The Death Advance

Dying and going to heaven made possible for the living? Our own personal deaths as individuals is not the requirement of our entry into Heaven. Jesus death on our behalf fulfilled any death-requirement for the entry of a human person to Heaven. Now, Heaven is God's free gift to the living... not religion's consolation prize for the prisoners of it's punishment and reward system. Lifting our eyes to the Heavens, by the simple knowledge of Jesus Christ, we realize ourselves already seated there in Him.

Many don't realize this but God doesn't change His mind. In His mind, you are already in Heaven with Him. His mind about us doesn't change about people when they die, it's people's ideas about themselves that inevitably change! Dying to whatever opinions were attached to their bodies, even their own opinion of themselves fades away. Instead of being completely defined by the judgements assigned to that body over the course of life on earth, the death of the earth-born self takes away every distraction from our Heaven-born self, which is God's exclusive opinion of who we are. The capacity of our own bodies to define ourselves and one another having been eradicated by the One who died for all, the human body being dead, it can no longer define us. The resurrection of that same human body in which we died assigns our physical earthen vessels as vehicles for our Heaven-born selves. We now live on Earth as who we are in Heaven, in physical bodies of perishable earthen clay as who we are in the imperishable eternal body of Christ Jesus our lord! This greater reality is the authentic mold, and our mind's being molded according to it, we now exist as we presently are in the mind of God.

The collective body of mankind died through Jesus' death, so our individual bodies of flesh and natural lives no longer define or control us. In God's mind, any definition of the flesh is cancelled because we've been separated from the collective body of flesh and united to His body in the Spirit. How we're separated from the body of flesh is through defining power of Jesus' name. Christ as our Origin, and Christ's Origin in God proves us as alive in Him prior to our incarnation in flesh. Our natural birth was illustrated by Jesus as having been preceded by our existence in the mind of our Author. The offspring of the flesh is the offspring of God because the offspring of God is the flesh.

He doesn't consider mankind alive on the Earth, and then change His mind when a human person dies, deciding to now believe they are in Heaven rather than on the Earth. In truth, God ALWAYS considers man as being in Heaven... but when men's mind's are bound by their association with their physical flesh and all of the deeds definitive of it's life, they disqualify themselves from the perfection making Heaven what it is! This is why Paul the Apostle exclaims, "Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?" (Romans 7:24)

Being bound to the definition of flesh, ANY definition of flesh, whether prestigious or the lowest of the low, equally binds men to an Earthly definition and blinds the person from their Spiritual definition. Your Spiritual definition is what His Spirit reveals as true about you in light of what Jesus accomplished for you; it is the revelation of how God restored our complete access to Heaven. Whether counted as good according to the life you lived on the Earth or as bad , what the life on Earth defined as being "you" doesn't enter Heaven. The only things that enter Heaven are things that originated in Heaven. Any definition of you originating from the Earth remains on the Earth; what's from dust returns to dust, but who's from the Spirit returns to the Spirit! Who you experienced yourself as a human-being on the Earth ORIGINATED not in the womb of a natural parent but in God- in Heaven and like rain falling to water Earth, you came to realize the fulfillment of our destiny to awaken the seeds of the earth and cause new life to blossom and fill the Earth with beauty and fragrance, and having seen the fulfillment of this destiny in Christ, to return to Heaven from whence you came.

Like my wife asked me once, "If the whole point is dying and going to Heaven, why did Jesus come HERE on Earth to die? Why didn't He just keep us in Heaven if the reason He came here was to take us back there? Why die for no reason? It's pointless." It made me realize she was right. Religion has blinded people for so long. Jesus' death on every person's behalf was valid! God confirmed the validity of His death's application to the lives of the entire human race in by raising Him from the dead! His resurrection evidenced our co-crucifixion as valid which rendered us as having ALREADY DIED in God's mind, and as living today only through the image of you that was conceived in Him before the beginning of the natural life He brought to an end. This indeed has been the only truth about you all along, you as you always existed in the mind of God. That man's earth-life and all the deeds of his earth-self is already dead and buried, forever forgotten in the mind of God means that we are associated exclusively with Him and the heavenly deeds of His Son's earth-life instead. The greatest blessing of which is the inheritance of the Father as our own. The same Father as Jesus, now my own, and in exactly the same manner as towards Jesus, as though I'd never sinned. A joy to my Father, the perfect son to Him, seeing Him proud with me through His every breath given and devoted exclusively to me. Jesus' death and resurrection is what it took to bring me into this relationship with Our Father, and He turned the dark sufferings of my earth-life as a backdrop to the unveiling of His wonderful light, but the morning star is fully dawned in us. We are home free. God is my parent, my only parent; Heaven is my home, my only home; Jesus is my definition, my only definition. And the life I live in this earth-body is in only in His name by grace! -f