The Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God

Romans 14:8-9, 10-12, 13-23 For whether we live, we live to the Lord; and whether we die, we die to the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived (is the Eternal who Lives again), that He might be Lord both of the dead (those who do not believe Him) and living (those who receive Him into themselves and begin to Live as He Lives now).

But why do you judge your brother? or why do you set at naught your brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
(Whether we choose Life and this is His Eternal Life, by trusting Him as He, Jesus trusted the Father. Who is Faithful to His promise as revealed through Jesus' resurrection or NOT. We will all be judged by Him through our own actions and words while we lived within the flesh.)

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in a brother's way. I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: but to him that esteems any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. But if your brother be grieved (hurt) with your meat, now walk you not with charitably (love). Destroy not him with your meat (simply food of any kind), for whom Christ died. Let not then your good be evil spoken of: For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that in these things serves (are in subjection to) Christ are acceptable to God, and approved of men. Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. For meat destroys not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eats with offense. It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby your brother (being weaker in knowledge) stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak. Have you faith? have it to yourself (your own conviction) before God. Happy (his conscience is clear) he that condemns not himself in that thing which he allows. And he that doubts is damned if he eat, because he eats not in faith: for whatever is not of faith is sin. 
(Paul has been teaching the law of Faith and Love, as the greatest of all laws. Because it pleases God, when we learn how to please Him above ourselves and all others. We have in effect become doers of His Will and Word not to leave out mentioning His Law which is composed of Love and Faith which works through His Love when restored within our heart. Our heart and soul being it original set of authority as in Genesis 2 and by all accounts not known until lost in Genesis3. For in Genesis 3 man was separated from God and His law of Love.)

1Corinthians 4:14-21 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. Therefore I beseech you, be followers of me. For this cause have I sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church. Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in (resurrection) power. What will you desire? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and the spirit of meekness?

(For many years this passage eluded my understanding and needless to say caused me great frustration, as I am sure that it also has many of you, also. One such frustration is the concept that this is about the power which Jesus as the Son of God demonstrated as proof of Who He was by the many sings and wonders He did, as the Hebrew demand for assurance of proof from their Messiah. Mainly because of all the signs given them over the years until the time of the Maccabees's when for five hundred years God did not speak or have a prophet among them. The power that Paul is speaking of here is the resurrection power of the Spirit of Christ or the Holy Spirit's indwelling Life within us, as the greatest Love gift of the Father bestowed to and in us. Which will move us to faith when we have acquires the knowledge of Christ by passage through the mysteries of Christ.)

1Corinthians 6:9-11, 12-20 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord, Christ Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

(The thing about this passage is that it reveals man's natural fallen state and that of mans own Religion as seen through God's eyes after the words, “be not deceived.” This also runs with Romans 1:18 through 32 where God is speaking through Paul and reveals His view of both the immoral and amoral man, and 2:17 through 3:20 where God reveals how He sees mans Religion and those who are Religious. Then Paul picks up with our being now sanctified and justified by having passed through the similitude of death to sin and the weakening of the man of our flesh by the operation of the Cross. This is also revealed by Romans 3:19 through 5:5 where God's righteousness and justification of us is spoken of, as well as the results of this action.)

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Meats (food) for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication (the spiritual idolatry of Religion), but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body (Genesis 2:7, 22, 23). God has both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of an harlot (wanton, as seen in Revelation which begins in 14 and runs through 19)? God forbid. What? Do you not know that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, says He, shall be one flesh. He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit. Flee Religion which is fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.