The Kingdom vs The World - How they see things

The church within the context of the kingdom of God is an inverse parallel of the secular world, if we imagine the world as a pyramid standing upright and the church/ kingdom of God as an upside down pyramid we can reference an accurate idea of this parallel. The way of the world then is to climb to the top of the pyramid while the way of the kingdom is to climb to the bottom. This mode of operation confuses the world which lives from the natural senses; spiritual things must be spiritually discerned. When the world sees kingdom people climbing to the bottom of the upside down pyramid; their eyes say “Look they are going down in life”, and when their eyes see anyone who names the name of Christ climbing to the top of the upside down pyramid which is our figure of the kingdom in this exhortation; their eyes say “Look that one is wise, she is successful in ministry and life”. James 1:9 - Let the brother of low degree ...