There’s only one way to see the Kingdom of God and that’s through regeneration in Christ. You don’t have to be born again to walk in the supernatural and receive dreams, visions, and predict the future and do signs and wonders. Look at occultists (fortunetellers, astrologers, witches, magicians, sorcerers, necromancers, shamans, alternative healers, etc.), they are the old creation operating from the flesh and the kingdom of darkness and can do all these supernatural miraculous things. But to see and walk in the Kingdom of God, you need to be born again. Without regeneration in Christ you can’t see the Kingdom of God. And if you can’t see the Kingdom of God, how can you represent, preach, and bring the Kingdom of God to the people?
John the Baptist spoke about the coming of the Kingdom of heaven
In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand (Matthew 3:1-2)
The Kingdom of God came to the earth and was manifested by the coming of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. But before Jesus came to the earth, God had appointed someone to prepare the way for Jesus Christ. The messenger, whom God appointed to prepare the way for Jesus Christ was John the Baptist.
John the Baptist grew up in the wilderness and was taught by God.
At God’s appointed time, John went out and witnessed about the coming of the Kingdom of heaven on earth, through the coming of Jesus Christ.
Although the people of God thought they were saved, in reality, they were not.
Because if God’s people would be saved, then God did not have to send John the Baptist to His people to preach the message of repentance.
God sent John the Baptist to His people to prepare the way for the coming of the Christ by preaching the message of repentance.
And so John went and John said, Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. (Matthew 3:1-2, Mark 1:1-5, Luke 3:1-18)
Jesus brought the Kingdom of God to God’s people
I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent. And He preached in the synagogues of Galilee (Luke 4:43-44)
Although John testified and spoke about the coming of the Kingdom and called the people to repentance, Jesus preached the Kingdom of God and manifested the Kingdom of God to God’s people.
Although Jesus lived on earth, Jesus didn’t walk after the flesh in the kingdom of darkness according to the will of the ruler of the world; the devil.
Jesus walked after the Spirit in the Kingdom of God according to the will of God.
Jesus not only made the Kingdom of God known to the people through His words, but also through His works, and the signs and wonders that followed Him.
Since the people of the house of Israel belonged to the generation of the old carnal man they were not able to see the Kingdom of God nor comprehend the Kingdom. Therefore Jesus used examples from everyday life, which are also called parables, to reveal the Kingdom of God to the people.
The generation of the old man was not able to see the Kingdom of God nor comprehend the Kingdom of God unless God revealed the truth of the Kingdom to the people (Matthew 16:17)
Without regeneration, you can’t see the Kingdom of God
Since the people were carnal, some thought that Jesus was John the Baptist, some thought that Jesus was Elijah and others thought that Jesus was Jeremiah or one of the prophets (Matthew 16:13-17).
Even Nicodemus, who was a Pharisee, a teacher of the people, who knew the scriptures very well, didn’t see Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, but as a Teacher, who was sent by God.
When Nicodemus came to Jesus and said, that He was a teacher, who was sent by God, Jesus answered Nicodemus and said, Unless a person is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.
No person of flesh and blood, who is not born again and doesn’t exist of water and Spirit, is able to see and comprehend the Kingdom of God.
There was even a moment in the life of John the Baptist that he doubted about Jesus being the Christ. That was during his time in prison, when he heard about the works of Christ.
As a result of his doubt, John sent two of his disciples to Jesus to ask Him if He was the Christ or that they had to expect someone else (Matthew 11:1-6).
The Kingdom of God is a spiritual Kingdom
The Kingdom of God is a spiritual Kingdom of heaven and diametrically opposes the kingdom of darkness, which is the kingdom of the world.
A carnal man of flesh and blood is not able to see, comprehend nor understand the things of God and His righteousness and shall be foolishness to him.
The carnal man considers the commandments of God and the things of the Kingdom of God as a yoke and a heavy burden. Therefore the carnal man rejects them.
Only material blessings and prosperity in this world are welcome in the life of the carnal man, but the carnal man isn’t interested in the rest of the gospel.
The law of God is a yoke and heavy burden for the flesh
The people who belong to the generation of the old carnal man consider the commandments of God as a yoke and heavy burden and don’t see the benefit and the necessity of keeping them. This shouldn’t be surprising, since the righteousness of God opposes the will of the flesh
They don’t consider the law of God as freedom but as bondage. Since they don’t want to live in bondage but live in freedom and make their own decisions, they reject them.
As long as the old man is not born again the evil nature of the devil shall reign in the flesh. The person shall live in rebellion against God and His Word and obey the will of the flesh and its evil nature and keep doing those things, which please the flesh but oppose the will of God and are an abomination to God.
The mind of the old man is blinded
As long as people belong to the generation of the old man, they shall stay ignorant. Their carnal mind is blinded by the god of this world.
They walk in darkness and don’t see the righteousness of God and don’t understand His words and commandments.
The Bible shall be a closed Book to them, full of foolishness, and difficult to understand. An outdated Book that is not relevant to them and no longer fits in today’s world.
They shall only understand the carnal knowledge and wisdom of this world and listen to it. But they shall reject the knowledge and wisdom of God.
That’s because God’s wisdom and knowledge and His will don’t correspond with the will of their flesh, but condemn the flesh and they don’t like to feel condemned and be judged.
And so many people walk in ignorance in darkness and are led by science and the lies and power of the kingdom of darkness.
Repentance through the revelation of Christ and the conviction of sin
However, when a person is confronted with the righteousness and holiness of God and convicted of his sin nature by the hearing of the Word and the power of the Holy Spirit, and by faith in Jesus Christ repent of his/her sinful works and be baptized in water and be baptized with the Holy Spirit, the person shall leave the kingdom of darkness through the death of the flesh and see and enter the Kingdom of God through the resurrection of the spirit from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Through regeneration in Christ, the person has become a new creation, a son of God (both males and females), and has received God’s nature.
Because of this spiritual transformation, the person shall consider those things, which (s)he always considered normal and good, no longer as normal and good but as evil.
Born again Christians see the Kingdom of God
And when He was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you (Luke 17:20-21)
Through the circumcision in Jesus Christ, a person shall see the Kingdom of God, where God’s will reigns.
The new man, who is born of the Spirit, shall understand and comprehend His commandments, which represent His will, through the Holy Spirit and shall hate the works of unrighteousness, which are sin, just like God. That’s because the Spirit of God abides in the person instead of the spirit of the world.
The Holy Spirit testifies of Jesus Christ and He speaks what Jesus is telling Him.
The Holy Spirit represents the Kingdom of God. Because of that, Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God abide in the new man.
But as long as a person is not born again the person shall consider Jesus as a Humanist, who did good works or just like Nicodemus and the other people, as a Teacher or a Prophet, whom God sent. Instead of seeing Jesus as the Christ and the Son of the living God.
As long as people are not born again, they shall never submit to the words and commandments of God. Remember, the words and commandments of God which represent His will asre the same words and commandments of Jesus Christ. Instead, they shall rebel against God’s words and His commandments, since the will of God diametrically opposes the will of their flesh.
How can you preach the Kingdom of God if you can’t see the Kingdom of God?
Therefore regeneration is a necessity, because without regeneration you can’t see the Kingdom of God. And how can you represent, preach, and bring the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God to the people, which is a commandment to every believer, if you can’t see the Kingdom? That’s right, you can’t!
As a result that many Christians are not truly born again, but are still the old carnal man, because they are not willing to lay down their flesh, they don’t preach the Kingdom of God but they preach a manmade gospel with all kinds of worldly carnal methods and technics that focus on the carnal man. But in reality, it’s not a gospel at all.
This manmade gospel doesn’t feed the spirit of man and doesn’t lead to salvation, holy lives, and eternal life, but feeds the flesh and strengthens the flesh of the old carnal man and leads to apostasy and bondage of sin and eternal death.
Only when you have a personal encounter with the living Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Savior of fallen man, and by faith in Him repent of your sins and become born again, whereby your sinful nature in which death reigns dies and you arise in newness of life with your new nature and live from God’s nature, you shall not only see the Kingdom of God, but the Kingdom of God shall be in you.
You shall represent, preach and bring the Kingdom of God to the people, who wander in darkness, searching for the way, the truth, and the life and because of you find Jesus Christ.
‘Be the salt of the earth’
