I presume you refer to 2 Cor 4:4, and or John 12:31; 14:30. It is a horrible misuse of scripture to use those to teach against the kingdom of God on earth. It does much damage to the prophets, the parables, the psalms, and the gospel of the kingdom. I understand why you would repeat it. It is widely taught as such. But this is a part of the reason America is in the moral dilema we are in. That teaching makes Christians irrelevant in todays world. In fact, it makes them somewhat useless to God's kingdom.
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Romans 4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Psalm 24:1 The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Psalm 115:16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
If you read the parable of the tares carefully, you will see that the tares are in the field which is the world. Later you see the tares are gather out of the kingdom where they have been growing. They were growing in the field, which is the world. The kingdom is the world.
Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
No offense, but I get the feeling you are “looking for a fight”. The reason I say this is that this is at least the second time you expand a single sentence by me into an entire sermon complete with backing scripture, and then attempt to refute it. That is, intentionally or not, you create straw men from my posts and then effectively slay them.
I’m afraid I really don’t have the time nor inclination, on Freerepublic, to dig deep into specific topics on which you are “loaded for bear”. Frankly, I agree with most of what you post.
BTW, I was reading 1 Cor. this morning and when I came upon the word “holy”, I suddenly thought of Moses at the burning bush and a niggling question percolated to the surface: What, exactly, is “holy” ground? What exactly is holy “anything”. I mean, deep down, with full knowledge, what exactly does it mean? Then an answer came into my head that touches on our very conversation, which also popped into my head.