Paul tells us that "we are seated in heavenly places with Christ," and
that "we have been blessed with all spiritual
blessings."
Can we honestly say that we as
believers we are experiencing the reality of being seated in heavenly
places?
If we were experiencing that truth of
the Gospel in our lives, experiencing all the blessings of God and being seated
with Him in heavenly places...would His people be as powerless as they are?
Would religious institutions calling themselves the "Church" be as anemic and
ineffective as they are?
As unacceptable as
this is going to be to the majority of religionist...in most cases the very
thing that people turn to and trust in as the means to the fulfillment of all of
God's blessings and our seating in heavenly places with Him...is the very thing
that is preventing the fulfillment of such...What is it? Man-made RELIGION!
Why?
Paul said that we have been blessed with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places. He said we have been seated with Christ in
heavenly places. Why do we not experience such seating? Do you think if we were
experiencing all of the blessings of God, if believers were seated in heavenly
places with Christ would the Church be in the sorry state it is in today? If
denominations aren't experiencing a seated position with Christ in heavenly
places what is the reason?
May I be so bold as to offer a
possible answer? Is it because the spiritual eyes of the religionists are
blinded by religious tradition that has dulled the spiritual ears, and hardened
the spiritual heart making them practically void of spiritual understanding?
Have we become so detached from the life of Christ within us and so attached to
the religious life without us to the degree that we don’t even know where
"heavenly places" are?
We think that up there somewhere
where in the great beyond is where God dwells is a place where we are seated
with God. We fail to realize that God dwells in his people here on earth. We are
totally unaware that being seated in heavenly places is having a conscious
awareness of the reality of being one with God and experiencing that reality in
this earth.
Religion has made us so
devil-conscious, body-conscious and soul conscious, we have lost
God-consciousness thus, are dead to Spirit-consciousness unable to hear the
voice of Truth because religious consciousness is our
focus.
We need to "renew" our mind, not
religiously but Spiritually!
That means that
when our mind is renewed and clean by the removal of religious hog-wash, and
when our eyes become open to the reality of the revelation that Paul regarding
the Gospel of Grace, we will begin to walk in a conscious awareness and reality
of who we are in Christ and the fact of Christ living in us. And we won’t have
to try to do it by keeping the Mosaic Law or religious
performances.
However, for that to happen we have to begin
to have our minds changed, because the God that has been presented to us in
Christianity has been presented in a way that has given us a false understanding
of who He is, what He is doing and especially as to what He has done! Now, that
is nothing new, because Jesus had to fight that same battle during His earth
days. He said, "It has been written in your very own law, but I say to you . . .
. I can hear the Bible idolaters, "Glenn you are a false prophet, I go by the
Bible; if the Bible says it, I believe it and that settles
it!
Well...the law says ‘an eye for an eye and
a tooth for a tooth,’ so if you kill someone, do you believe that someone should
likewise kill you? Jesus said, "It has been written. It is in your very own
scripture." But, does because it is written in scripture settle the issue? Not
according to Jesus...Jesus said": "It has been written, but I say to you, (here
comes the the change in what has been written, listen with your spiritual ears)
love your enemies; do good to them who despite-fully use
you.“
Isn't it time that we change...if we
don't we will never experience being seated in heavenly places with
Christ!
- Glenn Regular
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