Living in the Kingdom of God.

Living in the Kingdom of God.

John 3:2-10

[2]After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus. “Rabbi,” he said, “we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you.”

[3]Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

[4]“What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus. “How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?”

[5]Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.

[6]Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.

[7]So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’

[8]The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit.”

[9]“How are these things possible?” Nicodemus asked.

[10]Jesus replied, “You are a respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don’t understand these things?

2 Corinthians 1:22

[22]and he has identified us as his own by placing the Holy Spirit in our hearts as the first installment that guarantees everything he has promised us.

When we receive the Holy Spirit we become his children.

Romans 8:2-17

[2]And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death.

[3]The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.

[4]He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.

[5]Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit.

[6]So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.

[7]For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will.

[8]That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.

[9]But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all.)

[10]And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God.

[11]The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.

[12]Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do.

[13]For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live.

[14]For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.

[15]So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.”

[16]For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children.

[17]And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.

His True Children will understand the things of his father. 

1 Corinthians 2:12-16

[12]And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.

[13]When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths.

[14]But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means.

[15]Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others.

[16]For, 

“Who can know the lord’s thoughts? 

    Who knows enough to teach him?”But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ.

John 4:23-24

[23]But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way.

[24]For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”

Our Flesh may die but our spirit will remain.

Romans 8:10-11

[10]And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God.

[11]The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.

that's all thank you.

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Ty brother Mark for that wonderful teaching

I learned that in order for us to be a citizen in the Kingdom of God, we must be born again, what we mean born again is not about joining a sect that is called "born again" but to be new in Christ. 

2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

I remembered the post of brother Jed before entitled "Does Jesus Christ know you" and he mentioned there that Christ must know us spiritually for us to inherit heaven after death. A lot of people are claiming that they are the children of God but on the judgement day, the Lord would strongly proclaim that He doesn't know them which simply means they are not the heirs of the Kingdom of God nor His children

Romans 8:9

And if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, he do not belong to Christ

The reality of christians nowadays is that they believed we don't need the Holy Spirit for us to be saved but they don't realize they are deceived already. The truth is, the Holy Spirit testifies if we are the children of God or not.

Christianity will never be a Christianity without the Holy Spirit, without the Holy Spirit, it is just a dead religion.

Thank you Brother Mark for the Wonderful teaching today I am so satisfied and felt joy about this topic Praise God 😍🥰

When the lord Choose us and wants us to be in his kingdom he will first pull out us to  our comfort zone which is being comfortable in a lifestyle of sin .

The lord will lead us to repentance and  and the Holy Spirit  will give birth a spiritual Desire in us that's why we felt that hunger and thristy for the lord .

All of us have that desire in our hearts that only the lord can fulfilled  but only  few find the true source that can fulfilled them because few are seeking the Lord wholeheartedly .

Trully no one can see the kingdom of God unless you are born again in water and Spirit for only the Spirit of God brings to us the kingdom of God 😍

If we really want to be born again and to be real child of God we really need to seek the Lord continually ,love him, obey him and continue asking for His Spirit .Abba Father was willing to give us his Spirit but we must also do our responsibility to seek him and obey Him and when he satisfied now to our hearts then he will send his Holy Spirit to Guide us into all truth .🥰Godbless