Thy Kingdom Come: A Blumhardt Reader - Plough

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C o n T E n T sPrefaceIntroduction812PA R T o N EThe Kingdom of God Is for EarthThe Living GodFrom Creation through Deterioration to RestorationJesus ChristRedemptionThere Is RedemptionThe Redemption of the BodyPolitical RedemptionSocial RedemptionRedemption from DeathRedemption from EvilRedemption from LawRedemption from SufferingContinuing RedemptionThe Holy Sprirt and His GiftsThe Living ChristThe Coming of ChristThe Spirit WorldFanaticism and IrrationalityMankindGod and Man-—Humanity’s Becoming HumanOf the Greatness, Freedom, and Glory of Man26313436454545485159616364666770748084858587
No NonentitiesNo One Bad or GodlessLove and CommunityGodly HumannessThe New RevelationThe BibleThe Fall of ChristendomFrom the Spirit to the LetterThe DenialFrom the Kingdom of God to “Religion”The ChurchProtestantism and CatholicismThe New Awakening and the Blumhardts’Concept of HopeHow Does the Kingdom of God Come?Gift and Task; Waiting and WorkingThe Little FlockThe People of God and the Service of GodThe Zion of GodThe Invisible BattlefieldBad Boll, a Zion of GodThe Human VisionWork, Disappointment, and FulfillmentDanger of DegeneracyBeing Quiet or Quietism?Freedom or Formula?Hearts or Heads?90919399102104109109109110116119121121126126129133135137138140143145145147149
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Page 13 and 14: The two Blumhardts, Johann Christop
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Page 29 and 30: To believe in God is easy; but to b
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Page 47 and 48: in God’s sight if it is dragging
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Page 51 and 52: If anyone remains stuck in the hist
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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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d a n G E r o f d E G E n E r a C y
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attle. A soldier has peace when the
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Jesus wants a people who will bring
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emembering particular principles of
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I rejoice that, in his earnestness,
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C o n C l U s i o nWe in the final
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Regehr arranged his selections in t
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person knows whom he can count on c
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sent by the Father and born a man a
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with all flesh “Jesus,” then sa
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grasp it with the hands...Only the
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year. And though one generation aft
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very different from that which this
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equest. When we stand at the border
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i n T H E r E T U r n o f J E s U s
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Savior, and if your heart persisten
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help us; may God help us that we mi
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will bring his decisive help.For th
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and faithfulness” (Ex. 34:6).And
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and others are not waiting with us,
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s Ta n d i n G b E f o r E T H E s
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wards. Our theology is moving down
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dens, who suffer, who are feeble, i
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(which will be audible in the world
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me, then, although I may be the cle
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G o d s o l o V E d T H E W o r l d
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not the world. The world is the cre
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has engulfed us until now and whose
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Many try in their wretchedness to c
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eveal ourselves; and the love separ
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W H o f o r G i V E s a l l y o U r
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power, as if we could say, ‘Till
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T r U E r E p E n Ta n C EHe also t
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strength of Israel, those through w
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it into mine.”...Do you willingly
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T H E p o o rThe Lord does not forg
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him so that he can join the ranks o
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erty of the world is so great and t
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I must bring them also...” (Jn. 1
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But people who should be pillars wa
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devils! Now they are the lowly ones
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you, nations in exchange for your l
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giving word of God which can create
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you like. You may found a society w
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to say: “It doesn’t matter even
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posed; and these things cannot occu
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Therefore, we do not really have to
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I am saying this only to make you c
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n E V E r T H E l E s s i W i l l H
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who acts, out of whose deeds a peop
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pering. It is as though he had been
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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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