HOW TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD

These are a collection of articles written under the hand of the Lord to reveal the way one enters into the Kingdom of God. It’s purpose is to reveal the mysteries of the Kingdom of God and to show how one can enter the highest level of the coming age of Christ’s rule on earth. The road to perfection, which is what God longs for, is a narrow road. Few there be that pass on it. Christ said: “Enter ye in at the strait [narrow] gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in there Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:13-14).

Well you say I am a born again Christian and have accepted Jesus as my Savior. Isn’t that enough to get me to heaven? The answer is that what we call “basic salvation” is just the beginning to a real walk with God. Yes you that have saved will obtain a measure of eternal life. But beyond that are many things you must learn, which things involve a continuing salvation process that brings you into perfection; and not necessarily after you physically die.

More than anything God is after a relationship with you like He had with the first humans in the Garden. There He spoke face to face with them in the cool of the night. The first humans were babies in their overall spiritual development and God had much to teach them. We who are saved are in much the same place. God has much to reveal to us and much more He would like us to become. He desires us to become Sons of God, like the first Son Jesus Christ. Together Christ and His brethren, us, form the Father’s family that he longs for.

At the last supper Christ made it clear to His disciples that they had much to learn when He was gone He would send the “helper”, the Holy Spirit to teach them many things. He said: “When the Helper [ Gr. parakeets, one called alongside to help, comforter, advocate, intercessor] comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning” (John 15:26-27). “But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper [paracletos] will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you” (John 16:7).

Christ was not speaking to babes here. He was speaking to disciples who had been with Him for 31/2 years; they had cast out demons, healed people and done other mighty works. But Christ said He had more to teach them, through the helper that was to come, the Holy Spirit. Christ’s ministry was within a 30 mile radius of His home yet he wanted the gospel to go to the end of the earth. He wanted His disciples to do greater works than He did (John 14:12). He wanted the disciples to reduplicate themselves and make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:18-20).

What is often overlooked about Christ’s ministry is that He came to bring the Kingdom of God to the earth. When asked by others how to pray His suggested prayer was short and to the point. After instructing the multitude to Honor His Father He said: “Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven….” (Matthew 6:10). Christ was the personification of the Kingdom of the earth. Most of His parables began with “the Kingdom of God is like” or “the Kingdom can be compared to” or “can be likened to”. Christ’s forgiveness of sin was simply a prerequisite to the Kingdom that was to come. Since there can be no unrighteousness in the Kingdom Christ had to forgive and remove sin and remove it in preparation for a new age.

Christ also made it clear in His parables that not just anyone, even if they came in the name of the Lord, would automatically enter His Kingdom. In Matthew 7:21-23 he said: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS”. Those rejected actually did miracles in the name of the Lord but were rejected. There are many more parables and teachings along that line in the Gospels.

This book is an attempt to present the Word of the Lord in what may seem to be a new and different way. The book teaches what God really wants from His people in these end and beginnings of time. At this time the realm of the spirit is merging with the realm of the physical forming what