The Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God

Man's Traditions verses God's Commandment

Matthew 15:1-8, 9-11, 12-14 There came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. To this Jesus answered them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, he that curses father or mother, let him die the death. But you say, Whoever shall say to father or mother, it is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me; And honors not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition. Hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draws nigh to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with lips; but their heart is far from Me. For in vain they do worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
 
He called the multitude, together and said to them, Hear, and understand: It is not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.
 
Then His disciples, asked Him, Don't you know that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? To this He answered, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up. Let them alone*: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. (parallel passage *Psalm 132:6, Hosea 4:17, 1Timothy 6:5; Isaiah 9:6, 42:19, 56:10, Malachi 2:8; Matthew 23:16-24, Mark 7:1-23, Luke 6:39)

Pharisee's Test Jesus not Understanding the Season or Times

Matthew 16:1-4, 5-12 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired of Him that He would show them a sign from heaven. He answered them, When it is evening, you say, fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky; but can you not discern the signs of the times? A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given you, but the sign of the prophet Jonas*. And He left them, and departed. (parallel passages Mark 8:11-13, Luke 12:54-56; *Jonah 1:17, Luke 11:29-30)

The Wrong Influence of the Pharisees and Sadducees

When His disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. Then Jesus said to them, Take heed and beware of the leaven* of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread. When Jesus perceived their questioning among themselves, He said to them, O you of little faith, why reason among yourselves, because you have brought no bread? Do you not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up? How is it that you do not understand that I spoke not to you concerning bread, but rather that you should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? Then they understood that He bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. (parallel passage *Jeremiah 5:31, Ezekiel 22:26, Hosea 5:1, 6:9, Micah 3:11, Zephaniah 3:4; Matthew 27:20, 41, Mark 15:11, John 19:6; Mark 8:14-21)

Before I can go any farther I must say this in regard to the leaven of the Pharisee's. This same leaven is still active in many churches and indeed their related denominations, as their heads, that is to say in the pastors, bishops, deacons and other elders. Who are about building their own little kingdom of which they are the sole head even though they may have a group of elders and stewards under them. They are resistant to working among all other groups to from a body of believers in harmony within the communities in their local eras and regions. Even when it comes to missionary work they resist the helping of others of a slightly different Religious persuasion then their own. And the most disheartening thing is the blending and wresting of God's own Gospel which they are to be stewards of, and why is this so? For me, as one now an outsider looking in, all I can say to this is, they have not received Him or heard His voice, and remain as in the provocation of rebellion, self-willed and brute beasts, which is caused by the very Religion they confess to have total trust in. Paul tells us in 1Corinthians 14:26 that we are to allow all things to be done in edifying of us. Which is to say, all along the way from new birth into His family until our full heavenly inheritance as His family, God desires that His children be spiritually strengthened and increasingly developed into Christ's own image and likeness. This is the aid of a pastor in his congregation as a trustworthy steward of God's secrets. The very mysteries which Jesus told the disciples that they were to know and understand. And when we have been given the right to become sons of God this would become the next step in our training and teaching of the Holy Spirit within us as stated in John 1:12-13. To this Paul also states that each man is to workout his own salvation in fear and trembling until maturity of growth in the knowledge of Christ has taken place (as the day star arisen within us, 2Peter 1:19), which is the hidden message of this very paper. We as God children are to have given the world and indeed Religion a decree of divorcement through our Lord Christ Jesus, as taught in the teaching of binding and loosing found in Matthew 16:19, 18:18, and the lease known in Mark 5 in the teaching of the demoniac loosed from his chains, as well a Lazarus in John 11. In Mark 5 the chains and the grave cloths of John 11 are spiritual bondage to Religion as the hindrances to God's revealed kingdom message and Will.