Reference: John 3:3, 5
There is a teaching in the religious worldtoday that seems as if everybody has accepted as being what the word of Godreveals in the Bible. This teaching concerns the second coming of Christ tothis earth to set up an earthly kingdom. This teaching is actually leadingpeople away from the truth that the Bible truly reveals. Why do you think Jesustold Nicodemus that he had to be born again to see and to enter into thekingdom of God? If Christ is coming to set up his kingdom on this earth thenthis would mean that a person would not have to be born again to enter it. Thiswould mean that to be born again is not a spiritual birth. Since the spiritualbirth is a spiritual work then this exclusively proves that the kingdom of Godis not an earthly realm or that it can be seen with the natural eye. The truthof the matter is that the kingdom of God is not of this world that the naturaleye or the natural mind can comprehend. A person can enter the spiritualkingdom of God ever since Christ came to this earth hundreds of years ago andrevealed the knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of God. The kingdom ofGod is a kingdom where the natural man cannot understand or enter into unlesshe is born again. To enter God's kingdom, a person must undergo the process ofit, being born into it by the work of the water and the Spirit. The kingdom ofGod is in another realm that the natural minded individual absolutely cannotunderstand. God's kingdom is like saying that it is in another dimension.
Thisis a place where it is thought to be a realm that is not connected with thenatural realm of life. The spiritual realm is a place that the naturalunregenerated man cannot understand nor enter because nothing of materialsubstance can leave the natural and enter the spiritual realm of life. Jesusmade it very clear that a man could enter into the kingdom of God only by beingborn again of water and the Spirit. Christ did not mean that a man could enterinto the kingdom of God with his natural body of flesh, but rather he meantthat a man can enter the kingdom through the process of the new birth. The new birth places a man in the kingdom ofGod by his being transformed from his natural way of life unto a spiritual wayof life. A man that has been born again of the water and the Spirit has beentranslated from his natural way of life into another kind of life directlyopposite to his old way of life. We are told that if any man be in Christ thenthey have become a new creature where old things have passed away and allthings are become new. The old things that have passed away is the old naturalway of life and the new things is the completely new life that is lived in thekingdom of God. This realm of the kingdom of God is a place that the people ofthe world has no knowledge of. Jesus said that the children of God are not ofthe world but yet they are in the world. Being in the world and being of theworld is very much two different things altogether. The true christian is inthe world but they are not of the world meaning they do not partake of thethings of the world allowing them to motivate them. A person who is yet of theworld are those that live in the world and go along with it in all respects.Jesus said that those that are the children of God are not known of the world.In other words he meant that the world will disown them and will actually hatethem. This would be because the children of God will not go along with the waythat the natural people live. The natural man is of the world and lives the waythat is contrary to the way that the word of God reveals. God's way is denyingyour life in this natural realm and obey what his word says to do. Obeying theword of God will lead you into a different life directly opposite to thenatural way of life. In this realm of life you will not be known and loved bythe world. The life that a child of God will live is a life of constantly doingthings that is pleasing to the Heavenly Father. To do things pleasing in God'ssight can only be done in the realm where God dwells. We are told in Matthew 6:1-18 that when we doour alms we are not to do them in the sight of men or else we will receive noreward from the Heavenly Father. Jesus said that his Father sees only insecret. In secret is where Almighty Godsees what is done, in order that he can reward them that do their alms. Godrewards them openly that do their alms in secret. A person that does their almsbefore men will only receive a reward from men. When most people do their almsthey blow a trumpet to get recognition from the public. They think they aredoing works worthy of eternal life, but they are being deceived by their way ofdoing things. How many people do you know that do their alms in secret whereonly God will know what they have done? Those who do their alms in secret arethey that have been born again and are in the kingdom of God. In this place thetrue child of God does things not to be seen of men or otherwise they willreceive no reward of the Heavenly Father. Living in the place where only Godcan know what you are doing will keep you hidden from the world. This is whyJesus said that the world will not know you nor will they love you. Watch thecarnal confessing christians sound a trumpet when they give a gift to somecharitable organization. These people claim salvation but why do they not givetheir alms in secret not allowing the world to know what they did? The reason isbecause they are hypocrites seeking the glory and praises of man and not God.Why do people love praying, standing in the synagogues and on the streetcorners, instead of praying in secret where only God knows about it? Why domost people do their alms where thepublic can know all about it? The reasons are simple, because they are a bunchof hypocrites loving the praises of man more than the praises of God. Anybodythat thinks that Christ is coming to this earth to set up the kingdom of God,forcing peace on this earth, are not born again christians because they aredenying the very power of God having only a form of godliness. The kingdom ofGod is a spiritual kingdom where all true christians dwell spiritually. Youenter this kingdom through the spiritual birth, which is accomplished throughand by your obedience to the revealed truth of the gospel of Christ. The verygospel that will transform a believer into the light of God's righteous kingdomis being rejected and spoken evil against today by the religious world. Friendthere is absolutely no reason why you should be deceived by some lying ministerof Satan that will lead you to a devil's hell. Do you belong to the group thatdo their alms in secret or do you belong to the group that blows their trumpetseeking the glory and praises of man? Why don't you check out your pastor withthe way the Bible reveals about doing almsdeeds? Why is it that everytime youlook at the religious section of the newspaper you find some church tootingtheir little horn every time they are about to do some kind of a deed? Thisshould give you insomnia not being able to close your eyes for a week or so.Why do the church send their poor people to the welfare department instead ofusing the money to help them get back on their feet? Would you say that theaverage church group today pile all their money in the wrong building, which ismade of brick and wood instead of flesh and bones?