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Living under the Direct Rule of God 45

The King, the ruler of the divine kingdom, has come into us as life. The
way He rules us is not by making decrees, commandments, and proclamations
outside of us. His way of ruling us is to live in us, to cause us to have a sense
of life that comes from the divine life within us. This must be our ruling.
This is the highest standard of morality, the highest standard of living in the
universe, and the reality of the kingdom of God. This is what we need to live
in. When we are living in the reality of the kingdom, we will bring the realm
of the kingdom of God to the earth. Then the word “The kingdom of the world
has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ” in Revelation 11:15
is fulfilled. How does it happen? It happens as we live in the reality of the
kingdom in the church life today.
AS THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BORN OF GOD TO ENTER INTO
THE KINGDOM OF GOD, OUR NEEDING TO BE RECOVERED TO
THE DIRECT RULE OF GOD BY THE INTUITION OF OUR SPIRIT
As those who have been born of God to enter into the kingdom of God,
we need to be recovered to the direct rule of God by the intuition of our spirit
(Matt. 5:3; 1 Cor. 2:11; Mark 2:8). Within the human spirit there are three
parts or three functions created by God. The leading part of the human spirit
is our conscience. It is the leading part because we are fallen human beings so
the conscience becomes the leading part. But the conscience is not the goal.
After the conscience, we have fellowship. The purpose of the conscience
within the human spirit is to keep us and to preserve us in the fellowship of
life. That is the purpose of the conscience. The purpose of the conscience is
not to condemn us but to restore our fellowship with God. This is why we
have a conscience. It is to maintain, restore, and preserve the fellowship. The
fellowship of life is the real reason man has a spirit. John 4:24 says, “God is
Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness.”
The nature of God’s being is Spirit. God cannot be contacted physically. I can
contact you physically, such as by shaking your hands. But I cannot contact
God physically because the nature of His being is Spirit. However, God gave
us a spirit. He gave us a spirit with the innate ability to fellowship with God.
For instance, we have ears and the innate ability of our ears is to hear. I do
not have to try to hear you. I have ears; I can hear you. The innate ability of
our human spirit is to contact God, to receive God, to contain God, and to
fellowship with God. Our spirit already knows how to do all of those things.
It was created that way. In fact, this is the purpose of our spirit.