Analyzing the Disciples’ Mistaken Kingdom Notion (1)

(What follows is the text of a speech given last year to a gathering of Sunday School teachers. I was asked to address the subject of the inability and refusal of the disciples to understand Jesus' teaching on the nature of His Kingdom.) Let me state here at the outset that there is a very short explanation for the disciples' inability to understand Christ's teaching on His Kingdom and for their refusal to receive it. You know the answer as well as I. It was because the Holy Spirit had not as...