the subject of the king himself, i would like to say something about how the kingdom has become established. you might say it has always been established. it has come from heaven, from a place where there is nothing to overcome; there is no victory to secure. but in a practical sense, the sense in which we may now take it up and enter into it, the kingdom is presented to us in the light of this great truth, that the lord jesus has died. it may be a little new to some people if i say that, but the kingdom practically in the operation of it - and certainly 