kingdom of heaven
109 subentries
- kingdom of heaven (Paper 170) (137:8sec). See also faith sons of God; gospel; Jesus: teachings; religion; salvation; sonship with God; spiritual rebirth
- apostles
- desire for preference in (138:7.1) (158:4.4) (158:6.2-3) (158:8.1) (179:1.6)
- given authority over things temporal in (140:2.2,3) (157:4.5,6)
- viewpoints (140:8.1) (170:2.13-14)
- believers cannot escape responsibilities of (159:3.7)
- confused concepts of Christianity (170:2.8-10)
- described
- 5 phases (170:4.1-6)
- acceptance of divine sonship (155:3.1)
- believing Father loves us with infinite love (137:8.17)
- built upon combined human and divine natures of Jesus (157:4.5) (157:5.1,3)
- designates Jesus’ bestowal mission (170:0.1)
- divine government (134:4.2)
- enthronement of God in hearts of men (136:9.6) (137:7.1,13) (140:1.2) (141:2.1-2) (170:4.1) (170:5.19)
- everlasting dominion beginning on earth, progressing to Paradise (140:1.2) (142:7.3)
- Father is center and circumference (157:6.5)
- founded on love, proclaimed in mercy, established by unselfish service (155:1.2)
- free from castes, social or economic classes (134:4.7)
- future hope (170:1.3) (170:2.19) (170:4.5-6)
- God within (140:1.5) (170:1.13) (170:2.9) (170:3.11) (170:4.2) (195:10.4)
- greatest in k. humbles himself as servant, ministers truths (158:6.3) (158:8.1) (171:0.6)
- in parables
- hidden treasure (151:3.4)
- king ordering a reckoning (159:1.4-5)
- king who made a marriage feast (173:5sec)
- leaven (151:4.3)
- little children (167:6.1)
- man casting seed (151:3.15)
- mustard seed (140:8.27) (151:4.2)
- net cast into sea (151:4.6)
- pearl (151:4.5)
- pearl of great price (140:8.28)
- seed in good soil (137:8.12)
- individual righteousness, fellowship with God (170:5.9)
- invisible, spiritual, characterized by unity, not uniformity (195:10.11)
- Jesus brotherhood (195:10.11)
- Jesus never gave precise definition of (170:4.1)
- Jesus’ talk about (157:4sec)
- Jesus visualized all spirit values as found in (196:0.8)
- John the Baptist’s vision of new and divine age (135:3.4)
- law of kingdom is obedience to Father’s will (142:1.5)
- life of progressive righteousness, joy in service (137:8.13)
- love is rule of living in (142:1.4)
- neither Jew nor gentile, rich nor poor, man nor woman in (137:8.11) (190:3.1) (190:4.1) (191:4.3) (191:6.2)
- not of this world (137:8.7,9) (138:7.1) (152:3.2) (171:8.3) (172:3.6) (181:2.9) (182:2.3) (190:5.4)
- not ours; we are only its ambassadors (141:6.4) (181:2.7)
- old things pass away; all things become new in (143:2.3)
- overthrow of evil in men’s hearts (136:9.2)
- present reality (170:1.2) (170:2.18) (170:4.1-4)
- realm of order; leadership always provided (181:2.16)
- recognition of God’s sovereignty, our sonship, faith in our ability to be like God (140:10.9)
- righteousness, peace, joy in Holy Spirit (34:6.13) (137:8.7,9)
- spiritual brotherhood of sons of God (99:3.2) (134:4.2) (140:2.3) (149:6.8) (152:3.2) (153:2.4) (157:4.5) (163:7.4) (185:3.3-4)
- spiritual joy of acceptance of divine sonship (155:3.1)
- Thought Adjusters are (108:6.2)
- will of God (170:2.11) (196:0.8)
- entrance
- baptism with Holy Spirit upon (137:8.10)
- by faith, sincerity, and truth hunger (140:8.28) (142:1.3) (170:2.20-22) (170:3.3)
- confers eternal life (146:3.7)
- danger of postponing (166:3.4)
- free, but cannot stand still in (150:5.2) (176:3.5) (178:3.4)
- illustrated by spiritual simplicity of little child (137:8.8) (140:10.4) (144:4.3) (149:6.11) (155:6.12) (170:2.21) (170:3.2) (181:2.20) (196:0.12)
- keys are sincerity, more sincerity, and more sincerity (39:4.14)
- least who enter are greater than John the Baptist (136:0.1) (144:8.4)
- less warfare between flesh and spirit after (34:7.6-7)
- must be willing to leave wealth, home, wife, parents, children for (150:4.3) (163:3.4) (167:2.2) (171:2.2)
- no requirement to subscribe to things repugnant, unholy, or untruthful (155:6.5)
- only through much tribulation for many (137:6.5)
- requires being born of Spirit (103:2.1) (141:6.4) (142:6.7) (152:6.3) (160:5.10)
- requires surrender of pet evil (163:2.7)
- search for kingdom in hearts, not in hills (137:1.6)
- sure pathway to trouble (140:9.3) (159:3.13)
- take by persistent assaults of faith (155:1.3) (166:3.5)
- truth hunger essential to (170:2.18)
- whatever thing or person that comes between oneself and k. must be surrendered (163:3.3)
- worth whatever it costs (137:8.14)
- establishment. See also gospel: proclaiming
- by natural, ordinary, difficult, and trying methods (136:8.6)
- call to building k. should thrill all believers (195:10.6)
- carry on work of k. regardless of consequences (154:5.2)
- do not seek to establish k. by laws or force (16:7.9) (136:9.9) (153:3.5) (178:1.3,6,12)
- does not attain full fruit quickly (137:8.12)
- expect persecution (140:9.3)
- freely received, freely give (159:1.5) (176:3.10) (193:0.5)
- k. will prosper in persecutions (178:1.10)
- lead men into the k. and living truth will drive out error (141:6.2-4)
- lesser things should give way before (162:8.3)
- no reliance on transient religious hysteria (152:6.2)
- not advanced by healing of 683 at sundown (145:3.14-15)
- not related to second coming (170:2.10)
- not with outward power, noise, glamor (137:6.5) (140:1.5)
- only through sorrow and bitter disappointment (150:9.4)
- persistent pursuit of divinity leads to (54:0.1)
- righteousness necessary to do work of (140:10.1)
- service will require courageous manhood (143:1.6)
- sifting k., divestment of lukewarm multitudes, halfhearted disciples unavoidable (153:5.3) (154:1.3) (156:6.5,9)
- Jews
- believed k. near at hand (135:5.4-6)
- believed k. to be righteous state on earth ruled by Messiah (135:5.2) (170:1.7)
- concepts of k. (135:5sec) (136:1sec) (170:1sec)
- end of world to spiritist Jews (135:5.4-7)
- lawyer in temple not far from (174:4.4)
- shall be given to gentiles (175:1.6)
- term
- bred persecution (170:2.24)
- other terms (170:2.11-12,24)
- used interchangeably with kingdom of God (170:0.1)
- why Jesus used (142:7.4) (169:4.1,6)
Cross-references
- See also faith sons of God
- See also gospel: proclaiming
- See also gospel
- See also Jesus: teachings
- See also religion
- See also salvation
- See also sonship with God
- See also spiritual rebirth
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- gospel 113
- apostles of Jesus 93
- faith 146
- children 57
- Messiah 31
- righteousness 39
- salvation 38