What Shall I Render

God's Spirit within us grows our expectation and desire, our hope. The hope He brings us gives us victory over our sufferings and the love He brings us binds us together (Rom 5:1-5; 12:3-8).

Living Hope holds power in our present trials to fill us with an inexpressible and glorious joy regarding our future (1Pet 1:3-9).

Hypocrites cling to condemning others, while claiming to enjoy the forgiveness of the King. The kingdom transforms only those willing to be directed by the King's treatment of them.

The Spirit helps us in our weakness (Rom 8:26; Eph 3:16).

God has done the humanly impossible with sending His Son and placing Him on the throne at the Father's right hand. No part of that kingdom is according to human desires or purposes.

The desires of our flesh and the ways of the world bring sin, which results in death. They do not bring the kingdom to us, nor grow it within us.

God has always been after the heart, and His covenants and commands have never been merely outward and physical.

An intro into life by the Spirit (Rom 8).

The kingdom is a result of Jesus' being on His throne for the purpose of the Father. An important result of His reign is forgiveness. We receive it and we practice it! It is part of our transformation into the likeness of our King (Matt 6:12).

God created mothers so that we could see someone love us first and teach us wisdom to bless our lives.

The disciples of Jesus were longing for His throne and kingdom to be established. He taught them to pray as much. We have been redeemed by His blood and transferred into His kingdom, yet we are still to be seeking the increase of His reign and the Father's will in our lives. (Matt 6:33; 7:7-8)

Born of the water and the Spirit, we enter the kingdom of God. The Spirit leads us, as children of God. The Spirit brings life, freedom, peace, and confidence, not fear!

The kingdom brings a relationship that the law of Moses could not. Children born by the suffering of the Son at the cross and born by the authority of the Son as King (Matt 6:5-9; Heb 2:5-13; Isa 8:11-18).

The relationship between a good shepherd and his sheep is comparable to the relationship between a good king and the people of his kingdom. Good shepherds and kings provide, protect, and lead their sheep or people.

Sometimes in Scripture the kingdom names the realm or the territory of a king one/some might enter or from which one/some may be cast out (Matt 5:20; 7:21; 18:3; 23:13).

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. . . . The ever increasing glory of our transformation into the likeness of His Son comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

The work of God in His Son is nothing less than glorious! 2 Cor 3:17-18

When anyone gives you a gift of love, the best thing you can do is willingly and humbly receive it. God has given the greatest of gifts! It would please Him, if we would just be willing to receive His gifts! (Matt 5:14-16; Col 1:10-14)

Humility can seem as problematic as picking up mercury. If we will choose to hear the gospel message and believe it, humility will be a natural response to God's power and grace. Humility is required to find the blessing of the kingdom.

The Holy Spirit of God is a person of God. If we seek the purpose of God in His Son for our lives, then why would dismiss the purpose of God for His Spirit in our lives? We must not be ignorant of His Spirit within us!

Catching what God has done for us in Christ will help us understand the nature of the kingdom and the joy we can have from it (Mt 5; Ps 126).

We can trust the mercy of God toward us in His Son, like all God's redemptive activity; it is based on His Sovereign power and authority.

God is eternal. Therefore He is powerful and sovereign. His sovereignty is displayed in His story of redemption.

The kingdom is the purpose of God to bless those who will accept it. Holding to human expectations kept the Jews from understanding and most from accepting Him as King and so, from the blessings of His kingdom.

God has demonstrated His concern for man and His power to give life to the dead in the story of His Son.