How many people could say that they've actually been to Heaven and back? Sure, there's been a few, and the things they share are often riveting! But without first having attained the true knowledge of Heaven from the Author of Heaven itself, tell me how often people have likely been led astray and swept into one anothers imaginations about God rather than experiencing direct encounters with God? As an avid dreamer, I'm especially intrigued by our capacity to experience, touch, hear, taste, and feel beyond this physical body of ours. I have no doubt in the existence of realms beyond our senses. Simply having a body compatible with the place we're in seems key- a heavenly body for heaven, an earthly body for earth, etc. The beauty of it to me is this: Jesus Christ, with an earthly body has crossed into Heaven from Earth. He occupied the Throne of God above Heaven, making way for every other member of mankind to inhabit the same position through our association with Him. Jesus is Himself The Way to Heaven; and is what we find when we arrive there.
Our being in Him has brought us into Heaven, which we encounter on Earth through Faith as what is true in Heaven is what's brought forth by God on the Earth through His promises. These promises, originating in His Spirit, enter our hearts by His word. Being planted and rooted there, it grows, fully fleshes out on Earth as it is in Heaven in the mind of God. What we plant of Him in our hearts grows and materializes in the Earth, our hearts having authority over the physical realm through the Word of His Spirit. Awesome stuff! But even this description falls short of what someone whose literally been to Heaven, seen stuff beyond human intellect (and understood them), seeing and knowing God Himself face to face would consider, "The BEST Stuff on Earth!" Something better than even the coolest principles of Heavenly economics, spiritual manifestations, heavens and heavenly angels, etc etc etc? What could it be? Simply this: The Gospel. Which is? The news that by one man's death on behalf of all, and the resurrection of that same man and His ascension to the throne of God, you and I have become recipients of The Spirit of God.
By His Grace, through no contribution of our own, we were qualified to be called the Children of God, and now His Spirit of Sonship occupies our hearts bringing truth to our every claim of being children of God. The Spirit brings to pass all of the evidences of your being in Christ, blessing us with the blessings of Abraham, freeing us to discover that we are united to the Lord through this Spirit of Sonship, inheriting His father by inheriting the Spirit of His Son. He fills our hearts with love. He identifies us by name. We now register in Heaven and on Earth as Jesus... as righteous as He, blameless as He, beloved by God as He, and set as highly as He far above any name in Heaven or on the Earth. So you'd expect awesome descriptions of pearly gates, descriptions of how things look and various things about what goes beyond the capacity of the eye to see, but all any spirit-filled person whose been face to face with God has ever been compelled to share upon returning to the Earthen has been: Christ crucified and His subsequent glory, that is, the Message of the Grace of God. It's the best stuff on Earth! -f #grace #heaven #visions #word
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