Sunday, November 24, 2013

Inherit the kingdom

Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Matthew 25:34

Inherit.

To inherit you must be an heir.  The very essence of inheriting something even from a complete stranger makes you one of their heirs.  We are heirs with Jesus Christ.

Rom_8:17  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

The kingdom is to be inherited ONLY by those who are the heirs of God! No other will inherit the kingdom.  You cannot lay hold of any pagan belief,  you cannot lay hold of any religion that is not the truth, you cannot keep lies and expect to be an heir of God. You cannot expect to be an heir of God if you are not in good standing with God. And all it takes to be in good standing with God is a believing in the Son of God.  It sounds simple, and people jump on that quickly. They shout they believe, but the truth is, they believe in a fairy tale fable of Jesus Christ and not the true Jesus Christ, the Savior, the Son of God who lived and breathed, who preached and taught for three years lessons for us to learn and live by.  They believe in a mythical Jesus that they can call on once and that's enough. They believe they just have to believe in the Him but NOT believe and live by  anything He taught. 

If a person says they believe in you, then you are under the assumption that they believe in what you stand for, they believe in the whole idea of you. If you tell a confused young adult that you believe in them, you are telling them you believe they are of a good moral fiber, you believe in the possibility of their being capable of living a good, moral life. You tell an erring young adult that and they know that you are saying you believe they are more than what their errors are showing you, that you are more than your mistakes, there is more in you. Tell a husband or wife that you believe in them means the same thing really. You believe in their goodness, their ability to be genuine, you have hope for them and their future.  Contrary to these examples, not believing in someone- a young adult, a husband or wife, you are giving them no hope.  Tell someone you don't believe in them as a person and you are essentially telling them they are a hopeless cause, and have no worth in your eyes.

There is believing, and there is BELIEVING.

I believe in my children because they are real. We believe in things that are real.
I BELIEVE in my children because I have the hope they are in good moral standing as human beings, and regardless of what setbacks might come they will be able to weather them by the grace of God.

If we say we believe in Jesus Christ, we can believe without BELIEVING. You can believe He existed and exists. You can believe He died for you and rose again. You can believe that all He stands for is good and just.  You can do all that believing and then turn around and live your life totally contrary to all the things that Jesus stands for in His word, all the things He taught.  If you do that, if you live contrary to all the truth that Jesus taught, are you really BELIEVING in Jesus?

If I told my son I believe in Him, and then turned around and shook my head and told others I have no hope in him, that everything he is doing is wrong and he'll never do anything right-  did I lie to my son?  

Yes, I lied to my son.

People live lies about Jesus all the time. They believe in word only.

Jas_2:26  For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

A dead belief.

How many people have a dead belief and think it's enough?

How many profess with their mouths, but lie in their hearts?

Tit 1:16  They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him…

Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Matthew 25:34

There is a kingdom that has been prepared for us since the foundation of the world.  The kingdom is REAL and it is a kingdom that we shall inherit as God's heirs.  We are God's, we belong to Him! He is our FATHER!

Do we believe in our Father?
Do we believe in the Word of God?
Do we truly believe, or are we pretenders?

Please, Lord, help us! Save us! Love us!  Help us to believe as You would have us believe! We would be Yours! We would be in the kingdom that You have prepared from the foundation of the world for us!  Please, Lord.

By Your love!
By Your grace!

All in YOU!

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