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The Daily Word of Righteousness
A Description of the Kingdom of God, #4
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them [the highways to Zion]. who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. (Psalms 84:5-7)
Heaven is not a projection of the unregenerate human soul but of God's Soul. Heaven is an external Paradise imposed from without. But the Kingdom of God is the re-creation of what we are, as well as the filling of us with the Spirit of Christ, until we can project Paradise wherever we are.
It is important to understand that the Heaven of God and Christ is external to us, while the Kingdom of God is what we are.
Current Christian teaching is attempting to bring hellish people into God's Paradise by grace. To do so would be to turn Paradise into Hell. If untransformed personalities were brought into the spirit paradise we would have a repetition of the original rebellion. Satan once more would be in Heaven with God.
On the other hand, the unsullied Paradise of God would be "hell" for the untransformed because they would be forced to live in an environment that they have rejected while on the earth, an environment of peace, of the worship of God, of holiness, of obedience to God. Would this be "heaven" to someone who longs after the fulfillment of the lusts of the flesh?
It is time for a reformation of Christian thinking.
The creating of the Kingdom of God is the creating of people who themselves are of the Spirit and life of Heaven. Such people are of the nature of Heaven and bring Heaven wherever they go.
The heart of the saint is a highway to God. The true saints make the valley of Baca (weeping) a well of refreshing.
The Kingdom of God is not a location, such as Paradise, so we can say "Here it is!" or "Now I have arrived!" The Kingdom of God is in us. It is God in Christ in the saints ruling and ministering to the creation of God.
Every true saint of Christ yearns to be in a place of peace and joy with God. This evil world no longer is home to us after we are filled with the nature of Christ. For the victorious saint to die is great gain. After all, what godly person wouldn't want to live in Paradise? What saint wouldn't desire the immediate fellowship of God, of Christ, of the saints, and of all of our deceased loved ones in an environment filled with every conceivable delight, and totally free from pain, anxiety, and dread?
God's will is being done in Heaven, in Paradise. Paradise is a location in the spirit realm. When the righteous die they enter the spiritual realities of Paradise, which also are realities of the Kingdom of God.
The fullness of God's Kingdom is the eternal union of the Paradise of God with the material realm. When Christ is born in us we enter the Kingdom of God. Now our humanity receives glorious paradisiac spiritual life into itself. The heart and substance of the life of Paradise is Christ. It is He, and only He, who makes Paradise our delight and goal. When Christ is formed in us, the heart and substance of Paradise have been formed in us.
To be continued.