{"id":95,"date":"2006-09-19T01:04:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T05:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/?p=95"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:47:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:47:52","slug":"kingdom-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first time I saw the movie &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0049833\/\">The 10 Commandments<\/a>&#8220;, I was impressed with the special effects. Remember though, the movie came out in 1956. I don&#8217;t remember how old I was when I saw it, but it was long before I accept Christ as my Savior. Thus the movie had no spiritual significance to me at all; it was just an entertaining movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many years later, now born again, I watched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanflicks.com\/saleover.php\">CleanFlicks<\/a> edited version of another special effects movie, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0133093\/\">The Matrix<\/a>&#8220;, and thought that it had profound spiritual connotations. (As an aside, it&#8217;s really too bad about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ericgoldman.org\/archives\/2006\/07\/court_nix_clean.htm\">the judgment against CleanFlicks.)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The difference is easily explained by Jesus in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=john%203:3;&amp;version=9;\" title=\"Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.\">John 3:3<\/a>, &#8220;<em>Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.&#8221;<\/em> A more detailed explanation for this difference is found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20cor%202:11-14;&amp;version=31;\" title=\"For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. \">1st Corinthians Chapter 2:11-14<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This difference in perspective is dramatic, to say the least. It can change a blade of grass from an object to be studied into evidence of the Creator. (Reference <a title=\"The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=romans%201:18-20;&amp;version=31;\">Romans 1:18-20<\/a>) It transforms despair into hope and death into life. (Reference <a title=\"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John%205:24;&amp;version=31;\">John 5:24<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I heard someone comment that they&#8217;ve never seen a miracle. I&#8217;ve never lived a day that I haven&#8217;t seen a miracle! The way I see it is this: within every second that ticks throughout all created time there are an infinite number of instances for which we can glorify God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The practical side of this is the difference between &#8220;not another day, I can&#8217;t take this anymore&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Lamentations%203:22-23;&amp;version=31;\" title=\"Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. \">Lamentations 3:22-23<\/a> which says, &#8220;<em>Because of the LORD&#8217;s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I choose life, for the unborn and for myself. I figure the longer I live the more I&#8217;ll have to glorify God. I choose to live life as a joyful servant of my Lord, my King, and to praise Him with every breath. For me, to live is Christ. (Reference <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=phil%201:21;&amp;version=31;\" title=\"For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.\">Philippians 1:21<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I saw the movie &#8220;The 10 Commandments&#8220;, I was impressed with the special effects. Remember though, the movie came out in 1956. I don&#8217;t remember how old I was when I saw it, but it was long before I accept Christ as my Savior. 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