As reactions to current political events clearly reveal, most churchgoers today see the kingdom of man as the concrete reality and the kingdom of heaven on earth as a kind of transcendent unreality. They see this life as their true experience and heaven as a place we will have to wait to experience until after we die. No! The kingdom saint has undergone such a transformation that the kingdom of heaven is the concrete reality and life in the flesh is the unreality—the matrix. Two diametrically opposed perspectives cannot both be reality.

Those who try to straddle the fence between the two kingdoms exist in a twilight zone where they end up compartmentalizing both, and neither satisfies. They flit superficially from one to the other depending on their momentary emotions. Tragically, they become impostors in both kingdoms. They’re considered hypocritical in one and double-minded in the other. They go through life thinking they are pursuing what is important, only to arrive at the end wondering what they have missed.

Entrance to the kingdom of heaven on earth means forsaking one kingdom entirely as our reality and embracing another through a total perspective change in the battleground of the mind. Once that happens, we no longer see or feel anything as we did before. The responsibilities and impact of what it means to be called “Christian” multiply exponentially. The kingdom of heaven is at hand! It is real, it is alive, it is now, and more fulfilling than anything the world has to offer!

You don’t need to keep living in the matrix where your value and excitement come from your material possessions or what others think of you. You don’t need to go on existing in the worldly mindset of Pilate or the confusion of Nicodemus. Beginning with Romans 12 transformation, the kingdom of heaven on earth holds the answer to who you are, the fulfillment you feel in life, and the way you approach any question. It marks the end to the matrix this world and religion seek to hold you in, and it gives you an entirely new perspective and identity.