Many crowd the Savior’s kingdom

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Many crowd the Savior’s kingdom,
  Few receive His cross;
Many seek His consolation,
  Few will suffer loss.
For the dear sake of the Master,
  Counting all but dross,
For the dear sake of the Master,
  Counting all but dross.
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Many sit at Jesus’ table,
  Few will fast with Him,
When the sorrow-cup of anguish
  Trembles to the brim.
Few watch with Him in the garden,
  Who have sung the hymn,
Few watch with Him in the garden,
  Who have sung the hymn.
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Many will confess His wisdom,
  Few embrace His shame.
Many, should He smile upon them,
  Will His praise proclaim;
Then, if for a while He leave them,
  They desert His name,
Then, if for a while He leave them,
  They desert His name.
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But the souls who love Him truly,
  Let woe come or bliss,
These will count their dearest hearts’ blood
  Not their own, but His.
Savior, Thou who thus hast loved me,
  Give me love like this,
Savior, Thou who thus hast loved me,
  Give me love like this.
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Nov 24 2025
Un Hermano

THE VITAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN

THE KINGDOM AND LIFE

How does God meet the requirements of the kingdom? He does it by coming into us to be our life. In the New Testament we must see two things, the kingdom and life. These two are great and weighty things. The Lord said, “The kingdom of the heavens has drawn near” ( Matt. 4:17 ). He also said, “Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall by no means enter into the kingdom of the heavens” ( 5:20 ). The requirements for entering the kingdom of the heavens are great. However, there is a life that can meet these requirements. God’s Word says, “Everyone who believes into Him [the Lord Jesus] may have eternal life” ( John 3:15 ); “he who has the Son has the life” ( 1 John 5:12 ); and “unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God” ( John 3:3 ). This means that if we are regenerated, we can see the kingdom of God; if we have God’s life, we have the way to enter into the kingdom of God.

In the New Testament we find not only the kingdom but also life. Whereas the kingdom is a demand, life is a supply. We see a strict demand in the New Testament. This demand is not the law but is something higher than the law. It requires us not merely to be perfect or excellent but to be like God and ultimately to be perfect as God is perfect.

Is anything higher than God? Is there anything more perfect than God? The kingdom requires us to be as high as God and as perfect as God. God’s Word says, “Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees” ( Matt. 5:20 ). The righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees is the righteousness of the moralists and the law keepers. If our righteousness does not surpass this kind of righteousness, we cannot enter into the kingdom. This shows how high the requirements of the kingdom are. We must be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect ( v. 48 ); this is to be perfect as God is perfect. This is a high requirement that cannot be met by man; with man it is impossible. However, with God it is possible. How can it be possible with God? It is possible through His entering into us as our life. When He enters into us as our life, He supplies us with the power that enables us to do what we otherwise cannot do.

What the Kingdom Is

to the Believers

Chapter 4 (LSM)

CWWL, 1957, vol. 2

Nov 24 2025
Un Hermano

THE KINGDOM OF GOD’S REIGN

DEPENDING ON THE DIVINE LIFE

There is a strong thought concerning the kingdom in the Word of God. If we read through the Scriptures carefully, we will see that from beginning to end God desires to obtain a sphere for His reign. How does God obtain this sphere of reign? Or we may ask, how does God bring in this kingdom? He does it by His life. Hence, in the Bible life is always linked to the kingdom. In the beginning of Genesis we see that God’s desire is that man would exercise dominion for Him on the earth ( 1:26 ). Dominion is related to the kingdom. God’s desire that man would exercise dominion for Him on the earth indicates that God intends to establish His kingdom on the earth through man. After Genesis 1 , which speaks of God’s desire that man would exercise dominion for Him on the earth, Genesis 2 presents the tree of life ( v. 9 ). This indicates that for man to exercise dominion for God on the earth and bring in the kingdom, he must have God’s eternal life within him. If man does not have God’s eternal life, he will never be able to bring God’s authority to the earth. Therefore, the very beginning of the Bible reveals that God links life to dominion. Hence, the focus of Satan’s work is also related to this matter. Satan took man away from the tree of life because he knew that if man did not receive God’s life, he would have no way to bring God’s authority to the earth. The kingdom as the sphere of God’s reign altogether depends on God’s life.

Thus, the Lord Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God” ( John 3:3 ). He also said, “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” ( v. 5 ). God’s kingdom is a matter of God’s reign; man’s regeneration is a matter of man’s receiving God’s life. In order for man to touch God’s reign and bring God’s authority to the earth, he must receive God’s life inwardly. If man does not have God’s life, he will have no way to bring in God’s reign.

What the Kingdom Is to the Believers

Chapter 4 CWWL, 1957, vol. 2 (LSM)

Oct 8 2025
Steph

Anaheim, CA, United States

Savior, Thou who thus hast loved me, give me love like this!

Mar 26 2025
Doris Vetter

Granger, IN, United States

“Savior, give me love like this”!

Mar 22 2024
Jessica R Bussell

Valley View, TX, United States

Grace us to endure with You Lord Jesus !

Aug 15 2022
Steve Miller

Detroit, Michigan, United States

This hymn is based on a quote from Thomas a Kempis:

Jesus has now many lovers of His heavenly kingdom but few bearers of His cross. He finds many companions of His table but few of His fasts. Many follow Jesus as far as the breaking of bread, but few to the drinking of the chalice of His passion.

The hymn is attributed to Amy Carmichael.

Oct 10 2021
Lilly Ho

Santiago, Vitacura, Chile

Te damos gracias Señor, por Tu reino, nuestro premio es que sea establecido aquí en la tierra, el cual esta lleno de gloria! , te preocupas por nosotros y nos alimentas mientra nos gobiernas; además nos das una corona, la cual tienes reservada a cada uno de nosotros. Oh Señor Jesús, Tu eres quien ocupa ahora nuestros corazones, tomando en cada situación el control; no importa lo que sea: O de angustia, O de sufrimiento, O de perdida O de ganancia, O de felicidad, O de tristezas O de alegrias; Señor hay abundante gracia para nuestro oportuno socorro y nos haces cantar Aleluyas!!! Señor Jesús, aplicando Tu preciosa sangre, damos gracias al Padre y te alabamos, te bendecimos queridísimo Señor, y por Tu fidelidad y amor, el cual ha sido derramado en nuestros corazones, hoy y a cada momento te decimos ¡TE AMAMOS SEÑOR DE SEÑORES Y REY DE REYES!! La gloria y la honra son Tuyas. A L E L U Y A!!!

May 16 2021
Gift Izuegbu

Lagos, Nigeria

Amen

Nov 4 2020
Joseph

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Amen Lord 🙏

Feb 8 2020
Minjarez

El Monte, CA, United States

Hallelujah!!!

This visitation and shepherding were very effective. Thus, a revival was brought in at the end of 1942. During our year-end meeting I went up to the podium and called a hymn: "Many crowd the Savior's kingdom, / Few receive His cross" (Hymns, #472). As soon as we sang the hymn, I began to weep, and everyone in the audience began to weep as well. We were all weeping, and there was not much of the preaching of the word. This was the beginning of the revival. We had meetings continuously for over one hundred days, and every day the Holy Spirit was working. The revival was so strong that all eight hundred brothers and sisters in Chefoo consecrated themselves not only once but multiple times. Whenever the saints came together to meet, some would bring jewelry for an offering, and others would bring clothes. If someone was touched by the Lord concerning his jewelry, he would offer up his jewelry with tears; if he was touched concerning his clothes, he would offer up his clothes as well. In less than a month the brothers and sisters had offered up all their stocks, bank deposits, houses, farms, land, furniture, sewing machines, bicycles, and more. The offerings were so abundant that we had to divide ourselves into teams after every meeting to count and catalog the items. The machine team was responsible for counting items such as sewing machines and phonographs, the stock team was responsible for counting stocks, and the bank-account team was responsible for counting saving accounts. In addition, there was a clothing team, a property team, a cash team, and so forth. The counting took at least one to two hours every night. These brothers and sisters not only gave material offerings and consecrated themselves individually, but they also consecrated themselves household by household. They consecrated their children, spouses, and parents to the church.

While the church in Shanghai was in a big turmoil, a revival began in Chefoo at the end of 1942. In 1940 I returned to Chefoo and rearranged the practical service of the church according to the blueprint that I had seen with Brother Nee. I established the elders' office and the deacons' office with various services. Within two years a revival was brought in. In the summer of 1942 I was invited to preach the gospel in Tsingtao and stayed there for two months. In addition to preaching the gospel, I gave messages to edify the saints. The number of people in the church grew from about one hundred to more than three hundred. Within a period of two months, more than two hundred people were baptized. Then I returned to Chefoo to continue leading the church. At the end of the year, a revival came in. On the last Lord's Day of the year, I called a hymn: "Many crowd the Savior's kingdom, / Few receive His cross" (Hymns, #472). As soon as we began to sing, I wept, and the entire congregation also wept. I did not say much in the message. This was how the revival began.

...Let me give you a testimony. On December 31, 1942, we were having a meeting in Chefoo. In the middle of the meeting I picked a hymn:

Many crowd the Savior's kingdom,

Few receive His cross;

Many seek His consolation,

Few will suffer loss.

For the dear sake of the Master,

Counting all but dross....

Hymns, #472

When we sang that hymn, everyone in the meeting wept. That day there were about five hundred people in that meeting. Everyone was weeping. I could not sing either. I had to cry with everyone else. The next day was the first day of 1943, and everyone came together again. After this we met continuously for one hundred days. Every day that we met the number of attendants grew more and more. The hall was filled with people inside and outside, upstairs and downstairs. All the rooms, big or small, were filled with people. No one was idle; no one dropped his job. But every day people walked to the meeting from their homes. There were no cars then. Even the sisters walked every day for half an hour to the meeting hall....

We saw that when money was not released by the brothers and sisters, there was no way for genuine revival to occur. On December 13, 1942, the Lord did a work among us. That afternoon I was preparing to preach a message on life. We had been preaching messages on life for two or three years, but that afternoon my message took a turn. From that day forward, we saw that God's gospel can never be released as long as the problem with money is not settled.

Today God cannot be released because the gospel cannot be released, and the gospel cannot be released because money cannot be released. I know that in a certain denomination in a certain place, a few rich people put their money together and built a chapel. Yet the men themselves were still collecting debts and exacting high interest on loans. Can God be released under such circumstances? At that time some brothers in Chefoo had been without jobs for over a year. Some sisters had even taken up embroidery work, which required fine labor but did not allow them to earn much money. As a result, not much was received from the offering box. For six months we received nothing from the offering box designated for the co-worker sisters. But on that day there was a great difference in offering; many envelopes were received. The offering was not a result of my preaching. On the twentieth, which was the following Lord's Day, I went up to the platform again. We sang Hymns, #472, and many were moved to tears. They realized that the gospel had not been released because they had been holding back their money. By the next Lord's Day, the twenty-seventh, the Lord's work was even stronger, and we felt that we had to meet every day. Beginning January 1, 1943, which was a holiday, we began to have conferences that lasted from ten o'clock in the morning until six o'clock in the afternoon. One brother was sick and could not sleep at night. The Lord touched him and asked him to consecrate himself. He could not resist the Lord, and in the end he yielded everything. In this way about six to seven hundred people all consecrated everything to the Lord. Some consecrated their grant deeds. Others consecrated their stocks and shares. Many consecrated themselves for the work in northwest China. This lasted for three and a half months. We met every day for over one hundred days. One day I said, "Who is willing to go to northwest China for the gospel's sake?" Almost everyone stood up. Many were willing to move their whole family, including all their wealth, for the gospel's sake. The first group that went were laborers with lowly occupations, farmers, and manual workers. The second group that went had better occupations. Some were nurses, others were doctors or men with capital. The third group that went out were the preachers and the co-workers. When the first group moved out, it shocked the whole city of Chefoo, because the outsiders had reckoned that we would never be able to do this.

This kind of revival went on for three months, and we got ourselves into big troubles. This does not mean that we purposely tried to get ourselves into trouble. All the brothers and sisters had consecrated everything. What should we do now? The brothers and sisters had emptied out their hearts and had offered up all their belongings. Some came laughing, while others came weeping. But all came with their belongings. For two nights we waited on the Lord until after midnight, and we discussed again and again what we should do. After the bread-breaking meeting on March 14, we told the saints what they should do after they have consecrated themselves. During this period everyone became involved in this revival. Many dared not even touch their clothes when they went home. The minute they touched them, the Lord would ask them to consecrate. If they kept anything back, they would not have any peace. But when they offered up everything, they had peace.

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