It would be much easier for me to explain to you how to become part of the Kingdom of Church, or how to become a US citizen, or something that has physical roots on this earth. But the Kingdom of God tends to be very elusive to people. They just can't understand it.
The closest people understand on this earth to the Kingdom of God is the church. But the problem is, most churches have nothing to do with the Kingdom of God. They have the name “church,” or the name “Bible,” or “Jesus” or “God” in it, but they have very little—if nothing—to do with the Kingdom of God.
And that is a huge problem, because it's a huge tool that Satan is using—that is, the church—to draw people away from the Kingdom of God and not to enter.
Remember, the Pharisees were also doing this. Jesus said to them that they would travel land and sea to try to make one proselyte or one disciple. And then, when they would get that person into their school of thought or into their synagogue, they would make that person twice as much a son of hell as themselves.
Well, the churches today and the Christians—the pastors that are in those churches—are exactly like the times of Jesus. Like these Pharisees that get people into their organization and make them twice as much a son of their dead, wicked religion—as Jesus said, a “son of hell”—as they are.
So how do we get people into the Kingdom of God? It's actually impossible. But what is impossible with men is possible with God.
I often feel like I have this task that God has given me, which is joyous. It brings joy to my heart to tell people about Jesus. But it can also be very discouraging because so few people have ears to hear. People have ears to hear sermons. They have ears to listen to music. But most people just like their ears scratched—they want to hear the things that they want to hear. But they don't want to hear the hard-hitting truth of Jesus Christ.
And that is also a problem. Because if we're not eating Jesus’s flesh and drinking His blood, then we're not going to have life.
Remember that Jesus said that the Holy Spirit is as the wind. You're not sure where the wind is coming from or where it's going, but you see how it moves the trees and the grass. And that is also how we have to be as His disciples. We're not following after men or after the church.
You can tell where the churches are going—they’re following their leadership to hell. But if we want life, we need to enter and push our way into the Kingdom of God. As Jesus said, “The Kingdom of God suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.” So we need to be pushing our way into the Kingdom of God.
It's impossible for you to see unless Jesus opens your eyes and opens your ears to the truth.
So I want to encourage you to go straight to the source. Jesus is alive. And if you pray and ask Him, “Open my ears, open my eyes to see you,” He's going to give you spiritual eyes to see and spiritual ears to hear Him.
And then, when you know you're hearing from Him and seeing Him work in your life, never ever take your eyes off Him. Never stop listening to Him. Don't set anyone else up in your life to be your spiritual guide. You have to hold fast to Jesus—to His words, to His truth. Let Him lead you into everlasting life.
