Living in the Reality of the Kingdom of God
Message One
The Kingdom of God—the Realm of the Divine Life and of the Divine Species
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
John 3:5-6 …Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Eph. 4:18-19 Being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance which is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; who, being past feeling…
Word of Appetizer
What is the kingdom of God? What is the unique way to enter into the kingdom of God?
The kingdom of God—the realm of the divine life and of the divine species. The kingdom of God is an organism constituted with God’s life as the realm for His ruling, in which He reigns by His life and expresses Himself as the Divine Trinity in the divine life. The kingdom of God is God in Christ as the totality of life with all its activities. The kingdom of God is not only the realm of the divine life and of the divine dominion but also the realm of the divine species, in which are all the divine things.
The unique way to enter into the kingdom of God is to receive God as life and gain God Himself; this is regeneration. In order to enter into the divine realm, the realm of the divine species, we need to be born of God to have the divine life and the divine nature.
Spiritual Burden
The kingdom of God is not only the realm of the divine life and of the divine dominion but also the realm of the divine species, in which are all the divine things. God became man to enter into the human species, and man becomes God in life and nature but not in the Godhead to enter into the divine species. In order to enter into the divine realm, the realm of the divine species, we need to be born of God to have the divine life and the divine nature.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
The kingdom of God is the realm of the divine life. The kingdom of God is an organism constituted with God’s life as the realm for His ruling, in which He reigns by His life and expresses Himself as the Divine Trinity in the divine life.
The kingdom of God is not only the realm of the divine life and of the divine dominion but also the realm of the divine species, in which are all the divine things. In order to enter into the divine realm, the realm of the divine species, we need to be born of God to have the divine life and the divine nature.
The Experience of Life
The sense of life is the feeling, the consciousness, of the divine life within us. The sense of life makes us know whether we are living in the natural life or in the divine life and whether we are living in the flesh or in the spirit.
We, the believers in Christ and the children of God, have the reality of the divine life, and we are being transformed and conformed to the Lord’s image in our entire being.
Practice and Application
We have been born into the kingdom of God, and now the divine life in our spirit knows the kingdom of God. The sense of life guides us, governs us, controls us, and directs us.
In living a grafted life, we should live according to the principle of life, not according to the principle of right and wrong. If we would follow the sense of life, we need to live in a calm, steady, and unhurried way, living an ordinary life in the divine dispensing.