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Intro
God’s Spirit, or heart, is The Kingdom of Heaven, Christ’s return, and, from Pentecost, overflows all limits through every place and time, which is why anyone can feel the fruit of The Holy Spirit.

Luke 17:20-21 AMPC
20 Asked by the Pharisees when The Kingdom of God would come, He, Jesus, replied to them by saying, “The Kingdom of God does not come with signs to be observed or with visible display,
21 Nor will people say, Look! Here! or, See, there! For behold, The Kingdom of God is within you [in your hearts] and among you [surrounding you].”

The Kingdom of Heaven is not physical.

Acts 2:1-17 AMPC
1 And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all assembled together in one place,
2 When suddenly there came a sound from heaven like the rushing of a violent tempest blast, and it filled the whole house in which they were sitting.
3 And there appeared to them tongues resembling fire, which were separated and distributed and which settled on each one of them.
4 And they were all filled with The Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as The Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression.
5 Now there were then residing in Jerusalem Jews, devout and God-fearing men from every country under heaven.
6 And when this sound was heard, the multitude came together and they were astonished and bewildered, because each one heard them [the apostles] speaking in his own dialect.
7 And they were beside themselves with amazement, saying, Are not all these who are talking Galileans?
8 Then how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own dialect to which we were born?
9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and the transient residents from Rome, both Jews and the proselytes,
11 Cretans and Arabians too—we all hear them speaking in our own native tongues the mighty works of God!
12 And all were beside themselves with amazement and were puzzled and bewildered, saying one to another, What can this mean?
13 But others made a joke of it and derisively said, They are simply drunk and full of sweet wine.
14 But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them: You Jews and all you residents of Jerusalem, let this be [explained] to you so that you will know and understand; listen closely to what I have to say.
15 For these men are not drunk, as you imagine, for it is the third hour (about 9:00 a.m.) of the day;
16 But this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, God declares, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream [divinely suggested] dreams.

The Spirit has been given to all humanity.

Psalm 139:7-12 AMPC
7 Where could I go from Your Spirit? Or where could I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol (the place of the dead), behold, You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning or dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 Even there shall Your hand lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me and the night shall be light about me,
12 Even the darkness hides nothing from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.

God’s heart is everywhere.

John 3:1-16 AMPC
1 Now there was a certain man among the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler among the Jews,
2 Who came to Jesus at night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know and are certain that You have come from God a Teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.
3 Jesus answered him, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that unless a person is born again, he cannot ever see The Kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother’s womb again and be born?
5 Jesus answered, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and The Spirit, he cannot enter The Kingdom of God.
6 What is born of the flesh is flesh; and what is born of The Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not at My telling you, You must all be born anew.
8 The wind blows where it wills; and though you hear its sound, yet you neither know where it comes from nor where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of The Spirit.
9 Nicodemus answered by asking, How can all this be possible?
10 Jesus replied, Are you the teacher of Israel, and yet do not know nor understand these things?
11 I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, We speak only of what we know; we have actually seen what we are testifying to. And still you do not receive our testimony.
12 If I have told you of things that happen right here on the earth and yet none of you believes Me, how can you believe if I tell you of heavenly things?
13 And yet no one has ever gone up to heaven, but there is One Who has come down from heaven—The Son of Man, Who is in heaven.
14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must The Son of Man be lifted up,
15 In order that everyone who believes in Him may not perish, but have eternal life and live forever!
16 For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He gave up His only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not physically detectable.

Proverbs 16:32 AMPC
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

God rules his own heart and Kingdom.

2 Corinthians 3:17 AMPC
Now The Lord is The Spirit, and where The Spirit of The Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom).

Jesus and The Spirit are one, so when The Spirit came down, it was also Christ returning.

Galatians 5:22-23 AMPC
22 But the fruit of The Holy Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 Gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Anyone feeling the fruit of The Spirit is experiencing Heaven on Earth (Romans 14:17 NIV).

Closing Question
Why should I water this message down, when there are those that benefit from the thoughtless, propaganda-echoed narrative that Heaven isn’t on Earth?