Kingdom 102: Kingdom of Light or Darkness?
In this world's system, we are always faced with decisions. Most of these decisions are based upon our individual standard and the foundation of our belief. Every Kingdom citizen's foundation is based on the King's Word. In other words, we who are in the Kingdom of God can, through the Holy Spirit, take our King's culture with us everywhere we go, while impacting our environment by helping to bring the "Kingdom of Heaven" to that place. This is what King Jesus meant when He stated, From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” He had arrived, bringing the Kingdom with Him and in Him. With His Spirit in you, you also carry His Kingdom with you wherever you go.
As I have stated so many times, God's original design was disrupted by man's failing to obey His command. Obedience is the key to being a Kingdom citizens in good standing. Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me. Do you remember what the Lord stated to King Saul through His representative Samuel? So Samuel said: "Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams. Even in today's religious society, many would rather give a sacrifice in the church than living by His Word all the time. Are you aware that by Adam and Eve's disobedience, they abdicated their throne of their earthly dominion; yielding it to the deceiver, the architect and instigator of their fall? This ushered in a counterfeit kingdom that the Constitution calls the "kingdom of darkness", which is in constant conflict with the Kingdom of God. Please note: When man chose a way other than the will of the Lord God, he created a great disturbance in the Lord's original Kingdom of God (Garden of Eden) and initiated a time of great darkness.
Keep in mind, throughout God's Constitution the word "darkness" is used as a symbol of ignorance, while the word "light" reflects and represents knowledge. The ambassador Paul stated it this way: giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love The kingdom of darkness then is a domain where the king rules by ignorance; not in ignorance but by ignorance. The deceiver (Satan) rules his kingdom of darkness by keeping his subjects in ignorance of the true nature of their environment and of the existence of God's Kingdom. The ambassador Paul clearly stated: But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
Matthew 4:17 I Samuel 15:22 John 14:23-24 Colossians 1:12-13 II Corinthians 4:3-4
~~W.R. Luchie
As I have stated so many times, God's original design was disrupted by man's failing to obey His command. Obedience is the key to being a Kingdom citizens in good standing. Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me. Do you remember what the Lord stated to King Saul through His representative Samuel? So Samuel said: "Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams. Even in today's religious society, many would rather give a sacrifice in the church than living by His Word all the time. Are you aware that by Adam and Eve's disobedience, they abdicated their throne of their earthly dominion; yielding it to the deceiver, the architect and instigator of their fall? This ushered in a counterfeit kingdom that the Constitution calls the "kingdom of darkness", which is in constant conflict with the Kingdom of God. Please note: When man chose a way other than the will of the Lord God, he created a great disturbance in the Lord's original Kingdom of God (Garden of Eden) and initiated a time of great darkness.
Keep in mind, throughout God's Constitution the word "darkness" is used as a symbol of ignorance, while the word "light" reflects and represents knowledge. The ambassador Paul stated it this way: giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love The kingdom of darkness then is a domain where the king rules by ignorance; not in ignorance but by ignorance. The deceiver (Satan) rules his kingdom of darkness by keeping his subjects in ignorance of the true nature of their environment and of the existence of God's Kingdom. The ambassador Paul clearly stated: But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
Matthew 4:17 I Samuel 15:22 John 14:23-24 Colossians 1:12-13 II Corinthians 4:3-4
~~W.R. Luchie