"My Kingdom is not of this World"

One of the most revealing statements made by the Lord Jesus as recorded in the Gospels was his response to Pilate's interrogation asking if He were a king. One doesn't need to dig all that deep or interpret too far outside the literal to understand what he was saying. Here was a worn down, persecuted man, admitting that he was some sort of King in the presence of a political leader, but HIS Kingdom was (is) not of this world.

Jesus is King of another world than the one in which we live. Again, we are taking His words here literally. What we have here is the testimony of Jesus, the "Dreamer", the "Delusionary", the "Psychotic". I speak here of the impression of his audience, any time that he would refer to himself as a King of another world. But the same could be said of other's impressions of us when we assert that "it is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me". We are making known our belief that we are possessed of the Spirit of another Person than ourselves. This is a MYSTICAL assertion. The Kingdom in which Jesus is King is a Mystical Kingdom. But, I believe that Jesus' Mystical Kingdom is more real than the world which we perceive with our senses, because His Kingdom never passes away, while the "visible" world lives (obviously) towards an appointed end. And there are "citizens" of Jesus' Kingdom living in this present world, sharing in varying degree the same (dreamy) mind and outlook as their King; a good many of them when considered cumulatively through time.

I am a believer in Jesus as King of another world. If Jesus were King of this world, it would be vastly different than it is. And those who follow and worship Jesus the King, necessarily live as strangers to this world, waiting patiently for the consummation of the ages. Jesus has given us eyes to see and ears to hear.