The Big Picture

"I have been crucified with Christ(in Him I have shared His crucifixion);it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah)lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me." Galatians 2:20.
So....when I got saved, I died right?
I accepted the Lord's gift of life in exchange for my own.
You know what? I do believe that, sincerely. And if I'm a walking vessel filled with God's Holy Spirit I really am God's daughter.
Do we in the Body of Christ grasp how supernatural we really are? An elder at my church has coined the phrase, "we are naturally supernatural, and supernaturally natural."We didnt feel anything when we died, and so the unrenewed mind wrongly assumed that the person that previously occupied the body was still alive, and still in control? Makes faith sense to me.
God supernaturally injected us with His Holy Spirit, but because the flesh couldn't feel it using the five senses, the unrenewed mind told the body the lie that she or he was the same old she or he.
Could this be why the Word instructs the believer, in Romans 12:2 "Do not be conformed to this world (this age), (fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs), but be transformed (changed) by the (entire) renewal of your mind (by it's new ideals and it's new attitude) so that you may prove for yourselves) what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the ting which is good and acceptable and perfect (in His sight for you).
Well, what does the Father mean when he says "do not be conformed to this age? lol
He makes it sound like we were sent here in time, from eternity once we became born again. yes, I believe that, because the Bible does say IN THE PRESENT TENSE that we are seated where? Well in Ephesians 2 vs. 6, it says: "And he raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together (giving us joint seating with Him in the heavenly sphere (by virtue of our being) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One). Yes, I believe that as well.
.......seems to me like we are simply passing through the earth realm for a temporary lifetime, for the purposes of spreading the gospel, and doing ultimately what all of us Believers have a mandate from Heaven to do...to make Jesus enemies his footstool, so that He can return to the earth.
Isn't the whole point of our walk with God, to become mature Sons and Daughters of Zion who are equipped by faith to carry out the execution of taking back an assigned territory from the enemy, whether it's in your family, work environment, or in the secular world, for example in my case: the tel-e-vision or "tell a vision."
It goes without saying that we walk in love, and we don't go around beating people over the head with the truth, but loving them unconditionally and praying God's word over them, calling them what God says they are, until it manifests!
Hebrews 11:1
"Now FAITH is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things (we) hope for, being the proof of things (we) do not see and the conviction of their reality (faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses).
And so if we have the faith to receive the gift of salvation, and then the faith to consecrate and learn and become our new identity in Christ, by renewing our minds to the truth, we are then ready to do the exploits of the Kingdom- to walk out our callings with great success, to fulfill the scripture that says in Psalm 2 vs 8, "Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations as your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth as Your possession." Why would God to that?
"The earth is the Lord's and the fullness of it, the world and they who dwell in it." Psalm 24:1
If everything in the Earth belongs to God, then it makes perfect sense that our mandate as Sons and Daughters is to TAKE BACK what the enemy stole which can include many things, people, marriages, buildings being used for secular purposes, the government, you name it!
It's up to each of us to be sensitive what the Holy Spirit has instructed us to do. God said he's not coming back UNTIL we make his enemies his footstool! Matthew 22:44 says "The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at My right hand, til I make your enemies your foootstool." Hebrews 10:13 says, "Then to wit until His enemies should be made a stool beneath His feet."
So we have alot of work to do! lol. An enemy of God in my opinion can be alot of things, a concept, an ungodly law, etc.
I don't know about you but I am looking forward to walking out my conversion process.
Now that I've got the big picture, it's onto receiving my identity in Christ, by first taking the time to recieve his LOVE.........

C.G. Carson