Introduction
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Subject of Streaming Media series is Kingdom of God
The subject matter is based on the teachings and parables of Jesus Christ as found in the New Testament section of the Bible. These teachings explain the Kingdom of God and a New Reality - a God based reality.
The name of the series is Kingdom of God. There are 15 main categories of information in this series. Each category in the series has sub sections and therefore a category may have one or more streaming media presentations. The categories in the series, to some extent, depend on each other by sequence. For example, category 2 (The model for a citizen) makes more sense after one has read or viewed category 1 (Citizens of the Kingdom). However, critical information has been made redundant throughout the series so it is possible to pick any category and understand the content if one has at least read or viewed the very first category (Citizens of the Kingdom). The uncompleted categories contain only a summary and are marked in both the HTML narrative as well as the streaming media as not complete. The categories are:
1. Citizens of the Kingdom
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The Kingdom of God is not of this physical dimension
Jesus Christ defines the Kingdom of God in terms of its citizens, what constitutes their reality and their behavior. His use of the term Kingdom of God was bewildering to many that listened to him. For example, Jesus said, "the kingdom of God is within you". He told a leading religious figure that "you must be born again". And based on his teachings the Apostle Paul said, "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God". So what was this strange talk? His followers were expecting the coming of a physical kingdom like the great kingdoms of history but administrated by God in the form of a Messiah and centered on the 12 tribes of Israel. But, when Jesus began his ministry he told his followers, "The kingdom of God is at hand". He later indicated that his death and following resurrection and ascension into Heaven would enable the manifestation of this kingdom. This must also have been confusing. For why would the Messiah come to die? Should not the Messiah be kingly, adorn him self in robes and a crown, and sit upon a throne and demonstrate endless power over others? And finally, and even harder to accept was that Jesus equated himself to God and said things like "He who has seen me has seen the Father". And, "No man comes to the Father except by the son". Jesus also said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. Such statements stagger the imagination and caused many of his followers to leave.
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The Kingdom of God and a New Reality
Many ask, "if there is an all powerful, all knowing, loving God why then does he not simply announce himself to everyone in the world". In point of fact God did just that. Not only that but God announced himself in a loving way, in the only way mankind could understand - in human form, as the person Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ provided an example of how humans should behave and enabled a New Reality that will change a believer's eternal destiny. This New Reality will align mankind to the purpose and plan of God. To live in the Kingdom of God, the citizen of the Kingdom must have the New Reality. Jesus characterized this New Reality in his teaching to his followers.
The Kingdom of God and the New Reality is the Gospel message
Jesus Christ is ruler of this kingdom consisting of citizen who are those that have taken on the New Reality. The kingdom is not of this world but became a reality after Jesus was crucified, dead and buried, rose triumphant from the grave, ascended into heaven, and sent the Holy Spirit to believers on the Day of Pentecost. This New Reality - citizenship in the kingdom of God - is not based on the physical universe as perceived by man. The things Jesus taught his disciples about the kingdom and citizenship - how to enter or live in the kingdom and how to live as good citizens of the kingdom - is the Good News (or Gospel) that he instructed his followers to preach to the entire world. But many Christian churches neglect the New Reality that must be adopted by those who wish to enter the kingdom, as well as the regenerative process that forms this New Reality in the human soul. Instead, they preach only the initial step of repentance from sin, the promise of eternal life and the belief that they have received the Holy Spirit. Also, many Christians do not know how to progress in the "spiritual" aspect of their faith, so they stagnate and never learn to manage the power of God in their lives and achieve victorious living. This web site ministry deals with just those sort of issues.
The citizens of the Kingdom have the New Reality
The whole issue of living life according to a New Reality which is enabled by Jesus Christ when he sends the Holy Spirit to a believer is honored more in words than an effectual manifestation of that New Reality. The entry of the Holy Spirit into a believer is an actual incarnation of God with the intention of changing the believer's current reality of life into a God based reality. This is an awesome thing! Really awesome! It is so awesome that if you just think about it, this event rivals the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ. We will get to the issue of sinful man and a Holy God. And from that perspective we will see that awesome is an inadequate term. We are looking at a phenomenon between God and man that rivals the creation of the universe. The transformation process, often called regeneration, is engineered by God from within the believer's soul and progresses the believer towards a state where the Will of God for that believer is reflected in the believers personal willing processes such that the believers mind and character become Christ like. Many Christians have heard about or read the terminology "Christ like" so often they appear to have grown immune to the meaning. Christ like means "Christ Like", not just a "little like" but identical in mind and character while yet being a unique individual. The new citizen walks in righteousness and hates sin. Citizenship in the kingdom as used here is living according to this New Reality - a reality that makes us "Christ Like".
The citizen of the Kingdom is a member of the Body of Christ
There is a tie in between this New Reality, the Body of Christ, oneness with God, eternal life, love, grace, obedience, and service to God along with characteristics such a freedom, patience, long suffering, peace, joy, charity, and other qualities and gifts from God. But two things above any other distinguish that one has obtained citizenship. These are the demonstration of Gods Love expressed in the fellowship of believers and a victorious life. This is a special kind of fellowship, not the camaraderie often found in this world, not the caring for others where you would lay down your life for them, but we speak of a fellowship having divine dimensions and consequences. It is more than a relationship it is a joining of spirits, and mind, and character into what is called the Body of Christ and is a key part of this New Reality. Ample evidence exists in Christendom today that many who call themselves Christians do so in name only and do not have that New Reality in any kind of mature way. They are falling short of the glory of God and lack victorious living. Many seem to confuse intellectual and emotional expression in their lives with the New Reality. Many confuse a church or denominational affiliation with the New Reality. Many worship the Bible and not the God of the Bible. And worst of all, many worship their own selves and not the God that created them. And this is a very sad trap to be caught in. For human feelings and thought processes are tremendous forces. But Jesus clarified the whole situation and said, that we have this New Reality when we love (the love of God) one another and implied is that we love one another in a "Christ Like" way, like he loves. Otherwise it is not the love of God we experience it is simply man's natural love that we express.
Proof of citizenship in the Kingdom
Words from the lips of man are only sounds and repeating words and scriptures will not prove one has citizenship. We must confess, and that implies experience, that God is all and we live not for ourselves but only for God, else we are not living in the kingdom. This is critical to understand. And Jesus Christ is the only one that can enable that transformation of reality. Those outside the kingdom, non-believers and believers in word only, should be influenced by their experience of Gods Love as they encounter it in the lives of members of the Body of Christ. This love is manifest for them to experience in the fellowship of believers. They should experience this love first hand when they encounter a believer active in the fellowship. Those in churches who call themselves Christians may not be in the fellowship for they may not be living in the New Reality. It is this fellowship called the Body of Christ, united by the one Holy Spirit that brings a non-believer into the New Reality. For the Body of Christ is the incarnation of God in each of the members of the fellowship. And it is Love, as expressed in the fellowship, which is Gods chosen means of calling and redeeming the non-believer unto Himself.
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The Kingdom of God is a place
This kingdom is also a place in Heaven that Jesus Christ prepared for believers. Heaven is the so-called seat of God and encloses the vast physical universe of galaxies and stars. Jesus ascended upwards and beyond the physical reality we perceive. This place in Heaven that he prepared can only be accessed spiritually by believers. Many found such talk confusing and even more difficult to accept when Jesus made himself the focal point of the kingdoms existence and equated himself to God. Many today still do not comprehend this reality and dismiss it as a lot of good intentions of a fanciful thinker. The kingdom of God is not a place you go to when you die, it is a place you live in while you are alive, it is part of the New Reality. And when your body of flesh and corruption dies you will be where you always were, living in that New Reality. The difference is that that you are no longer dealing with the physical dimension and coping with the limitations of the sinful nature. Life in the physical dimension tends to fill the conscious mind with physical events and situations for which conscious decisions are needful. This process can detract from the New Reality. This is often a serious challenge to those who are young in the transformation process and have not learned how to exist in the physical dimension with the New Reality, which eventually integrates these concerns. When our body dies we say the soul has shed this body of corruption and our reward awaits us. However, that is only, if you had received the New Reality when you were alive. Otherwise you have got big problems. No church, no doctrine, nothing, can change the fact that you lived your life in the physical dimension without using that time to develop in the New Reality. You enter the process of physical death either in the New Reality or not. The perspective is eternal death or eternal life. These are choices you make in the here and now. And you will have to live with those choices. If a person who professes to have this new reality and has not experienced the incarnation of God in their soul (for Jesus sends the Holy Spirit to the believer) then they are deceived. They may look forward to Heaven but if they have not received the Holy Spirit, the incarnation of God into their soul, then they are not developing in the New Reality. This escapes many. The idea is foreign to their minds that the New Reality connects us to a spiritual place or state of being and that it must be experienced here and now if we are to inherit it upon physical death. In many ways Jesus taught the importance of what we are now and the impact on our eternal welfare. We are basically the reality we develop into and the success we achieve in working out that reality. The Bible says that we must work out our salvation with fear and trembling. Regardless of the meaning of these words it is very clear that we must be diligent in applying ourselves towards the development of the New Reality. And contrary to the opinion of many so called believers, there are dangers to our eternal welfare if we do not proceed with diligence. It is all too easy to set aside this task and challenge and simply tell ourselves that we believe so we have at least in some portion the New Reality. But in point of fact, if we believe, then we would be diligent about this matter, and would strive every moment of our existence to develop in that New Reality. But if we just deceive ourselves, then we will not take the task or challenge seriously by making it the most important thing in our lives. It is a puzzle how so many can profess belief and not live that belief. Why would anyone want to waste his or her time and energies in such a contradiction. For they only fool themselves and others about them but not the God whom they profess to seek. But these sorts should not be confused with the immature in the New Reality or those that are deprived of fellowship and leadership of those mature in the New Reality. For the immature will also demonstrate behavior that is contradictory but their intent is set upon God and they need only guidance to advance in the New Reality. These are the ones for whom this web site ministry is dedicated.
Most don't enter the kingdom of God
Our lord has prepared great things for those of us who live in the New Reality. These things have not been revealed because our current challenge is to increase the Body of Christ and grow in the New Reality. However, it is obvious that the creative process in this regard leaves more people stuck in sin and a world of contradictions, turmoil, and pain than those who make it into the New Reality. So much so that it causes people to wonder; "why would a loving God create such a situation?". Some in great self-indulgent pride exclaim that they would rather live in "eternal death" than serve a God that in their opinion has made a painful mess of everything. This single question stops many from developing the willingness to accept Jesus Christ as their mediator into the New Reality of oneness with God and fellowship of the saints. But these positions are just a big excuse that makes sense to the human sinful reality that all men are born into. Man is so equipped intellectually and emotionally that he can find reasons to justify or reject any course of actions he so desires. And by the time he figures out he is wrong it is too late. History is a testimony to this fact.
Worshippers of oneself cannot enter the kingdom
Man in his worship of himself often takes the position that because he does not understand something then it may not be valid - if something does not happen on his terms then he rejects it. Here man is worshipping his own natural intellect and emotional sensitivities. Therefore, man who acts in this fashion is putting his own judgement capabilities above God and violating the original creative feature of living in obedience to God - faithful living - actions from the Will of God and often beyond any real understanding. The New Reality fosters actions of obedience to God's Will as expressed by the Holy Spirit for our benefit and the benefit of the Body of Christ and for the benefit of mankind at large. Our service should be characterized by "blind" obedience to the Will of God and our willing processes should be aligned to this Will of God incarnate within us and as it expresses within us every living moment. A man that worships himself cannot enter the Kingdom of God for he considers himself rich already. One has to consider themselves poor and in need of help and become humble and innocent like a little child prepared to listen to their parent. And then they must learn to trust their parent even if the world about them makes no sense. This must be our attitude or we will never be "raised" as a child of God and we will never receive the New Reality and undergo the transformation to be "Christ Like". The key to growth in the New Reality is therefore obedience to the Will of God incarnated in our soul. Obedience here does not mean following rules and templates of action as much as it means listening and obeying the incarnation of the Divine Will as directing our every willing process. It is this obedient relationship that moves forward the transformation into the New Reality.
Experiencing the love of God draws one into the kingdom
It is the love of God manifest in the Body of Christ that must first convince a non-believer to engage in this transformation. It is not reason that will convince someone to believe. It is the experience of encountering the love of God as expressed in those that have the New Reality. The mind of the natural man struggles to discover meaning in life and to form models to help explain and predict everything from how the universe works to how man behaves. But such efforts inevitably fall short of their intended purpose and man has been unable to form models that provide absolute answers in all given situations. This is because man thinks in terms of the creation within which he discovers himself. This makes his efforts at explaining things and developing models a flawed process. For the terms man perceives as defining the physical dimension are not adequate to comprehend God. But it is possible to experience God because man was made with the aptitude to "know" or "sense" God, that is knowledge not by physically touching or seeing or hearing but knowledge that is compared to that. It is not a sense like the sense of touch or sight but is compared to that. We talk about an interface that spans the physical dimension and the dimension beyond the physical, the spiritual. If we approach this concept from the physical it makes no sense for the physical mentality perceives only the physical, it cannot go beyond anything it cannot put into physical terms. But if we approach this concept from the perspective that all dimensions of existence - including the so called physical dimension - cohere and have their very being in the spiritual dimension then the interface is quite simple to understand. From this perspective, creation of any dimension of existence is compared to dreams that man comes up with in his sleep or visions within his physical mind. It is something akin to thought and will that form a dimension. While the self is locked in that dimension the terms of it's creation hold the self captive to seeing itself in a perspective dictated by those terms and conditions. Many when they dream or daydream get locked into the terms and conditions of existence in that dream and cannot escape. But some can transcend the Dream State and see themselves in their dream and can break away from the dream and their part in it and awake. In a way dreams parallel our existence in this physical dimension. Our very being reflects the principles of creation. And just as in a dream it is often difficult to break free of the terms and conditions of that dream, so it is the case with living in this physical dimension that has its being in spirit. Man is caught up in the terms and conditions of the "dream", the dimension he finds himself locked into. As long as he strives to define his existence in the terms of that "dream" or dimension he is captive to the rules and conditions of the "dream". He can only break free of the "dream" if he sees himself as being able to transcend those terms and conditions. And so it is that exposure to the love of God breaks through the mind given to obedience to the terms and conditions of the Dream State - if we dare call it that. The experience of the love of God, that is God incarnate in others, is the key that unlocks the mystery of our separation where we realize that we can transcend that "dream". However, it is not as simple a situation as a human dream. We find ourselves in a dimension created by the mind, the will and thoughts of the Divine, not a human or animal dream state. But there are many parallels in this to that of a dream and it is the love of God as we experience it in those already developing in the New Reality that keys our mind to the purpose and plan of God for each of our lives. Man must literally give up himself in order to find himself. Man must literally be prepared to give up everything that he has both materially, intellectually, and emotionally in order to receive what God has prepared for him. Man must learn to prize God above all else or he cannot advance in the New Reality. As in a dream, we must be prepared to give it up entirely or we will not escape the terms and conditions of the dream. The world is like it is, not because God is a clumsy creator, but because he created man with the potential to become a god and that great prize implies free will, as well as authority, and power to exercise that free will. This is the great dilemma, how to create gods, co-workers with free will who will freely server the greater interests of the creation process. Within this statement lies the great mystery of good and evil, how and why it exists and how everything is finally under the final sovereign authority of God the Father. But it is a mystery that is sealed until Jesus Christ has put all things under his authority, at which time the great mystery of good and evil will be revealed. It all started in the Garden of Eden and regardless of how you interpret that story it is intended to point out that man is a fallen creature and the offspring of man are born into that fallen nature.
It is my view that the horrible painful and violent things in life exist for the glory of God. This seems at first like a contradiction to the notion that God is love. But it can be explained. The first step in coming to God is to see these events and situations as outcomes of a sinful nature. These things grow out of decisions made by sinful man. It is also my view that the entire planet is a life system, which therefore includes man. As such the decisions of man affect this whole life system. Also by definition, God has nothing to do with sin and its expression in free will. Nor will God intervene in these consequences for to do so is to reward such behavior. And by definition God cannot punish free will expression, only allow it to take on its natural consequences. These events and situations - used as excuses to not obey God are consequences of free will and by their existence prove to mankind that the nature of life in the physical dimension is predatory to the point that it is self-destructive. Mankind must learn the hard way that to disobey God is self-destructive. If you consistently pursue the logic of free will and its exercise you will see that it is a contradiction to interfere by force. Although that will eventually have to happen as man is rapidly approaching the point of total annihilation and there will be no other alternative but forceful intervention. Mankind will get to a point in all of this that all will cry out for God to save them from themselves. And therein is God glorified for the creation has returned voluntarily to its creator. The victims of starvation, deprivation of necessities, torture, and violence of man in the form of wars and upheavals of nature, will upon death "sleep" as the Bible puts it. Christ will judge them. I have no revelation on this nor does the Bible clarify the matter. But it may be that when the Kingdom of God is established on this earth, those spirits suffering "eternal death" may be given an opportunity to again enter a transformed physical dimension. But it is clear their soul - their identity, mind, and character, will be destroyed in a process of "eternal death". If this is true they will have to start all over - born in sin, but outside the great city of God and the New Reality will not be automatically part of them. This makes some sense to me based on my understanding of the Bible but most Christians today take the passage "It is accounted unto man once to die and then the judgement ", to mean the those who do not know God through Christ will be judged and sentenced to everlasting death. My view right now is yes and no as I have already explained. Certainly the soul that was created when we entered this physical dimension will die. And according to scripture, "fear not he that can destroy your body but fear him that can destroy you soul in hell". If what you are as a unique individual is contained in the soul, and that soul meets the death process without the New Reality, then it is a merciful act to destroy that soul and save the spirit in some way. In which case, the best possible scenario is that everything that makes you what you are as you consciously understand it right now will be destroyed and that destruction is both painful and eternal in character. Reincarnation as taught by some other religions is not reality, it is just a pipe dream planted in mans mind to relieve him of the anxiety of worrying about the death process. You can just start over again is not valid either for the Christian or the believer in reincarnation. You will die if you enter the death process without the New Reality. You will not have another change. "You " is your soul and without Christ, you are lost and condemned to "eternal death". However, the predatory violence will end when Jesus Christ has brought all things into the New Reality and the Kingdom of God is established physically on this earth. Thereafter, world affairs and events both natural and political will occur under his authority. For the physical world will not pass away but will be transformed.
Dealt with in another series there is the complication introduced into all of this by "principalities and powers that are not of this world" with which we struggle against when the New Reality develops in a Christian soul. The Bible teaches that man is not alone in being disobedient to God. The Bible teaches that there are angels fallen from their high estate just as man fell from the perfection of the initial creation. In both cases we have perfection containing free will. And when free will decisions go against the Will of God (purpose and plan of God overall and for each individual) then imperfection results and must be transformed no matter how long it takes. And, of course, as already covered there are awful consequences to disobedience because disobedience does not act in the higher interest of creation. As the Holy Spirit can incarnate the soul so also can the spirits of these disobedient angels, now called daemons, incarnate the soul of man. It may sound like a contradiction to say that which was perfect became imperfect and from a word usage that is true. What is really meant is that the creative process of God regarding free will in an individual concluded in the best possible way it could. For, by definition the meaning of free will is the ability to decide in any manner whatsoever.
There are a number of key words that get used in the Bible and for which someone not having familiarity with the Bible may get confused. Some have already been used but without defining what they mean. Sin is one word. Jesus taught forgiveness of sins if one would repent. But sin is deeply ingrained for sin in its most basic definition is disobedience to the Will of God, not just with respect to specific laws of conduct but also in terms of our motivations, and even less obvious the moment by moment decision making of the human soul. The natural man lives according to a reality that deems the material physical world that we experience with the 5 senses as all in all. In this natural reality man pursues various survival strategies all basically predatory in character. The mind and character based upon this reality is enmity to God because it is predatory and self indulgent in characteristics and man rules his own soul and not God so most actions are disobedient to God's Will and purpose for the individual. So sin is universal to natural man who thinks and behaves in a manner similar to the rest of the animal world. The only real difference is man lives in a much more ordered existence called civilization where instincts, passions, lusts, greed, violence, and other natural characteristics are suppressed and replaced with "socially correct" behavior. But the motivations are still the same. For inherently man is aggressive and self-seeking, the highest predator in the food chains. Here is a basic principal. Any action undertaken as an act of the will in order to serve the self first or self only is a predatory action. Therefore, it does not take much to understand how wars, business deals, sports events, and most human activities are but disguised forms of predatory actions. Any predatory action whatsoever is sin. While we eat and another somewhere starves because we eat first then we sin. If another lives in squalor and deprivation because we live in comfort first then we sin. If we are making a supreme effort to change this and we must eat although someone somewhere is starving then we are not sinning. And so it goes. Are we acting out predatory attitudes or are we acting out of responsible use of our resources for which we are to consider ourselves stewards. And so it also goes with spreading the good news of the kingdom, are we receiving the New Reality and not also giving it? For by definition, to have the New Reality is also to share it because the love of God is the bringing of creation into harmony with His Will - His purpose and plan overall and for all individuals. And as Jesus taught, he would not turn the other way from the hungry, the poor, and the desolate.
Sin therefore is separation from God. Because of this separation man cannot comprehend God or directly know God in any way. The Bible teaches that such separation implies eternal death. God by definition is Holy meaning that He is consistent and by definition of sin cannot associate in any way with that which is sin. God is also eternal life. God is eternal but the word "life" in the term "eternal life" means creating and growing like fruit in an orchard or garden. The word death in the term "eternal death" is the opposite of "eternal life" and it means decomposing and destroying.
The Bible also teaches that all things were created in God, and since God is spirit, all things are spiritually based and cohere as a creation with the substance of spirit. Spirit is the "substratum" of that which is created. The universe and man and his part in the universe are part of the creation. Any intelligence in the creation perceives itself in terms of the creation as detected by the sensors of that intelligence. Man is more than just an intelligent life form that distinguishes him from other forms in the so-called physical creation. Man has a spirit and enters this created dimension as a spirit, soul and a body. The soul is the combination of spirit, mind, character, and body. But the spirit of man is a unique creation and that uniqueness is expressed in the overall character and mind of the soul. When the soul is born the spirit is bound to it - only God can split them apart.
One of the objectives in creating man was to create a being of free will that was a spirit as God is a spirit and give the human spirit a means of expression in this physical dimension as a soul. The soul therefore is a creation born in flesh according to the natural world and therefore born in sin. When the body dies the soul does not as it is an intrinsic expression of the spirit, which is eternal. The soul is as personal as man can be for it is the derivative of a human life which is born and which dies just like any animal. But unlike animals, the soul lives on in whatever state it has developed into. This is where the concept of salvation comes into play. Since the soul is personal (by any human definition of personal) God must somehow, in a personal way, make it possible for that soul to adopt a New Reality, else it will suffer "eternal death" for that is the consequence of sin.
God cannot do this himself for God the Father in whom all life coheres cannot associate with sin as a person. Nor can man born in sin by means of the carnal natural mind ever understand, comprehend, or form a personal relationship with God. So there is an impasse. God the Fathers creative purpose for man is as a co-worker in the work of creation. So how can this be enabled? Through a mediator, there is no other way! God is by definition, plural in nature while being the one true God. God is one but several persons as viewed from the perspective of man and the notion of the word personal. Whenever the word personal is used it is for the benefit of mans perception. God is therefore defined as 3 persons, as much persons as any human can be a person (individuality, freedom of will, and so on) except the Christian speaks of divine individuality jointly with divine oneness. These are all limitations in human speech - words, which try to model the Divine in terms of the creation. But God is experienced by the Christians developing in the New Reality and also described by Jesus Christ in this way of 3 persons. Therefore, from experience and teachings we get the Godhead consisting of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. God the Father created all things through God the Son. God the Father manifests His power of creation through God the Holy Spirit. The 3 divine persons work in harmony with God the Father as sovereign over this divine fellowship. The Will of the Father is manifest in the person of God the Son and manifests in creative power as God the Holy Spirit. But all 3 are equal while being one God. The son only does the Will of the Father and the Holy Spirit manifests the power of creation under direction of the Son. Christians can speak to all 3 together or individually for collectively they are one and of one accord in all things as should be Christians. A personal experience with God then is enabled by Jesus Christ as the Son of God by sending the Holy Spirit who merges with our spirit and manifests energy within out soul to reconcile our willing process to the willing process of God the Father. This is the power of a Christian and this is how Christians are regenerated and transformed into the likeness of Christ. It is an act of God, incarnate, in our soul but requires our cooperation so we must consciously and continuously as an act of our will, submit our willing process to the energy of the Holy Spirit. When this happens we are citizens in the Kingdom of God.
In order to bridge the impasse of man's limitations God the Son took human form as Jesus Christ - God Incarnate, God with us. This set the stage for a fantastic creative process that would reconcile sinful man to a Holy God. God as man, the Son of Man, who was righteous (obedient to the Will of the Father in Heaven) and according to prophecy, paid the penalty of sin for all mankind. He did this by entering the process of human death and experiencing or confronting the eternal death syndrome. But then he transcended this state as Son of God. He formed a "bridge" or "link" or "channel" or "process", or simply a "way", that connected to a place he prepared for those that would renounce sin and the carnal physical reality as absolute and undergo a regeneration to a New Reality to become citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. Then after his resurrection and on the Day of Pentecost he sent the Holy Spirit to believers and has continued to do so till this day.
There are various Biblical terms that describe Jesus Christ in the role of mediator but they all add up to the same definition. Without Jesus Christ man is lost. Salvation from eternal death is possible by forming a personal relationship with God the Father through His only begotten son. There is only one name under Heaven whereby we can be saved. Eternal life through oneness with an eternal God is enabled by a merger of the Holy Spirit with our spirits. And as a fellowship exists within the oneness and plurality of persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (called the Godhead), so also a plurality of eternal fellowship exists within the oneness and plurality of persons in the Body of Christ. And it is the reality of this joint fellowship that constitutes the Kingdom of Heaven and describes its citizens.
The concept of a reality of existence or dimension other than the dimension of the physical universe as perceived by our fleshly body is dismissed by many. This is why so many, both at the time Jesus walked this earth to the present time, can not pursue the teachings of Jesus Christ. For these people, it is even harder to accept the notion that the so-called physical dimension is enclosed within what is called a spiritual dimension. And harder yet, it is difficult for them to believe that there can be a connection between the two dimensions. This is a difficult subject to discuss but you will find it dealt with on this web site in the first section of the web page "testimony.html". The bottom line is that there are those that intuitively comprehend the spiritual basis of life and there are those who can not. Jesus spoke in parables and analogies so as to appeal to those that could understand without entering into confusing debates about fundamental issues defined by ones reality. The problem lies in how we think and perceive life, which is how we establish reality, and this is also dealt with on the same web page.
We find ourselves in the midst of a creative process the character of that has been preordained from the beginning of time when God created the dimensions of life. The ability to adopt a reality that transcends the purely physical has been compared to a caterpillar becoming a beautiful butterfly. In this creative process Jesus Christ is the first of many to obtain victory over the limitations of the flesh that result in eternal death. He enables our progress towards the same goal he has achieved so that we may become partakers of eternal life. As such we also become co-workers with Him under the sovereignty of God in completing the creative process. The reality of the kingdom of God is the focal point for the creative process at its current stage.
Who are citizens of the Kingdom of God and who are not? The book of Matthew uses the expression Kingdom of Heaven instead of Kingdom of God so it must at times have been referred to in both ways. This Kingdom is here and now. The requirement to become a citizen of the Kingdom is to believe that Jesus Christ is God Incarnate, to repent from a life of sin and then Jesus Christ will send the Holy Spirit to the believer. By that means we become one with God where our unique spirit and identity is bound to His unique Holy Spirit and identity. This then sets up a relationship where the Holy Spirit begins to teach us how to become like Jesus Christ, that is Christ like in mind and Christ like in character. A transformation sets in to regenerate us so that we have the mind and character of Jesus Christ - God's model for man to become an eternal being and co-worker.
Sin and its impact on the mind and character of man and the resultant separation of communion between man and God is also covered in the web page "testimony.html". One cannot really appreciated the saving work of Jesus Christ unless they also understand the concept of sin, how it results in eternal death, and how Jesus Christ can save us from this situation and help us enter into eternal life.
2. The model for a citizen
The model that Jesus Christ sets for believers is oneness with God, strict obedience to the Will of God as expressed through that oneness, and loving acts of service to God. Service to God takes the form of obedience to the ongoing directions He gives our lives as we help fellow believers called Christians mature in this relationship and help non Christians to find their way towards this relationship. But in doing this we are often directed to help in crisis situations involving children, the poor and hungry, the injured, diseased, sick, and suffering regardless of who they are and where they live. To deny such help is to deny God and to grant such help is service to God.
3. Obedient behavior of the citizen
Obedience is not adherence to a set of general actions (as a lot of Christians seem to think) as much as it is a transformation of our personal willing process so that it reflects the Will of god in each and every situation in life we face - small or large. Therefore it is a dynamic obedience but in conformity to general guidelines as found in the Bible. It is learning to obey in this very personal manner that is the challenge to all believers and actions that do not come out of this obedience reflect immaturity in the goal of full oneness with God. There are many that wrongly think that by attending church and doing good works and professing God they have satisfied the requirement of obedience. Jesus said that many will call Him Lord but will not know Him. This is because one cannot know God or be one with God without giving up their entire self and possessions to Him. This means that His will is reflected in all our willing processes and all that we are or own belongs to Him. We freely give ourselves as slaves to His Will and are only stewards of anything we possess and are accountable to Him for that stewardship.
4. Reality transformation of the citizen
The transformation or regeneration process alters the sense of reality of a believer into one that is God based and not natural based. The new reality is one that is supportive of the human soul as opposed to one that is predatory and violent and self consumed in self aggrandizement, carnal pleasures, greed, preoccupation with power, status, wealth, money, material possessions, and activities that feed the pleasures of dominance, violence and sexual lust.
5. The natural reality and eternal death rejected by the citizen
In bible terms the natural reality is given over to sin which results in disobedience and separation from God and finally eternal death. Jesus came to save us from this eternal death and make it possible for us to gain eternal life through oneness with God. A citizen of the Kingdom of God has established this oneness which is itself Eternal Life and has turned from sin to obedience to God to realize the purpose of being a co-worker in the on going creative process of God.
6. How the citizen thinks about God
Jesus taught the concept of the Godhead - God manifest as 3 persons that is three different ways. Jesus taught that God is a caring Heavenly Father and is also the creator of all things through the (Living) Word of God - not to be confused with the Bible which is the written Word of God. Jesus Christ is the (Living) Word of God and is the second member of the Godhead. It was the (Living) Word of God who became flesh and dwelt among us as Jesus Christ the long awaited Messiah of the Israel nation. He was expected by many to establish a physical kingdom on this earth and be the crowned ruler. But Jesus said of himself that he came to save the world and he established a spiritual kingdom. For declaring that He was God Incarnate and teaching about the Kingdom of God from that perspective He was according to Old Testament prophesy, crucified, buried, dead for 3 days, and rose from the dead and took on a glorified body. The third member of the Godhead is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is God's way of revealing Himself within His creation and specifically to man. On the day of Pentecost the risen and ascended Jesus Christ sent the initial outpouring of the Comforter - the Holy Spirit - that would stay with those that believe He is the Christ, both son of man and son of God, sent to be our salvation and our king. At the time this outpouring occurred Jesus Christ had ascended into Heaven to be on the Right Hand of God - a position of authority. From there he mediates on our behalf as we work out with the Holy Spirit our salvation, our growth in oneness, as our soul becomes transformed in His image. Christ as mediator involves the sacrifice of his life on our behalf, the sending of the Holy Spirit, and the way He enables oneness between God the Father and sinful man.
7. Citizenship and oneness with God
Only God can regenerate us in His image for only He understands how to do this but we must participate in this transformation process otherwise it does not progress fully. Being one with God is being one with Life Eternal for God is Eternal. Therefore the Holy Spirit binds us to God and by virtue of that we have eternal life. This is also what we call a "personal" relationship with God. I will explain. All things that have been created exist and have their very being in God but this is not a "personal" relationship, it is a relationship of the created to the creator, it is the Creator who formed the creation. Also, God is spirit. God is not the creation but He is the source of its existence, it coheres or holds its form in Him who is spirit. God who is spirit means He is not understandable in the terms in which the creation understands itself. Man thinks, models his universe, defines his sciences, and speaks in the terms of the creation for he is part of the creation. It is God who gives rise to the form without being the form. Therefore natural man cannot comprehend of know God and the creations of the natural mans mind and character reflect this inability. But Jesus Christ transcended this condition on behalf of man and establishes a personal relationship with God by means of sending the Holy Spirit. In this relationship God is our Heavenly Father. Man is a created being. This aspect of a personal relationship between God and man came with Jesus Christ and is enabled by Jesus Christ when he sends to the believer the Holy Spirit.
8. Citizenship enabled by mediation of Jesus Christ
It is very important to identify the mediation Jesus performs on behalf of the believer. It is a simple concept yet to many complex and hard to fathom. For it is this mediation that enables citizenship. It was necessary for Jesus who was without sin to die to recover our sinful natures from the prospect of eternal death. Because the consequence of sin is separation from God and the consequence of that separation is eternal death then it is necessary to somehow reconcile man to God in spite of the sinful nature of man. This is referred to in the Bible as God reconciling man to his self. For this to happen God sent the (Living) Word of God (son of God) into this dimension we know as our physical universe to become incarnate as man (son of man) and dwell among men to be a model of behavior, a teacher, and a sacrifice. By sacrifice is meant the means whereby the gulf is bridged between sin and a Holy God. God cannot himself be part of sin (by virtue of its definition -separation from God and disobedience to God - as well as its character being at odds with His plan and purpose for creation). This is not just symbolism. Sacrifice in the Old Testament was symbolism representing the coming of Christ and demonstrating that God and sin were at odds to each other and it would require a sacrifice - a means to bridge that situation and somehow reconcile man to God. This is why the purpose of Jesus Christ in the purpose and plan of creation was a prophetic event, because the need for reconciliation still existed. By dying in the place of sinful man, Jesus as son of man had to face the consequence or penalty of sin, which is separation from God and eternal death. But what made Jesus special was He was also son of God. As the Son of God he could use his divine nature and power to take the creative step that would transcend this consequence of eternal death. But man to yet be sinful and achieve oneness with God can only achieve this by he who had already done that - Jesus Christ. Man cannot do this on his own. In addition, Jesus thereafter prepared a place that where he is we may be also. That place is the Kingdom of God. And he enables oneness in spite of our sinful natures by means of sending the Holy Spirit. So by these things we declare that Jesus is our savior. But in return He expects that we turn (repent) from sin and begin the regeneration process where we will become like Him who is without any sin.
9. Citizenship and righteousness
Every believer is bound to God through the Holy Spirit. By believing that Jesus Christ sacrificed His life, shed His blood, was unjustly crucified and buried by sinful men, and rose again so that we might have eternal life we take on the position before God the Father as "righteous". We are righteous only because God the Father views us no longer in terms of our sin, our disobedience to His will. But God the Father views us through Christ - that is Christ is our mediator and the righteousness of Christ is like clothing that covers our nakedness - our sinful character. So God the Father sees us as belonging to Christ and one with Him through Christ and therefore citizens of the Kingdom of God. Again, this is not symbolic or double talk. We are literally one with God through Jesus. Jesus is in the middle. Jesus sends the Holy Spirit (the third person of the Godhead) as a result we are one with God the Father through the Holy Spirit. Jesus prepared a place, the Kingdom of God which is spiritual in character - it is where the human soul will go after physical death and where we as believers are now spiritually under the sovereign rule of Almighty God the Father. Also, Jesus is the (Living) Word of God - the second person of the Godhead. As such Jesus is the interface between the creation and God the Father and we are part of the creation. Jesus the (Living) Word of God works together with the Holy Spirit and our progress in reaching a full oneness is constantly considered with God the Father and tested until the day we reach the perfection of Jesus Christ. As such he is also called our intercessor and High Priest.
An aside note to all of this is that someday there will be on this earth a physical counterpart to the spiritual Kingdom of God where the citizens are righteous as Christ is righteous and the sovereign rule of God the Father applies. Jesus in a "glorified body" ascended into the physical heavens and disappeared to be with God the Father from where he had come. But Jesus also walked through walls not as a magician but as the (Living) Word of God, the creator of the universe, the second person of the Godhead in a resurrected and glorified physical body. Before His death and resurrection He ruled over the elements and He showed this same power after His resurrection. These things take us into the realm of "mystery" not yet fully revealed to man. Is there a place in the heavens where a glorified physical dimension already exists and will this transcend its current dimension of being and weld into ours instantly transforming everything into a glorified state of being.? There is no scientific fiction that can compare to the truth of the glory and power of God the creator. The only thing we know is that we will become as Jesus now is and become co-workers with Him. We know that He will return as he left. We know that the Kingdom of God will manifest physically in some form or dimension on the earth. And we know that we who believe now will be rulers with our Lord when He comes again.
10. Citizenship, the Body of Christ, sanctification and love
The phrase Body of Christ refers to the collective body of believers or Christians. Each believer if he has the Holy Spirit sent to him by Jesus is therefore an incarnation of God. Our bodies are called the Temple of the Living God. As such we are each considered a member of the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ is currently the physical manifestation of the Kingdom of God. There is only one Name under Heaven whereby man may be saved and that Name is Jesus Christ and for reasons already given. Each believer has God as the Holy Spirit incarnate in their soul and are therefore one with God who is Life Eternal. However those not so united with God risk eternal death as has already been explained. When man enters this dimension he is a "soul" having body and spirit with a mind, character or personality, and a heart or unconscious motivations. If man's body dies in sin, man is sealed in separation from a personal relationship to God. On the day Jesus returns he will judge all mankind from the very past to the time he returns. Only those who have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and savior will escape the condemnation of eternal death for they are already bound to eternal life through Jesus and the Holy Spirit. But even believers will be judged according to their good works. Also, notice that being made righteous in the eyes of God through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ is just the starting point for a believer. Ongoing sanctification, being regenerated to have the mind and character of Christ through the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer is the next stage. Believers must die to their sin and be made alive in Christ. Note also that God's main attribute is Love - so much so that God is said to be love. If then we the believer are one with God through the Holy Spirit, then all believers are one with each other through the Holy Spirit. There is only one Holy Spirit so all believers are so united and are literally one spiritually. But as the Body of Christ they must also behave as one. Each believer is a member or part of the body of Christ and provides a function to the collective membership. Most often when God calls a believer to do something other believers are concurrently called into associated actions. I call this concurrent and interdependent functionality. Without it occurring the victory Christians are to experience in their lives is severely limited.
11. Behavior fitting a citizen
Citizens of the Kingdom of God are expected to work together and support each other in acts of love to themselves and mankind at large. Our example, Jesus Christ teaches us that. In fact His example is a template of actions that show how God expects us to reveal his love in our behavior to others. Good citizens of the Kingdom of God are loving people and behave to people in much the same manner as did Jesus when he walked amongst us. Our growth in "oneness" begins with obedience, the very lack of which is the basis of our sinful nature. Obedient acts are behaviors we engage in on behalf of God and towards our fellow men and the body of Christ. The New Testament examples clearly provide us with templates of action and attitudes that we must take toward fellow believers and mankind at large.
12. Physical aspect of the kingdom
Not so clear, but frequently dealt with throughout the entire Bible is the aspect of the Kingdom of God having a physical presence as a physical kingdom and Jerusalem as it's Holy City. There are promises and prophecies and Jesus also provides some instruction on this aspect of the Kingdom of God. God also allows some nations to have preeminence over other nations and allows unbelievers to rule over believers.
Believers are to conduct themselves as citizens of the Kingdom of God at all times even when they are part of a nation or kingdom of nations not ruled by believers. In some cases believers have to choose obeying God as opposed to obeying wicked and anti Christ directives of a worldly government. But the Bible cautions us to always behave a citizens of the Kingdom of God - the spiritual kingdom. We are also told that as believers we are joint heirs with Christ. As we demonstrate the ability to increase our good works to influence mankind and help other Christians we demonstrate the ability to rule in the eventual establishment of a physical Kingdom of God. In other words, the most important thing we can learn to do in the here and now is to be obedient to God in the performance of His will as directed in our behavior to others. All acts of obedience to God are acts of Love for God is Love. But we must also learn our place, our function, and excel at that. God wants missionaries but may not call us to be one. God wants His people to do many different things in many different ways but done in obedience when He asks, as He directs. Not only that but we must be aware of concurrent interdependent functionality. We as believers must think in terms of oneness with God and oneness with the body of Christ.
13. Victorious life of the citizen
13.1 Concurrent Interdependent Functionality
Many true believers do not experience the power and victory that is supposed to accompany their life in Christ. There are many reasons for this but I think the single biggest reason lies in the fact that Christians as a whole do not have an awareness of concurrent interdependent functionality both at a spiritual level and at a behavioral level. Jesus said "when two or three believers agree on anything that it will be given unto them." I understand this has an underlying assumption that first the believers are acting in specific individual obedience to the leading of God's Holy Spirit. Second that these believers are concurrently being directed by God to join their life forces to that of the Holy Spirit as co-workers in God, and are to apply themselves in behavioral agreement and in total commitment to having something happen. Here we have at both a spiritual and behavioral level concurrent interdependent functionality. One of the things that get in the way of this spiritual and behavioral concurrent and interdependent functionality is denominationalism. Denominations tend to separate Christians as a unified body of believers. I don't believe God will reward behavior in any form that separates Christian unity or that inhibits growth in the mind and character of Christ. It is inevitable that places of worship will be separated by distances but on the other hand it is not correct loving behavior to say I will worship in this church with these believers but not in that church with those believers. I will support this church and it's believers but not that church and those believers because they are of a different denomination. That is the crack in the plaster on the wall. The crack runs right down the middle of the wall. There is this side and there is that side and no one crosses between. On a Sunday morning one group of believers assembles in the same small community as does another for a different church and again another group for yet a different church again. There is a mentality that goes with this segregation. It does not have to be there but it very often is. Note that even within a church there are cliques, small subdivision of those who are more comfortable with these persons but not those persons. This is an affront to the Holy Spirit. For God is no respecter of persons. God loves us all equally. Believers don't like to think that they are being this way because they know in their hearts that it is wrong to be this way. But the devil is relentlessly at work for we must be tested and tried before we can move on in our growth in the mind and character of Christ. God will NOT reward Christian behavior that is not functionally concurrent and interdependent obedience to His will otherwise He would be teaching us disobedience and not expressions of His love.
13.2 Concurrent Interdependent Functionality - an example
Take one simple example. Joseph is sick, very sick. He is only 45 and the doctors have told him he is dying of cancer. This sort of thing has happened before in this little church, they have a hard time keeping up their membership because people keep dying off from old age, disease, sickness, or accidents. This does not sound like a New Testament church where the lepers were healed, people with deformity were healed, the dead were raised, and people could not do enough for each other. In this little church they preach the gospel, read their bibles, attend bible studies, have several worship services a week, give to the church, and even help the poor now and then. They support missionaries, go to special evangelical outreach services and are real nice people and help each other in many ways. On the other hand, they have very little to do with any of the other churches and tend to form cliques amongst themselves and in their neighborhood, etc. So what is wrong here. Something is wrong. The Bible promises victory in our daily lives as Christians. The Apostle Paul was whipped, beat, stoned, tortured, and put in prison for teaching salvation in Christ. He even went hungry and thirsty. But he believed and experienced in his life victory. He had health and vitality for that is needed to serve others according to God's love. But Paul also got into some trouble because he did not heed the warnings given to him by God through other believers. He also noted that there were those that were sickly in certain congregations because of their behavior. Sin is sin. God cannot reward sin. We are cautioned in the King James Version of the Bible to work out our salvation in fear and trembling. That does not mean saying to our selves, "I don't know for sure if I am saved" or other such notions. It means we must fear - respect God as in total charge of our lives. Our lives as believers are no longer our own nor are our possessions any longer our own. We belong, lock, stock and barrel to our Lord and King. Everything belongs to God. We are given stewardship over certain things. We our bound to God as his slaves. Do this, and do it now. Do this, and do it then. Now do this. When Jesus picked his disciples he said, "Follow me". But as obedient slaves we find favor with God and enjoy his love and presence in our lives. Jesus Christ made it very clear. He could not make it any clearer. He said that others would know we were of God because we loved one another. It not only looks to unbelievers like we only love certain Christians and not others, it may be partially true. We give them a cause for their unbelief. That's not a good thing at all.
The bottom line here is obedient love for God and our fellow citizens of the kingdom. If we cannot manage that in both a spiritual and behavioral concurrent interdependent way then we lack a fundamental part of the vision that is required to work out our salvation in fear and trembling. The very thought that we might be lacking in this regard should cause us to literally tremble. For if we lack this in our vision and our daily behavior, our prayers, our work, and any activity we engage in, we lack an essential ingredient for success, victory, and power living in God. I spent 40 years without this in my vision. For 4 days I was moments from death going in and out of a comma. But during that time God did some kind of work in my heart. I was miraculously healed from the cause of all of this and the reason has become evident. God wants me to share the change in my vision and show how we all need to develop so that our behavior is obedient to His will and according to our function and in concurrent interdependence with other believers. Even now I know that when I pray for others they are not as important to me as when I pray for myself or my wife or my children. This is wrong. How can God reward a less than required attitude. I have to grow out of this. Other believers should be just as important to me as I am to myself or my wife is to me. If I fail to help a fellow believer I fail to help Christ. Christ's kingdom teachings stress that our behavior to others is actually behavior to Him. Can this really be? He said we will be judged on this basis. So then, from this are we to assume that if we cannot love someone as much as we love ourselves then we don't have oneness with God. No, I don't thing so. But it does mean we are not where we have to be in order to have behavior that brings its own rewards and results in the victorious spiritually successful life. Do we really want to waste any more of the precious time we have on this earth by being lukewarm Christians, neither hot nor cold. We must learn to be obedient and receive God's direction according to our function and exercise both spiritually and behaviorally concurrent interdependence with the other member of the body of Christ, be they here or there, black or white, male or female, young or old, this church or that church, and so on, you probably get the point. Now note this, to exhibit God's love can only happen through the grace of God. You cannot make it happen in your flesh. Neither can I.
14. Fleshly nature of the citizen
Our fleshly nature is our enemy. When we succumb to temptations to doubt, or not give of ourselves totally in acts of obedience to God we are incarnating the devil and giving Satan part of our lives as his dominion. We must learn to hate evil and to hate sin. We must literally exercise ourselves in obedient acts of God's love. For by trying to love completely we will eventually learn to love completely. Satan will play upon our confusion, it is sometimes the only leverage he has to incarnate and take dominion of our souls. So get this part straight. Obedience to God's Will is revealed to us in the unique way the Holy Spirit is interacting with our spirit and soul. No one should be able to say the Bible says we should do this specific thing so that is God's will. That is not correct. God's Will for us individually is dynamic, it becomes evident that God wants us to do this or that thing. However, God would not ever ask one of us to engage in a behavior condemned in the Bible like murder or sexual immorality. Not everyone is called to be a missionary because that is not everyone's functional place in the body of Christ. And not everyone is called to be a teacher because that is not everyone's functional place in the body of Christ. But at times we will all be called upon to witness. At times we will all be called upon to teach and consult. We might even be called upon to heal. Nor is one function higher than another function for all are required. One function without the others might not even be able to happen. With God we are all equal. The greatest is the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. He is not a respecter of persons. Jesus taught this in various acts of servitude. How could a preacher preach from the English Bible if there was not first a scholar who translated the Greek and Hebrew to English, a publisher who printed the bible, and teachers who instructed the preacher, and so on. Who is the greater; the one who wrote the Greek document, the one who translated the Greek document, the one who published many Bibles, the teachers that instructed the preacher, the worker who's donations support the time of the preacher, the scholar, the publisher, or maybe just the original writer. Or is the greater those that built the building in which the believers worship and hear the word of God, or those that build and maintain the university where the scholar does his work. Or maybe the greater is those that build and maintain the Bible school the preacher attended. Or is the greater one the person who installed the furnace that keeps the church warm in 40 below zero weather. If not those maybe the greater is the people that pay the operating costs of the church, or, and so on. Without any one of these functions none of them could enjoy the success they might. So regardless of your function do all as unto the Lord seeking excellence in all things. Learn to manage according to your function and you will be entrusted with things to manage when the physical kingdom becomes manifest on this earth. But above all learn to love in obedience and to behave in concurrent and interdependent acts with other members of the body of Christ. This is true fellowship. Fellowship is not just going to church, singing songs of worship, trying to pray together. To fellowship is to love one another as God so loves us and to worship, pray, communicate and do all obedient actions in that love. Until we develop this kind of fellowship with the body of Christ (reaching past all interdenominational boundaries) we will fall short of really victorious living. God cannot reward behavior that is both disobedient (not done on His demand) and lacking in His love.
15. Help for the citizen
So now that is where this web site ministry comes into play. It will provide tools, and content aimed at effectively helping Christians in the growth in "oneness". Providing streaming multimedia presentations is only one content item. But it is important because narration, music, pictures, and video can all be deployed to help effectively communicate the issues involved in moving forward in oneness towards the mind and character of Jesus Christ. The site content will address issues that get in the way of such development. Site content will also address issues which help in the development of oneness. Real life examples will be provided. Providing TV broadcasts on this theme is a support function and involves the participation and agreement of other Christians. Other features are being put into place at this web site ministry to help bring Christians everywhere together. The expectation is that we will all eventually learn to love one another as God so loves us and then we can enjoy a victorious life in Christ.