Oct 1985 - Editorial

As we consider, among other helpful ministry this month, some of the precious truths concerning the "little flock" (Lk. 12:32) the link with "the kingdom" stands out in importance. The cruel dilemmas and bewildering perplexities of world kingdoms and governments should give God's people ample cause to reflect on "a kingdom that cannot be shaken" (Heb. 12:28); to rejoice in the universal authority of the One of whom God said, "Yet I have set My King upon My holy hill of Zion" (Ps. 2:6).

When Israel first became a kingdom we read "Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD" (1 Sa~ 10:25). The kingdom given to the little flock today is also written in a book. In the forty days between resurrection and ascension the Lord spoke many things "concerning the kingdom of God" (Acts 1:3); and in due course the Spirit, working through the apostles, placed in the inspired record of New Testament scripture "the manner of the kingdom". FOCUS draws attention this month to the unswerving allegiance necessary to the authority and inerrancy of the Word. A vitally important part of the oracles of God in our favoured hands today is the setting and constitution of the kingdom of God in our day, expressed we believe in churches of God in collective testimony. Happy are the people who are the recipients of "The Father's good pleasure".

unknown | Oct 1985
Editorial