(Clip) Living For the Passing Age — Richard Owen Roberts

The Kingdoms of Darkness, Light, Death, and Life

Of God, the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light, the kingdom that is temporal and passing and the kingdom that is eternal and will not ever fade away, the kingdom of death, the kingdom of life.

True Faith and Allegiance to God's Kingdom

When a person has true faith, the kingdom of God becomes more consequential to them than the kingdom of this world. Their decisions are radically affected by the kingdom of life. They are able to resist the kingdom of darkness.

Living for Eternal Things Rather Than the Passing World

They will not waste their life giving themselves over to that which is passing. They focus upon that which is eternal. A vast percentage of those who think they have faith do not have these facts in focus.

Facts in Focus and Active Obedience

The way they live every day proves that they're much more affected by the here and the now than they are by the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Every one of us owes it to our own soul to be sure that we have the facts in focus.

But the things that we can taste and touch and smell and hear are not nearly as consequential as the things that are unseen and hoped for. F, facts in focus. A, active, obedient. You see, in much of the church today, faith is not active but passive.

The Inadequacy of Mere Intellectual Belief

There are multitudes who honestly think they're Christians because they accept the fact that there is a God. They accept the fact that God has an only begotten Son. That this only begotten Son came to earth and performed mighty miracles and taught as no man ever taught.

They are sure that the Son of God was crucified, buried, and that He rose again. They are absolute in their mind that Christ reigns forever and ever and ever. Multitudes last Sunday were rejoicing in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.