Lucas 12:31 O Reino de Deus

Tem dois lugares na Bíblia aonde as palavras do Senhor Jesus Cristo são registradas. Em amos
dos lugares é um mandamento.

“Buscai antes o reino de Deus, e todas estas coisas vos serão acrescentadas.” Lucas 12:31
“Mas, buscai primeiro o reino de Deus, e a sua justiça, e todas estas coisas vos serão
acrescentadas.” Mateus 6:33

Em Mateus 6 o mandamento segue logo o ensino em como orar, e como investir nas coisas
eternas e não terrenas.
Em Lucas 12 o mandamento segue logo a parábola sobre a preocupação sobre riquezas.

Você deve buscar o Reino de Deus!

Como é que você deve buscar o Reino de Deus?
Para saber a resposta desta pergunta é necessário responder a três outras perguntas!

1. O que é o Reino de Deus?

a. Não é tanto o que é mas quem é.
b. É o reconhecimento da autoridade, o direito de reinar, mais do que o limite territorial.
2. Como é que O busca? Mt. 22:37 AE Jesus disse-lhe: Amarás o Senhor teu Deus de todo
o teu coração, e de toda a tua alma, e de todo o teu pensamento.38 Este é o primeiro e grande
mandamento. 39 E o segundo, semelhante a este, é: Amarás o teu próximo como a ti mesmo. 40
Destes dois mandamentos dependem toda a lei e os profetas.
a. Primeiro em tempo
b. Primeiro em importância
c. Primeiro em amor
3. O que será o resultado?

Seek ye first the kingdom of God. The promise is made that if we seek it first, and its
righteousness, all earthly wants will be supplied. The condition demands, (1) That we seek the
kingdom first in point of time. Some propose to secure a competence, and after they have gained
it, they will serve God. (2) We must make it first in importance. Everything else must give way
before its demands. (3) It must be first in our affections, have our whole hearts. We must "love
the Lord our God with the whole heart" (#Mt 22:37).

His righteousness. The righteousness that God bestows upon those who are in the Kingdom,
Christ=s righteousness, the forgiveness of sins in his name.

[1] (kingdom of God)

The kingdom of God is to be distinguished from the kingdom of heaven See Scofield "Mt 3:2",
in five respects:

(1) The kingdom of God is universal, including all moral intelligences willingly subject to the
will of God, whether angels, the Church, or saints of past or future dispensations #Lu 13:28,29
#Heb 12:22,23 while the kingdom of heaven is Messianic, mediatorial, and Davidic, and has for
its object the establishment of the kingdom of God in the earth See Scofield "Mt 3:2" #1Co
15:24,25.

(2) The kingdom of God is entered only by the new birth #Joh 3:3,5-7 the kingdom of heaven,
during this age, is the sphere of a profession which may be real or false. See Scofield "Mt 13:3"
#Mt 25:1,11,12
33. Seek first his kingdom. The demand of v. 33 is set against the warning of v. 31. The tense used here for
>seek= must be interpreted as >seek always, continuously= (as in Col 3:1; cf. Matt 5:6). >Seek= has here the sense
of >try to obtain= (Bauer, s.v.). It corresponds to hungering and thirsting from Matt 5:6.

And his righteousness. >Righteousness= is the very being of the Kingdom of God, it is the divine order of things.
The righteousness which the believer already possesses (Matt 5:20) is still incomplete, and does not exclude
hungering and striving for complete righteousness. Jesus requires His disciples always to seek the spiritual
blessings of the Kingdom first instead of material profit, which the pagans seek (vv. 31-32).

(3) Since the kingdom of heaven is the earthly sphere of the universal kingdom of God, the two
have almost all things in common. For this reason many parables and other teachings are spoken
of the kingdom of heaven in Matthew, and of the kingdom of God in Mark and Luke. It is the
omissions which are significant. The parables of the wheat and tares, and of the net #Mt
13:24-30,36-43,47-50 are not spoken of the kingdom of God. In that kingdom there are neither
tares nor bad fish. But the parable of the leaven #Mt 13:33 is spoken of the kingdom of God also,
for, alas, even the true doctrines of the kingdom are leavened with the errors of which the
Pharisees, Sadducees, and the Herodians were the representatives. See Scofield "Mt 13:33".

(4) The kingdom of God "comes not with outward show" #Lu 17:20 but is chiefly that which is
inward and spiritual #Ro 14:17 while the kingdom of heaven is organic, and is to be manifested
in glory on the earth. (See "Kingdom (O.T.)," Zech 12.8, note; (N.T.), Lu 1.31-33 1co 15.24,
note; Mt 17.2, note.) See Scofield "Zec 12:8", #Lu 1:31-33 See Scofield "1Co 15:24" See
Scofield "Mt 17:2"

(5) The kingdom of heaven merges into the kingdom of God when Christ, having put all
enemies under his feet, "shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father" #1Co
15:24-28 See Scofield "Mt 3:2"