The Keys To The Kingdom
Book One: Love
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"Though I speak in tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging Cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have faith, so that I could remove mountains, but not have love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but not have love, it profits me nothing." (Corinthians 13: 1-3)
The body of Christ has spent an enormous amount of time on everything but love. Who's right and who's wrong, what's "Biblical" and what isn't , who is of God and who is not, can all be determined by the abundance or lack of, this one word love. The Apostle Paul makes it clear in the verses above that anything we as "Christians" accomplish apart from love is in vain. Everything that the church has written, discovered, built and done has been in vain- in the sight of God- without this single component. one hundred libraries full of philosophies, theologies, commentaries and religious doctrines cannot amount to the power contained in one passage of pure love. The Bible, is indeed, one big love story, a compilation of books chronicling God's love affair with mankind.
God's love is His deepest and richest attribute. Without it He would have been alone, but love motivated Him to want to share life with others. Creation itself is the most obvious expression of God's love, because it shows His desire to live in relationship with other things and beings. A loveless God would have been content in His self-existent solitude. Also, to create involves action, and genuine loves always motivates and inspires the lover to manifest their love is some form of expression. True love produces.
It has proof. If your love has no evidence is is not true, because it only exists as a feeling- it is in part. Without it being completed through a substantive work, it is not yet love: but rather a sense or feeling of love. Full, whole, actual love must bear fruit of its authenticity. God's own love was made manifest trough the creation of the universe,, through mankind, through the earth( created foe mankind's habitation and enjoyment), but ultimately through the sacrifice of His son for the world. Almighty God Himself set love's paradigm standard: love cannot be simply felt and spoken- it must be shown and proven.
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Baron and Rob arrived at Butner Federal Correctional Institution on the same day. They soon discovered that they were both Christians with a passionate zeal for the things of God. They began spending a lot of time together in the word of God. They experienced a higher quality and caliber of revelation than they ever had individually. Just as Jesus sent His disciples/apostles out by twos, Baron and Rob were sent on a specific commission. The message, word and ministry was simple: Love. The Body of Christ was being called higher, but this spiritual reformation could only take place upon a solid foundation of love.
Each chapter depicting an experience on Baron and Rob’s journey is followed by a chapter of revelation they received, or a ‘kingdom key’.This book is not for comfortable or complacent Christians, but for true disciples who yearn for God’s kingdom to come. Also for His will to be done through them, on earth as it is in heaven. ‘The Keys To The Kingdom- Book One: Love’ is autobiographical, spiritually full of impact, and the first of a trilogy chronicling a tow-year period of illumination, inspiration, training and kingdom service.
About the Author
Baron, 32, and Robert, 31, are both North Carolina natives.They were incarcerated at Butner Federal Correctional Institution from 2013-2015, where they embaked on a dynamic discipleship journey together.Their voice and story come as one refined in the fire and furnace of affliction, for the use and glory of God’s kingdom.