Thy Kingdom Come: A Blumhardt Reader - Plough

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we move farther and farther from God. Finally, the mass ofhumanity despairs of God and is hardly capable of thinkingof him at all; they do not know anymore who God is.Despite all their best efforts, this humanity does not achievea satisfying existence. One can offer them what one will,lay treasure and fortune at their feet; they devour them andremain as they were. That is the darkness.Do not imagine that people in darkness can be helpedthrough any earthly treasure or fortune. One can only intoxicatethem with money and excite them with innovations.There is tremendous activity and struggle for life in thedarkness. There always appears to be progress; yet, thingsalways remain as they were. Finally, all the aspirations ofpeople and all their works die again; it all turns into a heapof rubble. What is left of all the Egyptians who wished toeternalize themselves even in death? What is left of all theancient nations that had such a tremendous life in the darkness?There is nothing but ruin.Yet into this darkness in which men perceive the worldfrom their own perspective and in which they carry on theiraffairs, God sends his Son and suddenly introduces a verydifferent light, a different way of looking at things. We giveup everything as lost; he simply gives up nothing as lost.God loves the world; and the world is his. Just because wehave run around in the world foolishly for a time, that doesnot mean the world is lost.What then is the world? We are in the world; but we are1
not the world. The world is the creation of God, full of life.In this creation of God all things live—even the stones arealive. Nothing is dead, everything grows, everything develops;and in everything there is the power of life derived fromGod, a power demonstrating itself in a million ways, unseenand yet perceptible. A great portion of mankind is sighing;indeed, the whole world in which we live sighs for God, hasits life only from God—and we are part and parcel of thisworld.And now God sends his Son into the world as a man, sothat mankind might recognize his love for the world andmight love the world, too. In particular, we are to love theworld as God’s creation, not the world that the apostle speaksof when he says, “Do not love the world,” the world of sin.But what God created is loved by God; and it certainly is notgiven up merely because people become foolish and can nolonger help themselves in the darkness.God does not give up on the people, either—indeed, onthe people least of all. They are to be the children of the Fatherin heaven; and, as the first among the living creatures,they are to mediate the light of God to the world, for theworld is wretched as long as man is not prepared to carry thelight of God into it.Therefore, in the beginning, when man still belonged toGod, there was paradise. When man was no longer God’s,paradise ceased. When Jesus, the Son of God, came into theworld, there was paradise again. His coming constituted a17
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ABLUMHARDTREADERThy Kingdom ComeEDI
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No NonentitiesNo One Bad or Godless
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Everyone must concedethat the kingd
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the Blumhardts in their worship and
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me at it through the years. I am gr
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The two Blumhardts, Johann Christop
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it does not include a separate sect
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and His Message. Almost the first h
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een conquered and expelled.There is
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death in 1919.In time, the younger
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pa r T o n Eleonhard ragaz (1868-19
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worked directly from the Blumhardt
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a hereafter? The earth shall be fil
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To believe in God is easy; but to b
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T H E l i V i n G G o dWhat do i ca
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demonstrated—that God hurries for
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is awry with every person in the wo
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He is the glory of God upon earth a
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sented by research into the advent
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from Abraham to Jesus and the apost
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the coming of the light is a horror
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E d E M p T i o nT H E R E I s R E
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in God’s sight if it is dragging
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that finally, thou wilt create the
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If anyone remains stuck in the hist
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led me all along...But, you say, th
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to be wielded upon the whole unrigh
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it. Too strong a defense of prevail
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ness.” And to my own house I woul
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Jesus Christ and the glory that is
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its need; it has been held back for
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this cry lies our way to God and Go
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T H E H o ly s p i r i T a n d H i
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came new men. The heavens opened, a
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med and Confucius did in their life
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We want the life of Jesus Christ to
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With this, the kingdom of God is an
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note of this. To those servants “
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very important to me, because they
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God sends us all sorts of powers, a
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fortunately, there is in the darkne
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M a n K i n dg o D A N D M A N —
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He would have done it long ago, wit
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laborer. We always must bear in min
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never demands character references.
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L o V E A N D c o M M U N I T YWe m
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ated; there is a strong group spiri
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person who offends me, who does not
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ing about this or that and we join
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“the people” are saying; and so
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self be found where he does not wis
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that came from those through whom G
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when one believes that it does. Man
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T H E fa l l o f C H r i s T E n d
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and such a striving of the spirit,
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We have taken pains to emphasize th
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such “Christian” powers—which
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of God...We certainly will not be d
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it is wrong when Christendom allows
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T H E n E W aWa K E n i n G a n d T
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themselves sigh, weep, and yearn, s
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and afflictions our hearts are rous
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son should say that a father has no
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T H E L I T T L E f L o c kMeanwhil
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person he can let such glory radiat
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then it is a necessary part of just
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in heaven in building his kingdom o
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T H E I N V I s I B L E B AT T L E
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Today someone wrote to tell me that
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the going gets hot, we will remain
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W o r K , d i s a p p o i n i M E n
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ing. But if once you have experienc
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Away with this satan. If it becomes
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come is not restricted to this eart
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my distress, more is accomplished t
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T H E r i G H T G o dKnow therefore
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up again and say, “That is our Go
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