“Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to
give you the kingdom.” Luke 12:32
There was, is and will forever be a King. He is one King, yet three separate and distinct persons: God the Father, God the Son - Jesus Christ, and God the Holy Spirit. They are separate, yet one. This King speaks and while He is yet speaking, His Word goes forth to accomplish that which He has spoken. His voice is so powerful that it walked in the garden in the beginning. His Word cannot return void. He was there before the beginning, and in the beginning He created the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them. He is the source of all things, and in Him all things exist and consist.
In His eternal love, God made man in His image and likeness to share in His great creation - the heavens, the earth, and all within them. He was pleased with all of His creation, except for man, in whom He was well pleased. God gave dominion on earth to man, instructing him to be fruitful and multiply, to replenish the earth, and assigned him the job to dress and keep the garden. He communed with man daily, to fellowship and to impart wisdom and knowledge.
The all-powerful, all-knowing, and everywhere present King gave man dominion, knowing from the beginning that man would treat this responsibility casually and give his authority to a usurper, the devil. But God, the greatI Am That I Am, the loving Father, had a plan to redeem and reconcile man back to Himself, and restore order as it was.
The King’s provision for man’s redemption was, is, and will forever be Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son.“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1) Unto us a child was born and a Son is given, and the government of the Kingdom, without end, shall be upon His shoulders. All things were made by and for Him, and in Him is Life, and that Life is the light of men.
“And, Jesus grew in wisdom, stature and in favor with God and man.” (Luke 2:52) He is our example of walking through life in victory and the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is our inheritance, the first born of many brethren. He taught us to ask the Father whatsoever we will in His Name. He taught us that we should believe we receive it, and we
