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(29) And I appoint unto you a kingdom.-As being the verb from which is formed the noun for 'covenant,' or 'testament,' the Greek for 'appoint,' has a force which we lose in the English. This was part of the New Covenant with them. They were to be sharers in His glory, as they had been in His afflictions. The latter clause, 'as the Father hath appointed unto Me,' conveys the thought that His throne also was bestowed on the fulfilment of like conditions.
The 'sufferings' came first, and then the glory. He was to endure the cross before He entered into joy. The Name that is above every name was the crowning reward of obedient humility. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me.
This promise refers to earth and this life. They and their successors in his Church would bear sway over men's hearts, His kingdom would be administered by them.
With strangely literal accuracy has this promise been fulfilled. From the hour when the despised Master, already doomed to a shameful death, uttered this seemingly improbable prediction, his kingdom over men's hearts has been extending. Then at most the kingdom numbered a few hundreds; nine it can only be reckoned by millions. For centuries the story of the civilized world has been the story of this kingdom.
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Do you ask God to help you find self-fulfillment, to live “like peoples of the world,” or do you ask him to make you more content with his kingdom? The kingdom of God is brought by God, not by you or me. As the body of Christ, we are his hands and feet in this world, and as God initiates, we work.
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