WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES: WHO IS ADVANCING IN THE WORLD, THE LIGHT OR THE DARKNESS? Pr Josimar Salum
THIS IS A BIBLE STUDY FOR YOU TO APPRECIATE AND SHARE IT TO EVERYONE.
“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except he be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3 KJV
Born again to see the Kingdom.
Born again to enter the Kingdom.
What do you see? Do you see the visible world or do you see the Kingdom of God?
20 “When asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus answered them: The kingdom of God does not come with a visible appearance.
21 Nor will they say: Here he is! Or: There it is! For the kingdom of God is within you.” Luke 17:20-21
5 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
6 ACKNOWLEDGE HIM IN ALL YOUR WAYS, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6
Observations on the worldview of believers in general. What the collective consciousness disseminates. What really is the Truth about God’s actions on Earth?
“Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil.” Proverbs 3:7
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God;” Matthew 5:8
“I advise you to buy from me gold tried in the fire, that you may become rich, and white robes, that you may be clothed, and the shame of your nakedness may not appear; and EYESHAVES TO anoint your eyes, that you may see.” Revelation 3:18
16 “Therefore we do not faint; but even though our outer man becomes corrupt, yet the inner man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction for a moment is producing for us a more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,
18 “we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for those which are seen are temporal, and those which are not seen are eternal.” 2Corinthians 4:18 ARA
The battle that goes on in each of us is to gain our attention. We will see what God wants us to see or we will see what our enemy wants us to see.
DO YOU SEE THE KINGDOM? Who rules the universe? Who rules the world? It is true that the world lies in the hands of the evil one, but it is Jesus Who rules over everything.
What was Job's perception of his experience of the tragedy?
20 “Then Job arose, and tore his cloak, and shaved his head, and fell to the ground, and worshiped,
21 and said, Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there; the Lord gave it and the Lord took it away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
22 In all this Job did not sin, nor did he blame God for anything.” Job 1:20-22
“12 But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know what is freely given to us by God.
13 Which also we speak, not with words of human wisdom, but with such as the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
14 Now the natural man does not understand the things of the Spirit of God, because they seem foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he who is spiritual discerns everything well, and he is discerning of no one.
16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.” 1Corinthians 2:12-16
The mind of Christ is not an individual property, but of the Body. I DON'T HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST. WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST.
THREE ALIGNMENTS NECESSARY TO POSITION US TO SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
1. We need to question and check if what we hear is indeed spiritual. Spiritual means that it comes from the Spirit.
“My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,” 1 Corinthians 2:4
Today's beliefs are a big mistake, the perception that the devil and darkness will dominate the world.
17 “Though the fig tree does not blossom, nor is there fruit on the vine; the produce of the olive tree lies, and the fields yield no food; the sheep are taken from the fold, and there are no cattle in the pens,
18 yet I rejoice in the Lord, I exult in the God of my salvation.
19 The Lord God is my strength, and he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, and makes me walk on high.” Habakkuk 3:17-19
2. We need to check what Spirit we have received. “For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” 2Timothy 1:7
3. We need to be guided to believe what God says and to live according to His Word.
5 “Let your customs be without covetousness, being content with what you have; FOR HE SAID: I will not leave you, nor forsake you.
CONTENTMENT IS DIFFERENT FROM CONFORMING.
6 AND WITH CONFIDENCE, LET US DARE TO SAY,: The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man can do to me.” Hebrews 13:5-6
WHAT IS THE PROPHETIC REVELATION OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD? In what pattern is the universe developing?
31 “You, O king, were looking, and behold, a great statue; that statue, which was great, and whose splendor was excellent, was standing before thee; and his sight was terrible.
35 Then the iron, the clay, the copper, the silver and the gold were crushed together, and they became like the plague of the threshing floors in the summer, and the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them; but the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.” Daniel 2:31, 35
44 “But in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed; and this kingdom will not pass on to another people; he will crush and consume all these kingdoms and will be established forever.
45 As you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and it crushed the iron, the copper, the clay, the silver and the gold, the great God made known to the king what will be after this; and certain is the dream, and faithful to its interpretation.” Daniel 2:44-45
HE WHO IS NOT BORN AGAIN WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
1. THE BORN AGAIN SEES THE KINGDOM BECAUSE HE ONLY PERCEIVE THE GLORY OF THE LORD
1 “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
2 For behold, darkness covered the earth, and darkness covered the people; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you.
3 And the nations will walk in your light, and kings in the brightness that dawned on you.” Isaiah 60:1-3
14 “You say: It is useless to serve God; What did it profit us to be careful to keep his precepts and to mourn before the Lord of hosts?
15 Now therefore we count the proud as blessed; also those who commit wickedness build themselves up; yea, they tempt the Lord and escape.
16 Then those who fear the Lord speak each one with his companion; and the Lord watches and hears; and there is a memorial written before him, for those who fear the Lord and for those who remember his name.
17 And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day which I will make, they shall be a treasure unto me; I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
18 Then you will see again the difference between the righteous and the wicked; between those who serve God and those who do not.” Malachi 3:14-18
1 “For behold, that day cometh, burning like an oven; all the proud and all who do wickedly will be like stubble; and the day that is about to come will scorch them, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness will rise and bring salvation in its wings...” Malachi 4:1-2
Glory of the Lord in the discoveries of science and advances in technology
Glory of the Lord in improving life for humanity
Glory of the Lord in advancing the Kingdom of God in the world
“And this gospel of the Kingdom WILL BE PREACHED throughout the world for a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” Matthew 24:14
IT WILL BE PREACHED…
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:8
WE WILL BE …
2. THE BORN AGAIN HAS THE ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY OF JESUS' DOMINION IN ALL MATTERS ON EARTH
19 “If we hope in Christ only in this life, we are of all men most miserable.
20 But now Christ has risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
21 For just as death came through a man, so also the resurrection of the dead came through a man.
22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
23 But each one by his order: Christ, the firstfruits; then those who belong to Christ at his coming.
24 Then the end will come, when he has handed over the kingdom to God, the Father, and when he has destroyed every empire and every power and power.” 1Corinthians 15:19-24
“And the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen!" Romans 16:20
CONCLUSION
25 “See that you do not reject the speaker; for if those who rejected what warned them on earth did not escape, much less will we, if we turn away from him who is from heaven,
26 whose voice then moved the earth, but now he announced, saying: Once again I will move not only the earth, but also the heaven.
27 And this word: Again, shows the change of movable things, as things made, so that immovable things remain.
28 Therefore, having received a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us retain grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and piety;
29 for our God is a consuming fire.” Hebrews 12:25-29
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