Open Heaven 14 May 2020: [Thursday] – Kingdom Citizenship
KINGDOM CITIZENSHIP – Thursday May 14th
2020
Memorise: Jesus answered,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the
Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. John 3:5
Read: Jonah 3:1-10 (KJV)
1 And
the word of the Lord came unto Jonah
the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto
Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3 So Jonah arose, and
went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great
city of three days' journey.
4 And Jonah began to
enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days,
and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 So the people of
Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the
greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 For word came unto
the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from
him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he caused it to
be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his
nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let
them not feed, nor drink water:
8 But let man and beast
be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every
one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
9 Who can tell if God
will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
10 And God saw their
works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that
he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
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| Open Heaven 14 May 2020 – Kingdom Citizenship |
Message:
In
today’s memory verse, Nicodemus did not ask Jesus to tell him he could enter
the Kingdom of God; he merely praised Him. However, Jesus knew that Nicodemus
needed to be shown, like us all, how to get to Heaven, so He said “... verily, verily, I say unto thee, except
a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of
God.”
Open Heaven 14 May 2020 – Kingdom Citizenship
Jesus
knew that any praise that would lead to the Kingdom of God must be packaged in
the garment of salvation. He once told His audience.
“Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord,
Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my
Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 7:21
Beloved,
have you been blown away by the recent wind of liberalism? Have you been
engaging in endless arguments on what is or what is not true about the Kingdom
of God and the hope of eternal life? It will do you no good.
Some
argue that being born again may not be immediately evident – forgetting that
the Bible says “by their fruits ye shall
know them” (Matthew 7:20). This confirm that being born again has to be
evident.
Open Heaven 14 May 2020: [Thursday] – Kingdom Citizenship
Jesus
queried in Luke 6:46: “And why call ye
me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?” Our citizenship in the
kingdom of Heaven is based on obedience to the Kingdom ‘constitution’ – the
Bible. Anyone who says the Bible is outdated is obviously no longer a citizen
of the Kingdom.
Open Heaven 14 May 2020 Thursday: Prayer Point
1st
John 3:7 says he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as He is
righteous. Hence, answering Biblical names or ministerial titles are not
requirements for being a Kingdom citizen, rather, regeneration and a new life
of holiness in Christ are.
Are
you a citizen of the kingdom of God?
Prayer Point
Father, please help me to
maintain the requirements for Your Kingdom’s citizenship. Please, do not cast
me out of Your Kingdom in the mighty name of Jesus.
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