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SEEKSAFELY HIS TRUTH
IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD REALLY WITHIN US ALL?
1 Chr 29:11-14
11 "Thine, O LORD, is the greatness
and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything
that is in the heavens and the earth; Thine is the dominion, O LORD, and Thou
dost exalt Thyself as head over all.
12 "Both riches and honor {come}
from Thee, and Thou dost rule over all, and in Thy hand is power and might;
and it lies in Thy hand to make great, and to strengthen everyone.
13 "Now therefore, our God, we thank
Thee, and praise Thy glorious name.
14 "But who am I and who are my people
that we should be able to offer as generously as this? For all things come from
Thee, and from Thy hand we have given Thee.
(NAS)
Jesus said to the people of His day, those who were plotting to kill him and questioning Him about the appearing of the Kingdom of God, " the Kingdom of God is within you ". Jesus knew that He was from the Father but these Pharisees did not know their true identity and were still living a life of tradition and religious observation. Jesus was the first born Son and was the head of the new creation, He had the mind of Christ and could discern spiritually, where the carnal thinking was a stumbling block to the leaders of the law in Israel. This carnal life or the Adamic nature of soulish thinking is still a stumbling block to people today, even to those in the established Church as it was in the day of the Lord's ministry on earth.
It is good to pray at this time and ask God to reveal His Truth.
Pray this prayer
from your desire to know Truth, pray from within your deepest part, your heart.
" Father, Spirit,
Life, Truth, God almighty, I ask for Your Truth to be revealed to my spirit,
please lead me into Your Truth, AMEN"
From the beginning the Lord has been expressing His life within His creation and we all are His offspring to glorify His mighty name. We all are called unto His name and we all are to realize His true nature within us as this is His purpose and good pleasure to reveal His Son in us even as it was His good pleasure to knit us together and make us so wonderfully within our own mother's womb. The Word of God says that He placed the spirit of man within him and formed the heavens. We were from before the beginning of time with God and we were birthed into the earthly realm not knowing that we were made perfect, righteous, just and without SIN in the beginning. The statement of Jesus that the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of heaven is within you is the most critical understanding that every person must lay a hold on. For in this statement alone is the key of life. There are many other scriptures which line up with this one and support it but more than this we can experience this Truth when we believe it and ask God to fill us from within. There are over six hundred scriptures which support the reconciliation of all things and the salvation of all, all of which speak of the Kingdom of heaven being within us ALL and not just a chosen few. Sure there are a chosen few saints who will lead the world out of darkness but ALL will come into His glorious light at the end of the ages. The revelation of Christ within as our true identity is something which needs to be seen and understood by ALL for God to be ALL in ALL.
The Bible clearly speaks of those in Christ or those who know their true identity, being those in a spiritual body as one in Christ, this body is the Fathers house or the Temple of God which we ALL are. It is only when we become the Fathers house and not a house of self that we can join with the saints in light and reveal the glory that we ALL had with God before the world was, when we were with ALL the sons of God.
The Bible speaks of the body of humanity or the soulish man Adam, the corporate many membered man who is still in bondage to corruption of his mind and inside this man is the hope of glory which is Christ in you the hope of glory. The Bible states that the head of every man is Christ Jesus and that Jesus Christ is the true light that lights every man who comes into the world. This gives every man good hope and this is why the gospel is preached to awaken those who sleep to the Truth of their original identity. The Gospel is something which is in the man of God as a living word or nature and not just spoken words from the Bible, it is the spirit of the Word and not the letter spoken with carnal breath. The Bible says that if the Gospel is hid it is hid from the lost and so it must be the spoken Word of God, spoken with the breath of life from a son of God, it must be spirit and life, it must be the Truth of the man speaking it, the Gospel is to be in the man. In the days of the apostles, the ones who spoke the Word, did not have any Bible like we have today but they had direct revelation of Christ within them. They became the living Word, they became epistles in the Lambs book of life, they became exactly what they were preaching. When we set our mind on the spirit of God then we become as He is in this world.
The Bible is full
of oneness and co heirs, it is full of ALL coming to the Lord God of heaven,
it states quite clearly the every knee shall bow to Jesus Christ to the glory
of God the Father.
We are taught that God himself subjected
us all to the vanity of our minds in hope of restoration and that we all came
from the soul realm to be lifted to the spiritual realm of heaven. The Lord's
prayer says that heaven will be in earth and that it comes when we do the will
of God and no longer have our own will. We need to know that it is the plan
of God to subject us all to vanity of our minds and give us all over to disobedience
so that He can show His mercy upon us and restore all back unto Himself for
from Him we ALL came.
The Bible does confuse us a little when we read it because we see people going to hell and into torment and being separated from God, we see the word wrath and wrath to come and burning in a lake of fire but all of these expressions need to be seen for what they are and not just taken as they might seem by people who have not spent time to know God or the symbols used in the Word of God. We also need to know that God is sovereign and that we do not know His ways, which are Just. God can take a soul away from this earthly plane and still have a relationship with that person and it is the intention of God to raise this person up again at the end of the ages for judgement. Judgement is now and we need to allow God to judge us and take us through the fire of purification seven times until we are pure.
The spirit of God is within all things and we need to know how to access the spirit to bring life to this body of clay. God said that His glory will fill the whole earth and that includes all people, every person ever born of a woman. We do not come to this state of heaven within, without surrender and every person will have to see themselves on the cross where Jesus died AS US. We need to come out of hell on earth to come into heaven on earth. Hell is separation from God whether it be here in this mortal realm or on the other side of death where the souls still need to come to the knowledge of God. Heaven is within us all and we need to learn how to let it descend upon us or overcome us, it is a coming up into this state of awareness, a filling with the divine nature of God as we put all enemies under our feet, it is a coming up hither to meet the Lord in the spiritual air of His breath of life.
We know by teaching in the Bible that Jesus died for all people in every nation tribe and tongue and that all are free to enter heaven on earth. The verse in the Bible that says, as in Adam all died so then in Christ all shall be made alive, is one of the most important verses which shows us that all will be lifted up to that high place, for Jesus said "and I if I be lifted up will draw all men unto myself ", this is a reality for God would that all men be saved and if God is all powerful and He has not got an enemy and as His word goes forth and it shall not return void, then I know we should believe God who made all things.
The Kingdom of heaven
is within all people and it is realized as we set our mind upon the spirit of
God, determined to do the will of God who sent us. We are to see that we were
born of our mother and NOW we are to come to our Father who is in heaven as
He makes us into His sons.
Heaven is a state of spiritual perfection,
Father is spirit, We are made as vessels to express the spirit of God or the
glory of God, Christ is the spirit of God within His Temple or dwelling place,
we are the Temple of God and we are to express God or spirit of God or glory
of God, we are Christ when God dwells in us, God is in us and we need to learn
to express Him. He is to emanate and radiate out from His Temple as He flows
into us from that Holy, Holy, Holy place deep within us which can only be accessed
as we seek Him and His love. The spiritual inflow comes from within us, in that
secret sacred place where our will decides for Jesus and Jesus sends the Holy
spirit to teach us the ways of God and we learn how to come in behind our veil
of SIn consciousness and see heaven within us. We become the Son who was in
the beginning and we behold creation through the eyes of God and not the eyes
of self who is deceived. Let the water of life flow through you and cleanse
out all of the corruption which has come through worldly influences and inherent
pollution of the flesh over the generations, let the living water of life fill
you and flow outward to the dead and dying world all about you, become a source
of life for others as you resume your true identity as Christ.
2 Cor 5:14-21
14 For the love of Christ controls
us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;
15 and He died for all, that they
who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose
again on their behalf.
16 Therefore from now on we recognize
no man according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to
the flesh, yet now we know {Him} {thus} no longer.
17 Therefore if any man is in Christ,
{he is} a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have
come.
18 Now all {these} things are from
God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of
reconciliation,
19 namely, that God was in Christ
reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them,
and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
20 Therefore, we are ambassadors
for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of
Christ, be reconciled to God.
21 He made Him who knew no sin {to
be} sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
(NAS)
1 Cor 15:51
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery;
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
(KJV)
1 Cor 15:22-26
22 For as in Adam all die, even so
in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order:
Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
24 Then cometh the end, when he shall
have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put
down all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he hath
put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed
is death.
(KJV)
1 Cor 4:5
5 Therefore judge nothing before
the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things
of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall
every man have praise of God.
(KJV
Col 1:27
27 To whom God would make known what
is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ
in you, the hope of glory:
(KJV)
Rom 14:11
11 For it is written, As I live,
saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to
God.
(KJV)
Acts 7:49-50
49 "HEAVEN IS MY THRONE, AND EARTH
IS THE FOOTSTOOL OF MY FEET; WHAT KIND OF HOUSE WILL YOU BUILD FOR ME?' says
the Lord, "OR WHAT PLACE IS THERE FOR MY REPOSE?
50 "WAS IT NOT MY HAND WHICH MADE
ALL THESE THINGS?'
(NAU)
Rom 12:1-2
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world:
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is
that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
(KJV)
1 Cor 6:19-20
19 Or do you not know that your body
is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that
you are not your own?
20 For you have been bought with
a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
(NAS)
Heb 9:28
28 So Christ was once offered to
bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second
time without sin unto salvation.
(KJV)
Isa 40:5
5 And the glory of the LORD shall
be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD
hath spoken it.
(KJV)
Isa 45:22-25
22 Look unto me, and be ye saved,
all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
23 I have sworn by myself, the word
is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me
every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
24 Surely, shall one say, in the
LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all
that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
25 In the LORD shall all the seed
of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
(KJV)
Isa 54:5
5 "For your husband is your maker,
whose name is the LORD of hosts; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel,
who is called the God of all the earth.
(NAS)
Dan 7:13-14
13 I saw in the night visions, and,
behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to
the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
14 And there was given him dominion,
and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve
him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and
his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
(KJV)
Joel 2:28
28 And it shall come to pass afterward,
that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
(KJV)
Micah 4:1-5
1 But in the last days it shall come
to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in
the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people
shall flow unto it.
2 And many nations shall come, and
say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of
the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his
paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3 And he shall judge among many people,
and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
4 But they shall sit every man under
his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth
of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
5 For all people will walk every
one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God
for ever and ever.
(KJV)
Ps 72:17-19
17 His name shall endure for ever:
his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in
him: all nations shall call him blessed.
18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God
of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.
19 And blessed be his glorious name
for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
(KJV)
1 Tim 2:1-6
1 I exhort therefore, that, first
of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made
for all men;
2 For kings, and for all that are
in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and
honesty.
3 For this is good and acceptable
in the sight of God our Saviour;
4 Who will have all men to be saved,
and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God, and one mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
6 Who gave himself a ransom for all,
to be testified in due time.
(KJV)
Nelson Mandela, at the Inaugural Presidential speech in 1994, regarding the Kingdom within us ALL.
Our deepest fear
is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves:
" Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve
the world.
There's nothing enlightened about
shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were all meant
to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest
the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us --
It's in everyone!
And as we let
our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the
same.
As we are liberated from our own
fear, our presence automatically liberates others!
Rise up, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations are your inheritance.