Kingdom of God—love comes from God our Father’s love and Christ Jesus’ love in the Spirit. In that, we walk worthy of the Lord in our one another relationships. Our Father in heaven has poured His love into our hearts by the Spirit. 1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our … [Read more…]
Gospel of the Kingdom—Part 2 tells us the commissioning words Jesus spoke to His Twelve disciples when He sent out as the 12 apostles. When Jesus sent them out, He gave them authority “over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness” (Mt 10:1). With that, He gave them … [Read more…]
Christ in you, the hope of glory ”God wanted to make known among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col 1:27). Paul made that mystery known to the saints in Colossae, and to us. He revealed the mystery so we can understand it. Here, … [Read more…]
In the Gospel of the Kingdom—Part 1, we hear Messiah Jesus introduce the Gospel of the Kingdom with Beatitudes–the heart we should have to follow Him. We should feel as poor as the destitute rather than rich in our own moral power to serve God. Jesus says the poor have the kingdom of God. In … [Read more…]
The washing of regeneration prepares us for the inheritance of eternal life in the kingdom of God in the new heaven and new earth. At the regeneration, we receive the inheritance. We can see that as we read of regeneration the only 2 times it occurs in the Bible, Titus 3:1-7 our regeneration when we … [Read more…]
Here we will get more of God’s spiritual light through His Word and the Spirit to help us continue to grow up in all things into him who is the head, Messiah (Eph 4:11-16). Every Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in … [Read more…]
Jesus leads us to speak words of spirit and life. “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life” (John 6:63 NASB). Each of us is called by God our Father to speak words of life, power, edification, exhortation and … [Read more…]
he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:18 NASB It is ironic that Pagans say, “Judge not. Yet, they have already been judged and sentenced unless they repent and believe. It is true that we are not … [Read more…]
We who trust in Jesus Christ are children of the most high God. As children of our heavenly Father we are heirs of eternal life in His kingdom that is to come. While we walk this earth, we have a glorious taste of the kingdom that is to come, for God our Father has created … [Read more…]
Pagans and worldly Christians, often quote only 2 words from Matthew 7:1—“judge not.” Those have probably never read or heard the rest of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (Mt 5-7). Jesus came teaching and preaching the gospel of the kingdom (Mt 4:23; 5:1-2). He was speaking to a multitude of Old Covenant Jews who came … [Read more…]