Christ found the kingdoms of the world corrupt. After Satan was expelled from heaven, he erected his standard of rebellion on this earth, and sought by every means to win men to his standard

The kingdom of God comes not with outward show. The gospel of the grace of God, with its spirit of self-abnegation, can never be in harmony with the spirit of the world.

As Jesus traveled through Galilee, teaching and healing, multitudes flocked to Him from the cities and villages.

In heaven's council the hour for the coming of Christ had been determined.

By disobeying the commands of God, man fell under the condemnation of His law.

“He opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:2, 3).

In order to inherit all things, we must resist and overcome sin.

In these words an individual work is laid out for each one of us. We are to make determined efforts to overcome as Christ overcame.

The only hope of any man lies through Jesus Christ.... The pure and holy garments are not prepared to be put on by any one after he has entered the gate of the city.

The expression, “He that overcometh,” indicates that there is something for every one of us to overcome.

When, as overcomers, we shall be “clothed in white raiment,” the Lord will acknowledge our faithfulness as verily as in the days of the early Christian church He acknowledged the “few names even in Sardis,” who had “not defiled their garments;”

“The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” While life is the inheritance of the righteous, death is the portion of the wicked. Moses declared to Israel, “I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil.”

It was our Lord Himself who promised His disciples, “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself.”

In view of the Lord's soon coming, how earnest we should be in forming characters after the divine similitude....

Every action of ours in befriending God's people will be rewarded as done unto Himself.

Among earth's inhabitants, scattered in every land, there are those who have not bowed the knee to Baal. Like the stars of heaven, which appear only at night, these faithful ones will shine forth when darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the people.

When the Lord makes up His jewels, the true, the frank, the honest, will be looked upon with pleasure.

The judgment scene will take place in the presence of all the worlds; for in this judgment the government of God will be vindicated, and His law will stand forth as “holy, and just, and good.”

esus is coming, but not as at His first advent, a babe in Bethlehem, not as He rode into Jerusalem, when the disciples praised God with a loud voice and cried, Hosannah; but in the glory of the Father, and with all the retinue of holy angels with Him, to escort Him on His way to earth.

The Life-giver will call up His purchased possession in the first resurrection, and until that triumphant hour, when the last trump shall sound and the vast army shall come forth to eternal victory, every sleeping saint will be kept in safety and will be guarded as a precious jewel, who is known to God by name.