We do not have to strive to bring the Kingdom to the earth. Our efforts should be directed toward pressing into Christ. Then when Christ is ready to move we shall move with Him. Nothing can resist those who are moving in Christ!

Jesus will work with each individual, no matter how weak, until the person is able to serve God.

Messiah, Head and Body, will bring truth with Him. (We are speaking of the entire Christ as one Person, which it is one new Man.) Truth is rare in our day. But Christ is Truth and will bring truth with Him.

Truth does not merely tell us what a thing or event is. Truth tells us why the thing is or the event took place. Science collects facts but only Christ knows the reason behind the facts, what everything signifies.

Justice is yet to come to this world. That which the most optimistic of Utopian dreamers have visualized is a pigsty compared with the new world of righteousness and glory that lies ahead. All things are working together for good to those who love God, who have been called according to His purposes in Christ.

The peace and joy that are to fill the earth will not drop down from Heaven. They will proceed from the personalities of Christ and those in whom Christ is living. The reason we go through the training we do is that we might be prepared to bring peace and joy to others. Those who are living in the flesh, following their self-will, are of no use in the grand plan. They are still part of the problem. It is those who have given all to follow Christ, as did the Apostle Paul, who will be able to appear with Jesus and bring Paradise back to the earth.

Righteousness, peace, and joy will follow the sons of God wherever they move through the earth. All demon powers will be driven to the underworld where they belong. The mountains and hills will begin to sing and all the trees of the field will clap their hands and break forth into singing, Isaiah says. Perhaps this animation of nature will be more literal than would first appear. A dead nature will come to life.

The sons of God will be revealed and a creation cursed with corruption will emerge from its chains. The massive gates will begin to open and the blind prisoners will gasp as the first rays of light penetrate their cells. The material creation is to be loosed. The Jubilee is at hand.

But first there must be those who will give all to Christ that He may enter them and prepare them for the Day of days that is at hand.

God has called each believer in righteousness, not imputed righteousness but an actual righteousness that proceeds from the forming of Christ in him or her. By forming His Word in us God is making us His covenant with mankind. We ourselves, having the Word engraved in our personality, are the new covenant. We are the light of the nations.

God is holding our hand. There is little we can do except seek Christ with all our might, day and night, night and day, and then obey Him implicitly.

Make the seeking of the Kingdom of God and His righteousness your chief interest. Then God will use you to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from their prison.

He has kept the good wine until now.