The believer enters the Kingdom of God through the new birth, where God’s will is supreme. The life of every loyal subject is lived wholly in the will of God. The government of God has spiritual laws that operate beneficently for the well-being of both the individual and society in every department of life. Wherever these laws are implicitly obeyed, there the will of God is done on earth as in heaven, and peace, rest, and unity prevail. Through the new birth, the believer enters the family of God, where the Father’s will is supreme. The life of every filial child is lived wholly in the will of the Father.

Self-will is the cornerstone upon which Satan’s kingdom is built, and he constantly tempts the Christian to disobey. No man, in his own strength, can resist. Only one Man has ever wholly resisted it and refused Satan’s control over His will. As Head of the new creation, He is the absolute Lord in the new sphere.

By virtue of entering that sphere, every believer acknowledges Christ Jesus as Lord of his life and accepts the will of God as his rule of life. When Christ is thus crowned as Lord, then his responsibility is to keep the believer from falling and to enable him to resist every temptation of Satan.

John 13:13

“Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.”

Romans 14:8-9

“For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.”

To many Christians, the most challenging thing they must do is to consent willingly to the Lordship of Jesus Christ over their whole being. They are reluctant to admit the necessity of the absolute dethronement of “the old man” and the perfect enthronement of the Lord Jesus. As someone has very aptly said, “I was quite willing that Jesus Christ should be King, so long as He allowed me to be Prime Minister.” But Christ shares His Lordship with no one, and unless “He is Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.” 

But the perfection of God’s grace meets even this weakness and inability in us in His gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit, who enables us by His inward working to crown Christ, Lord.

Thus, Christ Jesus establishes His throne at the very center of the new creation and, from there, rules to the circumference of the believer’s being. He becomes Lord of all.

Source: “Life on the Highest Plane” by Ruth Paxson 

Lord, thank You for never surrendering to Satan’s control.