The Kingdom of God is not about being Right or Wrong
with George W Tyler
Aug 2010
Abide in Me
The trip to Youth of the Nation this year was Great, God really met with the Youth, and he also met with all of us adults that went along to help as well.
For me it was a bit weird, it was like I knew the Lord was trying to show me something that was wrong in my attitude and in my walk with Him that was hindering my ability to be more effective in His Kingdom, but it’s like I couldn’t quite get it. And when we finally got back home on that Sunday night I said to my wife, “Wow the Lord really met with us all over these few days but its like, I know he has really been speaking with me but I’m not quite sure exactly what he has been saying.” She said she felt the same, so we prayed about it and went to bed.
The next morning a strange thing happened, The other driver and I had taken the hired vans and trailers home as it was decided that was the safest option and so we were going to drop the two vans off back at Church in the morning for the hire company to pick up. Now we had filled the vans up on the way down, but as I drove along to Church that morning I noticed that the fuel gauge was a bit off the full mark and as we had to give the vans back with reasonably full tanks I decided to go past the garage to top up, but I was debating with myself, but what about the other van maybe it’s better that they are the same and not one full and the other just off full, but if I don’t top up then maybe the other driver will top up and then they will be different again, and what about paying for the fuel? What is the right thing to do? Eventually I gave up debating and prayed and went to the Garage putting the outcome in Gods Hand.
Wow it was amazing… as I pulled up I saw the other van there and the other driver came over, I was kind of amazed and stunned and we filled up together and when I went in to pay I found that the other driver had already paid, so we went off together and dropped the vans off at Church. I went off from there to catch the bus and then the train to go to work. I got onto the last coach of the train and sat on the little fold down seat that faces out back.
While I was sitting there pondering all that had happened over the last week or so, three things happened, the sun came up directly in front of me, a great peace came over me, and the Lord spoke to me, tying together not only what he had been trying to speak to me over that last week, but what he had been trying to speak to me over the last few decades as well.
It all came together for me on that Monday Morning in complete Peace, I felt in full Unity with God and with Gods People. And this is in essence what he told me:
The Kingdom of God is not about being Right or Wrong, the Kingdom of God is all about being in the Holy Spirit, in Christ, in Love, in Unity and in Harmony with one another.
This is HIS LIFE, this is TRUE CHURCH LIFE, this is the NORMAL CHRISTIAN LIFE we are supposed to LIVE.
Living in perfect Harmony with one another with One Heart and One Mind and One Spirit Which is Christ in Us the Hope of His Coming Glory.
Judging Between Right and Wrong – Judging the Motives of Peoples Heart is NOT what it is all about. We are NOT called to Judge one another but to prefer one another. Considering others better than ourselves, this is the Mind of Jesus Christ.
We are ONE Mind – Christ’s Mind, One Heart – Christ’s Heart, One Body – Christ’s Body, One Spirit – Christ’s Spirit, which is God’s Spirit, which is the Holy Spirit.
But the problem is this: I find myself in the same dilemma that Paul found himself in. The Good I know I should be doing I do not do. And the bad I know I should not be doing I find myself doing. Woe is me, who can rescue me from this body of sin?
Romans 8 has put me straight:
Rom 8:14-18 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs – heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
Lots of us suffer from the curse of self preservation, we believe we are the ones that are right, we believe we have something worth preserving, something of value, we believe we have something to offer to others, but the truth is this, as Christians, the only thing worthwhile that we have to offer others is Christ. It is Christ in us which is the Hope of Glory, the hope of not only all of All Mankind but All of Creation as well, and all of Creation Groans as if it is in childbirth, waiting for US to take our correct place as sons of God as it is Christ in Us that will finally bring things back to where they were meant to be…
Rom 8:19-23 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
But the problem is this: our natural instinct for self preservation prevents us from being who He means us to be and we must fight against it. It rears its ugly head all the time. It not about being Right or Wrong, it is about being in Love and in Unity.
We need to be in Christ, in Spirit, in Love, in Unity, in Harmony and that is with one another, considering the other better than ourselves.
It’s NOT about having the correct doctrine etc. or even about being “Right” it is all about Loving one another and being in Unity being One despite our differences even when I know you are “wrong” and I am “right” that is NOTHING it is meaningless it is all up the wrong tree! Judging from the Tree of Death, the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, of judging between right or wrong.
Being up the correct tree is me considering that you, the one who is obviously, to me, “wrong” is better than me, the one who is obviously, to me “right”. Then God makes the right, wrong and the wrong, right.
This happens to me all the time now and I don’t like it, it is hard to fight against the instinct of self preservation hard to stop eating from the tree of death and start living by the tree of Life which is Jesus, and it’s all related to ego and pride etc.
It’s like hard to be humble when you think you are perfect in every way and when you think you are always right!
But the thing is this… there IS one who is always righter and one who is always perfecter! No matter how right or perfect I think I am.
And He puts the proud down and lift up the humble. God does not say, choose the correct tree because it is the “good” one, He say, “I am the correct tree, Choose Me, Choose Life, Abide in Me”
So even if I AM perfect… Even if I AM right… It is still all WRONG and just DUNG, if I am not in Love, in Unity etc. All Dung!
You need FIRST to abide in HIM, The Tree of Life, and then He makes whatever you do, whatever you say etc. perfect and right even if it is not perfect or right… it becomes perfect and right because it is now coming from the source of all that is GOOD, God Himself. So if you abide in Him and He abides in you then you can do and say no wrong.
This is the secret that no demon can EVER know.
This is the secret that the Devil himself can never understand.
This is the path that no fowl can ever follow! That no vulture’s eye has ever seen.
THIS is the path that leads to GLORY!
Because being “right” but not being in HIM who is LOVE is being WRONG!
But even being “wrong” yet abiding in HIM who is LOVE is being RIGHT!
So Abide in him, the true vine and your Joy will be complete and you, the branches will bear much fruit, as you abide in Him and draw from the Life that is in Him and this is Resurrected, Uncreated, Spirit Life, the very Nature of God, that leads to Everlasting Life, and the fruits that you bear will be the Fruit of the Spirit which are Joy, Peace, Long Suffering etc. etc. and these fruit will and can do no harm, but only good. And they will feed the nations.
But we first need to be blended together as One, then we are put into the Fire and baked so that our nature is changed, so that we may become palatable and be spread with butter, that is the oil of the Anointing of the Holy Spirit, and presented to the world to feed the nations.
There are two trees in the Garden of Eden: There is the Tree of Life in which the life that flows is the Spirit of God, and if we are grafted into or get grafted into that tree we can live by that Life, live by that spirit, The Holy Spirit, The Spirit of God and have everlasting life.
But if we stay grafted into, and try to live by the spirit that is in the other tree, then we will have everlasting death. So how do we know which tree we are grafted into?
Well that is easy because both of these trees are fruit trees and a fruit tree is known by the fruit its branches produce.
So if we, the branches, are producing fruit that lines up with the nature of God, the spirit of God then we are grafted into the correct tree, and we will reap abundant and everlasting Life, and peace and Joy and Patience etc, all the Fruit of the Holy Spirit.
But if we are producing fruit that line up with the nature, or spirit of Satan, then we are grafted into the wrong tree, and we will reap corruption and death, and that is everlasting death, and anger and strife and envy and all those other Fruit of the Flesh nature.
Even Still I find myself up the wrong tree, judging what is right and wrong, striving to choose the right thing to do in each situation, choosing this, or that, as the right thing to do, but the truth is that the only choice we can make is to be part of, or to be grafted into, the Tree of Life, sucking the juice from the source of all Life, which is Jesus and living 24/7/365 by His Holy Spirit.
It’s all about having the Correct Attitude. “Having this mind in me that is in Christ.” As it says in Philippians 2 Where Paul Says:
Phi 2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
Phi 2:2 Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Phi 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem the other better than themselves.
Phi 2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Phi 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Phi 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Phi 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Phi 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Phi 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
Phi 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
Phi 2:11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Phi 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Phi 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Phi 2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Phi 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Phi 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
We are Eagles not fowls that scratch around in the dirt of this earth, or vultures who eat dead meat fighting each other for the last morsel of rotten flesh. No we are Eagles who stretch out our wings and soar being lifted on the winds of His Spirit never touching the dirt. We have Hinds feet which find a path no other can follow, that see a path where others just see barriers. And the path we follow is the path that leads to Love, Life’s Highest Gain.
You see we just read in Phi 2:13 that it is God Himself who comes Both to will and to perform his will in us, there is nothing we need do except believe accept and be grateful. (Do you want to be saved/healed/set free?)
ALL of Mankind is saved, they just don’t know it yet. And who will tell them? And how will they know? Who will show them the Kingdom of God? That they might also believe and be saved.
Their only hope is the Christ that Lives in Us, We are carrying in us the Hope of all Mankind the hope of All Creation, the Hope of God’s Glory, of Gods Kingdom Come here on earth as it is in Heaven. God in His Almighty wisdom has decided, has chosen, to put this Hope, His Life in us.
God is Love and the fruit of the Holy Spirit is Love. We cannot please God without having His Love in our hearts. “Whoever does not love does not know God.”
The Basic Message of the Gospel is Love and Humility, not Knowledge and Understanding. It is not about having all the knowledge and all the answers, and doing all the right things, Paul when he was still called Saul did all the right things according to the best he knew how and he ended up killing Christians. It’s all about the Spirit that you do and say things through. If it is not Gods Holy Spirit of LOVE working in and through you, then all your knowledge and answers and things you do “for God” no matter how correct they are, are worthless.
God’s Wisdom is Pure and brings peace not heated arguments and confusion. It is considerate, gentle and understanding of others shortcomings. It also helps us to be easily corrected when needed.
So the thing we need to do is this… Be Grafted into the TREE OF LIFE… Then let that life flow through you, then it will (must by its nature) produce leaves and Fruit….
And the people will come, pick and eat of the tree. And the Lord will come and hang gifts on the branch (you) and these gifts are also for the people. It can’t get simpler than that! So all we need do is: ABIDE in the Tree of Life – Christ!
Gal 2:19-20 (MSG) What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn’t work. So I quit being a “law man” so that I could be God’s man. Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not “mine,” but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Jesus said to His apostles: “Come – Follow Me!” He never asked if they would like to follow Him.
It is a Command – not a request!
AMEN!
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