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Let's Not Forget The Judgment Seat Of Christ!

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:57 PST

kogfamily posted:

thewordscribe's blog When I Stand Before God inspired me. Standing before God at the Judgment Seat of Christ is something each believer should carefully consider every day as they live by the power of the Holy Spirit. 1st, I want to talk about obedience to God.Obedience should be the desire of every Christian. We should long to live lives that please God because of His grace towards us, not because we are trying to live under the law. God's gift of free will didn't stop after we were born again. Christians exercise free will every time we make choices.God's word is clear that obedience has always been a requirement for God's children (under law and under grace). It had consequences under the Old Covenant and it is has consequences under the New Covenant. Even though the consequences have changed drastically, they are still very important to keep in mind!Let me...

The Age Of Grace

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:52 PST

kogfamily posted:

This morning I was spending my usual time with the Lord and asked Him to help me to better understand why sharing about the Gospel of the kingdom disturbed many. This blog is to share what He told me.First He reminded me that Christ was the Alpha and the Omega. He sees all of time and has a plan that is tied to time but extends into eternity.Ecclesiastes 3:1 says:For everything there is a season. A time for every purpose under heaven.Mankind has a tendency to forget this. We get a truth in our heads and and want to camp at it. However, God's plans are very purposeful and sequenced with what he knows is needed to get us where He intends. Ultimately, all of time is headed to the2nd coming of Christ and renewal of all things.God has always used grace in dealing with mankind. Even when Adam sinned,...

Kingdom Living: No Enemy Of Grace

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:06 PST

kogfamily posted:

The Gospel message is that salvation from the penalty of sin, from the daily power of sin and from the very presence of sin in the future was accomplished once and for all by Christ when He said It is finished and can only be attained by grace through faith in Christ's finished work. It is God's good pleasure to give His children the kingdom because Christ paid for that privilege of access with His blood. It is God's gift as a spiritual birthright into a spiritual kingdom that can not be earned by works. God's grace can not be improved upon. I believe that understanding the kingdom will help us to not fall prey to the error of works salvation. When we know that walking in the Spirit is the only way we can work out our salvation with fear and trembling, we can then grasp the truth that...

What Is The Gospel?

Fri, 03 May 2013 20:10 PST

kogfamily posted:

Don't skip by this blog too quickly. You might think this is a subject you already understand fully and there is nothing that I could possibly say about the Gospel that would be anything interesting or anything that you haven't heard a thousand times. Who knows, maybe you would be right! Not too long ago, I was of that same mindset until I took off my religious blinders and decided to look more deeply into God's word with the help of the Holy Spirit. As I did I wasn't really looking for a specific topic when scriptures on the kingdom of God seemed to keep jumping out at me. The more I studied what the bible had to say about it the more I saw it was impossible to disconnect teachings on the kingdom and the Gospel. Gradually, I began to see I had been missing some aspects about the...

Kingdom Living: Jesus Is King!

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:32 PST

kogfamily posted:

Jesus was turned over to the Roman government and ultimately sent to the cross by the religious leaders of His day because He said He was the Son of God. He ruffled the feathers of the religious elite and revealed their superficiality. They closed their eyes to truth and stopped up their ears because the message He brought had no place in them. It was foretold that they would reject Him as their Messiah and King.How can it be that any born again Christian today would say that Jesus is not King? Now that baffles me! As we read in the scripture below He said that He was a king and it is the very reason He was born.John 18:293729 Pilate then went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this Man?”30 They answered and said to him, “If He were not an evildoer, we would...

Full Gospel Or Not??

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:42 PST

kogfamily posted:

Matthew 4:23 NKJV23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. Luke 4:43 (NKJV)43 but He said to them, “I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent.” John 3:3(NKJV)3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”Mark 1:15 (NKJV)15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”Matthew 13: 19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. 24 The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good...

Kingdom Living: What's The BIG Deal!

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:32 PST

kogfamily posted:

You may be of the opinion that getting stuck like I have on this biblical truth is often the way doctrinal imbalances come about. (P.S. I wouldn't disagree!) You may even ask Can't overemphasizing a scriptural teaching put one in danger of blowing it out of proportion? Isn't it asking for trouble to put too much weight on a teaching and in the process end up underemphasizing others that are equally as important? Isn't this the way false cults get their start? Isn't this kind of practice a breeding ground for false doctrine? GREAT QUESTIONS! These are all valid concerns and well worth a response! As I sensed the weight of this top the Spirit put on my heart, I asked Him these same questions and more. I asked the Spirit of Truth to reveal the mysteries of the kingdom to me from the word of God. As I did,...

Kingdom Living: Entering God's Rest

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:45 PST

kogfamily posted:

‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’ 11 So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’” I took this quote from Hebrews 3: 10 & 11. It was referring to the Exodus of the Jews and how the generation that left Egypt was so indoctrinated with their life of slavery in the kingdom of Egypt that their hearts were hardened by the pain and struggles of slavery. This greatly angered God. He performed miracle after miracle not only in their deliverance but in their provision in the desert yet they remained trapped in unbelief. They couldn't make the paradigm shift He required from slavery and fear. They failed to enter the land promised where they could enjoy freedom and the life He had provided for them in His kingdom because of their hardened hearts.The eyes of this generation were...

Kingdom Living - A Spiritual Paradigm Shift

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:55 PST

kogfamily posted:

OK, first let me say I realize that the term paradigm shift may put some of you off. I realize the term was grossly abused and overused in the last 2 decades. It was commercialized to the extent that it became somewhat meaningless. I did a bit of research online in Wikipedia and learned it was originally introduced by the scientific community to identify revolutionary changes in the set of practices relating to scientific disciplines in any particular period of time.As I continued my research, one definition of paradigm hit home for me that I found in businessdirectory.com It said paradigm was an: Intellectual perception or view, accepted by an individual or a society as a clear example, model, or pattern of how things work in the world.I found this information also of interest in Wikipedia:Another use of the word paradigm is in the sense of worldview. For example, in...

Kingdom Living: As Jesus Is, So Am I In This World

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:07 PST

kogfamily posted:

I John 4:17 says that as He is, so are we in this world.God is love and loved the world so much that He sent Jesus on a mission to establish an entrance into His kingdom by reconciling the world back to Him through the shedding of His blood for their sins. Jesus went about demonstrating the love of the Father by preaching and teaching on the kingdom of God and healing those who had need of healing.He called twelve to be His disciples, revealing to them the mysteries of the kingdom and demonstrating to them the power of the kingdom so that they could know how to continue teaching and building His kingdom after He left.Then He called His twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. And He sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the...

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