SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS
All hail Lord Jesus Christ the Word of God, in whom we live move and have our being. Grace, peace, and love to them that God Word of the Spirit voice is calling with a holy calling to eternal life, and salvation according to the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and the perfect will, of God the Father.
I first want to make it perfectly clear that there is no other Saviour of the world than the Son Lord Jesus Christ. According to 2 TIMOTHY 4 [LJCV] and 1 PETER 4 [LJCV] ~ He also is the Judge of the quick and the dead at his appearing and kingdom which now is.
After Adam and Eve were driven out of the garden of Eden, there was war! LUKE 10 [LJCV] ~ I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven! REVELATION 12 [LJCV] ~ And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not. Neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. He was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him... Apostle John said, I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ!
This is the harvest season of Lord Jesus Christ second coming and the first resurrection! The wheat is being gathered into the barn, but the tares are being bundled to be burned with the fiery indignation of his wrath. The sheep are being gathered together into one fold on his right hand and given their right to the tree of life, and the hidden manna. The goats are separated to his left hand to be slain!
Bear in mind, that the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ was first preached to the spirits in prison that they may be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. These same spirits were shown in a vision and appeared to the Apostle John that he may write and testify to this present generation by the book of REVELATION.
According to MARK 1 [LJCV] ~ After John the Baptist was put in prison, Jesus began to preach the kingdom of God saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent ye, and believe the gospel.
He later in his public ministry said to his disciples ~ Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God. But unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables!
Apostle Paul after he was converted and assigned the apostleship of our Lord Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, preached the kingdom of God, and taught those things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ ACTS 28 [LJCV]
JOHN 12 [LJCV] ~ He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. PSALMS 9 [LJCV] again says, And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
The day of judgement has come! In righteousness the Word of God from heaven will judge and make war!
Nevertheless, there is a question from ancient times that still finds it way in discussions concerning the Lord Jesus Christ... Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
For eternal life was promised before the world began, but is now manifested through the preaching of God word. ~ TITUS 1 [LJCV]
According to JOHN 3 [LJCV] ~ For this cause is the Son of man now lifted up by the preaching of the gospel that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Anyhow, eternal life is by covenant promise with God our Father through the Son Lord Jesus Christ. Even now he exhorts faithfully by God word of the Spirit voice to say, SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS!
So, the earnest heart will say, where shall I seek the kingdom of God? And, what shall I look for to know that I have found the entrance to the kingdom of God?
The first thing is to hear and believe the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Then do his commandment, which is to repent and be baptized for the remission of sins. For God chose the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe the message ~ By grace we are saved through faith towards Lord Jesus Christ!
Now, let me make it very plain to everybody in a pure language. Proceed no further until you examine yourself to see whether you be in the faith or one of more than 41,000 religions of Christianity. That means you should proceed no further until you have read all the New Testament scriptures in there entirety. Then find a true apostleship of our Lord Jesus Christ, that is preaching the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, and profess to have the keys to the kingdom of God! Then obey the commandment of the gospel to make a blessed assured covenant with God the Father for eternal everlasting life.
All true apostles according to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ will use the ordinance for the water baptism that Jesus used and taught the former apostles that he baptized personally.
The water baptism ordinance has 21 words made by 21 anointed living letters of the tree of life. It is design to add a living soul buried with him by water baptism to THE CHURCH OF GOD IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST ~ the ensign banner name and standard on the wall for Jerusalem. Therefore, by the gematria of the water baptism ordinance, it speaketh and signifies A LIVING SOUL BURIED WITH HIM FOR SPIRITUAL NEW LIFE OF THE MESSIAH!
Anyhow, the words of the water baptism ordinance are according to the Holy Scriptures (authorized official Lord Jesus Christ version of the Holy Bible) for the common salvation ~ I BAPTIZE YOU IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY GHOST LORD JESUS CHRIST. It is the name of the Saviour, the Son of the Father ~ LORD JESUS CHRIST that invokes remission of all sin with the charge be holy!
This is the Christian standard of righteousness by faith that must be fulfilled. In his name the body of sin, the works of the flesh, and death a sinful nature is once appointed die must be water baptized and also baptized with the Spirit.
However, the baptism is only performed for them that believe from the heart unto righteous, which is accounted unto them for repentance. Whosoever believeth, means they that believe the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and the testimony of its words that he is the Saviour, the Son of the Father!
Was not Jesus himself water baptized by the prophet John? After all the people were baptized in the name Lord God Almighty, then came the Lamb of God and said BAPTIZE ME! ...IT BECOMETH US TO FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS!
Why don't you follow the Master? After he was water baptized, the Father baptized him with the Spirit! Jesus was baptized to be born again of water and Spirit to fulfill all righteousness!
It is incumbent for us to fulfill his righteousness by the same faith he showed us for an example. Did Jesus not say, I am the way, the truth, and the life?
We must recognize the strait gate and the narrow way he made for us to enter into the kingdom of God. It is the commandment of the gospel as Jesus has said, And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations... ~ LUKE 24 [LJCV]
Jesus also gave us the standard of eligibility for baptism. When the preacher of the gospel asks, Whom do you say Jesus is? The correct answer is the standard of eligibility, which is he is the Christ! That is what every one that hears the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ will be lead to conclude of a truth according to the scriptures ~ Jesus Christ is the Son of God... Jesus is the Christ the Son of the living God!
Finally, according to MARK 16 [LJCV] ~ He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned. Jesus told Nicodemus who came to him at night ~ Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God... Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth. So is every one that is born of the Spirit. ~ JOHN 3 [LJCV]
Alright beloved! I close this message of God Word of the Spirit voice here because it is a good place to seal it in the dividing asunder of your soul and spirit.
Until the next message ~ Godspeed to paradise with unfeigned love, magnified and multiplied in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the Word of God!
All scriptures referenced is according to the Authorized Official Lord Jesus Christ Version of The Holy Bible ~ Revised Edition of the 1769 English Language Translation of the Old and New Testament ~ ISBN 9781541391277
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