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Truth of the Spirit shines the light on the Kingdom on Earth as It Is in Heaven. Trusting the Lord in all things is the key to the kingdom of God. Those who accept God’s grace in fullness bring His kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. The physical Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist brought the Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. St. Cyprian said: “It may even be . . . that the Kingdom of God means Christ himself.” The truth will set free those imprisoned by the darkness of sin. The Father sent His Son as the rescuer. Presented by host Patti Brunner.
Whenever a tea-kettle whistles it relays the message that the water is boiling and ready. There are many signs and wonders, just as clear, that help us discern the Will of the Father. It is the will of the Father that His “Kingdom come, His will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”. The Great I Am is with us always; the Kingdom is here; God is here. The physical Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist brought the Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. As each person fully allows His Presence into their hearts you will see. As the angels ascend and descend to minister to the Lamb, the Blood of the Lamb brings salvation and freedom to the captives of sin. As Paul was set free of the narrow view of the covenant promise, so shall the believers of the nations find unity in the Body of Christ.
Welcome to Truth of the Spirit. I am your host, Patti Brunner. Today’s episode shines the light of truth on “the “Kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven”. The Kingdom is where God is. The physical Presence of Jesus, of God, in the Eucharist brought the Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
Jesus taught us to pray: “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Do you seek to enter the kingdom on earth as it is in heaven? Remember God loves us and established the Church before the creation of the world to show the path, the Way of salvation and to nourish the followers of Christ Jesus. How can this be? “To carry out the will of the Father Christ inaugurated the kingdom of heaven on earth.” Jesus gave us the Eucharist, a moment of infinity. The definition of time requires the passage of that time. Yet in eternity all time is now and forever.
Know that the Kingdom is here. The Kingdom is where God is. The physical Presence of Jesus, of God, in the Eucharist brought the Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. This moment in time is so special because it is the moment of our salvation—it is a unique moment where time eternal enters our heart and we are one with God. God desires that we should be aware, that our heart comprehends and that our life be changed.
As you prepare to receive Him—to be aware of His Presence among you, hear these words: In the darkness of the earth there came a great Light, and truth was seen, and truth was known.
The eternal kingdom of heaven has no darkness. The kingdom on earth does—until the kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. The earth and all its possessions shall pass away as the Kingdom of God stands on the firm foundation of the Word of the Lamb.
John’s Gospel begins [Ch. 1]: “1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God; 3 all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
St. Paul had a light shine in his darkness. He had misunderstood the Kingdom of God. His zeal for God and the Jewish faith caused him to persecute those who followed Jesus. After his mystical encounter with Christ he realized that as a body is one – though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves, or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit. [1 Cor 12:12-13]. As Paul was set free of the narrow view of the covenant promise, so shall the believers of the nations find unity in the Body of Christ.
The heavenly hosts sing alleluia as the kingdom of God is made known to the children of Israel, the children of Abraham. Noah stepped out in faith, was obedient, and saved a generation and a people. Jesus Christ, your Lord and Savior, has stepped out in obedience and saved all generations. The Lord calls us to cooperate with the grace of salvation to enter into the realm of glory to speak to the Bridegroom and to consummate the union—the communion to which you were created.
The everlasting need of the people is to be loved. It is indeed the purpose for which you were created. Sin, death, fear all keep the fulfillment of love at bay. Repentance, obedience, acceptance allow the grace of redemption to remove the barriers that keep God’s love from penetrating your hearts, your souls, your very being.
As you continue to seek God’s face you ‘work out’ your salvation by setting aside the things of the world and embracing the Father’s love. Trusting the Lord in all things is the key to the kingdom of God. Only by letting go and letting God can the release from the power of darkness in your life be complete. That power of darkness has been overcome by the Blood of the Lamb but the power of darkness is used against the people by their own submission and permission to it. Selfishness is the banner that sets all sin into the hearts. Trust in God is the key that unlocks the heart and sets it free.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph #2816 shares this: “… The Kingdom of God lies ahead of us. It is brought near in the Word incarnate, it is proclaimed throughout the whole Gospel, and it has come in Christ’s death and Resurrection. The Kingdom of God has been coming since the Last Supper and, in the Eucharist, it is in our midst. The kingdom will come in glory when Christ hands it over to his Father”. The Catechism then quotes St. Cyprian who said:
“It may even be . . . that the Kingdom of God means Christ himself, whom we daily desire to come, and whose coming we wish to be manifested quickly to us. For as he is our resurrection, since in him we rise, so he can also be understood as the Kingdom of God, for in him we shall reign.”
Know this: the kingdom on earth as it is in heaven shall be done according to the will of the Father. It is done. As time unfolds you shall see this and many shall thus believe. Blessed are those who believe yet who cannot see with their personal eyes only with the spiritual.
In the Kingdom of God, the righteousness of the Holy One centers the lives to mark the joy of the goodness of man created in the image of God. The eternal Word sends forth the breath of God into the far reaches, into the “four corners”, into the hearts of all mankind past, present, future. As the ruah, the breath, the Spirit of God, takes up its rest—like a bird upon its roost—the heart is transformed and the kingdom of God is “expanded” within that heart and lives are changed. As the Spirit of God dwells upon the earth the Kingdom of God does also. The Catechism paragraph #2819 reminds us: “The kingdom of God [is] righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” The end-time in which we live is the age of the outpouring of the Spirit. Ever since Pentecost, a decisive battle has been joined between “the flesh” and the Spirit. Only a pure soul can boldly say: “Thy kingdom come.””
“Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand” truly points the Way. It is the Way of the Word of God. And the Word was made flesh that all might be saved. As man rejects, as man refuses to accept, as man lives in ignorance—these issues interfere; they barricade the life giving grace of the Kingdom. “Turn, O turn to the Lord and be saved.” As you continue this journey, forget not God’s love for you.
As the angels ascend and descend to minister to the Lamb, the Blood of the Lamb brings salvation and freedom to the captives of sin. When the glory of the kingdom touches the heavenly hosts, they do the bidding of their master and rescue those in need. The angels delight in providing help to you, know this: service to the Lord, your God, your King, ranks high in the desire of all who know Him, who see His face. Continue to serve the Lord in all that you do. Reach out to the lost, the forsaken and those who are ignorant of truth. This you must tell them: God loves. God is love; God is joy; God is peace. His peace He gives you. He fills you with joy. His love transforms you as you transcend into the heavenly realm of His kingdom. Continue to stretch and grow. The desire of the Father is made known through the Son.
When those who have freewill continue to step away from their Lord and Savior they can fall into the chasm which has no bottom, forever to be separated from the God who continues to love them. Certainly there is hope. As long as the moon shines upon the earth’s waters, there is hope. When the desecrated is made holy, when the punished are set free, when heaven and earth stands still in the Glory of God—then you shall see the judgment of the righteous and the wicked. Whenever the darkness meets the Light it must leave. Continue to shine the Light of the Lord into the recesses of darkness.
The Kingdom of God is upon you. You must stop living in darkness, if you want joy and happiness. The truth will set you free. Many have not heard truth even though it has been taught to them.
The truth will set free those imprisoned by the darkness of sin. The Father sent His Son as the rescuer. Salvation has been made possible by the Blood of the Lamb. The Father did this because He loves you. As you choose the righteous path, your burdens will lessen. As you in turn, reach out to help others to know truth, the enemies’ power over them shall diminish. The enemy is defeated. He hangs on only by feeding on the destruction, the wounds caused by sin.
Jesus came upon the earth to restore you to the heavenly kingdom. Jesus came to give freedom to the captives—even those who have created their own prison and those who are oblivious to the fact that they are not free in their lives.
As we reach out in faith many shall continue their walk in the Light of Christ. The darkness draws many. Spend your time in complete trust in the name of the Lord. The enemy has been overcome. The righteous shall now inherit the earth. The kingdom has been established on earth as it is in heaven. Jesus overcame to heal, to drive out demons, and to manifest God’s glory. He demonstrated God’s kingdom on earth and taught you to pray each day for the kingdom to be manifested on earth as it is in heaven.
The everlasting realm of the Kingdom of God is indeed in your midst. As you seek you shall find. You have already found the kingdom when God is within your heart. Continuously, the kingdom fades from ‘view’ as the heart drifts.
The desert seems to be because the fullness of the earthly pleasures has been swept away and the lack of fullness—even of this—makes one feel ‘empty’. Yet it is precisely at this time that the Lord, your God, calls upon you to be filled with the grace stored for you. Until the grace is ‘applied’ that is poured out in service unto God and fellow man—the repentant heart seems empty. The more that is poured out to God and to others the greater the satisfaction and “hunger” and ‘thirst’ is satiated; it is taken care of.
Seek the Lord and He shall be found! Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be given unto you. What things? Joy, peace, love, wealth, power, riches in relationship, and health according to the perfection of creation before the taint of the first sin. Jesus bore the sins of all and has redeemed you from them.
The continuing need for the power and grace of God shows the dependence that is warranted with God Almighty and those who shall inherit heaven and earth as the kingdom is released to those who trust in the Lord and have made him Lord in their lives. The basic truth of love escapes the grasp of many. They look to self for happiness and self for their needs. The Lord has spoken this truth to all generations yet they did not turn towards Him.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God. To this end you should live your life. Always weigh the consequences, the effect upon others when you make your daily decisions and especially the difficult and ‘important’ decisions. The everlasting love of God for his people continues in sickness and in death—in sin and through forgiveness, in health, prosperity and joy. Be comforted, your God, the Great I Am, loves you. There is no greater message than this for you to hear and accept. The delivered enjoy the fruits of their savior. The sinful have blocked the joy of knowing that they are loved and thus sin abounds, sin increases. When repentance and forgiveness enters the heart lives are changed. Perhaps slowly, but surely! The kingdom of God shall be inhabited by sinners who have accepted righteousness through Jesus Christ. Acknowledging their sin and the need of redemption will bring many into repentance and the fullness of the kingdom of God.
The Way of the Lord seeks to ‘change’, to transform culture into the Kingdom culture. As you identify your neighbor as the least among you, you ‘change’ the ‘thinking’ of your time. What ‘seems’ to be so may not be. Ask the Lord to see others the way He does. As you love as he does; as you welcome others as you welcome the Lord, truly the kingdom shall be on earth as it is in heaven.
Continue to reach beyond your grasp of things. As you stretch you shall grow.
Grace can work slow and fast. It is the freewill which sometimes makes the distribution of grace like a ‘slow-drip I.V.’. God’s grace provided the life-giving nutrient but to turn it on full before the sick person could handle it would not be the Will of God.
The development of the mind towards living the life of the Kingdom, is so slow for most people. Only in death as truth is revealed do most gain understanding of the true delight in trusting the Lord and fully accepting his righteousness into the heart.
As you see those in need around you, some in dire need, some whose circumstances seem spiraling out of control, know this: the world has allowed the control of evil over the lives of their children by worshiping false gods and by cursing the light and accepting the darkness into their hearts, into their very souls.
The devil, the evil one will constantly stir discontent. Life on earth is not perfect due to the fall of man and the sinfulness of his offspring, his descendants. Seek, notice, call to mind, how great is God’s creation and the life you have been given. Dwell not on the ‘fly in the ointment’ but the voluminous amount of the ointment that is given to anoint you each day. The creature seeks to destroy the joy given by the Creator. Fall not into his trap but hang a ‘fly strip’ to draw the complaint away from your lives and thus enjoy the prosperity that is yours from the Lord. His kingdom is yours—why do you see the cracks in the egg when the membrane is intact? Dwell not on the flaw and thus destroy the good that is given you. Jesus feeds the nations; do not lose this knowledge. Come to Jesus and be fed. He is the Bread come down from heaven. Happy are those called to His supper—not complaining, but happy. Do not reject Jesus for the way of the world. Do not crawl to Egypt when there is dancing to be had to be enjoyed in the Kingdom of God. The Lord has called you and continues to call you into His kingdom to be His servants. How can you serve the Lord if you are turning away from His goodness, constantly? Trust Jesus. Place your trust in God who is, who has shown you over and over and over His goodness. Rely not on self, not on world. Rely on the Lord.
As the grace overcomes sin and darkness, as freedom fills the hearts of people they can choose life or death. God freely gives them the opportunity of the everlasting realm of glory, indeed He GIVES it to them, yet they turn their face from Him. Do not lose heart, for although you “see” destructive forces in action, the innocent of heart shall reap the kingdom. Blessed are those who fear the Lord—they shall be called the children of the Lord and thus shall inherit the kingdom. Those who accept God’s grace in fullness bring His kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
Strive to work unceasingly to the end of the earth to share the Good News. The Gospel of truth and light shall rescue many.
Continue, as you return to the “grind” of your work in the Kingdom to “tote your barge and lift your ‘bale’”. Indeed all who are called into the kingdom must pick up the cross—a small burden indeed! –the cross that provides for others to enter God’s fullness.
Continue to raise your praise. Continue to work for the freedom of the captives. Continue to allow God’s grace to be absorbed until it permeates every cell of your body and all your soul. It is then that you will know true peace and freedom from the effect of sin.
The difficulty in knowing the will of the Lord is that your own thoughts, your own heart’s desires, your own will has the majority. You must empty self to receive the fullness of Christ, of the kingdom.
The taking and receiving of the Body and Blood of Christ has continued through the years following His example and command, following His death and resurrection. Each time it is as the first. Jesus is truly present; Jesus is the sacrifice that allows the recipient to commune with God, Himself. The intensity of this moment can only be understood by receiving the fullness of truth. Many recall only the taste, the pomp and circumstance. They remember nothing of the grace that poured into their very being as we were joined together as one. God became one with them and they became one with Him. It is the journey of faith that leads God’s People to the understanding of this moment; in the kingdom of God it is comparable to a moment in the Garden of Eden. In the life to come it is comparable to a moment in heaven itself. The Communion of God and man is the act of creation itself untainted by sin; without separation caused by the effect of sin.
Remember this: this eternal moment of communion and creation—it is the same eternal moment. And the Kingdom of God is on earth as it is in heaven!
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