TIME-SPACE-IMAGE-SHADOW: The Faith of Jesus [GODs OmniPresence: Our Father Who ART in Heaven + Vision of Four Cherubim] + The Universal Father [The Father - I AM, The Father - Infinite, The GOD of Gods] Isaiah 44:6 Thus says The LORD [YHWH, ESET: The Planetary KING], The King of Israel and His Redeemer [Lord Jesus: The Planetary Prince: Elohim Ra Xerxes], The Lord of Hosts: I AM the first and I AM the last, And there is no God besides Me. 7 Who is like Me? Let him proclaim and declare it; Yes, let him recount it to Me in order, From the time that I established the ancient nation. And let them declare to them the things that are coming And the events that are going to take place. John 10:30 “I and my Father, We are One.” https://youtube/watch?v=qx8fBTjOPDw (117.1) 10:8.9 Only Infinity can disclose The Father-Infinite. hebrew4christians/Names_of_G-d/YHVH/yhvh.html | (QRN 5:72-73 ALLAH {الرحمن Ar-Raḥmān, ArR-aḥm-ān, RMN} {الحي Al-Ḥayy, Al-YyaH, The LIVING} HIS ABODE IS FIRE) | YHWH: THE INEFFABLE, UNUTTERABLE, UNPRONOUNCABLE NAME: THE NAME OF REMEMBRANCE FOR ALL GENERATIONS https://youtube/watch?v=GckQeK_hQAU Sermon on the Kingdom | (1535.7) 137:8.1 On Sabbath, June 22, shortly before they went out on their first preaching tour and about ten days after John’s imprisonment, Jesus occupied the synagogue pulpit for the second time since bringing his apostles to Capernaum. https://youtube/watch?v=1wiBtYITrxM (1535.8) 137:8.2 A few days before the preaching of this sermon on “The Kingdom,” as Jesus was at work in the boatshop, Peter brought him the news of John’s arrest. Jesus laid down his tools once more, removed his apron, and said to Peter: “The Father’s hour has come. Let us make ready to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom.” (1535.9) 137:8.3 Jesus did his last work at the carpenter bench on this Tuesday, June 18, A.D. 26. Peter rushed out of the shop and by midafternoon had rounded up all of his associates, and leaving them in a grove by the shore, he went in quest of Jesus. But he could not find him, for the Master had gone to a different grove to pray. And they did not see him until late that evening when he returned to Zebedee’s house and asked for food. The next day he sent his brother James to ask for the privilege of speaking in the synagogue the coming Sabbath day. And the ruler of the synagogue was much pleased that Jesus was again willing to conduct the service. (1536.1) 137:8.4 Before Jesus preached this memorable sermon on the kingdom of God, the first pretentious effort of his public career, he read from the Scriptures these passages: “You will be to me a kingdom of priests, a holy people. Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh [YHWH] is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king; He will save us. Yahweh is my King and my GOD. He is a great king over all the earth. Loving-kindness is upon Israel in this kingdom. Blessed be the Glory of The LORD for He is our King.” https://youtube/watch?v=MDCbJ4vnMNg (1536.2) 137:8.5 When he had finished reading, Jesus said: (1536.3) 137:8.6 “I have come to proclaim the establishment of the Father’s kingdom. And this kingdom will include the worshiping souls of Jew and gentile, rich and poor, free and bond, for my Father is no respecter of persons; his love and his mercy are over all. (1536.4) 137:8.7 “The Father in heaven sends his spirit to indwell the minds of men, and when I will have finished my work on earth, likewise will the Spirit of Truth be poured out upon all flesh. And the spirit of my Father and the Spirit of Truth will establish you in the coming kingdom of spiritual understanding and divine righteousness. My kingdom is not of this world. The Son of Man will not lead forth armies in battle for the establishment of a throne of power or a kingdom of worldly glory. When my kingdom will have come, you will know the Son of Man as the Prince of Peace, the revelation of the everlasting Father. The children of this world fight for the establishment and enlargement of the kingdoms of this world, but my disciples will enter the kingdom of heaven by their moral decisions and by their spirit victories; and when they once enter therein, they will find joy, righteousness, and eternal life. (1536.5) 137:8.8 “Those who first seek to enter the kingdom, thus beginning to strive for a nobility of character like that of my Father, will presently possess all else that is needful. But I say to you in all sincerity: Unless you seek entrance into the kingdom with the faith and trusting dependence of a little child, you will in no wise gain admission. (1536.6) 137:8.9 “Be not deceived by those who come saying here is the kingdom or there is the kingdom, for my Father’s kingdom concerns not things visible and material. And this kingdom is even now among you, for where the spirit of God teaches and leads the soul of man, there in reality is the kingdom of heaven. And this kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. (1536.7) 137:8.10 “John did indeed baptize you in token of repentance and for the remission of your sins, but when you enter the heavenly kingdom, you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. (1536.8) 137:8.11 “In my Father’s kingdom there will be neither Jew nor gentile, only those who seek perfection through service, for I declare that he who would be great in my Father’s kingdom must first become server of all. If you are willing to serve your fellows, you will sit down with me in my kingdom, even as, by serving in the similitude of the creature, I will presently sit down with my Father in his kingdom. (1536.9) 137:8.12 “This new kingdom is like a seed growing in the good soil of a field. It does not attain full fruit quickly. There is an interval of time between the establishment of the kingdom in the soul of man and that hour when the kingdom ripens into the full fruit of everlasting righteousness and eternal salvation. (1536.10) 137:8.13 “And this kingdom which I declare to you is not a reign of power and plenty. The kingdom of heaven is not a matter of meat and drink but rather a life of progressive righteousness and increasing joy in the perfecting service of my Father who is in heaven. For has not the Father said of his children of the world, ‘It is my will that they should eventually be perfect, even as I am perfect.’ (1537.1) 137:8.14 “I have come to preach the glad tidings of the kingdom. I have not come to add to the heavy burdens of those who would enter this kingdom. I proclaim the new and better way, and those who are able to enter the coming kingdom will enjoy the divine rest. And whatever it will cost you in the things of the world, no matter what price you may pay to enter the kingdom of heaven, you will receive manyfold more of joy and spiritual progress in this world, and in the age to come eternal life. (1537.2) 137:8.15 “Entrance into the Father’s kingdom waits not upon marching armies, upon overturned kingdoms of this world, nor upon the breaking of captive yokes. The kingdom of heaven is at hand, and all who enter therein will find abundant liberty and joyous salvation. (1537.3) 137:8.16 “This kingdom is an everlasting dominion. Those who enter the kingdom will ascend to my Father; they will certainly attain the right hand of his glory in Paradise. And all who enter the kingdom of heaven will become the sons of God, and in the age to come so will they ascend to the Father. And I have not come to call the would-be righteous but sinners and all who hunger and thirst for the righteousness of divine perfection. (1537.4) 137:8.17 “John came preaching repentance to prepare you for the kingdom; now have I come proclaiming faith, the gift of God, as the price of entrance into the kingdom of heaven. If you would but believe that my Father loves you with an infinite love, then you are in the kingdom of God.” (2092.1) 196:2.3 Mark, Matthew, and Luke retain something of the picture of the human Jesus as he engaged in the superb struggle to ascertain the divine will and to do that will. John presents a picture of the triumphant Jesus as he walked on earth in the full consciousness of divinity. The great mistake that has been made by those who have studied the Master’s life is that some have conceived of him as entirely human, while others have thought of him as only divine. Throughout his entire experience he was truly both human and divine, even as he yet is. (2092.2) 196:2.4 But the greatest mistake was made in that, while the human Jesus was recognized as having a religion, the divine Jesus (Christ) almost overnight became a religion. Paul’s Christianity made sure of the adoration of the divine Christ, but it almost wholly lost sight of the struggling and valiant human Jesus of Galilee, who, by the valor of his personal religious faith and the heroism of his indwelling Adjuster, ascended from the lowly levels of humanity to become one with divinity, thus becoming the new and living way whereby all mortals may so ascend from humanity to divinity. Mortals in all stages of spirituality and on all worlds may find in the personal life of Jesus that which will strengthen and inspire them as they progress from the lowest spirit levels up to the highest divine values, from the beginning to the end of all personal religious experience. (2092.3) 196:2.5 At the time of the writing of the New Testament, the authors not only most profoundly believed in the divinity of the risen Christ, but they also devotedly and sincerely believed in his immediate return to earth to consummate the heavenly kingdom. This strong faith in the Lord’s immediate return had much to do with the tendency to omit from the record those references which portrayed the purely human experiences and attributes of the Master. The whole Christian movement tended away from the human picture of Jesus of Nazareth toward the exaltation of the risen Christ, the glorified and soon-returning Lord Jesus Christ. (2092.4) 196:2.6 Jesus founded the religion of personal experience in doing The Will of GOD and serving the human brotherhood; Paul founded a religion in which the glorified Jesus became the object of worship and the brotherhood consisted of fellow believers in the divine Christ. In the bestowal of Jesus these two concepts were potential in his divine-human life, and it is indeed a pity that his followers failed to create a unified religion which might have given proper recognition to both the human and the divine natures of the Master as they were inseparably bound up in his earth life and so gloriously set forth in the original gospel of the kingdom. https://youtube/watch?v=t6TRwfxDICM
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