Current Realities and Future Realities
Dearly beloved of God, Jesus’ birth was the beginning of much more to come. His birth set the stage for God’s Will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.
During his yearlong ministry he accomplished the will of God concerning our redemption and salvation. He gave his life so that we might live. He suffered and died so that we might be saved and redeemed, but there is much more to come.
We are saved the moment we confess Jesus as Lord and believe that God raised him from the dead. Jesus Christ paid the price for our victory over sin and death. He made the current reality possible, and he made the future reality possible, also.
After his resurrection from the dead, and his ascension into heaven, on the Feast of Pentecost the Lord Jesus Christ sent the promise of the Father, the gift of holy spirit, and now the saved ones are born again of the spirit from God, and we are children of God. He gave us spirit life today.
We are sealed with that promised holy spirit. It is the down payment of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession occurs.
The new birth is the first stage, and the inheritance will be the final stage.
In Christ Jesus, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace, wherein He hath abounded toward us. We have been justified. This is a current reality, dearly beloved.
When the Lord Jesus Christ returns to gather us up unto him, we will be redeemed from death, and from corruption, and from mortality if we are alive. The Lord Jesus Christ will transform our vile bodies to be like his glorious body, and we will receive everlasting life.
Today we are saved, and we have the future hope of salvation. God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that we should live together with him.
Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for him he shall appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
When Christ Jesus the Lord returns to save us, we will receive everlasting life. God called us to obtain the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we will glorified with him at his appearing.
As you can see there are current realities of our redemption and salvation, and there are future realities. The Lord Jesus Christ is the one that made all of them possible.
God is the All Powerful One, and He delegated power to His Son to accomplish the good pleasure of His will when He raised him from the dead. God determined that all that we are, and all that we have now, and in the future is in Christ.
God marked out Jesus Christ as the Son of God with power when he raised him from the dead. This begs the question, just how much power does the Lord Jesus Christ have, dearly beloved?
God our Father blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm. The Father freely gives us all things with His Son.
God sent His Son to be the Savior, and he can save to the uttermost all that believe regarding him. He is the Savior and there is salvation in no other.
God sent His Son to redeem from the reign of sin and death.
After Christ was glorified, and God made him both Lord and Christ, he sent the promise of His Father, the gift of holy spirit to all that believe regarding him. He became a life-giving spirit, Christ in you, the hope of glory.
He accomplished what was necessary to make the promise of the spirit available, and His Father gave him the privilege of sending it forth.
In love, God determined beforehand for us to have sonship to Himself through Jesus Christ in accordance with the good pleasure of His Will. When we believe regarding him we become the children of God.
Jesus Christ justified those who believe regarding him from all things from which the law could not. God justified us in Christ, and by his accomplishments.
Through his blood we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace which He has caused to abound toward us.
In Christ we are the righteous of God. In Christ we now stand before God without any sense of sin, guilt, or condemnation.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Prince of Peace. He made the peace between God and man, and between Judean and Gentile.
Jesus Christ partook of flesh and blood so that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver them who through the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
The Lord Jesus Christ has the power to deliver those who are oppressed by the devil.
He has the power to heal all sickness.
God said, “When he [Jesus Christ] ascended on high, he took captive those who captivate, and he gave gifts to people.” He gave the apostles and the prophets and the gospel messengers and the shepherds and teachers to the Church.
When his Father instructs him to return for the Church he will return and gather the Church together up to meet him in the air. He will raise the dead in Christ first, then we which are alive, and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
When the Savior returns, he will transform our humiliated body that it may have the same form as his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. We will acquire the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.
God has given Jesus Christ the power to raise all the dead that are in the grave today.
The Father has committed all judgment unto the Son, and he will execute all judgment. The hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth at his command, some to the resurrection of life, and some unto the resurrection of damnation.
As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. Christ was the first fruit from the dead, then at his coming those who are Christ’s will be made alive.
“Then, the end, when he delivers over the kingdom to God, even the Father, when he has made inoperative all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till He [God] has put all enemies under his feet.” The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Once the Lord Jesus Christ has accomplished all that the Father has entrusted to him he will deliver the kingdom to God, and he himself will be subject unto Him so that God may be all in all.
Jesus Christ always does the will of His Father. He said, “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.” He came to do the will of God, dearly beloved, and that he did, and he will do in the future. He has the power to accomplish all of His Father’s Will.
It all started with the birth of the only begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ our Lord, but much has come and there is much more to come, dearly beloved of God. Rejoice!