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In talking to the Apostles and disciples in the Olive Garden (the mount, not the restaurant) Jesus spoke of caring for each other including our enemies, just as He cared for us and as we would hope others would care for us. A final of two previous commandments which basically said, put the will...
What has happened to society? How in the last 50 years have we lost sight of true values? It's not just morals that have changed or how responsibilities have turned into rights. My point is, isn't it amazing how people seem to have forgotten the real meaning of words such as community or...
Institution builders are no different than those who build financial empires today. Gentile Christianity had become the beginnings of Corporatism where sects were absorbed or removed as the institution grew, eventually reaching power status when it merged with the Roman Empire as a power and...
The Bible as we know it is nothing but a compilation of biographies, letters, history and teachings... manuscripts especially of the New Testament that the people in the first century lived through and were a part of, and were aware of them as having been written as individual uncompiled...
All we need to know is written in scripture. We certainly do not need yet another government of man to control us when the whole purpose of the Gospel of the Kingdom as Jesus taught it (and is written in scripture) is to set us free from the governance of our fellow man, including within...
The people who had once aligned themselves with Christianity had no access to scripture for centuries. The books had become the property of the gentile churches who controlled the narrative within their institutions, promoting their own dogma, theology, and ritual instead of the simple knowledge...
Come this time of year, we often hear from some Christians that if the non birthday fans want a Christ free holiday saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas, then they should go and make one of their own. Well, I believe they already had before the more recent addons. It involves Santa...
What sets those of the Kingdom apart? The same thing Jesus said sets us apart from the many, a change in attitude from worldly to Kingdom. Two opposing natures. Look around. Which one is predominant even within Christianity, where the world takes lead and the Kingdom remains the narrow path...
No person is free from preconceived notions, considering the world has laid it's trip on mankind since birth. The Bible is a book built upon the contrast between the Kingdom and the world of man which we have made in our own image. Which viewpoint will have the upper hand in reading about the...
Jesus said that God is within us and we need to see beyond our limiting self in order to connect with Him within. Non-believers interpret it in different ways, seeing their oneness with the cosmos or as a quantum thing; not seeing God, but merely matter.
Unfortunately there are also those...
All in nature is under His command.. unless you think the weather has attained free will.
©... timothyu
Most people think church as being a building for gathering or as a large organization built around a concept, but the concept of church got twisted when man reintroduced a government into it. Man likes to form governments while the Father says His is the only government we need. The two don't...
His will is that we spend more time on following His will than our own, which brings up an often overlooked point. Jesus said His gospel, His only good news, was the Gospel of the Kingdom which He mentions at least 70 times in the four books and Paul preached the same gospel constantly as...
People have advanced a word of caution to those who supposedly go forth with their gifts as it may lead to an unhealthy situation of pride or self-righteousness.
Especially unhealthy for those also whose gifts teach the counter-culture of the Kingdom and have to contend with Lord Lords who are...
Our ways are contrary to the ways of God and His governance/Kingdom. Luke 16:15, James 4:4 Jesus told us to repent of that attitude and return to the governance of God in heart and mind rather than continue on in the self indulgence of our ways, in doing so reversing the choice Eve once made...
That lamb became a shepherd. Man was never to learn, or more appropriately, to be led in large groups because right away someone would institutionalize it, organize it. Someone always seeks to rule over others. We have enough governments. The original purpose of gathering was to encourage one...
Jesus taught the Gospel of the Kingdom. How many of you immersed in a world that expects you to play by it's rules, can appreciate what that actually means? It wasn't just the teachings themselves, but what Jesus taught was seen as revolutionary to it's time and all times since including today...
Jesus said of the Father, "Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven". We are commanded to put His will before our own, thus loving all (including enemies) as self. Do you see His will at work in the world around you? Do you see it on your tv's in the programs, commercials, and especially...
Christianity is full of tares, especially in the clergy. Nothing is free from the influence of the Adversary. Discernment is a must. Do they demand allegiance to God or instead to their church or denomination and to their authourity? The two are not the same. Do they claim to speak for God or do...
We have gone through many periods of upheaval, not just wars but societal change. We could start lets say, when Jesus came and presented us with a revolutionary counter-culture which did not divide the world of man itself as man is prone to do, but instead set the entire world of man apart from...