But He said to them, I must announce the gospel of the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this I was sent. Luke 4:43
Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would proclaim the glad tidings concerning the kingdom of God, through which God brings people under the ruling of the heavenly authority so that they may become His kingdom (Matt. 24:14; Luke 4:43; Acts 8:12).
The kingdom of God is the Savior (17:21) as the seed of life, sown into His believers, God’s chosen people (Mark 4:3, 26), and developing into a realm which God may rule as His kingdom in His divine life. Its entrance is regeneration (John 3:5), and its development is the believers’ growth in the divine life (2 Pet. 1:3-11). It is the church life today, in which the faithful believers live (Rom. 14:17), and it will develop into the coming kingdom as an inheritance reward (Gal. 5:21; Eph. 5:5) to the overcoming saints in the millennium (Rev. 20:4, 6). Eventually, it will consummate in the New Jerusalem as the eternal kingdom of God, an eternal realm of the eternal blessing of God’s eternal life for all God’s redeemed to enjoy in the new heaven and new earth for eternity (Rev. 21:1-4; 22:1-5, 14). Such a kingdom, the kingdom of God, is what the Savior preached in Luke 4 as the gospel, the good news. (Life-study of Luke, msg. 11, p. 95, by Witness Lee)
More details via Beseeching.org, day 356.
