The kingdom of heaven vs the world

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In the famous Sermon on the Mount, Jesus showed, eloquently, that the kingdom of God is a kingdom of tip-head. The pyramid is inverted. Happy is he who has nothing amused before God and still cries for his sins. Happy is he who renounces his rights instead of oppressing the weak to claim even rights he does not have. Happy is what opens his hand to the needy and not what he explores to enrich himself. Happy is what builds bridges of contact between people and not that which digs abysses of enmity between people. Happy is the one who loves and practices justice and not the one who uses the philagranas of the law to obtain their own advantages. Happy is he who seeks holiness and not the one who tears his face in loud laughter full of lasciviousness.

The ethics of the kingdom of God does not loosen the demands of the law to surrender to licentiousness without brakes. If in the kingdoms of the world, the strong prevails over the weak and the power of vengeance crushes even the innocent, in the kingdom of God, forgiveness is greater than revenge and the search for reconciliation is better than victory in a court. In the kingdoms of the world, men are satisfied with certain actions under the investigation of the law, in the kingdom of God, even the motivations of the heart are counted. To hate someone is to kill him in the heart; to look at a woman with pure intention is to adulterate with her. If the courts of the earth can only judge words and actions; in the kingdom of God, the divine court judges even the intentions.

In the ethics of the world, marriage is increasingly weakened and divorce increasingly robust. In the kingdom of God, divorce for any reason is to enter the dark corridors of adultery and ruin not only your own life, but also the family. In the ethics of the world, sex became banal and promiscuous. All kinds of sexual aberrations are applauded and encouraged, but in the kingdom of God, purity in the heart and fidelity in relationships are required.

In the ethics of the world, spirituality is a staging on the catwalk of vanity. Men are applauded for what they appear to be and not for what they actually are. In the kingdom of God, true spirituality does not seek foci or applause of men, because it pretends exclusively to please God, who sees everything in secret and all probe. In the ethics of the world, men judge recklessly and at the same time that exposes the sins of others, they promote themselves. In the kingdom of God, the individual is rigorous in dealing with his own sins, but he is compassionate to deal with the sins of his neighbor. In the ethics of the world, to be great is to accumulate wealth on earth, build financial empires and hold economic power. In the kingdom of God, to be rich is to gather treasures in heaven, where thieves do not steal or moth and rust corrode. In the kingdoms of the world, men live anxiously for the things that perish, while the children of God seek in the first place the kingdom of God that is eternal. In the ethics of the world, false prophets are held in high account and receive from men all prestige and welcome. But for the children of the kingdom they are false ministers, who preach a false gospel, producing false believers.

In world ethics, what matters is appearance. Therefore, foolishness prevails. Men listen to the truth, but they do not put it into practice. They build their house on the sand, to see it crumble at the arrival of the storm. In the kingdom of God it is not enough to hear or know, you have to practice. It is not enough to build your house, you have to build it on the rock. It is not enough to have a safe house in the eyes of men, it is necessary that this house remain unbreakable before the storms of life.

The kingdom of God is in opposition to the kingdoms of this world. The kingdoms of this world are applauded now, but they will collapse later. In the case in question, they draw their flags of success now, but they will be covered with opprobrium in the manifestation of our glorious Redeemer. Then, all the kingdoms of this world will pass, but the kingdom of Christ, even now being a kingdom of head-end, will never end.