KINGDOM LIFE

Kingdom is the King’s domain, His dominion, realm of rule. Life in the Kingdom of God/Heaven is a radically different lifestyle that is centered in an intimate interactive relationship with God and Jesus.  Kingdom children are “born again”, gennao anothen, literally begotten from above by the Holy Spirit of God: The Holy Spirit is the midwife who birth’s believers into the Kingdom - submerging them into the body of Christ. In a way the phrase “Kingdom of God” is a pregnant metaphor, birthing a way of life Jesus demonstrated for us.  This life will be extraordinary and full to overflowing in many ways: “I alone came in order that they (i.e., read “we”) might be possessing life, and that they (we) might be possessing it in superabundance”. And this is Eternal Life: It means to know You, to experience You in intimate relationship, the only true and real God, and to likewise know and experience Jesus Christ whom you have sent (Jn. 17:3).  So “Eternal Life” is having an intimate interactive relationship with God and His son Jesus, and a kingdom is an interactive relationship between a king and his subjects. Eternal life is Kingdom life.

Kingdom life is supernatural life, a new kind of life that fully physical and fully spiritual: The “Living Water” of God’s Kingdom is water that’s alive, not stagnant, but life-giving: “If you knew, (intuitively), the gift of God (Christ) ..., you would ask Him (Christ) and He would give you living water - water that is alive” (John 4:10). Here “living water” is the Holy Spirit which flows out of the heart of believers “like rivers of living water” (Jn. 7:37-39).  In the Old Testament God is called a “fountain of living water” (Jer. 2:13, 17:13, SOS 4:15), and this same fountain of living water will flow in Heaven (Rev. 7:17, Zech. 14:8). The Greek tense in these passages denotes continuous action: This living water is continuous, unfailing and eternal, “gushing” up into everlasting life, eternal life (i.e., John 17:3), into an extraordinary life lived to the full - a superabundant life. 

Life in the Kingdom of God is life in the here and now where the Holy Spirit gushes forth from within manifesting Christ and His Kingdom in every aspect of the saint’s life. Saints should “leak” the Holy Spirit everywhere they go. When the Kingdom of God invades our circumstances the word “impossible” deconstructs, it melts and evaporates, and its tyranny over us ends. Kingdom life gives meaning and purpose to an otherwise meaningless, self-centered existence. Our life should be an intimate interactive relationship with God, our Father - reconciled to God and reconciled to one another - so that our entire life is a beautiful symphony, the music of God’s Kingdom.

The Kingdom of God is all about how we live our daily lives - our way of life. When Christianity sees itself as a belief system, a formula or set of rules and rituals, instead of a way of life, it loses the “Kingdom Magic” and becomes just another religion. This simple concept defines the tension between the words “religious” and “spiritual”, in their common usage today.  “Religious” speaks of people who believe in God but not the Kingdom of God.  “Spiritual” speaks of living in a dynamic interactive relationship with God as a 24/7 way of life: This lifestyle births God’s agape love within which reciprocates love back to God and to others.  “Spiritual” is relational, “religious” isn’t. Spiritual people are Kingdom people.

SUPERABUNDANT LIFE