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To have more of the Kingdom of God requires obedience to the point of death for your flesh. More death to self = more death to kingdom of earth life = more life in kingdom for you and more Life for those around you on earth coming through you as you obey. Obedience unto death is the key to the door of Life in the heavenly realm. Philippians 1:21 For me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “f anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? 27 For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done. Philippians 3:8 More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things – 10 My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death, 12 – but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me. 13  Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead, 14 with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.