Heralds Digest

“Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”” ‭‭Luke‬ ‭17:20-21‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://www.bible.com/114/luk.17.20-21.nkjv When the Pharisees expressed their concern about the commencement of the kingdom of God, it was obvious that they could not see the King of the kingdom in the Lord Jesus Christ. They held firmly to the promises of the coming Messiah without holding faith in the power of Christ the Messiah. It is possible for the mind and the body to be obsessed with religious observations without the intimate connection of the soul and the spirit with the righteous God for divine manifestation. Therefore, the Saviour responded to the Pharisees’ concern by saying “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom ...

“Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”” ‭‭Luke‬ ‭17:12-13‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://www.bible.com/114/luk.17.12-13.nkjv Like the experiences of the ten leper’s before their encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ, man often found himself in situations where their relevance in the scheme of things and among the people appear uncertain and unclean. Even as the exact location of the ten lepers was either unknown or unimportant, they knew that their final hope in life could only be the mercy of Master Jesus. When a man has a ‘leprous effect’ experiences at home, workplaces, and among the people in the society, his relevance and opinion would not always count - because those opinions are regarded as “uncertain, unclean”. Many times, the ‘strange man’ would struggle and pick offences with fellow men, claiming racism, discrimination, marginalization, injustice; or se...