10 [The purpose is] that through the church the complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in all its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be made known to the angelic rulers and authorities (principalities and powers) in the heavenly sphere.
Look at what our Father teaches us here. The Church is how the wisdom of God will be made known to the angels and rulers in Heaven. We so often look for angels to come and share the Truth with us, when the reality is that we are the ones that show the Truth to them! How great is that? The Bible tells us that we are not to forsake the gathering together of believers and that we are to come together even stronger during the last days, Hebrews 10:25. Through the Bride, the true church, the wisdom of our Father will become clear. Our Shepherd will draw us together and He will cause us to be used to do the works that He did and even greater works, John 14:12, to show the Truth that will set the captives free.
11 This is in accordance with the terms of the eternal and timeless purpose which He has realized and carried into effect in [the person of] Christ Jesus our Lord,
Jesus came to make us one with our Father, John 17:19-22. Jesus was victorious on this earth and we now are one with God and the powers in Heaven see it. They see the Truth, they see what our Father desired for us and they see it carried out. The angels now know that we are one with Jesus, they know that we are members of His body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bones, Ephesians 5:30. This was our Father’s purpose all along. Our Father knew that Adam and Eve would fail. He knew exactly what satan was going to do. It was all our Father’s plan, nothing caught Him off guard. He knew satan was going to rebel and He knew Adam would fail and He chose to make it all known to the angels through us.
12 In Whom, because of our faith in Him, we dare to have the boldness (courage and confidence) of free access (an unreserved approach to God with freedom and without fear).
Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2
We have boldness because our faith is now authored and finished by Jesus. If faith was a human ability to believe the Truth’s of God we would never have any boldness, we would only have doubt. But the Truth of faith is that it is Jesus’ ability to believe the Truth’s of God working through us. Jesus is our courage and He is our confidence. We have unreserved approach to our Father because we are one with Him just as Jesus is One with Him. We are Jesus’ body and in Him there is no fear! A branch has unreserved approach to the vine and an arm has unbroken fellowship with the head and Jesus is our Vine and He is our Head.
Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free. The glorious Truth is that in Christ we are empowered to expect and believe that our Father will do far more through us than we can think of or imagine, Ephesians 3:20. We are empowered to dare to believe that our Father will use us to do greater works than He used Jesus to do, John 14:12. We are empowered to expect that there isn’t one feeble one amongst us. We have the mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2:16, so we can think as Jesus thinks, believe as He believes, love as He loves, forgive as He forgives, and live as He lives!
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