Not everyone enters the kingdom, neither here nor in heaven. That may seem obvious, but some are eternally known, and most are not. Believing in Jesus saves you in judgement from the cost of your sin. But this does not mean the kingdom is available to you. The kingdom is not heaven, the kingdom is in heaven. That also might seem obvious, but only some are recognized by the Holy Spirit and those few recognize the Truth. So although you may have defeated death by believing in Jesus, eternal life for you will not include the kingdom. Like the passge says; 'I do not know you'.
Like the other passage says, 'How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?'. Most will not be able to harvest fruit from the trees of eternal wisdom, most will instead find this:
"Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'"
Death and hades are defeated, but they still exist, until the will of the Father marries His Truth to His Creation. That marriage finds a new heaven and a new earth that the kingdom defines through Jesus and his co-heirs.
"For many are invited, but few are chosen."
"For many are invited, but few are chosen."
So what can you do to enter the kingdom? Recognize the truth and be recognized by the Truth.
The greatest commandments
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Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
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This is the first and greatest commandment.
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And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
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All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
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This is the first and greatest commandment.
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And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
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All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
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For some, eternity will be spent in a chastisement, a tribulation. Each the mark we carry forward to our judgement. Even with that said, how difficult to lay down your self! The hypocrisy of man is alive and well in the believers of Christ! Most do not endure sufferances, most represent him is a shameful way.
I am not suggesting any are without sin; I am simply saying most only repent what they are comfortable living without, and otherwise they use grace to carry forward what they unwilling to suffer without.
The truth resides in those who recognize it. Others can recognize the Spirit of Truth by the fruit is bears, Amen. The Holy Spirit uses the kingdom of God to work through us here. But unless we deny ourselves, we only bear fruit that honors ourselves. And that is the distintguishing difference between those under Law, psychology, and all other religions; they place self as the center of consciousness and the root of the knowledge they gain of good and evil.
So even if they are witness to the truth, they are only witness to their reaction to the truth, not the understanding that is gained from the Spirit of Truth via the kingdom of God.
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