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Holy War: FW: THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM (IDENTITY)
WHAT IS IT?‑By Pastor J. A. Lovell
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Subject: THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM (IDENTITY) WHAT IS IT?‑By Pastor J. A. Lovell
THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM (IDENTITY) WHAT IS
IT?
By Pastor J. A. Lovell
OFTEN WE ARE ASKED and we are certain that you
members of our congregation are asked just what we teach here
and just what we believe. People wonder just wherein our church is
different to that of others and wherein our teachings are different.
We always assure such people that basically our church teachings
are the same as those of all evangelical Christian groups for we
believe in communion, water baptism, being born again, church
government, and church doctrine just like all evangelical groups
believe in. But we go further in differentiating our work from that of
the average denominational group in that we proclaim with great
emphasis the neglected but important gospel of the Kingdom. Just
because we use the word "Kingdom" we are not to be confused
with the group known as Jehovah's Witnesses. We do not wish to
reflect on this group, because in the group are many fine Christian
people, but we want to keep the records straight. In the main
members of this group do not believe in saluting the flag or serving
in our armed forces. They do not believe that Jesus Christ will
return in person to this earth and take the
throne of His father David and rule over this literal earthly Kingdom
in person. We of course strongly teach the national message of the
Bible, thus causing people to be patriotic loving their flag and
saluting it, gladly serving in the armed forces, and respecting our
great republic. We also believe of course, as the Bible plainly
teaches, that Jesus will return in bodily personal form and will take
over a literal throne ruling over a literal Kingdom here on earth, and
that it will be in the not too
distant future.
You members may feel, particularly some of you who
have been in our congregation for eleven years, that it is not
necessary to spend the time in bringing a message of this nature,
because you are also familiar with the teachings pertaining to the
gospel of the Kingdom. Well let us put it this way, could YOU give a
clear‑cut well defined five or ten minute explanation, upon being
asked by your friends and neighbors or religious people, members
of other denominations just what the gospel of the Kingdom is? If
you cannot, then you NEED this message. If you can we are dead
certain that a bit of repetition will not hurt you in fact, refreshing
your memory concerning these sacred things may do you good!
So we repeat the message we are bringing, no doubt is
familiar. But be, cause it is so pitifully neglected and unknown by
the average body of religious people and because it is so very
important we are bringing this address in which we are stressing
the component parts of the gospel of the Kingdom.
Some have asked us just why we want to be different to
other churches by
preaching the gospel of the Kingdom. They contend that we should
only proclaim the gospel of personal salvation and NOTHING else.
Well the answer is simple. In the first place we want to follow
Jesus, and Jesus certainly gave His listeners a well rounded
spiritual diet by touching on virtually all matters that pertain to the
citizens of the Kingdom of God and their welfare. In the second
place we want to follow Jesus in another way, in that we want to
teach all of the Bible, for Jesus certainly taught the Old Testament
as well as giving out portions of the New Testament. He quoted
from the Old Testament many, many times and yet the
average pastor of the usual denominational churches today never
quote from the Old Testament at all. Furthermore we proclaim the
gospel of the Kingdom, for the word "gospel" means good news,
thus the gospel of the Kingdom is GOOD NEWS concerning the
Kingdom of God on earth, the citizens of that Kingdom, laws
pertaining to that Kingdom, the throne in the midst of that Kingdom,
and most of all, the thrilling, glorious news of the return of the King
to take over that Kingdom
in the near future. Thus we are told to "SEEK YE FIRST the
Kingdom of God." Now, we cannot rightly obey this Biblical adjunct
unless we do put the Kingdom of God before anything else.
Furthermore we are told "this gospel of the kingdom shall be
preached." If this important message is to be preached then should
we not get in on the ground floor obey our Lord, become a part of
His program and do our part in proclaiming this mighty and
important gospel?
Now as we break the gospel of the Kingdom down into
its component parts, let us examine these things to see how
important it is that we proclaim these precious
truths.
The Kingdom of God is the most important thing in all
the world! Do you know of anything more enduring, stable,
dependable, wonderful and blessed than the
Kingdom of God? Political parties come and go, religious leaders
and movements come and go but the Kingdom of God abideth
forever. The tragedy is that most church members are being taught
that the Kingdom of God is inconsequential and insignificant, that it
is either in the sky, in heaven, or in the hearts of people. What a
tragedy! These vicious theological errors stem from a superficial
reading of the King James translation instead of studying the
original language in which the Scriptures were written. They are
told that the Bible teaches "My kingdom is not of this world," when
actually, in the original it states "My kingdom is not of this world
order." The Lord was speaking to His disciples and pointing a finger
at the old
wicked order of Babylon, filled with injustices, unrighteousness,
and wickedness. He declared that His Kingdom was not based on
any such principles and did not produce any such results. Again,
church members are taught that the Bible is SUPPOSED to state
"My kingdom is within you." Actually, in the original this statement
is "My kingdom is in your midst." On that occasion the Lord was
speaking to the wicked, godless Pharisees. Surely He wouldn't be
telling THEM that the glorious, important, everlasting Kingdom of
God, composed of a throne, a race of people,
divine laws, land and a King could Possibly be crammed down
inside within the stomach of a wicked, pagan Pharisee! If it were to
be on the inside of anyone, it would be in the heart of a born‑again
Spirit‑filled believer, such as those who left their fishing nets and
tax collecting jobs and followed Jesus, as the disciples! No, the
truth is, the Kingdom of God is literal, visible, earthly and
everlasting as the following Scriptures prove: Dan. 2: 44, 45 "And in
the days of these kings shall the
God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed:
and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break
in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for
ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the
mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the
brass, the clay, the silver and the gold; the great God hath made
known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter, and the dream
is certain, and the interpretation there of sure."
Now, let us think for a few moments about God's divine
laws. Our modern theologians teach their parishioners to stay away
from any group that would
emphasize the divine laws of God. They would have their followers
treat any group
that reveres, believes in and tries to obey the great national and
divine laws, statutes, commandments, and judgments of God as
though they were a leprous or cancerous group! Their misinformed
spiritual leaders would have their members think that the law of
God has been DONE AWAY WITH! You might as well try to do away
with the sun, or with the air that you breathe, as to do away with the
eternal laws of God!
What was done away was the law contained in
ORDINANCES these, of course
were nailed to the Cross. Jesus, by giving His blood redeemed
Israel, saved mankind reconciled the Adamic race, provided for our
healing and made possible the elimination of the law contained in
ordinances, that is, the law of ritual dealing with the offering of the
blood of goats doves and bullocks as a type of the offering Christ
would make on the Cross. Surely we all agree that this phase of the
law (the law being divided into two great phases, the ecclesiastical
and the national) was fulfilled in Christ's death and therefore done
away with. However we are not to make the pitiful mistake of
thinking that the national laws of the Bible dealing with murder,
adultery, diet, military matters, and the soil, were done away with.
The truth is Jesus plainly told His hearers that "I am not come to
DESTROY the law." Would you like to see the land revitalized and
made fertile again?
Then put back into operation the divine law of the Lord
which calls for the land
remaining idle one year out of seven. Would you like to see interest
abolished which you have been paying on your automobile, your
home and appliances plus the money you have borrowed at the
bank? Then be an advocate of the divine law of the Lord which
abolishes interest and cancels debts periodically. Would you like to
see the evils of
integration done away with? Then advocate the practicing of the
divine law of the Lord which calls for the segregation of the races,
and certainly not the intermarriage of the races. David, a man after
God's own heart, did not despise the law of the Lord. Instead,
throughout the Psalms he declared that the law of the Lord was
perfect, eternal, spiritual, good and unchangeable a part of which
we find in the following Psalm: 119: 97‑104: 0 how love I thy law! it
is my meditation all the day. Thou through thy commandments hast
made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. I
have more understanding than all my teachers for thy testimonies
are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I
keep thy precepts. I have refrained my feet from every evil way,
that I might keep thy word. I have not departed from thy judgments:
for thou hast taught me, How
sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my
mouth! Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate
every false way.
Race. How pitiful it is to talk with the average so‑called
Bible student and church member only to find that he has become
the victim of the greatest religious hoax that has ever been
perpetrated upon humanity namely the error that the Jew
represents Israel, and that he is God's chosen, covenant people. It
would not be so bad if this were just a harmless hoax but the
tragedy is, it has done untold harm in the minds of thinking people,
causing them to play up to a race of murderers and
moneychangers, who have done great harm in America and Britain,
in Jesus' day, and throughout history. There is not one place in the
Bible where we are told that the Jew is God's chosen people. The
word "Jew" isn't mentioned in the Bible until
2 Kings, 16th chapter, 6th verse.
This means, then, of course, that Abraham, who is
called a Hebrew in the
Scriptures, was not a Jew and was never called a Jew. Isaac was
not a Jew; Jacob was not a Jew; his twelve sons were not Jews;
Moses was not a Jew; David was not a Jew; Jesus was not a Jew,
rather was a Judean, and His father was God; even Paul was not a
Jew, but was a Benjamite. The Scriptures were not written by Jews
but by Israelites instead. The Israelites, now the Anglo‑Saxons and
those of European descent, are the covenant chosen people of God
the elect race with whom God made the covenants.
Throne. In the following Scriptures, we find a covenant
God made with David. It is an unconditional immutable
unchangeable covenant. Please read its provisions carefully: 2
Sam. 7:12‑16: And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep
with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall
proceed out of thy
bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build for my
name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will
be his Father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will
chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the
children of men: But my mercy shall not depart from him, as I took
from Saul, whom I put away before thee.. And thine house and thy
kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall
be established forever. Having read the preceding verses carefully,
you learned that this promise rests solidly upon God's own oath,
character, and almighty power, and deals with the perpetuity of
three things: the literal throne on which David sat and on which
Solomon would sit, the literal kingdom over which David had ruled
and a literal dynasty of kings coming from David's loins and
remaining intact until Jesus, the greater Son of David, would come
to take over that Kingdom and throne. God said before the terms of
this covenant would fail, the sun would be blacked out and the
water of the ocean would be dried up. In other words. He reminded
David that as long as there was a
sun, moon, stars, and oceans, just that long there would be the
terms of this great covenant God made with David in effect, which
meant there would always be a Kingdom of God on earth, the
throne of the Lord in the midst of that Kingdom and
someone from the loins of David sitting on that throne ruling and
reigning over the
literal Kingdom of God on earth. That Kingdom of God which was
begun at Sinai,
1491 B. C., is still in the earth today. Queen Elizabeth 2nd is of the
House of David and is sitting on the throne of the Lord, which
Jesus, when it is removed to Zion, will soon take over!
King. The greatest thing about the gospel is that it tells
about the return of the King to take over the Kingdom of God here
on this earth! Without this hope and promise all else would be in
vain! The terrible thing is religious minded people have missed the
point entirely regarding the first coming of our Lord to this earth.
They feel that He came only and altogether to save mankind. True,
His death on the Cross resulted in the salvation of mankind, but that
wasn't the ONLY or the MAIN purpose for which He came. Upon
speaking to His interrogators on one occasion, He declared, upon
being asked if He were a King that for this purpose came I into the
world. He then knew He was to be a King, and that was the main
purpose of His
coming into this world. Isaiah knew of His Kingship and told us,
"Behold, a king shall
reign," and again the great prophet Isaiah reminds us that the
government shall be upon his shoulders. The common people who
heard Jesus so gladly and who loved Him threw palm leaves
across His path way when He rode the foal of an ass triumphantly
into Jerusalem just before His death and they cried Hosanna! to the
king in the highest. They knew He was a King.
We are now passing through one of the darkest hours in
the history of the world. We have many needs, but the one great
need of this hour is the return of our King
bringing order out of chaos, to take over the throne of David which
is the throne of the Lord, and to rule in might, power, justice and
righteousness throughout His domain.
Do you want righteousness to prevail? Do you want
peace in the earth? Do you want segregation of the races to
prevail? Do you want permanent prosperity? Do you
want interest to be abolished and debts to be canceled? Then, for
heaven's sake, with all your heart, soul, money, time, strength and
mind help proclaim the gospel of the Kingdom!
For the King of kings!
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