Reigning with Christ
Are we really sons of God? Can we truly do the works of Christ?
In this season, God is revealing into the hearts of maturing sons who we really are in Christ. The old false identity is being replaced with revelation of our true identity as sons of God – sons that are maturing into the full corporate expression of Christ on earth. Mature sons of God, joint heirs with Christ, bringing the revelation and manifestation of the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.
The life and power of heaven flowing through Christ within mature sons by the Holy Spirit will bring full redemption to the waiting world.
Galatians 4:6-7: And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts ... Therefore you are no longer a servant but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Romans 8:14: For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are (full grown) sons of God.
Romans 8: 18-19: For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the (mature) sons of God.
The world is groaning and waiting for us to become the holy, purified, obedient, mature sons who will release the power of God to restore the kingdom of God on earth. It is waiting for us to heal and deliver our planet from the rule of darkness and oppression -- to forever break Satan’s cruel bondage from the earth and to establish the reign of righteousness, peace and joy, the kingdom of God. Thus, we, as the mature sons, are to extend the king-dome and its light to the world (Romans 8:21-22).
In the kingdom of God, faithful servants become rulers. We serve by ruling after having faithfully served in obedience to God in smaller matters.
Matthew 25:21: “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’”
Luke 19:17: “And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant: because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.’”
Luke 12:44: “Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has.”
Luke 22: 26b-30: “...he who is greatest among you, let him be as the younger, and he who governs as he who serves. For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I (Jesus) am among you as the One Who serves. But you are those who have continued with Me in My trials. And I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed one upon Me, that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
The highest order of ruling is intercession. Those who are seated at the table of the Lord have the opportunity and the responsibility to make intercession; to serve as an advocate for the Israel of God. It is bringing the people of God with their needs to Jesus, and bringing ministry from the Lord to His people that they may also be brought to the table of the Lord. As seated, mature sons, we reign with Jesus Christ on earth.
Romans 5:17b: ... those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 2:12: If we endure, we shall also reign with Him.
Revelation 5: 9b-l0: ... and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and have made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign on the earth.
Jesus has provided and is providing full redemption and restoration. It is more than spending eternity with Him in heaven and missing hell, though certainly this would be more than sufficient reason to endure. But the Word says that by His abundance of grace and gift of righteousness we will reign in life with Him if we endure (overcome). Jesus has provided and is providing all we need to reign as kings and priest on the earth as He ever lives to make intercession for us. He is bringing many sons to glory (Hebrews 7:25).
Seeing the goal of ruling and reigning with Him in this life encourages us to continue during the difficult life purification and reformation processes. Though we are sons on our way to the full stature of Christ, we will endure chastening and persecution.
Romans 8:14: For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are (full grown) sons of God.
Romans 8: 18-19: For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the (mature) sons of God.
The world is groaning and waiting for us to become the holy, purified, obedient, mature sons who will release the power of God to restore the kingdom of God on earth. It is waiting for us to heal and deliver our planet from the rule of darkness and oppression -- to forever break Satan’s cruel bondage from the earth and to establish the reign of righteousness, peace and joy, the kingdom of God. Thus, we, as the mature sons, are to extend the king-dome and its light to the world (Romans 8:21-22).
In the kingdom of God, faithful servants become rulers. We serve by ruling after having faithfully served in obedience to God in smaller matters.
Matthew 25:21: “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’”
Luke 19:17: “And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant: because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.’”
Luke 12:44: “Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has.”
Luke 22: 26b-30: “...he who is greatest among you, let him be as the younger, and he who governs as he who serves. For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I (Jesus) am among you as the One Who serves. But you are those who have continued with Me in My trials. And I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed one upon Me, that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
The highest order of ruling is intercession. Those who are seated at the table of the Lord have the opportunity and the responsibility to make intercession; to serve as an advocate for the Israel of God. It is bringing the people of God with their needs to Jesus, and bringing ministry from the Lord to His people that they may also be brought to the table of the Lord. As seated, mature sons, we reign with Jesus Christ on earth.
Romans 5:17b: ... those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 2:12: If we endure, we shall also reign with Him.
Revelation 5: 9b-l0: ... and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and have made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign on the earth.
Jesus has provided and is providing full redemption and restoration. It is more than spending eternity with Him in heaven and missing hell, though certainly this would be more than sufficient reason to endure. But the Word says that by His abundance of grace and gift of righteousness we will reign in life with Him if we endure (overcome). Jesus has provided and is providing all we need to reign as kings and priest on the earth as He ever lives to make intercession for us. He is bringing many sons to glory (Hebrews 7:25).
Seeing the goal of ruling and reigning with Him in this life encourages us to continue during the difficult life purification and reformation processes. Though we are sons on our way to the full stature of Christ, we will endure chastening and persecution.
Eph 4:13-16 … till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect (mature) man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head; Christ; from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
Hebrews 2:10:For it was fitting for Him, for Whom are all things, and by Whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Keep on pursuing Love. Love never failsand His kingdom never ends.
Ron McGatlin
www.openheaven.com
basileia@earthlink.net
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