The Holy Spirit makes our discipleship possible and joyous. The Holy Spirit of God raises us from the deadness of adamic life and gives us a taste of Heaven, of the new Jerusalem. The Spirit guides and comforts us as we seek to conform our actions to the commandments of the Scripture.

The work of the Spirit in our life is based on the authority of the blood of the cross. Because the righteousness of the Law is given to us through the blood of the righteous Jesus, the Spirit can continue bringing us from death to life.

The blood, the Word, and the Spirit are the grace of God that enables us to partake of the Tree of Life and enter through the gates into the city.

To eat of the Tree of Life is to eat of Christ. Later on we shall notice that those who have become an integral part of Christ, who are the branches growing from the Vine, will also serve the nations as trees of life.

To eat of Christ is to partake of Divinity, of the Divine Nature. The adamic race of flesh and blood was never meant to be eternal. It is a temporary provision that will come to a conclusion when the earth and the heaven pass away, as we understand the Scriptures (Revelation 20:11).

Until an individual is born again he cannot see or enter the Kingdom of God. Why is this? It is because the Kingdom of God is the Substance of Christ. Until the Substance of Christ is born in us the Kingdom of God is not in us. It is the Kingdom that is born in us when we are born again.

The Kingdom of God is primarily an inner kingdom. There will be an outer, physical manifestation of the Kingdom. But the outer manifestation will be just that—a manifestation. It will be the manifestation of an inner creation.

The flesh and blood creation cannot enter the Kingdom of God. It is only as we partake of Christ, receiving into ourselves the Substance of the Kingdom, that we see and enter the Kingdom.

When we first believe in Christ our sins are forgiven. The Holy Spirit plants the Divine Seed in us. The Holy Spirit Himself anoints us as a member of the royal priesthood, and enters us as a beginning of the redemption of our entire personality—spirit, soul, and body.

The Seed is the Kingdom. Our main task in life after we have been born again of the Word of God is to insure that the Seed is nourished by prayer, by the Word of God, by fellowship with the saints, by obedience to God. We are to prevent the cares of the world from interfering with our devotion to the Divine Seed that has been planted in us.

We gain the right to partake daily of the Tree of Life, Christ, by washing our robes, by keeping the commandments of God. We wash our robes by the blood of the Lamb, by allowing the written Word to remove sin from our personality, and by following the Holy Spirit as He leads us in the program of redemption.

To be continued.