“Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.”

“The kingdom of God has already come; indeed it is among/within you.”

Is this not an invitation, therefore, to the baptized Christian to begin living in the kingdom of God even now?  When we enter into the kingdom of the Father even now, will not rivers of living water flow out of our hearts for others?  (John 7.38)  Will we not become, through the Spirit, trees in whose branches others will rest and find shade?  All for God’s greater glory.