We congratulate people on being "near the Kingdom of God". We use the 'stepping stones' across the river to avoid inviting the one, who needs to cross, into the river, where the Lord himself will perform a miracle and part the waters for him, but he must first step in; he must descend the bank of the Jordan in front of the whole of Israel and its teachers to meet God in the middle, where the gentle dove will descend. There is no other way but through; there is no 'around' or 'over', that is left to the Lord who will passover us and surround us.
We use the praises of men to avoid this. We throw rocks into the water from those in our heart to help others to cross in the same way we did; rather, let him who wishes to cross into God's country step in deeper and then, after he has crossed, take the rocks out of the river and set them up as a lasting memorial to what the Lord has done for him. Let him take 12 rocks, one for each tribe of Israel, one for each Apostle of God's true church. Then let him say he is IN the Kingdom of God and not just near it, for those who will be weeping and gnashing their teeth in the final judgment were once near it.
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