LIVING IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD, APRIL 21, 2022

From: Paul Gage

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LIVING IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD, APRIL 21, 2022

 

Greetings to the Saints Around the World,

 

We hope and trust that everyone had a meaningful Resurrection Sunday and all that goes with it from a spiritual viewpoint. I’m sure that we are all aware, as we think of living in the Kingdom of God, that the world, as a whole, is somewhat off track. That is with every aspect of Jesus Christ, who He is, what He is and the few years He lived in the Kingdom of God while on the earth and what He taught.

 

To the one person in Mark 12:33-39 who said that there is one God, and there is none other but him. And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength; and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, JESUS said to him, “Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.”

 

So, in our daily lives, in the Kingdom of God, though still in the flesh and the world, how do we line up with the Scribe, who asked Jesus the question? Jesus told the man that he was not far from the kingdom of God. Jesus was God in the flesh. Jesus was the kingdom of God on earth. The man was probably within six feet of Jesus, so he was not far from the Kingdom of God. Disregarding, for a moment our modern interpretation of “social distancing,” the masks, vaccines, etc. we might ask ourselves, “How far we from Jesus?

 

We know the plan of God, the sacrifice He made in sending Jesus, the sacrifice and suffering of our Lord and Savior. We know what God expects from each of us, if we are to have place in His Kingdom when he returns in His Glory. Our daily challenge, ir-regardless of what others do or don’t do, is to live our lives in total obedience to all of God’s commandments. Man says it can’t be done. God says, DO IT! The closer we are to Jesus now means we should be closer when he returns.

The following is one of my favorite songs about Jesus. LAMB OF GOD

Your only Son no sin to hide
But You have sent Him from Your side
To walk upon this guilty sod
And to become the Lamb of God

 

Your gift of love they crucified
They laughed and scorned Him as he died
The humble King they named a fraud
And sacrificed the Lamb of God

 

Oh Lamb of God, Sweet lamb of God, 

I love the Holy Lamb of God
Oh wash me in His precious Blood, 

My Jesus Christ the Lamb of God

I was so lost I should have died

But You have brought me to Your side

To be led by Your staff and rod
And to be called a lamb of God

 

Oh Lamb of God, Sweet lamb of God, 

I love the Holy Lamb of God
Oh wash me in His precious Blood, 

My Jesus Christ the Lamb of God

 

God Bless

Paul Gage