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Baldwretch:
For clarity, the Kingdom of God is Heaven.

Heaven is an abode where God has his throne, the resting place of angels, and where God's presence and glory particularly manifest. This cannot be inside anyone.

Believers might be filled with the Holy Spirit; enjoy the divine Spirit in great measure, but God's spirit, the Holy Spirit, is not Heaven.

don't know how to explain this to you. . ]/quote] you don't need to explain much.
You can put up series of scriptures and arrange them chronologically the way i show you scriptures from the old testament which are all references to point that the kingdom of God was promised right from the time God spoke to Abraham.
Remember, he told him you will be the father of many nations.
Today, hundreds of nations worldwide are practicing Christianity to the glory of God, which is the fulfilment of that promise and which is kingdom of God set up by God right here on earth
[quote]The enjoyment of the presence and Spirit of God is not a geographical location.

On John the Baptist, you're quite ignorant. John was sent from Heaven to clear paths for the Messiah. In fact, at one point, Jesus said John is Elijah; the prophet prophesied in the old covenant for the assignment before him

It not only seem funny but ludicrous that you would address a blameless man - who died because he had been telling Herod that it is against the law to marry your brother's wife. It not only sound crazy, but this is just so fucking mehn.

You said:

> That we that are Christians today, the least of us is greater than John the Baptist and every other prophets of the old covenant according to what Jesus said.

What did Jesus say?

Jamestaiwo:
Jesus said Go ye into all the world. We preach to everybody both unbelievers and believers.

Baldwretch:
Yes. This is not up for contention.

Baldwretch:
John didn't stand the chance of being in God's Kingdom and he disbelieved? Wow, your own faith is strong oo.

Baldwretch:
You're doing good. Yes, people die because God tested humankind in Adam, but Christ came to restore back that relationship we had with God in Adam, not eternal life. Just think about this: man was not created immortal from the start; if he was, there would not be a need for God to create another tree with a fruit called the Tree of life or immortality. This is something I realized later in life. It seems to me that Adam was on probation until God was satisfied with his piety and then God would take him on a journey of self-discovery.



Yes, I agree. Yes!




I agree to a very large extent with what you wrote. In fact, Daniel 7 even makes it clear that Christ would rule forever, but I don't see any connection between an everlasting kingdom promised by God to Christ and how this kingdom implies everlasting life.

Baldwretch:
You are saying many conflicting things and it seems your ideas are conjured up. When Christ came to earth, one of his missions was to get as many people into the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is an actual kingdom and must be understood as such. The kingdom itself is not people - believers of Christ, as you call it. It is an actual kingdom. Jesus talks of his Father's house having many mansion and all that. You cannot float another idea of the kingdom of God for whatever reasons. When Jesus said for of such is the Kingdom of God, he did not mean that the children in question are the kingdom of God.

In the Gospel accounts, Jesus had a very favourable opinion of little children. Another account give a more vivid description of what happened and adds that he that would not take the Kingdom of God like a little child would never enter it. I think it's the Gospel of Luke. In another incident, he told his disciples not to look down on little children because their angels are always in the presence of his heavenly Father. If you look at the life of little children, their innocence, their meekness, and all that, you would understand why Jesus' opinion of kids is high.

That said, how you can personify an actual kingdom; how you can say I'm the kingdom of God of God is what I don't understand.

God says in the prophecy of Joel that in the last days, he would pour out his Spirit upon all flesh and there would be signs. The main difference is that it was not poured out on all flesh in the past. God's spirit of old is a totally different spirit but not the Holy spirit of now? What an entirely crass and moronic thing to say? What? Are you for real? The Holy Spirit that fell on the day of Pentecost was poured out at different time in history on different people even King David acknowledged that he had the Holy Spirit and he said in his penitential Psalms after murdering Uriah: remember, he was anointed by Samuel.

Let me start from Verse 8:
Oh, give me back my joy again;
you have broken me—
now let me rejoice.
9Don’t keep looking at my sins.
Remove the stain of my guilt.
10Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a loyal spirit within me.
11Do not banish me from your presence,
and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

Even King Saul had the Holy Spirit until God was displeased with him and an evil Spirit from God tormented him.

John didn't stand the chance of being in God's Kingdom and he disbelieved? Wow, your own faith is strong oo.

Brenbentondiaz:
What Jesus was actually saying there is not your interpretation of it. What He meant was that of all men born of women (ie, of all men before Jesus came, such as prophets of old etc), John was the greatest. Now the least in the kingdom of Heaven is greater than John. Who are these? They are those that are not born of women, but those that are "born of the Spirit". He was saying there that the lowest Christian is greater than even any of the old time prophets, because whereas the Holy Spirit used to come upon them for specific duties, the Holy Spirit is always in us as children of God.

Baldwretch:
Wow, nice perspective, but God's kingdom in us is not a literally kingdom

It is the Holy Spirit. God's spirit in us

, but even in old times, the prophets, anointed kings, and righteous men had God's spirit and that was long before Jesus came.

Righthussle:
Really, What of the hell for people who don't practice Hinduism. Sorry for you .

TimiRume:
You are not getting it 🤷‍♀️

StillDtruth:
You say deep understanding yet you do not state where you got your so called deep understanding.

Clear proof, its a creation of your mind, for clearly mathew 11:3 shows him just asking for a confirmation of what he aleeady believed., which as we all see Jesus answered him Saying.'do you not see..../do you not hear....?

After that, did he say anything again? No.

As i have always told you, your mind is mushed up and twisted.

StillDtruth:
When we want to confirm something we know is this not the question we ask?

StillDtruth:
Where did you get that john was not a believer when you already see him beliving and looking out for He who was promised to come, up.to the point of seeking confirmation from Jesus ?

Jamestaiwo:
How can you be a disciple of Jesus and you do not preach the Gospel?


1 Corinthians 9:16
[16]For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!


Romans 1:16
[16]For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnldUctBhwo?si=YIOlLPbkbkZmzqRX

Baldwretch:
So I was just thinking about divine government yesterday and I know that many Christians would disagree with me.

Don't just read and pass, let me read your disagreement perhaps I might have a change of thoughts towards this.

This line of thought is borne out of a saying of Jesus and an experience I have had in a workplace I am hustling to get by.

Let me talk about the workplace. So my workplace is a Construction site. Quite stressful. Very stressful I must admit. You are carrying acrows, peris, stretching them, mixing this and that, doing this and that from 8am to 5pm. And if you work with the carpenters or some others, you close by 5:30pm unless you are able to finish your housekeeping on time.

Here is the thing. By 7:40am, when toolbox meeting starts, you should be there. If you are not in the site by 7:50am, you would not work for that day because the officer in charge would have assigned duties to all the independent contractors there at the time. I get work twice, or three times a week and if I am super lucky, I get four times in a week, but there are some contractors who get work everyday. It doesn't matter if they worked yesterday or the day before. They would sha get work. Always. Even they know it.

One day after toolbox meeting and I didn't get work, I just jokingly told one - you na baba oo. Na everytime you dey get work. He told me that he was once like me that he would come over and go back home, but that was when the building was at the foundation level. Hmm. In my mind, I was like wow, you have been here for close to two years. We are currently at the seventh floor with four more floors to go. He added that I should move in with those contractors who sleep on site as they are also favoured. The site has rooms for contractors who wish to sleep on site. The very idea that the distribution of jobs might be laced with unfair advantage vanished coupled with the fact that the boss who distributes the job acts fairly. It was all fair and dandy to me.

But that is that and I would come back to this.

Jesus said in Matthew 11:11: I tell you the truth, of all who have ever lived, none is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least person in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he is!

This is mind boggling and screams of justice in the divine government. I will tell you why. Many humans have lived and died. So many. Many righteous people who have done the will of God have come and gone, but Jesus makes a startling statement. John is the greatest and most righteous human that has ever lived and yet if we compare his greatness and righteousness side by side with those in Heaven, he would come out the least. He would seem like nothing.

Rightly so. Human beings are not what they think they are. When you get to Heaven righteous reader, you would join the queue. You would not get special favours or relish than those already there. The angels have been in existence before man was created and they would continue to serve God when humans are no more. Righteous beings in Heaven have been serving God before you were born, before your first ancestor was born, before the first human was born, before the earth was created, before time began and they are still at it. Would John, the most righteous human that lived after John, or other very, very righteous man stand close in God's preference of beings. Creatures that barely served God. Some lived to be 80 years and some 120, but even the best of men are men at their best. Angels have been standing before God running errands for him for millions of years. They have received transferred holiness by virtue of being in the divine presence. If God wants to share candy in Heaven; this is how the distribution would go.

Cherub X, gets first.
then Cherub XY
then Seraph AB
Cherub C
Guarding Cherub CZ
Guarding Cherub HK
And on and on and on with the Cherubs

Then Micheal, Gabriel, angel X, Y, Z, ZX and on and on and on... All of Heaven's inhabitants would get first

Before we talk of humans. Now, we can be talking of John and some very, very righteous persons. The order and hierarchy of the angels is not known to me but the point is clear. God would give Heaven's armies first. They have been with God for ages and it is only right that they get first. They have served God for ages and it is only right that they get first. They are more righteous than humans and it is only right that they get first. You would have to join the queue.

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EnemyofGod3:
How did King Saul die ?

A) He killed himself (I Sam. 31: 4-6)

b) He was slain by an Amalekite (2 Sam. 1:8-10)

C) He was killed by the Philistines (2 Sam 21: 11-13)

D) He killed himself and god put him to death (1 Chron. 10:4, 13-14)

Have you seem the fairy tales you read as a holy book? can you tell me how one person died in four different ways in one book ? oh ok the holy spirit will explain it to me 🤫

please in the comment section drop your favorite bible story and i will reply you with 5 to 10 contradiction on each story u bring up , I have studied the bible more than
many African pastors so u can imagine how I laugh at you when u come to quote bible on my post, Olodo what do u know? Religious people dont know world histories but dwells on bible stories and boast of knowledge, how dumb?

The reason why you are still a christian is because you dont even read your bible, 99% of Christians dont read the bible, they just look at the bible and say thank you jesus or Holy Spirit take control 🤣

All your life you depend on what the bible says , holy spirit says, your pastors says and your empty brainwashed head has nothing to offer

The Bible have been written, rewritten, edited and reedited severally by man while they can...
so how is it the word of your imaginary god? Are you ok ?

The picture below 👇🏾 is how I see religious people 😎

MightySparrow:
You are right. I was telling some folks last week that any teaching of the Bible that is localized, is not talking of the God of the Bible. If you see the prayer pattern of most churches, especially pentecostals, they are born out of traditional experiences. All this 'enemy praying churches' for instance. Some other practices show they are mixing Christianity with religion. IEven in the enlightened worlds, most of churches taken to Europe and America from Africa, are not attracted by whites. They find our theology funny. Actually, our theology is funny

MightySparrow:
Most Christians in Africa are3 lazy, they don't want to read the Bible. It is all about pastor said..,. There is this evil mindset of mixing traditions with Christianity. You will be hearing, it is written, actually it is. But when a preacher dwells much on Old Testament, he himself is confused. It is very difficult to change the mindset of a black man. Moreso , we only read to pass examinations. We largely don't read for living and knowledge.

TechBaron:
Email the school through the office of the Registrar.

I have been verifying our employees certificates during recruitment using this method for years now.

Most times, it takes ages for the school to respond, just get the school phone number and out it on auto redial.


They'll definitely attend to your enquiry.

The1960writer:
Well, if we could help ourselves, why then would we need the help from heaven?

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