{"id":242,"date":"2021-01-25T04:33:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T04:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2021-03-19T15:58:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:58:33","slug":"the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/?page_id=242","title":{"rendered":"The Kingdom&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The kingdom is found through:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Forsaking<\/strong> everything in this world and every perception we ever had, \u201ccounting it as rubbish that we might gain Christ [it]\u201d (Phil. 3). That means:<ul><li>Fealty to any person(s) or thing<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Love of money<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Attachments to and hopes in worldly governments<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Prior perceptions concerning what it means to be Christian<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Initially, <strong>disciplining<\/strong> ourselves [\u201cwilling to do His will\u201d (John 7)] to:<ul><li>Spend time with Him in prayer and study<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Being obedient to His commands to love and serve others<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Seek out the regular fellowship of others on this journey<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>\u201cPresent our bodies to Him as living sacrifices\u201d (Rom. 12)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Realizing<\/strong> the transformation must take place in our minds:<ul><li>We must \u201cseek first His kingdom and His righteousness\u201d above all else<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>We can \u201cno longer be conformed to this world\u201d if we want to enter the kingdom but must \u201cbe transformed by the renewing of our minds to prove what the will of God is [that we become the kingdom citizens He came to make us]\u201d<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>The kingdom involves an entire change of perspective that will transform the way we view, react to, and treat everything<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>We must be willing to \u201ctake the red pill and go all the way down the Rabbit hole.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Resulting [personally]<\/strong> in Hebrews 12 maturity:<ul><li>That which began with oft unpleasant disciplines eventually culminating in \u201cthe peaceful fruit of righteousness\u201d<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Understanding the fruit of the kingdom is always inner peace regardless of whatever the world may throw at us<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Realizing whenever we start losing our peace we are stepping out of the kingdom and back into the world<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>An abiding relationship with Christ (John 15), where we can confidently say, \u201cIt is no longer we who live, but Christ who lives in and through us, and the life we now live we live for Jesus who loved us enough to die for us\u201d (Gal. 2)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Resulting [corporately]<\/strong> in John 17 kingdom community:<ul><li>For more on this go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketplacesaints.net\/\">www.Marketplacesaints.net<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kingdom is found through: Forsaking everything in this world and every perception we ever had, \u201ccounting it as rubbish that we might gain Christ [it]\u201d (Phil. 3). That means: Fealty to any person(s) or thing Love of money Attachments to and hopes in worldly governments Prior perceptions concerning what it means to be Christian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-fullwidth_template.php","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions\/393"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}