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170:3.1 [[Jesus]] was always trying to impress upon his [[apostles]] and [[disciples]] that they must acquire, by [[faith]], a [[righteousness]] which would exceed the righteousness of slavish [[works]] which some of the [[scribes]] and [[Pharisees]] [[parade]]d so [[vaingloriously]] before the world.

170:3.1 [[Jesus]] was always trying to impress upon his [[apostles]] and [[disciples]] that they must acquire, by [[faith]], a [[righteousness]] which would exceed the righteousness of slavish [[works]] which some of the [[scribes]] and [[Pharisees]] [[parade]]d so [[vaingloriously]] before the world.

170:3.2 Though [[Jesus]] taught that [[faith]], [[simple]] childlike [[belief]], is the key to the door of the kingdom, he also taught that, having entered the door, there are the [[progressive]] steps of [[righteousness]] which every believing child must [[ascend]] in order to [[grow]] up to the full stature of the [[robust]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 sons of God].

170:3.2 Though [[Jesus]] taught that [[faith]], [[simple]] childlike [[belief]], is the key to the door of the kingdom, he also taught that, having entered the door, there are the [[progressive]] steps of [[righteousness]] which every believing child must [[ascend]] in order to [[grow]] up to the full stature of the [[robust]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 sons of God].

170:3.3 It is in the [[consideration]] of the [[technique]] of [[receiving]] [[God]]'s [[forgiveness]] that the [[attainment]] of the [[righteousness]] of the kingdom is [[revealed]]. [[Faith]] is the price you pay for entrance into the [[family]] of [[God]]; but [[forgiveness]] is the [[act]] of [[God]] which [[accepts]] your [[faith]] as the price of admission. And the [[reception]] of the [[forgiveness]] of [[God]] by a kingdom [[believer]] involves a definite and [[actual]] [[experience]] and consists in the following four steps, the kingdom steps of inner [[righteousness]]:

170:3.3 It is in the [[consideration]] of the [[technique]] of [[receiving]] [[God]]'s [[forgiveness]] that the [[attainment]] of the [[righteousness]] of the kingdom is [[revealed]]. [[Faith]] is the price you pay for entrance into the [[family]] of [[God]]; but [[forgiveness]] is the [[act]] of [[God]] which [[accepts]] your [[faith]] as the price of admission. And the [[reception]] of the [[forgiveness]] of [[God]] by a kingdom [[believer]] involves a definite and [[actual]] [[experience]] and consists in the following four steps, the kingdom steps of inner [[righteousness]]:

170:3.11 By teaching that the kingdom is [[Inner Life|within]], by exalting the [[individual]], [[Jesus]] struck the deathblow of the old [[society]] in that he ushered in the new [[dispensation]] of true [[social]] [[righteousness]]. This new order of [[society]] the world has little known because it has refused to [[practice]] the [[principles]] of the [[gospel]] of the ''kingdom of heaven''. And when this kingdom of [[spiritual]] pre-eminence does come upon the [[earth]], it will not be [[manifested]] in mere improved [[social]] and [[material]] conditions, but rather in the [[glories]] of those enhanced and enriched [[spiritual]] [[values]] which are characteristic of the approaching age of improved [[human]] [[relations]] and advancing [[spiritual]] [[attainments]].

170:3.11 By teaching that the kingdom is [[Inner Life|within]], by exalting the [[individual]], [[Jesus]] struck the deathblow of the old [[society]] in that he ushered in the new [[dispensation]] of true [[social]] [[righteousness]]. This new order of [[society]] the world has little known because it has refused to [[practice]] the [[principles]] of the [[gospel]] of the ''kingdom of heaven''. And when this kingdom of [[spiritual]] pre-eminence does come upon the [[earth]], it will not be [[manifested]] in mere improved [[social]] and [[material]] conditions, but rather in the [[glories]] of those enhanced and enriched [[spiritual]] [[values]] which are characteristic of the approaching age of improved [[human]] [[relations]] and advancing [[spiritual]] [[attainments]].

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[[Category:Paper 170 - The Kingdom of Heaven]]

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