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the tribune stouflville ont thursday december 2 1953 this weeks sunday school lesson thv kixguom comk goldrn text the kingdoms of this uurld are become the kingdoms of our lord and of his christ and he shall reign for ever and ever kev 1115 thk lessox as a whole approach to the lesson king edward viii abdicat ed the throne ot england in 1936 for the woman i love he forfeited a kingdom embra cing a quarter of the worlds population many hailed it as the act of a great lover it was royal romance par excel lence it was not so regarded in britain however to them it was a betrayal of a great trust for selfish ends he choe a life of ease with a wo man whose domestic record rendered her incapable of be coming queen rather than the stern duties of the crown a few years ago edward now duke of windsor published his own account of the whole atfair in a kings story an answer has just appeared in a book entitled gone with the windsors in which the auth or lies brody speaks of the exking as the duke of wind sor who gave up everything and let down everyone for the sake of his own happiness we cannot be edwards judge but we are bound to say this that he esteemed the love of a woman more highly than the high duties of king ship we have heard of anoth er king who was willing to give away his kingdom for a means of saving his own life my kingdom for a horse shouted king richard iii ac cording to shakesieare but there is another king who valued his kingdom so highly that he laid down his life to secure it he too was tempted to go the way of self- gratification and self preserva tion but the high trust of king ship was more to him than all lecause it involved the will of the father and the redemp tion of the world it was no matter of worldly ambition but the sense of calling of commission and when the cry goes forth the kingdoms of this world are becoming the kingdoms of our lord and of his christ it will be a blood- bought kingdom into which he will enter our king has not fet us down verse by verse matt 69 our father which art in heaven hallow ed be thy name this wonder ful prayer is for those who know the intimate fatherson relation with god but it im mediately strikes the note of profound reverence verse 10 thy kingdom come thy will be done in earth before the prayer touches our needs it teaches us to put first things first thv name thv kingdom thv will chap 2s1g into gal ilee into a mountain where jesus had appointed them the departure to galilee was not immediate several appear- ings took place in jerusalem and judah before the appoint ed meeting in galilee see ver ses and 10 where it was we do not know perhaps mt ta- lxr verse 17 they wor shipped him but some doubt ed the some could not have been any of the eleven who had seen the appearing in jerusalem was this the ap pearing to the jive hundred 1 cor 15g it is very possib le- verse 18 all power is gi ven unto me in heaven and in earth for power read au thority the risen christ the man christ jesus is lord of all acts 1036 he has the right to command verse 19 go teach all nations baptizing them the great commission is a command of supreme author ity universal in its scope spe cific in its injunctions make disciples and baptize notice the triune name verse 20 teaching them to observe all things and lo 1 am with you alway unto the end of the world those who have been made disciples v 19 need to be taught and the chief thing to be taught is obedience the promise of the lords presence is coextensive with the com mand to the end of the age sent me so have i also john 171s as thou hast sent them the commission ed becomes the commissioner see how closely this relates our errand to his errand his obedience as one sent is our pattern of obedience verse 19 and for their sakea 1 sanctify myself that they also might be sanctified through the truth the thought of sanctify is to set apart for holy purposes or con secrate once again the conse cration of christ is the pat tern and the power of ours for through the truth read in truth verse 20 for them also which shall believe on me through their word our lord had the whole church in all its generations in view here not just the believers of the first generation xotice the divine sanction of the apostol ic message through their word verse 1 that they all may be one that the world may believe that thou has sent me another pattern the un ity of the godhead is the pat tern of the unity of the saints wrought by the holy spirit wherever that unity is in ev idence it serves as a testimo ny to the world acts 16 lord wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom of israel a very natural question in view of their conception of the mes sianic work and the triumph ant resurrection from the dead but still revealing a faulty un derstanding of the divine pur pose verse 7 it is not for you to know the times of the seas ons which the father hath put in his own power he did rot deny the restoration of the kingdom of israel but told the disciples 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gradual en- lightment by the gospel but through strong judgments as the context shows will this great transference take place the heart of the lesson what are our thoughts when we pray thy kingdom come doubtless those of us who have been taught in the premillennial doctrine think in terms of the millennial kingdom which will be estab lished at the second coming of christ and 1 have no doubt that in this we are right our lesson portions recognize this for the cry in revelation 11 15b is definitely related to those events which introduce the glorious appearing of the great god and our saviour je sus christ those days will indeed be marked by sore judgments but what a day it will be for this poor distres sed world when the cry goes forth the kingdoms of this world are become the king doms of our lord and of his christ but there is kingdom work to be done in the meantime the kingdom of christ reach es down and annexes the hearts and lives of men and we who have been redeemed are agents of this spiritual kingdom our commission in this regard is stated twice in our lesson portion once in the matthew passage in the in the acts passage in the former we have the great com mission as given to the discip les at the time of their meet ing with the risen lord in ga- liilee while in the latter pas sage we have the same com mission given in another form immediately before the ascen sion from the mount of olives in the one our task is expres sed in terms of making disci ples and teaching them the way of obedience in the oth er our task is stated to be one of witness extending to the uttermost part of earth in both special enabling is prom ised in the matthew state ment it is the abiding pres ence of the living christ while in the acts it is the coming of the holy spirit ultimately the two are the same what does all this have to do with the second coining of christ and the millennial kingdom much every way to begin with this calling out work must be finished before he comes acts 1511 and then the calledout tones are those who are to reign with him rev 225 so the princ es of the blood are being pre pared for that great day the remaining passage in our lesson has something to say about these calledout ones we may be called from widely separated areas and from diverse groups of society but we are brought into a great unity a unity such as exists within the godhead this unity itself is a clarion note in our witness to the world and a testimony that christ is really the sontone from god not just a religious teacher how we should cher ish that unity and preserve it and seek to give it expres sion so that the witness be riot hindered all this we have in john 171821 business announcement aida cleaners dyers kindly take notice that the firm formerly known as the stouffville cleaners will as of this date be known under the family name of aida cleaners dyers try us for better quality dv cleaning phone 343 stouffville mm p m w 9 stouffville ontario announcement to owners 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