Day 35            Read: Matthew 22:15—22
         
         The Kingdom of God never forces you to pay your         
        “Kingdom tax”...
              God sends you no bill.
              God sends no angel to extract it from you.
         
                   You can ignore your “tax” to God’s
                   Kingdom if you want to.
         
         But one day the King will appear and He will say
         to you:
         
             “You have rendered unto Caesar the things
              that are Caesar’s---you paid your taxes
              to Uncle Sam---but what about the things
              that are mine?
         
              Why haven’t you paid your taxes to my
              Kingdom?”        
                   If you have nothing to answer, you
                   will be banished from His sight.
         Your “Kingdom tax”---
the one thing above everything
         else which you must render to God, if you would
         abide as a citizen of His everlasting Kingdom         
         
              is Mercy.  
                 Mercy toward your fellow man.         
         
         As a citizen of the Kingdom of God,
         
              you owe to every man the same mercy God
              has shown toward you on Calvary’s Cross.
         
                   In His “Mercy Book” God keeps strict
                   accounts.
         
                   If you owe Him any “back taxes” you’d
                   be wise to pay up today. Tomorrow
                   may be too late.