Experiencing the joy of direct inner government by God

The kingdom of God is government by God not by people, for God not for people, and of God not of people. It’s about God’s purposes, not ours. It’s His kingdom, not ours. You can hide from human government, but you can’t hide from the kingdom of God. He knows everything that you think and do.

The kingdom of God is the direct government of God that bypasses human leaders, hierarchies, and political systems. It happens unobserved because “the kingdom of God is within you.” When Christ-followers allow King Jesus to actually rule and direct them from within then they begin to experience the present-day leading of the Holy Spirit as “Christ in you, the hope of glory,” and their citizenship in God’s kingdom becomes a practical reality, not just a theological concept.

The kingdom (direct government) of God must be established inside of you. Every choice you make, every action you take, brings you closer to the direct government (kingdom) of God or leads you away from it. When the kingdom (government) of God is present in a human heart there is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

To experience the direct, inner government of God requires that we cultivate an honest, tender, open, submissive, humble, vulnerable, and compassionate heart that is willing to continually and freely receive God’s grace and correction. Without that kind of heart, we can experience religion, but we will be far from the kingdom of God.

Direct government by God and government by self cannot both be in control of a human heart at the same moment. The calling on a Christian is to decrease the influence of self and to increase God’s direct government of all their thoughts, feelings, opinions, and desires — to obey King Jesus more and more and king-self less and less. Christians are called out of the kingdom of self-focus and into the kingdom (direct inner government) of God.

Self-focus will always resist the direct, inner government of God. To experience the kingdom of God, self-focus must be abandoned. You were born to be a “supernaturalized” citizen of the kingdom of God voluntarily living under His direct inner rule, not to be ensnared and abused by the kingdom of darkness determining your thoughts, feelings, and desires.

God’s grace empowers us and invites us to voluntarily submit to His direct moment-by-moment government of our life. God doesn’t force us to obey Him against our will. Because in the direct government of God (His kingdom of light) there’s no way to cover up truth, human nature is to avoid the kingdom of God. For the kingdom of God to reign within, the strongholds, imaginations, and desires of self must be cast down and brought into obedience to Christ Jesus.

When self rules, bondage and misery reign within even when self lies and denies that they exist. The direct government of God occurs within you. It doesn’t come from outward authorities. When the direct government of God is allowed to take charge of a human heart, Jesus calms the inner storms and peaceful rivers flow.

People can’t be forced to obey God. Human political systems can’t be the kingdom of God, but they can maintain social order while God builds His kingdom inside human hearts.

“Don’t forsake the assembling of yourselves together,” means don’t avoid opening your heart to Jesus as you hang out and interact by God’s Spirit with other Christ-followers as Christ’s ekklesia (town hall meeting).

Christ’s ekklesia is called out of systems of human hierarchy to function in obedience to His active Headship and direction and thereby manifest the kingdom of God. When Christianity became churchish it lost the freedom of Spirit-led, heart-felt spontaneity that was characteristic of the earliest Christ-followers who met like the ancient Greek town hall meeting called ekklesia as described in 1 Corinthians 14:26.

The direct inner government of God is available to you. Are you available to the direct inner government of God?

For God’s kingdom to come your kingdom needs to go. There’s only room for one king inside of you!

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