What is your personal strategy for carrying out your King's Garden Expansion Program? When I first accepted Christ as my Lord and King, I possessed a religious mindset. I was told to give out religious tracts and try to win other people to Christ. What I have learned through the Kingdom is that if your behavior doesn't show others the Kingdom, then duct tape your mouth! If your behavior doesn't reach the level of your compassion, or the reading material you are handing out, all you will do is hinder others from coming to Christ.
We must not use the methods or ways of the world's system because the world's ways are at odds with the ways of the Kingdom. The world operates through self-promotion and the pursuit of selfish ambition. I see this every day through many pastors, prophets, apostles and church leaders who claim to know God. The Kingdom operates by different principles. There was an incident involving two of Jesus' disciples, who gave Him the opportunity to teach all of them about greatness and advancement in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Then the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus with her sons. She knelt respectfully to ask a favor. “What is your request?” he asked.
She replied, “In your Kingdom, please let my two sons sit in places of honor next to you, one on your right and the other on your left.”
But Jesus answered by saying to them, “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of suffering I am about to drink?”
“Oh yes,” they replied, “we are able!”
Jesus told them, “You will indeed drink from my bitter cup. But I have no right to say who will sit on my right or my left. My Father has prepared those places for the ones he has chosen.”
When the ten other disciples heard what James and John had asked, they were indignant. But Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their people, and officials flaunt their authority over those under them. But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must become your slave. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
With these words, Jesus clearly and permanently distinguished their life and ways from those of the world system.
Matthew 20:20-28
~~W.R. Luchie
We must not use the methods or ways of the world's system because the world's ways are at odds with the ways of the Kingdom. The world operates through self-promotion and the pursuit of selfish ambition. I see this every day through many pastors, prophets, apostles and church leaders who claim to know God. The Kingdom operates by different principles. There was an incident involving two of Jesus' disciples, who gave Him the opportunity to teach all of them about greatness and advancement in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Then the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus with her sons. She knelt respectfully to ask a favor. “What is your request?” he asked.
She replied, “In your Kingdom, please let my two sons sit in places of honor next to you, one on your right and the other on your left.”
But Jesus answered by saying to them, “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of suffering I am about to drink?”
“Oh yes,” they replied, “we are able!”
Jesus told them, “You will indeed drink from my bitter cup. But I have no right to say who will sit on my right or my left. My Father has prepared those places for the ones he has chosen.”
When the ten other disciples heard what James and John had asked, they were indignant. But Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their people, and officials flaunt their authority over those under them. But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must become your slave. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
With these words, Jesus clearly and permanently distinguished their life and ways from those of the world system.
Matthew 20:20-28
~~W.R. Luchie
