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God's Kingdom today is a real

1.God's Kingdom today is a real
exercise,
But when Christ comes to reign it will
be a great prize;
It is wisdom divine that we now may
be trained
That His plan be fulfilled and His
justice maintained.
2.God's children, we're born to be kings
with His Son,
And we need to be trained that we may
overcome
And to know how to rule in His
kingdom as kings,
That His kingship thru us be expressed
o'er all things.
3.Today we must learn to submit to His
throne,
How to have a strict life and His
government own;
His authority then we'll be able to
share,
O'er the nations to rule with God's Son
as the heir.
4.With a life strict to self we must
righteousness hold,
Kind to others in peace, and with God
joyful, bold;
In the Kingdom's reality e'er to
remain,
For its manifestation prepared thus to
reign.
5.Then Christ when He come with the
kingdom from God
Will to us grant His kingship to share
as reward;
Thus the Lord will His righteousness
thru us maintain
And His wisdom to heavenly powers
make plain.
6.For this the Apostle pressed on at all
cost,
For the Kingdom assured the he would
not be lost;
'Tis for this he charged other, Be true
to the Lord,
That the Kingdom might be to them a
reward.
7.O Lord, give us grace for Thy
Kingdom to live,
To be trained that Thou may the reward
to us give;
Make the Kingdom's reality our
exercise,
That its manifestation may be our great
prize.