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1 | Can we enter the Kingdom now? | Matt 6:33 | lookinforacity | 204120 | ||
After the entire discourse of Jesus Mtt.6:25-32, why are we at the end of it told. Mtt.6:33 "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. In relation to all of the things Jesus was talking about in verses 25-32, which are Temperal things, things we are told not to worry about are we to believe, if we seek His kingdom, we can enter His kingdom (NOW), here on Earth, in other words, live in his Kingdom, before we die? There isn't any break in the narrative, it just finishes with the admonition to seek, or can we take the seek, as another commandment of Jesus. We are told not to worry about tomorrow, if we do exactly as we have been told, would that be called walking by Faith, if so are we then in His kingdom? |
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2 | Can we enter the Kingdom now? | Matt 6:33 | Tamara Brewington | 204123 | ||
Trying to retrace your steps here... Jesus was preaching all over the place that the kingdom of God is at hand. What He meant by that is that He was the ruler of the kingdom of God and that the kingdom was present with them in their here and now. A little history is in order here. Point one, people were getting saved while Jesus was walking around by repenting of their sins to God and believing that Jesus was God(Jews understood that Son of Man meant the Messiah and that the Son of God meant equality with God the Father as Jesus being also God)and they were entering directly into the kingdom of God. Point two, Jesus told Pilate that His kingdom was not on earth, that means it was a spiritual kingdom. Point three, therefore whoever gets saved is entering a spiritual kindgom. Point four, where Jesus says seek first His kingdom and all these things will be added unto you He was referring back to Mathew 6:24 where He talks about serving not serving two masters and wants believers to be devoted to God and unbelievers to come to God. Point five, seek first to be saved and to enter into Jesus spiritual kingdom is the point of Mathew 6:33 and if you do that all your needs that would have come from serving wealth will be added to you because you forsook wealth and chose God. Point five, this is one way to walk in faith, there are so many ways in which we are to walk in faith it would be too long to go into here. Point six, obeying God can't get you into the kingdom because that would be following the law. But if you meant seeking salvation (the kingdom), then yes that could be called one of several types of how to walk in faith. God bless, Tamara | ||||||
3 | Can we enter the Kingdom now? | Matt 6:33 | lookinforacity | 204225 | ||
Point 1, People were getting saved while Jesus was walking around by repenting of their sins to God and believing that Jesus was God (Jews understood that Son of Man meant the Messiah, and that the Son of God meant equality with God the Father as Jesus being also God) answer) Where and when were the terms (Son of Man, and Son of God) first used, ( in the New Test) other than to the Disciples, Scribes, Pharisee, in other words to the general public, where they, according to your reasoning, knew what these terms meant in relation to him, and thereby identifying him as Messiah? Point 2, Jesus told Pilate that His kingdom was not on earth, that means it was a spiritual kingdom answer) John 18:36 Jesus answered, " My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm." Your right, at the point he declared his kingdom to Pilate, he said that his kingdom was not of this REALM. He didn't say (Earth) he said (World) was he identifying the WORLD, as a spiritual place? Earth on the other hand was a created place. We today use these two words interchangeably, but it seems he was making a clear distinction between the two. Point 3, Therefore whoever gets saved is entering a spiritual kingdom. answer) Do you agree with this scripture, as a good way of saying this is how we get saved? Where does it say, we enter a spiritual kingdom when we get saved? Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; Let me try to put this into words. Salvation is the first step, in the Christian walk, when we accept Jesus Christ as our SAVIOR. Baptism, the in filling of the Holy Spirit, the empowering of his people to walk in the Spirit. Jesus Christ becomes our LORD, Master, King only after baptism. The kingdom of God is a Spiritual Realm. We do not automatically enter the kingdom, upon our salvation. You need to be baptized, in order to see, and enter the kingdom. ( Words of Jesus Christ ) Flesh, and blood cannot inherit the kingdom. (Words of Jesus Christ) Therefore we would have to be in the Spirit in order for us to inhabit the kingdom. That which is Spirit, is Spirit, that which is Flesh is Flesh. Sorry it took this long to answer your post Have a God Blessed Day |
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4 | Can we enter the Kingdom now? | Matt 6:33 | Tamara Brewington | 204231 | ||
No problem about the time frame answering a post, most people are working stiffs. Working backwards here; 1)Ephesians 1:13,14 In Him, you aslo, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation - having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory. Contrary to popular belief based on Acts 2:38, this scripture states that as soon as you hear the message of the gospel, having believed, you are sealed in the Holy Spirit. Try this one as well; Acts 10:34-48 in this passage Cornelius and his whole household hear the gospel and even before Peter can finish preaching it everyone is saved having believed and the Holy Spirit entered them before they were able to be baptized in water. So according to these two scriptures it is possible to receive the Holy Spirit because you believe the message of the gospel without first being baptized. 2)There is the kingdom of the devil composed of demons and this earth which he rules. And there is the kingdom of God which is composed of every angel that did not fall who serve God and every saint who got saved, both OT and NT whether dead or alive. Both kingdoms are spiritual kingdoms, on this I believe we agree. 3)Pilate was asking Jesus if He was king of the Jews because the only legal king was Ceasar and to claim another king was treason. So Jesus says His kingdom is not of this world (inhabitants #2889, world) and at the end of verse 18:35 it does not say realm actualy it says hence (not from either side, #1782, hence). You seem to be pointing out a difference between earth and world as making a difference about where Jesus kingdom was while He was walking around on earth. Luke 17:21 says that behold the kingdom is in your midst because Jesus is the ruler of the kingdom and where ever He is is where the kingdom resides. His kingdom is spiritual, yes and we enter it when we get saved and the Holy Spirit enters in, but it goes with His where ever He goes. Right now at this very moment the whole world or earth, I am using them interchangeably, belongs to Satan, the world as it is now is ruled by Satan. Jesus even says Satan is the king of this world. This world does not become the part of the kingdom of Jesus until He comes back and sets up His kingdom, which He took with Him to heaven. This is what I meant by when Jesus was walking around the kingdom was in their midst and that Jesus was preaching the kingdom is at hand, it means He is in their midst as the ruler of that kingdom and their salvation has come. John said John came baptizing with water, but that Jesus would baptize with the Holy Spirit. We enter into the kingdom through the baptism of the Holy Spirit of Jesus, not water by John. We get baptized in obedience to Christ as an outward sign of our death and resurrection in Christ. Not everyone sees John 3:5 as that the water is referring to water baptism, some of us see it as the water of the womb becuase Nicodemus had just asked if one has to go second time into his mother's womb. Remember Jesus baptism is not with water but with the Holy Spirit. Jesus even goes on to say in John 3:6 that that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Some of us take that to mean that the water of the womb only births flesh but that the spirit births spirit. 4)The Israelites were well familiar with the term Son of Man (see a commentary or two an exegetical one not a devotional one) and understood it to mean the Messiah. The Pharisees, scribes and Sadducees understood the Son of God to mean that Jesus was saying He was equal to God and was therefore also God, see John 5:18-23 and that is why they killed Him for blasphemy. The Jews had no concept of their Messiah also being God, to them Messiah was called the Son of Man and they were expecting him. They were not expecting the Son of God a human equal to God because He was of the same material and nature as God. The fact is the Jews were fighting the idea that Jesus was their Messiah and rejecting the idea altogether that He was God. See Mathew 16:13,14 for who the crowds were saying the Son of Man was the commentators say that the reason for this is becuase some though Elijah was coming back to establish the kingdom and some thought that John the Baptist had come to establish the kingdom and others were waiting for one of the prophets to come and establish the kingdom. God Bless, Tamara |
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