For this world in its present form is passing away. —1 Corinthians 7:31.
This often repeated theme in the New Testament is from Jesus’s lips and taught again by the apostle Paul. It should be a great reminder to us that we shouldn’t spend our lives working for what is only temporary. We must invest in Jesus and his Kingdom, for all other kingdoms, structures, nations, and powers will ultimately pass away and be gone forever. Only what we invest in Jesus and his Kingdom will endure!
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. —Romans 13:1.
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy—1 Peter 2:10. Excluded. Rejected.
I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his
