Because of the teachings taught to us over the years, we somehow seem to not think of ourselves as "spirit" while we're in this flesh and blood body. And, until we begin seeing ourselves as new creatures, we will never truly educate our new born again spirit that is alive within this house of flesh. We've educated the carnal mind with the knowledge of the world. The education of the carnal man, through schooling and college, is necessary to dwell here on earth. We've educated the soulish part of man with philosophy and entertainment. We've disciplined the body with exercise and endurance. But, we have failed to educate the new creation that lives in this body.
We've been taught and accepted that it is all to be done "on the other side," Heaven. Few Christians really view themselves as spirit people who are living in a dead, flesh body. We spend most of our time trying to deal with the flesh and not really educating and building up our new creation man of the Spirit. If we realize all that the spirit realm has for us not just when we die, but now, then we can receive what Jesus came to restore by Life, into our own lives.
Philippians 3:18-21 (Amplified) says, "For there are many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, who walk (live) as enemies of the cross of Christ (the Anointed One) They are doomed and their fate is eternal misery (perdition) their god is their stomach (their appetites, their sensuality) and they glory in their shame, siding with earthly things and being of their party." Verses 20-21 continue, "But we are citizens of the state (common wealth, homeland) which is in Heaven, and from it also we earnestly and patiently await (the coming of) the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) as Savior Who will transform and fashion anew the body of our humiliation to conform to and be like the body of His glory and majesty, by exiting that power which enables Him to subject everything to Himself."
Those verses didn't say that we wouldn't have our citizenship when we get to heaven, but that we are now citizens of the "common-wealth, homeland, which is Heaven." As citizens of this common-wealth, we are to conduct our lives accordingly. We are already citizens of heaven and the things of the Spirit have once again become our source and Life. We aren't supposed to wait until we get to heaven to have our needs met, but learn to bring the things of our "common-wealth and homeland" into being in this world.
We've been born again into the Kingdom of the Spirit of God and everything we can see, feel, touch, smell or hear in this natural world, come from the realm of the unseen Homeland and common-wealth of God's Kingdom. There was a time when everything we see was in the realm of the unseen, in heaven. The spirit (unseen) and the natural realm (things now seen), were not separated at one time, but were once all in the same realm.
When God created all that we now see, He created it from the realm of the unseen rHe saiealm of the Spirit, according to Genesis 1:27 (Amplified) which says, "So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God He created him; male and female, He created them."
God crated the natural world from the Spirit world and we have spirit man walking in the natural things that came from the Spirit. Genesis 2:7 (Amplified) says that God took the spirit man (made in His Image) and formed a natural body from the realm of the natural, dust of the earth. Thus, man became a living being. The dust body had no life until the Spirit was "breathed" into it.
Through the new creation experience with God, we now have the ability to walk in both realms simultaneously. We are to "receive" our needs met from the realm of the Spirit and manifested in the realm of the natural. Our citizenship is now in Heaven. Jesus said we are "In this world, but not of it." Everything the world or natural, come from the Spirit or unseen realm of God.
We have laid up in the Heavenly realm, everything that is needed for Life and Godliness. Jesus said to, "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all of these things shall be added unto us." We do this in order to have the unseen realm of the Spirit, added to the seen things of this natural realm.
I don't wish for people to become foolish and leap into something they don't understand, but I do want them to reach into the Kingdom of the heavenlies and appropriate what the Father has prepared for us there. Jesus taught us to pray that, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heave." God's will has not changed. All of the things we were taught God used to teach us (like making us sick or taking someone's life) are not certainly "God's will in heaven."
If all we witness occurring on earth is God's will, then we're going to have an awful time in Heaven. I don't believe that there will be hospitals, prisons, graveyards, starving children, heartache, disease, homelessness or wars in Heaven, but we persist in saying these things are God's will. In order to appropriate God's will here on earth, we must first enter into the realm of God, which is the spirit realm.
Jesus reached into the spirit realm and fed a multitude with enough bread and fish required. There was always enough in Heaven to care for the entire multitude, but in their fallen state, they couldn't gain access to it. Even the miracles and healings that toke place in Jesus' ministry came from the Heavenly realm of God's will. Jesus said over and over again that, "It is not Me, but the Father in Me, Who is doing the work." He said in John 5:30 (Amplified), "I am able to do nothing from Myself (independently, of My Own accord-but only as I Am taught by God and as I get His orders)."
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