Entering the Kingdom of heaven
is the act of entering into a whole new realm of reality. You see things about God,
yourself, and life that you've never seen before, you know things that you've never known
before, and you understand things that you've never understood before.
To begin with, you come to a realization of the kingship of Jesus
Christ. If you ever doubted it before, standing in the Kingdom and seeing Him by way of
spiritual eyes removes all doubt. This is truth that comes by way of revelation knowledge.
When the Father opens your eyes to see this new realm of reality, you
have faith to believe in the lordship of Jesus Christ. That is, you have faith to trust in
Him as Lord of all of your life. Until you know that you know that Jesus is Lord of all,
you have not fully come into the Kingdom of heaven.
According to New Testament scripture, we can see the Kingdom, we can
enter the Kingdom, and we can inherit the Kingdom. People who stand in the outer court of
Passover at best can only see the Kingdom. They do not enjoy the privileges of entering
into it and inheriting it.
Those who go from Passover to Pentecost not only see the Kingdom but
enter into it. The mere act of entering the Kingdom changes one's perspective on reality.
Suddenly, one is able to discern spiritual matters. The scriptures come alive, and one
begins to move in the gifts of the Spirit and begins to bear more of the fruit of the
Spirit.
Those who hunger and thirst for a hundredfold life in Christ not only
enter but begin to inherit the Kingdom. We have been made heirs and joint-heirs with
Christ. That is to say, all of who He is, what He is, and what He possesses as the Lord of
glory in His Kingdom is equally ours.
This makes absolutely no sense to the carnal mind of unredeemed man who
has neither seen nor entered the Kingdom. When the people of Passover begin to talk about
their salvation, the people of the world cringe with disbelief. They have no basis for
believing in what they cannot see.
Not everyone who has seen the Kingdom has entered it. Not everyone who
has entered the Kingdom has inherited.
No one has, as yet in this life, completely inherited the Kingdom. We
inherit the Kingdom by degrees. We take the land little by little. Once we, by the Spirit,
have conquered one area of Kingdom living whereby we can live in complete assurance by
faith, then we can go on to the next plane of reality. That which is of the Spirit is more
real than those things of the natural world. "While we look not at the things
which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are
temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Cor. 4:18).
Every time we see a new thing by the Spirit about the Kingdom, we
inherit that, we come into that, we have the courage of faith to walk in that; then, that
becomes a manifested reality in our lives.
Only the people of Tabernacles can inherit the Kingdom in fullness
because it calls for the total surrender of all. This is not intended to suggest elitism.
On the contrary, the cost to the crucified ones is great. They have to sacrifice fame,
fortune, prestige, recognition, traditional ministry, power, position, and reputation.
They are misunderstood and often accounted as heretics.
Nevertheless, the rewards of the Kingdom make it all worth the cost.
For the people of Tabernacles and of the Holy of Holies come to a place in Jesus where
nothing else matters--and that is the ultimate inheritance.