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Who Inherits The Kingdom of God (and Who Doesn’t)?
With the recent Supreme Court rulings, it’s important to answer the questions Christians need to be asking.
Here’s 54 min. where I talk about the sinful lifestyles listed in 1Corinthians 6:9-11:
For those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.
1 Samuel 2:30
One of the many truths of the kingdom of God is that if we will honor God,He will honor us. If, however, we dare to treat Him disrespectfully,we will also be treated as least in His kingdom. The initiative restswith us. Our response to God determines His response to us. Eli hadbeen the priest of Israel for many years, and he knew the standardsfor righteous living that God required. Yet Eli faced a dilemma, for his sons were living in direct opposition to God. As their father, Elihad to decide whom he would honor.
I have set the Lord always before me; becauseHe is at my right hand I shall not be moved.
Psalm 16:8
What does it mean to set the Lord always before you? It means that you choose torelate everything you encounter to your trust in God. What you chooseto focus on becomes the dominant influence in your life. You may be aChristian, but if your focus is always on your problems, your problemswill determine the direction of your life. If your focus is on people,then people will determine what you think and do. In biblical times,the right hand was the most distinguished position, reserved for one’schief adviser and supporter. When you choose to focus on Christ, you invite Him to take the most important position in your life as Counselor and Defender.
Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, yet I willnot forget you.
Isaiah 49:15
God never becomes preoccupied or neglectful toward one of His children. God said it would be morelikely for a nursing mother to forget the infant at her breast thanfor Him to forget one of His children! The nursing mother has a keensensitivity to her baby. Even if the infant is in another room themother’s senses are in tune with her child. The mother knows when itis time to feed and care for the child. The mother never becomes sopreoccupied with other things that she neglects the needs of herchild.
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading tosalvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world producesdeath.
2 Corinthians 7:10
There is a difference between worldly sorrow and godly sorrow, though both are deeply felt. You can feel genuinesorrow over something you have done. Your mind can become consumedwith your failure and offense against God and others. Judas felt thiskind of sorrow. He betrayed the Son of God for thirty pieces ofsilver, the standard price of a slave. Yet his sorrow did not lead himto repent and to seek restoration with his fellow disciples, butrather to a lonely field where, in his anguish, he took his own life(Matt. 27:3–5).
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