" Oh, my friends,
wonderful as my words are--as wonderful to me who speak them as they
can be to you who hear them--yet they are true. True; for on that
table stand the bread and wine whereof He Himself said, standing upon
this very earth which He Himself had made: "This is my body which is
given for you; this cup is the new covenant in my blood, which I will
give for the life of the world."
XXXVII--THE KINGDOM OF GOD
The kingdom of God is within you.--LUKE xvii. 21.
These words are in the second lesson for this morning's service. Let
us think a little about them.
What they mean must depend on what the kingdom of God means; for that
is the one thing about which they speak.
Now, the kingdom of God is very often spoken of in the New Testament.
Indeed, it is the thing it speaks of above all others. It was the
thing which our Lord went about preaching. It was the thing of which
He spoke in His parables, likening the kingdom of God first to one
thing, then to another, that He might make men understand what it was
like.
Now, it is worth remarking that we--I mean even religious people--
speak very little about the kingdom of God nowadays. One hears less
about it than about any other words, almost, which stand in the New
Testament.
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