Sitting in the heavenly places with Jesus Christ
Dr. Roberto Miranda
SUMMARY: As believers, we are seated with Christ in the heavenly places and have access to his power and triumph over the dark forces that seek to harm us. Through Christ's sacrifice, we are freed from the jurisdiction of the devil and come under the administration of a loving government that seeks to restore our communication with God. We need to ask God for wisdom and revelation to fully understand our inheritance through the Cross of Christ and unleash the power of God in our lives.
Paul declares in Ephesians 2: 6 that God "made us alive together with Christ, and raised us up with him, and likewise made us to sit in the heavenly places with Christ Jesus." What an amazing statement! That identification with Christ that the Word of God establishes for each believer assures us that the power of Christ, his triumph over the dark powers that seek to rob us of a full and successful life, they will work in our favor in this world.
Judicially, we are seated together with Jesus in the heavenly places, places of authority and fullness. From that high and infinitely vantage point, we can confidently look down the road ahead. We can partake of the power released by the resurrection. The inertia of a fallen world has no power over us.
On the cross, Christ decisively triumphed over the principalities and powers that militate against the welfare of the human race (Col 2:15). He destroyed the inevitability of the diabolical power that delights in tormenting the children of God, seeking to erase the mark of divinity and greatness that every human being wears. Through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, everyone who stands within the framework of the Kingdom of God is freed from diabolical jurisdiction, and comes under the administration of a new authority — a benevolent and loving government whose only desire is to restore our communication with the Creator, and reestablishing the link with that source of divine energy that assures us a life of fullness, creativity and power.
That is why the apostle Paul prays for the believers in Ephesus, so that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, will give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, enlightening the eyes of your understanding, so that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, and what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the supereminent greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to the operation of the power of his might. (Ephesians 1:17)
Certainly, the power that God has made to dwell in us through Jesus is amazing. We have to ask God for revelation and wisdom to fully understand all that constitutes our inheritance through the Cross of Christ. The same power that raised Christ from the dead operates in our lives! As we become aware of this, and cultivate in ourselves that image of sufficiency and freedom through Christ to which the Word calls us, we unleash the power of God in us, and we begin to experience that full life to which we have been called. .
Judicially, we are seated together with Jesus in the heavenly places, places of authority and fullness. From that high and infinitely vantage point, we can confidently look down the road ahead. We can partake of the power released by the resurrection. The inertia of a fallen world has no power over us.
On the cross, Christ decisively triumphed over the principalities and powers that militate against the welfare of the human race (Col 2:15). He destroyed the inevitability of the diabolical power that delights in tormenting the children of God, seeking to erase the mark of divinity and greatness that every human being wears. Through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, everyone who stands within the framework of the Kingdom of God is freed from diabolical jurisdiction, and comes under the administration of a new authority — a benevolent and loving government whose only desire is to restore our communication with the Creator, and reestablishing the link with that source of divine energy that assures us a life of fullness, creativity and power.
That is why the apostle Paul prays for the believers in Ephesus, so that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, will give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, enlightening the eyes of your understanding, so that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, and what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the supereminent greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to the operation of the power of his might. (Ephesians 1:17)
Certainly, the power that God has made to dwell in us through Jesus is amazing. We have to ask God for revelation and wisdom to fully understand all that constitutes our inheritance through the Cross of Christ. The same power that raised Christ from the dead operates in our lives! As we become aware of this, and cultivate in ourselves that image of sufficiency and freedom through Christ to which the Word calls us, we unleash the power of God in us, and we begin to experience that full life to which we have been called. .
