Is Taking The Lowest Seat At The Feast A Wise Thing?

Is Jesus Teaching Humility To His Disciple When He Tells Them To Take The Lowest Seat At The Feast? Does Giving Feast To The Poor Makes A Person Heavenly Rich? Jesus Teaching A Spiritual Lesson Both To Those Invitees And The Inviter Shows The Importance Of Humility, And Further Reveals How To Collect Eternal Treasures In Our Afterlife?

Question: Is taking the lowest seat at the feast a wise thing? Is Jesus teaching humility to His disciples when He tells them to take the lowest seat at the feast? Does giving feast to the poor makes a person heavenly rich? Jesus teaching a spiritual lesson both to those invitees and the inviter shows the importance of humility, and further reveals how to collect eternal treasures in our afterlife?

Answer: Greetings in the most precious name of Jesus Christ!

So here we go with the Parable that Jesus teaches us,

Luke 14:7-14 - "7 So He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noted how they chose the best places, saying to them: 8 “When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place, lest one more honorable than you be invited by him; 9 and he who invited you and him come and say to you, ‘Give place to this man,’ and then you begin with shame to take the lowest place. 10 But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you. 11 For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” 12 Then He also said to him who invited Him, “When you give a dinner or a supper, do not ask your friends, your brothers, your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid. 13 But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind. 14 And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”".

The parables of Jesus are earthly stories that Jesus usually shares to reveal the mysteries of the realities and the truth of heaven to His sacrificially sincere seeking disciples, and screen off the unbelievers from the spiritual treasures that lay within the parables, and then send them back with a good laugh and a intellectual stimulation to just feed their unseeking heart. The unseeking heart is a unsaved heart, that seeks for earthly benefits from Jesus and will do the same even if Satan is ready to give them something. A seeking heart is a saved heart that repents for their sins and seeks for eternal treasures from God.

A saved man seeks the truth, and will reject the lies of the evil one, while the unsaved men are deceived to believe the lies to be condemned (Jer 29:13-14; John 8:44; 2 Thess 2:9-12; John 3:18-21).

Are You Now On Earth Working Yourself For The Lowest Or Highest Place In Heaven?

"7 So He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noted how they chose the best places, saying to them: 8 “When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place, lest one more honorable than you be invited by him; 9 and he who invited you and him come and say to you, ‘Give place to this man,’ and then you begin with shame to take the lowest place. 10 But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you. 11 For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

This story is all about how the Kingdom of Heaven operates, in this world when we all go to a feast, we seek the place of honor and to be the most visible of all. But heaven works in ways totally opposite to how the world works. There those who have taken the lowest place on earth while they have lived here, are those who are invited to the best place of honor by God there in heaven because God sees the heart attitude while man sees the outwards appearance (1 Sam 16:7).

The first section of the Parable of Jesus is told to those who were invitees to the feast, just like God has invited his children to the feast in heaven after the Rapture of the Church (Rev 19:7-8, 9). Clearly all the believers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ are included in this feast and therefore they must walk worthy of Him in humility now in their lives to be glorified by God then in the life to come (Matt 22:1-13, 14; 1 Thess 2:12; Eph 4:1).

God weighs humans based on their motives or the counsels of their heart which usually gives them a right attitude or wrong attitude, a man who does things with expectation of a reward usually does it wrongly while a human who does things out of love for God and His Kingdom people usually end up in the right side of God because of doing it without expectation (Prov 21:2).

Usually a man who seeks honor from men is like a person who desires to be the bridegroom in a marriage function, and a dead body in the funeral service, (i.e.) to be the center of attention of all people.

A man who seeks honor from men (John 5:41-42, 44), cannot be able to seek the honor of God and live for His Glory. Even when Jesus went to a feast being invited, he sees the way humans act in this world and he gets so drowned in the thought of the world to come, that he immediately wanted to convey to the earthly men to seek for the heavenly character and nature that only God in His grace and mercy can provide to the mortal men.

More honorable men are recognized in heaven not by their external appearances but rather by how much of the nature of God which is humility they have learned and lived and practiced it to make it their own in their earthly lives (1 Pet 5:6). God gives grace to the humble (Jam 4:6), which means the character of God itself is His nature that we have inherited by choice of receiving Jesus as our Lord and Savior (John 1:12; 1 Cor 12:3; Rom 8:9), but we become "partakers of the divine nature" only when we by humility begin to acknowledge our inadequacy of our self and the Adamic nature to overcome sin, but instead receive more and more of God's nature in our soul through depending on God's strength by believing His "exceedingly great and precious promises" (2 Pet 1:2-4).

The character we gain on earth is the only thing that we will take with us in to the life to come, to receive the equivalent glory of heaven which will be with us forever and ever eternally. Heaven has no much honor to give for fleshly men who live for earthly gain and honor of fellow men. These fleshly men receive glory of men through doing charitable deeds while they live, will make a big show of their fastings and prayers, but will not forgive others of their mistakes, will lay up treasure for themselves on earth (Matt 6:5-15, 16-18), thus that will be the only honor they will ever receive and will not receive anything further from God when they meet him in heaven even if they are saved (Matt 6:1-4; 1 Cor 3:11-15).

What a pity to feel ashamed when we are not honored in the sight of God and be resisted by him for our pride in our eternity (2 Cor 4:2, 7; Jam 4:6), in other words, those who have stubbornly lived for their own glory will take the lowest place in heaven, but those who have walked in humility before God on earth will take the best place of honor in heaven just like Jesus (Php 2:5-11; Rev 3:21)!

To take the lowest place in a feast is to serve everyone who has come there to eat, and thus Jesus himself has taken that lowly place as a bondservant of God to serve all humans, and have not come to earth from heaven to be served, even though He is the creator God and is the King of all Kings on earth (Matt 20:26, 27-28; Luke 22:24-27)! Jesus later washed his disciples feet in order to show them that it is the one who serves others with humility before God is truly greater than all the men who lord over others before fellow humans. He also had taught the disciples at that instant, the one who serves is greater than the one who is served in the Kingdom of Heaven (John 13:13-17).

The life you live on earth is so important to God, that He evaluates it all by the humility you have practiced and prepares to reward you in heaven in the life to come. So it is not inside of the four walls of the Church you are receiving honor that matters for eternity, but in the sight of God are you living in humility and are increasing in it more and more, day in and day out in the nature of God that matters because that Character of God that is increasing within you through humility is going to stay with you for eternity, and will also decide what kind of honor that you are going to get from God in your eternity, (i.e.) lowest place or the highest place of honor! Hallelujah!

Jesus teaches us not to think less of ourselves, but to think ourself less, by knowing who we are as a child of God and whom we belong, (i.e.) to our Heavenly Father in heaven (1 Cor 2:16; Php 2:5-8). To walk in humility is to take the lowest seat on earth which is heavenly wise and earthly foolish. We might not know, when we walk in such humility, God himself may honor us even on earth to make the inviter call us to the seat of honor even though we might not even expect that for ourself. Don't ask God to humble you, because He can only humiliate you to become humble, but it is you yourself who take a renewed mind to think the way of Jesus to walk in humility and be honored by God. In other words, Jesus never cared for the honor of men or sought it in his life, so he took the lowest seat on earth but God honored him to be the greatest human among all humans. Hallelujah!

Only those friends of God who live on earth in faith through humility are those those who will be invited in heaven to go up higher in the Glory even as He gives to them all His felicitation gifts of honor which will stay with them for eternity ahead, along with His nature that they have inherited on earth by their humble walk with God (Isa 41:8; Jam 2:23). In the earthly realm of the Kingdom of God, many who exalt themselves before God now will be humbled in heaven, many who humble themselves before God now will be exalted before Him in heaven then. GLORY TO GOD!

Remember saints, the life you live on earth before God is a test which places you in the hierarchy of heavenly glory and honor before God. What happens on earth before men means nothing of any value to the eternal life that God has set before you. So if you are too concerned for the honor of men, you cannot be a bondservant of God which is the highest title for true humble men who walk with God in the center of His will for their lives now (Gal 1:10; Matt 22:14).

When You Invite People For A Feast, Invite Them Who Cannot Repay Back To You, So That You May Be Rewarded In Heaven?

"12 Then He also said to him who invited Him, “When you give a dinner or a supper, do not ask your friends, your brothers, your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid. 13 But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind. 14 And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”".

In English language there is only one word used for love, but in Greek language, the same word does mean so many different love like parental love, friendship love, marital love and unconditional love. Only the love of God is unconditional, every one who practices that kind of love can only do to others good things without expecting anything in return. Only this type of 'Agape love' which is unconditional by nature will be rewarded by heaven.

Usually every one of us who would want to give a dinner or a supper, we want to give to whom we know, thus when we invite our friends, brothers, relatives, rich neighbors...they usually remember us to invite us back to express their gratitude with a feast.

But Jesus says to the inviter, we should not invite to whom we know, because we get invited back to be repaid of our generosity. When humans pay us back, we have received our reward on earth and God has no opportunity to pay us in heaven for our work on earth.

Therefore Jesus says to the inviter, "when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind" who are so poor, so that they do not even have anything left with them to pay you back for the generosity you have shown them. Thus by doing good without expectation for the sake of sharing God's love to these poor and differently abled people, we directly do to God and lend to Him who never forgets to pay us back many more times eternally for the good things we did for the sake of His name (Prov 19:17; 22:9; Matt 10:40-42; Heb 6:10; Jam 1:27; 2:2-9; Gal 6:10).

Jesus wants us to focus ourselves towards 'eternal treasures' and not just temporal 'earthly treasure'. Every marriages conducted on earth will have a feast, at least in a small way according to each one's ability, and that too as Jesus has foretold in these end times that the frequency of these feast will increase to such an extent that many will become insensitive to the spiritual things and the after life when the coming of the "Son of Man" Jesus Christ will take place (Matt 24:38). So we should make every opportunity for the poor in some way to give to them a share of our earthly treasure in one way or the other, and to take care of their day to day needs, so that each and every one of us can store without fail in the heavenly treasure bank (Matt 6:19-21, 24), so that when we get resurrected "at the resurrection of the just" which will be the rapture for the Church and the first resurrection for the Tribulation saints (1 Thess 4:14-18; 1 Cor 4:5; 3:14-15; Rev 20:4-6), in which we will be fully repaid without fail by God. Hallelujah!

Are We Listening To Heaven's Mysteries Revealed To Us By Jesus Or Is It Falling On Deaf Spiritual Ears? Wake Up Saints Before It Is Too Late!

Are we really living God-like by revealing His unconditional love and benevolent nature to people who live around us in our day to day lives? Are we really loving the poor people or are we sinning by showing partiality towards the rich and despising the poor who are mostly rich in faith? Have we really shared our feast, dinner or supper with the poor, maimed, lame and blind in our past times as a Christian and a follower and a disciple of Jesus Christ, or are we still living to invite only our friends, brothers, relatives and rich neighbours only to invite and live selfishly without God's love in practice?

These are times to repent and introspect our own lives based on the revealed mysteries of heaven which we have heard from Jesus who has shared with us who are His disciples, the above parable of taking the lowest seat at the feast and inviting the poor to the feast who cannot repay us. Take a decision today and ask God's help to practice what Jesus has taught now to you, so that you might not end up poor eternally but rather be rich and honored by God for eternity ahead. Praise the Lord!

If we do not humbly take the lowest seat in the feast when we are invited and care not for the poor and the differently abled people, then totally we have missed the will of God to reveal His nature to neighbors around us which does not honor God and also makes us poor eternally. May God help us now live rich with God's abundant grace received on earth through humility and also become rich in our eternity by loving people unconditionally just like God without any other motives for His name sake! GLORY!

Never be afraid to let go of those things that you can lose for the things that you cannot lose forever. Truly he is no fool who loses what he cannot gain and gains what he cannot lose. Earthly things will soon be lost, but the heavenly character of God in which we grow through humility and practice through living it through loving others unconditionally will keep us eternally rich for the Glory of God!

Every time you have become a fool to the world for the sake of being wise towards God, you have chosen to reveal to the world that the foolishness of the immortal God is much more wiser than the mere wisdom of mortal men, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength (1 Cor 1:25). Soon the world will realize very late to regret for its condemned life of sin and self in hell fire, while your investment done in to the building of the Kingdom of God will become fruitful enough by that time to have made you wise and strong and rich and honored in the sight of God for eternity in your eternal life with God! Truly there will be many who will give you a rich welcome in to eternity when you have lived a life worthy of God. Hallelujah. Jesus Lives!


Much Blessings....

Is The Parable Of The Lost Sheep Speaking About Little Children?

Spiritually Little Children Will Sin And Many Times Be Lost From The Fellowship Of The Heavenly Father, Jesus Restores Such A One So That Not Even One Believer Who Is Saved Will Ever Be Lost. Am I Right?

Question: Is the parable of the Lost Sheep speaking about little children? Spiritually little children will sin and many times be lost from the fellowship of the Heavenly Father, Jesus restores such a one so that not even one believer who is saved will ever be lost. Am I right?

Answer: Greetings to you in Jesus wonderful name!

Here we go with the parable....

Matt 18:10-14 - "10 “Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven. 11 For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost. 12 “What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? 13 And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. 14 Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish."

First of all 'I am holier than thou' attitude of spiritual pride and looking down upon a spiritual child which can be termed as 'You are a unworthy sinner and I am not as bad as you' attitude of exclusive hyper-holiness within the Church has spread like a plague and corona virus in these last days Church (Isa 65:5; Luke 18:11-12). Think about it saints, 'Lucifer' which means the "shining one, light-bearer" who became Satan the devil, when his heart was lifted up in pride and therefore God threw him down to the earth to become ashes of his former (Isa 14:13-15; 28:14-15, 16-17, 18). Devil became the adversary of humans, he tempts humans to sin, he then accuses the sinners before God, and he carries out God's punishment which is the only thing he excels to create fear in the heart of humans and control their lives through it.

There are a lot of so called spiritual people and hypocrites within even the Church, who become a stumbling block to the little children, Jesus pronounces woe to the man who causes the offences to the little children and warns them to take seriously these hidden offences of sin, and remove the root of pride from their heart which were done through their hand, foot or eye so that they will be able to avoid hell fire. In other words, Jesus wants the proud to humble themselves before the Lord so that they can be saved from dead works which becomes a stumbling block to little spiritual children around them.

So pride is stench in God's nostrils, pride is the first sin committed by Satan which then began to spread universally, and rebellion against God was the outcome. Spiritual pride for a believer is the worst kind of sin. In the Churches only external sin are mostly taken as the most dangerous thing against spirituality, and therefore most of the times it is judged by the elders. But when a elder of the Church gets filled with pride, no one takes notice of it except God who brings a fall to the proud people whether they be elder or the least and the weakest child of God (Prov 16:18). Jesus prophesied that in these end of end times, a lukewarm spirituality due to malnutrition of the false doctrine of wealth and health, which will make people become filled with pride because of equating riches with God's blessings and favor and spirituality, which makes them think wrongly that they already are not in any need of spiritual growth or the required repentance and overcoming by faith that God commands. Their heart will be instead set steadfast on the regular needs of the physical health, financial health or wealth multiplication which they already have which is the idol which replaces God in their lives (Rev 3:15-17). Woe! Woe! Woe to the spiritual pride! May we repent of it, and instead live for the Glory of God.

When spiritually little ones sins, we should not despise them because their Heavenly Father has set angelic help to lift them of discouragement to come out of their sin or weakness (1 Kings 19:5-8; Gen 21:17; 2 Cor 2:5-7; Gal 6:1). Jesus has come to save those sinning children of God who humble themselves to God and desire to live an overcoming life of faith through repentance (1 John 1:7, 9; 2:1). I believe just as Jesus said, if we judge others, we will be judged with the same scale we have judged others. If we show mercy towards others, we will be shown mercy on the same scale by God (Matt 7:1-2; 5:7; Luke 6:37-38). If we point one finger towards a spiritually immature sinning Brother, three other fingers points towards us to show our own sinfulness, and then the middle finger points towards God in heaven which tells us to repent of our wrong attitude within us towards other sinning Brother which is equal to the same done towards Him (Matt 5:23-24).

When there is a group of God's children in the Church, the mature and the immature, usually it is the little ones that strays to sin easily and get stumbled because of seeing other mature ones sin or the world that lures them, which becomes a stumbling block and a detriment to their spiritual life. When a most unworthy sinner gets saved to become a sheep among the hundred, and they get caught in devil's thorn bushes of sin to be stumbled in to the trap set by the devil, Jesus goes in to the wilderness in search of that one little spiritual child and finds him to bring him back in to fellowship with the Heavenly Father who loves him immensely, and our Heavenly Father have instructed Jesus not to lose even one of those precious little ones. Hallelujah! What a wonderful God we have, who is concerned for the little weak children of His and shows more grace and mercy to them even as they cry out to Him in their despair of sin. Praise the Lord!

When a sinner finds Jesus after he has strayed in to sin, that is the moment that reminds us that Jesus has been after the sinner the whole time climbing the wilderness of Calvary once and for all time to bring him back in to fellowship with Himself and His Heavenly Father (Heb 7:27).

Jesus always rejoices over one sinner who repents and come to him for help as his sheep than the ninety nine who finds no need for it (Luke 15:7). If someone gets saved by believing in Jesus, it is the will of the Father in Heaven that not even one sinner who repents should ever be lost (John 6:39-40). In other words, once saved always saved is not a theory, but rather it is a command from the Father to Jesus who loses not even one sinner who has come to him in repentance (Matt 18:14; John 10:26, 27-30).

What a wonderful Jesus we have, who because of the Father's Love towards us, have saved us from sin and its curses once and for all time for eternity ahead! What does this above parable has taught us? First stay away from pride of false spirituality and its luring message of the Gospel of health and wealth which can deceive us in to deep spiritual slumber and keep us useless for God and his purposes with our dead spiritual works which is worth nothing for eternity.

When you have come to Jesus and become His sheep through your belief, you might be weakest of all saints, but when you start to pray and repent to Jesus of your sins, you become the strongest saint against all the work of the evil of Satan and his kingdom of darkness.

Once saved always saved is not a theory to debate, but rather the faithfulness of Jesus is at stake when we say other wise in unbelief to exaggerate the works of faith we do. Jesus Himself has promised that not even the least of the little child of God, (i.e.) the sinning weakling He will ever lose. Jesus is never surprised by our sins and weaknesses, rather he wants them to repent of their sins and overcome by faith to move forward and be rewarded eternally from Him (Rev 22:12). If ever you sin, run to Jesus, for He is your justifier who is the just God who has shed his sinless blood to save you from sin (Rom 3:26).

Jesus rejoices in your repentant life and calls you overcomer by faith when you run to Him, infact He has promised to reward you out of this world if you would continue in it. Therefore it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish, so make sure you stay out of spiritual pride to judge, but instead show mercy to the sinning sheep that strays from the path of holiness. When you restore the weak sinning Brother or Sister, be aware and careful that if not for the grace and mercy of God, you would also be in their boot. So learn to continue to hate sin but love the sinner who repents!

Always humble yourself before the mighty hand of the Lord and He will lift you up in the right time. Never become spiritually prideful because of how God uses you, the moment you think you have attained, that is the moment you will fall down to be humiliated before everyone. So embrace the chastisement of the Lord and He will treat you as His respectable sons and not children anymore. Hallelujah!


Praise the Lord! Glory to God!


Much Blessings....

What Does The Parable Of The Dragnet Teaches Us About?

What Did Jesus Really Reveal To Us Through The Parable Of The Dragnet Cast In To The Sea?

Question: What does the parable of the Dragnet teaches us about? What did Jesus really reveal to us through the parable of the Dragnet Cast In To The Sea? And also why did he further speak about the scholarly scribe as an owner of the house or a householder who is instructed concerning the Kingdom Of Heaven and brings out his treasure things old and new?

Answer: Greetings to you in Jesus wonderful name!

Parables of Jesus are earthly stories which He tells to reveal heavenly realities of the Kingdom of Heaven, and thus make the disciple understand the mysteries of heaven and screen off the unbeliever or a lethargic person away from knowing the deeper and more precious spiritual things that they do not value (Matt 7:6, 7-8; Php 3:2).

Here are the Parables:

"47 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some of every kind, 48 which, when it was full, they drew to shore; and they sat down and gathered the good into vessels, but threw the bad away. 49 So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come forth, separate the wicked from among the just, 50 and cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.” 51 Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.” 52 Then He said to them, “Therefore every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old.”" (Matt 13:47-52).

We know that the "the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea." What does dragnet and sea speak about in the spiritual realm?

Again we know, when Simon tried to catch fishes the whole night and caught nothing until the daybreak and was very disappointed as a professional fisher man who was afraid of what had taken place, Jesus comes there and commands to him, "Launch out in to the deep and let down your nets for a catch."

At the very word of Jesus Simon humbled himself and with faith did the command of Jesus in obedience, and not only Simon but every one who was working along with him were astonished at the catch, it was indeed a net breaking catch which made all the nearby boat to come and help them so that both the boats were filled with fishes even to the point of sinking. As Jesus wanted to convey the real reason why they did not get the fish even though they were professional fishermen, first he calmed their nerves by saying to them to not to be afraid and then assured that from that time onward they will catch souls of men instead of fishes. They immediately brought the boats to the shore to forsake all and follow Jesus in implicit obedience (Luke 5:4-11). Praise the Lord!

So dragnet in the spiritual realm is a tool of God that is given by God or bestowed by Him upon a person, most of the times humans and few times in exception even some angels receive an anointing to attract souls in to the Kingdom of God through their message which when believed by the recipients will make them open a path for themselves to enter in to the Kingdom of Heaven as opposed to this temporal earth (Acts 1:8; 1 Cor 1:21; Rev 14:6-7).

The sea in the Bible are the nations, tongues and people who live in all the nations of the world except Israel (Rev 13:1; 17:15; Dan 7:2; Isa 60:5). Kingdom of God looks for sinners who are ready to humble themselves as sinners and believe the Savior Jesus Christ whom God has provided as a door to reach heaven and thus become God's children (Luke 18:9-14; John 1:12; 10:7-9).

Preaching and teaching the word of God through the anointing of the Holy Spirit is the dragnet that is thrown in to all the sea of the world to catch the soul of humans and bring them in to the faith boat of the Kingdom of God which saves them now (1 Pet 3:20-21). We are told to preach the Gospel to all nations (Mark 16:15). Praise the Lord!

When we do obey the Word of Jesus to preach and teach the Word of God through the anointing and thus throw the net deep to catch for humans in the world, we will "[gather] some of every kind", which does mean that people good and bad do come to get saved (Rom 10:13, 10). 

The good people repent of their sins, but the bad people come in the midst of spiritual activity but will not get saved instead will continue to put mask as a hypocrite and remain without repentance for their sins (Matt 3:6-12). The bad people who hear the good news but do not believe it in their heart and continue to live their bad lives in the world will remain unsaved, and the soul still condemned for hell fire (John 3:19-21). 

In other words, just as all types of good and bad fishes are together caught in the dragnet, both the saved and unsaved are caught in to the anointing of the good news of the Gospel of God, but then when it is pulled out and evaluated for its worthiness during God's judgment at the end of each persons life, the good is taken in to God's celestial city and the bad are thrown out in to hell fire made for the rebellious angels who have rebelled against God. 

At the end of the age, before the Millennial reign of Jesus and the Church takes place, there will be a judgment of all nations (Matt 25:31-46), in which the angels sent by God will come forth to begin to separate the wicked unsaved people from among the just people who have believed in Jesus Christ and are saved (Matt 13:36-43), then the wicked will be cast in to the eternal fire (Matt 25:41, 46), and the righteous will enter in to the Kingdom of The Father God prepared since the foundation of the world to inherit it (Matt 25:34). Hallelujah!

Jesus after saying this Parable of the Dragnet, asks his disciples, “Have you understood all these things?” They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.” The Lord Jesus was training these fishermen and laymen's to become a scholar by the anointing of heaven, and thus connecting scripture to scripture by the power of the Holy Spirit (Isa 28:10-12, 13-14), they were able to boldly say to Jesus that they have understood the above parable of the Dragnet.

Jesus Is Training Laymen Scholars For His Kingdom Eternal Work, Have You Become One?

"52 Then He said to them, “Therefore every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old.”" (Matt 13:52).

A Scribe [i.e. Scholar] is not someone who has done a doctor in philosophy (PHD) degree as in the world and remains a great intellect full of pride for his knowledge (1 Cor 1:26-27). God has not chosen many wise, mighty and noble but rather many weak, insignificant and despised things of the world He has chosen, to put to shame the things which are mighty, that no flesh should glory in His Presence (1 Cor 1:28-29). God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble (Jam 4:6).

So the Lord is able to use anybody in His Kingdom by giving them the anointing to fulfill His call over their lives (Rom 8:29-30; Heb 5:4; Acts 1:8).

When the word 'Therefore', comes, we should take notice, of why it is 'there-for(e)'. In other words, what ever has been spoken before, the conclusion continues when therefore is used. As we are all a individual scribe of the disciple of Jesus, we who have thus learned about the Kingdom of Heaven, should take the revelation of the parables of Jesus in to our heart and completely understand what Jesus wants to convey to us.

Jesus says that we as a disciple of Jesus who have become a child of God, and thus the inheritor of the Kingdom of God, we have also most importantly become a owner and a householder of the mysteries of the Kingdom of God. Now that we have the ability to bring out God's treasure of the truth of heaven both from the New Testament and the Old Testament, we are the scholars who need to spread out the message to our fellow brethren to make them understand and become strong in the spirit for the Glory of God. This supernatural ability to not only understand the parables of Jesus which are heavenly treasures hidden from the beginning of the world, but also teach them to others shows that God has endowed us with the ability of heaven to walk as the children of God (Luke 10:17-20, 21-24; Matt 13:10-17; Mark 4:10-13). O what a privilege! Hallelujah!

We should understand that the Old Testament is New Testament concealed, and the New Testament is Old Testament revealed, therefore as a child of God we are truly an "householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old". Praise the Lord!

A Bible believing Christian is an householder of God, he knows the deeper mysteries of the Kingdom of God and also practices those things in their own life to understand how it works in their own lives and in other people's lives too. They will read the Bible inside out and will try to know the deeper mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven day in and day out by reading the Word of God and praying to God for a deeper revelation of His mysteries till they one day will leave this earth and see the face of God in heaven. 

Have you become the owner of God's mysteries of the Parables of Jesus? Do you understand both the Old and New Testament, to not only bring out the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven to walk in your own life, but also tell to others to make them understand it and lead them to deeper truth? Do you attract souls in to the Kingdom of God? Have you been endowed with the anointing to teach and preach the Kingdom of Heaven and therefore help people enter in to it and become citizens of it? If you have not yet received this anointing of the Baptism of the Spirit, ask God and persist till you receive it and begin to use it for the Glory of God. Surely there is a judgment for righteous people separately in which God will reward them eternally for their works of faith, but there is also a final separate White Throne Judgment for the wicked unsaved in which their works will be judged, and they themselves will be condemned eternally for not believing the truth, but instead had pleasure in unrighteousness having no love of the truth within them (1 Thess 2:9-12). In short, NO HUMANS OR ANGELS CAN ESCAPE FROM THE JUDGMENT OF GOD WHICH THEY HAVE TO FACE WITHOUT FAIL happens presently and also in the future at the end of the age and further down. Pre-millenial judgment of God on earth is the judgment of all nations and the post-,millenial judgement of God is the White Throne Judgment which will take place outside of this present earth somewhere between heaven and earth (Matt 25:31-46; Rev 20:11-15).  

If you are a child of God and are a part of the Kingdom of Heaven, then serve the Lord with all your heart and keep living the mysteries of heaven, and further try your best to teach and preach about it to the ends of the earth moving in the fear of God, and thus rejoice in the treasure that you already have through learning and meditating on the parables of Jesus, till you master it and let the truth master you at the end of it all (Php 4:4)! Praise the Lord! GLORY!



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What Does It Mean When Jesus Says That The Kingdom Of God Is Like A Treasure Hidden In A Field And Like A Merchant Finding One Pearl Of Great Price That He Sells All Things And Buys It?

How Much Valuable To A Human Is The Kingdom Of God?

Question: What does it mean when Jesus says that the Kingdom of God is like a treasure hidden in a field and like a merchant finding one Pearl of great price that he sells all things and buys it? How much value to a human is the Kingdom of God?

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

We know every time Jesus speaks about something in parables, those are really kingdom realities of heaven which he tries to explain it to human understanding to make them grasp through earthly imagery which we can all easily understand. But yet all these things can only be fully understood by the true seeker of God and disciple of Jesus, to others the spiritual secrets will be hidden from them as they will only hear a good story or a little bit of intellectual stimulation for their soul (Matt 13:10-17).

Every time Jesus likens something to something else, it is Jesus already being the reality and truth of Heaven and its Kingdom, is trying to make people understand it, using earthly stories and examples so that saved people who follow him as disciplined disciples can understand the mysteries of heaven. And those who have come to seek for their earthly needs and temporary solution without having a serious intention to sacrificially follow him as disciple are screened off from the real blessings of heaven. So we know that God is good to all people on earth to provide their temporal needs (Matt 5:45), but He is eternally good only to those of His children who follow him by dying to their own will and living to do their Heavenly Father's will in their lives (1 John 2:17; Heb 12:6-8).

So these Parables that Jesus spoke are very important to our lives to learn faith concepts that will lift our belief from earthly realm to the heavenly realm of the Spirit. The mysteries of the Kingdom of God are kept secret to everyone on earth except His children who love Him at all times (Prov 17:17; John 15:15). What a privilege we have to know the secret of the Kingdom as God's children, truly we are the most blessed (Matt 13:17, 16).

Nowadays we see no one is interested in Parables, and especially of Jesus' parables, why? Because the world we live doesn't have the perseverance to seek God intensely and look for the mysteries of the Kingdom which cannot be given to the curious bystanders. In this world of instant food, happiness, entertainment, sex and comfort, that the world around us is seeking for, God is looking for disciplined and serious children of His who are not just seeking to know the mysteries of heaven but more than that sacrificially live on earth the life of heaven for the Glory of God. So what are we waiting for? Sacrifice for God and His Kingdom until it hurts, then seek to be a serious follower and a disciple and a student of the words of Jesus to practice them in your daily life, and spread the same belief to all those around you, and thus be a follower of Him. Praise the Lord!

THE PARABLE OF THE HIDDEN TREASURE

Matt 13:44 - "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field."

The heart of the human is compared to a garden or a field in the Bible both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament (Jer 31:12; Matt 13:23), and therefore in the heart of a saved person there is a spiritual treasure and a direct connection to heaven that gets hidden within them. Every man who finds the Kingdom of heaven in his personal life through humbling himself as a sinner before God gets a new treasure of a brand new spirit as a gift and a spiritual treasure from the Lord God Almighty (2 Cor 5:17; Ezek 18:31).

Every time a believer finds it, it a mystery of how he is able to use this treasure to contact the very Creator of the entire Universe. But when he returns back to his day to day work, immediately the treasure of a new spirit gets hidden within the depth of his heart. Therefore, seeking, seeing and finding this mysterious way his spirit works, he starts to seek through the hidden treasure as instructed by Jesus, he goes in to the secret place away from the hustles bustles of life to get in to the domain of the Kingdom of God, and from that high and lofty place he begins to pray to the Heavenly Father where he again finds the treasure of the Kingdom of God (Matt 6:6).

He finds joy every times he accesses that treasure within him, that he finally decides that the one and only way to keep the treasure is to access it all the time to have joy over it, therefore he sells all that he has, then buys that field completely (Matt 19:21). There is a sweet and awesome feeling of heaven that a true disciple could taste, that others will never be able to experience in their lives.

Just as Jesus said, "He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it." (Matt 10:39). In other words, a disciple of Jesus is not a ascetic minded person, but rather he is God-toward-minded, not that He only seeks the pleasure that comes out of God's throne for himself (Psa 16:11), but rather he finds to give himself as a surrendered vessel for God to find pleasure in it and give back to God what pleases Him and find pleasure in it (Rom 12:2; John 4:34). Thus a disciple of Jesus Christ in giving his comfort, will, desires and treasures to God and His Kingdom, he learns not to trust in anything but the pleasure given to God through living a life pleasing to Him always as the foremost thing in his life.

As he seeks the treasure of having fellowship and communion with God as the primary reason for the existence of life and its purpose, this radical shift in the life of a disciple is that which makes him lose his earthly life for God, but in losing it he starts to find life beyond the earth in the Kingdom domain where the true joy, peace and righteousness abound and super abound as something to be treasured within him moment by moment (Rom 14:17), thus this heavenly life is that which drives the disciple to motivate him to give himself more and more to God (1 Pet 2:2-3).

When a disciple buys the field in which he found the treasure of salvation within him, he buys it with all his earthly possession, but in exchange he is investing his all to follow Jesus to receive heavenly treasures for eternity, and thus find the regular love, intimacy and communion with God as immensely satisfying that motivates him to continue to lose himself for God and gain God Himself as his only true treasured possession till his end on earth (Heb 6:9-12; 2:3; Gen 15:1).

In letting go of his soul-life [i.e. psuche] for God, the man who is a disciple of Jesus gains the very life of God which He lives in heaven in fellowship within the Trinity (John 17:23, 26). Praise the Lord!

Thus the bottom line we see is, as John Elliot said, He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. In other words, only those things we have surrendered in to the hands of the Lord are the only things that will remain with us to be kept for eternity.

So the treasure we seek as a believer is nothing less that God himself who operates in the domain of his Kingdom, so to gain more and more of this treasure, we are letting go of this temporal soul life and its pleasures to do what we want by selling and disposing off all of our temporal things and desires, so that we start to do what God wants and what we do not want as self life gets crucified on the Cross to lose its strength and be kept at death. When God works through us, the heavenly pleasures forevermore is that we start to experience now and for eternity ahead! Hallelujah!

Are you a saved believer? Have you sold your all to buy eternal treasures which lay hidden in the domain of your heart, are you accessing your treasure within your heart through communion and intimacy with God, often, day in day out in order to have joy over it, in which the treasures of eternal life is hidden within? Let go and let God! If ever you want to be someone, be a sincere sacrificial follower and a disciple of Jesus, that is the only pursuit that satisfies, and that which satisfies immensely and eternally. GLORY!

THE PARABLE OF THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE

Matt 13:45-46 - "45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, 46 who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it."

Here again Jesus compares the Kingdom of Heaven to "a merchant seeking beautiful pearls". Whenever Kingdom of God is explained to humans, it is in the viewpoint of a human towards God that it is done. In other words, how Kingdom of God in its nature can be accessible to humans when they seek God's domain on earth for profitability. In other words, each human seeks God for a good and blessed life on earth so that they can gain profit and become a rich earthly merchant in their own lives (Job 1:10-11; Matt 6:32). Hence we see the nature of a merchant in every human being of Adam's nature in their soul, who lives on earth and has a religious inclination towards it to fulfill this desire for profitability and material wealth (Gen 5:1, 3). Satan uses this desire as a pseudo-ruler over them and have amassed nearly the wealth of the whole world to use it the way he wants through making people do his bidding through his suggestive lies of his which he tells for his own profitability (Ezek 28:16-19; Matt 4:8-9; John 8:44). Remember, that every unsaved unbeliever is at the hand of the devil to do his bidding that makes people lust for more and more money until death through wicked short term schemes like bribing, theft, lies, murder, etc....as the Word of God describes this scenario as "the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil" (1 Tim 6:10) that prevails in this world.

Therefore Kingdom of God to humans is like a merchant seeking beautiful and costly pearls to make a great profit to himself, as we know that the whole earth is seeking to increase their own riches and profit themselves through whatever means or methods it can, many times they do these things through secret lies even after knowing well enough that, what they do is wrong morally and spiritually. Having found that the beautiful pearl is the most costliest material and earthly treasure that every humans seeks after, in seeking these things the human who finds a emptiness and land up in quagmire of sin and its wickedness and start to seeks intensely for something eternal that can only fill that God shaped vacuum within him, will finally end up finding God through Jesus Christ the "pearl of great price", or in other words, pearl of infinite price regarding earthly value (Eccl 3:11; Jer 29:11-13).

So once a person who had run after money or wealth or the worldly pleasures of earthly life, finds through turmoil and brokenness, the pearl of great price in Christ Jesus, they radically go even to the extent of selling all their earthly possession because of their love for Him and buys the Kingdom Treasure that they find within Jesus Christ to invest it all for eternity (Acts 4:34-35; Col 1:19-23). The radical call of discipleship and its price makes people to to deny themselves and take up the Cross of daily doing God's will and thus follow Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior (Matt 6:19-21; 19:21; Luke 18:22; 9:23).

Jesus Christ is the pearl of great price and that price is invaluable in the Kingdom of God and in the sight of God, because his blood is the only sinless offering acceptable to God and was therefore given for the forgiveness of the sins of all people which includes us who believe Him (1 Pet 1:18-19; Heb 9:13-14). Now it is absolutely necessary, that each one who believe Him must be also willing to sacrifice even their earthly possessions to gain eternal treasures for themselves, with a attitude of a disciple to follow him (Luke 14:26-27, 28-30).

Are you willing to not only surrender yourself, but your earthly possession to build the Kingdom of God and be a disciple of Jesus to invest your sure treasure in heaven? Have you believed in Jesus Christ accepting yourself as a sinner in need of His saving blood to cleanse you from all your sins? Have you considered Jesus as the pearl of great price and have you sold everything you have for yourself in your heart, and instead have bought this pearl of great price through your personal sacrifice? How have you till now as a believer, have sacrificially used your earthly possession for the spreading of the Gospel of Jesus Christ because of your love for Him, have you ever felt the pinch of it in your pocket (Gal 6:6-10; 1 Cor 9:11, 14)? Remember, the sacrifice that doesn't cost you your dear soul-life, is not a fitful sacrifice for the Lord at all (Matt 16:25; 10:39; Mark 8:35; 2 Sam 24:24; Lev 1:3; 22;20).


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We Knead To Do Dough, But When Yeast Is Added Or Hidden In It, Supernaturally By God's Design It Gives Taste And Increase To The Dough To Help Us Make Our Tasty Bread. Does God's Kingdom Work Like This? That Is, We Work, Then God Work's So That We Could Become A Blessing!

What Does The Nature Of Yeast Have To Do With The Kingdom Of God?

Question: What does the nature of yeast have to do with the Kingdom of God? We knead to do dough, but when yeast is added or hidden in it, supernaturally by God's design it gives taste and increase to our dough to help us make our tasty bread. Does God's Kingdom work like this? That is, we work, then God work's so that we could become a blessing!

Answer: Greetings in the Holy Name of Jesus!

Here we go:

Matt 13:33 - "Another parable He spoke to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened."

Luke 13:20-21 - "20 And again He said, “To what shall I liken the kingdom of God? 21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.”

What is a leaven?

A leaven is a substance, typically yeast, that is used in dough to make it rise.

In other words, specifically it is a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter. It might be also, fermented dough reserved for producing fermentation in a new batch of dough.

We all work our dough to make bread, but God is the one who does make it work naturally when we leaven it by hiding a little in the meal, we wait until it is fully leavened.

Can we see it how the fermentation works? No it works invisibly, but it does work when we see the dough or batter rise up to give a wonderful sour taste which indicates it is ready to be cooked in oven or stove or fire to be eaten.

Once fully leavened, we use it to cook tasty bread, soft and nicely burnt with a great aroma that will fully satisfy our taste buds and hunger.

Presuming we used a common recipe for basic white bread that uses 5 ½ cups of flour, 144 cups which three measure of meal is, it is enough to make 26 batches of bread of two loaves each, giving us a total of 52 loaves, each weighing about a pound [i.e. 453.592 grams] and a half [i.e. 453.592+226.796=680.389 grams].

It is very surprising to see that this woman prepare at least a dough roughly equal to the weight of thirty to thirty five kilograms of bread. This is a woman who does not just cook for her family, but more than that for the village, town, city and to the ends of the world as much as will receive it from her.

What have we learnt from the above Parable of the Kingdom of God, when Jesus says it is a woman who prepares the food, in the spiritual realm it is the Church that prepares the spiritual food for soul of people (1 Tim 3:15; 2 Cor 11:2; Eph 5:25-27). When the Church supplies spiritual bread for people, it should not only be for the people within the walls of the Church, but actually beyond it, it is for all the people of the whole world (John 3:16; Mark 16:15).

So the Church not only should make disciples within its walls but of all nations, it should not only prepare regular bread for its own family and relatives who comes (Matt 28:18-20), but also it should persistently ask for the bread of the Word of God for the friends in the world to be saved even though it might be at the last hour of midnight before the coming of the Lord, God will surely rise from his rest to give bread to as many as we need even at midnight time of the last hour or minute of His Secret Coming or even until His Second Coming (Luke 11:5-8).

Praise the Lord!

It is our duty as the Church of Jesus Christ to fulfill His Great Commission of teaching and preaching the word of God within the walls of the Church as well as to the common man in the world who is in need of the bread of life [i.e. Jesus Christ], as the unbeliever some times does not even realize their need until we tell them and open their eyes to the reality of the spiritual eternal life (John 6:35).

Some times if we do not have faith enough, we might even find the people around us to be beyond our ability to supply spiritual bread like the disciple Philip who replied back to Jesus saying, "Two hundred days wages worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may have a little." But surely we must understand that many times God might test us with so many people in need around us, but if we could realize that in faith we are able to supply to everyone because Jesus is able to supernaturally multiply the bread of the Word of God and feed it to all, then we could joyfully obey the Lord and do what Jesus tells us to do and thus become a part of the miracle multiplication that Jesus does in our generation through faith to supply the bread of life not only to the Church within the walls but also to the world around us which is in need (John 6:1-14).

The main work of the Church is to take the leaven or the change and transforming agent of the Word of God and hide it in our heart constantly and pray till we are able to supply bread supernaturally to as many as are in need of it (Heb 4:12; Psa 119:11; Acts 6:2-4). Praise the Lord!

We need not worry, how it will become fermented enough to increase in size and taste to be fit enough for all to eat the bread we bake, because those supernatural things God does make it to work automatically if we surrender our lives and obey the call of God to prepare ourselves by living in holiness through understanding and meditating of the Word of God regularly in our lives in a disciplined way, day in and day out (Heb 12:14). We are the unleavened dough in our spiritual man which works in sincerity and truth within us (1 Cor 5:7-8), but we need a little leaven of the transforming word of God to be hid within our soul regularly, which then mixes with the guidance of the spiritual light from within our spirit-man through the meditation of the Word of God, which then build back our spirit man further up and renew our soul mind, which in turn then starts to affect our action towards others in a positive way through our good works done by faith (Rom 12:23).

Our soul self life in itself is of no use to any one, until the yeast quality of the Kingdom of God in our spirit-man that is very small when we were saved (Luke 17:21), slowly permeates and multiplies its effect upon the soul as it gets in to contact with it (1 Cor 6:17). Then our body begins to work in the way of our transformed soul that comes under the influence of our spirit-man (Gal 5:9). Our whole life takes on the path of the purpose and plans of God when we continue to let the Kingdom within us control us by our intimacy and communion with God through our spirit-man (Psa 33:11; Pro 19:21; Isa 14:24, 27; 46:10; Php 1:6; 2:12). Yeast of the Kingdom of God and the character of its influence always works its way through the dough of the saved life of a believer who is likened to a unleavened bread, though the complete transformation effect of the Kingdom cannot be seen immediately, yet it will spread and permeate his life over a period of time completely for the Glory of God even as He works in them for His own pleasure (Matt 13:31; 1 Cor 5:7; Php 2:13).

In other words, if we do what we ought to do with what God has given to us in our hands [i.e. Written Word of God], then God will automatically do what He has promised to do [i.e. Save our own lives from sin and also other people around us with what we preach and build them up with what we teach (1 Cor 1:21; Mark 16:20; 1 Tim 4:12-16)], that is, to bless the bread of life that we prepare through the Word of God to make it become a blessing to many many in the world around us. Hallelujah!

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