{"id":5845,"date":"2020-08-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2020-08-05T20:07:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T00:07:05","slug":"the-kingdom-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/the-kingdom-of-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kingdom of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"The Kingdom of Jesus 8\/06\/20\" height=\"122\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/m8cdd-e5d0dc?from=pb6admin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1&amp;auto=0&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;skin=1&amp;pfauth=&amp;btn-skin=107\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&nbsp;kind&nbsp;of a Kingdom does Jesus have? No castle nor palace has he.&nbsp; No congress nor parliament sitting, deciding what laws there will be. Perhaps he has need of but two laws: Love God and your neighbor as well. To obey them is all that is needed, as all of the saints can tell.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>He has neither army nor navy, no air force to guard the frontiers to keep out the strangers unwanted and maintain the enemy&#8217;s fears. Immigration he seems to encourage, of some quite disreputable, like fishermen, publicans, sinners. To such he is hospitable.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems there&#8217;s no revenue service or taxes we must calculate. He surely cannot run a Kingdom on what we put into the basket! No 1040 form comes in April to fill out before the fifteenth, with penalties charged for nonpayment, beginning upon the sixteenth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>No currency&#8217;s here with his picture, no coinage engraved with his name. And where are the posters and slogans proclaiming his power and fame? And I see no trappings of kingship, no robes made of velvet and fur, no crown made of gold set with diamonds, to befit our supreme arbiter.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus said that his Kingdom was really not what Pilate had thought it had been. It was not of this world. And its glory was not of the&nbsp;kind&nbsp;to be seen. For those of us here in his Kingdom, there is one other thing we have known: of the kingdoms around in his lifetime, it&#8217;s the only one left with a throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Andrew Daughters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Have YOU given up on earthly kingdoms and earthly politicians?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why have you NOT given up on Jesus and his Kingdom?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Jesus proclaims his Kingdom in my new novel \u2013 THE GATHERING. It\u2019s a great summertime read.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please check it out below on Amazon Books\u2026..<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-amazon-kindle wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"oceanwp-oembed-wrap clr\"><iframe title=\"THE GATHERING: Jesus and Abortion A Story For Our Time\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"1200\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_ZmiFnZ5PHxgtIP&#038;asin=B08BDSDQ5L&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&nbsp;kind&nbsp;of a Kingdom does Jesus have? No castle nor palace has he.&nbsp; No congress nor parliament sitting, deciding what laws there will be. Perhaps he has need of but two laws: Love God and your neighbor as well. To obey them is all that is needed, as all of the saints can tell. 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