164 – Sitting in Heavenly Places with Christ

The Bible Speaks to You: Think, Pray, Love like Jesus

The Bible Speaks to You: Think, Pray, Love like Jesus
164 – Sitting in Heavenly Places with Christ
Nov 29, 2022 Episode 164
James Early

164 – Wouldn't it be great to be sitting with Christ in heavenly places?

Have you ever just wanted to get away from all the struggle, the challenges, and the busyness of daily life? Sometimes it seems the cycle of events never stops and we don’t have time to just be still and feel God’s presence as much as we’d like to.

I have certainly felt this way many times. But a phrase from Ephesians has been coming to me the last week or so which has given me a lot of comfort: “sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:6

That actually sounds pretty good doesn’t it? To sit in heavenly places in Christ.

But how on earth do we do that? Or, how in heaven do we do that, I should say. How can we get there, sitting in heavenly places?

In this week's episode I explore what this means:

  • The verb tense indicates that God has already made us sit in heavenly places
  • It's not just way off in the future
  • To sit in heavenly places is part of our spiritual inheritance as co-heirs with Christ
  • It is spiritually true now, we just can't see it looking through a distorted lens
  • We need to accept the fact we are heirs to the kingdom and that we deserve this inheritance because God has ordained it for us, and us for it
  • When we look the the lens of God's grace, we can see more of our divine heritage
  • Before we can completely accept our divine inheritance we must give up a sin-oriented mindset that sees everyone, including ourselves, as miserable sinners
  • Jesus looked at people through the lens of what's true in the kingdom of heaven and saw them "sitting with him in heavenly places."

Take a moment right now, and open your spiritual vision to see yourself sitting in these heavenly places we’ve been talking about. Quit looking through the smudged and cracked lens of a world full of sin. Look at yourself, and everyone you meet, through the lens of God’s grace, God’s divine influence in your heart.

This is not something to do just once or twice. It begins with that. But it’s a daily practice. It’s a mindset shift. The more you look through the lens of grace, the more grace you’ll see everywhere you go.

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James Early, the Jesus Mindset Coach, is a Bible teacher, speaker, and podcaster. His focus is on getting back to the original Christianity of Jesus by embracing the mindset of Christ in daily life.