John 3:5 English Standard Version (ESV) Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”
We live in the world and yet our citizenship is in the Kingdom of God because we are born in the Spirit by faith in the effectual works of the Cross of Christ. We struggle in the world trying to make a living, raise children, staying safe and being responsible citizens according to the laws of man,
What does Kingdom living look like? Is it a struggle like living in the world? Can we live in both worlds without neglecting one or the other?
Romans 12:2 English Standard Version (ESV) Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Is it like this, that we can change our minds and that is sufficient for Kingdom living?
Philippians 3:21 English Standard Version (ESV) who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Or is it something that happens to us which is beyond our control?
The key seems to be subjection. Who rules over us? Christ or the world? How can it be both?
Matthew 22:19-21 English Standard Version (ESV)
19 Show me the coin for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius. 20 And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” 21 They said, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
Paul tells us in Romans 8:29 that we are being conformed into the image of Christ. Caesar caused his imaged to be impressed on his money. God impresses the image of His Son on His children.
God wants us in the world expressing His Son so that the lost might know Him. That is rendering to God what is His.