"The Kingdom of God is not a state of affairs brought about by human achievement, nor is it the culmination of strenuous human effort. The kingdom is established by God’s sovereign grace, and its blessings are to be received as gifts of that grace. Man’s duty is not to bring the kingdom into existence, but to enter into it by faith, and to pray that he may be enabled more and more to submit himself to the beneficent rule of God in every area of his life. The kingdom is not man’s upward climb to perfection but God’s breaking into human history to establish his reign and to advance his purposes."
by Anthony A. Hoekema, The Bible and the Future, (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company), 45.
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- "I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me -- the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace." Acts 20:24
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