"They all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus." (Acts 17:7).

Behind all the utopian dreams of humankind is the innate universal longing for what the Bible calls 'the kingdom of God'. We recognize the need for God's love, truth and justice to be brought to bear on those situations that have gone wrong in history. Life is to be transformed under the kingly rule of God. Jesus announced that this kingly rule promised in the Old Testament had arrived when He read from the scroll of Isaiah: "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." (Luke 4:18-19). Jesus did not complete the reading of the passage, but announced "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." The remainder of the cited passage from Isaiah 61 will be fulfilled when Christ comes again. Then the voices in heaven shall declare: "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever." Now the promise of the kingdom is fulfilled 'in our hearing', that is, through 'the hearing of faith'.

The early Christians were described as those that were turning the world upside down (Acts 17:6 KJV). Actually they were involved in the process of turning it right side up by exposing it to the rule of God! They demonstrated that they served a greater king than Caesar. They served another king, Jesus.

When British news correspondent, journalist, and editor of Punch magazine, Malcolm Muggeridge resigned from his office at the University of Edinburgh, in protest of the University's posture in accommodating blatant immorality, he gave a memorable address to the faculty and student body titled, "I Serve another King".

"So I came back to where I began, to that other King, one Jesus; to the Christian notion that man's efforts to make himself personally and collectively happy in earthly terms are doomed to failure. He must indeed, as Christ said, be born again, be as a new man, or he is nothing. So at last I have concluded, having failed to find in past experience, present dilemmas or future expectations, any alternative proposition, as far as I am concerned, it is Christ or nothing."

Has your quest for the fulfillment of those innermost longings brought you to the same juncture? Have your eyes beheld the only true King worthy of full allegiance? Do you expect that mankind will defy all historical precedent and save itself from its own corruption by pulling a rabbit out of the hat in the eleventh hour? Or do you agree with the Biblical proposition found in the Book of Romans 3:23: "All have sinned and fall short of God's glorious ideal for living" ? The good news is that Jesus came to heal us "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5 NIV).

Receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken (Hebrews 12:28),