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NASB | Matthew 6:33 "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 6:33 "But first and most importantly seek (aim at, strive after) His kingdom and His righteousness [His way of doing and being right--the attitude and character of God], and all these things will be given to you also. |
Bible Question:
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? |
Bible Answer: 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 |