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Religions > Bible |
| User: |
"rhuff163" |
| Date: |
08 Jun 2006 11:28:49 PM |
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About where God's kingdom is |
Devotional Guide
For the week of June 4, 2006
CHILDERENıS SUNDAY
About where Godıs kingdom is
To read the Bible in one year, today Read: Philippians 1,2
To Know:
³And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom
which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another
people.²
(Dan. 2:44)
The kingdom of God begins and develops in the midst of the kingdoms destined
to perish with this present world. The vision of the future that God gave
King Nebuchadnezzar is extremely detailed. This vision outlines world
history from that day to this. Four great kingdoms will arise on earth and
during the fourth and final one Godıs own kingdom will break in from beyond.
Godıs kingdom will grow until it grinds to powder the kingdoms that men
erect.
Nebuchadnezzarıs fourth kingdom was Rome. What the Babylonian king saw in a
vision is now part of the historical record. We know that what
Nebuchadnezzar was given to see, namely, Godıs kingdom arrived in the person
of the king of all the upcoming ages. He was born in a Bethlehem stable.
Godıs kingdom consisted of Jesus yielding his will to his father without
reservation. The kingdom of God is present wherever the will of God rules.
To Do:
When Jesus taught his disciples to pray he included, ³Thy kingdom come, thy
will be done.² The Hebrew employed parallelism as a way to immediately
explain an assertion. In parallelism the second phrase explains the first.
Godıs kingdom comes where his will is done. Godıs will is that we trust him
explicitly. When we rely on the Lord to provide for us all that he demands
from us, then the kingdom of God has come to the earth.
To read the Bible in one year:
Saturday: read Philippians 3,4
Sunday: read Colossians 1,2
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