I saw an interesting post today. The photo was the landing craft beaching on D-Day. The caption was that you can enjoy your day on the beach because of their day on the beach.
We have life in the Kingdom because the King has come and given us His life in exchange for ours. He did that through His death on the cross. His death and resurrection was the total defeat of Satan's Kingdom. This is an accomplished fact. We appropriate this fact, bring it into our experience and circumstances by believing it and acting upon it. We believe this more than we believe our own experience and thinking. We believe it (not understand it) because God has declared it to be so.
Let's take a look at some Scriptures:
Thou hast made Him for a little while lower than the angels;
Thou hast crowned Him with glory and honor,
and hast appointed Him over the works of Thy hands;
Thou hast put all things in subjection under His feet.
For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to Him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to Him.
Hebrews 2:7,8
We may not see it but we believe it because God says it.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your path.
Proverbs 3:5,6
I have spent a lot of time to get understanding. Some things I understand but more I don't. Now I seek to believe and to act on it and to trust it because He said it.
How blessed is the man who trusts in Thee.
Psalms 84:12
So we live the Kingdom life in a Kingdom in which "we do not yet see all things subjected to Him." Hebrews 2:8b. How do we understand this? Personally, I'm going forward with partial understanding or no understanding. Maybe even wrong understanding. But I'm going forward trusting that Jesus is Lord of all.
This week at the Global Prayer House here in Medicine Hat, we have had a teacher from the Nederlands, Bram Buitenhuis. He illustrated the Kingdom in this way:
In the last months of WW II, the Canadians liberated Holland from the German occupiers. Because of the force of arms the German High Command surrendered to the Allied forces. For Holland, the enemy was defeated and they were free. But in the outlying towns and villages, they didn't know about the German surrender. In these little places, word of the victory had not reached. The Germans had confiscated the radios. There might be 3 or 4 Germans occupying the police station along with some collaborators and the population didn't realize that they were liberated. Then someone would get the word, by telephone, or a hidden radio or a runner would come. Then the farmers would get together, grab their axes and pitchforks and attack the Germans. Some of them lost their lives in these final battles. When the Germans found out, they stole cars or bicycles, anything they could get and were fleeing to Germany. It was over. The enemy was totally defeated.
This is like us in the Kingdom of God. The enemy is defeated, on the run. The Kingdom of death, despair, depression, sickness, injustice and death has no power. Jesus Christ is Lord and we are engaged in mop up operations. Jesus said, "The gates of hell will not prevail over his church."
So praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. It is a good day to die.
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