Archive for August, 2012

Kingdom of God: Part Fourteen (Performance)

Monday, August 27th, 2012

Some preliminary words may be needed here, to set the stage for an expression that we will stress in much of the following writing, even more than we have done in prior pieces. The expression is, the Lord Jesus Christ. To some of the members of the human race it might be easier for them to handle the expression, Jesus of Nazareth. In this group, there may even be some members that are comfortable with the expression, Jesus Christ, since they recognize that the word, Christ, is actually a designation of the authorization of his mission, and not a part of his earthly name.

We use the expression, Jesus Christ, because a large part of the physical and now completed mission of Jesus of Nazareth was to begin the process of the Lord Jesus Christ’s onward and eternal service to God as a focal point for the forward progress of man, in righteousness, in the New Age. So, on the authority of the following Scripture, we ask you to be comfortable with the functional use of the expression, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true. Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go. Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.

Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.

(John 8:12-20) In the Kingdom of God, our tool for bringing performance from promise as an extension of preparation is as described by the Lord Jesus Christ, in this declaration….

– Explore the Kingdom of God:  Part Fourteen –

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The Fullness of David: Part Seventeen (Peaceful Prosperity)

Thursday, August 16th, 2012

When we decide to pattern our expectations after those of the patriarchs and kings of Israel, we must adopt the attitude that they had. Sometimes, this attitude was a gift of the LORD, from an early age in life; as was the case in the very young king Josiah.

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,

Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people: And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house, Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

(2 Kings 22:1-7)

Sometimes, the attitude was slow in developing; as is the lesson that is contained in the fullness of David.

In all cases, though, there is one destination toward which we must set our course. In the latter day, at the dawn of the New Age, the Lord Jesus Christ presented the governing wisdom that must regulate our travel, in the LORD, in the kingdom of man.

– Explore The Fullness of David: Part Seventeen –

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Kingdom of God: Part Thirteen (Preparation)

Monday, August 6th, 2012

Preparation gives us the opportunity to utilize the promise that the LORD has invested in us. Speaking of opportunity in the Kingdom of God, this, too, is on a sure foundation. It is also a long-standing and proven foundation, which we revere as being ancient of days. For, opportunity for mankind, in the Kingdom of God, was made evident in the Beginning: the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria.

And the fourth river is Euphrates.

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

(Genesis 2:4-15) Even after the incident of Adam, opportunity was re-placed for mankind (and it is ever available to us as we move in the Kingdom of God). Its re-placement is expressed thusly: seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

– Explore the Kingdom of God:  Part Thirteen –

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