THE KINGDOM OF GOD BETWEEN OURSELVES IT IS

When we listen to the expression " God's Kingdom " the first thing that we think is in the life after the death, under the perfect and future government of the loving Creator, where it( anyone will not have time if not for the leisure and the contemplation, you free of any need, obligation and suffering. Maybe manage to be like that, or slightly similar. But the certain thing is that the Bible teaches that God from a beginning has wanted to exercise sovereignty on an own proper people.

    Initially he chose Israel's nation for the above mentioned intention: " Now, so, if you will give ear to my voice, and you will guard my agreement, you will be my special exchequer on all the peoples; because mine it is the whole Earth. And you  will be a priests' kingdom, and holy people. These are the words that you will say to the children of Israel " (Ex-. 19.5-6). The earthly Israel had, so, the exclusive privilege of being the people of God, away of the corruption and paganism of other nations of the world. 

  

 But with the time it they demonstrated not to be worthy of so big dignity. Many years this people lived under the sovereignty of the Eternal one, and in consequence his their national unit and independence preserved as State.    Nevertheless to move away from God they transported a great division of  their  kingdom, beside time being submitted after time to pagan foreign powers. From the exile they cried out God for liberation, and this one promised across  their  prophets, to send them a liberating king who they was returning the national independence with their full freedom of worship to the real God.

   These " guests to the great dinner " (Lc. 14. 15-24) rejected their  promised Salvador (Jn. 1.11-13). They were waiting for a great leader politician - military man (Jn 6.14-15); but instead of it they found the humble son of a carpenter raised in a people  of bad  reputation (Lc. 4.16; Jn. 1.46), speaking of loving the enemies (Mt 5.43-48), and saying that their  kingdom was not of this world (Jn 18.36). 

   They neither understood it nor accepted it. But I disdain this one on the part of many Jews also were doing part of the great divine program of redemption; and the Anointed one of the Gentleman, with his martyrdom, was constituted at the top legitimate of this new government, already not earthly and geographically, but spiritually and unlimited. Because of it Jesus said to the Jews: " The God's kingdom will be removed of you, and it will be given to people who produces

    Later on the Messiah said to his followers: " do not be afraid, small herd, because to your Father the placid one you is to give the kingdom " (Lc. 12.32).

    Before the incredulity of those who were listening to it, Jesus they declared: " if I for the God's Spirit throw out the demons, certainly the God's kingdom has come to you " (Mt. 12.28).   " Asked about the pharisees, when the God's kingdom had to come, he answered to them and said: The God's kingdom will not come with warning, they nor will say: Helo here, or helo there; because is here the God's kingdom there is between (among) you " (Lc 17.20-21). The apostle Paul understood, accepted and shared with happiness this truth: " ... on pleasure meeting thanks to the Father who made us suitable to take part of the heredity of the saints in light; which(who) has freed us of the legal authority of the glooms and moved to the kingdom of his dear Son " (It) (Seep 1.12-13) .He was hapy to take part in the God's Kingdom, and for it it was working for its development. (It) (seep 4.11) " The law and the prophets were up to Juan; since then the God's kingdom is announced, and they all strain for entering it. " (Lc 16.16)

   There can inform of this kingdom all those who, not with the soberbia of the self-sufficiency, but with the humility typical of the children (Lc 18.17), accept that alone to our blessed Salvador the kingdom belongs(concerns) " the power and the glory " (Mt 6.13).

   But to take part in this Kingdom does not mean to benefit from it selfishly, but to turn of fact and really partly of the same "Body", in members of the God's holy nation: " Mas you are select lineage, real priesthood, holy nation, people acquired by God, in order that you announce the virtues of that one that called you from the glooms to his admirable light " (I-P.2.9). We might speak, so, according to everything seen, of longing the national integration of the People of God, under the sublime Government of our blessed King Savior.