"Seek FIRST The Kingdom Of God" - What Does It REALLY Mean?

Jesus tells us in Matthew 6:33 to seek FIRST the Kingdom of God, and God's righteousness, and if we do, essentially everything else will fall into it's proper place and priority in our lives.

What IS this "Kingdom of God" that Jesus speaks of?  God’s Kingdom is His invisible government over each of us and over the whole world. One day, it’s going to be a visible government and it will be completely established, but right now, it’s actually already begun in the lives of each of us who have become followers of Jesus Christ. God’s Kingdom is God’s rule in the heavens and here on earth.  It addresses specifically His lordship in our lives, and our desire to please and obey Him. 

(To learn what it means to Seek "God's righteousness," click on the underlined portion). 

Precisely which God are we speaking OF?  God The Father, God The Son (Jesus Christ), God The Holy Spirit - the One God expressed in three persons in the Old Testament and the New Testament Bible.

God's Kingdom in operation right now can be sub-divided into three general categories: 

1)  Every Christian is called "to do good works."  One's desire to please God in every way they know how in line with Holy Scriptures "is doing good works."  The primary purpose God allows any of us to be born here on earth is to please and glorify Him while we are down here.  Doing so has both current and eternal ramifications.  Striving to enhance DAILY one's personal relationship with the living God through our obedience to His wisely applied Word and God's call in our life to engage in ministry to others is the absolute MOST IMPORTANT thing we can do!   Everything else springs forth from THIS, and is secondary!

If that sounds a bit too challenging right now to you, see if this helps:  Your purpose for living is to PLEASE THE KING!  You exist to PLEASE THE KING.  You do NOT exist for the King to please you. 

Most people who struggle with God have yet to either comprehend and/or make it their PRIMARY reason for living, which IS ... to diligently seek to PLEASE THE KING - DAILY!

2)  Availing oneself to God to help others come to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ (salvation knowledge of Jesus Christ and His subsequent Lordship in their lives); that others may be saved from their sins as well: that they too can begin to seek after glorifying God in every way they know how in line with Holy Scriptures.  In other words - soul winning. (Being used of the Holy Spirit to help in the process of winning lost souls).  

3)  Availing oneself to God to help disciple (which includes encouragement in all facets) new Christian converts to understand and properly apply the Word of God in their lives, and to help them move forward in the call God has on their life ... which is to avail themselves to Him as well to help win lost souls; help disciple new Christian converts with the specific call God has on their life, and the gifting/s He has given them to help maximize the fruitfulness of that call -- all along being used of the Holy Spirit to do whatever He calls and enables you to do to help them glorify God in every way God would have them do as well.   In other words -  discipleship - (discipleship in how to help Christian converts serve God wisely and effectively).

Saying it in another way ...

1):  Christians are already as righteous as they can possibly be from God's perspective, because God's righteousness was imputed to them through Christ's death, burial and resurrection.  But that's just HALF of the matter.  God NOW expects them to start diligently walking out their righteousness! (Obedience to His New Testament commands, in other words).  If you consider yourself to be a Christian, but the sin/s you keep committing is no big issue to you ... is it possible you aren't truly a Christian after all and just haven't figured it out yet?  

If one is hardly interested in bringing and giving God glory with their time, talents, treasures, thoughts and attitudes, actions ... overall obedient behavior in other words. (See: Psalms 96:3).

2):  Somehow availing themselves to the Holy Spirit in helping win lost souls to God the Father through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ,

3):  And/or helping untaught - new (infant) - Christians to grow in knowledge, understanding, and wisdom of God's Word properly applied to all of life's situations ... then they are pursuing a false and worthless Kingdom of God and are truly following the "Kingdom of Self," which is the "kingdom of darkness" - eternal darkness at that.  The Bible also refers to that "kingdom" as Satan's kingdom, I hope you realize. 

Here is an excellent writing to help you understand more about the Kingdom of God, and the wisdom of so doing:  The Kingdom of God.

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