Molta gent està atraïda per l'estat, riquesa, i disposicions d'un altre país i decideixen abandonar el seu país. Van a un país que els dóna el que anhelen. Però encara que deixen casa i pàtria, many don’t renounce their culture, hàbits, religió, and the laws they grew up with and don’t want to give up their nationality and passport. I així, 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 bateig, they can enter the Kingdom of God and ser salvat and then live in the Kingdom with dual nationality and use two passports. But the Kingdom of God has no dual nationality.
En el Regne de Déu, you can’t have dual citizenship and retain two passports to live in the Kingdom of God and the darkness (el món).
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) and is transferred from the darkness into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
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, govern, i llei. You belong to the kingdom and the king, to whom you yield yourself, whose government you obey, and whose laws (manaments) you keep.
Can you live in the Kingdom of God and walk in darkness?
I tanmateix, Hi ha molts cristians, 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 (i hàbits) and live like the world and keep doing the works of the flesh (pecat). 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 (en pecat).
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. (Llegiu també: És l'església una institució social o un poder de Déu??).
The passport for the old creation and the passport for the new creation
I per això sabem que el coneixem, si guardem els seus manaments. El que diu, El conec, and keepeth not His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in Him (1 John 2:4)
El Regne de Déu no té doble nacionalitat (citizenship). En el Regne de Déu, 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.
No pots viure com el món a les fosques al Regne de Déu. És l'esperit o la carn.
És o bé viure després del voluntat de Déu I la seva paraula, que regna per l'Esperit Sant en l'esperit, o el voluntat del diable, que regna en la carn.
Però no pots obeir, servir, i si us plau, tots dos, ja que la carn es rebel·la contra l'Esperit.
El Llei del pecat i de la mort, que regna en la carn, no es sotmetrà a Déu, La seva paraula, i la seva llei de l'Esperit de vida.
Per això, aquests, que estan en la carn i caminen després de la carn i fan les obres de la carn, no pot agradar a Déu.
De fet, la Bíblia diu que tothom, qui segueix fent les obres de la carn i camina en el pecat, no ha vist Déu, no l'ha conegut, no ha nascut de Déu, no li pertany, i no té part en Ell (a.o. 1 John 1:5-7; 3:4-10; 5:18, hebreus 10:26-30).
L'Esperit i la carn no van junts sinó que són contraris l'un a l'altre
Això ho dic aleshores, Camineu en l'Esperit, i no complireu la luxúria de la carn. Perquè la carn de la carn contra l’Esperit, i l’esperit contra la carn: i aquests són contraris a l’altre: de manera que no podeu fer les coses que voleu. Però si us deixeu guiar per l'Esperit, no esteu sota la llei. Ara les obres de la carn es manifesten, quins són aquests; L'adulteri, fornicació, impuresa, lascivitat, idolatria, bruixeria, odi, variància, emulacions, 1, despullament, sedicions, hereSies, enveja, assassinats, embriaguesa, revetlles (carouss), i tal com: del que us dic abans, com també us he dit en temps passat, que els qui facin aquestes coses no heretaran el Regne de Déu (Gàlates 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) i la residència de l'Esperit Sant, 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 (el món).
‘Sigues la sal de la terra’
