We are to seek first...as our number 1 priority as His people...the kingdom of God and His righteousness.
What is taught now is that this doesn't need to be sought for (the very opposite of Christ's teaching) since it is "already ours" in the very first step of our believing. As such we are taught (in this scheme) that we are already rich and in need of nothing.
Yet, we are warned over and over again...in both Testaments...that this is the way of death...to assume and presume..no matter HOW much favour has been shown to us.
Favour is deceitful. Sheker haCHen.
If people understood the balance of God's ways, they would not jump at whatever looked easy. The modern take on the gospel is foolishness...not having any wisdom at all...like sheep to the slaughter.
God does not hate the original people of God. He is showing up the pride of Gentiles just like He did to the Israelites. And nobody seems to be paying attention. Yet a little fear and a little wisdom can save us.
Just as so many Israelites were cut off...so we also will be. There will be weeping and anger. (Yet this is preventable by a simple obedience...but people WILL NOT see it.)
It is one thing to get a visit...say from the police at your home...and a whole other thing to be arrested and put in jail. There is a change of locations.
What I find is that people make NO distinction between a sample and the full product.
The police visit FAR more people than they imprison. And the Lord visits far more people than He translates into His kingdom realm. Many are called but few are chosen.
That's exactly what is happening. A religious certainty KILLS faith. It also kills the kind of fear that makes one wise. So then religious certainty is foolish. Like the foolish virgins who assumed and presumed they had all they needed. Jesus says...I don't know you.
To know the Lord one must go to where HE IS. There are many abiding places in the heavenly kingdom realm. We are called to walk there...to sit there. Not assume we are there by a religious philosophy...no...to walk in the power that raised Jesus from the dead. To walk as Jesus walked...in the light as He is in the light.
I have explained all these things in great detail...too much really. The more accurate I get, the less I'm understood. But I'm not happy to remain obscure, using verses that can be taken the wrong way.
So then if I remain vague...people will not be upset with me...but neither will they be helped. If I get specific and helpful, well, the truth hurts the pre-conceived notions of those who feel they are much farther ahead than they actually are.
What to do?
I continue speaking the truth in as many facets as possible...so that if possible some might understand and believe the gospel.
Well thank you for reviewing the elements of your doctrine via my post. I still have issue in understanding it, to be truly honest. I will relook it and reply in kind for some type of edification and understanding. And I hope to improve on it in the near future.
Let me tell you what I already see from the start in your reply. Even the verse you use to begin to build up to your apex message is misused or misplaced and not useful for your discussion. It only confuses. It really does not add much to your message of real glorification by faith by being into Christ in the Kingdom realm, the experience of glorification in an actual sinless state....
(Mat 6:30) Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is here today but tomorrow is thrown into the furnace,
will He not more surely care for you, O you of little faith!
(Mat 6:31) Therefore, do not be anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, How shall we be clothed?
(Mat 6:32) For the Gentiles clamour for all these things; even though
your heavenly Father knows you have need of them all.
(Mat 6:33) So seek first His kingdom, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
(Mat 6:34) Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Now many believers use this verse as an application to an already converted one in Christ. I believe this is not the case at all. In context, Christ preached to non-believers to seek God's Kingdom so they would be in the comfort of the Spirit, to live by the Spirit and then they would not be focused on the fresh, the carnal mind and the worries in the world; to then impress upon them to become converted as believers, not when they are already believers. And this thought is congruent with when Christ taught his followers his prayer, really for a future conversion; before they were converted.. too seek the Kingdom.....etc.
In Matt 6:33 I read the rudiments of him wanting his audience to be saved FIRST to understand his discussion....and they then will understand Godly life in his spirit.
and then the Lord's prayer...
(Mat 6:7) And in praying do not use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do, for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
(Mat 6:8) Therefore, do not be like them! Even before you ask Him,
your Father knows what things you need.
(Mat 6:9) In this manner you should pray: Our Father who is in heaven, let Your Name be glorified.
(Mat 6:10) Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
(Mat 6:11) Give us this day our daily bread.
(Mat 6:12) And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
(Mat 6:13) And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
(Mat 6:14) For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
(Mat 6:15) But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Matt 6:33 is the same thought as in Matt 6:10
Matt 6:32 is the same thought as is in Matt 6:8
These sections of scripture convey that one can/must seek and then know the Kingdom FIRST to become converted and being saved. And that would be later in time at the Day of Pentecost.
This was the simplest way/ language for him to convey this message of salvation at this point in his mission, of the gospel of the Kingdom.
So when a believer says say on this site today,. to suggest we must seek the Kingdom of God first etc...I smile and grin to myself, as I have already done so as I'm a genuine believer in Christ today. And I think they are not regarding or reading the context of the scripture at all. It is advice for seekers, and not believers.
So already I have a general issue even from the starting gate....
Anyway, let me relook it again....thanks for the reply
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