Thursday, March 20, 2014

The Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God

I do not know if you noticed that I did not make or give a statement about the demons, devils, mute spirits and the chief ruler sent to test us in our imaginations of the mind, which is doubtfulness as revealed in Luke 11:14 and 12:22-34. I did so because the worlds church system denies the existence of these kinds of operations, within its own four walls. And by the very fact of this allows them room and latitude to operate freely within the church. Why is this so? Because it is in consort with the angel of light, the false prophet and anti-christ of Revelation, its own form of the bridegroom and the harlot of mystical Babylon. The true purpose of mans Religion and its many and diversified denominations, as a house divided. Which we heard Jesus say will not be able to withstand Him and the Truth in Grace through Faith and Love when restored to the heart of man, known and called the Holy Spirit. Who is given when man is separated from his religion of the mind of doubtfulness. What seems to remain a mystery is the fact that we are told or cautioned to protect the issues of the heart in Psalm 4:23 which is part of Deuteronomy 4:9, Psalm 139:23-24, Matthew 12:35; James 1:14-15, Matthew 15:19-20, Mark 7:21-23, 14:38, Hebrews 12:15-16. God at the moment of mans fall separated man, to protect man from all forms of crimes of evil this includes our mind from our hearts own mind. It is this heart mind that contains the seed of our salvation, which is opened only by our proper entering of Redemption. Leo Tolstoy in his book titled “The Gospel in Brief” reveals much of the secret things of God contained in Christ.

Healing on the Sabbath

Luke 13:10-17, 18-21, 22-30 Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. When Jesus saw her, He called and said to her, Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity. He laid hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. The ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said to the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. The Lord answered him, You hypocrite, does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from the stall, and lead it away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? When He had said these things, all His adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by Him.
Do you hear the indignation in the voice of the ruler of this synagogue? And the rebuttal of the Lord in the same voice of indignation and intolerance when He calls him a hypocrite? Jesus identifies the spirit of infirmity as Satan who has bound the woman even while she was a welcome member of this assembly, signifying the true hidden operation of this same assemblage within the walls of this synagogue.

Then He said, to what is the kingdom of God like? and whereto shall I resemble it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it. Again He said, Whereto shall I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. (parallel passages Matthew 13:31-33, Mark 4:30-32)

He went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. Then said someone to Him, Lord, are there few that be saved? Answered him, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. For when the master of the house is risen up, and has shut to the door, and you begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us; and He shall answer you, I know you not who you are: Then shall you begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and You have taught in our streets. But He shall say, I tell you, I know not who you are; depart from Me, all workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you thrust out. They shall come from the east, and the west, and from the north, and the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. Behold, there are those who will be last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last. (parallel passages Matthew 7:13-14, 21-23)

Luke 14:15-24 When one of them that sat at meat with Him heard these things, he said to Him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. Then He said to him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: And sent his servants at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray have me excused. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray have me excused. And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. So the servants came, and showed their lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servants, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. And the servants said, Lord, it is done as you have commanded, and yet there is room. And the lord said to the servants, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel all to come in, that my house may be filled. For I say to you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. (parallel passage Matthew 22:1-10, Revelation 19:1-10, 21:1-7, all of Israel had been summoned to the feast for the preparations had been those 1500 or so years in the making from Abraham until John the Baptist came as seen in Matthew 11 and Luke 16. And since the day of visitation and His return as the Holy Spirit He has been all about the summoning of all in the highways, hedges to compel all to come in that His house by filled.

The next passages follow Jesus' teaching on the righteous upright steward which the Religious establishment took as a put down because it spoke directly to them and error of their ways.      

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