The Kingdom of God is within you

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Someone pulled me into line about this once. Scripturally apparently God is amongst us, not in us.
Yet the Holy Spirit came to the apostles at Pentecost.
Is God in all of us? Well that might be hard to believe when you see the behaviour of some human beings these days and in the past too. Is God potentially in all of us and lies dormant? That sounds likely to me. As some Christians advise “just listen to that quieter voice”. The quieter voice is God?
Tolstoy wrote a book with this title, by the way.
 
God’s Grace is at work with everyone.
However.
There is a difference between the one in mortal sin and one not in such
 
We’re all made in God’s image-and in truth we can’t “live, and move, and have our being” without Him, but the Fall of man could be said to be the point where the Master went away, or went “dormant” in us, or in any case where man ceased to hear and heed Him necessarily. We lost the “knowledge of God”, to know Him. And this is exactly the knowledge Jesus came to restore, when man was ready for that light, even if just barely. To know Him is to be reborn, awakened form our sleep, arisen from our death. It was never really He who was dormant but ourselves.
 
Salutations
Luke 17:20-22 King James Version (KJV)

20 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:

21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

There is a little variation in translation. I can’t recall the other sentence. But, as the above wording, it made me feel that Israel was looking for their Messiah in the wrong place. I was taught Israel looks for a political Messiah that will bring peace in Israel. Peace to the government…
If the translation is correct, and the KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN US, then, when Jesus is invited into our hearts, the Messiah has arrived for us…If we were Jewish, the Messiah would arrive. Multiply conversion over all Israel! HOORAY.
Too simple
In Christ’s Love
Tweedlealice
 
What is the kingdom of God.

Catechism 101

There is the Kingdom of God here on earth, and there is the Kingdom of God in Heaven.

We are the People of God, the Body of Christ, the communion of saints
 
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This one reality, that of the divine in-dwelling juxtaposed to human fallenness, is what makes the human race so beautifully tragic. The agony of the crucifixion and the ecstasy of the resurrection are intertwined in the human soul.
 
Such a strange reply. Who is she who is finding you irresistible?

Did you know the kingdom of God is here on earth as well as in heaven.
Gods love at work.

The threads belong to all of us BTW. Public forum not a blog.
 
Please let me know how this can be supported by the holy scriptures. Thanks
 
fhansen said:
We’re all made in God’s image-and in truth we can’t “live, and move, and have our being” without Him, but the Fall of man could be said to be the point where the Master went away, or went “dormant” in us, or in any case where man ceased to hear and heed Him necessarily. We lost the “knowledge of God”, to know Him. And this is exactly the knowledge Jesus came to restore, when man was ready for that light, even if just barely. To know Him is to be reborn, awakened form our sleep, arisen from our death. It was never really He who was dormant but ourselves.
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Beautiful! Just BEAUTIFUL! ☁️
 
Sacred scripture and sacred tradition. We are not protestant.

However if you go to the Gospel and the Catechism , you will find what you need.

I am not sure which of those you are researching?
 
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What is the kingdom of God.
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Romans 14:17 “For the kingdom of God does not mean food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit;”

righteousness = Right relationships with God, self, and others,
peace= that surpasses all understanding
joy = hope and confidence that the good work begun in us will be completed.

The Kingdom is both within us, and among us.
 
I was thinking Matthew too, then there is John and Acts.

Lots of good reading
 
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21 and there will be no one to say, “Look, it is here! Look, it is there!” For look, the kingdom of God is among you.’
(from Catholic Online Bible)
 
By virtue of the incarnation, God is joined to every man by his power and essence. But those who are closer to the first mind, and share more of Him than just by secondary causes or fate, are in a willing partnership by grace. "The Church is the goal of all things…Just as God’s will is creation and is called “the world,” so his intention is the salvation of men, and it is called “the Church.” (CCC 760)

We can rightly say from St. Thomas, that purpose is connected in meaning with the term predestination (Rom, C. 1, L. 3, 43). Jesus is priest (designated in beginning of Luke), prophet (…Mark), and King (…Matthew) (Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, HicEst, 2). The Catechism assigns these designations as ‘offices’ of the laity (Cf. CCC 785-786). And so, those who live out from the supernatural reality of the First Mind in the regeneration of baptism are the Kingdom: “Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.” (1 Pet 2:6) “Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time. For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” (2 Pet 1:10-11)
 
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Well from my own personal perspective, I refer back to what St. Teresa of Avila saw in her vision of a soul…
…a most beautiful crystal globe, made in the shape of a castle, and containing seven mansions, in the seventh and innermost of which was the King of Glory, in the greatest splendour, illumining and beautifying them all. The nearer one got to the centre, the stronger was the light; outside the palace limits everything was foul, dark and infested with toads, vipers and other venomous creatures.
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For those in a state of grace the Holy Spirit dwells within them. She also spoke of what she saw a soul in mortal sin looked like.
Before passing on, I want you to consider what will be the state of this castle, so beautiful and resplendent this Orient pearl, this tree of life, planted in the living waters of life – namely, in God – when the soul falls into a mortal sin. No thicker darkness exists, and there is nothing dark and black which is not much less so than this. You need know only one thing about it – that, although the Sun Himself, Who has given it all its splendour and beauty, is still there in the centre of the soul, it is as if He were not there for any participation which the soul has in Him, though it is as capable of enjoying Him as is the crystal of reflecting the sun.
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Let me say that again. Where did you find that information in the Bible. thanks
 
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