Published 2001-07
Bud Powell
Trinity Covenant RCUS, Colorado Springs
By this one statement,
Christ revealed the carnal dreams of Israel and showed the nature of His
kingdom. Israel expected that when
Messiah came, He would drive out the Romans and their oppressors and set up a
carnal kingdom, and they would rule with him in a kingdom of peace and
prosperity.
They didn’t know the
nature of their enemy. The real enemies
of men are the evil ideas and lusts that reside in their own hearts. The real conflict for the souls of men takes
place there, not on the bloody battlefields of the world.
It is the truth that
sets us free, the conviction that all our sins are forgiven in Jesus
Christ. In delivering us from guilt by
faith through the Gospel, the Lord Jesus sets us free to please Him, whether it
is in life or in death. To God be the
glory!
