Jesus said to his disciples, recorded in Mark 4:11 that to those of us who have been entrusted with the mystery of the Kingdom of God, the counsels of God are not hidden in parables to us. We are in on the secrets of the Kingdom of God.
Mark 4: 11 And He said to them, To you has been entrusted the mystery of the Kingdom of God [that is, [b]the secret counsels of God which are hidden from the ungodly]; but for those outside [[c]of our circle] everything becomes a parable…”
One of the not so well known secrets of the Kingdom of God I think is this…
Practice strife and you can’t enter the Kingdom. You can’t get in. Even if we have trusted Christ as our Saviour, if He’s not the Lord of our life, we can’t access the spiritual realm of God that is at hand.
The Kingdom of God Is At Hand
We can live in the Kingdom now - while we are here on earth, we can live in the spritual realm of God.
Choosing to not live there means a life without righteousness, peace and joy.
Even those of us who are Christians, if we choose to live like citizens of the world instead of who we are – heirs of the Kingdom, Royalty because of who we married, we are the bride of Christ – then to the world, we look like who they are, subjects of the prince of this world, slaves to the one who hates us, Satan himself. Why do we even want to go there?
Because of trespasses and sin. Without trusting Christ inside us to save us from our sin, making Him Lord, we ignore the power of His Spirit within us.
I’m talking to myself more than you. Living in the world and acting like we are of the world means we are on the outside. It’s not a spiritual life. We rob ourselves of the supernatural and just live natural, normal boring lives when we could be experiencing righteousness, peace and joy. Why we sometimes choose to live an unrighteous life, full of strife and lacking joy is because we still have the old unsaved person inside. Letting that person back on the throne of our life instead of keeping Christ there as Lord is a really miserable way to live.
No Access – Keep Out – No What? No Trespassing!
Just because we are Christians, we can’t just walk into the Kingdom of God any time we want. If Christ leads us and we follow, we’re there. If He leads us and we don’t follow, we’re on the outside. Be led, and live.
Not to follow Christ means following the dead person inside you, the one dead in trespasses and sin, with absolutely no power
- to live in joy and peace,
- to be a spiritual supernatural being
- able to move mountains,
- heal the sick,
- rejoice in prosperity,
- love the one you’re with,
- overcome any hardship,
- live in victory and
- be seen by God as righteous in His sight
…plus soooo much more!
What To Do First
The very first thing to do is to repent. Repent in the Greek and I think also in the old testiment Hebrew, means “to change your mind.” We have a free will.
Did you know that if we just continually change our mind to follow Christ instead of our own sinful nature that we’ve done our part. God does the rest.
He gives us faith. We don’t have to stir that up within ourselves. Faith is a gift from God. The scripture says By grace are we saved through faith, and that (faith) is not of ourselves but is a gift from God, lest any man should boast. “
Change your mind, decide with your will to follow Christ and God will give you the desire and the faith to do it.
He gives us the desires of our heart and He gives us faith.
Don’t want to follow Christ?? No one does.
Just change your mind about that and decide to do it any way. He will give you what it takes to love Him, to follow Him, to live life instead of death.
