Many Christians today have a feeling of inadequacy. This is because they have very little understanding of the positional statements in the new covenant writings that are known as the letters. The Gospels all end with the triumphant victory of Christ over the world. The Epistles (Letters) reveal our corporate identity with Christ in his triumphant victory. Our failure to grasp this as our shared victory leaves us feeling defeated and inadequate.
Fear mongering is often found today in Christan circles, fear of a one world Religion, fear of the Illuminati, fear of the secret socities and the supposed power they hold over the common man. Fear of a modernised electronic banking system using implanted silicon chips in their clients. These fears extend to being left behind when the imminent rapture finally arives and the great tribulation of the dispensational quacks leaves them at the mercy of a global antichrist’s meglomania. The latest is the 2012 scenario based upon a supposed translation of an ancient mayan stone calendar. Some Christians spend their lives on studying cults, prophecies,secret socities as a claim to knowing their common enemies.
My question to them is “Why dont you find out who you are first“?
Ephesians 1:18/19 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us–ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
The Apostle Paul wants your mind to be renewed into grasping your postion in Christ and the Authority and Power you hold in the victory of Christ.
4 ¶ Ephesians 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
The first point he wants to establish in the readers mind is that God Absolutely Loves you.
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
The second point Paul wants you to grasp is the power you wield:
Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
The Third Point is whre you should be operating From;
Heb 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
The Book of Revelation is laid out in exactly the same manner, First the letters to the seven churches followed by John the Apostle being Caught up into the Throne Room Of God.
Re 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches
Re 4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter
Paul wants us to occupy our position in Christ , In that we were raised up with Christ and endured with the power of God.
!. Christ is sitting in The Throne Room of God with your Spirit alongside him.
2. You Should be exercising your Authority from and in the Throne Room.
Mt 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Christs assertion of his Authority is that it extends to him , firstly from Heaven, secondly it is exercised and demonstrated on earth.
Paul insists that we put on Christ. Ro 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,
Paul wrote these letters after Christ’s Ascension into Heaven, It is the Risen, Ascended, Enthroned and Glorified Christ that you should be clothing yourself with.
1Co 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
Today we have a New Song of Eternal Victory and Glory to Sing :
I am sitting in the Glory ,sitting in the Glory, sitting in the Glory of the Lord
I am singing in the Glory, singing in the Glory .Singing in the Glory of the Lord
I am Standing in the Glory, Standing in the Glory, Standing in the Glory of the Lord
I am Living in the Glory ,Living in the Glory, Living in the Glory of the Lord
Eph 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
