selah ...

“The kingdom of God does not come with observation ....
the kingdom of God is within you.” (L17)


i.e. ****Kingdom is now, and it is spiritually realised****


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"narrow is the gate
and compressed is the way
that leads (has implication of dying)  
to life real and genuine (has implication of resurrection)
and few (has implication of intensity)
find it (has implication of chanced upon)" ... (M7)


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otherwise, 
why be baptised into the corpse
if the corpse rises not, 
who would be baptised to remain a corpse (1C15)


[previous discussion is on 
death being overcome 
for those who are Christ's]


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As I live, says the Lord,
every knee shall bow to me, (as in worship) 
and every tongue shall 
confess to God. (acknowledge openly and joyfully)


So then every one of us 
shall give account of himself to God. (a reasoning)


Let us not therefore judge one another any more:
but judge this rather, 
that no man put a stumblingblock 
or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. (R14)


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