Opposition
Two Kingdoms
When I first began talking about two kingdoms, I found out that Martin Luther had a doctrine of two kingdoms. For him, the two kingdoms were the Church and civil government - each with its own sphere and methods; when each acts as it should, neither should ever have any conflict with the other. I am talking about two other kingdoms. When these kingdoms act according to their natures, they necessarily will be in conflict with each other. One is easy to name: God’s kingdom. In God’s kingdom, God’s will is done “on earth as it is in heaven.” God’s will is only good all the time. The other one is not so easy to name without offending people. I call it our fallen hearts in this fallen world. Language from another generation would call it “the world, the flesh and the Devil.” Our hearts are fallen because our first parents in the Garden of Eden chose a lie over the creator of the universe and the lover of our souls. The Apostle Paul tells us that their sin has been passed down to each and every one of us. Our world is fallen because, in the same act mentioned above, our first parents handed their right of dominion over this world, to the one they allowed to deceive them. He now has a dominion over the world that should be our dominion. Adam and Eve handed it over to him. We continue to hand it over to him every time we don’t choose God’s will to be done in
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