The Kingdom of God cannot be understood or experienced without the Holy Spirit

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> vii) The Comforter --whom the Father will send in Jesus' name, and

> teach all things and remind humanity of everything Jesus has said--

> will be the Holy Spirit (John 14:26). Thus the personality

> enlightening humanity of Jesus' teachings will be both the Comforter

> and Holy Spirit sent by God Almighty in Jesus' name.

>

 

" Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the

phrase " kingdom of God " with a different meaning. His kingdom was not

of this world (John 18:36). It was not like the kingdoms of this

world. It was the kingdom of God, a supernatural kingdom. It was

invisible to most people (John 3:3)—it could not be understood or

experienced without the Holy Spirit (v. 6). God is Spirit, and the

kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom. "

 

Tom Harpur, Life after Death,

McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1991, p.114-16

 

 

Shri Adi Shakti: The Kingdom Of God

 

Since November 1993 the spiritual experiences of children witnessing

the mystical Kingdom of God thousands of times over the years have

been recorded. All have independently corroborated and irrefutably

identified Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi as the incarnation of the Divine

Feminine sent to deliver God Almighty's Divine Message to humanity.

 

http://www.adishakti.org

 

 

" You have to take a stand in your family, in your surroundings, with

your friends, and you have to tell them, " You better all get

realized. " The reason for that is that the Christ who crucified

Himself is going to come back with his Eleven Forces of Destruction.

And when He starts He is not going to ask you to take any

realization. No one is going to be bothered whether you are going to

hell. He will just sort out. But those who have got Realization will

enter into the Kingdom of God. You have to enter into the Kingdom of

God here, as I say, in the Seventh Chakra. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

The New Age Has Started, Houston, USA — Oct. 6, 1981

 

 

" Tolstoy argues, very persuasively, that the core teachings of Jesus

have been lost to the modern Christian. Man is too comfortable with

the way things are to really adopt Jesus approach to life.

 

Most of what passes for Christianity today is nothing of the sort. A

great deal of it is self-serving. Jesus said salvation is personal --

you don't need a " church " to be saved. As Tolstoy explains, church's

are largely the invention of men, who crave a hierarchy and order.

 

This book is a revelation, and can make Christians feel rebuked by

Tolstoy's words. "

 

Wikipedia Article: The Kingdom of God is Within You

 

 

" The central message of Jesus Christ was the message of " the Kingdom

of God " or " the Kingdom of Heaven " . This message, when understood, is

the most relevant message for the needs of humanity. It is a highly

attractive message, and will produce the greatest results of any

message one could give. This message must once again become the

central theme of preachers and teachers in these last days.

 

When the message of the Kingdom of God is given correctly, the

results will be dramatic, just as they were for our Lord and for the

apostles of our Lord. For with the proclamation of the Kingdom comes

the power of the Kingdom. Paul declared in 1 Corinthians 4:20 " for

the Kingdom of God is not in word but in power " . Anyone who dares to

produce theological tones on the subject of the Kingdom of God

without demonstrating something of the reality the power of the

Kingdom has missed the mark and does not know as they ought to know.

The Kingdom of God is not in word but in power. "

 

www.christian-faith.com/

 

 

" The verses repeatedly stress that " the Kingdom " is within us — and

not, as the Church has insisted, in the heavens barred to the " sinner "

by Saint Peter. One reason for the Church's vehement opposition to

the Thomas gospel was the inclusion of Jesus' repeated warning to us

not to entrust our spiritual development and well-being to others, be

they priests, politicians or prophets. "

 

Paul Roland, Revelation: Wisdom of the Ages,

Ulysses Press, 1995, p. 51.

 

 

" The Gospel of Thomas

 

It does not tell the story about the life and death of Jesus, but

offers the reader his `secret teachings' about the kingdom of God...

 

The Gospel of Thomas also suggests that Jesus is aware of, and

criticizing the views of the Kingdom of God as a time or a place that

appear in the other gospels. Here Jesus says, " If those who lead you

say to you, " look, the Kingdom is in the sky, " then the birds will

get there first. If they say " it's in the ocean, " then the fish will

get there first. But the Kingdom of God is within you and outside of

you. Once you come to know yourselves, you will become known. And you

will know that it is you who are the children of the living father. "

 

In this gospel, and this is also the case in the Gospel of Luke, the

Kingdom of God is not an event that's going to be catastrophically

shattering the world as we know it and ushering in a new millennium.

Here, as in Luke 17:20, the Kingdom of God is said to be an interior

state; " It's within you, " Luke says. And here it says, " It's inside

you but it's also outside of you. " It's like a state of

consciousness. It's hard to describe. But the Kingdom of God here is

something that you can enter when you attain gnosis, which means

knowledge. But it doesn't mean intellectual knowledge. The Greeks had

two words for knowledge. One is intellectual knowledge, like the

knowledge of physics or something like that. But this gnosis is

personal, like " I know that person, or do you know so and so. " So

this gnosis is self-knowledge; you could call it insight. It's a

question of knowing who you really are, not at the ordinary level of

your name and your social class or your position. But knowing

yourself at a deep level. The secret of gnosis is that when you know

yourself at that level you will also come to know God, because you

will discover that the divine is within you. "

 

Elaine H. Pagels,PBS and WGBH/FRONTLINE, 1998

(Elaine H. Pagels: The Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of

Religion Princeton University)

 

 

, " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org wrote:

>

> So many souls can and will be saved by the truth spoken by the

> Comforter, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, by bringing humanity towards

> Jesus and His teachings. They must be brought to remembrance that

> before Jesus departed He promised that a Paraclete will one day be

> sent by Him, a divine personality who will glorify Him, and will

> guide mankind into all truth. The main signs and characteristics of

> the Comforter are as follows:

>

> i) The Comforter must abide with the believers forever (John 14:16).

> This is only possible if the Comforter remains within each and every

> human for the rest of the natural lives and beyond i.e., for all

> eternity;

>

> ii) The Comforter must testify on the behalf of Jesus (John 15:26).

> This is only possible if the Comforter is human too i.e., meeting,

> speaking, explaining in detail, as well as answering questions, in

> languages humans can understand;

>

> iii) The Comforter must bring all aspects of Jesus' teachings to

> remembrance (John 14:26). Obviously they must concern unlocking the

> deep secrets of Jesus' parables, of which the Kingdom of God within

> tops the list;

>

> iv) The Comforter must reprove the world of sin, and of

> righteousness, and of judgment i.e., issue warnings of impending

> judgment to a world full of sin and ungodliness (John 16:8);

>

> v) The Comforter must at all times guide and speak the truth of

> events that are coming (John 16:13). Obviously the truth, directed

> exclusively to a world of sin and ungodliness, has to be absolutely

> unprecedented, radical and explosive;

>

> vi) The Comforter must glorify Jesus and declare all that the

> later wants delivered to humanity (John 16:14). This task of

> informing humans on a global scale requires many, many years to

> accomplish;

>

> vii) The Comforter -whom the Father will send in Jesus' name, and

> teach all things and remind humanity of everything Jesus has said-

> will be the Holy Spirit (John 14:26). Thus the personality

> enlightening humanity of Jesus' teachings will be both the Comforter

> and Holy Spirit sent by God Almighty in Jesus' name.

>

> Shri Mataji is the Comforter, the Helper or Paraclete who has for

> more than three decades glorified Christ and-through Her Divine

> Message of the Last Judgment and Resurrection-guided mankind into

> all truth. All who receive their second birth by the Spirit (Self-

> realization) experience today what Jesus' disciples experienced

> two millennia ago on the day of Pentecost. The awesome, fundamental

> difference between both phenomena is that the present experience of

> the Holy Spirit manifesting within humans was promised by Lord

> Jesus ..... and is taking place all over Earth.

>

> This truth is irrefutable as hundreds of thousands have felt it. The

> tens of thousands of SYs who continue to meditate on the Holy Spirit

> within feel it on a daily basis. Yet they do not have the courage

> and conscience to truthfully tell others, pretending it is all

> about the subtle system. But did Jesus send the Comforter just to

> teach about the petty subtle system, a subject that countless

> teachers and gurus are teaching too? Or did Jesus send the

> Comforter to complete His teachings and reprove the world of sin,

> and of righteousness, and of judgment; an exclusive honor and

> prerogative accorded to no one else?

>