Многих людей привлекает государство, богатство, и положения другой страны и решают покинуть свою страну. Они едут в страну, которая дает им то, чего они так жаждут.. Но хотя они покидают свой дом и родину, many don’t renounce their culture, привычки, религия, and the laws they grew up with and don’t want to give up their nationality and passport. И так, many people live with dual nationality (citizenship) and have two passports, which they use to access both countries. Many Christians think that the Kingdom of God also works that way. They desire the provisions of the Kingdom of God but want to live like the world. But the Kingdom of God has no dual nationality.
Can Christians live in the Kingdom of God with a dual nationality?
Many Christians desire the provisions of God’s Kingdom and live in the Kingdom without renouncing their nationality by birth aka their old life as the old creation.
They think that through a confession of faith and крещение, they can enter the Kingdom of God and быть спасенным and then live in the Kingdom with dual nationality and use two passports. But the Kingdom of God has no dual nationality.
В Царстве Божьем, you can’t have dual citizenship and retain two passports to live in the Kingdom of God and the darkness (мир).
There are laws in the Kingdom of God, which are written in the Bible and through the abiding of the Holy Spirit are written on the heart of the new creation, which apply to all Kingdom citizens.
These laws apply to everyone, who has repented and is born again in Christ (baptism in water and the receiving of the Holy Spirit) и переносится из тьмы в Царство Иисуса Христа.
A Christian can’t be a citizen of the Kingdom of God and a citizen of the kingdom of darkness.
Every kingdom has its own king, правительство, и юриспруденция. You belong to the kingdom and the king, to whom you yield yourself, whose government you obey, and whose laws (заповеди) you keep.
Can you live in the Kingdom of God and walk in darkness?
И все еще, здесь много христиан, who retain dual citizenship and use both passports for the spirit and the flesh and live in two kingdoms.
They use the spiritual passport for the promises and provisions of God and to be saved from hell, because they don’t want to go to hell but to heaven.
They use the carnal passport to return to their old lives (и привычки) and live like the world and keep doing the works of the flesh (грех). If they give up this passport, they don’t have access to the darkness and they can’t do all those things their heart and flesh longs for and which the world has to offer.
And so they claim the promises of God for the new creation while living after the flesh as the old creation (во грехе).
Through this kind of faith and behavior the gospel has been humanized and many churches, which are supposed to represent Jesus Christ and His Kingdom and law, are defiled by sin and have become powerless and made a mockery. They have rejected the truth of God’s Word and live in a lie. (Читайте также: Церковь – социальный институт или сила Божия??).
The passport for the old creation and the passport for the new creation
И благодаря этому мы знаем, что мы знаем Его, если мы соблюдаем Его заповеди. Тот, кто говорит,, Я знаю Его, and keepeth not His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in Him (1 Джон 2:4)
В Царстве Божием нет двойного гражданства (citizenship). В Царстве Божьем, you can’t hold dual nationality and keep two passports. You can’t have a passport for the new creation and hold on to the passport for the old creation.
You can’t live like the world in darkness in the Kingdom of God. It is either the spirit or the flesh.
It is either living after the воля Божия и Его Слово, which reigns by the Holy Spirit in the spirit, или воля дьявола, который царит во плоти.
But you can’t obey, служить, and please both, since the flesh rebels against the Spirit.
The закон греха и смерти, который царит во плоти, won’t submit to God, Его Слово, and His law of the Spirit of life.
Поэтому, те, who are in the flesh and walk after the flesh and do дела плоти, не могу угодить Богу.
По сути, the Bible says that everyone, who keeps doing the works of the flesh and walks in sin has not seen God, has not known Him, has not been born of God, не принадлежит Ему, and has no part in Him (Ой. 1 Джон 1:5-7; 3:4-10; 5:18, евреи 10:26-30).
The Spirit and the flesh don’t go together but are contrary to each other
Это я говорю тогда, Ходить в Духе, и не будете исполнять похоти плоти. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, и Дух против плоти: и они противоречат друг другу: так что вы не можете делать то, что хотели бы. Но если вы будете ведомы Духом, вы не под законом. Теперь дела плоти очевидны, какие это; Прелюбодеяние, блуд, нечистота, похотливость, идолопоклонство, колдовство, ненависть, дисперсия, эмуляции, гнев, борьба, мятеж, ереси, зависть, убийства, пьянство, пиршества (carousings), и тому подобное: из того, о чем я тебе говорил раньше, как я уже говорил тебе в прошлом, что поступающие так Царствия Божия не наследуют (Галатам 5:16-21)
If you are justified by the blood of Jesus Christ, and born of God, and entered the Kingdom of God through baptism (the death and resurrection in Christ) и обитание Святого Духа, then you shall do the will of the Spirit and bear the fruit of the Spirit instead of doing the will of the flesh and keep doing the works of the flesh.
Your works testify to whom you belong and whom you obey and in whose kingdom you live; Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God or the devil and his kingdom of darkness (мир).
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