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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Being Rather Than Doing by Robert Ricciardelli
Religion judges you for what you do rather than who you are. The Kingdom is about who you are in God, and His empowerment to do good. So it is in the being rather than the doing, while the doing flows out of our being. God is shifting and broadening our mindsets to align us with what is possible with Him rather than what self can ever imagine or do. Our true identity flourishes in God and presents God to the world.
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The Kingdom of GOD is the Catholic Church!
ReplyDeleteWhy did Jesus Christ become Incarnate in the first place? Was it to leave us with a book, or to establish a Church? Well, in this verse He told us one of the reasons why:
"But He said to them, "To the other towns also I must PROCLAIM THE KINGDOM OF GOD, FOR THIS IS WHY I HAVE BEEN SENT"." (Luke 4:43)
"For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost." (Luke 19:10)
And how are we, who are the lost ones, to be saved? It is through the Church which He founded.
"Therefore, if you harken to My voice and keep My covenant, you shall be My special possession, dearer to Me than all other people, though all the earth is mine. YOU SHALL BECOME A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS, A HOLY NATION." (Exodus) 19:5-6
"You, however, are a chosen race, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PURCHASED PEOPLE; that you may proclaim the perfections of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light." (1Peter 2:9)
The Kingdom of GOD will last forever:
"And when your days shall be fulfilled and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will raise up your seed after you, which shall proceed out of your bowels, and I WILL ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM. HE SHALL BUILD A HOUSE TO MY NAME, AND I WILL ESTABLISH THE THRONE OF HIS KINGDOM FOREVER...AND YOUR HOUSE SHALL BE FAITHFUL, AND YOUR KINGDOM FOREVER BEFORE YOUR FACE AND YOUR THRONE SHALL BE FIRM FOREVER." (2Samuel 7:13, 16)
"And among my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons) he has chosen Solomon my son, to sit upon the THRONE OF THE KINGDOM OF THE LORD OVER ISRAEL. And He said to me: Solomon My son SHALL BUILD MY HOUSE AND MY COURTS, FOR I HAVE CHOSEN HIM TO BE MY SON, AND I WILL BE A FATHER TO HIM." (1Chronicles 28:5-6)
And He said, "To what shall we liken the Kingdom of GOD; or to what parable shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the earth, is the smallest of all seeds upon the earth; yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than any herb, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the air can dwell beneath its shade." (Mark 4:30-32. See also, Mark 4:26-29.)
This is a clear analogy of the Church which Jesus Christ founded.
"Amen I say to you, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death, till they have seen the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom." (Matthew 16:280)
Obviously all of those He spoke to died, so His Kingdom had to be that of His Church on earth.
"But woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because YOU SHUT THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN AGAINST MEN. FOR YOU YOURSELVES DO NOT GO IN, NOR DO YOU ALLOW THOSE GOING IN TO ENTER." (Matthew 23:13)
Did the Scribes and Pharisees have any control over a heavenly kingdom? It had to be earthly.
"And I appoint to you a Kingdom even as My Father has appointed to Me." (Luke 22:29)
Jesus passed His Kingdom to His Apostles.
"Then comes the end, when He delivers the Kingdom to GOD the Father, when He does away with all sovereignty, authority and power."
(1Corinthians 15:24)
The Church is the "Kingdom which cannot be shaken", (Hebrews 12:28)
"But in the days of those kingdoms the GOD of heaven will set up a Kingdom THAT SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED, and His Kingdom SHALL NOT BE DELIVERED UP TO ANOTHER PEOPLE; AND IT SHALL BREAK IN PIECES, AND SHALL CONSUME ALL THESE KINGDOMS, AND ITSELF SHALL STAND FOREVER."
(Daniel 2:44)
Saint Paul had fellow workers who were members of the Kingdom of GOD, (Colossians 4:11)
Jesus said the Kingdom of God is within you... He also said unless a man be born again, or born from above, He cannot enter the Kingdom of God. He also claimed the Kingdom of God was at hand, or present.. So we have the presence of the Kingdom and yet it unfolds and it is not a church establishment that saves us, but faith in Christ. I grew up Catholic and love the Catholic expression, but being Catholic does not give you the keys to the Kingdom, but being in Christ does. God bless you...
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