If you’re just gonna judge no need in your response
@robert derrick .
If you don't want righteous judgment, then don't bother me, because it's all you're going to get.
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Thank you. You can be part of the kingdom while on earth.
Jesus' kingdom is not yet come on the earth to judge and rule all nations. For now, His kingdom is in heaven, and only dwelling in them that obey Him on earth.
Also you have the spirit within you. And the spirit of Christ.
The Spirit of Christ is only dwelling in them that walk after His Spirit, and not after the flesh. Christ is not supping in the lives of sinners.
But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
The only fellowship with Christ on earth, is with the saints walking in the Light, not while sinning in darkness with the devil.
It's sort of a basic principle of the Bible, that sinning is with the devil, and is enmity with God.
In Philippians 3:20, Paul lays down a principle that has been a great hope for each ensuing generation of believers: “Our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
The manner of life of the saints walking after the Spirit, and not after the flesh,
is from God in heaven, from whence we, that are still alive and remaining on earth, look for our Lord's return.
We're still right here on earth, and not in heaven in any way at all. The heavenly place we sit in, is with Jesus dwelling and supping with us in our purified hearts, right down here on earth in our mortal bodies.
Being now in heaven 'spiritually', is the delusion of a spirit-only resurrection and rule with God in heaven. There really is no such thing as carnal living on earth, while spiritually pure in heaven. The hippy-dippy stuff of doing evil, while the heart is still good, never was true. Not even as Woodstock.
We can vainly imagine we're already 'spiritually' resurrected into heaven's throne room now all we want, but if our body is still down here on earth sinning away, then we're still a child of the devil.
Spirit-only millennial doctrine, has nothing to do with the heavenly and holy rule of Jesus over our lives on earth.
Peter puts this concept another way in his first letter, calling the Christians to whom he writes “sojourners and ...
Yes, we are still pilgrims down here on earth. We are not sojourners in heaven. No Christian alive and remaining on earth, has yet to become the saints in Christ's presence in heaven, while their bodies are now dead in the grave.
There is no truth to a permanent spirit-only presence in heaven, while the body remains alive on earth.
That would qualify as a strong delusion sent to believers in OSAS only, who never ever speak of Peter's assurance of inheriting the kingdom of God. That's because it's not by imagination alone, but only by ensuring we never fall into temptation and sin on earth:
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
All this spirit-only doctrine and prophecy, is just a bunch of happy-feet vain imagination, animated out of thin air by faith-only sinners on earth.
And it's nowhere near as innocent as that animated movie.
Of course, they were waiting on the savior back then.
As well as His holy saints today, still living holy with holy feet planted squarely here on earth.
you done shared this scirpture
“And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, [is] then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be! for if the things I threw down, these again I build up, a transgressor I set myself forth; for I through law, did die, that to God I may live; with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh — in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me; I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness [be] through law — then Christ died in vain.”
Galatians 2:17-21
If you want to quote Scripture proving that Christians returning to sinning and found to be transgressors again, will not be found in Christ at His appearing, then that's fine. I just don't know why anyone would quote something they don't believe, and also exposes their hypocrisy.
But hey, anyone already resurrected and reigning in heaven, can do whatever they like on earth. At least until the grave.
Anyway to limit the ability to not be able to have access to our Father in heaven, and having the spirit of God and the spirit of Christ and all these things along with being part of the heavenly kingdom now
Well, that's what sinning down here on earth does to our souls.
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Don't blame God, the devil, the prophets and apostles, nor anyone teaching Scripture saying so.
And for that matter, we can do as OSAS teaches and not even blame ourselves, and put all the condemnation on our bodies alone, for doing such things. It's our right of free-will given by God, to imagine and do with our souls as we please. At least until the grave.
and building our spiritual lives founded in the new administration under the King; there is founded peace with God because of Christ; being made right with God because of Faith.
True, for all them that do His righteousness and walk blamelessly as He walked on earth.
But those not even believing we can possibly do so, of course, have no such hope of ever doing so.
And for those imagining it
in the spirit of their minds only, well, who can argue with vain imagination? It would be like trying to convince someone, who believes in lighted fairy-sprites in the night, that they're really just earthly fireflies.
To suggest people aren’t part of the Kingdom today is nonsense and not biblical.
Now there's certainly a way for 'believers' to have part with infidels, by teaching everyone one earth has been and is now saved, because the man Jesus died on a cross thousands of years ago.
I was never so foolish to try and believe that, but I once did try to imagine it without repentance. Afterall, if Hitler is in heaven, then so would I be.
Of course, that delusion on lasted for about a minute of my time. But someone actually trying to believe and even teach it from twisting Scripture?
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
That would be spirit-only lighted fairy-sprites resurrected into heaven, and now ruling in a fabled Celtic kingdom on earth.
There are still people who believe that today. Some even call themselves Christian wickens.