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?
When all is stripped away, and nothing else remains, you can trust in His love. His love remains, when everything else is shaken (Romans 8:37-39), and by it, we live without fear (1 John 4:18).
Into His love we commend ourselves each day. Further into His glory, His goodness, His mercy.
All we need is His love. Our only true possession in this life is this place of union.
The life of the flesh doesn’t matter in the end. What matters is Eternity. According to Isaiah 40, all of man’s pomp and pride fall away into the dust and ashes they came from, and all that remains is faith, hope, and love (1 Corinthians 13:13).
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:7
This is part of the good news Jesus came to bring. If we ask for it, He will bring it. If we look for it, we will find it. If we keep knocking at the door, eventually, it will open for us. This is Kingdom 101 quite often, and, whether it is accepted as such or dismissed from there, it can often get little investigation later. However, as with many of Jesus’ sayings, they apply to multiple levels.
For instance, take the phrase “Seek and you will find.” This, of course, applies to the Kingdom of Heaven, to God the Father, and to Jesus. This of course applies to answers and deliverances and other such burdens we offer towards heaven. But, let’s look at this another way for a moment.
Jesus ministered on the Earth in the power of the Spirit. The gifts were evident yet not on display. The Spirit was present, and the gifts were promised, but the primary focus of the teaching was directed towards the Father’s will.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus;
Romans 8:1
But, there is condemnation for those who are not in Christ. Jesus said,
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Mark 16:16
Jesus said that those who do not believe in Him, the Son of Man who was God Himself, would be eternally condemned, bound in an eternal hell for Eternity. Paul, writing later, said that it was on the six foundations of the Christian faith, without which, one could not move on to maturity (Hebrews 6:2).
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”
John 14:6
It doesn’t matter what version you read it in, Jesus is the way, He is THE Truth, and He is the life, the only life. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation for all that believe (1 Peter 1:5).
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
Matthew 7:21-23
The Way is not power, it is faithfulness. The path is not promotion, it is servant-hood. The gift is not yours, it is theirs (2 Corinthians 1:6). The road is not wide, it is narrow.
Jesus said plainly, unless you hate father, mother, sister, brother, children, spouse, even your own life, you cannot be His disciple (Luke 14:26). He said quite distinctly that if you love someone else more than Him, you are not worthy of Him (Matthew 10:37).
For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12
In waves of revival, manifestations come and go. Many opinions are formed, shared, and contested with. But, one thing remains, and that is the Eternal Kingdom of God, the mystery of the Holy Spirit, Christ within, “God With Us”, Emmanuel.
That which we see is not always what it is, and that which we cannot see often goes unnoticed, undiscerned, and hence, under addressed.
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,
Romans 14:17
I think that when it comes down to it, many people today miss it today regarding the Kingdom.
Nearly all probably do in some ways, perhaps, with some exceptions, but, primarily, we fail to recognize the King’s heart in coming.
Jesus said in language impossible to misunderstand that He was The Way. Not that He came to show it, demonstrate it, teach it, or model it, but rather, that He Himself was The Way. He was the Son of God, and the Son of Man, and no one came to the Father but by Him.
Don’t miss God’s plan… It doesn’t’ include you, per say, although it does… You’ll be there, when you’re in His love, but it’ll be His power.
But, a whole nation missed it, because the physician was sent to the sick, and not to the well. Those who said they saw, their sin remained, but to those who cried out in poverty, desperation, and misery, the Son came.
Only the eyes of a child can see it, and only the pure can remain. Only by the blood, and only as a child. Nothing else matters in Eternity, nothing.
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.
John 3:19-21
This is the verdict of Christianity, of God, and of the cross. This is the judgement. Jesus didn’t come into the world to condemn the world, but that through Him, it might be saved. Yet, why didn’t people come to Him? By and large, they thought they were righteous, they thought they were the ones who needed to be exalted, they were afraid of losing what they had.
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