DISTINCTIVENESS OF TESTIMONY

The first thing about the Kingdom of God, whether it is in the Old Testament or in the New Testament, is this: The Kingdom of God is always selective and distinctive. The rule of God came down into the nations and took hold of one nation, selecting it from among the nations.

The first law of the Kingdom of God is separation. You have only to look at the history of Israel to see that. God said to Israel: 'You are a separate nation and are different from all the other peoples in the world.' That Israel lost its distinctiveness, for they intermarried with other peoples. You read the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. What a terrible business it was to separate the Lord's people from the ones they had married! They lost their distinctiveness of life and vocation, and the distinctiveness of their testimony in the world. They lost the fruits of the Kingdom of God. They had all the tradition, all the teaching and all the oracles, but they lost all the fruits thereof.

   Amen, the ability of men to maintain a relationship with GOD from themselves is made evident = it can and never will happen.  Then GOD gave the gift of His Son for the life of the world to those who believe  the gospel.

PAULFROMNYS said:

Then GOD gave the gift of His Son for the life of the world to those who believe  the gospel.

That is right. It is the Spirit of the Son which we receive, and the life of the Son which we live. Our life is Christ, and our living is Christ, He is all, and He is in all.

Galatians 4:6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father!

Colossians 3:11 Where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all.

   Amen Fred, we have nothing real of GOD of ourselves, reality come through His Son alone, all else is a deceived or satanic deception of imitation.