What every believer must know..(2

What every believer must know..(2)

The believer in Christ can't afford an identity crisis.

He must be well-grounded in knowledge.

The right kind of knowledge .

The Knowledge granted only by The Holy Spirit. Peter had a

glimpse of this.

Matthew 16:17 KJV And Jesus answered and said unto him,

Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not

revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

"Flesh and blood" refers to human evidence.

The five physical senses.

You can't know Jesus by observation.

By experiments and theories. Archaeology . Science will fail

here, Same with every form of research and study in nature

and its systems.

Ephesians 1:17-18 KJV That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,

the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and

revelation in the knowledge of him:

18] 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,

Revelation knowledge isn't offered in colleges and schools.

It's only offered in scriptures .

By the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2:9-10 KJV But as it is written, Eye hath not

seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of

man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love

him.

10] But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the

Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

He has done this by the written word.

When we pray as Paul did, what is revealed is available to our

minds.

Hence the admonition to see the Word as the law of perfect

liberty( James1:22-25).

It's our mirror. We see ourselves .

Only by looking at Jesus can your true identity be made known

to you. When you look in Christ, You are looking in You.

Philemon 1:6 KJV That the communication of thy faith may

become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing

which is in you in Christ Jesus.

In You,in Christ Jesus. Jesus had made this known.

John 14:2-3 KJV [2] In my Father's house are many mansions:

if it were not so , I would have told you. I go to prepare a place

for you.

3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again,

and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be

also.

The word mansion isn't buildings or cities or estates. It's the

Greek word " Meno", it means place of being .

Where you are.

Location.

Dwellings.

Where I am you may be also.

Many based on misinformation have so dreamed of estates in

heaven.

Some very wild and ridiculous ones.

Constructions, Bricks, roofs in case of rain.

Paul mentioned buildings in heaven .

2 Corinthians 5:1 KJV [1] For we know that if our earthly house

of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God,

an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Surely our redeemed bodies are our buildings in heaven.

Such men have allowed their fantasies rob them of truth .

Stolen from them as it were who they are, in Christ.

God made the heaven and earth at once.

Genesis 1:1 KJV [1] In the beginning God created the heaven

and the earth.

There shall be no addition to heaven and earth.

Just man taking heaven back, taking his position there .

Jesus made this possible and available.

Hebrews 9:24 KJV [24] For Christ is not entered into the holy

places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but

into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for

us:

If they had read the interpretation of this in the Epistles they

sure won't have permitted such false information in their

dreams and visions.

A further look at John's account again. When they asked him

,he answered them.

John 14:5-6 KJV [5] Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know

not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

6] Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:

no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Jesus went to the

the Father.

John 14:10,16-17,19-20,23 KJV [10] Believest thou not that I

am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak

unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in

me, he doeth the works. [16] And I will pray the Father, and he

shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you

for ever;

17] Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive,

because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know

him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

19] Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye

see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

20] At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in

me, and I in you.

23] Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he

will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will

come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Res ipsa loquitor,The facts speaks for itself. He will return, His

Spirit, and make an abode in the believer. Then the believer is

one in Christ Jesus, In the Father. This isn't to happen at the

rapture, it happened at redemption.

Acts 2:32-35 KJV [32] This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof

we all are witnesses. [33] Therefore being by the right hand of

God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of

the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and

hear.

34] For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith

himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right

hand,

35] Until I make thy foes thy footstool.

He rose and went to the Right hand of the Father. Paul gave

us more insights.

Ephesians 1:20-23 KJV [20] Which he wrought in Christ, when

he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right

hand in the heavenly places ,

21] 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: [22] And hath put all

things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all

things to the church,

23] Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

He is at the Right Hand of the Father.

This means all authority .

Right hand isn't deputy. It means Regency.

To take the place of. To sit in for.

To be given power and authority, to act instead of.

All the authority is bequeathed.

The Father did just this.

John 5:22,27 KJV [22] For the Father judgeth no man, but hath

committed all judgment unto the Son:

27] And hath given him authority to execute judgment also,

because he is the Son of man.

All judgment.

Matthew 28:18 KJV [18] And Jesus came and spake unto

them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in

earth.

Power here means authority, exousia.

This happened at redemption .

Philippians 2:9-11 KJV

9] Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him

a name which is above every name:

10] That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of

things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the

earth;

11] And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is

Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Name means authority.

Position. Power. He was given at redemption .

In the Four gospels, He is the anointed.

At redemption, He is the exalted.

1 Corinthians 15:27 KJV [27] For he hath put all things under

his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is

manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under

him.

All things. Everything. Nothing is exempted.

Only the Father, for He is the giver. Since He said where I am

you will be also, let's find out if this is corroborated.

For He was limited in communication in the four gospels.

Since the Spirit hadn't been given, He couldn't use exact

words many times.

John 16:12-13 KJV [12] I have yet many things to say unto

you, but ye cannot bear them now.

13] Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide

you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but

whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew

you things to come.

In the Epistles ,we are informed by the Spirit what the mansion

is and where it is.

Colossians 3:1 KJV [1] If ye then be risen with Christ, seek

those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right

hand of God.

We are raised with Christ at salvation by redemption. He is

seated on the right hand of God.

This isn't a chair or a sofa.

It's a position. Authority.

Seated above means to reign.

John 17:22-23 KJV [22] And the glory which thou gavest me I

have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

23] I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect

in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me,

and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

We share the same glory as the Son.

We are one.

This isn't the unity of denominations.

It's union with Christ Jesus, with the Father.

Ephesians 2:5-6 KJV [5] Even when we were dead in sins, hath

quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

6] And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in

heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

We are now seated in Christ Jesus.

In You, in Christ Jesus.

Far above all principalities and powers.

The believer's authority can't be denied or reduced. It's in

Christ.

We sing "down at your feet is the most high place".

We have humbled ourselves into submission to sin-

consciousness and the sense of unworthiness .

He isn't seated upside down too.

In Christ is the most High place.

His feet is His body, the Church, which has His fullness ,

(Ephesians 1:22-33).

The highest calling isn't melodious singing and praise, which is

spiritual too if done to acknowledge Christ and His perfect

Work of redemption (Hebrews 13:15).

The highest calling is salvation.

The new Creation. Sonship. Our redemption. This should be

the lyrics of our music.

1 Corinthians 6:17 KJV [17] But he that is joined unto the Lord

is one spirit.

We are one Spirit with Him.

One means same, our spirits are the same.

Ephesians 5:30 KJV [For we are members of his body, of his

flesh, and of his bones.

We are His body. One identity. One substance.

John 15:5 KJV [5] I am the vine, ye are the branches

We must see ourselves in Him.

Like Him. This is the Work of the Gospel preached unto us and

believed.

The Work of the Spirit. Hence like John we can boldly say... 1

John 4:17 KJV [17] as he is, so are we in this world.

This is present tense, not an "after rapture" status.

Blessed? I am seated In Christ at the right hand of God, where

He is I am, as He is so am in this world!