Wow. Is that your phrase or is it a copied phrase? I never heard that before. I like it. Yes and yes, Kingdom of God is Jesus, for He is the King. In Him is the God's Kingdom.
I honestly forgot how I learned of Jesus being the "Kingdom."
It may been through reading a Christian article online.
But I do believe the "
Kingdom of God" is in reference to "
Jesus."
Why?
Well, John the baptist said, "
repent" (seek forgiveness with God by way of prayer), for
the Kingdom of God (JESUS) was
at hand (near, or coming).
We can read about how the disciples preached the kingdom of God before the cross:
"And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick." (Luke 9:2).
Yet, the kingdom of God was preached after the cross, too:
"Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him." (Acts of the Apostles 28:31).
Kingdoms are made up of people.
Jesus is the head of the Kingdom.
For you cannot have a Kingdom without King, and Jesus is he King of Kings.
The Kingdom of God is Jesus.
For the Kingdom can be within a person.
"Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17:21).
Jesus says, "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." (John 15:7). Jesus stands at the door of men's hearts and knocks to come inside them: "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." (Revelation 3:20). "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love," (Ephesians 3:17).
Jesus identifies Himself as the Kingdom of God when He says,
"But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you." (Luke 11:20).
When Jesus told His disciples that when they healed the sick, they are to say to them that the Kingdom of God has come near to them.
"And heal the sick there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’" (Luke 10:9).
This again is Jesus healing them. Jesus is the Kingdom of God. He is the One who heals.
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised," (Luke 4:18).
Jesus is the One who lives in all believers thereby making up the Kingdom of God's people. It's why we are the body of Christ.
"So we,
being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another." (
Romans 12:5).