Christ's Kingdom of Love

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for December 28
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Christ's Kingdom of Love

The kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the
whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most
High. Dan. 7:27. 


The government of the kingdom of Christ is like no earthly government.
It is a representation of the characters of those who compose the
kingdom. . . . His court is one where holy love presides and whose
offices and appointments are graced by the exercise of charity. He
charges His servants to bring pity and loving-kindness, His own
attributes, into all their office work. . . . 

The power of Christ alone can work the transformation in heart and mind
that all must experience who would partake with Him of the new life in
the kingdom of God. . . . In order to serve Him aright, we must be born
of the divine Spirit. This will purify the heart and renew the mind and
give us a new capacity for knowing and loving God. It will give us
willing obedience to all His requirements. This is true worship. 

"Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that
shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be
removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. But there the
glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams. . . .
For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our
king; he will save us. . . . And the inhabitant shall not say, I am
sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity"
(Isa. 33:20-24). 

"Be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create," the Lord
exhorts; "for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a
joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the
voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
. . . And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall
plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and
another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days
of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the
work of their hands. . . . They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my
holy mountain, saith the Lord" (Isa. 65:18-25).

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