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In this volume, A. T. Robertson reflects on the issues and challenges facing the church in the early twentieth century—the years of war, economic turmoil, the relationship between church and state, patriotism and pacifism. He explores the implication of Christ’s kingdom with regard to each challenge the church faces, and suggests possibilities for engaging complex issues. The posture and approach...

said for most of these ideas. No one of them exhausts the uses of the phrase in the New Testament. 1. Personal Righteousness This is the first result, the sine qua non of human progress. “But seek ye first his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matt. 6:33). The first thing in the program of the individual life must be the reign of God in the heart. This makes possible personal goodness after the pattern of God’s own standard. This is the summum bonum, the
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