The Unnatural

“Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.”

- Ephesians 5:17 (NLT)

Our culture will tell us what is natural, of the King in the Kingdom culture will tell us what is natural.

The only thing that keeps me from obeying the king so I can live a virtuous life working together with the king and other kingdom members is sin. Send is best to find as relational disrepair. When there’s relational disrepair, I live in an unnatural state relative to kingdom culture. Living that way, long enough, even in the church where disciples don’t make disciples consume become a place where the unnatural becomes natural.

It is normal and usual when you have a King, and you are living in relationship with the king, so much so that you are actually invited to do stuff with the King, to want to obey him. Where on earth throughout all of history, have you ever been a part of something that you don’t have to be a part of?

It reminds me of my conversation with a friend regarding getting people out of the grandstands off the sidelines and into the game…

It’s a broken metaphor, because there are no grandstands, and there is no sideline. There’s just the gridiron where it’s all played out in obedience.

It’s so serious that the combination of Jesus life of learning was his obedience to God. He actually participated by obeying, and learning what obeying meant.

Faithlife Study Bible Chapter 5

The culmination of Jesus’ learning was His obedience to God, even unto death

New Living Translation Chapter 5

you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. 13 For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right. 14 Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong