Living in the Reality of the Kingdom of God

The kingdom of God is the realm of divine life and divine species. It is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself sown as a Seed into the believers, growing and developing into a realm over which God can rule. The kingdom of God is where God has His rule and reign, where God is expressed, and where God is represented. In fact, the kingdom of God is the church life where the believers live in the reality of the kingdom of God. 

Jn 1:12But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who believe into His name,

Jn 1:13Who were begotten not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Jn 3:3Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Jn 3:5Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Praise the Lord that the believers today have entered into the kingdom of God by being born of God (John 1:12,13), and by being born anew (John 3:3,5). As such, today as believers in the church life, we are in the kingdom of God! 

Rm 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death.

Rm 8:6For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.

But the burden these days has been, are we living in the reality of the kingdom of God? Having entered into the kingdom of God, do we live in the reality of the kingdom of God? For this reality, the believers have to live by the divine life and follow the sense of life within by setting the mind on the spirit (Romans 8:2, 6). But for some, the sense of life could be just dead. The reason being, the spirit has not been exercised and therefore becomes very weak resulting in no feeling for anything. If such be the case, there is an urgent need for revival. Prayer is one of the ways to exercise the human spirit and revive the sense of life within. Only by such a sense, can one live in the reality of the kingdom of God. Following the sense of life is following the Lord's leading and allowing God to rule and reign over us. When such is the case, one is living in the reality of the kingdom of God.

Co 3:4When Christ our life is manifested, then you also will be manifested with Him in glory.

Co 2:19And not holding the Head, out from whom all the Body, being richly supplied and knit together by means of the joints and sinews, grows with the growth of God.

Mt 5:3Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.

Mt 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

However, for one to be able to sense the life within his spirit, there is a need for growth in life. Christ is our life (Col. 3:4), and we must hold to Christ as the Head too (Col. 2:29), out from which one can draw life supply and grow up in the divine life. This is the biblical truth. To realize this truth subjectively, one must be poor in spirit (Matthew 5:3) and pure in heart (Matthew 5:8). To be poor in spirit is not to be satisfied with what one already has, but to hunger and thirst for more of God. If one is poor in spirit, he will thirst and hunger for the word of God, the fellowship in the Body, for prayer, for meeting with the saints, and for the practical church life. And in the process, he will grow and gain God. One also needs to be pure in heart, having a single goal of gaining God and God alone, seeking nothing else but God. With purity of heart, one will not seek for prosperity, healing, or even spiritual growth. Though all these may be granted by the Lord's mercy, he will seek only God and for God alone. With these two conditions of being pure in heart and poor in spirit, one will exercise very much in his spirit and strengthen his spirit. Thereby, growing in the sense of life, leading further to the growth in life and enabling God to rule over him. Then, there will be the reality of living in the kingdom of God. This will definitely result in God being expressed and represented. This is also God's goal in His creation of man in Genesis 1:26. 

Gn 1:26And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

This was the living message the Lord gave to the church today. I was so personally supplied even as the Lord pleased to minister the word through me. And all the saints were richly supplied too.

Lord, preserve all the saints to be so exercised in their spirits so that they may grow daily. Lord, grant us the attitude and motive of being poor in spirit and pure in heart to grow in life and follow the sense of life and be led by the spirit and be governed by the Lord unto the living out of God in the reality of the kingdom of God in our church life today.