Paul exhorted the church at Phillipi to have their foremost identify, not as a citizen of Rome, but as a citizen of heaven. We are citizens of a heavenly homeland, on our pilgrimage and journey to the celestial city. Let us set our affections on things above, on that heavenly city, and on the King of kings, and Lord of lords.
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It is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that God’s children need to be careful to maintain good works. If we are not careful, if we do not keep our bodies under subjection, we can be frivolous to fall from faithful discipleship and not maintain good works.
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By faith, Abram left his homeland in Ur of Chaldees on his way to the land of Canaan. While he took an uncommanded pit stop in Haran for a bit, he eventually pressed into Canaan. On this journey, we see in Heb. 11, that Abraham was looking for something better than the city that he came out of, and he desired a better country, a heavenly country that he sought by following God in faith.
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“Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.” (Luke 11:52)
Here in Luke 11, Jesus is in the home of a certain Pharisee who had invited him to dinner (v.37). It appears this must have been a gathering of Jewish religious leadership – Pharisees, scribes, and lawyers – at this dinner. Jesus begins to quite harshly rebuke the Pharisees and scribes, pronouncing woe upon them. Then a lawyer who was in attendance asked, “Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also” (v.45), essentially asking whether he rebuked the lawyers as well, since they had not yet been directly mentioned by name. Then Jesus lays into the lawyers severely as well (v.45-52), culminating in this summary verse in Luke 11:52.
Jesus said the lawyers had taken away the key of knowledge from many children of God and hindered those who were entering in from pressing fully into the kingdom. We need to press through all the hinderances to our discipleship and take the key of knowledge and enter into the fullness of enjoyment of the grace wherein we stand.
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The Apostle Paul admonishes us to press forward unto the things before us, to press towards the mark of the prize of the high calling of Christ. To apprehend Christ who has apprehended us. To forget those things behind and press forth until Christ which is before us. Let us forget those things behind us and apprehend Jesus Christ!
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In our race of discipleship, we have to run with endurance. Our life is a marathon that requires consistency and steadfastness. We need to lay aside every weight that easily besets us, particularly the yoke of bondage of false doctrine because that will severely hinder our running well. We all get tired and weary in running our race, but the Lord promises those who wait upon the Lord will renew their strength and run and not be weary.
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From January to June 2026, Pastor David studied together what does the spiritual life of a disciple of Christ look like on a daily basis in the kingdom of God. Jesus taught his disciples about the kingdom of heaven using examples that they understood from their daily lives. We try to study some relevant examples from our daily lives to learn more about how we pursue seeking the kingdom first as disciples of Christ.
It is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that if we be dead with Christ, we shall also live with Christ. We earnestly look forward to the second coming of Jesus Christ and anticipate the resurrection when we shall ever live with the Lord.
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In the beginning of Babylon created by Nimrod, the pinnacle monument of that kingdom was a tower that they desired to build up to heaven. This tower was a monument to man’s pride and rebellion against God – to build a tower to glorify their own name and to validate their own legacy. As with all works of men, the Lord brought that tower to naught, by scattering them since they could no longer communicate until the tower crumbled.
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