{"id":2741,"date":"2024-09-05T18:34:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T18:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2024-09-05T18:35:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T18:35:26","slug":"timeless-midweek-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/?p=2741","title":{"rendered":"Timeless Midweek Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chapter 36 <br><br>\u201cThe Kingdom of God is His kingship, His rule, His authority. When this is once realized, we can go through the New Testament and find passage after passage where this meaning is evident, where the Kingdom is not a realm or a people but God\u2019s reign. <br><br>Jesus said that we must \u201creceive the kingdom of God\u201d as little children (Mark 10:15). What is received? The Church? Heaven? What is received is God\u2019s rule.<br><br> In order to enter the future realm of the Kingdom, one must submit himself in perfect trust to God\u2019s rule here and now. We must also \u201cseek first his kingdom and his righteousness\u201d (Matt. 6: 33). What is the object of our quest? The Church? Heaven? No; we are to seek God\u2019s righteousness\u2014His sway, His rule, His reign in our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">George Eldon Ladd<br>The Gospel of the Kingdom<br>Scriptural Studies in the Kingdom of God<br><br>Wishing you a wonderful rest of the week!<br>Philemon <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 36 \u201cThe Kingdom of God is His kingship, His rule, His authority. When this is once realized, we can go through the New Testament and find passage after passage where this meaning is evident, where the Kingdom is not a realm or a people but God\u2019s reign. Jesus said that we must \u201creceive the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/?p=2741\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Timeless Midweek Thoughts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2743,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/2743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warapunga.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}