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Is the Kingdom of God in Your Heart? Download The Bible’s answer No, God’s Kingdom is not merely a condition in the hearts of Christians. * The Bible identifies its true location by calling it “the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 4: God’s Kingdom has rulers, subjects, laws, and a mandate to establish the will of God in heaven and on the earth. —Matthew 6: 10; Revelation 5: 10. God’s government, or Kingdom, will rule over all “the peoples, nations, and language groups” of the earth. (Daniel 7: 13, 14) The authority for its rulership comes, not from its subjects, but directly from God. —Psalm 2: 4-6; Isaiah 9:7. Jesus told his faithful apostles that they would join him in the Kingdom of heaven to “sit on thrones.” The Kingdom has enemies, which it will destroy. The Bible does not teach that the Kingdom of heaven is in your heart in the sense that it rules through a person’s heart. However, it does show that the “word of the Kingdom” or the “good news of the Kingdom” can and should affect our hearts. What does “the kingdom of God is within you” mean? Some people have become confused about the location of the Kingdom by the rendering of Luke 17:21 in some Bible translations. For example, the King James Version says that “the kingdom of God is within you.” To understand this verse correctly, we must consider the context. Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees, a group of religious leaders who opposed him and shared in arranging for his execution. (Matthew 12:14; Luke 17:20) Does it make sense to think that the Kingdom was a condition in their obstinate hearts? Jesus told them: “Inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.” Other translations accurately clarify Jesus’ statement at Luke 17:21: “God’s kingdom is here with you.” (Italics ours; Contemporary English Version) “The Kingdom of God is among you.” (New World Translation, footnote) The Kingdom of heaven was “with” or “among” the Pharisees, in that Jesus, the one designated by God to rule as King, was standing before them. ^ par. 3 Many Christian denominations teach that the Kingdom of God is within a person, or in someone’s heart. For example, in the United States, the Southern Baptist Convention declared that the Kingdom of God is in part “the reign of God in the heart and life of the individual.” Similarly, in his book Jesus of Nazareth, Pope Benedict XVI stated that “the Kingdom of God comes by way of a listening heart.”
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Je li Božje Kraljevstvo u srcima ljudi? Preuzmi Što kaže Biblija: Ne, Božje Kraljevstvo nije stanje u srcu koje nastupa kad netko prihvati Boga. * Biblija ga naziva “kraljevstvo nebesko” i time jasno pokazuje odakle ono vlada (Matej 4:17). Navest ćemo nekoliko biblijskih argumenata koji pokazuju da Božje Kraljevstvo nije u srcima ljudi, nego da je stvarna vlast koja vlada s neba. Božje Kraljevstvo ima vladare, podanike i zakone. Bog će putem tog Kraljevstva ostvariti svoj naum da se njegova volja vrši i na nebu i na Zemlji (Matej 6:10; Otkrivenje 5:10). U budućnosti će Božje Kraljevstvo zavladati nad cijelom Zemljom, a njegovi podanici bit će “svi narodi, plemena i jezici” (Danijel 7:13, 14). To Kraljevstvo nisu uspostavili ljudi, nego sam Bog (Psalam 2:4-6; Izaija 9:7). Isus je svojim vjernim apostolima rekao da će biti njegovi suvladari u nebeskom Kraljevstvu (Luka 22:28, 30). Božje Kraljevstvo ima neprijatelje, koje će u određenom trenutku uništiti (Psalam 2:1, 2, 8, 9; 110:1, 2; 1. Korinćanima 15:25, 26). Biblija ne uči da je nebesko Kraljevstvo u nečijem srcu niti se taj izraz odnosi na podložnost Bogu koju netko osjeća kad počne vjerovati u njega. Međutim, ona jasno pokazuje da “riječ o kraljevstvu”, odnosno “dobra vijest o kraljevstvu”, može i treba utjecati na našu nutrinu (Matej 13:19; 24:14). Što znače riječi “kraljevstvo je Božje u vama”? Isusove riječi zapisane u Luki 17:21 u nekim prijevodima Biblije glase: “Kraljevstvo je Božje u vama” (Vrtarić). Da li takav prijevod točno prenosi što je Isus htio reći? Da bismo ispravno razumjeli Luku 17:21, moramo uzeti u obzir kontekst tog retka. Isus je te riječi uputio farizejima, pripadnicima židovske sljedbe koji su mu se žestoko protivili i imali svoje prste u njegovom smaknuću (Matej 12:14; Luka 17:20). Bi li bilo logično zaključiti da je Božje Kraljevstvo bilo u njihovim srcima, koja su bez ikakve sumnje bila zla i nepokorna? Isus im je vrlo otvoreno rekao: “Iznutra ste puni licemjerja i bezakonja” (Matej 23:27, 28). Smisao Isusovih riječi zapisanih u Luki 17:21 jasno razumijemo zahvaljujući točnim prijevodima tog retka. Naprimjer, u više hrvatskih prijevoda stoji da je Isus farizejima rekao kako je Božje Kraljevstvo među njima (Jeruzalemska Biblija; Šarić; Rupčić; Croatian Bible, Biblica, internetsko izdanje; Novi zavjet — suvremeni prijevod). Božje nebesko Kraljevstvo bilo je među farizejima u tom smislu što se Isus, Kralj tog Kraljevstva kojeg je izabrao Bog, nalazio među njima (Luka 1:32, 33). ^ odl. 3 Mnoge kršćanske crkve uče da je Božje Kraljevstvo u čovjekovom srcu. Primjerice, u djelu The Catholic Encyclopedia stoji: “Božje Kraljevstvo znači da Bog vlada u našim srcima.” Nešto slično rekao je papa Benedikt XVI. u svojoj knjizi Isus iz Nazareta. On je napisao: “Kraljevstvo Božje dolazi preko onih čije srce osluškuje Božji glas.”