The "Kingdom of God is within you". It is "built without hands". It is "not of this world". The true church we all need to belong to, regardless of whatever church or synagogue we go to on Sunday (or Saturday)... is the Church of God and His Son, it is their Kingdom. Being a part of the true Kingdom requires all of us to connect with the Father (through the Son) personally. It begins with prayer, ...then revelation, then even more like the examples in all our scriptures. They are the roadmap containing examples for all of us to follow... God is no respector of persons and is the same (His gospel is the same). "Ye are the temple of God" the Lord said. So, if we believe the teachings of the Lord and even Moses when he and God were upset for the people not wanting to go talk with God up on the mountain themselves (we want to follow the leader instead! We want the easier route!), becoming a part of Christ's Kingdom in any day or age could occur without anyone else even knowing anything about your membership there (without observation).
We can build our mortal church's or associations on earth... but if we are not making of our own bodies the "temple of God", if the Kingdom is not within us or rather we are not within it, if we are not connecting with heaven directly ourselves like those in our scriptures show IS POSSIBLE... then our religions are vain. Church's, past prophets, scriptures, ordinances... are all things to point us to what we must each do individually.
This knowledge and teaching of the Kingdom would stop the endless divisions among Mormons and Christians, it would even stop the division and contention between Christians, Muslims and Jews. The devil would lose so much power in the earth if those in the world were to understand these truths!!! I suppose we will continue to claim we are God's only people with God's only approval and carry on the dividing and contending one with another.
Abraham is the Father of all of us, Adam is the Father of all of us. God is the Father of all of us and wants us all, whether Jew, Gentile, Christian, Muslim or any other ism or group of man to become a member of God's Eternal Family forever!
We can build our mortal church's or associations on earth... but if we are not making of our own bodies the "temple of God", if the Kingdom is not within us or rather we are not within it, if we are not connecting with heaven directly ourselves like those in our scriptures show IS POSSIBLE... then our religions are vain. Church's, past prophets, scriptures, ordinances... are all things to point us to what we must each do individually.
This knowledge and teaching of the Kingdom would stop the endless divisions among Mormons and Christians, it would even stop the division and contention between Christians, Muslims and Jews. The devil would lose so much power in the earth if those in the world were to understand these truths!!! I suppose we will continue to claim we are God's only people with God's only approval and carry on the dividing and contending one with another.
Abraham is the Father of all of us, Adam is the Father of all of us. God is the Father of all of us and wants us all, whether Jew, Gentile, Christian, Muslim or any other ism or group of man to become a member of God's Eternal Family forever!
Jews, Muslims, Christians, Mormons, etc... have sought to build up their Kingdoms... isn't it time to build God's at last?
Numbers 11:29
29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!
29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!
2 Corinthians 6:16
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
John 18:36
36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
Luke 17:20
20 ¶And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
20 ¶And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luke 17:21
21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
2 Peter 1:
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Verily, thus saith the Lord: It shall come to pass that every soul who forsaketh his sins and cometh unto me, and calleth on my name, and obeyeth my voice, and keepeth my commandments, shall see my face and know that I am; - Doctrine and Covenants 93:1
Matthew 24:14
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
2 Nephi 9:2
2 That he has spoken unto the Jews, by the mouth of his holy prophets, even from the beginning down, from generation to generation, until the time comes that they shall be restored to the true church and fold of God; when they shall be gathered home to the lands of their inheritance, and shall be established in all their lands of promise.
Has this occurred? Have a people of God been given their final lands of inheritance? Has "the end" come because THIS GOSPEL has been preached?
Doctrine and Covenants 103:7
7 And by hearkening to observe all the words which I, the Lord their God, shall speak unto them, they shall never cease to prevail until the kingdoms of the world are subdued under my feet, and the earth is given unto the saints, to possess it forever and ever.
7 And by hearkening to observe all the words which I, the Lord their God, shall speak unto them, they shall never cease to prevail until the kingdoms of the world are subdued under my feet, and the earth is given unto the saints, to possess it forever and ever.
Doctrine and Covenants 132:49
49 For I am the Lord thy God, and will be with thee even unto the end of the world, and through all eternity; for verily I seal upon you your exaltation, and prepare a throne for you in the kingdom of my Father, with Abraham your father.
49 For I am the Lord thy God, and will be with thee even unto the end of the world, and through all eternity; for verily I seal upon you your exaltation, and prepare a throne for you in the kingdom of my Father, with Abraham your father.
"God is not a respecter, we all have the same privilege. Come to God, weary him until he blesses you. We are entitled to the same blessings, Jesus, revelations, Just Men, Angels, etc... Obtain that Holy Spirit of promise - then you can be sealed to Eternal life." Words of Joseph Smith, p15
"THE GENIUS OF THE KINGDOM WITH WHICH WE ARE ASSOCIATED IS TO DISSEMINATE KNOWLEDGE THROUGH ALL THE RANKS OF THE PEOPLE, AND TO MAKE EVERY MAN A PROPHET AND EVERY WOMAN A PROPHETESS, THAT THEY MAY UNDERSTAND THE PLANS AND PURPOSES OF GOD." Journal of Discourses 12:46
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