glory to GOD THANK YOU FATHER GOD FOR TRUTH Amen ! It is almost impossible to imagine what it would mean to be a man without a native land or home, destined to wander from place to place throughout life with neither rights nor privileges of citizenship. Sir Walter Scott alludes to the lonely frustration of such a predicament in the immortal words of his Lay of the Last Minstrel: “Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, — This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d, As home his footsteps he hath turn’d, From wandering on a foreign strand!” If this depicts the worth of the country a man claims for his own, I know of nothing more wonderful than discovering one’s citizenship in the Kingdom of Heaven. Pride of citizenship in a nation is wholly justifiable under the administration of men. With the Roman Empire, everyone living in territory controlled by Rome was considered part of “the Roman Empire,” whether they were a slave or a citizen. But only free-born men were naturally citizens. It was a cherished thing to be a citizen of Rome. The apostle Paul sometimes used his Roman citizenship as a badge of credibility and power (Acts 22:25-29). But how much more glorious it is to find citizenship in the everlasting and incorruptible Kingdom of God! The name of the man who has been born of God, appears therefore, in the census of the heavenlies. His home or citizenship is in heaven, even though he lives outwardly upon the earth. There is at this present time a Kingdom scattered abroad over all the face of the earth; mixed and mingled among the peoples of all the kingdoms of the world: a people who are separate and apart from all the other kingdoms. They are not recognized by the world as a kingdom, they have no formal consulates in Rome, London, Paris or Moscow and no ambassador at the United Nations. They have no boundary lines separating their territory from any of the other nations of the world, and they do not have a visible king as some other nations have. They are the Kingdom of God on earth, scattered all over the earth among all the peoples of the world. God calls them, “A chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people” (I Pet. 2:9). They are a people who have been drawn out of the other nations of the world, redeemed by the blood of Jesus out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation and filled with the divine nature and Holy Spirit of God. These have been born again, giving them a new identity, a new life, a new allegiance, a new hope, a new destiny, and a new heritage. They are citizens of a new land, a heavenly country, and their King lives and rules within their hearts and minds and bodies. The world does not know them as a nation, for it cannot see their birth certificate, their true manhood, their land or their King. Wherever they are in this world they are strangers and pilgrims in a strange land. They were once citizens of the nations of the world, but being now born of God they have a new parentage and have been translated out of the kingdom of the darkness of this world into the Kingdom of the Son of God. They were one time in the flesh, without Christ, alienated from the Commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, and without God or hope in the world. So we have today a great and glorious Nation — a Nation of Kings and Priests unto God, scattered abroad over all the whole earth, in and among the nations of the earth, in and among the kingdoms of the world, but not any part of those kingdoms. While they are maintaining their separation from the world, they are growing up into Christ, so that when He shall appear, they shall be like Him and come into their full inheritance. They are constantly being changed, and as time goes on, they shall put off more and more of the things of the old world they have left, until they become matured sons of God in the Kingdom of their Father. But they are strategically placed among all the peoples and kindreds and tongues and nations for a divine purpose — there shall be a conquest of all these territories until the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and forever! God will give the nations to His sons as their inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth as their possession and they shall rule them with a rod of iron (Ps. 2:7-9). The stage is now being set for this glorious victory, and all nations shall come and worship before the Lord. The Lord shall be King over all the earth and all kindreds shall serve Him. His throne shall be manifested through His sons and His authority shall be over all. The Holy Spirit has witnessed through all His holy prophets in every city and every place throughout the past generation that THE TIME IS AT HAND. The sons of God are ready to be manifested, the purpose for which the body of the Christ has been so meticulously prepared is ready to be revealed before the face of all nations, and God will do His strange new work to deliver creation from the bondage of corruption, from the tyranny of sin and sorrow and pain and death. Ah, beloved, do you not sense in the depths of your ransomed spirit a sense of divine destiny — that you were indeed BORN FOR A PURPOSE? Have you heard the sound of the trumpet thundering out the message: YE SHALL BE UNTO ME A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS! God doesn’t need Kings and Priests in heaven, although that is the realm from whence they rule. HE NEEDS KINGS AND PRIESTS ON EARTH. “And they shall reign over the earth” (Rev. 5:10). The nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of this divine government (Rev. 21:24). Truly we have received the call to sonship, to kingship, to priesthood, and the plan of God overwhelms my spirit and my soul rejoices in His unfailing purpose! WE HAVE BEEN BORN FOR THIS!
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:23:51 +0000
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