Our paragraph topic is: (He tells them of trials and hard times to come) Part 11.
And now Christ makes a proclamation about what shall be known throughout the whole world. His disciples need to know what their tasks are, what their jobs will be when he is gone. They are the original ones, the original witnesses, the ones who will spread the message and lay the foundation upon which he is the cornerstone. They will spread the message of the gospel of the kingdom to all.
Very few knew of the kingdom. Those who knew did not spread that message, it was a knowledge kept to themselves. The kingdom of heaven was not known to the people. It was not spoken of in the synagogues, or read in the Sunday readings. Christ came and brought the message to the people. He came and gave them hope, faith in the one true God not the idols that were worshiped in those times.
He came and demonstrated with great power who he was and who he represented, the likes of whom the people had not seen before. But the rulers did not believe. They were afraid they would loose their power over the people. They had to rid themselves of this Christ. So they crucified him and hung him on a cross for all to see. And in true power and majesty God, the one true God, raised him from the dead that all may know. Now he sits at the right hand of the almighty Father in the kingdom. And Christ told his disciples: "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world."
And so it is today that the whole world knows of the kingdom of heaven that is preached in the gospel and the proclamation made some two thousand years ago is true today.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage nd then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
