With Jesus all stewardships are accounted for; for that which is committed to Him in the due season is delivered up, and not taken away. And, what a volume, I may say, on the glories of Christ does that one sentence in 1 Corinthians 15 write for us: “then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God.” It signalizes Him in the face of the whole world, and in contrast with all the generations of the children of men, from the very beginning to the very end. Every stewardship committed to others is taken away, because of the faithless hand that had betrayed it; but He delivers up His, as having fulfilled all the purpose of Him who had entrusted Him with it. In Christ, but in Christ only, all the promises of God are yea and amen. When He takes the kingdom, He will at the end, or in the due moment, “deliver it up.” Precious words! But we see the kingdom taken away from Saul and from the house of David, and then, when given to the Gentile, taken away from him in like manner, again and again, in a series of judgments or overturnings, until He came whose right it is, and then for the first time we get a stewardship accounted for, and a kingdom delivered up.