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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The New Jerusalem, #15
The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. (Psalms 87:6)
But the people who live there are the most important aspect of the city. Those people are being formed now. We have been born into the new Jerusalem and the new Jerusalem has been born in us.
We are to allow the Holy Spirit to create Christ in us, to create the Kingdom of Heaven in us.
When Christ is in us the Kingdom of Heaven is in us. When we are in Christ we are in the Kingdom of Heaven.
When Christ has been formed in us, when the Kingdom has been formed in us, we are eligible to inherit the fullness of the glory of the external kingdom. This will take place when the Lord Jesus appears from Heaven.
If the Kingdom of Heaven is in us we will inherit the Kingdom when the Lord comes. But if Hell is working in us, then we are fit only to enter Hell.
It is not possible for an individual in whom Hell is living to enter the holy city of God. But through Christ the Hell can be thrown out and the Kingdom formed.
The Kingdom is being formed in the present hour.
There is an internal aspect of the Kingdom of Heaven. The internal aspect is being formed in us now. There is an external aspect of the Kingdom of Heaven. The external aspect is being formed in Heaven in the Presence of Almighty God.
Those in whom the Kingdom has been formed will be clothed with the external glory of the Kingdom when the Lord Jesus comes from Heaven.
The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven are one and the same. There is but one Kingdom.
Those who are Jewish by race have first right to the Kingdom. (It is the new Jerusalem!). But many Gentiles have been added during the Christian Era. The current teaching that portrays a Gentile (spiritual) kingdom in Heaven that is separate from a Jewish kingdom on the earth is false and misleading, and anti-Semitic. There is only one Kingdom of God, of Heaven, and it is destined to rule on the earth.
The Kingdom of Heaven is the Kingdom of God, the new Jerusalem, the Wife of the Lamb, the Body of Christ, the Temple of God, the perfected Christian Church. These terms refer to the Kingdom that is from Heaven, the Kingdom that one day will govern the nations of saved people on the earth.
There is no evidence that either John the Baptist or Jesus of Nazareth preached two different kingdoms—one for the Jews and one for the Gentiles. There is but one Kingdom of God, and it is from Heaven and is of the Spirit of God—the Spirit that came down from Heaven.
All the parables of Jesus give us insight into the Kingdom of Heaven.
The grace of God forgives us so we have the right, the authority, to enter the Kingdom, to enter into righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit of God, operating through Christ, is the Life, the wisdom, the power of the Kingdom of God.
To be continued.