God’s original purpose for our lives was to extend His ruler-ship to earth through mankind; His will is that our physical world here on earth would reflect His spiritual "Glory" (the full weight, or the fullest manifestation of a thing) in the heavenly realm. It has always been God’s plan to have the Kingdom of Heaven on earth; this was and is His immutable (unchanging) intent. Jesus came to continue that intent that our Father had from the beginning; In fact it was the only purpose for Him to come. And he himself was called the Word that was from the beginning. He was the embodiment of the original intent of God our Father. (John 1:1-17)(I John 1:1-7)(I John 2:24)
Jesus preached the gospel of the Kingdom of heaven, but His message had nothing to do with going to heaven. The truth is He preached the opposite. Jesus preached that heaven was coming to earth and was in fact all ready here on earth; He came to restore it to mankind. Jesus told us that this is why He had come, to bring us the understanding of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, so we could overcome the world. Not be rescued from it. He emphasized this message when He taught His disciples to pray” This is how you should pray: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed by the name, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”(Matthew 6:9-10)
Notice in this message that He didn’t tell His disciples to pray that they would go to heaven; He told them to pray that the Kingdom of God would come from heaven to earth. He was clear that our focus was not to get to heaven, but to have heaven’s power in our daily lives here on earth. That is what is so cool about His message. We have the Kingdom now. We don’t have to wait until we go to heaven to have health, wealth, and liberty from this worlds system. It is inside of us right now!! (John 16:33)(I John 4:4)(I John 5:4-5)
It is very clear by the over 100 direct references to the Kingdom in the four gospels that this was Jesus’ sole purpose in coming, and it was the message that He left for us to preach!

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