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The Church as the Kingdom of the Son of God’s Love 69
These two wonderful verses are in Colossians 1:12-13, which says,
“Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted
portion of the saints in the light; Who delivered us out of the authority of
darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.”
We need to pray-read these verses many times in order for us to really
enjoy what these two verses are talking about. Paul says we need to give
thanks to the Father; it is the Father who qualified us for a share of the allotted
portion of the saints in the light. Light is very important. This portion that
we have is in the light, and this light is versus the darkness in the next verse.
You have light, and you have darkness. Light is the kingdom of our Lord;
darkness is the kingdom of Satan. In these two verses, you are actually
talking about these two kingdoms: the kingdom of light and the kingdom of
darkness, the kingdom of our Lord which is the kingdom of the Son of His
Father’s love and the kingdom of Satan. Paul is telling us that we have the
allotted portion in the kingdom of light, which is having God as our life. We
have been delivered out of the authority of darkness, out of Satan, and we
have been transferred into the kingdom of the Son of His love.
When we come to this, it is good for us to understand how the Lord has
delivered us out of the authority of darkness. On one hand, He delivered
us out of the authority of darkness through His death. We could see this in
Colossians 2:14-15. These two verses talk about how the Lord has gone to
the cross and died for us, so He delivered us out of His death. If you go on,
He also delivered us through the life of Christ. We see this in John 5:24. John
5:24 talks about how the Lord brings us out of death into life. The Father
has delivered us through the death of Christ, through the life of Christ, out
of the darkness, out of the authority of darkness, and transferred us into the
kingdom of the Son of His love. Praise the Lord!
The Kingdom of the Son of God’s Love Comprising Three Ages: the
Present Age, in Which the Church Is; the Coming Age, in Which the
Millennial Kingdom Will Be; and the Eternal Age with the
New Jerusalem in the New Heaven and New Earth
The Stress in Colossians 1:13 Being the Kingdom of the Son of God’s
Love in This Age, Which Is the Reality of the Church
The Church Life Today Being the Kingdom of the Son of the Father’s
Love, Which Is as Delightful to God the Father as the Son of God Is