In our conscience, we either rely on our knowledge or we rely on the unseen qualities of God.
The world is separated in this way. We all begin life relying on our own knowledge to define the action of conscience we make. But as time sees generations pass, we notice that the children seem more willing to seek out better ways to treat one another. This is due to their parents having been willing to act on faith.
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Romans 5:17
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For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!
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Christ Jesus brought the Kingdom of Heaven close to us. What is the Kingdom? It is much like the conscience of God. Within the Kingdom are the valued holy fruits that are available to mankind. And now through Jesus, the Kingdom is known as our path to having righteousness come through us as a service to God's will. Without Christ Jesus and his gospel, mankind assumed, (or were led to assume), that the fruits of the Kingdom, that righteousness, was of their making. But we understand now that righteousness is of God alone. So the Kingdom is where this righteousness is, and it is full and overflowing.
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Matthew 13:10-15
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The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”
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He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
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Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.
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This is why I speak to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
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In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
“ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
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For this people’s heart has become calloused;they hardly hear with their ears,and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’
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When righteousness is claimed and has been claimed by an individual, it is considered bad fruit. Why? Because it does not honor the Father. No harvest that does not honor the land owner is considered good, it is considered stolen.
This is why it is important to acknowledge that what is holy only comes through the efforts of the servant, not of the servant. See? And the reason this is important, is the unseen factor. For goodness in an act claimed by a man, ends there. But goodness that honors the unseen qualities of God, flourishes, spreading out and multiplying. Just like the loaves and fishes.
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Luke 9:16
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Taking the five loaves and the two fish. And looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people
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If Jesus broke a loaf in two, and separated a fish in pieces, and did these things by his own hands, the pieces would have remained as they were, and would have fed only few. But he did not do this by his own hands. Instead he raised up with faith the full loaf and fishes, so to show the Father honor in his faithfulness. And by doing so, the Father recognized his faithfulness, and with overflowing regard, overflowed His power through Jesus by the Kingdom. The purpose of service is to serve selflessly.
The holy conscience is not physical it is spiritual. But the physical reacts to what it relies upon. We have the capacity to rely on faith. In that confidence, and in the sincerity of service, holiness manifest through us. Like an empty vessel that is filled over and over again.
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2 Corinthians 4:17
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But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
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So seek first the Kingdom of God, and in His righteousness, all these things will be added unto you. The Kingdom is near, and only through Christ Jesus does the glory go to the Father.
This is the Truth.
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