Quote from: peky on August 15, 2012, 11:04:11 AM
But according to you Jesus: "The Kindom of Heaven is within You" Luke 17:21 So, it really does not matter whether is in this world, or any world, but for as long as you are, the kindom of heaven shall be with you. That is assuming we can and/or are allowed to enter
While that is true it leaves out what Jesus said to Pilate when He was on trial
John 18 33-37
33 Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"
34 "Is that your own idea," Jesus asked, "or did others talk to you about me?"
35 "Am I a Jew?" Pilate replied. "Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?"
36 Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place."
37 "You are a king, then!" said Pilate.
Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."
The writer of Hebrews also points out that the early men and woman of faith were waiting for a country not of this world.
13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. 14 People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
We can enter into His kingdom but it's one way and one way only. Jesus said I am the way,the truth and the life no man comes to the father but by Me. He said I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live though they die. He said I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. He said I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. He said Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. (In reverence to the Father)
Anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. It's His promise.
John at the end of his gospel wrote
John 20 30-31
30 Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. 31 But these are written that you may believe
that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
It is open and free to all who will believe in who Jesus is and what He did.
