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*The Catch 22 of Love on Earth
Meets
The Catch 22 of Love in the
Kingdom of God
Do not let love stumble you. Self
love and God love
are not the same
at all. Ask Peter, it tripped him
up. Most earth
centered love is self
centered and self seeking. Jesus
defined love in his commands.
All the fear of mankind has been
bound up in the cross
Jesus carried.
The cross of life hatred. We can
not get into to see
the Father without
being life haters, as Jesus was.
Satan, the king of fear and his
minions, were
expelling themselves
because of him and did not realize
that Jesus' death
was expelling
fear and not life. Jesus was simply
hating his life
all the way through
and surrendering to death
fearlessly thus giving up
his life out of
hatred of it and surrendering all
of himself out of
total love to the
Father. Who also is his God.
Jesus gave a hint as to the blue
print in the
illustration of the invasion
of the strong man's house. This was
to be victory for
the kingdom of
God. Jesus thus became the thief
stealing away the
people bound up
as prisoners of the darkness and
ignorance out fear of
the loss of
their beloved earth lives. They had
a veil of love of
their life on earth
as a moral imperative and
considered that as the best
within them-
selves. Notice the words of Jesus
about that in Mt.12:26
Darkness and ignorance is an
addiction to listening to
other voices
than Jesus. Jesus came with the
messages from the
Father to have
the veils removed only through
hating their life here
on earth and the
concomitant loving God there in his
Glory.
They are thus citizens of fear
through love of their
life on earth. That
love is our sin. Satan relies on
that sin to keep him
in power. He has
only the power of darkness and
ignorance now. That is
all he rules
over in us. The darkness is
ignoring the words of
Jesus. Jesus
brought the light. The hatred of
life is the light.
Life everlasting is loving our fellowman as self and love
for our
Father totally in his glory at Resurrection Day.
Jesus took that power away by doing
just the opposite
of the earthly
law of love. He now reigns with all
power in heaven
and on earth. That
power was earned by him and given
to him for what he
did by the
Creator. No one had ever done the
will of God until
then. We now
know the Way.
The kingdom of God came when Jesus
drank the bitter
wine on the
cross and died. The kingdom now is
being experienced
by those
students of Jesus that are obeying
his words only.
The kingdom of fear which is called
'the kingdoms of
the earth and
its glory' was first offered to
Jesus by the Devil. He
rejected that offer
while he was in the wilderness of
survival. That was a
far country for
Jesus. He wanted no part of it.
Later, on the torture tree of
Calvary, Satan and all
of his henchmen
thought they were punishing Jesus.
They thought he
would yield to
their requests to impress people by
coming down off of
the crooked
torture stake and run for king of
earth. They imagined
fear would over-
take Jesus. Their fantasy was that
because Jesus
preached love of
God and service to neighbor that he
was addicted to
life on earth and
the love of it. They were being
defeated by casting
themselves out
of power because Jesus does not
fight anything, he
wins by
surrendering all through hatred of
his earth life out
love for the Father
and his kingdom of heaven. The fear
of death was
defeated by Jesus.
Thus, Jesus became the very first
son of mankind to do
the will of
the Father in heaven and on earth
and became the
firstborn from the
dead. He showed us the way. John
the Baptist went
ahead of Jesus
to declare the way was coming.
Jesus went ahead of us
to declare
to us that the way is here, follow
me now. He is both
Son of man
and Son of God.
The children listening to Jesus'
sayings are being
nourished by the
words from God for a harvest and an
inheritance as
children of God.
We will receive that award at home
in heavenly life,
if we do what
Jesus did.
Jesus said: He that loves his life shall lose
it; and he that hates
his life in this world shall keep
it for everlasting
life. Jin. 12:25
We
Listen to
Jesus Only
PEACE BE TO YOU AND TO YOUR HOUSE
*Note: Catch 22, a definition
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