Quiet Time Notes

Notes from my daily Quiet Times with God

Kingdom First - Majoring in the Minors

January 10th, 2010
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Unless your righteousness surpasses the Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven - Matthew 5:20

Pharisees:

• Strict observers of the law
• Walked around in flowing robes
• Offered prayers in unnatural holy voices
• Advertised their benevolence
• Majored in the minors yet forgetting the heart

Any different today?

• Boring clergy in odd clothes
• Preaching burdensome dos and donts
• Unrelatable sermons
• Unrelatable lives

People need and desire a relationship with God - not man-made religion

Perfect salvation is not the basis of salvation
Not a matter of making ourselves feel or look good, but to please God

Do you struggle with this?

• Have you created your own system of salvation?
• Do people say you are a people pleaser (Galatians 1:10)?
• Are we steeped in our own traditions or preconceived notions about the truth?
• What if no one was watching, would you still: give, sing, pray, study the same?

Notes from: First... the Kingdom by Thomas A. Jones.