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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Christ, #5
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another [with God], and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (I John 1:7)
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. (I Corinthians 11:32)
We Christians have fellowship with God when we are walking in the light of His will; otherwise we come under judgment.
The Christian redemption is not primarily the forgiveness of our sins. Rather, the Christian salvation is our deliverance from Satan, our personal transformation, and our complete, restful union with God through Christ.
The nations of the earth have little moral light. They are waiting for the Light of Christ to be created in the saints of God. Because the Christians in many instances are limiting God's grace to a legal righteousness and are not growing in actual righteous conduct, the Light of Christ's Person, way, will, and eternal purpose cannot be viewed by the peoples of the earth.
How many persons are being destroyed today because the Christian people are not following Jesus as they should?
The Kingdom of God is not a company of sinners who are received into the wonder of God's Kingdom on the basis of imputed righteousness. There is no sin in the Kingdom of God (Galatians 5:19-21). The Kingdom of God is God in Christ in the holy people (the saints). The Kingdom of God is the doing of God's will in the earth as it is in Heaven.
One day soon Christ and His holy ones will return to the earth and impose God's will on the nations. The nation of Israel will be delivered from its enemies, both spiritual and physical. Israel will be forgiven its sins and will be born again of God's Spirit by a sovereign act of Christ (similar to the experience of Saul on the way to Damascus—Romans 11:26).
The light of God will arise on all of God's elect, including Jews and Gentiles. The nations of the earth will come to that light.
In that Day righteousness and truth will fill the earth. The Glory of God will rest on every continent. The islands will sing the praises of Christ. The wolf will dwell with the lamb and the leopard will lie down with the kid, and a little child will lead them.
The Hebrew Prophets have much to say about the coming of the Kingdom of God to the earth:
So the heathen [nations] shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory. (Psalms 102:15,16)
For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth; To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem; When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord. (Psalms 102:19-22)
To be continued.