There are those born of water and those born of spirit, Flesh originally born of water sees life as an opportunity for self. We have self interest, self determination, self justification, etc., forces of evil. Unlike our fellow creatures who are also self oriented for survival, we commonly take it a step further due to greed thanks to our knowledge of good and evil. Now imagine this selfish mind suddenly realizes we have it all backwards as God continually tells us, that our ways are contrary to His Kingdom, adversarial in nature. We reverse this self thing to become aware of the needs of others rather than getting gain from them at their personal expense, be it emotional or otherwise. You have been born into a new way of thinking that is opposite to the traditional ways of mankind. You are now more fitting for the Kingdom than for the world we have made in our own image. The spirit of the Kingdom is within you and you can spread it around you.
You have been saved from living the backwards lifestyle of mankind that leads nowhere and has achieved it's only rewards. In doing so you have put Gods will ahead of your own, and as a result you will love all as self and care for all as you would hope they would care for you if needed. Those are Jesus' two commandants. Jesus was a revolutionary simply because the kingdom of which He taught would run contrary to the ways and governments of man. He was not just another world ruler that the Jews were looking for or that would fit into the system of man.
Change yourself on a small scale like say Mother Teresa, or even the Red Cross, and no one will complain, but make it a movement and it becomes a threat to leaders and governments of man and they will shut you down like they did Jesus. From this you can see that in order for Christianity to have survived, it must have had to fit into the system of man, rejoined the world in order to have survived this long. It rejected the Kingdom and as we see in the parable of the sower, it fell among thorns and grew a hybrid grain. However God knows how to use for His own purpose the selfishness of man who seek power. Thankfully scripture came with the hybrid grain so the truth is still available, and if a person can't figure out for themselves that this world does it all wrong, then it is still in scripture to be gleaned along with examples from beginning to end of why we should follow the will of God rather than our own self serving will.
© ...timothyu
You have been saved from living the backwards lifestyle of mankind that leads nowhere and has achieved it's only rewards. In doing so you have put Gods will ahead of your own, and as a result you will love all as self and care for all as you would hope they would care for you if needed. Those are Jesus' two commandants. Jesus was a revolutionary simply because the kingdom of which He taught would run contrary to the ways and governments of man. He was not just another world ruler that the Jews were looking for or that would fit into the system of man.
Change yourself on a small scale like say Mother Teresa, or even the Red Cross, and no one will complain, but make it a movement and it becomes a threat to leaders and governments of man and they will shut you down like they did Jesus. From this you can see that in order for Christianity to have survived, it must have had to fit into the system of man, rejoined the world in order to have survived this long. It rejected the Kingdom and as we see in the parable of the sower, it fell among thorns and grew a hybrid grain. However God knows how to use for His own purpose the selfishness of man who seek power. Thankfully scripture came with the hybrid grain so the truth is still available, and if a person can't figure out for themselves that this world does it all wrong, then it is still in scripture to be gleaned along with examples from beginning to end of why we should follow the will of God rather than our own self serving will.
© ...timothyu