Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.

Matthew 7:6

God shares His secrets with His friends.  Psalm 25:14.

What if God didn’t want to share certain things with some people?  Would that make Him mean, just because He withheld certain details about His Kingdom?

The goal of our instruction in the Gospel of the Kingdom is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.  1 Timothy 1:5.

It is not primarily signs and miracles.  It is not primarily health and prospering.

Even as the Apostle John wrote, “I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” (3 John 1:2).  If your soul isn’t prospering, why should your finances?  If your soul is languid, isn’t that in general of such greater importance than one’s physical health, especially when one realizes that the physical will often follow the condition of the heart?

Do not give what is sacred to the dogs.  Jesus said the Kingdom was like treasure (Matthew 13:44).  We are promised a hundred fold return on what we surrender to the Kingdom.  In the world of economics, this is a pretty good deal. Yet, it is with the promise of persecutions (Mark 10:30).

The Kingdom has secrets, not the kind of secret oaths and things that appeal to the soul and pride of man, but of the kind that God chooses to hide.  It is His glory to conceal.

What if God wanted each of us, as to as much as it was given to each one individually, to press on unto the fullness of the revelation of His Kingdom, of who He was, His heart, His mind, His character.  To know as fully as possible His ways, and not simply His acts.

What if, in the pursuit of this dream, one could begin to focus merely upon how to function in His gifts, even unto the working of great signs and mighty wonders?  What if, in instructing others in how to move in this dimension, this happened, and became the focus, rather than they by-product?

The soulish heart of man is exceedingly wicked.  Pride and selfish motives lie hidden and dormant, even in small pockets throughout even many believers, as is witnessed in our divisions and factions in the church.  Paul said this was why many were sick and had fallen asleep.

God doesn’t need His every secret revealed as soon as you receive it.  What you get by revelation and faith and seeking only fits in the context of that.  Just as marriage intimacy only belongs in the context of a committed, long-term relationship, so too does the spiritual belong in this place alone.  What you received through the Spirit, everyone else is just as capable to receive in just the same way, if they only seek Him.

Jesus said not to throw our pearls before swine.  The Kingdom of heaven is likened unto a pearl of great price (Matthew 6:48).  It is worth everything, so why give it to someone who isn’t willing to spend everything to get it?  If they really want what you have, let them fetch it themselves.  They must pay full price as well.

Those who cannot see the value of the treasures of the Kingdom have no business operating in them.  Those who do not cherish and love the Lord greater than the whole of the entire world are neither worthy of Him, nor can they truly be His disciples.

The only door this world has or needs to Eternal Life is Jesus Christ.

The parables of Jesus both contain and conceal the secrets of the Kingdom.  To the person with faith, they are the instructions of the Teacher.  To the person only with human reasoning, they are riddles and parables and paradoxes that have little or not direct application to our life.

If Jesus came with such direct purpose as heaven or hell, and He inspired certain writers to write such, do you think it would have behooved Him to have instructed and directed such writing as was of no purpose or direction other than historical fact, or supreme divine intellect such that man would have no direct access to even the beginning of an understanding as to what was intimated?

Would such a great God who calls Himself both the Word and the Truth come and give us something other than that which would be spoken and believed to be absolutely, universally, and eternally true?  Of course not.  Then, in the end, for the most part as the body, we have missed it regarding His words.  Why?  Because of our unbelief, because ever seeing, we do not see, and ever hearing, we do not hear.  They are as blind riddles and dumb sayings, simply because we have not inquired, we have not sought, and we have not desired enough to know.  To know not just with the mind, but by the Spirit, what the scriptures are saying.

But, now is the time, says the Spirit, that His people will begin to understand the riddle.  Now is the time, says the Spirit, that the believing will begin to see the mysteries revealed, and opened, understood.  Now is the time, says the Spirit, for the body to believe, and seeing, to believe.

For from faith to faith, the body grows.  And from strength to strength, until the whole body is strengthened.

The mystery concealed is concealed to be seen.  And the secret not understood is hidden for understanding.

His word will not return void, and every one of His promises will be seen.