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In what way are we dealing with the kingdom today?  The millennium, obviously, hasn’t come, yet it says clearly that we have been, according to Colossians 1, "...We have been transformed into the kingdom of God’s dear Son.”  We’re in the kingdom, right?  We’re citizens of the kingdom and yet, this can’t be the millennium. 

In reference to Matthew 19:23-24, Jesus has just talked to the young man, and he’s gone away grieved, and Jesus says to His disciples, "Truly, I say to you it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And, again, I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Now, it would seem to me, just on the surface and looking at those two verses, that Jesus is equating the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God. In other words, they’re interchangeable terms. Taking those two verses, I do not see a distinction whatsoever between the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God. I know there is an alternate view, of course, that would say that there is, I don’t see it there. I wonder, is there another clear passage that will support that position as clearly as this one with the other?

"How do you personally know Jesus Christ?  I mean it is such a struggle. I sit and I pray and I have answered prayers, but yet do I really know Him?  It's like, I want to know Him so bad.  You know?  Do you understand me?"