Character is the priority of the Kingdom, more than anything else. Humility (low view of your importance) and meekness (quiet submissiveness) are the most important and most powerful, but also the most overlooked and undervalued even in church today. Humility is how you treat yourself, meekness is how you treat others. All of Jesus' life and ministry modelled these two, and it is apt to say that the Gospel, the Good News, is all about them, too---how we can have these traits in us through Christ even if we are oriented towards self-pride and self-conceit because of sin.
Genuine born again believers, therefore, should first of all have humility and meekness as their dominant character, before anything else. It is eternal life. Good works, ministries, accomplishments and everything we do for GOD (plus the titles and degrees) take second place---no, tenth place or last place. Without the fruit of humility and meekness (the true marks of everlasting life and Christlikeness, along with giving up everything) all our accomplishments in ministry are garbage.
It's Jesus' Life
Jesus' life emphasized it. Why else would the Father (and Jesus himself) choose the Messiah to be born in Bethlehem, born to poor parents, and grow up in Nazareth, of all places (Nathaniel was amazed how anything good could come from Nazareth)? Why not in Jerusalem and be born to wealthy parents? Or why not grow up in Rome and be fathered by Caesar? He trashed wealth and prominence to opt for a humble and meek life.
No wonder his first key teaching in The Beatitudes is "blessed are the poor in spirit," second is about those who mourn, and third, about the meek. Jesus modelled all this to show his followers what the aim of the Kingdom really is. God's will is first and foremost, our salvation from sin and hell, and then humility and meekness. All ministries must revolve around them.
"For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life" [John 6:40]
Whoever has seen Jesus and believes in him (be like him) will be humble and meek. Can we see Jesus? Genuine belief opens our spiritual eyes to see Jesus, and those who genuinely see him are humble and meek. No exceptions. If you claim to have seen him but remain proud and conceited, you lie. And you're lost. You may be popular for your accomplishments but you have no eternal life if you remain boastful about yourself. No one enters heaven without humility and meekness, the kind that Jesus have.
16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. [1 John 2 NIV]
16 For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. [1 John 2 NLT]
Everyone works hard for world domination, even the church (what it calls evangelism and misson), but it's not for spreading the Jesus DNA in people to make them radically humble and meek and give up everything they have, but to do better than other denominations in enlarging their membership and territory, and later bragging about their world dominance. John said this does not come from the Father but from the world, and whatever comes from the world cannot have eternal life or eternal rewards.
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SURRENDERING TO JESUS
Ask forgiveness and repent of your sins. Believe God's forgiveness. It is promised in the bible. Through prayer, receive Jesus Christ as your sole Savior and Lord. Then be assured of heaven, not because of anything you have or do (not your good deeds or religion or church), but because of God's grace and mercy through what Jesus Christ did on the cross for you.
In Jesus alone is salvation. Jesus is:
‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’ 12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other Name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” [Acts 4]
Surrender to Him by intently studying the bible daily (ask guidance from the Holy Spirit) and applying in life everything you learn. And then pray that God lead you to the right person who'd disciple you, one who is totally surrendered to Jesus and living His Word in the bible.
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