JUST PASSING THROUGH

      There is a great heavenly mystery kept secret since the world begin that we must learn of in order to understand who we are in the Church of Jesus Christ on earth. According to Paul as he revealed what he called "my gospel" [Rom. 16:25] this mystery which defines us in God's eyes is a heavenly or spiritual revelation which our whole ministry here is to proceed from. Paul's teachings were not to make us better stewards over the earthly church activities nor were they to build us up in a personal confidence of our status upon the earth as Christians. They were given by God that we might know of ourselves as, individually first and then collectively, separate from the world, and from that mindful knowledge to display to the earth and all the universe just who we are seen as in The Father mind. All to His glory, shown to the principalities and powers in the heavenly realm. All this takes place in the Fathers mind and now by Paul's revelation our mind as well. No action, life style, program or social outreach will suffice or enhance this truth."My speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom" 1 Cor. 2:4

      These "resurrection" revelations are given us in grace and result in the manifestation of the wisdom of God being displayed to all powers throughout the universal heavenly kingdom of God, including us here on earth. These revelations are non-earthly in character and have no connection with any form of worship or service we might participate in as to the establishment of them. As the Christian is described by Paul as the circumcision or those who are cut off from the old Adam inheritance and nature and all earthly things by the Cross; in a co-death [too all that is natural] and Resurrection made for us by the representation of another all together Whom we follow by faith alone. "That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of man, but in the power of God" 1 Cor. 2:5.

      All that we are made to be in God's sight is to be revealed and lived out by faith only; which also is a mystery [1 Tim. 3:9]. A mystery we must discover and come to know as the fabric of our very spiritual existence. We will not find this faith in knowing doctrines alone, nor will we qualify by our actions. But by the apprehension of our very being which is now found in the revelations reveled by Paul in "his gospel". A gospel to be held in knowledgeable thought as living oracles of God, defining our soul and spirit as seen by the Father, in the making of us into His new creation by Spirit, a heavenly character formed in the Fathers mind as He realizes His Son. All of which and what we are now is contained in Christ Jesus, who is in heaven representing us; therefore the necessity of a objective faith toward the invisibleness of the heavenly/spiritual on our part. Not a subjective faith which only centers upon our own needs as we tend to do. "If any man be in Christ he is a new creation" 2 Cor. 5:17.

      The path of faith sets aside the whole system of seen and felt things with its's earthly and repetitive traditions. In other words religion and the improvement of man. It is the greatness of the Lord Jesus Christ which is presented to us by Paul in his gospel, a new way, a unseen way, only known by faith. Yes the effects of Christianity may be seen and even may produce results but if the appeal is to sight and sound we are on the earthly path of religion and not the heavenly things which are eternal and stable. "Looking away [from all things that will distract] to Jesus" Heb. 12:2.

      These spiritual truths taught by Paul only are in direct contrast to a earthly method of practice and makes us strangers and pilgrims on the earth. We live outside the camp and now by Spirit and faith through the Fathers thoughts live inside the veil in heaven itself. As to here, we are only passing through."For we walk by faith and not by sight" 2 Cor. 5:7.