The King

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The  King

His  Household  and  His  Ministers

Martin Cecil   April 24, 1983

The quality and character of the Kingdom is the quality and character of the King. This is also the quality and character of His people. Grace and dignity are two words used to convey something of the nature and atmosphere of the King and His Kingdom. The Kingdom is one way of describing the true state on earth. There would be no Kingdom if there was not a King. The character of the Kingdom is the character of the King and of His people. The King governs in His Kingdom. The government is one of love and truth and life. It isn't an arbitrary imposition; it is readily and delightedly received by those who are present in the Kingdom, and by all creatures great and small.

There could be no Kingdom but for the King. The King carries responsibility for the Kingdom. He carries it on behalf of a greater King; but insofar as we are concerned this One, whoever He is, is the King. We can trust Him to be the King and to govern in the quality and character of His kingly nature. Perhaps His true nature as a King is sufficient to identify Him in our consciousness. Those who are His people love Him and desire nothing more than to serve Him—that is fulfilment enough. If it doesn't seem to be so to anyone it is simply because that person does not know the King. There has been very little knowing of the King. He has been rather a fantastic figure, if He appeared in human consciousness at all. This is because human consciousness exists in a fantastic state, filled with fantasies of all kinds, most of which are deemed to be real and are worshipped accordingly. So, except from the standpoint of claims of the lips on the part of some, the King has remained obscure, without any particular authority in the lives and the experience of human beings.

Factual government has been conspicuous by its absence. Evidence of this is on every hand: chaos, confusion, conflict—conflict within people, between people, within nations, between nations. The King, by whatever name called, has been factually ignored, and His government, whatever that might be, rejected in favor of the ideas and doctrines of men. But there is a King, and while He has been largely excluded from human experience, there is a level of being at which He governs—the heavenly level. The King is in His heaven, a heaven of which human beings know virtually nothing. But the King governs there. He is loved there. He chooses His household there. He chooses His ministers, and there is government then from that standpoint, from that level. Because there is such government human beings have thus far continued to exist on earth in their rebellious and disobedient state. But the King still rules in heaven—fortunately for the continued existence of human beings on earth. It seems to have been imagined that it would be possible to ignore the King and steal the earth. Certainly the world is a den of thieves. There was a commandment given a long time ago: “Thou shalt not steal.” The human state is impossible of bringing into order as long as the King is denied. There is no hope for human beings anywhere until or unless the King is acknowledged.

If we have some awareness of the reality of this Supreme Point of government related to this world, heaven and earth, then we also have begun to experience the fact that He chooses His household and He chooses His ministers. They are chosen in heaven. There is a heaven, and you have some experience of the fact of it. There is a realm out of which one may live on earth, ungoverned by any expectation anymore of being able to steal the world. “The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” A few are awakening realistically to this truth—the fact that there is a Supreme Being, but the Supreme Being has been rather a vague character in the consciousness of most. He isn't a vague character at all, very specific. Our acquaintance with that Supreme Being is by reason of the King of the Kingdom. However, one would have to assume the nature of the Kingdom to participate in it; and that is the nature of the King. As there begins to be a recognition of these things, the fact of responsibility comes into the picture.

The King appoints His ministers, He chooses His household; and this fact in heaven begins to become known on earth as there are human minds and hearts who exhibit a willingness to let the fact be made known. You have some awareness of the factual nature of this heavenly truth. You may let it take form in your own experience and you may observe it taking form in the experience of others. The choice of the King is absolute. His Word is Law. That's the fact of the matter. The King appoints His ministers. In these latter days, for various reasons, these primary ministers are taking form in the flesh. There are minds and hearts who are letting it be so, who are no longer concerned with trying to steal from the King—in fact, such a thought would horrify them if they loved the King and if they have a consciousness of being His ministers.

To be His ministers they must minister to Him. Usually ministers are thought of as ministering to their flocks; but the first concern is to minister to Him. This is necessary if He is to assume His authority in human consciousness. If a person has an imagination in this regard and says, “Well I know that the King would require me to minister to His people on earth,” then he has turned his back on the King and is trying to do something according to his own views of what should be done or somebody else's views of what should be done. That isn't ministering; that's theft—trying to steal something from the King, saying, “I have stolen it; I know better than you how to apply it to my flock.” That's a lie! It is necessary to love the King first, above all else, because until that is the experience one's consciousness cannot be filled with an awareness of what it would mean to love His people. If you don't know the King you don't know His people either. We ourselves presumably love the King. To the extent that we do so we will discover what He has chosen. Who are His chosen people? The ones whose minds and hearts are sufficiently willing to allow the truth to become known, the truth that He chooses His household and His ministers. And one must discover the truth for oneself. Gradually there is evidence of the fact that the chosen ministers in heaven are putting in an appearance on earth. There is nothing arrogant about this, just simply the natural course of events to the extent that there are willing minds and hearts. The character of the Kingdom was described in terms of grace and dignity. We could add humility also, for the King Himself is humble. He is humble before His King. Human beings are arrogant. The human mind is stupid.

There is a King and there are His ministers, and His ministers rightly take form in the flesh. From the King's standpoint this would be the first order of business. What else can be done until His ministers put in an appearance? Nothing at all. So, in whatever measure, this has been occurring. In order for this to be effective, as it naturally will be if it emerges as it should out of heaven, there will always be the necessity of a First Minister. So, there rightly is a First Minister who, in revealing the character of the King evokes love for the character of the King. One can hardly separate the One who reveals the character of the King from the character of the King. If it is a true revelation they are one anyway. So love would include the First Minister, but only because the First Minister reveals the character of the King. So those who begin to become aware of the fact of being chosen as ministers naturally love the King and His First Minister.

There begins to be something taking form here which, when fusion occurs, provides the King with the means of His creative action. But there must be fusion. There is a very efficient government—it has been waiting in the wings for a long time for those with willing minds and hearts to let it be made flesh. The essential ingredients for fusion in what might be called the Ministerial Body are love for the King and love for His First Minister. This engenders easy communion between ministers, and an open communion between all with the First Minister. While elements of communication are involved, communion is something deeper, because it is based in love. If there is no love, communion is impossible; and because communion is impossible, communication is impossible. Human beings talk a lot about communication, but there isn't any communication—there is nothing to communicate, or what is communicated relates to what has been stolen. And all this is a realm of nonsense and rubbish. The means of communication are fine, but there must be those on hand who have something to communicate. In order to have something to communicate, the experience of communion must have been established. Communion is impossible without love, and all this centers in the King who carries the Supreme Authority.

So, love for the King brings love for the First Minister, as he begins to be recognized by those who also are ministers. Angels know each other. The ministers of the King know each other, and they cannot deny their love for the King, their love for the First Minister, and their love for each other. All this follows naturally. There are those who are inclined to think in terms of some sort of a hierarchy being set up. That's a ridiculous human concept based in the state of separation. There is a design—nothing works without a design—yet human beings try to build the world without a design, because they don't know what the design is. There is one design, one way it works—all else is subject to fission, disintegration. There is the opportunity for fusion, but fusion only comes because there is a King. Many people acknowledge there must be a King, but the King has remained unknown. He wasn't known when He took form in the flesh on earth. He was denied, betrayed and crucified. That's water under the bridge now, but it certainly did not get rid of the King. He is still there. His ministers emerge. Sometimes they interfere with the government of the King by an unwillingness to experience the reality of communion, which in turn requires a modicum of communication.

I have noted an increase of the awareness of love, so that there is increased communion, and the increased experience then possible of fusion so that there is just one unified point of radiation. All concerned who play their part in this are One. They love each other because they love His ministers, because His ministers love His First Minister, and His First Minister loves the King. Then all share that fire of love, which is the fire of fusion. Without it there is no fusion, just fission: each individual tends to go his separate way, doing his separate thing, imagining that that is what should be done, that others should agree to it. What foolishness!

There is a design. That is an aspect of the truth. There is government. That is another aspect of the truth, and there is a sensible way by which government occurs. It has been occurring right along insofar as the universe is concerned but it certainly hasn't been occurring in the affairs of men. Now it is emerging into the flesh because of obedience to the truth. Love is well protected from human experience by the truth. When the truth is known there is love, and love makes possible communion, and communion, right, fitting communication. And all that is included in what I have called fusion, because it is happening in all concerned; no one is trying to live his little separate life.

Because we love the King in truth, in the design and the government of the King, acknowledging the design is a delight—it's not a chore; it's a delight. Acknowledging that, the design and the government are the experience, and the dominion is set in one's own living. If it's set in your own living it's set in the earth. If it isn't set in your own living, well you would be no party to setting anything in the earth. We share this opportunity, having allowed minds and hearts to acknowledge, to experience, the truth, so that we may continue in that way, individually and as One, in each succeeding moment of eternity.

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