Luke
Jesus said-
{12:31} But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Luke
Jesus said-
{11:20} But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
Luke
Jesus said-
{11:2} And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
Luke
Jesus said-
{10:9} And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. {10:10} But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say, {10:11} Even the very dust of your city, which
cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
{12:32} Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
SEEK the the kingdom of God.
Jesus is the kingdom of God.
We need to seek Jesus and if we seek Jesus, if we truly seek Jesus all things will be added unto us, things that matter to enternity not this life.
Seeking Jesus.
If we've lost something we search for it.
If we are seeking knowledge we study for it.
If we seek to find something precious to us don't we sometimes even tear the house apart to find it?
Don't some people go to rack and ruin trying to search for things- buried treasures? Archeology is a whole field of searching for things buried in the past. Researchers seek answers to whatever their research may be. We have scientist searching for cures to diseases. The list of those who seek is really endless.
We seek our pleasure, our contentment. When we are young we often are thrill seekers looking for the next bit of pleasure life can give us. The youthful are prone to experimenting with all sorts of things to find their treasures of pleasure. As they mature most find that having contentment is more important than thrills.
We seek to find contentment, we seek to find self-peace. A lot of what we do is geared for just getting by without anything rocking our boats.
We need to SEEK the kingdom of God.
We need to Seek Jesus.
Jesus is not a person we can find and say, 'Here He is! Found Him, time to stop looking.'
Like a knowledge seeker, people who seek Jesus will never get to a point they know all there is to know and there is no more to learn. When someone seeking knowledge on a particular subject searches and searches and perhaps exhausts all written media, all visual media, all auditory media they can find on that subject they'll often be able to branch off from that subject to another and then it starts all over again constant searching.
This is a way of life and this is something that fulfills the need people have or can have as they find a satisfaction in the searching and finding. We need to seek the kingdom of God, we need to seek Jesus. We can't find Jesus in the same way would could find another person, we need to seek Jesus and God, we need to seek the kingdom and it's a seeking we need to begin knowing that it will go on right into eternity.
By the grace of God, by the mercy of Jesus Christ we can seek the kingdom, seek the knowledge of life everlasting through Jesus, by the will of our God we seek to know Love and the author, the Creator of life, of love.
Amen.
4/27/10
1Co 15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
1Co 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
1Co 15:27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
1Co 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Has death been destroyed? No. Death is all around us, we live in its shadow every day. Death of people, death of animals, death in all its seeming finality. Experts rate death as the number one stress inducer in people. If you've had a death of a loved one recently you are ranked right up at the top of those experiencing high stress. Death takes things away from us. Death steals from us. Yesterday we talked a little about death being a sleep so those that are taken from us by death are only taken temporarily. We will be reunited with them into a life we can only imagine, incorruptible life, bodies of incorruption. Those of us who are middle aged notice the effects of a corruptible body more so than those who are young. We see the wrinkles, we notice the effects of aging and for us in our corruptible state those are signs of our inevitable demise. I'm not trying to be morbid, just realistic. People spend a lot of money trying to stay the hands of time on them, trying to keep the inevitable corruption of the body at bay. No one likes the reminder of their finite state, that death is going to meet them even if they live to be 100 years old, no one has defeated death except a very few of God's chosen. Christ experienced death and has the power over death and as the Bible says-- the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. God shall be all in all. This is the day I long for the day when the end comes, the day death is destroyed, the day God is all in all without any exception.
By the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior may we see the day of His coming, may we be alive and changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye putting on incorruption without seeing death. May this be the will of God by the grace of Jesus, through the sacrifice, by the righteousness of our Savior now and forever.
1Co 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
1Co 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1Co 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1Co 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1Co 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
1Co 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
1Co 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen!
4/27/11
What is the measure of our covetousness?