One of the challenges for many Christians in regards to conceptualizing the true depth of the Kingdom of God, is the finite conditioning we've received from living on this planet. If the prayer that Jesus taught us to pray is going to become a reality, we have to start making the difference between the temporal realm and the eternal realm (Matthew 6). Needless to say, they are not synonymous.
The challenge is that many of us, as much as we love the Lord and worship God, are still being restricted by the limitations of the temporal realm instead of learning how to operate and function primarily within the eternalrRealm. In order for us to be used by God to usher in His Kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven, we must begin to make this shift.
The first thing that we need to come to grips with is that man (humanity) was not created to be finite. God made us in His Image and after His likeness (Genesis 1), which means we were made to be eternal. Not just live eternally, but to be eternal. Another challenge that many of us have is we think of eternal life as life without death. Wrong. This conceptualization is incorrect.
Eternal life is not just "unending life," it's GOD'S LIFE. Every created human being will live eternally (in heaven or hell), but not every human being will experience eternal life. So, we must come to understand that God did not create us to live within the restrictions of finite existence but within the realm and dynamics of eternal existence in Him.
Next we need to understand what it means to actually have eternal life. Eternal Llfe, once again, is not just mortal existence that has no ending; it's immortal existence defined by the life Of God. This is the realm that Adam and Eve operated in before The Fall, and the realm that Jesus operated in as the Son of God. This eternal life, the God Life, is marked by living and operating in the Glory of God.
The supernatural realm of the Glory of God is the standard that God has established for His human creation. This was modeled and exemplified by His Only Begotten Son, Jesus the Christ. Now, as the born-again children of God, redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb (Jesus Christ), we are now, through the regenerative and transforming work of the Holy Spirit, supposed to regain that which Adam had in the Garden of Eden, and what Jesus demonstrated when He walked the earth in human flesh. This, my brothers and sisters, is Eternal Life.
Once we assume our position and inheritance in the supernatural-eternal realm, we will live at a level that will exceed the imagination. Time travel, translation, multiplication, working of miracles, signs and wonders; all of these things, and many more, will be the norm for the believer who has learned how to tap into the dimension of eternal life found in and through Jesus the Christ. This is what the Father has in store for His children. This is the Inheritance of the saints. Not just in the bye and bye, but in the here and now. But in order to experience this realm, we have to release the ties to the Temporal, and walk by faith into the Eternal.
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