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(See 2 Peter Chapter 1)

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The Kingdom of God - The Kingdom of Heaven

The Kingdom of God is the state of true perception where every word of God (ourselves included!) is heard well. It is a realm where all personal entities will find their most fulfilling existence. It is the state where there are no vices, only virtues, and therefore there is only perception of the good.

It is the entering into the true Sabbath Rest in Jesus.

Practical Application:

In baptism God (Who is Love) gives us His Holy Spirit to live within us.  Holy Spirit births the virtues in us,  (these are known as the fruits of the Spirit -love, joy, peace, patience, kindness etc...) and these comprise our spiritual body.  Along with this, at our baptism our flesh (ie our tendency to vices) is crucified with Christ. From this point on we 'put on Christ' and choose to continue to co-operate with him, allowing God to continue to birth the virtues in us and deal with our fleshly nature.

As we remain in this state of grace, pursuing the goodness of God, we are in a position to experience the 'Body of Christ' or 'Kingdom of God', the realm of coinherence where we can participate in intimate communion with God and our brothers and sisters.

As the Kingdom of God is not part vice, part virtue, we cannot have a spiritual body that is part vice, part virtue.  Harbouring any vice will sabotage our spiritual body, and prevent us from experiencing the Kingdom of God.

Definitions:

The Kingdom of God/ Kingdom of Heaven: is the ultimate medium for existence as Christians - As the physical realm is to the physical body, so the spiritual realm is to the spiritual body.  But for Christians it is only the good spiritual realm - only the realm of virtues (the fruit of the Spirit).  Like a fish needs water to live in, Christians need to live in the virtue-thick space that is the Kingdom of God.

Spiritual Body/Virtue Body: is a body comprised of virtues (ie the same stuff as the Kingdom is comprised) that can maintain our human reality and allow us to commune with God and others within the Kingdom of God.

Born again/Born of the Spirit: the act of receiving a spiritual body at baptism.  This provides us with citizenship through birth not adoption. We must be birthed of the Holy Spirit to enter the Kingdom, as flesh and blood cannot enter it.  Jesus in the flesh was the 'fruit (karpos) of Mary's womb' and 'the fruit of David's loins'.  The birthing of the Holy Spirit the fruiting (karpos) of the Holy Spirit, the birthing of the virtues. 

Assertions:

As God is only good, and his fruit is only good, so the Kingdom of God is a realm of only goodness of only virtue.

As with the Eden analogy, using the Garden of Eden as a type of the Kingdom of God, Adam and Eve were expelled for awareness of both good and evil. They died on the day they took of the tree of knowledge of good and evil - they did not experience the immediate death of their physical bodies, but rather of their spiritual bodies, and as a consequence were no longer able to exist in Eden.

We must allow God to internally judge us (ie to divide the good from the evil within us).  It is Jesus words to us that judge and divide us, even as his words clean us that we may bear more fruit.  Taking the 'sheep and goat' analogy, God must separate the sheep from the goats within us.  Taking the 'fire' analogy we must all be judged within allowing the fire of God to destroy that which is not eternal within us.  This is not to see whether we get into the Kingdom or not, this is to divide and remove that which prevents us from entering the Kingdom.  If we do not allow him to continually wash us and provide us with a garment of virtue, we cannot enter his realm.

There is both a present and future tense to both the Kingdom of God (virtuespace) and to the spiritual body (virtuebody).  Whilst Paul talks in future tense of the spiritual body being received when we die, yet we die when we are born again of the spirit.  Paul and Peter speak of both the physical and spiritual body in terms of a tabernacle or as clothiing.  2 Peter is a key .  Jesus gave Peter the keys of the kingdom and in 2 Peter these keys are bequeathed to Peters flock. It is in putting on the garment of virtue, an entrance is provided to the Kingdom of virtue. As in heaven so on earth.

Summing Up:

The Kingdom is about positive holiness.  We cannot enter if we hold onto any darkness, we are like the monkey holding onto the nut, with its hand in the jar.  Until we let go of the nut we cannot get our hand out of the jar.  Unless we allow God to provide us with a pure garment we cannot enter the Kingdom.  We need to have the innocence and humility of children, and the Lord will delight to give us free rein within Virtuespace.

Inside we can experience what is not possible in an environment that is a mixture of both virtues and vices.  Inside we can experience communion with God and with our brothers and sisters without walls.  Instead of physical bodies defining who we are, we are defined by our distinctive and unique patterns of virtues.  Instead of physical bodies providing the bridge between us and our brothers and sisters, we will share in the communion of saints, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit touching each other through our shared intimacy with the fruit of the spirit.

We will experience again the depths of love and intimacy of the Primitive Church.