"Get Your Doctrine from Jesus"

Dr. Leonard Robinson

While all the promises of God are yes and so be it, recognize that some scriptures are written to a specific people for a specific time and then there are scriptures written that are perpetual and for our believing.

This is truth, not opinion or subjectivity.

Become like a child, like you don’t know anything, and with a childlike teachableness, return back to the gospels beginning with Matthew through to John, as though Jesus is talking to you as one of His disciples, because He is.

“Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18:3) Witness Him preach the Kingdom and demonstrate its power, teach you the attitudes that you are to be having as the beatitudes for Kingdom living and get your identity from Him as the salt and light that you are as a son of God.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”

(Matthew 5:3,6)

“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.”

(Matthew 5:14)

Learn the parables of the Kingdom as treasure hid in a field, a pearl of great price, and the mystery that the Kingdom is as yeast and a grain of mustard seed.

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.”

(Matthew 13:44)

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.”

(Matthew 13:45-46)

“The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.”

(Matthew 13:31-32)

By the time you’ve gotten to the 5th or 6th verse on the Kingdom of God the Holy Spirit will join you in your search and start connecting the dots for you.

“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”

(John 14:26)

You’ll soon discover that Jesus was and is teaching that the Kingdom as the active reign of God as our number one priority as we live the righteousness that marks our lives as possessors of God’s nature. In other words, get your doctrine from Jesus first.

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

(Matthew 6:33)

Lastly, of the many epistles you could read, choose to read the epistles of John (1 John chapter 1 to chapter 5 and learn how a true disciple refuses to live in sin because they know God and belong to God.

“Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.”

(1 John 3:6)

My friend, the hardest learning is unlearning, but those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, those who are poor in spirit (humble and teachable) theirs is the Kingdom of God."

“Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

(Matthew 5:3)

“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” (Matthew 5:6)

Selah