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To: Jack Zahran who wrote (9058)	10/23/1997 2:07:00 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 39621

Greetings Jack. I appreciate your love and interest in Christ and His Kingdom. I am meditating on my answer. Should have a chance to answer soon. In Christ Emile

To: Jack Zahran who wrote (9058)	10/23/1997 7:49:00 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 39621

Kingdom of God--Part I May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God fill every heart who reads these words and I pray that they may they enter into the Kingdom of God according the true desires of their hearts. I have meditated and prayed upon your request and the Lord has given me this answer. As I meditated and prayed upon this subject, the Lord revealed to me that the New Covenant and the Kingdom of God are poorly understood realities in our modern age. Since the New Covenant and the Kingdom of God are inseparable, I will begin by discussing the New Covenant and then move to nature and meaning of the Kingdom of God. The establisment of the New Covenant initiated the Kingdom of God within men under the new creation. Christ's birth as a man, His life, His crucifixon, His death and His Resurrection created the foundation for the New Covenant. Through faith in Christ and His works man enters into the New Covenant. What is God's purpose in establishing this New Covenant? In the book of Hebrews (ch 8), the Holy Spirit teaches us that Jeremiah's (ch 31) prophecy about the New Covenant was fulfilled in Jesus Christ and that all men, through faith, are heirs to the reality of the New Covenant: "If that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second...... For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days ocme, saith the the Lord, when I will make a New Covenant with the House of Israel and the house of Judah;.... For this is the covenant that I will make ...... I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: This is where God restores His Kingdom within the hearts of men. When we have Faith in Jesus, we are born again-"not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, by the Word of God". Then Jesus fills us with the Holy Spirit and the New Covenant promises of 'putting God's laws into our minds and writing them in our hearts' is achieved. God puts his very nature and substance in man. This is how Christians become the sons of God. God recreates the human spirit and then fills man with His own divine nature--the Holy Spirit. This is the origin of Christianity and this is the origin of the Kingdom of God in the new creation--God governing His people through their recreated spirits and Holy Spirit filled hearts and minds. These principles now set the foundation to understand the Kingdom of God and its manifestation in and among men. I will divide this into two parts because of its length. Next time we look at the nature and meaning of the Kingdom of God May the Spirit of God open the ears of all who read these words. Emile, a servant of Christ called to proclaim the Gospel given once an d for all times given to the Apostles and disciples.

To: Jack Zahran who wrote (9058)	10/23/1997 9:30:00 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Kingdom of God--Part II To Jack and to all who humbly seek the Kingdom of God in hope of eternal life. May the love of God and the grace of our Lord Jesus lead all sincere hearts who judge and read these words into the fullness of the stature of Christ. May the Kingdom of God become an internal reality. There are two fundamental Kingdoms in God's creation. There is the Kingdom of God that originated with God's creation and there is the kingdom of satan that originated in the rebellion of the angels. Through Lucifer's rebellion, one third of the angels set about opposing God's will and Kingdom and set about seeking their own will and kingdom. Then God created man and the physical Universe. Adam and Eve were created in the image and likenss of God. They possessed dominion over the earth and probably the whole Universe. God gave Adam dominion over His creation. The very nature of God lived within Adam. Satan deceived Eve and Adam volutarily accepted satan's words and satan's nature and kingdom over God's nature and God's Kingdom. Adam volutarily gave up his God-given dominion over to satan and satan became the God of this world with dominion and power of Adam and his children. Man retain the image of God but lost the interanl likeness or nature of God that had been put within him at creation. Man now possessed the rebellious nature of satan. The evil and rebellious nature of man that satan placed in man brought forth the collapse of Eden. Sin, sickness, and death entered into God's physical creation through this rebellion. The nature and likeness of God in Adam had been destroyed. When sin came, Adam died. Adam's death passed upon all his children. All men after Adam were born spiritually dead. God's governance through the divine likness put in Adam had been destroyed. The Kingdom of God in man had been rejected by Adam. Man had lost his fellowship with God the Father. Man still possessed the image of God, but had lost the likness of God. The likeness of satan had been stamped on man's heart. Through this fallen nature, man brought forth every kind of evil. In God's mercy he raised a man of Faith called Abraham and through the Faith of Abraham and through the seed of Abraham, God established a type of his Kingdom--a symbolic kingdom a shadow of the real Kingdom that would prepare mankind to receive the Kingdom of God in his heart through the second Adam. And within that Seed of Abraham God would brings forth His Son--the nature of God in man. Jesus became the first God-man. Through His divinity he took on human flesh and became the uncreated God-man. He prepared the way and paid the penalty so we in the flesh could receive through faith the divine nature of God in us and thus become created God-men--the sons of God. Because of the Faith of ABraham, God raised the nation--people of Israel as a school master for all of mankind. Through the symbolic nation or kingdom of Israel, God was preparing mankind for the Kingdom of God. He gave the nation of Israel a Tabernacle, mercy seat and the Ark of the Covenant. He gave symbolic Israel a priesthood, a king and prophets and the laws, statutes and ordinances. God imposed upon the natural seed of Abraham the fundamental rules and principles of the Kingdom of God. These rules were not written in their hearts or stamped in their minds. These were external rules to teach mankind the principles of the Kingdom of God. The history of natural Israel proves that they were not capable of obeying the commandments, statutes and ordinances. God was using the natural kingdom of Israel to teach mankind that only through the nature of God in man could man ever obey the will and desires from the heart of God. The true Kingdom of God could only come when man spirit was recreated into the likeness of God. Satan had deceived man into believing that he could do it through his own will and nature--without the nature of God. Out of this nation and kingdom of Israel, God brought forth the SEED of the promise, the SEED of faith in Abraham--Jesus Christ. Jesus was born according to every detail recorded in the prophets. The Son of God was to pay the penalty of sin and give his life for the sins of mankind, so that the Kingdom of God could be established and God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven. The nest step: the natural kingdom of Israel vs the Kingdom of God in man. In Part III we will get into the Gospels and the Epistles to find the nature of this new kingdom--the Kingdom of God. May Christ abunmdantly reveal to every sincere heart the mysteries of His Kingdom. Emile, a servant of Christ called to proclaim the Gospel once and for all time given to the Apostles and disciples.