The Only Thing That Matters Is Heaven
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Terrell Carter. The Only Thing That Matters Is Heaven
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The Only Thing that Matters Is Heaven
Topical Line Drives, Volume 40
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Life would not solely consist of the number of livestock they owned or the possessions they had. It would consist of faithful service to God. For the Corinthian church, the Kingdom of God was understood as something that was still yet to come. It was just over the horizon, but it was on the way. And its’ coming would require that the church at Corinth have a new mindset. All that life offered was a blessing from God, but God’s blessings were to take a back seat to God’s overall plan. God’s plans were not to be eclipsed by God’s gifts to humankind.
The story of Jonah is probably familiar to most of us. God gave Jonah the command to preach repentance to a group of people. Jonah refused and instead went in the opposite direction of where God wanted him to go. After an ill-fated boat ride and a big fish swallowing and spitting him out, he ran in the direction God sent him. In the big picture, I understand the book of Jonah to be less about a big fish and more about how Jonah responded to the idea that God’s Kingdom may include people that he did not necessarily like.
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