Upon the death of his mother, Elizabeth II, on September 8, 2022, Charles III became King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms.

Despite all the press coverage of the pageantry and prestige surrounding the United Kingdom’s new king, the truth is King Charles reigns but doesn’t rule! The UK prime minister and parliament are the real rulers. In general, King Charles is only a figurehead.

However, this is not true with our King Jesus. His kingdom has been established and is being extended to the ends of the earth. He reigns and rules now, by his Spirit, through his people, according to his Word.

Opening the synoptic gospels, we discover that Jesus came preaching a particular message to the people of His generation. The gospel writers refer to it as "the Gospel of the Kingdom." The Good News that Jesus announced had as its focus an objective reality which the New Testament refers to as the Kingdom of God. What is that?

The Kingdom of God is the divine rule which Jesus came to bring into the affairs of men. It is an administration of righteousness, peace, and joy which we may enter by the Holy Spirit, through the new birth which comes by grace through faith. The Kingdom of God centers on Jesus, who is it’s King, and on His call to follow Him in a life self-denying service to the glory of God. To enter this Kingdom is to be born again to a life set apart for God, characterized by obedience to the Word of God. The essential nature of the kingdom of God is divine power, wrapped in love, directed toward reconciliation of man to God, of righteousness, peace, and joy, displacing the rule and ruin of the demonic.

The Gospel of the Kingdom is not, in the first instance, about you and me going to heaven when we die. It is about the Kingdom of God, first and foremost - about a new reality that has broken into human experience with irresistible, transforming power, making all things new and bringing the knowledge of the glory of God to light in the sight of all men and nations.

T.M. Moore is on target as he declares: “We have exchanged the glorious promise of the Kingdom of God for a pottage of personal peace, salvation smugness, and cold indifference to the eternal plan and counsel of God.

“We are in danger, I believe, of having embraced, not the Gospel Jesus and the Apostles proclaimed, and for which our forebears in the faith lived and died, but another gospel, a shallow, self-centered, merely sentimental gospel, which "assures" us of heaven but does not equip us for the Kingdom of God.

“Jesus declared the arrival of a new era, heralded and brought near by a new King, featuring a new agenda, a new power, and a new hope for the world. His message astonished the crowds, alarmed the powers-that-be, amazed and transformed His followers, and set in motion a new course for the history of men and events.”

The gospel of the kingdom of heaven is the greatest truth ever to break forth into space time history! As the gospel of the kingdom breaks forth, it will do three great works, teaching, preaching, and healing. Therefore, we must recovery it’s truth and confidently declare it to see Father’s will done on earth as it is in heaven.

George McKinney enlarges on these three works:

“The gospel teaches. It arrests prevailing moral errors, long-standing, long-grown and closely grown moral misconceptions about God, man and society. The gospel teaches eternal, unchanging truths. It offers positive truth about brotherhood, justice, righteousness and peace. It explains life, truth and meaning. The gospel satisfies the hunger of the mind for truth.

“The gospel preaches. It proclaims unique good news. It announces the gospel of the kingdom. This kingdom is both now and not yet. It is here and it is coming. It is now in the heart of every believer. It is not yet to those who have not received Jesus Christ as Lord. It is here for those who are "born again." It is coming to those who will hear and believe the gospel that we preach. This gospel of the kingdom must be preached. The King, Jesus Christ, commands us to preach (Mk 16:15). Our sinful condition demands that we preach. Belief in the gospel satisfies the longing of the soul to enter the kingdom of God.

“The gospel heals. We see that the gospel does not deny the reality of the material or physical. Jesus healed the diseased because God is concerned about us as human beings. The gospel recognizes that the body is wonderfully and fearfully made; God in creation bestowed dignity and worth on the body. Therefore, he desires its health, comfort and well-being. The good news in Jesus brings substantial healing to the body now.”

The challenge we face is to be doers of the gospel, not just speakers only. As doers of the gospel, we are in the unique position of proclaiming and handling the only Word of life.

We know that restless revolutionaries, whether in Central or South America or elsewhere, need more than political freedom and liberation from oppression. They need more urgently spiritual freedom and peace with God through a new birth.

We know that the cry from the starving millions in Africa, India and the slums of American cities and Appalachia is not just a cry for bread. It is a cry for the Bread of Life.

We know that the greatest need of those inhabitants in so-called underprivileged areas is not the need for Western technology and a Western cultural transplant. Rather, it is the need for the transforming power of the gospel that creates a new humanity.

The gospel of God, the gospel of the Kingdom, is the only word of faith and hope in our trouble-fractured world.

The kingdom has broken into time and is breaking forth in power and glory and those who are in and know it are breaking forth into greater freedom, fruitfulness, peace, power, and green pastures of prosperity!

Bondage is broken, the captives set free, those overcome with boredom and no sense of destiny can know true identity and significance and destiny as King’s Kids in Training for Reigning! He has given us an awesome reason to live!

Break forth kingdom of heaven until the promises of the Bible come to past! Promises like, "the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea" (Is. 11:9). "All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before You" (Ps. 22:27). "All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and shall glorify Your name" (Ps. 86:9). "He shall speak peace to the nations; His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth" (Zech 9:10).

Father, we pray “thy kingdom come” in an ever-increasing way to break out, to make a breach, break away, down, forth, in, up, burst out, come (spread) abroad, compel, disperse, grow, increase, open, press, and scatter so that your will is done on earth, even as it is being done in Heaven!