Live by the Son as our Life to Live in the Kingdom of the Son of God’s Love today

The Father has delivered us out of the authority of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of God’s love, a wonderful realm of life, love, and light; when we live by the Son as our life in resurrection, we live in this kingdom, enjoying Him in the Father’s love. Amen!

On the negative side, we need to see that there’s a spiritual warfare going on, for Satan and his kingdom fight against God at every step of the way.

On the positive side, we do not live in the kingdom of darkness but rather, we have been transferred out of this kingdom and into the kingdom of the Son of God’s love. Hallelujah!

We have been transferred into the kingdom of God, which is a kingdom of being ruled by God’s love, life, and light.

Even though there’s a spiritual war going on, we are inwardly ruled by the Lord’s love, life, and light.

Yes, there’s a necessity for the spiritual warfare, but we do not live in a constant state of being alert or being on guard, without any enjoyment of Christ.

Rather, as we are enjoying the Lord Jesus as the Son of God’s love, the Beloved Son of the Father, we are inwardly supplied and nourished, and we are ready to fight the spiritual battle in the Body. Amen!

We desire for God’s will to be done in our life and on the earth not because we are constrained by God to do this; we love Him, we yield to Him in love, and in fellowship with Him, He works Himself into us.

The kingdom of Satan is one of darkness, death, rebellion, and sin, but the kingdom of God is a kingdom of light, life, freedom, and enjoyment. In the kingdom of Satan, we are usurped by the evil one for his pernicious and evil purpose of usurping man and hindering God’s plan.

But in the kingdom of God, we willingly choose the Lord by loving Him, having intimate contact with Him throughout the day, and even being one with Him, and no matter what happens outwardly, we love Him and know that He works out all things for our good. Hallelujah!

As the church, we are the Lord’s bride, on the positive side, and we are His corporate warrior, on the negative side.

As we love the Lord and give Him the first place, enthroning Him in our being and taking Him as our Lord and Head, we are formed into an army to fight for God’s interests, and we fight the battle in the Body by the virtue of the Head. Praise the Lord!

We stand as the church on earth today to displace the enemy, root him out, and cast him out, for we stand in the victory of Christ, one with the victorious Christ, for Him to carry out His victorious work in us and through us. Praise the Lord!

The Father Delivered us out of the Authority of Darkness and Transferred us into the Kingdom of the Son of His Love

Col. 1:12-13 tells us that the Father has delivered us out of the authority of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.

It is not God who delivered us but the Father. God the Father, our Father, first delivered us out of the authority of darkness and then He transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.

The authority of darkness denotes the authority of Satan; we were delivered out of Satan’s authority.

God is light, Satan is darkness, and God’s kingdom is a kingdom of light, while Satan’s kingdom is a kingdom of darkness.

Praise the Lord, God the Father has delivered us out of Satan’s authority of darkness into God’s marvellous light!

This means that we have been delivered from the devil, who has the might of death (Heb. 2:14; John 17:15) and have been brought into the kingdom of life and light.

We have been delivered from the devil, Satan, by the death of Christ (Col. 2:14-15) and by the life of Christ in resurrection (John 5:24).

The death of Christ delivered us and the resurrection life of Christ regenerated us to bring us into another realm, another kingdom, the kingdom of the Son of God’s love.

Thank the Lord that the Father has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of God’s love (Col. 1:13)!

We have not only been delivered out of something negative but even more, we have been transferred into the most positive kingdom: the kingdom of the Son of God’s love.

This kingdom is the authority of Christ (Rev. 11:15; 12:10).

The Son of God is the expression of God, the embodiment of God, and the manifestation of God; He is life, and He came to manifest God’s life.

The kingdom of the Son is a realm of life – it is the realm of the divine life.

We believers in Christ are now in a realm of life and love, where there’s no fear; here we are ruled by God as life, light, and love.

When we exercise our spirit and contact the Lord day by day, even though we fail and make mistakes, we are met by God’s love, we enjoy His life, and He shines on us.

What a wonderful place we are today, in the divine life, shined on by the divine light, and supplied by the divine love!

Christ is the Son of God, the expression of God the Father as the source of life (John 1:18, 4; 1 John 1:2).

God the Father is the source of life, and He is expressed in the Son.

Furthermore, the Son of God is the object of the Father’s love; many times when He was on earth, Christ the Son had the Father’s declaration, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have found My delight (Matt. 3:17; 17:5).

The Son of God is a delight to the Father; the Father loves Him, delights in Him, and is satisfied with Him.

And we are in the kingdom of the Son of God’s love, being ruled by God in love with life and light.

We have been transferred into the Son of God who is life to us (1 John 5:12).

Christ is in resurrection (1 Pet. 1:3; Rom. 6:4-5) and He is the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45).

In Christ, God rules in us and over us, and this heavenly ruling is true freedom, for we have the proper freedom in love, with life, and under light.

The freedom people seek today is not the freedom to do whatever they want to do; it is the freedom in God’s love, with God’s life, and under God’s light.

We all can testify that, when we enjoy the Lord day by day, when we turn our heart to Him and contact Him, we enjoy true liberty, true freedom, for the Son sets us free and we are free indeed!

The kingdom of the Son of God’s love is truly a wonderful kingdom, for here we enjoy the Lord Jesus, who is the Father’s Beloved and delight.

This kingdom comprises three sections: the section of the church life in this age, the section of the heavenly part of the kingdom of the heavens in the millennium, and the new heaven and the new earth with the New Jerusalem for eternity.

The New Jerusalem will be the consummation of the church and the kingdom of God.

In each of these three sections of the kingdom of the Son of God’s love, we are enjoying the Lord, for the kingdom is a matter of delight.

If we live today in the kingdom of God in reality, if we exercise our spirit to contact the Lord and live one spirit with the Lord, we will inherit the coming kingdom of God, the millennial kingdom, where we will enjoy the Son of God’s love to a higher extent.

And for eternity we will enjoy God in Christ in and as the New Jerusalem, the holy city! Praise the Lord!

Thank You, Father, for delivering us out of the authority of darkness and transferring us into the kingdom of the Son of Your love! Hallelujah, God the Father has delivered us, the believers in Christ, out of the authority of Satan, which is one of darkness, sin, and death. Praise the Lord, we have been delivered from the devil, who has the might of death! Hallelujah, the death of Christ and the life of Christ in resurrection delivered us from the devil! Amen, Lord, we thank You for transferring us into the kingdom of the Son of God’s love, the authority of Christ. We love being here, in the realm of the divine life, love, and light. We open to You, Lord, and we want to enjoy You in and as the kingdom of the Son of God’s love. Praise the Lord, God is today ruling in us and over us, and we are under His rule in love, with life and under light! How we love to be here, dear Lord, enjoying Your ruling over us and participating in Your life under Your light! Amen, Lord, keep us enjoying You today so that we may enter into the coming kingdom and participate in a fuller and higher enjoyment of You for one thousand years!

Live by the Son as our Life in Resurrection to Live in the Kingdom, enjoying Christ in the Father’s Love

All believers in Christ have been delivered out of the authority of Satan and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of God’s love; this is a fact.

However, how about our daily experience? Do we have a proper Christian life based on this wonderful fact and enjoy this glorious reality?

How can we live in the kingdom of the Son of God’s love in the many aspects and details of our daily living?

It is good to see that we have been transferred out of Satan’s kingdom and we are now in God’s kingdom, but we also need to live in this kingdom in reality today.

We have been transferred into the kingdom of the Son of the Father’s love by being transferred into Christ, who is life to us (Col. 3:4).

We have been transferred into a person – Christ Himself.

Now we live in Christ, with Christ, by Christ, and according to Christ.

When we live by the Son as our life in resurrection, we are living in His kingdom, enjoying Him in the Father’s love (John 6:57).

This is the key to living in the kingdom of the Father’s love: living by the Son as our life in resurrection.

This is how the Lord Jesus lived; He lived by the Father day by day, and His living was pleasing and satisfying to the Father.

Today we do the same: we eat Christ, partake of Christ, and enjoy Christ, and we live because of Christ.

We are learning to live not in and by ourselves, which is our old way of living, but in Christ and by the Son of God in resurrection, so that we may live in the kingdom of the Son of God’s love.

The fact that we have been transferred into the kingdom of the Son of God’s love indicates that this realm of life is in love, not in fear (Col. 1:13).

In the church life we should not be afraid of the Lord or of the leading brothers; we are in the kingdom of the Son of God’s love, and we are ruled by Him in love with light and life.

When we exercise our spirit to contact the Lord, we find ourselves in a kingdom that is full of life, light, and love (1 John 1:1-2, 5, 7; 4:8, 16).

Amen, thank the Lord that the Father has transferred us into a realm where we are ruled in love with life.

Here, under the heavenly ruling and restriction, we have genuine freedom in love, with life, and under light (Matt. 7:13-14).

Here, in this kingdom as this wonderful realm, we enjoy Christ and we have the church life (Col. 1:12; 4:15-16).

It is good to take these verses and pray over them, asking the Lord to shine on us and show us what it means for us to be in the kingdom of the Son of God’s love.

As we open to the Lord and get into His word, we live under the heavenly ruling and restriction, which is in love, by life and under light.

We enjoy genuine freedom in love with life and under light. On one hand, we are more and more restricted by the divine life in our spirit, and we live daily under the divine restriction.

On the other hand, we are fully free, for the Lord has the freedom to live in us, be expressed through us, and fill us with Himself as life, love, and light.

As we live by the Son as our life in resurrection, we will live in the kingdom of the Son of God’s love, and we will enjoy Him in the Father’s love.

This is all in our spirit; we can enjoy such freedom, love, light, and life, only by exercising our spirit.

Throughout the day we need to live in two realms at the same time: on the one hand, we live in the physical realm, doing what we need to do here to take care of our responsibilities and human existence, and on the other hand, we live in the realm of the kingdom of the Son of God’s love.

Amen, in this realm of life, love, and light, we enjoy true freedom and we enjoy Christ in the Father’s love!

Lord Jesus, we want to live by the Son as our life in resurrection so that we may live in the kingdom of God in reality! Hallelujah, we are now in the kingdom of the Son of God’s love, a realm full of life, light, and love! Amen, Lord, we love being here in the realm of life full of love and with no fear. We love You, we enjoy You, and we open to You. We call on Your name, oh Lord Jesus, and we submit to Your heavenly rule, for You rule in us in love with life and under light. Shine on us. Dispense more of Yourself into our being. We want to live by the Son as our life in resurrection so that we may enjoy Christ in the Father’s love! Oh, what a joy it is to be in Christ, the beloved Son of the Father! In Him, we are loved by the Father, and are the object of the Father’s love and grace! Praise the Lord, today we can live under the heavenly ruling and restriction to have genuine freedom in love, with life, and under light! Amen, Lord, we want to enjoy Christ and can have the church life in this kingdom, the kingdom of the Son of God’s love!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ron Kangas in the message for this week, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 244, by Witness Lee as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Living in the Reality of the Kingdom of God (2024 October ITERO), week 7, Spiritual Warfare to Bring In the Kingdom of God and Living in the Kingdom of the Son of God’s Love.
• Similar articles on this topic:
  – What Does God Want? More via, Bibles for America blog.
  – The kingdom in the Acts, a portion from, The Kingdom, Chapter 1, by Witness Lee.
  – What does it mean to be a man of God? To be a man of God is to be someone who is filled with God’s life! More via CSOC instagram.
  – The way to enjoy Christ as grace, a portion from, Autobiography of a Person in the Spirit, An, Chapter 10, by Witness Lee.
  – What is the kingdom of God? More via, Holding to Truth in Love.
  – Message 7: The Ministry of Christ in His Ascension (1), a video message via, LSM.
  – The Love of the Marriage of the Lamb Presented in Ephesians 1, via, New Jerusalem blog.
  – how to enjoy Christ as life, a portion from, The Experience of Christ as Life for the Building Up of the Church, Chapter 1, by Witness Lee.
  – Enjoying Christ as My Portion, a testimony via, The Church in Anaheim.
  – The God of love and peace, a portion from, Life-Study of 2 Corinthians, Chapter 58.
  – Deification in God the Father’s Love for Us His Children, via, Living to Him.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – What mercy that my eyes have seen the true God, / Happily transferred from darkness into light! / What grace that I can freely have salvation, / No need to work, endeavor with my might! (Hymns #1351 stanza 1)
  – The essence of the Kingdom is / A life that’s under heaven’s rule, / A life whose nature is divine / With Christ experienced in full. (Hymns #944 stanza 1)
  – Thou healing sun! Thou hope of man! / I really love Thy ray. / Oh, righteous Lord! oh, glorious King! / I bow to Thee and pray: / Oh, may Thou soon ascend Thy throne / And quickly show Thy face; / Thy heav’nly kingdom may Thou found / And grant all men Thy grace. (Hymns #960 stanza 7)