So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don’t need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God. You don’t need further instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. (Hebrews 6:1-2)
The true Kingdom of God runs counter to all our fallen human-hood wants to believe is the 'natural' course of things. For us to go forward in His Kingdom, we must go back--back to the basics--including time with Him in prayer [not just the recitation of our laundry list of wants] and His Word. Re-read the Sermon on the Mount; look at who the "Blessed are's" really are; "You have heard it said....but I say to you...." . These cannot happen without an inner regeneration of the heart by Jesus through the Spirit.
All the rituals we believe will fix the problem are just hollow. We require God to do a fresh work in us to be truly content, to be truly at peace.I grieve at the demonized people who have no God ordained way of dealing with their own sinfulness and their own flaws. They keep doing the same things, day-after-day, week-after-week, and nothing changes; and they don't understand why.
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