The Kingdom of God
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Today’s world is comprised of many countries. Many nations have come and gone throughout history. Although there are hundreds of countries in the world, there are only two kingdoms: the kingdom of this world and the kingdom of God, and these kingdoms are in complete opposition to one another.
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When you and I came forth from our mother’s womb, we were not born into the kingdom of God but into the kingdom of this world. A fallen world ruled by spiritual principalities of evil and wickedness.
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When God formed the earth, this corrupt power was in existence, and man became corrupt by listening to this evil principality instead of obeying the God of all creation. Through which, sin entered the world and death by sin, and death has passed to all because all have sinned against God. The kingdom of this world stands condemned before God and is subject to His soon coming wrath.
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On our own, we cannot understand the kingdom of God while existing in this fallen world. On our own, it is impossible to know the things of the kingdom of God or to enter the kingdom of God. Even if we desired to become citizens of the kingdom of God, there is nothing that we could do of ourselves to gain access because our sin has separated us from God. There are no classes that we can take or languages that we could learn. If we had all of the money in ‘the world,’ we would not be able to buy our way into the kingdom of God. There is no exchange rate. The only acceptable exchange is a life for a life. Yet, it cannot be just any life, it must be a life that is acceptable to God. But God does not accept sin for life for the penalty for sin is death and all have sinned. The only life that could redeem us would have to be perfect. A perfect life could swallow up death, reversing the course and the curse of the fallen nature and would deliver many from the kingdom of this world into the kingdom of God.
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Thus, two thousand years ago, God sent His Son, Jesus Christ into this world. The Son of God became the Son of man. He was born of a woman, born under the law of God and lived a sinless life. He became that life that could and would redeem us. The perfect life that would die in our place, for our sins, that we may be forgiven and be reconciled to God, if, we put our faith, our hope and our trust in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. His finished work accomplished through His death and resurrection. As we turn to Jesus and behold Him, we turn from sin.
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(Friend, please read The Gospel of our salvation on the next page of this website)