Monday, April 10, 2006

Salvation Means That God's Will Be Done On This Earth

“Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven.” Matthew 6:10

Jesus taught us that this is how we should pray: that the will of God should be done through us on this earth, exactly as our Fathers will is done in Heaven! Through Christ God has provided a way for us to have everything on this earth as we will have in Heaven. “Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we should walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:4 Through Christ we walk in newness of life, just as Christ walks in newness of life. The glory of God raised Jesus from the dead and the glory of God has chosen to have us born again and through Christ we have been raised up together and made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, Ephesians 2:6.

So through Christ, even while we are here on this earth, we have and are one with all of God’s peace, all of His joy, all of His wisdom, all of His grace, all of His power, all of His faith, all of His hope, and all of His love. And we have them all exactly as we will have them in Heaven! We have been crucified with Christ, yet nevertheless we live, yet it is not us that lives, it is Christ in us that lives. We are dead and are lives are hid in Christ in God. We are now new creatures in Christ. All of the old things of our lives have passed away and now all things are new for us. Everything Jesus has is now ours! “Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He [the Spirit] will take the things that are Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you.” John 16:15 Amplified Bible

Salvation means that through Christ we have actually become one with God, just as Jesus is One with God. So it is impossible for us not to have everything that God has. If we didn’t it would be like saying our hand doesn’t have our eyes, or our nose doesn’t have our heart. We are actually now one with God, so everything He is and everything He has, we are now one with! We are really members of God’s body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone! There is no separation between God and those of us whom He has chosen. God has held nothing back from us, He has given us all that He is and He has allowed us to actually become one with it! Just as a branch is one with the vine that it is connected to! “For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.” Romans 11:16

Through Christ God’s will is being done on this earth as it is in Heaven!

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