12-13-2015 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalms 39:1-13

Main scripture: Matthews 6:5-13

Subject: The reason why our hope should be the kingdom to come

           Jesus, as the king of the Jew came to the world, and spoke a very important word unto the Jew:

 “Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

clothed?

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”(Matt. 6:31-34)

             We should study the word of God dividing the word of the truth rightly not to be shameful servant of God(2Tim. 2;15). There were only two kinds of people in the world such as the Jews and the Gentiles, when Jesus spoke unto them. All other nations of people except the Jews were the Gentiles. The reason why the LORD God chose the people of Israel is to build the kingdom for them in the earth so that they may be the nation of priest. Prophet Isaiah prophesied of Israel to be the priest of the world:

“And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.”(Isa. 61:4-6)

           Jesus spoke unto the Jews of the two things that they have to seek. The first one is to seek the kingdom of God; the second the righteousness of God. The first prayer request is regarding their priesthood in the kingdom of God in the midst of the Gentile nations as he said unto them:

“But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”(Matt. 6:7-10)

           yeah! The LORD God called out Abraham, and had twelve sons of Jacob, his grandson be the twelve tribes of Israel so that they might be the peculiar nation in the earth. It was because the LORD God is going to make them the nation of priest in the earth when the remnant of Israel repent their sins. The LORD God planned to plant them in the promised land that is the land of Palestine that was given unto Abraham to make them the nation of priest in the eternal kingdom of God. Jesus wanted them to understand the will of God for them, and asked them to pray for the will of God to be fulfilled in the earth. The prayer is to seek the will of God to be done.

            Jesus spoke of the second thing that they should seek that is the righteousness of God. Until Jesus came to them, they had been living under the law that was given through Moses. The reason why the LORD God had given the law including Ten Commandments, commandments, and statutes was for them understand that they couldn’t observe them at all. Apostle Paul understood this in the Holy Ghost, and testified unto the Galatians:

“Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.”(Gal. 3:19-25)

               Apostle Paul testified again of the righteousness:

“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”(2Cor. 5:21)

             Therefore, Jesus asked them to pray for the eternal kingdom of God(Dan. 2;44,45) to be built in the earth, after he die on the cross and buried and rose again from the dead to take away the sin of the world, not only for the Jews but for the whole world. Jesus asked them not to believe the handwriting of ordinances that were nailed on his cross, but to believe in him that is the righteousness fulfilled through his death and resurrection. Apostle Paul testified of the things that were blotted out by Jesus Christ on the cross:

“Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.”(Col. 2:14-17)

             Until now, unfortunately, most of the Jews have neither believe in the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, nor seeking the righteousness of God that gives them the remission of sins . The Holy Ghost testified through Apostle Paul that the righteousness of God is for the Jew first to receive the eternal life. Therefore, he was not ashamed of the gospel of Christ saying,

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”(Rom. 1:16,17)

             But the scripture testified that the Jews shall understand not to be saved by the righteousness of the law through the prophet Isaiah:

“Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”(Isa. 64:5,6)

             God sent the Holy Ghost to the earth; and whosoever is born of the Holy Ghost has entered into the kingdom of God to be the members of his church of which Jesus Christ is the head. Jesus spoke unto Nicodemus, Except man born again cannot see the kingdom of God; and except man born of water and the Spirit cannot enter the kingdom of God (John 3:3,5). But until the Lord Jesus Christ, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords come, and build his kingdom in the earth, God has made the spiritual kingdom of God within that believe. And God has been making the kingdom of God in the midst of the presence of the Holy Ghost whenever the born again Christians gather together in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

               Therefore, Apostle Paul testified of the spiritual kingdom of God that is within the saints:

“For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.”(Rom. 14:17,18)

             Yeah! The born again Christians, the members of the church of God have already entered the kingdom of God through seeking the righteousness of God. In other word, they became the children of God, not the people of God. And they are the heirs of God, and at the same time the joint heirs with Christ (Rom. 8:14-17).

              Therefore, the children of God are the ones that can seek the inheritance in the kingdom of God. Whosoever seek the inheritance in the kingdom of God is supposed to deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Jesus Christ. Apostle Paul testified of the inheritance in the kingdom of God for the children of God saying, “Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”(Rom. 8:21)

he testified, even all the creature itself is seeking to be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God (Rom. 8:19-21).

           Apostle Paul encouraged sincerely unto the saints in Colossians church living in a big city for them to look forward the glory to be received in the kingdom of God:

“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:”(Col. 3:1-6)

             Yeah! We are not supposed to lose the inheritance promised in the kingdom of God giving up our life as a handbreadth unto our sinful body. King David understood this truth long time ago, and prayed unto the LORD God saying,

“And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.”(Ps. 39:7)

Moses, the man of God also prayed unto the LORD God saying,

“For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”(Ps. 90:9-12)

Amen! Hallelujah!