Desire the Kingdom
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33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
zeteite
to seek v. — to try to get or reach something one desires.
The enemy has a huge strategy: put something else first.
basileian
kingdom of God n. — the domain ruled by God as the sovereign king.
THE representation of the Kingdom of God on earth, is the church.
The church is a group of people all filled with the Holy Spirit!
11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—
16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;
19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
The church:
- edifies (or encourages and builds up),
- equips for ministry,
- gives us teachers, prophets, evangelists, AND pastors to help us become more like Christ,
- helps us mature so that we aren’t fooled by lies,
- is joined and knit together by what EVERY joint supplies so the body of Christ can edify ITSELF!!!
- gives us the opportunity to work together with other believers by fulfilling our role in the body of Christ!