"ALL THESE DIED IN FAITH!"
Martin Luther
Mother Teresa 
Hudson Taylor 
Florence Nightingale
John Wycliffe 
William Branham 
David Berg
Joan of Arc
Grigori Rasputin 
Francis of Assisi 
William Booth 
Billy Graham
David Brainert
Mary Slessor
John Bunyan
William Carey
Charles Spurgeon
David Livingstone
Fanny Crosby
Billy Sunday
Menno Simmons
Paul Rader
Robert Moffat
Georg Müller
Zwingli
Adoniram Judson
William Tyndale
Johannes Huss If you would like to join the ranks of these Saints, then click here for an initiation into the Kingdom of God! | Beloved, Jesus was not kidding when He said that He would make you ruler over many cities! You are going to literally rule and reign with Him over all the Earth! It will be a perfect Kingdom, a perfect government, with perfect officers--you! You're going to run it! You want to be a policeman?--You want to be a governor?--You want to be a judge? All kinds of jobs are wide open! You want to be a king? God's Word says that He's the King of kings, so you can be one of His kings! You can rule a city or a whole country or a whole continent, whatever you are capable of ruling, according to the training you've already had and according to your faithfulness and your loyalty to God while you were here! WANNA BE A GOVERNOR?
 Jesus said that he that was faithful in just a few things would be made ruler over many things! You want to run the World? Well, be faithful unto death and He'll give you a crown and you'll be one of His kings! The Bible says so! (Rev.2:10.) For "he that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much.--Because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities!"--Or, "be thou over five cities!" (Lk.16:10; 19:17,19.) We're going to rule literal, Earthly, down-to-Earth, Worldly cities and countries, nations and continents, and train human, physical, down-to-Earth people just like you and I are now!
We will be dispersed throughout the World, each of us ruling over a certain portion and people of the Earth, over the unsaved who were left behind during the Rapture. Some will rule over one city, some will rule over five cities, and some over ten cities!--It's all going to be very literal. You are literally going to rule over cities and countries and peoples.--Think of that! Wow! SOME WILL SHINE BUT SOME WILL SHAME
Now some Christians who didn't accomplish very much for the Lord in this life and weren't faithful and never witnessed, maybe they'll only be a block warden in the next life--they may only have control of one block of a city or part of its Main Street or something. Because they weren't very responsible for their fellow man during this present age--they didn't show much concern about him, they didn't care whether he got saved or not, they didn't witness, they didn't preach the Gospel--God certainly is not going to give them much responsibility during the Millennium either!
But who knows, maybe the Lord will mercifully give some Christians a little opportunity to redeem themselves during the Millennium for what they failed to do during this age of grace.--I hope so! Because there are going to be millions of Christians who are going to be awfully ashamed--and for whom you're going to feel an awful lot of contempt--who never did a damn thing to reach the heathen or preach the Gospel or save the lost or help others! So I hope they have another chance to do then what they failed to do here.--Otherwise some are going to be one Hell of a mess! HELP FROM PAST GENERATIONS OF SAINTS
In fact, God has so few Christians who are really dedicated and consecrated and who really love him and are concerned about the way He wants things, that I'm sure He will probably have a little difficulty picking out enough people to fill all the jobs there! He's probably going to have to draw a good deal on some of the past Christians, those who have gone on before. Don't forget, we won't be the only ones who get caught up in the Rapture, we're not the only ones going to Heaven!--There are millions of Christians from past generations who will be there with us!
We're going to have the help of all the saints of God who have already gone on and who know a lot more about things than we do! They will have had months, years, centuries, thousands of years in Heaven with the Lord!--Think how much they will have learned by that time! You think you're going to be the top dogs?--Don't kid yourselves! There are lots of our brethren who have already gone on who are going to know a lot more than you and I and will be able to tell us what to do! ALL KINDS OF GRADES OF CHRISTIANS
And as we brought out in our lesson on the Marriage Supper and the judgement seat of Christ, there are going to be all kinds of grades and classes and levels of Christians! I'm sure the great Patriarchs and Prophets and Apostles and heroes of the Bible and of History, who were so faithful to the Lord in this life, will be trusted with a lot of responsibility in the next life! And exactly where down the line each of us is going to be will depend largely upon how faithful we are to Him and the job He's given each of us to do here and now!
In fact, this is the whole purpose of life: to prepare us for the next life, when in the Millennium we are going to have to learn how to run the whole World! We are now in our training period in this life in preparation for ruling the World in the next! And if we don't pass the tests and complete the grades and learn the lessons He's trying to teach us in this life, we shall certainly be unfit to rule in the next and shall surely be the least of all in the coming Kingdom of God on Earth, raised to everlasting shame and contempt before all! (Dan.12:2.) GOD'S TRULY GREATS TODAY WILL BE GREAT TOMORROW
We are now in training for the days when we will rule the Earth!--But before we can do that, we must first learn to rule ourselves. So God is now causing us, in a sense, to practice for what is going to be the real thing, and how we succeed in the present is largely going to determine how we succeed in the future.
This is confirmed in the Word by the story Jesus told about the talents. (See Mt.25:14-30.) Those who are now obeying the Lord, doing His Will, investing all their talents wisely for His glory and showing wisdom here and now on Earth, are going to be the future rulers of the Kingdom. Who else would God choose to rule His Kingdom but those men and women who have proven themselves worthy down through the ages, since the beginning?--The faithful servants of God today are going to share the rulership of the Kingdom with all the other greats of God of the past!
God's greats of the future are going to be the same as his greats of the past! The truly great men and women of God--some unknown to us, perhaps, since History didn't recognise and record them all--are going to continue to be great in the future, including all of us today who are giving our all and doing our best for Jesus and others!--PTL! Are you? EVERYTHING YOU LEARN HERE AND NOW WILL BE USEFUL THERE AND THEN!
But some people have strange ideas about the future World: "Oh, I'm going to know everything then, speak any language, be able to do anything!" Some flippant Church people imagine that they're going to suddenly be catapulted into great positions of rulership and responsibility, even though they're doing nothing for Him now!--Well, I'm afraid that's not how it's going to be! God is going to take the talents that He's already given you and that you have already developed and used and profited by, He's going to take the knowledge you have already learned, He's going to take the experiences you have already been through, He's going to take the languages you already know, and use them!
Your knowledge is not just going to be handed to you on a silver platter after you die or after the Resurrection! We're not going to suddenly receive some gift of absolute total omniscience so that we know everything like God--not even the angels have that! I believe we are going to carry our experiences with us from this life over into the next life!--In fact, I am convinced of it! I cannot just say I believe it!--I know it from the Bible and my experiences and others' afterdeath experiences and just common sense and logic!
 God is going to use the experience, the talents, the languages that you now know, as well as the supernatural divine wisdom and the miraculous powers that He will give you. But in many ways you're still going to be very much like you are right now! And everything the Lord has ever taught you during this life and the things that you are learning now are going to come in very handy then.--Just like God had to send Jesus to become a man to understand us, He's going to raise up many generations of Christians who understand this World and its people to run and govern them the way they ought to be governed.
So remember, everything you're learning now and doing now and decisions you're making now and experiences you're having now are a part of your schooling and training here and now to be used there and then!--Otherwise it would be a total waste of time, except for what little we accomplish here, which isn't very much, comparatively speaking. So for God's sake, let's learn our lessons today and learn to be faithful, obedient, dedicated servants now, so He can trust and bless us with a place of usefulness to Him and others tomorrow! Amen? PTL! All texts in these light blue and light green fields were written by David Brandt Berg, (1919-1995) the late founder of the International Missionary Movement "The Family" If you would like to know more about this extraordinary man click on their website link. The Family
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