What is the Kingdom of God? The Scriptures, both Old Testament and New Testament, have much to say concerning the Kingdom of God. But exactly what is the Kingdom of God? Where is it? When is it coming to the earth?

Both Jesus and John the Baptist preached the coming of the Kingdom of God. The parables that the Lord Jesus spoke have to do with the Kingdom of God. Some of the parables sound as though the Kingdom of God is an experience that takes place inside the believer, while other teachings of the Lord seem to point to the coming from Heaven of an external kingdom.

From our point of view the questions concerning the Kingdom of God are answered simply. The Kingdom of God is the Lord Jesus Christ. As Christ is being formed in us the Kingdom of God is being formed in us. Yet the Lord Jesus Christ is in Heaven at the right hand of God the Father. Therefore the Kingdom of God is in Heaven at the right hand of the Father.

Wherever Jesus is, there is the Kingdom of God. When Christ casts out devils the Kingdom of God is casting out devils. As Christ grows in us the Kingdom is growing in us. When Christ appears in the clouds of heaven with the saints and holy angels—that is the coming of the Kingdom of God to the earth.

The primary parable of the Kingdom is the parable of the sower. The parable of the sower speaks of the essential nature of the Kingdom of God, for the Kingdom of God is the sowing of Christ in every saved creature in God's universe. The central purpose of God is to fill all things with Christ.

The activities of the Christian religion are sometimes helpful, sometimes harmful to the Kingdom. If we are to enter the Kingdom our adamic nature must do what it can to hold our personality before God, being helped by the grace that the Lord provides, until the Day Star, Christ, rises in our heart. We must pray, read the Scriptures, gather together with fervent disciples, give, serve, and do all else that the Scriptures associate with wholesome Christian living.

The end of our striving to serve Christ is the forming of Christ, the Kingdom, in us. Christ in us is the mystery of the Gospel of the Kingdom. The Kingdom of God is the new creation that results from the development of Christ in the believer. The result of bringing forth Christ in the human being is a new creation, a new personality, a unique expression of God. Each saint has been called to be God's servant, and a unique manifestation of God, to the ages of ages.

It can be seen from the above that the Divine redemption results in a change of our racial identity. The race of Adam came to an end on the cross. The new race consists of life-giving spirits. As Christ is formed in us our first personality passes away. A new kind of creature emerges. This is why the process of redemption is so painful. The old must die so the new may live.

Some day all of the practices of the religion of Christianity (and of Judaism) will be done away. When Christ has been formed in us the scaffolding no longer will be needed.

God's provision for the emptiness He has created in all of us is His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. It is only as Christ is formed in us, and as we enter union with Christ, that we come into our role as "man," into the fullness of fruitfulness and dominion.

The Kingdom of God is God in Christ in the saints bringing the Presence of God to all the saved peoples of the earth. (from Kingdom Concepts)