What does the Kingdom of God mean to you?

Miss Hepburn · Dec 4, 2009

What does the Kingdom of God mean to you?
I ask because I just left another Christian forum this morning with my mouth dropped because someone there stated clearly that it was the "church".
I respect people here.
Thank you,
Miss Hepburn

kestrel · Dec 4, 2009

I understand the kingdom of God not so much as a location or a group of people, but a way of acting according to God's will for the world.

Nomad · Dec 4, 2009

The kingdom of God is the rule of God over all creatures and things.

Psa 103:19 The LORD has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.

The kingdom of God is also the designation for the realm of salvation entered into at the new birth.

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

Joh 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Joh 3:7 Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

whirlwind · Dec 4, 2009

Miss Hepburn said:

What does the Kingdom of God mean to you?
I ask because I just left another Christian forum this morning with my mouth dropped because someone there stated clearly that it was the "church".
I respect people here.
Thank you,
Miss Hepburn

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He tells us what the Kingdom of God is.....

Luke 17:20-21 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

We are His kingdom....the King and His dominion.

samy · Dec 4, 2009

It seems to me that when we pray, "Thy kingdom come," and then pray, "Thy will be done" the second phrase is a prayer and a definition for the realization of the first phrase (epexegetical). "I pray Lord that your rule shall become effective in me as in every obedient heavenly creature." The kingdom of God appears to exist for me to the extent that I have bowed my knee to Him. But some will bow their knees from the position of disobedience and defeat, being defeated by His authority 1Cor 15:24-28, Phil 2:9-11. samy

Jimmy Engle · Dec 4, 2009

To me it would be something like the garden of Eden where we lived amongst God and we stayed under his authority all day every day

Miss Hepburn · Dec 4, 2009

Thank you, thank you.

Christina · Dec 4, 2009

Miss Hepburn said:
What does the Kingdom of God mean to you?
I ask because I just left another Christian forum this morning with my mouth dropped because someone there stated clearly that it was the "church".
I respect people here.
Thank you,
Miss Hepburn

Well miss Hepburn if you took this from my sight that wasnt what was said,
http://biblestudy.madmooseforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=1069

What was said is that many have said the kingdom of God came with Christ's death and resurrection. It was part of a question not a statement of belief !!!!!!!!!!!!

The question was then do you believe this. Or do you think he was the Key that opened the door to kingdom of God.

If your going to quote from my site I would appreciate you dont paraphrase.
If you took this from another site ... Then please ignore this post ...

Christina · Dec 4, 2009

Now to answer the question as I see it
Christ is the Power the key that opened the door to salvation to enter into the kingdom of God ..The kingdom of God has always existed. It is a growing living thing. that has and will encompass all things.

Mark 4:30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?

4:31 [It is] like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:

4:32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

However flesh and blood can not enter in to the kingdom of God

1Cr 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

The kingdom of God is coming here physically when Christ returns but for now we can spiritually be a part of it when we accept Christ and keep our minds and hearts turned toward him

Miss Hepburn · Dec 4, 2009

C-
I don't know anything about your site - now I see a blue link in your signature. Never noticed it before.

kay-gee · Dec 4, 2009

At any rate the kingdom is the church!

all the best...

gumby · Dec 4, 2009

Well to me the kingdom of god is going up to people that the world has abandoned and help them turn there life around for christ.

Miss Hepburn · Dec 5, 2009

Because it was brought to my attention to underline in my Bible how many times Jesus actually spoke about the Kingdom of God or Kingdom of Heaven -and that His mission was actually a healing mission and to bring the good news about the Kingdom of God -- I marched down to the Christian bookstore and bought some books on the subject, being a new Christian, written by theologians with doctorates. I had never been aware of these points. I hadn't a clue that not one person was not healed - whether from a distance or in a crowd of 1000's. Not one person was not healed! How wonderful is that?

I then had a deeper understanding as to what the Kingdom of Heaven meant - and what the principles of this Kingdom are - and about the King and what it is to be a citizen of this King or any Kingdom - about how a Kingdom works --a hard concept living in a Democracy!

How a King could send an Ambassador to, say, the Falkland Islands or St. Something in the Caribbean and that Ambassador has the full authority of the King himself. How cool is that!
(The centaurian understood military authority, that's for sure!)

How Paul had only to say he was a subject of Rome and some soldiers let him go. Period. Because he had rights being a subject of Rome! When you are the subject of a Kingdom. You are indeed under that authority ---if you accept it, that is. Like an inheritance -if you don't accept it, it sits and waits for you.

Never once in any readings did anyone anywhere refer to the Kingdom being the church. But rather an invisible Kingdom and within, of course - the Kingdom that we now can have that was originally given to Adam ---the first, original intention, if you will.

But, most are not aware of this, it is not commonly taught in the churches. So all the power it affords it's subjects/citizens/children - power to be happy, contend, healers, to have answered prayers --- our inheritance, our birthright since Jesus's death and resurrection...is still sitting - not being used -so to speak.

Like acting poor - when there is an inheritance appropriated for us waiting right there in the bank ---only to be made aware of and believed and thus accepted in it's entirety.

I just saved you all money - you probably don't have to buy the books now. Ha!

I have also discovered upon meeting fellow Christians that my enthusiasm as to finding all this out -is met with ridicule, intellectualizations, doubt, arguments and the like. And here I was thinking I was informing my brothers and sisters about something so fabulous!! Ha!

I never argue or debate about these things --I'm more of a reporter just telling you what I learned. I'm no scholar or scientist -so take it up with the auhors of the books. You'll get no debates from me!

And if someone, anywhere, wants to view this all differently - that's fine with me. I'd like to hear their views though.
I find Christians to be fascinating people bec they believe so many varied things under the same name!
Miss Hepburn

Jimmy Engle · Dec 5, 2009

Miss Hepburn said:
I find Christians to be fascinating people bec they believe so many varied things under the same name!
Miss Hepburn

I agree! The bible says one thing but people will come up with an unnumbered amount of interpretations for it....it can lead to some headache's and confusion.

gregg · Dec 5, 2009

this is so true and so great

Stumpmaster · Dec 6, 2009

JFB Commentary:

1 Corinthians 4:20.For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
The kingdom of God is not in word--Translate, as in 1 Corinthians 4:19 to which the reference is "speech." Not empty "speeches," but the manifest "power" of the Spirit attests the presence of "the kingdom of God" (the reign of the Gospel spiritually), in a church or in an individual (compare 1 Corinthians 2:1,4. 1 Thessalonians 1:5).

To me the kingdom of God is anything that God's power produces.
Luke 17:20-21
(20) And when He was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, He answered them and said, The kingdom of God comes not with observation:(21)Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

The kingdom of God has its throne in my heart. On this throne my Saviour Christ the King sits. Before the kingdom of God could be formed within me my heart had to yield to Christ from whose kingdom comes the life-changing power of the Gospel.

Romans 1:16
(16) For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
1Corinthians 1:18
(18) For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

whirlwind · Dec 6, 2009

Miss Hepburn said.....I have also discovered upon meeting fellow Christians that my enthusiasm as to finding all this out -is met with ridicule, intellectualizations, doubt, arguments and the like. And here I was thinking I was informing my brothers and sisters about something so fabulous!! Ha!

Welcome to being a servant of God. As you "discover," as the Spirit reveals His word to you and you share that understanding with others, as you are to do...you will meet with more of the above.

Ecclesiastes 1:18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Be patient, keep teaching and....be happy in knowing you are a child of God.

Miss Hepburn · Dec 6, 2009

Thank you Whirly, for the understanding and the verse and the encouragement. I laughed all the way through - how true you are, I'm finding out.

Do you know I went to a wedding, was asked how I was doing - I proceeded to say how I had been healed from a big problem, yada yada --Well, this woman 'ripped me a new one' -or tried to. Imagine I excitedly tell her I was healed and she attacks me!!! But, she realized she was being a jerk and as she was pulled away she did say, "But I'm happy for you!"
Just saw her again on TV - I know I'll have the chance to stand with her at a party and be my happy, smiling self again.

"Win 'em over with kindness I always say."

Miss Hepburn

Benoni · Dec 7, 2009

The kingdom of God is within you. Jesus walked in the kingdom of God. It is a place where we hear and walk with God daily.

Miss Hepburn · Dec 7, 2009

Benoni said:
The kingdom of God is within you. Jesus walked in the kingdom of God. It is a place where we hear and walk with God daily.

So would you say then that it is 'of the spirit' or 'dwells in the spirit' - the very thing that God 'is' - and in which we are to worship Him in? A place where He dwells?
Something Divine and to be aspired to - to seek with a full heart in the spirit?

Something intangible, invisible within, as our spirit is within? Yet, the place where the Father God lives and dwells eternally? (Now with Jesus at His Right Hand?)
A place that reigns over all, with us in dominion, here on this earth? As was the Original Intent ?

Huh?? LOL!

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