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Discipleship a Story of Two Kingdoms
William MacDonald

William MacDonald (1917 - 2007). American Bible teacher, author, and preacher born in Leominster, Massachusetts. Raised in a Scottish Presbyterian family, he graduated from Harvard Business School with an MBA in 1940, served as a Marine officer in World War II, and worked as a banker before committing to ministry in 1947. Joining the Plymouth Brethren, he taught at Emmaus Bible School in Illinois, becoming president from 1959 to 1965. MacDonald authored over 80 books, including the bestselling Believer’s Bible Commentary (1995), translated into 17 languages, and True Discipleship. In 1964, he co-founded Discipleship Intern Training Program in California, mentoring young believers. Known for simple, Christ-centered teaching, he spoke at conferences across North America and Asia, advocating radical devotion over materialism. Married to Winnifred Foster in 1941, they had two sons. His radio program Guidelines for Living reached thousands, and his writings, widely online, emphasize New Testament church principles. MacDonald’s frugal lifestyle reflected his call to sacrificial faith.
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In this sermon, the speaker emphasizes the importance of discipleship and the need to transition from the kingdom of this world to the kingdom of God's dear son. He highlights the negative influence of the world on our thinking and lifestyle, particularly through media bombardment. The speaker contrasts the methods of the world, such as competition, graft, and bribery, with the wisdom of cooperation and righteousness found in the kingdom of God. He also emphasizes the importance of finding true pleasure in the presence of the Lord rather than seeking it in worldly entertainment. Overall, the sermon encourages listeners to be committed disciples who are willing to separate themselves from the ways of the world and align themselves with God's kingdom.
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Well, the rest of you were singing that second hymn I was singing, Lord, plant my feet on lower ground. That's where I am. Ken's going to have the platform this afternoon. With you, it's, uh, we might entitle it, about the kingdom of the Son of God's love. I think you and I, uh, by the world, we have multi, uh, million-dollar day and night. And our thinking can become more even. And in the pathway, a transition and the kingdom, Satan is called 16, verse 11, and verse 4, and he's called the and verse 9, and we in him, Jesus Christ, uh, we're here today that, um, of the kingdom. The sphere in which every unconvert of the kingdom of the man be born again. He cannot see or enter the kingdom of God. And, uh, we do not seek a home in that which gave him. Believers are in the world. Believers back Lord Jesus in death and burial. He's severing his ties. He's taking himself off and in commitment to do love 15 and 16. We're cautioned in 1 John 2, the same verses 15 and 16 love. Neither the things that are in the world is not in him for the way and the lust thereof, but he that do with the will of God non-conflicts its mold. And Philip's translation of Romans chapter 2. Uh, we are in an adversary 15, and, uh, and our and, uh, kingdom, and we're taught very for the Savior, the Lord Jesus, who will take these bodies of ours. Those of the, um, what do you mean by our of us here? Uh, in our audience this afternoon to and first Christian to go through the world and use this. And I think it up a religious system and glorify and Savior to him without the camp bearing his reproach separation to the Lord. Then there's a world of and music et cetera. And, uh, what should my attitude be? Should I allow this to be a dominant theme in my life? 17 and opportunity. And so what did he do? Did he take the gray line tour? Well, I don't realize. I don't read that he did. And he went up to Mars Hill and test of 1611. And if I write hand there are pleasures where it's really found. And that is in the present. The existing means the word hope. If he could just get, if he could get a man is with the kingdom of our kingdom. And therefore, two or three hundred men who didn't men could only say that came into this world. Let this mind be in you, which was all an Epaphrodite attitude. He lived and he was afraid. We have that idea that we have to save our lives. Don't we have to come every and inconvenience and discomfort You do it. Nervous, ethically in Luke chapter 20. But he says in it, isn't it wonderful to think of and is, uh, love and is great. And we really have to get ourselves emptying. Began to get a hope and, uh, discomstances so the hymns where thieves break through and steal, where thieves don't break. The man who esteems Thanksgiving. When you make a feast, don't invite those who can invite you again. Invite the people living this kind of a life that we find it easy. We're missing the point persecution. No question. He won't get away but, uh, evil. But the kingdom of God says not the same pay at the end of the day and bribery 14 and first as the kingdom. I'm not that all of the others weapons, not carnal, but mighty through God to the weapon of man is to omnipotent, so much more immediate, don't they? Especially perhaps the young people. But I'll tell you if you see things the way God sees them investing our life, eternity, the textbook to friends, but to enemies as ten boom seem practical examples of that in camps there and concentration camps and nothing but love. But anyway, people are what men will do with her and Christians to what really counts to the incorruptible mind. When will our eyes ever be open to see the wealthy, the proud, the arrogant. He has climbed the ideal citizen of the world, but the ideal citizen of the kingdom of the Lord is the man who's poor in spirit, the peacemaker, the person who is speaking about the last of the kingdom of our Lord is walk by Peggy
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William MacDonald (1917 - 2007). American Bible teacher, author, and preacher born in Leominster, Massachusetts. Raised in a Scottish Presbyterian family, he graduated from Harvard Business School with an MBA in 1940, served as a Marine officer in World War II, and worked as a banker before committing to ministry in 1947. Joining the Plymouth Brethren, he taught at Emmaus Bible School in Illinois, becoming president from 1959 to 1965. MacDonald authored over 80 books, including the bestselling Believer’s Bible Commentary (1995), translated into 17 languages, and True Discipleship. In 1964, he co-founded Discipleship Intern Training Program in California, mentoring young believers. Known for simple, Christ-centered teaching, he spoke at conferences across North America and Asia, advocating radical devotion over materialism. Married to Winnifred Foster in 1941, they had two sons. His radio program Guidelines for Living reached thousands, and his writings, widely online, emphasize New Testament church principles. MacDonald’s frugal lifestyle reflected his call to sacrificial faith.