Not far from the kingdom

Can you imagine hearing Jesus say this to you-

'THOU ART NOT FAR FROM THE KINGDOM OF GOD.'

Just imagine it! How wondrous would it be to hear those words.  That particular scribe wasn't far from the kingdom of God. This, when Jesus went about saying that is wasn't good to be a scribe-

Mat_23:13  But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

Scribes as a rule were not very receptive to Jesus . 

This particular scribe however was receptive to the Lord's teachings. 

Read the following--

Mar 12:28  And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
Mar 12:29  And Jesus answered him, THE FIRST OF ALL THE COMMANDMENTS IS, HEAR, O ISRAEL; THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD:
MAR 12:30  AND THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY MIND, AND WITH ALL THY STRENGTH: THIS IS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT.
MAR 12:31  AND THE SECOND IS LIKE, NAMELY THIS, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF. THERE IS NONE OTHER COMMANDMENT GREATER THAN THESE.
Mar 12:32  And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
Mar 12:33  And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Mar 12:34  And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, THOU ART NOT FAR FROM THE KINGDOM OF GOD. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

The scribe agreed with Jesus.

To love God and to love others is MORE than ALL WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES.

The scribe said this! It was true! No wonder Jesus told him that he wasn't far from the kingdom of God.  To most scribes and Pharisees the sacrificial system was everything. The form of godliness was everything. To have a scribe say that love meant more than all that was truly amazing.

Love is of God, to love and have all our actions, every single one borne out of that love is everything. 

Love in every single commandment, how else could our Savior tell  us this--

Joh_14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

If loving God and loving others are the greatest of all the commandments it stands to reason that loving God and loving others is found in the ten moral laws of God. Is it? We've discussed it before but let's quickly recap.

    1- Exo 20:3  Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
    2- Exo 20:4  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Exo 20:5  Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exo 20:6  And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
    3- Exo 20:7  Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
    4- Exo 20:8  Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9  Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exo 20:11  For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
    5- Exo 20:12  Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
    6- Exo 20:13  Thou shalt not kill.
    7- Exo 20:14  Thou shalt not commit adultery.
    8- Exo 20:15  Thou shalt not steal.
   9-    Exo 20:16  Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
    10- Exo 20:17  Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
   
The first four reveal our love for God, the last six reveal our love for others.
   
It makes PERFECT sense!

A summation- love God, love others.

God is love!

The scribe comprehended this. The scribe knew that even though they were bound under a sacrificial system in order to be at-one with God, that the love of God made all that possible and without that love for God and man, the sacrifices meant nothing.

Our Savior became the ultimate unique Sacrifice of all Sacrifices and His death meant the end of the old sacrificial system.  Perhaps the scribe was 'not far' from the kingdom because he had a little bit further to go, accepting Christ as God's Son, accepting Christ and His sacrifice.

I'd like to imagine this scribe will be one of those that will make it to the kingdom of heaven, that he will rise upon that day of Christ's return to call all of us to the kingdom with Him. 

By the grace of God ALL of us will enter the kingdom to be with our SAVIOR, to be with LOVE.

Please LORD we would be in Your kingdom with You!

Let us fully comprehend the truth of Your love revealed to us perfectly in Your Ten Moral Laws all by the grace of GOD, all through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ our Lord.  Help us to LOVE GOD and to LOVE OTHERS, always!

Help us, LORD. Bless us! Keep us in You!

So is the Kingdom

Mar 4:26  And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
Mar 4:27  And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Mar 4:28  For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
Mar 4:29  But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

The kingdom of God, this is our study and should be our study, it was Christ's gospel. Christ preached the kingdom of God over and over and over. The kingdom of God was to be a REALITY for everyone, not something fabled, not something passed down from generation to generation without much thought. The kingdom of God. No one should think of Christ without thinking about the Kingdom of God! He came to make it real to us! He came to make it possible for us. Christ's death and resurrection assured us of a place in His kingdom with Him.

The kingdom-

A seed cast to the ground.
A seed overnight springing up.
A seed growing.

As much as scientists can tear apart a seed and have explained away the hows and wherefores of how a seed grows, it is still amazing.  It's still miraculous.

The earth bringing forth fruit.
The blade.
The ear.
Then the corn in the ear.

Christ.
Christ's death.
Christ's resurrection.
Redemption of Christ's followers.

Christ's life, death, resurrection.
Acceptance and belief in Christ.
A new life in Christ here on earth.
A new life in the Kingdom of Heaven. 

Mar 4:30  And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?
Mar 4:31  It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
Mar 4:32  But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

A teeny tiny seed with potential that is unimaginable when you look at that tiny seed. How strange it is to imagine the huge tree from such a tiny beginning.

Our Savior - God born to a woman, an infant growing to manhood, a man grown to do God's will ushering in the Kingdom of Heaven.  The kingdom of heaven where all who would be His, where all who would choose love will be!

The kingdom of heaven.
The kingdom of God.

Our Savior Jesus  Christ, the kingdom of heaven!

The kingdom of heaven what a marvelous hope!

Living in this world we need the hope of heaven, we need the hope of life in Christ.

Please Lord, be our hope now and forever!

Do this in remembrance of me- remember the kingdom

Christ's last supper.

We all know about this because it's something that is extremely important.

Throughout the Bible, in the Old Testament, God gave to His chosen people various feasts and holy days.  When Christ came and things were changed the feasts were no longer necessary, no longer relevant.   Christ institute what we call the Lord's Supper-

Luk 22:16  For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
Luk 22:17  And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves:
Luk 22:18  For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
Luk 22:19  And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Luk 22:20  Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

This do in remembrance of me.

Act_2:46  And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house...

1Co 11:23  For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
1Co 11:24  And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
1Co 11:25  After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
1Co 11:26  For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
1Co 11:27  Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
1Co 11:28  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
1Co 11:29  For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
1Co 11:30  For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
1Co 11:31  For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
1Co 11:32  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
1Co 11:33  Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
1Co 11:34  And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

This command to 'This do in remembrance of me' is a Christ's instituted act that we are TOLD to perform.

Our Savior wanted us to NEVER forget His sacrifice.  And the reason for His sacrifice- to bring us into His kingdom!  He suffered and died for US to give us eternal life in His KINGDOM!!!!!!!

Read this...

Mat 26:27  And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
Mat 26:28  For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Mat 26:29  But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom

Christ would NOT DRINK the fruit of the vine until He drinks it with US IN HIS FATHER'S KINGDOM!

When we partake of the Lord's Supper, when we perform the action symbolizing the death, the sacrifice of our Savior, we should do this with the realization that one day we will do this very same thing WITH CHRIST HIMSELF, and it will be done IN THE KINGDOM!

No one should partake of the Lord's Supper without this realization. The connection to the Kingdom, our SAVIOR, giving His life, suffering so horrifically for us the REASON, Christ would have us in HIS KINGDOM. Christ WANTS us to be in His kingdom when He returns to bring us there with Him.

None of us can get into the kingdom without Christ!
Christ will return for us and bring us to the kingdom!

Christ and the kingdom- the two thoughts must be together.

Please LORD let us drink the fruit of the vine new with YOU in the FATHER'S KINGDOM! Please! We would be YOURS, we would be with YOU! Please KNOW us LORD, please!

All by Your amazing GRACE!
All by Your amazing LOVE!
All in YOU and YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS!

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!

The will of the Master

A servant doing the will of his Master.

We are the servants, Christ is our Master.

What is the will of the Master?  We have to do the will of our Master. If we are found doing our OWN will we are NOT servants of the Master, but servants of self and any servant of self is a servant of Satan, because Satan is the author of pride, Satan is the author of self-serving.

In the following parable our Savior explains this --

Mat 25:14  For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
Mat 25:15  And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.

Mat 25:16  Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
Mat 25:17  And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.
Mat 25:18  But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

Mat 25:19  After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
Mat 25:20  And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
Mat 25:21  His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

Mat 25:22  He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.
Mat 25:23  His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

Mat 25:24  Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
Mat 25:25  And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Mat 25:26  His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
Mat 25:27  Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Mat 25:28  Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.

Mat 25:29  For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

Mat 25:30  And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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Just as with the five virgins with extra oil, those that are filled with the Holy Spirit, those who are doing the will of God, the servants who used all their master gave them for Him are those that are going to be in God's kingdom.

God's will.

If we know God's will, if we know what our Savior would have us do then we are accountable to that. The servant who hid the single talent told the Master that he KNEW the Master.  And the Master came back and told that servant that he did know Him, and because he knew Him He should have done what he knew the Master would want him to do.  That servant did NOT do what the Master expected of him. Presuming to know better the servant did what he wanted to do and the servant mistakenly thought the Master would except that because he could give back what the Master gave him to begin with.  The Master did NOT give the talent in order to get it back. The Master did NOT give the talent for no purpose, if that were the case the Master could have kept the talent and the same would have been accomplished. The Master expected the servant to do His will.  The Master even told the servant that he could have done something SAFE with the money if that were his true intention, but he didn't even do that.  The Master didn't ask the servant to do something to put himself in jeopardy of the Master's displeasure. The Master wasn't trying to trick the servant.  The servant knew the Master's will, and decided to disobey that will.

Our Master, our Savior, would NEVER put our eternal life in jeopardy, never! We are to do the will of our Savior never thinking WE know better. We are to never tell our Savior that we know best. We have a clear cut guide in the Word of God as to our Savior's will, to do anything but His will is unacceptable and must be repented of. We cannot do our will and expect our Savior to accept us into His kingdom.  When He returns for us all will have been decided, we cannot presume to have sit down time with our Savior in order to explain ourselves to Him. We either do His will and He knows us because we are doing His will, or we do our own will and no sweet talking of ours will ever explain what is truly known to Christ.

To think that we can do our own will when Christ Himself came and did NOT His own will but the will of the Father, is lunacy.

Joh_5:30  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

Luk_22:42  Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

Truly some will be great men and women of God, and others will be mere shadows of those great men and women, but as long as we do God's will from the least to the greatest, we will be in His kingdom with Him! PRAISE GOD!

All glory to God!
May His kingdom come!
May His will be done!

Preached in all the world- the gospel of the kingdom

Preaching the gospel of the kingdom.

Mat 24:14  And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Mar 16:15  And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mar 16:16  He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Truth.

Jesus preached the gospel of the kingdom.
Jesus taught His disciples to preach the gospel of the kingdom.

IF the gospel of the kingdom is to be preached until the end of the world is close then would there ever come a time the preaching should stop?

We can't know the day nor the hour, but we can know the end is close by watching the signs Jesus has given to us.

There are signs to watch-

Rev 13:11  And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Rev 13:12  And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Rev 13:13  And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
Rev 13:14  And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Rev 13:15  And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Rev 13:16  And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17  And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Rev 13:18  Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Signs!

Cryptic signs, signs crouched in symbolism, signs that need interpreting, signs that call us to study deeply. 

We know these THINGS must come to pass. 

We can watch for these things, we can keep our eyes on the world and all that is happening in the world and we can pray, in this we can see the end of the world coming, we can know to be ready. 

The gospel has been preached in all the world. We know it has. Everywhere people have gone the gospel has gone with them. People might say there is a remote village somewhere that hasn't and we're just waiting for them to hear the gospel.  I personally don't believe it. I believe with our technology and our ability to go to everywhere in the world that the gospel has been preached.  We will never stop witnessing of Christ, never. Our lives are a witness. We live Christ if we have the gospel in our lives. If we live the truth Christ gives to us then we are witnesses to the gospel of the kingdom. What is the hope in us?

Col_1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory

Christ in US the hope of glory!

The gospel is being preached, the truth is being preached, the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God is being preached it is, and will be preached right up until the end of the world.

The kingdom of God is Christ crucified, it is Christ risen, it is Christ forgiving us, it is Christ's righteousness, it is CHRIST in us now and FOREVER.

Please, Lord, let us live with You in us!
Lord, let us live with YOU as a part of our lives so that You will never be separate from us. We would be with you ALWAYS. Please LORD, please let us be YOURS now and forever, now and in the kingdom!

In Your love!

The kingdom of heaven - shut

The kingdom of heaven- shut.

People want to believe the kingdom of heaven is open to all regardless of everything.  They do. People ultimately wish to believe that no matter the circumstances heaven, a hereafter, a life after dying will be theirs. Few people will desire an after life of nothingness. The idea is that no matter what you believe, you will have heaven.

Of course there are those who simply choose to believe there is absolutely no life at all after death's sleep, they don't even believe death is a sleep but an actual end.

Truly, people believe in all sorts of theories- none proven except…  Christianity.

I can say this is proven because of HISTORY.

Prophecies made thousands of years before coming to pass. 
Prophecies prove the truth.
Prophecies 100% true and history has proven this.

You don't have to believe me, or even believe the Bible, but I personally cannot ignore the facts. When we choose to ignore the truth, we are blinding ourselves. We are putting out our spiritual eyes. 

Many people have blinded themselves and more continue to do so. They blind themselves so they don't see the truth and therefore are not accountable to the truth.  The truth is a cross. The truth is self-denial.  The truth is Christ.

The kingdom of heaven can be shut to people.

Remember yesterday-

Mat 22:11  And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
Mat 22:12  And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
Mat 22:13  Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mat 22:14  For many are called, but few are chosen.

Denied the kingdom of heaven.

Luk 13:23  Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
Luk 13:24  Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Luk 13:25  When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
Luk 13:26  Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
Luk 13:27  But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
Luk 13:28  There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
Luk 13:29  And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Luk 13:30  And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.

This is truth.

The kingdom of heaven is not easily accessible, or rather, not evilly accessible.  It's only accessible through the righteousness of Christ.

Mat 23:13  But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

Jesus said- WOE unto the scribes and Pharisees.
Jesus called them HYPOCRITES.

Hypocrites are those who act one way but are really another. The scribes and Pharisees were supposed to be closest to God and yet they were the farthest away.

Jesus said the scribes and Pharisees shut up the kingdom of heaven so people CAN'T go in, and neither can they.

Jesus said these supposed men of God did not even want any to go into the kingdom of heaven.

The kingdom of heaven shut up.

The kingdom of heaven denied to people.

The truth shut up.

Satan does NOT want any to enter the kingdom of heaven and he'll do ALL he can to see that as many as he can stop from entering, he will stop.

Is the kingdom of heaven open to you?

Do you want the truth?!

Do you want spiritual sight?!

It's not easy! It's not the broad way!

It's the narrow way, it's the strait way, it's the way of the CROSS for all!

Please Lord, help us to have only Your truth! Please  keep our spiritual sight intact. Please Lord, we don't want to be blind. Please Lord, let us enter the kingdom of heaven, we would be YOURS. Please, Lord, by Your GRACE, Your LOVE.

Please forgive us.