The Lord Jesus Christ has a kingdom where He reigns as King of kings and Lord of lords. All who enter His kingdom enthrone Him in their hearts. He rules in their heart, character, behaviour and over everything that concerns them.

Citizens of Christ’s kingdom enjoy its riches, which He has provided on the cross at Calvary. The provisions, promises, graces and gifts He makes available for us are unsearchable, inexhaustible and so great that He has a portion for everyone. The riches of the Kingdom come from God and are not comparable to the things we see or possess in the world.

God, in His love and mercy, has made provision for all things for us without any limitation. These unsearchable riches or mysteries, which everyone on earth ought to know, particularly members of the body of Christ, were not revealed to generations past. “But God hath revealed them unto us” and we can even “have the mind of Christ”, His Spirit, life and character as Kingdom citizens.

The people we refer to as Kingdom citizens are believers in Jesus Christ. They believe in God too. They also believe that He would reward those who diligently seek Him. They know that anyone who believes and receives His only begotten Son as Saviour, Substitute and Sin-bearer would be saved. Therefore, God reveals what He provides for them.

Many things were “written” in the old covenant for the new covenant people and we are the beneficiaries of those things that, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard”, which God has provided for the people who love Him. Irrespective of what we have achieved or what the world has provided for us, God has more for us.

Christ confirmed that the time for the fulfilment of Old Testament prophecy had come for His disciples. The prophets of old prophesied about great, unsearchable things that would come but they could not enjoy them.

Therefore, they searched diligently to know the time of its accomplishment and the people that should receive those things that “have been kept secret from the foundation of the world”. The “sufferings of Christ, and the glory [provision, salvation, grace, gifts and possibilities] that should follow”, were not for the pilgrims and patriarchs of the Old Testament but for us.

The present dispensation (the Church age) affords us the privilege to stretch out our hands of faith and receive “the unsearchable riches of Christ”. The Scripture describes the things that the old covenant people did not experience but we partake of in the new covenant as, “all things that pertain unto life and godliness”. Now, we can achieve in the Lord the things they could not, because we are “partakers of the divine nature”, which Adam and Eve lost in the Garden of Eden..

• Further reading (King James Version): 1 Corinthians 2:9-16. 1 Corinthians 2:9,10; Isaiah 64:4. Matthew 13:16,17,35; 1 Peter 1:10-12; 1 Corinthians 2:9. Ephesians 3:8,9; 2 Peter 1:3,4; 2 Corinthians 3:18. 1 Corinthians 2:9,10; 2 Corinthians 12:2-4; Hebrews 11:16; John 14:2-4; 1 Corinthians 2:9; Deuteronomy 7:9,10; Matthew 25:34,41. 1Corinthians 2:11-13. 1 Corinthians 2:11; John 14:26; 16:13.1Corinthians 2:12; Galatians 2:20. 1 Corinthians 2:13; 10:3-6; Romans 15:4. 1 Corinthians 2:14; Romans 8:5-8. 1 Corinthians