CHAPTER 10

POSSIBILITY OF REACHING THE KINGDOM

We must go on to show that man can reach that kingdom. Otherwise it would be hoped for and prayed for in vain. In the first place, the divine promise makes this possibility clear. Our Lord says, in Luke 12:32: "Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom." God's good pleasure is efficacious in carrying out all that He plans, according to Isaias 46:10: "My counsel shall stand, and all My will shall be done." For, as we read in Romans 9:19: "Who resisteth His will?" Secondly, an evident example shows that attainment of the kingdom is possible.

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