The God of the Kingdom and His Concept
To those of you who are going through some changes concerning the Kingdom concept, please note that it is the only message that Jesus delivered to this world. From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. He never taught on getting rich, as many of the leaders are doing in today's world. The Gospel of the Kingdom was his focus or priority. What He did express to us was not to worry concerning stuff and things of everyday life.
“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
If we put our priorities in order, the King will take care of all our needs. Obeying His Word should always be in the forefront of our thoughts.
The concept of the Kingdom was not invented by mankind but was the first form of government, and was introduced by the Creator God. This concept appears first in the book of Genesis, in God's Constitution at the creation of Adam. Adam's original assignment from his Creator was a Kingdom assignment.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
God's plan for man was to extend His heavenly kingdom (government) to the earth through the principle of colonization. Man's assignment was to establish the influence and culture of heaven on earth by representing the nature, values and morality of God in this earth. In this way, the Lord God's heavenly rule would manifest itself on the earth through His extended image in mankind. This was the first Kingdom: Yahweh, the King, extending His Heavenly Kingdom to this earth through His offspring--man. This is a wonderful story and message of God's Constitution, not a religion, but a royal family.
Since the fall of man, he has tried to imitate this concept of the kingdom, but through history, man's every attempt to establish a heavenly kingdom on this earth has failed. This is why religious governments always fail. Whether they be Islam, Hindu, Christianity or any other form of religion. It is for this reason that God Himself had to come to planet earth to bring the heavenly kingdom back to this planet. The earth cannot give rise to the Kingdom of Heaven independently; the Kingdom of Heaven must issue forth from heaven.
Please note: Man lost a kingdom and a kingdom is what he is looking for. Jesus came to bring the Kingdom of Heaven back to this earth, not to establish a religion. Mankind seeks not a religion, but the Kingdom we lost so long ago.
Matthew 4:17, 23 Matthew 6:25-34 Genesis 1:26
~~W.R. Luchie
www.kingdomcitizens.org
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“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
If we put our priorities in order, the King will take care of all our needs. Obeying His Word should always be in the forefront of our thoughts.
The concept of the Kingdom was not invented by mankind but was the first form of government, and was introduced by the Creator God. This concept appears first in the book of Genesis, in God's Constitution at the creation of Adam. Adam's original assignment from his Creator was a Kingdom assignment.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
God's plan for man was to extend His heavenly kingdom (government) to the earth through the principle of colonization. Man's assignment was to establish the influence and culture of heaven on earth by representing the nature, values and morality of God in this earth. In this way, the Lord God's heavenly rule would manifest itself on the earth through His extended image in mankind. This was the first Kingdom: Yahweh, the King, extending His Heavenly Kingdom to this earth through His offspring--man. This is a wonderful story and message of God's Constitution, not a religion, but a royal family.
Since the fall of man, he has tried to imitate this concept of the kingdom, but through history, man's every attempt to establish a heavenly kingdom on this earth has failed. This is why religious governments always fail. Whether they be Islam, Hindu, Christianity or any other form of religion. It is for this reason that God Himself had to come to planet earth to bring the heavenly kingdom back to this planet. The earth cannot give rise to the Kingdom of Heaven independently; the Kingdom of Heaven must issue forth from heaven.
Please note: Man lost a kingdom and a kingdom is what he is looking for. Jesus came to bring the Kingdom of Heaven back to this earth, not to establish a religion. Mankind seeks not a religion, but the Kingdom we lost so long ago.
Matthew 4:17, 23 Matthew 6:25-34 Genesis 1:26
~~W.R. Luchie
www.kingdomcitizens.org
This article may only be reproduced, in print or on the internet, if the author's name and website address are included at the end of the article as originally placed. Thank you
