When Christ first promised the Holy Spirit, and spoke
about His approaching coming, He said: "In that day ye shall know that I
am in the Father, and ye in me, and I in you. He that loveth me keepeth my
commandments; and my Father will love him, and we will come and make our
abode with him." Brother, would you have the Kingdom of God first in your
life, you must have the Kingdom in your hearts. If my heart be set upon a
thing I may be bound with chains, but the moment the chains are loosened I
fly towards the object of my affection and desire. And just so the Kingdom
must be within us, and then it is easy to say: "The Kingdom first." But
to have the Kingdom within us in truth, we must have God the Father, and
Christ the Son, by the Holy Ghost within us too. No Kingdom without the
King.
You are called to likeness with Christ. Oh, how many Christians strive
after this part and that part of the likeness of Christ, and forget the
root of the whole! What is the root of all? That Christ gave Himself up
utterly to God, and His Kingdom and glory.
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