{"id":320,"date":"2015-10-30T22:21:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T22:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2015-10-30T22:21:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T22:21:14","slug":"kingdom-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/kingdom-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom Living"},"content":{"rendered":"

To read this reflection on Mark 4 and Matthew 13 click here:<\/p>\n

Kingdom Living<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the challenge, Jesus seems to be saying: Whenever I start talking about the Kingdom, you start picturing earthly kingdoms<\/u> of industry, weaponry and political power (Right-handed power).<\/p>\n

When I call it the Kingdom of Heaven, you start picturing a far-off place unrelated to the world you live in (distant and irrelevant).<\/p>\n

And when I describe it being already here, you start asking what you have to do to make it happen\u2014as if all depended on you.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not like industrial, military or political power (Right-handed). This is a living Kingdom, like something that grows all around you.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a far-off place unrelated to your home.\u00a0 It has already begun right here among you.<\/p>\n

And I don\u2019t want the focus to be on you making it happen. The Father already produces the growth.\u00a0 I want you to focus on the Good News:\u00a0 that God is already here at work and wants you to be with Him.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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To read this reflection on Mark 4 and Matthew 13 click here: Kingdom Living Here\u2019s the challenge, Jesus seems to be saying: Whenever I start talking about the Kingdom, you start picturing earthly kingdoms of industry, weaponry and political power (Right-handed power). When I call it the Kingdom of Heaven, you start picturing a far-off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[17,88,90,82,85,89,86,87],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections","tag-faith","tag-gods-presence","tag-invisible-realities","tag-kingdom","tag-power","tag-relevance","tag-seed","tag-spiritual-blindness","books-of-the-bible-mark","books-of-the-bible-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}