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In This Issue
1. Kingdom or Religion
- A Serious Need
2. TRANSFIGURATION
3. News of God's Earthly Kingdom

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1. Kingdom or Religion - A Serious Need

By Ron McGatlin

A serious need is developing among many sincere Christian believers. This is a serious development that is seeking to weaken the strength of kingdom disciples and restrain the growth of kingdom reality in our world. In human understanding truth severely out of balance becomes a partial truth that is a diversion at best and destructive or even a deadly error at worst. I feel the Holy Spirit is voicing a plea for God’s people to re-center their focus upon Christ Jesus the Lord/King and His message to the world, the gospel of the kingdom.

The focus of personal redemption and assurance of heaven after death as the end or goal of the work of Christ Jesus has recently moved a step further that is taking some believers over the edge of a cliff falling into an ocean of delusion. With this focus the value of a holy life experience is minimized if not totally lost.

The value of a holy life is the ability to become the building blocks for the kingdom of God on earth.

The world groans waiting to be set free and restored to its original design aligned with the rule of God from heaven. Focusing on the kingdom coming forth by the power of the sinless life of Christ Jesus in us keeps us on solid ground of truly holy living. This keeps us far from the cliff’s edge of regarding our continued disobedience and sensual living as holy in God’s kingdom. Believing a sinful life is equally as productive as the holy life of Christ truly living in us is delusion and will not build the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.

The kingdom of God is much more than Christian religion.

Unity comes by God’s kingdom reality and cannot come through religion.

Oneness with God and with one another is possible only as we lift our eyes upward toward the kingdom of God and away from our religious views based upon anything other than Christ Jesus and His very present kingdom from heaven on earth.

In a very real way, focusing on Christ Jesus and the heavenly kingdom manifesting on earth lifts our minds and hearts above our earthly differences. We should set our affection on things above not on things on the earth; our minds are to be set on the things above, spiritual things and not earthly things (Col 3:2).

The kingdom from heaven is established on earth by Christ Jesus abiding in those who abide in Him and are seated with Him at the throne of God in heaven (Eph 2:6). This is a spiritual work taking place in the spiritual realm in and by the Spirit of God.

The manifestation of what is done in the spiritual realm coming forth in the natural earthly realm is the manifest kingdom of God in the sons of God on earth. The manifest sons are those in whom Christ is appearing or manifesting into the natural world.

The manifestation of Christ in His Body and Bride on earth is a presentation of Christ in us carrying out the will of our Father, establishing His rule in our lives and then through us into the world. It is the kingdom rule of God on earth. This is all done apart from sin and full of His glory.

Reconciled by His Death – Saved by His Life

Rom 5:10:For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Note that after having been reconciled “we shall be saved by his life.

In the passing church emphasis age, much church doctrine saw salvation as being for the primary purpose of going to heaven after we died and not much more.

As God is in these days uncovering the revelation of the kingdom, much more light is shed on the reality of the salvation of our lives now in this world.

The distinction between being reconciled to God by the death of Christ and our lives now being saved by His life in us is being brought to light.

In the past I personally had wondered about this verse thinking that it spoke of His life on earth in His incarnate body. It did not make sense to me how He could save us by His life back then. Were we not saved by His death, was my thinking. I was focused on saved as meaning to go to heaven after death. The revelation of Christ in us and our being as crucified with Christ and the life that we live now being the life of Christ in us opened the truth of our lives now on earth being saved by His life being lived in us.

Our sin was reconciled at the cross of the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who came from heaven to give His life as a ransom for many. Being reconciled, all who believe will turn to Him, give their lives to Him, and are spiritually reconnected to God from which we came. Having been reconciled in Spirit we are heavenly spirit beings seated with Christ at the right hand of God in the kingdom of Heaven.

After being reconciled, we are yet in need of true biblical salvation of our souls (minds, wills, and emotions) and our bodies which are yet here on earth.

The word translated “salvation” in the New Testament is “sôtrion” and comes from the root word “Sozo” often translated as “saved” and means delivered out of danger to safety, deliverance from the power of sin to safety, healing, or made well or restored.

True biblical salvation (sozo) has to do with our being transfigured by the Spirit of Christ Jesus abiding in us transfiguring our natural earthly souls and bodies into the Body of Christ. The kingdom is not about going to heaven when we die, though we thank God for the believers’ assurance of that. The kingdom of God on earth is about heaven coming to earth. All that has been damaged or perverted through our sin heritage and ungodly experience is being healed or made well. Biblical salvation (sozo) is all the purity, righteousness, love, power, and wisdom that the enemy has stolen from us being restored in this life.

Heb 9:28: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

Our lives on earth are being saved, made whole, for His purposes on earth. We have a work to be done by His power working through us. His grace empowerment of supernatural love, power, and wisdom in Christ in us are the agents of kingdom change in this world. It is the work of Christ Jesus carried out by the grace of God that brings righteousness, peace, and joy to a lost and suffering world. Sons transfigured by Christ will transform the world by and for the GLORY OF GOD.

The Grace Work of Kingdom Restoration

The gospel of the kingdom, the good news that Christ Jesus proclaimed while on earth in His incarnate body is the same good news that He is now proclaiming while in His Body and Bride on earth now in the Holy Spirit. King Jesus, when He bodily returns will receive His glorified Bride in the kingdom of heaven on earth that He has established in and through His transfigured mature Sons of God.

As Christ Jesus endured His cross for the glory that was set before Him, let us each now willingly take up our cross and pass through the great travail of a world being cleansed and changed for the glory set before us now. Let us fully live by the SPIRIT and walk continually in the SPIRIT and thereby know life without the lusts of the flesh and the pride of this life, filled with His life and love, moving only as He moves, and doing only that which He is doing. The entire world is the field of His realistic dreams that govern the world as the kingdom of our ONE GOD - FATHER, SON, and HOLY SPIRIT. Amen and Amen!

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit - Rom 5:25.

Live in the Spirit, Walk in the Spirit,

Ron McGatlin

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2. TRANSFIGURATION

By Amanda Leonard

I see heaven colliding with earth. I see people in a fluid filled sac that is getting ready to erupt at a point of contact. The point of contact is heaven colliding with earth, His love is crashing over the world. He is bringing forth change and His ocean is about to wreck the earth. I see people coming out from this fluid filled sac and they hit the ground running, they are running to the lost, the hurting, the broken and shining the light, love and glory of the Father. His love poured as the sac oozed from the rupture. I hear the word alignment. God is aligning everything that has been out of line, displaced, unnecessary, unlove and He is throwing it out to make room for the new, this new ‘baby’ that is coming!

I began to inquire of the Lord what this ‘baby’s’ name would be and its function. Immediately after asking Him, I heard Him say……TRANSFIGURATION. He began to recall to my mind Jesus at the Mount of Transfiguration and the glory that He beheld, the unveiling of the His realm.

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