When God was dealing with Abraham He informed him that the iniquity of the Amorites had not yet come to the full, but when it did, Abraham's seed would leave Egypt and invade Canaan.

We see, therefore, God is working His own works. It is not up to us to choose some area of attainment and attempt to use our "faith" to gain our own desires. We have been brought to this present situation and time, along with all other saints, the members of the Body of Christ, in order that we may follow the Holy Spirit into the land God has chosen for us.

Because "King Self" is not dead there is spiritual anarchy in the churches of Christ. Every man does what is right in the sight of his own eyes. The spiritual "bones" are very dry and piled in heaps in the valley. Current evangelical teaching, being filled with the spirit of deception, has created spiritual disorder, disobedience to God, and immorality in the churches.

The Father has given to His Son, Jesus Christ, the nations as His inheritance and the farthest reaches of the earth for His possession. We, the members of the Body of Christ, will be used by the Father to bring Christ's Kingdom into subjection to Him.

It is not our rest we are entering, it is God's rest. It is not our houses in Heaven that are being constructed, it is God's House. It is not what we are gaining that is important, it is what God and Christ are gaining that is important.

All preaching and teaching emphasizing how we can improve our own situation by "using" God and Christ has only a limited application. The path leading to eternal life in the Kingdom of God is that of stern obedience to the Father.

We must learn obedience to God. Our Christian life must not consist of various efforts to "gain power with God" (a questionable goal—one that can lead the seeker astray). Our Christian life is to be a patient quest for the knowledge of God's will and the means to perform that will.

Does God know what He is doing with us? Does He have a plan, a certain purpose? He indeed does have a specific plan, a certain purpose. We are vehicles for the accomplishment of the eternal purpose of God in Christ.

Do we love Christ? If we do we will keep His commandments. We were created for God's Glory, not so we may rush about the universe in the madness of self-seeking.

It is time for the saints to die to self. It is time for the saints to cease their dead works and to rest their hope in Christ. God knows exactly what He is doing, where He is going. Our task is to give attention to entering God's rest, not our own rest.

Nothing can be accomplished further in the Kingdom of God until the believers forsake their religious strivings, their attempts to use their gifts to manipulate the spirit realm. It is time for us to seek the Lord. The Kingdom of God is the doing of God's will in the earth as it is in Heaven. The Kingdom of God is not an array of gifts that God desires to give His children in order that they may go about their business according to their own enthusiasm and impulses.

To be continued.