The Kingdom Within You -2

For those joining in, read my first post 'The Kingdom Within You', especially the sections treating 'The Kingdom Within Me'-my testimony, and How to enter the Kingdom.
God made man to be a container and expressor of Deity - an embodiment of Divinity, to bring down the Kingdom of heaven to earth. This should have remained the normal state of affairs had it not been for the disobedience and fall of Adam. Clearly, Adam was an incarnation of God Himself - for God breathed into him the breath of life and he became a living soul. This is why the Scriptures say "in the image of God made He them". Thus man had rule over all of creation, he had dominion over all the works of God's hands. In a better sense, God was in man governing His universe!

However, God did not give up on man after the fall. The Bible clearly says that Christ came to restitute all things to the former order, to take all things to the original state of affairs, to restore unto man that dominion.. . This He accomplished by dying on the Cross, and every one who has received Christ has received this Kingdom within their spirits. The Bible teaches that in Christ's death we died with him, were buried with him, and rose with him to walk in newness of life. We have become united with him at the highest level of our beings such that it is recorded of us that we are indeed dead. That is we are no longer the ones living, but Christ lives in us. Gal 2:20

This clearly demonstrates the fact of a Kingdom residing within us. To put it in other words, 'We are incarnations of Christ', 'unique expressions of the One within us'. The Bible calls us vessels, temples of the Living God, God's dwelling place/tabernacle/house. Thus, any emphasis on Kingdom living based primarily on external conformity by human efforts to the demands of Scripture, or of growth in the Kingdom as contingent on our ability to produce more visible character change is out of place. If that is how the Kingdom life can be produced or 'performed' or yet 'simulated' then there was no need to believe in God/Christ Jesus for our birth into the Kingdom.
This is the basic reason why many people who have accepted Christ for sometime and confess that they are Kingdom citizens find their walk with God rather frustrating, unfulfilling and impossible. They try to simulate the life of Christ by external impossible rules. I am not in this wise supporting licentious living and permissiveness. Rather, it is high time we realise that the Kingdom life is born out of our union with the King of the Kingdom residing on the inside of us. He is the Principle by whom outer change is born in us. Once you grasp this truth of God's Kingdom fully present within you, you will realise how that your very unconscious tendencies coincide with the effectual striving of the power of Jesus Christ within you, such that it becomes gloriously impossible for you to live a life contrary to The Law of the Spirit / The Law of the Kingdom.
If there wasn't a Kingdom Within us, then it would have been possible to live the Christian life by dwelling on the teachings of the Lord/King (as an external authority to whom we owe allegiance partly because of fear of His impeding doom on all disloyal subjects). However we all know this is not the case. God is not a bully or demanding King on His subjects; rather He would pick up a wounded subject of His. This shows intimate relationship and Fatherhood that brings us to a point of maturity. We can successfully live the Kingdom Life because The Lord/King of the teachings relives His life in us.