Did you know there are no consequences in The Kingdom?  It’s true and I’ll explain why in a minute.

First off I’ll have to explain how my experience of The Kingdom looks.  There are 2 completely different systems of living life on planet Earth.  One is God’s system which Jesus called The Kingdom.  The other is mankinds system which scripture usually calls The World.

The Kingdom and The World exist simultaneously inside each of us and battle for our attention every day.  We choose each day which system we serve.

THE WORLD

The World system is about doing for ourselves.  It’s the ego supplying its own needs.  We do it through hard work, boundaries, laws, governments, and punishments.  They are all World systems created by ego to supply what we want and a way to do it ourselves.

Christians call the ego the old man, the carnal nature, and such. And they think it is destroyed the moment we are “saved”.  Unfortunately, the death of the ego isn’t something that happens once. It’s not even something we can do via a sinners prayer. The ego usually suffers a death during a trauma, when we have exhausted everything we know to do and surrender to God in totality.  We give up heart, soul, body, and everything we love including any of our rights.  As a result, we see God for the first time and are captivated by His great Love.  This is the doorway to The Kingdom.

The ego or World system didn’t exist in the Garden.  That was where Adam and Eve lived exclusively in The Kingdom.  But when they discovered the Tree of Good and Evil, they discovered the ego or The World system.  It’s where good and evil are judged through the lens of Self.  But notice the Tree of Life didn’t judge between good and evil and that’s because it only has one lens.  Everything is seen only through Father, His Kingdom where no evil exists.

THE KINGDOM

The Kingdom system is about God doing everything.  Thereby He sets us free from control and boundaries of the ego.  Ego doesn’t exist in The Kingdom.  Father God is The Kingdom and everyone who lives in Him lives in Love.

We don’t understand or live FROM The Kingdom simply by saying a sinner’s prayer at an altar.  Nor is it a decision we made once in our life with possible re-dedications in the future.  The Kingdom exists inside each one of us, but we can’t even find it or see it without the death of the ego.

It is God’s system of living on planet Earth through Him.  No one is between Him and us.  We are One and we learn to rule and reign with Him.  All our needs or wants are readily met.  Not like anything we’ve ever seen before on Earth.  That’s why Jesus is seated next to us.  To show us how it works.

THE MIX

Because we haven’t recognized these two systems within us, we continue to attempt mixing them together.  And then we ask God to bless the mixture.  But the chaos of The World continues working in our mixture.  We cannot serve two masters at once.  We’ll hate the one and love the other.

The only way to live in The Kingdom system is to completely come out of The World system.  Not by physical death.  But through the fiery trauma of our own Apocolypse.  The one that Revelation describes symbolically.  It’s where the ego and The Kingdom are recognized, one is chosen and preferred and the other is defeated.  They both continue to exist just as Revelation describes Satan continues to exist after thrown into the fiery pit. We can’t keep him in the pit and eventually, he’s released again.  Which symbolizes our ego’s death in the fire of our trauma.  But its continued survival inside us.  This is why we must choose daily which master to serve.

CONSEQUENCES

Inside The Kingdom, there are no consequences because there is no law except one, Love.  Everything is paid.  Everything is finished.  Love is the only government in our lives or hearts or souls.

I understand completely how impossible this is to imagine.  It sounds like a pie-in-the-sky fairy tale that makes no sense.  And we laugh just as Sarah laughed at the notion of having a baby at 99 years old.

Until the ego’s death, we can’t see The Kingdom or begin to understand it.  Therefore how would we possibly begin to live FROM it?

In The Kingdom, our hearts are continually surrendered and our minds filled with visions of perfection.  Problems become an opportunity for blessings.  Miracles happen.  Mistakes change into perfection.  Needs and wants are filled.

The Kingdom isn’t a change of heart, it’s the dawning of a different system of existence right here on Earth.  We discover that it existed the whole time inside us and we simply couldn’t see or fathom it.

Because there is only Love, there are no consequences necessary.  And the only way we suffer consequences is to still believe in them, expect them, and plan for them.  This is when we are still mixing the 2 systems.

The Kingdom manifests into our life what we see inside and believe in our heart.  We are the rulers.  But because we are not accustomed to living this way, it takes learning.  Meantime, we still manifest The World or the ego’s way of life sometimes.  And that’s why it’s a journey with Jesus as our teacher. He is not our dictator.  For example, He will never force us to accept perfection in our kingdom before we see it and believe it.

AN EXAMPLE FROM MY LIFE

When Hunny was delivered from alcoholism, it was one of those fiery traumatic moments for him.  An end of the world, inner Apocalypse sort of thing which had happened to him before, but this time he surrendered unconditionally.  All was lost to him.

He was not suddenly changed into a perfect person.  Rather, he committed other “sin”.  It took several years of his journey before change became evident.

Meantime, he drove without a license another year or two before facing the sentencing of an old DUI he’d eluded.  I was sure lots of jail time would result because it was his 3rd DUI.

But his heart was increasingly loving and generous, so I grieved his pending consequences. 

“Father, I know what he did was wrong and illegal and that all the punishments are well deserved.  But none of us have ever deserved Your forgiveness.  So, if his sentence can be lessened, then I’m asking for it.”

Father said: “What would you like to happen?”

I’m ashamed to admit that I still wanted a small pound of flesh for the suffering I’d lived with him.  So, I asked for reduced jail time to 2-4 weeks.  And I felt justified in my judgment.  (LOL)

Yep, he got 4 weeks in jail with Work Release which was an unbelievable sentence for a 3rd DUI with 2 years of eluding.

Since then, I’ve learned the whole thing could have been erased.   Lost paperwork.  Legal mistakes.  Computer glitches.  All sorts of things happen when The Kingdom system superimposes The World system.  

WHAT ABOUT JUSTICE?

Does Justice simply disappear in The Kingdom?  How can that be right? 

Well if you’ve really come to know Father God intimately, then you know He’s forgiven you before the incident even happens.  He isn’t waiting for His pound of flesh from you.  Payment for sin is not what makes you or me a better person.  It simply makes us more conformed, behaved, and acceptable to The World.  It doesn’t make us more genuinely loving, more like Him.

Justice is what happens in The World, not The Kingdom.  Why would there be a need for Justice in a system where everything and everyone operates from pure Love?

Remember when Jesus forgave all our sins?  The effect of that happens inside The Kingdom.  It isn’t a real thing in The World.  It’s simply a concept that can never be truly understood.  But we still try to mix it in.

The World won’t become The Kingdom.  The Kingdom overcomes The World.  Which means each of us is flooded with The Kingdom until The World (the ego) virtually disappears from inside us.  One person at a time, The Kingdom grows and covers the Earth.

THE EFFECTS OF THE KINGDOM

The fruit of The Kingdom is righteousness, peace, and joy.  And this is how it works.

Righteousness is actually “right-ness“.  Everything seems to fall into place the right way.  Even when bad news comes, it miraculously turns right.  Most of the time a prayer isn’t needed and things turn out right.

Peace is an actual atmosphere that affects everyone who comes into contact with it.  Chaotic situations seem to magically calm down.  Angry people wind-down like a clock and stop their tirades. 

Then there’s Joy which seems to be effervescent like soda pop.  There’s laughing at everything, joking, and at times nothing is taken seriously.

Righteousness, peace, and joy aren’t facades we wear in The Kingdom.  They are the result that plays out around us as we live as One with Father.  THAT is fruit.

BELIEVERS WHO SIN

They aren’t really our concern because they are either learning or on their way to a traumatic awakening.  Watch and wait.  Their fruit will show up.

Life in The World system dishes out plenty of judgment and consequences.  Even when it looks like nothing is happening, patience will reveal it.  Evil falls with a very loud bang.

Another man’s sin is not our responsibility to fix or correct.  It’s his own.  His free will and choice.  We may point it out to him in an effort to snatch him from the fire of The World judgment that will inevitably fall on him, but his path is still his own.  Father will never leave him or forsake him and there will always come that moment of trial or trauma that will open the eyes of his heart.

Nothing really works in The World system.  But it isn’t because evil is stronger.  It’s because the ego is simply not able to create, or supply.  And we’re ignorant about how The Kingdom works since most of our teaching is behavior modification.

The Kingdom has no need of that because behavior changes naturally from the effects.  It’s a glory to glory journey of seeing Him as He truly is.

CONCLUSION

Jesus said not to lose heart because He has overcome The World.  Trust Him.  He talked about The Kingdom constantly and I’ve shared some of my own journey in my book MY KINGDOM.

“Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God, Himself will be with them and be their God.   And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”  Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.”  Rev.  21:3-5

Blessings on your journey without consequences.

Faith