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Why we are? Mystery 6 – To Hear God In The Spirit and Obey here on Earth:
The purposes of all the preceding provisions -
The purpose of God’s Love and Effort towards Believers is to enable God to have a Family here on Earth.
We are to have intimate fellowship within The Family of God. The Family will then fulfill The Plan of God. Which culminates in victorious believers being seated on the throne of grace.
Gen 1 reveals God’s Creation of Heaven and Earth and His Making of Man to exist in God’s image and Likeness. Man was given authority to rule and have dominion over The Earth, while being submitted to God.
Eph 1:5, 11 deals with predestination: describes the intentions of a loving Father who predestined us for adoption as sons because he wanted to (“according to the purpose of his will”
For God so loved The World, He gave His only beloved Son. GOD’s Love created all things that He might have a setting for His Family to Live and Enjoy Eternal Fellowship:
The crux of human history (the stake or cross) is in the past, and the future is forever changed to fit in line with what Jesus accomplished on the cross. Adam’s sons and daughters, the prisoners of sin and death, are freed through the sacrificial death of the last Adam. This “intrusion of a new world-
God has already blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing. Praise God... And now Paul’s prayer is simply that we might have our eyes opened to the implications of our new reality.
God’s plan—“things in heaven and things on earth” (Eph. 1:10). The risen Christ is exalted “far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come” (Eph. 1:21).
Jesus is seated far above all and He has given the right to sit with Him:
People are given the right to rule on Earth, and Believers are invited into Heavenly Places.... Satan is there also but he does not rule. Satan often complains and brings accusations against mankind. In the midst of Heaven and Earth only a full relationship with God will do.
To know what surpasses knowledge is the privilege of Christians. The purpose ultimately is to be filled with God’s full provision.
Saved by faith, which is not of our own doing (Eph. 2:8). We have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him (Eph. 3:12). Christ dwells in our hearts through faith (Eph. 3:17). We believe in one Lord and are one in faith (Eph. 4:5). Christ is about his work growing his body here on earth until we all attain to the unity of the faith (Eph. 4:13).
We are made Natural and Spiritually New in Life together, with Christ in The Spirit...!
The Spiritual Throne, Where Believers Learn Who God Is:
This is the activity which victorious believers have been equipped to take part in....
Heavenly Places: 1:20 God in Christ Jesus made us to sit at His right hand in the... 2:6-