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Seeking First The Kingdom

Matt.6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.

Seeking first the kingdom! For two thousand's years Christian's have been admonished by leaders of their religions when life problems occur for them to end those problems that all humans experience in being anxious, to seek first the kingdom which is, solid, sound wisdom found in God's word the bible, is it not?

Matt.6:25 So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?
6:26 See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?
6:27 And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself a cubit taller?
6:28 And why are you troubled about clothing? See the flowers of the field, how they come up; they do no work, they make no thread:
6:29 But I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.
6:30 But if God gives such clothing to the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is put into the oven, will he not much more give you clothing, O you of little faith?
6:31 Then do not be full of care, saying, What are we to have for food or drink? or, With what may we be clothed?
6:32 Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things:

Yet, the very apostles of Christ did not utter those words after Christ left the earth and the Holy Spirit was poured out upon them, why? Strange as it sound? The most powerful of Christ words, the words Christ spoke to his disciples are found void, empty by his own foundation stones his disciples of the heavenly Jerusalem in their own counsels to Christian's after Christ left this earth?

Instead we find much counsel from Christ apostles about the power of Christ Kingdom, what it is, and what its doing, but we find nothing, not a word about seeking it first in our lives?

Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 4:20 For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power.

1 Corinthians 15:50 Now I say this, my brothers, that it is not possible for flesh and blood to have a part in the kingdom of God; and death may not have a part in life.

Seeking a False Kingdom

There a sound and factual reasons we find void the words to seek first the kingdom by Christ apostles. It not a deep truth, it is a simple fundamental truth taught and given us by Holy Spirit. The empty illusion of seeking the kingdom is taught by religion that are fundamentally stuck under the teachings of the old covenant, the old law, which is still being practiced and preached within their own religion.

Matthew 13:33 He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures{literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a bushel} of meal, until it was all leavened."

Many of these same so called Christian's religions will vehemently deny they are teaching the old law, which is the old covenant! Yet, at the same time they are using words from the prophets under the old covenant to uphold their prophecy. So it should be of little surprise that they would uses Christ words about seeking first the kingdom as will?

So the kingdom based upon their falsehoods that is ultimately nothing more then their religion on earth which has been permeated with teachings of the prophets, the judges, and the kings, that is, the Hebrew writings under old law, and its covenant. Not understanding Christ words about seeking first the kingdom were stated while he was yet under the old covenant that he was sent to fulfill, and would in short order upon his being crucified completed. His shedding his blood ended the old covenant, and instituted the new covenant ending their old law destroying their religion, by taking away its pure worship through the uses of animal blood at their temple. God was no longer accepting remission of sins by animal blood!

1 Corinthians 1:23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks.

Roman. 10:1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
10:2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
10:3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
10:4 For Christ is the fulfillment{or, completion, or end} of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Their religion had lost its power there was no need to justify the flesh daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly by inferior animal blood, the power of the flesh was killed forever in Christ. Thus, without the power of flesh Christ striped all authority and power of the law for sin killing it once for all time. The purposes of an massive earthly system of things now had no value to God any longer?

1 Corinthians 1:18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

2 Corinthians 13:4 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

Ephesians 1:21 far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

Its that simple, the teaching of seeking the kingdom, which ultimately means their own organization that they believe is God's earthly representative making what Christ brought an end by the power of his own life, the flesh through the law by commandments for sins of the flesh; once again in today's world by teaching the law completed in Christ gives modern day religion the same power of the fleshly Israel used to control there subjects.

Hebrews 2:14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil.

Hebrews 7:16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

Received or Seeking?

Once Christ fulfilled the law, the prophets, and the Psalms by his death and resurrection. He is the kingdom, and all Christian's then receive the kingdom, because they receive Christ making them his body members of the body of Christ, i.e., the Kingdom!

Hebrews 1:3 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Hebrews 12:28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

One need not seek his own body if he lives in his body. One the only reason to seek someone else body would be because they don't own a body or live in the a body of flesh any longer, just like the demons seek a body to posses it by a foreign entity.

Matt.12:43 But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn't find it.
12:44 Then he says, 'I will return into my house from which I came out,' and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.
12:45 Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.

Should we be surprised that the apostles taught the truth of what they had received the kingdom of God in them, by the life of Christ indwelling them, they did not teach a lie that ones need to seek what God had rightfully given them, and us, his Son life?

Galatians 2:19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

How can anyone receive anything from the kingdom of God when they deny it exist by their very prayers? Why would a person hound God for a gift that he freely has given them in the death Son Christ Jesus, if ones by their very prayers shows they have no faith in Christ in receiving that kingdom which he gave to his disciples two thousand years ago isn't that a lack of faith?

James1:6 But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
1:7 For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord. 1:8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Seeking then is a denial of the very truth of Christ the reality of their faith in receiving the kingdom and the truth!

1Cor.3:21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, 3:22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,
3:23 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

All Things Lack In Flesh

That is a true statement “all things lack in the flesh”! Nothing is complete in the flesh, it can never be satisfied for very long, its always lacking that is why it always pushed to prove something, digging for something seeking something, complaining about something, it can never rest in God, because it can't know God, so neither can it trust God, it can only repeat words of God to belay its fears of God found in all flesh!

Matthew 17:20 He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

Hebrews 4:2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.

Hebrews 10:22 let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water.

Hebrews 11:6 Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Seeking the kingdom is what all flesh did before Christ was put to death in his flesh and became the living temple of God in Spirit. The apostles of Christ and the disciples of Christ received the Spirit proof that Christ ruled in his kingdom a seal of heir-ship to that kingdom in the heavens.

2 Timothy 2:19 However God's firm foundation stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are his,"{Numbers 16:5} and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord{TR reads "Christ" instead of "the Lord"} depart from unrighteousness."

If one is an heir to God's kingdom, can one imagine they need to seek the kingdom so the necessities of life can be gotten? If one is a part of government does one need beg the government for food and shelter the very description of working in government being a part of it provides those things as proof of it own ruleship in those within government.

1 Corinthians 4:7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Christ kingdom is his very life, the incorruptible life given him by his Father YHWH. That same sonship is given to each one of Christ brothers in the flesh upon earth at their anointing.

Christ on earth didn't seek the kingdom, he did not beg his father for the necessities of life, not once! He had received in himself God's kingdom by his own anointing, but not his disciples yet waiting the outpouring of Holy Spirit to be made sons of God, just as Christ was.

John.6:5 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?"
6:6 This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
6:7 Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little."
6:8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,
6:9 "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?"
6:10 Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
6:11 Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.

The apostles never again taught that the brothers of Christ needed to seek the Kingdom, which if they taught such a things it would be a denial of the very life and death of Christ found in them as his body members.

The shadows was the flesh judged by the old law, so were the prophets shadows or the reality? They were not the realigy, why? Because they all were under the old law. The light, the reality was Christ. Is there a greater reality a greater light waiting to come than Christ for anyone calling themselves a Christian's?

Hebrews 10:1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

James.1:16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

[b][u]The Sabbath Rest
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The Sabbath rest is Christ, he is the fulfillment of God rest, but resting from what? The flesh that is a sinner that cannot justify itself by any work it does on earth for or against God, the flesh cannot rest it must end to enter into the rest of Christ the Sabbath.

Romans 8:3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

Romans 8:4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Romans 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

One must enter into the life of Christ, having their flesh put to death to rest in the Spirit by faith. If one is seeking that still as something future, not fulfilled, by the teachings of false religion they are in the flesh, and there is no rest for the wicked not justify by Christ, but they are believing the lie that they can be justified by works of law, which are works of death found under the judgment of the flesh, in the old law; laws defines the wages sin pays. There is no peace in the flesh, if the flesh is not dead in Christ it cannot received the peace of the Spirit.

Hebrews 4:9 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

Hebrews 4:10 For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

Ephesians 2:3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

[b][u]Believing the Lie!
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To believe the lie we must put faith in a religion created by the will of man over the Spirit that kills the flesh and its will by making us a new creation.

It is profoundly simple, if we love the truth, Christ our truth, more than our flesh the lie. Hang on to what Christ finished in his sinless life so we can teach the old things of law, it is an apostasy from the Christ.

Galatians 2:18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

Romans 15:20 yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation.

Christ now is our head, which holds his mind that teaches us Spirit and truth opposed to the flesh, if we deny that to worship the shadows of his very reality of light with no darkness; exchanging the light of Christ into law and the prophets we are but a foolish servant of God, and perhaps we are will on our way to becoming an evil slave that beats the rightful heirs of the kingdom with the laws of dead work not in Christ, thinking, we are making Christ brothers righteous in doing so?

Galatians 2:21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

Ephesians 4:24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Philippians 3:9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by fai

To seek what is completed and fulfilled is to deny Christ our reality, it does not matter if we pray the Lords prayer, under the old covenant for our needs of the flesh which were stated under the old covenant. Our putting that over the faith required to be in the Holiest of Hollies in the very present of God in Christ life as the temple of the living God where our spirit is our prayers already known before utter by our dead fearful flesh it clearly darkness not the light!

Rom. 8:26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered.
8:27 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
8:28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

The spirit life of Christ as our living bread feeds us by his mind, we lack nothing in Christ. The needs of our flesh, are not the treasure in heavens, not at all. It not a matter of what, or needs, it is a matter of truth of Christ living in us, he has mortified our fleshly bodies by his life being in us. He is not going to let it die from lack when it dies it will be in God time table, when he says its time to come out of the tent into the fullness of incorruptible life.

Hebrews 13:5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."{Deuteronomy 31:6}

Having Christ in us, is the reality of what all the prophets longed to see and understand. How ashamed would they be in seeing us longing for their mundane light?

2 Corinthians 4:6 seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness,"{Genesis 1:3} who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Colossians 1:12 giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

What Christ states while on earth to his disciples in his flesh were under the old law covenant that hadn't yet been fulfilled, we should actually know that if we have received the teacher (Spirit) that leads us into all truth, leads us where? Into all truth of the Spirit, all truth is Christ the truth (Spirit). The Spirit doesn't lead us into all things of the flesh and the prophesy fulfilled in Christ, but all things of the truth.

1Cor. 2:10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
2:11 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.
2:12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

If we want to be mislead away from the Christ the Spirit, then let our will, or that of another person lead us back into death of the teachings of the prophets so one can uses those things as if Christ and all his kingdom is yet waiting upon the fulfillment through some false man made religion upon this earth interpreting God's written word by the flesh the Spirit things of God, which cannot be known accept by Holy Spirit fulfilled in Christ as our king!

1 Timothy 1:7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

Hebrews 5:12 For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
Romans 2:19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness.

Luke 6:39 He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?

Romans 7:6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.