II Corinthians 4:5-7
"For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us."
February 28th
"...notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the Kingdom of God is come nigh unto you." Luke 10:11
What is a kingdom? It is the reign of a king, or one supreme ruler over many subjects. It wouldn't necessarily be many subjects, it could even be one only, although that is not the conditions as we have seen it in the world. The intrinsic meaning of the word is rulership, by one supreme authority. Consider then the words of the Lord Jesus, wherein He said that "the words I speak unto you, I speak not of Myself, but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works" (Jn. 14:10). And on numerous other occasions He said words which meant precisely the same; that is, that all that He did, and all that He spoke, were not thoughts ideas and decisions that the man Jesus had made, but rather that His every word and deed were the fullness of the Heavenly Father's Will. In other words, Jesus the Nazarene had fully submitted Himself to the Will of God over that required period of time, which enabled Him to fully enter into the perfect Will of God in Heaven. Therefore was Jesus the Nazarene a perfect subject of God Almighty, being ruled over by the Will of God. Therefore, did Jesus say that the Kingdom of God has come nigh unto you. He simply meant that God Almighty ruled completely over Him, and that He was the happy subject of God's Will. Therefore did He say quite truthfully that the Kingdom of God has come nigh unto you: He meant that He was the perfect subject and God in Heaven was the King, and that He did the absolute and perfect Will of the King in Heaven.
Therefore, so soon as you or I decide that we are going to be 100% subject to the Will of God, instead of our own personal wills and ideas; and that we commence to live accordingly, then are we not only the children of God, Who is our absolute Keeper, but we are the subjects of God, Who is our reigning monarch, and the Kingdom of God has then commenced for that person. When a great number of individuals enter into that same estate of being, then does the Kingdom of God rule over that group, or that community or that town or that country.
The Voice of Tomorrow