From the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Chapter 13. The Kingdom of Heaven
Seeking the kingdom
How do we seek the kingdom? What can we do in a world so deluded in its own vain religion?1 What hope is there for a society where men construct the city state of Cain, despise free dominion of the individual and speak evil of dignities. They rebel against God as their king, as Core [Korah] did in the wilderness. Men feast on false charity which will hang upon them like a mill stone hung in the stormy seas of the people?2
To read and think about the kingdom is not enough. God is a God of action and we are made in His image. The kingdom of God is not a do-nothing kingdom. It is fruitful and active. Those who seek the kingdom strive. They are industrious and diligent.
If you love God, when you congregate ask not what your God can do for you but ask rather what you can do for His sheep. Make no agreement with the unrighteousness. Covet not your neighbors’ goods nor the benefits supplied by their compelled sacrifices. Be as concerned about your brother and his rights as you are about your own God given rights.
Do not forsake the gathering together and seek His righteousness.
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Hebrews 10:25
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1If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 1:26-27
2Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses… Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. Jude 1:8-13
