ENTERING THE KINGDOM

Life is a journey.  God loves you and wants you

 to succeed on that journey.

Depending on the path you choose,

 you can end up in His Eternal Kingdom with

His abundant  blessings forever,

 or live the nightmare that never ends.

Living in the Power of the Kingdom

Begins With Entering the Kingdom by

ESTABLISHING A RELATIONSHIP

WITH JESUS THE KING

The local congregation knew him well. He was a good man, faithful in attending their meetings.  In his daily activities he always tried to do what was right.  God had blessed him; yet he knew something was missing.  He felt far away from God despite his faithful efforts to do all his religion required.  Perhaps The Teacher could help.  He must know God or he couldn’t do the miracles he’d heard about.  So he went to Him and asked, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”  The Teacher (Jesus) asked him if he kept God’s commandments, and he told Him he did.  Then He told him there was one thing he needed to do.  He must sell everything he owned, give the money to the poor, and follow Him.  As the young man walked away Jesus turned to His disciples and began to talk about what is needed for people to enter His Kingdom.¹ 

During the three years of His earthly ministry Jesus often spoke to His disciples about what people needed to do to establish a relationship with Him and become part of His Kingdom.  He explained that eternal life came from personally knowing God through a committed relationship with His son Jesus the King of Kings.² This relationship must be their highest priority. Only then could they experience the transformation that would totally change their lives and allow them to enter the Kingdom.  He explained this relationship began when people had a heart’s desire to be cleansed of sin, were willing to surrender everything to Him, and wanted Him to take control of their life. This could only happen if they trusted His redeeming work on The Cross to save them with all their heart.³ He let them know that in order to be part of His Kingdom they must love Him more than any person (including themselves), anything they wanted to do, or anything they posessed.⁴ This is the invitation He gave to every person who said they wanted to follow Him.⁵

Jesus let people know they must recognize He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords over everything they will face in life.  Surrendering their lives to Him is the first step in growing to know Him.  It is the beginning of a journey that will bring them true success in life.  He made it clear that true success in life is not a matter of money, education, or popularity.   It is finding and fulfilling God’s purpose.  He told them that when life is over the only thing that will be important is doing God’s will.  His Word’s make it clear that to live in the power of the Kingdom we must make our relationship with Him our highest priority.⁶

BASED ON WHAT JESUS TAUGHT THERE ARE TWO QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO ASK:

Have you surrendered your heart and life totally to Jesus?

Is your relationship with Jesus as King of Kings and Lord of Lords your highest priority?

Scripture References: ¹ Mark 10:17-31; ² John 1:1-18 & 17:3; ³ John 5:24, 6:40, Mark 1:15; ⁴ Luke 9:23 & 14:26, 27 & 33;
 ⁵ Matthew 4:18-22, Luke 9:57-62; ⁶ Matthew 6:33, 7:13-14 & chapter 25, John 14:6, 15:5-8

Henry & Rita Pulsifer
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