22/09/2025
God's Kingdom: A Transformed World by Transformed PeopleEzekiel 36:27–28Ezekiel 36:27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. Ezekiel 36:28 Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God. The Millennial Kingdom will not just be peaceful because war ends, but because hearts are changed. No more hatred, greed, or deception.This transformation will be global. God’s own Spirit poured out upon all flesh. Upon all people who turn to God and repent and change (Joel 2:28).God’s people will finally reflect His character, living lives of compassion, honesty, and justice, by the character of God, expressed in God’s laws.This is essential for lasting peace, because only by changing hearts can God establish true peace and justice.Jesus Christ’s Government in the Kingdom of God will succeed where all human governments have previously failed, because God will do what no ruler could do, and that is to change the human heart.Conclusion: The Heart of the MatterWe long for a world of peace, justice, and righteousness. Ezekiel’s prophecy shows us how that world will come about, through a miraculous change in human nature, starting with repentance, baptism and receiving God’s own Holy Spirit by the laying on of handsThis is not only a prophecy of the future, but it is a preview of what God is doing now in His people, for those called into His Church today, and who repent and are baptised.As firstfruits, we are being given this “new heart and new spirit” in advance, so as to prepare to teach and shepherd others in the Kingdom of God for 1,000 years.Titus 3:5“not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, Let us deeply value the Spirit God, that He has already placed in us, when we were baptised.We look forward with great hope to the day whe