The Unshakable Kingdom and the Absolute Person
Now here comes together two uniquenesses--two absolute uniquenesses: The Unshakable Kingdom and the absolute Person. It is a sign of our having lost the Kingdom of God as the working force and the working conception of the citizen's faith in that Person.
Definition: Conception--The beginning of some process, chain of events, etc. 2) the act, process or power of conceiving mentally; formulation of ideas, especially of abstractions 3) an original idea, design, plan, general notion, concept.
Please note: Mahatma Gandhi put forth the conception of Rama Rajya; the kingdom of Rama, a Hindu hero, as his objective in the struggle for independence. But it has faded away, for it lacked content and illustration. It was entirely Hindu, a religion and nationalistic. This single and faint attempt to produce something to match the Kingdom of God is an excellent example of the lack of such a conception and proposal in any mal-functional citizen's alternative.
Definition: A mal-fuctional citizen is a citizen that isn't in good standing with the king. One that isn't filled with the Holy Spirit. One that fails to live and obey the King's principles and laws.
Now the citizen who has embraced the concept of the Kingdom as an organized system, while it inherited the Kingdom of God, is not complete without also embracing the Absolute Person of Jesus Christ. The Kingdom of God is absolute, the church is relative --relative to something beyond itself, the Kingdom. The Kingdom judges and redeems the church, and the church is potent to the degree that it obeys the Kingdom and embodies the life and spirit of the Kingdom.
Definition: Conception--The beginning of some process, chain of events, etc. 2) the act, process or power of conceiving mentally; formulation of ideas, especially of abstractions 3) an original idea, design, plan, general notion, concept.
Please note: Mahatma Gandhi put forth the conception of Rama Rajya; the kingdom of Rama, a Hindu hero, as his objective in the struggle for independence. But it has faded away, for it lacked content and illustration. It was entirely Hindu, a religion and nationalistic. This single and faint attempt to produce something to match the Kingdom of God is an excellent example of the lack of such a conception and proposal in any mal-functional citizen's alternative.
Definition: A mal-fuctional citizen is a citizen that isn't in good standing with the king. One that isn't filled with the Holy Spirit. One that fails to live and obey the King's principles and laws.
Now the citizen who has embraced the concept of the Kingdom as an organized system, while it inherited the Kingdom of God, is not complete without also embracing the Absolute Person of Jesus Christ. The Kingdom of God is absolute, the church is relative --relative to something beyond itself, the Kingdom. The Kingdom judges and redeems the church, and the church is potent to the degree that it obeys the Kingdom and embodies the life and spirit of the Kingdom.
Definitions: Absolute--perfect in quality or nature; not mixed; pure; infinite Relative--considered in comparison with something else; dependent or interconnected with something else
Focus Point: Keep in mind, the church is not the end in itself, the Kingdom is the end. Jesus never stated, "May the church come on earth as it is in heaven". He stated, "The Kingdom come... on earth..." He made the Kingdom and His Will identical: "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."
Keep in mind, Jewish broke the Jewish mold and universalized the Kingdom of God; so He broke the organized religions and made the Kingdom of God open to everyone who would bring forth good fruits.
During His last days here on earth, Jesus relentlessly and decisively took the mask off the face of organized religion. Besides, all that religion does is to be recognized by the public.
Constitutional Scripture: Matthew 23:5 But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.
Definition: Phylacteries--1) Judaism, either of two small black leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4-9 of Deuteronomy 6; 13-21 of Deuteronomy 11; 1-16 of Exodus 13. One is attached with strips to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men. 2) (in the early church) a receptacle containing a holy relic.
Please note: Verse five referred to the personnel of the organized system of religion. The system itself centering in the temple went down under the withering words: "See! Your house is left to you desolate" ~~Constitutional Scripture Matthew 23:38
So the personnel and the place crumbled into a wailing wall; then and now. Keep in mind, His own little flock crumbled under the onslaught of the Crucifixion, one betrayed Him, another denied Him: "they all forsook and fled," And yet Jesus the Christ and His Kingdom stood intact, unshaken. "Art thou a king then?" asked Pilate, the voice of imperial might. Jesus softly and quietly said: "You have said it".
The King and the Kingdom were unshaken, and the resurrection put its stamp of approval on the unshakable Kingdom and the unshakable King.
Focus Point: Keep in mind, the church is not the end in itself, the Kingdom is the end. Jesus never stated, "May the church come on earth as it is in heaven". He stated, "The Kingdom come... on earth..." He made the Kingdom and His Will identical: "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."
Keep in mind, Jewish broke the Jewish mold and universalized the Kingdom of God; so He broke the organized religions and made the Kingdom of God open to everyone who would bring forth good fruits.
During His last days here on earth, Jesus relentlessly and decisively took the mask off the face of organized religion. Besides, all that religion does is to be recognized by the public.
Constitutional Scripture: Matthew 23:5 But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.
Definition: Phylacteries--1) Judaism, either of two small black leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4-9 of Deuteronomy 6; 13-21 of Deuteronomy 11; 1-16 of Exodus 13. One is attached with strips to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men. 2) (in the early church) a receptacle containing a holy relic.
Please note: Verse five referred to the personnel of the organized system of religion. The system itself centering in the temple went down under the withering words: "See! Your house is left to you desolate" ~~Constitutional Scripture Matthew 23:38
So the personnel and the place crumbled into a wailing wall; then and now. Keep in mind, His own little flock crumbled under the onslaught of the Crucifixion, one betrayed Him, another denied Him: "they all forsook and fled," And yet Jesus the Christ and His Kingdom stood intact, unshaken. "Art thou a king then?" asked Pilate, the voice of imperial might. Jesus softly and quietly said: "You have said it".
The King and the Kingdom were unshaken, and the resurrection put its stamp of approval on the unshakable Kingdom and the unshakable King.
