UB 1725:4 and 1726:2/155:1.3 and 5
Bill and Kaye Cooper
Jesus said to the 12 apostles and 12 evangelists who were fleeing through northern Galilee: “You who have professed entrance into the kingdom of heaven are altogether too vacillating and indefinite in your teaching conduct. You are guilty of too much chronic yearning. If you desire to enter the kingdom, why do you not take it by spiritual assault? You are hardly worthy of the kingdom when your service consists so largely in an attitude of regretting the past, whining over the present, and vainly hoping for the future. …Cease your useless yearning and go forth bravely doing that which concerns the establishment of the kingdom.” [Social service and sharing the gospel.]
- What does it mean to take the kingdom by spiritual assault? What weapons are to be used?
- What are we to do which concerns the establishment of the kingdom? Why does that require bravery?
He continued, “Let me emphatically state this eternal truth: If you, by truth coordination, learn to exemplify in your lives this beautiful wholeness of righteousness, others will then seek after you that they may gain what you have so acquired [Character development, Happiness and Joy]. The measure wherewith truth seekers are drawn to you represents the measure of your truth endowment, your righteousness. The extent to which you have to go with your message to the people is, in a way, the measure of your failure to live the whole or righteous life, the truth-coordinated life.”
- What is truth? A truth-seeker would be seeking what?
- What is truth coordination?
- What is this beautiful wholeness of righteousness?
- What does this paragraph tell us about how we are to go forth doing that which concerns the establishment of the kingdom? What is our plan? What do we need to do to set that plan in motion?