What did Jesus mean when He said, “The kingdom of God is within you”? | GotQuestions.org
What did Jesus mean when He said, “The kingdom of God is within you”? | GotQuestions.org
What did Jesus mean when He said, “The kingdom of God is within you”? What is the Kingdom of God? Where is the Kingdom of God according to Luke 17:21? Is it true that the kingdom of God is within man? When people ask, “ was Jesus a mystic ” do they have a valid reason according to Luke 17 21? In this video, Pastor Nelson with Bible Munch answers the question, “What did Jesus mean when He said, ‘The kingdom of God is within you’?”
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"BRO, I’m telling you bro, this is what Jesus really meant!! Don’t bother reading the Bible, just listen to this – WAKE UP to your inner divinity bro!!! It’s all just energy and God is everything bro!!! Buy my books and I’ll tell you what Jesus really meant cause you’re too dumb to actually read the Bible for yourself" – Eckhart Tolle, Richard Rohr and all the other ‘christ consciousness’ new age quacks.
Read the Gospel of Thomas. Most of the sayings of Jesus in this Gospel are referenced in the canonical Gospels and many of them word for word. To think the Gospel of Thomas is heresy is to say the canonical gospels are also heresy. Don’t be a fool. In Thomas Jesus clearly says the Kingdom of God is within us, and it is outside of us. If God is not in your heart then you alone exclude yourself from the Kingdom. The Kingdom of God is not a physical place. It is more like a spiritual awareness that ratifies the primal fears and hate that fills our minds. However, God is not the diety religion acclaims. Religion is ignorant of truth and invented by the fear and greed of men.
The right interpretation is "The Kingdom of Alahym is within you." As it is written, "Shamuth/Exodus 19:5. ‘And now, if you diligently obey My Voice, and shall guard My covenant, then you shall *BE My treasured possession* above all the peoples – for all the earth is Mine – 6. and you shall *BE to Me a kingdom* of priests and a set-apart nation.’ Those are the Words which you are to speak to the children of Yashara’al." It is not about "making it" to the Kingdom. It is about "being" the Kingdom, "being" His treasured possession. Henceforth, the Kingdom of Yahuah is within all who believe. Therefore, if you do not possess the Kingdom within you, you will not receive the Kingdom. You must possess it first, then you shall receive it. We are the Temple of Alahym (1 Corinthians 6:19). Remember?
Where does it say if you make the right choices?
Seems like all you need is faith and belief to be saved by grace not by right choices? Or doing because we will never rid our flesh lumps of sin placed in us
The kingdom is not in the heart. It’s in the temple made with no hands. Which is your head.
Anyway, yes, the kingdom of God is within you. It’s in everyone. Even the "pharacies". I’m just gonna make the short. All it means is to meditate. Jesus says, seek first the kingdom of God. Which is in you. How? Take no thought and let thine eye be single. Just meditate and activate the pineal gland or "Third Eye".
The kingdom of God is within us
Thank you for clarifying Luke 17:20-21!
Jesus is a messenger for all humanity. I believe the first interpretation “ the kingdom of God is WHITHIN you” or “in your heart” is the truth. In other words based on your thoughts, words, and actions you belong in there or not.
Listen up – it means your soul is God – being human has separated us from him unless you awaken to your true identity – ego tells us we’re seperate
I think we are created souls by God in His image… Image meaning with the kingdom of heaven within. It is for us to seek within and find the kingdomthus bringung about such a transformation which is the light of the Christ. We all have it as God does not discriminate by giving only some souls and not others.
Why does Jesus explanation need explanation? if jesus said the kingdom of god is within you then the kingdom of god is within you. if you actually opened your fking eyes and realize what this means you would be both utterly empowered and utterly humbled before god.
Its about the body being a temple and your spirit being of God. Surrendering to your spirit will awaken You and set You free from lies of Man and thier quest to overcome God using the misplaced faith if others…it wont work because Gods will is absolute and I exist whether you believe in Me or Not…the inverse is not true…when i disbelieve in your worth as a mortal your body will consume itself. So curse the name Lucifer one more time and you will know that I God, am Death and No Angel!
-Lucifer
Can someone confirm what does the original text say? Within or amongst? Big difference!
It means were all able to reach the kingdom, and to access that is the pioneer gland the Christ oil that goes down to 33 vertebrae’s in to the third eye. We all have it inside of us. All our timeline has been tainted, the fall of Rome with the seven-year tribulation. After Rome fell,. Which that’s what the historians have told us. But after that Jesus Christ literally walked on the earth and that’s why you see all these old Victorian buildings that are ginormous and look out of place all over the world. That was his kingdom and after 1000 years. Or 2,000. That’s when Christ left and went back to his father, when Jesus left. That’s when Lucifer was set loose on this planet for a small season. Which is where we are at today being ran by him the only thing left is the apocalypse world war 3,. Jesus Christ is already came and gone. We my friends get to experience the greatest of all we get to meet the presence of God!!!!!
Paul didn’t wake to Jesus just in His midst it happened in him not by any man or religions outside or reading dead letters till you experience it then those stories Allegories and Parables no flesh and blood can understand unseen Christ MIND Paul when teaching milk drinkers some meat, not you being just near Temple in your Skull and 2Cor13:5Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? So your near kingdom is tares chasing shadows like Saul.
This is wrong. Jesus was only taking about everything you need to be within his (your) body. No temples, no synagogues, no kings, no gods needed. Everything you need to be human resides within your body. That simple. These interpretations yet again are far fetched.
It mean what it means
I find the tendency to try to manipulate the words of Jesus away from its most profound meaning, both sad and irrational.
Because we know from scripture that:
The Holy Spirit lives inside of the believer.
God and Jesus want to come and live inside the believer.
Gods Spirit lives inside the Body of Christ / The Church.
The treassure in heavenly places recides in the heart.
So clearly, the Kingdom of God is tought as being inside of the believer, all through The New Testament.
Your Interpretation is wrong the referring holy spirit the part of god himself is within every human the free will is god fragments a choice to do good grow that seed share that to others…….
Good
Israel was waiting for the Messiah (the anointed one), i.e. a king. Jesus came and said the kingdom is near because he was the chosen one of God. Instead of being crowned king, he was crucified and that resulted in the kingdom not coming. Therefore we pray for it to come. Kingdom now theology has mistakenly replaced Israel with the church and suggests that the Kingdom of God is here now, which is a bizarre thought when you look at the world. Jesus himself said that they (Israelites) would not see him again UNTIL they say blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord (it was Jesus who came in the name of the Lord). So Jesus will not come until Israel as a nation sees Jesus as the king over Israel.
Luke 17:21 Jesus said, "for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you: the endocrine system of hormones which give our feelings when hormones reach their receptor (Charkra)
The whole of nature works this way. Plant hormone regulate the forest, and this is why go to Allah is called going to the forest
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Understanding that emotional empathy from within is your link to the Holy Spirit (Allah) immense energy, formless, omnipresent, un-drawable.
If you remove the myths & clerical editions Islam has the same as the gnostic
The Kingdom of God is a heavenly government that will intervene in human affairs at a future time. Jesus taught his followers to pray for God’s Kingdom to come and for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. Daniel 2:44 describes God’s Kingdom as a rulership that will crush all othe rulerships, or governments, and take over rulership of the earth forever. Before Jesus ascended to heaven, he declared that all authority on earth and heaven had been given to him. However, he was to wait before establishing his rulership over the earth. Hebrews 10:12 and 13 clarifies this by saying that after Jesus died, he sat down at the right hand of God from then on awaiting until his enemies should be placed as a stool for his feet.
The Kingdom of God is the Holy Spirit living within the hearts the believers. As the Apostle Paul writes the mystery of faith is Christ in you. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit make their abode within those that love God and obey His Word. Evidence of God dwelling within man is the person will have a change in direction and will begin to seek out Gods will and live according to Gods will. Every human being is made in Gods image but because of sin we have distorted that image of God within us. When we accept the forgiveness found in Jesus Christ we receive His Spirit and we become the temple of God, the Holy Spirit. As followers of Christ we become the body of Christ. We don’t follow Jesus just as some historical person that had good teachings. We embody the very presence and Spirit of God and we walk with God in this life as did Adam in the beginning. That is our salvation in and of itself. As Paul also wrote for your life is hidden in God in Christ and as Jesus says in John 14:20 in that day you will know that I am in the Father and you in me and I in you. If you cannot see this clearly in the scriptures you may ought to check your beliefs and understanding of the scriptures for your very life hangs in the balance.
The kingdom of god is within you, as it is within all of us, even those that do not believe. The goodness of humanity, the empathy, the care and love for one another, is the kingdom of god. Even the Pharisees hearts had the kingdom of within them, it is a natural part of all of us. This is how I understand it.
The kingdom is within you. God is within you. So go there and you and the father will be one.
These are the type of discussions that need to be had when we gather together. They never get much play in a “preacher” center body, a little too much preacher idolizing going on. The idea of “among you” is really interesting as it acknowledges the Holy Spirit in the individual and the body as we are to share our burdens and encourage one another, thus the Holy Spirit among the body.
Stand up, put on that armor! You can only study and read about the practice of faith, and that’s encouraging, but until you step out in faith , it never gets exercised!
One interpretation I think you missed. Many times in the Old testament a passage had multiple meanings. For example in Hosea it said out of Egypt I called my son. This was talking about Israel but it was also talking about Jesus. Yet we could also apply it to ourselves when you consider Egypt as a metaphor for sin and slavery. Jesus often used ambiguous language so what he said could be applied in different ways. The kingdom was within him but he also wanted to place the kingdom of God in our hearts. The kingdom of God is not about restoring God to his rightful place is about restoring man to his rightful place. Remember Adam and Eve were created to rule over creation. God has always been and will always be king of the world according to the Psalms. Daniel says he rules in the kingdoms and affairs of men and gives them to whom he chooses. Jesus was planting seeds in people’s hearts so that the kingdom of God would grow inside of them and change them from the inside out. As to the religious leaders Jesus wanted the kingdom of God to be in them. To me Jesus saying the kingdom of God is within you is a poetic way of saying, "Don’t look for outward changes look for inward changes."
Not within you but among you a king denotes a kingdom .
Got back to original text and use a strong’s concordance and kjv bible. Now the of begins after 1000 yr period after all enemies are destroyed.
Kingdom of Heaven is physical and earthly and Jesus will rule on earth during Kingdom of Heaven. Kingdom of God is different and is the Holy Spirit within you when you are saved.
That Greek word is used twice in the New Testament. Here and also
“You blind Pharisee, first clean the INSIDE of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.” ~Matt 23:26
It’s “inside” there but in Luke 17:21 the NASB translates it “in your midst” with a note that says “inside you”
Inside works in both places. In you midsts definitely doesn’t work in Matt 23:26. Looks like the translators wanted to get involved it what the Bible means and not sticking to what the Bible says.
It’s incredible the length we will go to exclude those we see as ‘other’ from Gods Kingdom. Christ was trying to awaken them to the reality that Gods presence in dwells from within. Gods breath is in us, the Kingdom of God are the activities of God. The Kingdom is where the fruit of the spirit lie. These are present, but hidden to us because of our misunderstanding of who we ALL are IN Christ. ‘Christ in you, the hope of Glory’ – this is what Paul says as a cry to humanity as a whole. Jesus wanted us to see that the Kingdom has come, it is here and has always been. It’s time to awaken to it.
Heaven is not something people go to it’s something people go through the same can be said about hell when you die and bring all your bad with you you burn of Shame it’s an experience it’s a mindset Heaven is on Earth hell is on Earth God is everywhere everything everyone
To those that have ears to hear, hear these words. The kingdom of God can be found within all of us. The Pharisees had not found the kingdom and had been shown the keys but had hidden them away. What are these keys? Let those who have ears hear these words. The keys to Gods kingdom are the mystic arts like Kabbalah. It is meditation, That is why it is said ‘in stillness you will know God’. That is why Jesus so often says ‘hey I saw you sitting under that tree in stillness and gives praise. Why is this not widely known or seems fringe? The preachers and so called men of God have hidden the keys!
It’s both within us and among us. Within only those who believe in Jesus. and among the pharisees to witness.
Some of these comments smack of JW bias – they reject the doctrine of the Trinity. When someone is born again in Christ Jesus the Holy Spirit comes to live in that person (1 Cor.Ch.6v.19 and elsewhere). This could be construed as the having the kingdom of God within you. Of course when the Lord Jesus returns as per Daniel Ch.2v.44 the Kingdom of God will be among you, in your midst. (and How!)
Man thank you for your honest explanation of God’s Kingdom. A Kingdom is a government. So God has his own government that is by definition alien or not part of this world. That’s why Jesus told us to pray that the Kingdom come or come back to earth. Alot of people are still confused by this process. But if you read Daniel ch 2 it’s clear that human governments will be done away with once the Kingdom of God returns. Defeated. Thats right human governments will battle God’s incoming Government and will be defeated. That includes America, Russia, China, the U.K. they will all be taken out soon and God’s Kingdom will rule the planet forever. Daniel 2:44
I wish is that now i dont wanna belive inlies i wanna folow jim like apostols
Now when I say heaven is on Earth and hell is on Earth it’s because it’s within you and within everyone and everything our actions start off within our mind so hell is within our mind
Dispensationalism
“The Kingdom of God is among you.”
-Jesus Christ
The book of Thomas talks about this in great detail. People still waiting on this spooky mystery God and God is telling you to look WITHIN and follow THE CHRIST EXAMPLE
I think the kingdom of God is within every human being.. it may be hidden or covered up by a lot of ugliness and sin but it’s there within every individual
The kingdom of g od” is nothing more than living truth , being truthful to self and others , becoming the embodiment of honesty , truthfulness,trustworthiness, respectfulness, fairness, moral justness and treat others with decency and dignity . Self acceptance and living with radical honesty . The truth will set you free indeed. That’s the “holy spirit “. We are all interconnected. A deeper sense of self that recognizes that we all share the same human condition . Practice loving kindness in every moment of consciousness
What this man has to say is rubbish turn away.
What a con job!
The Pharisees asked Jesus when the kingdom of God would come. In answer, he said to them, "The kingdom of God does not come in such a way as to be striking to the eye. It will not say, ‘Here it is’ or ‘There it is’. For behold, the kingdom of God is within you." And he said to the disciples, "The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. And they will say to you, ‘Behold, here he is, and behold, there he is. For as the lightning flashes and flashes from one edge of heaven to the other, so will the Son of Man be in His day. But first he must suffer many things and be rejected from this generation.