant of the people, for the people and by the freewill contributions of the people. Christ came to serve and so must His Church. It is not a part of the systems of the “world” that covets the goods of its neighbors.

Have we lost sight of the wisdom and ways, the pattern and practices of the first-century Church? The Pharisees had twisted the meaning of the ancient scripture and had become steeped in self righteous rituals and doctrines that were never intended by Abraham or Moses.173

Christ came to take the kingdom away from those who would not bear the fruit of God’s love and liberty. He then gave that kingdom to those who would follow in the ways of the Creator as professed by the prophets of God. The brotherhood of the kingdom is not for those who say they believe but for those who believe and do the will of the Father.174

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  • 165Luke 12:32 “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”

  • 166“For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.” Luke 22:16, Matthew 26:29, Mark 14:25.

  • 167And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took [it], and did eat before them. Luke 24:41-3

  • 168 Acts 10:41 “Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, [even] to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.”John 21:13 “Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.”

  • 169 Luke 22:29 “And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;”

  • 170Luke 22:25 “And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so:” [Matthew 20:25, Mark 10:42]

  • 171John 18:37 “Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.” Also Matthew 27:11, Mark 15:2, Luke 23:3.

  • John 19:14, 15 “... he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.” [see also John 18:39] “And Pilate wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.” John 19:19

  • 172 Luke 24:45-49 “Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures... I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.”

  • 173See the book Thy Kingdom Comes published by His Holy Church.

  • 174Matthew 7:21 “...Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” [Luke 6:46, Luke 13:25, Luke 11:2, John 5:30, John 12:26, John 14:21-23]



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