THE KINGDOM OF LOVE            We have been reading the love chapter, in 1 Corinthians 13. "Love does not behave rudely, does not seek it's own , is not provoked, thinks no evil."       Real love makes allowances for others weaknesses.  It is amazing just what you will put up with, when you truly love that person.  Love overlooks. Love should be our number one priority, not prosperity, not signs and wonders, manifestations, and whether one has gifts and another doesn't.  We should be studying the love walk, study Jesus, and learn how He loved others.  It is a heart issue. Being nice to people when you really don't feel like it, refusing to be offended when someone says something you disagree with, instead of sitting around feeling sorry for yourself. Magnify peoples good qualities, and stay out of the operating room.  If God needed you to change someone, He would have brought you around eons ago.  The state of growth in another is none of your business.  "Being confident in this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ" Philippians 1:6 Love does not rejoice in in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things believes alll things, hopes all things". In the kingdom we must go through trials and suffering, to come out as gold tried in the fire.  God must cut all the sin out of our lives, the works of the flesh, and that inevitably is a painful process, depending on how much we co-operate with Him.   "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God".   1John 4:1 Jesus said, "This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you. " "Greater love has no one than this; than to lay ones life down for his friends". John 15:123-13 Think about that.  Could you love someone enough that you would lay your life down for that person?  Jesus did.  But what He is asking is that we put the self life down for others.  That is a big order, but with Jesus Christ living in us, nothing is impossible!                                                  ENTERING INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD One cannot enter into the kingdom of God except by the new birth, or being what is called born again of the spirit. John 3:3  "Most assuredly, I say unto you, unless one is born again, he cannot SEE the kingdom of God". So you canot even see the kingdom of God unless you are born again.  Verse 5 goes on; "Jesus answered, "Most assuredly I say to you, unless one is born of water and the spirit, he cannot ENTER the kingdom of God". That which is of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.  do not marvel when I say to you,"You  must be born again". To read more about this go to "GIFT OF REDEMPTION" Entering the kingdom of God is by obedience to the will of God. and the new birth is evidenced by obedience. Matt 7:21 "Not everyone who says' to me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven".                                            WILDERNESS LIVING Are you tired of Wilderness living?  Then it is time to really love God and your neighbor as yourself, to make love your priority.  If we are still in sin, then we are in the wilderness not in the love walk.  Because love would not think of doing or saying something to his neighbor that would hurt them, or to bring shame to our Lord, if we love Him, as we say we do. If we are being doers of the word and not just hearers, we will be walking in love and in the Spirit, which produces the fruit of the Spirit.  The kingdom of God is spirit living, instead of wilderness living. If you truly want to be born again and receive salvation today, AND BE SET FREE FROM WILDERNESS LIVING, please go to the, GIFT OF SALVATION.                              Ask God to forgive you for all of your sins, and ask Him to come into your life and change and save you!  You can be free of the wilderness living today!