Багатьох людей тягне держава, багатство, та положення іншої країни та вирішують покинути свою країну. Вони їдуть до країни, яка дає їм те, чого вони прагнуть. Але хоч покидають свій дім і батьківщину, many don’t renounce their culture, Звички, релігія, and the laws they grew up with and don’t want to give up their nationality and passport. І 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 хреще́ння, they can enter the Kingdom of God and бути врятованим and then live in the Kingdom with dual nationality and use two passports. But the Kingdom of God has no dual nationality.
У Царстві Божому, you can’t have dual citizenship and retain two passports to live in the Kingdom of God and the darkness (світ).
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) і переноситься з темряви в Царство Ісуса 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, уряд, і закон. You belong to the kingdom and the king, to whom you yield yourself, whose government you obey, and whose laws (Заповідей) you keep.
Can you live in the Kingdom of God and walk in darkness?
І ще, є багато християн, 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 (і звички) and live like the world and keep doing the works of the flesh (Гріх). 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 (у гріху).
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 також: Церква – це соціальний інститут чи сила Божа?).
The passport for the old creation and the passport for the new creation
І цим ми знаємо, що знаємо Його, якщо ми виконуємо Його заповіді. Той, хто сказав, Я знаю Його, and keepeth not His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in Him (1 Джон 2:4)
Царство Боже не має подвійного громадянства (citizenship). У Царстві Божому, 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 Божа і Його Слово, which reigns by the Holy Spirit in the spirit, або Воля Диявола, що царює в тілі.
But you can’t obey, serve, and please both, since the flesh rebels against the Spirit.
The закон гріха і смерті, що царює в тілі, won’t submit to God, Його Слово, and His law of the Spirit of life.
тому, ті, who are in the flesh and walk after the flesh and do діла плоті, не може догодити Богу.
Фактично, 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, doesn’t belong to Him, and has no part in Him (Ой. 1 Джон 1:5-7; 3:4-10; 5:18, Євреїв 10:26-30).
The Spirit and the flesh don’t go together but are contrary to each other
Це я кажу тоді, Ходіть у Дусі, і ви не будете виконувати похоть плоті. Бо тіло бажає духа, і дух проти плоті: і це протилежне одному: щоб ви не могли робити те, що б ви. Але якщо вас ведуть дух, ви не під законом. Зараз твори плоті проявляються, які ці; Перелюбство, блуд, нечистість, жалюгідність, Ідолопоклонство, Чаклунство, ненависть, дисперсія, емуляція, гнів, чвари, крамоли, єресі, заздра, вбивства, пияцтво, релігування (carousings), і подібне: про те, про що я вам кажу раніше, Як я також сказав вам у минулому часу, що ті, хто таке чинять, Царства Божого не успадкують (до галатів 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) і перебування 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 (світ).
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