(II Peter 2:19)
“The kingdom of God is within you.”
(Joshua ben Joseph)
“For where the spirit of God teaches and leads the soul of men, there in reality is the kingdom of heaven.”
(Joshua ben Joseph)
"The Father in heaven sends his spirit to indwell the minds of men, and when I shall have finished my work on earth, likewise shall the Spirit of Truth be poured out upon all flesh. And the spirit of my Father and the Spirit of Truth shall establish you in the coming kingdom of spiritual understanding and divine righteousness. My kingdom is not of this world. The Son of Man will not lead forth armies in battle for the establishment of a throne of power or a kingdom of worldly glory. When my kingdom shall have come, you shall know the Son of Man as the Prince of Peace, the revelation of the everlasting Father. The children of this world fight for the establishment and enlargement of the kingdoms of this world, but my disciples shall enter the kingdom of heaven by their moral decisions and by their spirit victories; and when they once enter therein, they shall find joy, righteousness, and eternal life.
"Those who first seek to enter the kingdom, thus beginning to strive for a nobility of character like that of my Father, shall presently possess all else that is needful. But I say to you in all sincerity: Unless you seek entrance into the kingdom with the faith and trusting dependence of a little child, you shall in no wise gain admission.
"Be not deceived by those who come saying here is the kingdom or there is the kingdom, for my Father's kingdom concerns not things visible and material. And this kingdom is even now among you, for where the spirit of God teaches and leads the soul of man, there in reality is the kingdom of heaven. And this kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
"John did indeed baptize you in token of repentance and for the remission of your sins, but when you enter the heavenly kingdom, you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
"In my Father's kingdom there shall be neither Jew nor gentile, only those who seek perfection through service, for I declare that he who would be great in my Father's kingdom must first become server of all. If you are willing to serve your fellows, you shall sit down with me in my kingdom, even as, by serving in the similitude of the creature, I shall presently sit down with my Father in his kingdom.
"This new kingdom is like a seed growing in the good soil of a field. It does not attain full fruit quickly. There is an interval of time between the establishment of the kingdom in the soul of man and that hour when the kingdom ripens into the full fruit of everlasting righteousness and eternal salvation.
"And this kingdom which I declare to you is not a reign of power and plenty. The kingdom of heaven is not a matter of meat and drink but rather a life of progressive righteousness and increasing joy in the perfecting service of my Father who is in heaven. For has not the Father said of his children of the world, `It is my will that they should eventually be perfect, even as I am perfect.'
"I have come to preach the glad tidings of the kingdom. I have not come to add to the heavy burdens of those who would enter this kingdom. I proclaim the new and better way, and those who are able to enter the coming kingdom shall enjoy the divine rest. And whatever it shall cost you in the things of the world, no matter what price you may pay to enter the kingdom of heaven, you shall receive manyfold more of joy and spiritual progress in this world, and in the age to come eternal life.
"Entrance into the Father's kingdom waits not upon marching armies, upon overturned kingdoms of this world, nor upon the breaking of captive yokes. The kingdom of heaven is at hand, and all who enter therein shall find abundant liberty and joyous salvation.
"This kingdom is an everlasting dominion. Those who enter the kingdom shall ascend to my Father; they will certainly attain the right hand of his glory in Paradise. And all who enter the kingdom of heaven shall become the sons of God, and in the age to come so shall they ascend to the Father. And I have not come to call the would-be righteous but sinners and all who hunger and thirst for the righteousness of divine perfection.
"John came preaching repentance to prepare you for the kingdom; now have I come proclaiming faith, the gift of God, as the price of entrance into the kingdom of heaven. If you would but believe that my Father loves you with an infinite love, then you are in the kingdom of God."
(JOSHUA BEN JOSEPEH)
The kingdom of heaven
The kingdom of God within you
The will of God
The family of God
The Father’s will
The friends of God
The fellowship of believers
The brotherhood of man
The Father’s fold
The children of God
The fellowship of the faithful
The Father’s service
The liberated sons of God
The religion of the spirit
The sons and daughters of God
Family fellowship with God the Father
Citizen(s) of the universe
Born of the spirit
Divine sonship and daughtership
Spiritual liberty
Eternal life
The ideal of the idea of doing the will of God
Service to the brotherhood of God knowing believers
The sons and daughters of light
The children of light
The elect
The household of God
The remnant
The community of God
The sisterhood of women
The salvaged sons/daughters of God
The kingdom of life
The supreme desire to do the will of God
The personal religious experience of knowing God
The religion of the kingdom
Member of the family of believers
The new order of society
The new age
The gospel of the kingdom of heaven
The kingdom of spiritual pre-eminence
The brotherhood of God’s reign in the hearts of men/women
The brotherhood of gospel believers
The reign of God’s spirit in the hearts of individual believers
The fellowship of individual believers with God the Father
The establishment of the kingdom
The new revelation of the kingdom
The spiritual ideal of individual righteousness
The concept of man’s divine fellowship with God
The individually spirit-led brotherhood/sisterhood of the kingdom
The final redemption of the saints of the Most High
Salvation from self
The divine kingdom in the heart of the individual believer
The will of the heavenly Father dormant and transcendent in the heart of the believer
The personal experience of realizing the higher qualities of spiritual living
The kingdom of the divine brotherhood/sisterhood
The new and enlarged presentation of Jesus’ gospel
The restatement of Jesus of Nazareth
The high spiritual concept of Jesus
The teachings of Jesus
The religion of Jesus
The revival of the actual teachings of Jesus the Christ (Joshua ben Joseph)
The kingdom of Jesus’ concept
The gospel of Jesus
The Master’s manifold teachings
The kingdom
The fellowship in the kingdom
The inner kingdom
The kingdom of heaven within you
The return to the high spiritual concept of Jesus
Jesus’ gospel of the kingdom
Mankind’s highest moral ideas and spiritual ideals
Mankind’s most sublime hope for the future
The gospel of the kingdom
God-consciousness
The knowledge of the actuality of sonship/daughtership with God
The religion of love
The integration of self with the universe
The experience of faith
The new divine invasion of the soul
The exquisite and transcendent experience of loving and being loved
The idealization and attempted service of truth, beauty, and goodness
The spiritual experience of the God knowing personality
The endless exploration of infinity to find God and to be like him
The presentation of the living Jesus to the church that bears his name
Kingdom builders
Kingdom believers
The unadulterated religious teachings of Jesus
The kingdom of spiritual understanding and divine righteousness
The heavenly kingdom
The life of progressive righteousness and increasing joy in the perfecting service of God
The faith sons/daughters of God
The amalgamation of the surviving mortal soul with the eternal and immortal spirit
The faith children of the highest
The devotion to the Father’s will and the service of man
The act, by faith achieving the knowing and doing of the will of God
The figurative resurrection of the human Jesus from the tomb of traditional theology and religious dogmas
The spiritual renaissance
The reformation of modern day Christianity
The engaging in the superb struggle to ascertain the divine will, and to do that will
The new and living way whereby all humans may ascend from humanity to divinity
The religion of personal experience in doing the will of God and serving the human brotherhood
The idealistic religious life in the midst of a realistic world
The positive leading of the indwelling divine presence
The new order of the ages
The spiritual awaking
The dawn of the new and divine age
The new and better way
The establishment of the Father’s kingdom
The kingdom of righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy spirit
The new brotherhood of the rule of the Father’s spirit in the hearts of the children of men
The desire of the good men of all ages
The hope of all the earth
The fulfillment of the wise promises of all the prophets
God within you
The affairs of the divine brotherhood
The enlightened citizens of another and heavenly government
The new and Godly paths of enhanced living
The Golden Rulers
The realization of the highest human and divine goals of mortal endeavor
The social achievement of the brotherhood of man/men
The supreme desire of every individual to do the will of the Father in heaven
Those who are chiefly actuated by devotion to the service of truth, beauty, and goodness
The establishment of a new way of salvation
The new and larger brotherhood of men-the sons of God
A fresh beginning for the whole human race
To live on earth as you are already citizens of the universe
Be set free, that you can start out fresh as little children upon the new and better life
The living hope for all the religions of the world
The divine ideal and the eternal reality
A new capacity for knowing the truth, experiencing compassion, and choosing goodness- the will to be in harmony with God’s will, coupled with the eternal urge to become perfect like the Father in heaven is perfect.
The baptism of the fellowship with God
The highly idealistic and spiritual principles of religious truth
The high spiritual and inspirational ideal for all mortal beings on all worlds
A salvation growing out of the faith realization of the very and eternal child-Father relationship
The morality of Jesus’ philosophy originating in the personal relation of every individual to God-the Father of Joshua Ben Joseph
The spiritual demands of active social contact
The natural outworking of the inner experience of the soul as it manifests the fruits of the spirit in the spontaneous daily ministry of genuine personal religious experience
The realization that all men have the opportunity to be sons of the living God by faith
The Father’s rule within the hearts of his children on earth by the spirit he sends to live within the souls of human beings
The privileged children of a loving and divine Father
The proclamation of spiritual liberty to the world that mortals may be empowered to live individual lives of originality and freedom of expression before God
Free personality and spiritual originality
Spiritual unity and not theological uniformity
The faith-comrades of Jesus in the brotherhood of man in the spiritual association of the kingdom of heaven
The new and adequate means and methods designed to satisfy the spiritual longings and expanding the advancing minds of modern man
The real gospel- the teachings of Joshua ben Joseph
The true church- the Jesus brotherhood
The invisible and spiritual brotherhood of the kingdom of God
To become truly spirit-led sons/daughters of God
The living gospel of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man