My Kingdom is not of this World

So Jesus, the very Son of God, stood before His creation, in front of Pilate and the crowd that wanted to kill Him.  Pilate questions Jesus on this.  The Son of the living God could have responded in any way, He could have called angels to fight his battle, He could have gathered his followers to start an uprising, He could have asked God to take Him away.  Powerful people of that day and today, respond by using their power.  Jesus had power and yet He did not use it.  Instead, Jesus responded, “My Kingdom is not of this world.”  In essence, the world of Jesus’s time and the world we live in today is not the kingdom of Jesus Christ.  Really, Satan is the prince of this world.  Jesus and God’s kingdom is yet to come both in the millennial kingdom and in the new heavens and the new earth.  Therefore, the world is upside down and inside out.  The way the world operates today is not how it will operate when Jesus sets up His earthly and celestial kingdoms. 

So I ask the question:  If the one I worship, Jesus Christ, said that His kingdom is not of this world, then how can my kingdom be of this world if Jesus is my king.  It cannot.  Therefore, I make the same statement about this world; my kingdom is not of this world.  I believe the closer you are to Jesus, the further you will feel from the world.  That does not mean that one cannot enjoy things in this life as there are lots of beautiful and good things.  However, belonging to the systems and mentalities of the popular world, lead people far from God and the world that His spirit will one day rule.  Again, I understand the importance and the beauty of many things today, but when people put their faith in systems of the world, especially any church system, instead of God, then all things run askew. 

Here are just a few of the systems of this world: 

You ever watch professional football games?  Watch fans that do not even know any of the players or coaches personally, yet dress up in team jerseys and cheer as if their life depended on it?  Have you ever gotten sick of people on TV and the radio talking incessantly about what celebrity is dating another celebrity?  How about the disgusting hypocrisy of television evangelists and the church, people worshipping these people, and the pope?  Are you an outcast because you are unfamiliar with online dating or don’t meet the popular quota of facebook friends? …or worse yet, don’t even have a facebook account? 

Have you seen the Catholic Religion?  The pope sitting on a throne and all these men in robes living in palaces while the world starves.  Yet, so many people rely and live on every word from these Satanic Jokers.  Other Christian denominations are no different.  People fill churches and worship every word of their pastors without scrutinizing their words with the truth of scripture.  Modern day Pharisees, no kidding these people would not have time for Jesus if He were here today.  People treat these pastors and priests as gods hanging on every word like they are the ultimate authority above God and scripture.  All it takes is one look under the covers, below the surface and people could find the truth.  But, most refuse to do it.  They would rather sit and lean on every lie that the wolves in sheep clothing spit out of their mouth because afterwards they can give out hugs and get coffee and cookies.  As long as they get coffee, they will continue to believe that god will torture his creation eternally and believe that god is not sovereign. 

I can rant forever on this.  I am not sure whether I am just out of touch with this world because it is not my kingdom or if failures in my life have just left me bitter.  However, I am sure that the world that crucified Jesus Christ is alive and well today; therefore, making friends with the systems of the world is a very dangerous thing to do.   It seems that so many people do the things they do to conform to whatever group of people they want to impress.  Church leaders do it, house wives do it, teenagers do it, grown men do it in their jobs, and the list goes on and on.  Society says buying into the system is normal and that is what we should do.  However, in Jesus’s day as today, society and the masses are always wrong.  Society and the norms crucified the Son of God.  Yet, today people want to buy into these systems more and more. 

If you were new to this earth and never had anything to do with it:  What would you observe?  I, personally would think that cell phones where little gods to the humans.  Every time this thin, metal box buzzes, rings, beeps or blinks, these humans come running to check this device.   They are on it all the time and rely on every word it says.  People post things on it, people are happy and upset based on what it says.  It could be a facebook post or a text, it has the attention of human beings at all times.  People cannot be without this device and they hinge on all that it does.  Heck, they even obey it.  This must be their god.  Now, recent commercials on the television encourage people to watch television shows on their phone while they are walking from place to place.  People can’t even look at the world around them because they need to be entertained by this device every single moment. 

In another observation, I would think that professional football players were gods.  Thousands of people line stadiums, their living room and bars to cheer and hang on every action of these players.  They plan whole weeks or even months around watching these games and then continue to revel in what these players do not just on the field but off the field as well.  They wear jerseys with player’s names on the back of it and are experts on stats and believe it or not, they create fantasy teams to try and make it even more real to them.  I am a sports fan and enjoy playing and watching sports, but the obsession that people have for this creates a system that allows these players to make millions of dollars for playing a game.  It is because fans allow and promote these people above being just average people that they are.   

Don’t even get me started on politicians.  Talk about a world that is upside down!  The people running the world, from those international criminals that own the Federal Reserve to the local, state and especially federal politicians in the U.S. and around the world, these are the real criminals that belong in jail.  But, instead they are the leaders of our world, sorry, Satan’s world.  Recently in America, we had an election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.  Hillary Clinton lost the election and her supporters, democrats, were actually crying because they were so upset.  What?  This woman is insane and belongs behind bars.  Just do a little research and you would find out why.    However, people in the United States so identified with her that they would do all in their power to get her elected.  This is the same with the republicans.  People spend so much time supporting their candidates that support a system of bondage and destruction.  Our political and governmental system is backwards.  Rich, powerful people claim to represent the masses and yet they have no clue of the issues facing common folk.  In fact, they have no idea of the struggles of normal, everyday Americans.  That, or they just do not care as long as they maintain power and control.  One look under the covers in this area would reveal that politicians are actually put in place by outside entities that control the world’s wealth.  These entities only care about controlling people and maintaining their own power.  These powers create an illusion of choice where people choose between candidates that appear to give them opposing choices but serve the same purpose. 

It is like a hamster in a cage that has a choice on whether to piss in the right corner or the left corner.  If this hamster were an American, he would say that he was free because he had the choice to piss in the right corner but decided on the left.  In reality, people are boxed in a cage and they are told they are free. 

Back to religion, people think that they can only find God in buildings called churches and through people who have been trained in the world of God.  Even if people have a genuine experience of God, it is soon choked out of them because they join a church or talk to people who have been trained by the establishment.  The establishment is against the truth as it was in Jesus’s day.  The establishment is against all things that are true and will never point to the true God of scripture.

Jesus is found in the wilderness my friend.

So, if you find yourself not fitting into these man made systems of religion and society, if you believe that God is loving enough to want to save all creation and the cross of Christ is powerful enough to do just that, then take heart, your kingdom is not of this world!!!!!  You are in good company!!!!!