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Lie- You cannot experience heaven until you die

Truth

Jesus said "I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly."  This abundant life that Jesus offers is made available to us through His spiritual kingdom of Heaven, which we can experience through the Holy Spirit within us.  When we walk according to the Holy Spirit, we walk under an open heaven, where everything is now made possible to us and all of God's blessings and promises are at hand.  This is God's desire for our lives: walking and living in the light (being rooted in God's spiritual kingdom), so by our faith in Jesus and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, we overcome the world (Satan's spiritual kingdom) and abide in God's will.


Jesus tells us, "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." Everything we need, both in this life on earth and in the life to come, comes through God's spiritual kingdom.  To be separated from Satan's spiritual kingdom and rooted in God's spiritual kingdom through faith in Jesus and through the Holy Spirit, is holiness.  We are commanded by God to be holy - to be separated from Satan's spiritual kingdom of the flesh/of darkness/of the world.


We have violent opposition from the enemy which tries to prevent us from receiving and walking in God's spiritual kingdom of Heaven, because the devil knows that when we abide in God's will (walk in the Spirit) then we belong to God and we can exercise God's authority over him.


We receive the Holy Spirit by faith in Jesus.  When we allow the Holy Spirit to lead our lives, then we have God's spiritual kingdom of the Spirit/of light/of Heaven manifested within us, through the Holy Spirit who lives within us.  We then experience and live in the atmosphere of Heaven right now, on earth.  This is the abundant life that Jesus offers us.


His kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven.  In Heaven there is no sickness, no decease, no worry, no doubt, no suffering, and no pain.  This is the atmosphere you can walk in everywhere you go.  An atmosphere of God's power, God's authority, God's provision, and God's peace.

Summary

We can walk and live engulfed and surrounded by the atmosphere of Heaven.  This is the manifestation of God's spiritual kingdom of Heaven within us, where all heavenly things are now at hand.