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A. The Sovereignty of God



Philippians 2:9-11



Already the kingdom of God has come upon us and it gose toward its completion, as God's saying in Matthew 12:28



The kingdom of God is the nation where all things kneel down to God.



I. The Theory of the Sovereignty



The core of our party's theory of sovereignty is `sovereignty within God but entrusted to the humanbeings by God'. God has the sovereignty but it is entrusred to us by God and when it is not suitable to God's wish then it would be withdrawn by Him,



1. The Theory of Sovereignty of God's Possesion.



Our concept of sovereignty is based on the faith that the sovereign power is possessed by only God. In John 1:3 So only God who created all things and is Jesus has the sovereignty as the master's right of all kinds of things of the world.

In Philippians 2:9-11



In 1 Samuel chapter 8 tells us clearly about the reduced political meanings that of God Himself's sovereignty. And Saul was chosen as a king, after he was disposed when he had challenged to God, then David was chosen as a king again.

David's theory of Monarchism was expressed well in Psalms 145:1 Under the monarchism David was a king himself however he calls God as the king. It is not possible being two kings in one nation. David knew well that only God is the king but he was never. He confessed in Psalms 145:13 Even though he was a king, he understood a viewpoint that of God as the king.

Like people praised and blessed the king, they did do same toward God. They praised God's enormous. They praised the Lord's works as the king who doing God's usings and governings, and His abilities also.

Like this both God and the king agree God's supreme power of the rule.



What about in the democratic system?

Because all things were created by God, this principle can not be changed. In John Locke's(English) `Two Treatises of Government' agrees this viewpoint which has the basic idea of the process of the democratic system's formation.











2. The Theory of the Entrusted Sovereignty to the Humanbeing by God



Before appearing the king as men, God did not have an idea that sovereign power

and king's power were given by Him. Especially in Israel, God tried to actualize this compare to another fallen foreign nations diffrently. But in Samuel era, God was given up His right by the Israel people's earnest request. Finally the mornachism was introuduced, and owing to this system they entered and walked to the shortcut of the ruin. This system continued to the Middle Ages and appearing of the bourgeoisie the king's power was transferd again to the citizens themselves.



In this processing John Locke suggested 'The Theory of the Sovereignty of Rulled by the Citizens' in opposition to"The Theory of the King's Sovereignty of Received by God'. Agaist the king who depriving and restricting the inherent right that was given by God, he demonstrated that the citizens could protect their lives and properties themselves from the king's rule.

Gradually the bound of the citizen had expanded to labors and women and became lke a democratic system of this modern time.

Still the sovereignty belongs to God only it shows an entrusted shape that has transferd from the king to the citizen who just the peopl. But this entrusted right could be withdrawn by the original owner.



Like king Saul's power was withdrawn by the real owner also the prople's could be withdrawn by Him both of who have the entrusted right. It will be come through the history by God who has led nations' rehabilitations and extinctions. This direct source of the rehabilitation and extinction depends on whether the people have the righteousness or not who are entrusted in the sovereignty as political authorities

God judges the people with this.

In Zephaniah Chapter 2 shows well how God changes each nation's history through His righteousness.
Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD'S anger. >

The punishments of the neighboring countries of Israel.


Woe to you who live by the sea, O Kerethite people; the word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines. "I will destroy you, and none will be left."

The land by the sea, where the Kerethites dwell, will be a place for shepherds and sheep pens.

It will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; there they will find pasture. In the evening they will lie down in the houses of Ashkelon. The LORD their God will care for them; he will restore their fortunes.

"I have heard the insults of Moab and the taunts of the Ammonites, who insulted my people and made threats against their land.

Therefore, as surely as I live," declares the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, "surely Moab will become like Sodom, the Ammonites like Gomorrah--a place of weeds and salt pits, a wasteland forever. The remnant of my people will plunder them; the survivors of my nation will inherit their land."

This is what they will get in return for their pride, for insulting and mocking the people of the LORD Almighty.

The LORD will be awesome to them when he destroys all the gods of the land. The nations on every shore will worship him, every one in its own land.

"You too, O Cushites, will be slain by my sword."

He will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, leaving Nineveh utterly desolate and dry as the desert.

Flocks and herds will lie down there, creatures of every kind. The desert owl and the screech owl will roost on her columns. Their calls will echo through the windows, rubble will be in the doorways, the beams of cedar will be exposed.

This is the carefree city that lived in safety. She said to herself, "I am, and there is none besides me." What a ruin she has become, a lair for wild beasts! All who pass by her scoff and shake their fists.>



In Amos 9:8, says this principle more correctly.

<"Surely the eyes of the Sovereign LORD are on the sinful kingdom. I will destroy it from the face of the earth--yet I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob," declares the LORD.>



Like this God is the sovereign of all nature's creatures and that of all political rights also.



B. The people as One Body



All lives are one body in our Lord Jesus Christ.

In Ephesians 3:6



The man Adam who was created by God as His shape, he did not follow God's wish then he was expelled from Eden. But the second Adam our Lord had come to us and was crucified on the cross taking charge of our all sins, and He made us as the adoptees of God again.

Jesus says in Matthew 12:50

The people who have recieved the Good News and live with it and with following God's wish but not with their wishes, what is called they are brothers, sisters and mothers of Jesus.

Jesus is our family. It has the meaning of one body.



The people who left from God devote their all energies to love themselves. And the people who are a little better than them they devote their all attentions to love their families. This figure are seen well among the people who belive God very eagerly.

Our Lord declares that brothers, sisters and mothers of Jesus are His people only who perform and follow God's wish. We also need to have an exapnded mind about the concept of the family.

The origin of all humanraces' troubles is coming from without this concept of the family, so speak to they do not have the concept of one family in God on the contray they discriminate the people depending on the ground of their races, regions, tongues and nationalities. All efforts of our lives are not to do for only our regions, nations, peoples and races. This is to do for the Kingdom of God, for His people who are in one family in God and furthermore for the all created things by God.

Because all are in a family we have to fill each other's needs. So it is a kind of the crime that some special people occupy the capital and inherit them only their specified sons and daughters.

Whether the eldest son or second son likely they have the equal right, because they are in one family and in one body in God so they could be share all things.



As we see in this point that we are to be known well about the capitalism which based on the new liberlalistic economy is how sinful it.





C. The Living Belife



The redemption work of the Kingdom of God should be done through all territory of life.



In Luke 4:18,19 <"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.">



Our Lord had come down to this land without any place where put His head on, and lived under the same roof with people moving a trip to and from. He gave energies to the poor, the patient, the wanderer. But as the disciples of God, if we do not live like Jesus Christ we could not be His disciples.



The living life is called a shape that of living like Jesus.



In James 2:14-26, it reveals well about showing the belief how to actualrize it in our livings.


Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food

If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?

In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds." Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.

You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that--and shudder.

You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless?

Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?

You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called God's friend.

You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.

In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.>



We who are salvaged and obtained our lives by God without payment, it is rightful that we shoud give our's and love brothers , sisters like our bodies and people being one body who have become as our family in God.



If we do not have like this love, it shows the evidence and sign that we do not have the belife.

Our redemption is received by only the belief. But people who have the real belife, they do behave with love surely.

When a dog drops a pup, this will become a dog. When a humanbeing gives a birth to a baby, this will become a humanbeing.



A man who was born again by the blood of Jesus, by all means he is resembled to Jesus.





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