The Apostle says all scripture is given for our edification, for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instructions in righteousness that we may be complete lacking nothing. The Lord says it is given to us to understand the mysteries of the Kingdom of God but for others it is not given. in this series I hope to be able to outline the basis for understanding the word so that to us the whole bible would be a synopsis of truth rather than patches of disjointed passages each struggling for preeminence.
The patterns and basis for Revelation (23)
We have been working on the premise that the Gospel of the grace of God which the Lord gave unto Paul the apostle was a door to the Gentiles to come into the Kingdom of God. Once we get into the Kingdom of God we discover that there is a king in the House who demands our total loving obedience to Him. We do not have what it takes to obey, we thus give up in death so that He may live His life through us. The Gospel of the grace of God emphasizes grace and righteousness by faith as a basis of our relationship with God but not as the totality of our experience in God. In other words we must move on to other things as citizens of the Kingdom of God. These other things have to do with the Gospel of the Kingdom of God that the Lord began to preach and that He delivered into the hands of His apostles. The Gospel of the Kingdom focuses directly on the eternal purpose of God in preparing His Bride for THE perfection. It is at the instance of this perfection that the Lord will come for His bride. As long as we focus only on the Gospel of the grace of God and we glory only in faith towards God AND ITS ACCOMPANYING TESTIMONIES we remain at the very rudiments of Christianity and therefore are prevented from entering into the INNER CHAMBERS just like the 5 foolish virgins. It is therefore my task to explain to you that the apostle Paul in his letters to the Church did not stop at righteousness by faith and all the redemptive rights and privileges available to us by the blood of Jesus but that he went further to usher us into the perfection of Christ SO THAT WE MAY BECOME THAT BRIDE WHICH THE LORD SEEKS.
The Conclusion of the whole matter
I hope is some little ways that I have been able to give you some light and been able to lead you on to further studies on this matter. Christ came for a Kingdom. It is none other than the Kingdom of this world. In the bid to get the Kingdom, He must first of all get a people to Himself that would be exactly like Him. These are the ones that would reign with Him. They are the ones that the bible calls THE BRIDE.
He started His venture of getting a people to Himself by calling Abraham. Through him He set up a nation. This nation was used as a type of prophecy of His larger plan to take out of every nation, race and tongue a people for Himself.
To this people He came and announced the coming of the Kingdom. The first apostles limited the spiritual and physical expressions of the Kingdom to the Jews.
Later on the Lord sent Paul to the Gentiles to call forth a people to himself in fulfillment of His plan. Paul declared to his hearers that the Lord has taken the sins of humanity away by His cross and that we should therefore receive the grace of God that comes by faith in the death and the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
As soon as we obtain this righteousness by faith we meet the Lord Jesus who prepares us for the coming of His Kingdom in us and in the nations of the earth.
The kingdom must come in us before it comes on the Kingdoms of the earth. We must be dressed in white and made ready before we can sit with the Lord in and reign.
God is going beyond the righteousness of faith to get us into the responsibilities of citizens of the Kingdom. It is the assumption of these responsibilities that prepare us to being the bride that He seeks.
This is the program of God. God’s program is not about how many jets we have or whether we own a land or not. God is not concerned about who built this or that church. God is not interested in how many members this or that pastor has got.
God is concerned about building us and bringing us to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Focusing only on the gospel of the grace of God lulls us to sleep because it foists no yokes on us and leave us with no burden at all. Without a yoke and a burden we remain children forever. We cannot come into the Father’s secret place. We cannot partake of the marriage supper of the Lamb. We cannot become like Him
My hope is that we shall leave the realms of children and move on unto perfection. My regards!
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I have chosen not to put so many bible passages in the articles so we could 1. Have a smooth read 2. Do further study by ourselves.
However the study shall soon be edited and made into a book. We do not sell our books for profit. If we sell at all you can be sure that not a penny of profit shall be put on top of it. I am convinced not to sell the books I have written because the apostles of the Lord did not sell the epistles we read today.
TOMORROW! WE MOVE ONTO OUR NEXT STUDY: "GIVE US THIS DAY...(OUR DAILY BREAD)"- using the templates of the sabbatic days we will endeavour to look into how God meets our basic, daily needs, project needs and long term needs.
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