{"id":30,"date":"2021-01-23T22:54:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T22:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2021-03-26T22:06:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T22:06:33","slug":"pursuing-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/?page_id=30","title":{"rendered":"Pursuing the Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"318\" class=\"wp-image-238\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Pursuing-slide.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 500px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Pursuing-slide.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Pursuing-slide-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Pursuing-slide-768x488.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Introducing the kingdom of heaven to earth [you will find no references to it in the OT] was Jesus\u2019 overriding mission. He brought it in bodily form, preached it, lived it, and then died and sent the Holy Spirit to seal and insure it forever in our hearts and minds. It was the most valuable gift He could have given us, and such a gift is not given lightly. The kingdom is to be pursued diligently and passionately by any who want to find it. Any lesser efforts will fail. It is that \u201cPearl of Great Price\u201d Jesus spoke of, therefore those who wish to find it must.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/?page_id=242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To pursue the kingdom will require nothing less than the full effort of mighty men of God who are willing to forsake all else to follow Jesus. To see the qualities of David\u2019s mighty men from 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Chronicles.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/?page_id=245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing the kingdom of heaven to earth [you will find no references to it in the OT] was Jesus\u2019 overriding mission. He brought it in bodily form, preached it, lived it, and then died and sent the Holy Spirit to seal and insure it forever in our hearts and minds. It was the most valuable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"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-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","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=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenedchristianman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}