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We spend most of our lives in the Third Dimension of phones and cars and money and jobs. This is, also, the dimension of gray hair and wrinkles, which are harbingers of the earthly body’s expiration date. For that is mankind’s destiny in the 3-D life—death and decay.
This dimension of our earthly life winds up in death. The grey-haired visage in the mirror rudely reminds us of this impending demise. Most await completion of their sad tale.
However, our Creator has subjected us all to this cruel mortality in hope that we will be delivered from these-soon-to-fully-decay bodies (Romans 8:20-23). God will deliver us from this “bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”
And, so, we wait, and this waiting produces more groanings, waiting “for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” In a word, we are waiting for the resurrection. This is the great change when we are raised up and receive our new spiritual bodies (I Cor. 15:52). This happens in God’s Spiritual Dimension. It translates us from the earthy 3-D world to the spiritual world of immortality. Spiritual fathers, who know Him “from the beginning,” will rule the nations with Christ. They will have overcome all growth impediments, and will produce 100-fold fruit.
The Heavenly Dimension for Earthlings
To get ready for this great day of Christ’s return, we must understand the heavenly spiritual dimension, where nothing is impossible to those in Christ. Getting there is being, like John, “in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day.” That is the spiritual place to be, and it is where our Savior wants us. “In the Spirit…” That phrase has been so overused by thousands of preachers that it has lost its meaning. “In the Spirit” literally means “inside of the Spirit.”
Notice that John was inside of the Spirit. The word “in” is translated from the Greek word en; meaning “inside.” [Strong’s number G1722. Thayer’s lexicon: “a preposition…in the interior of some whole…” For example, in Matthew 6:5, the Pharisees were “standing in the synagogue…” They were standing inside of the synagogue.
Being in the Spirit = being inside the Spirit. “God is a Spirit.” He is invisible and omnipresent. “We live, move, and have our being in him” [inside Him]. His presence is in His heavenly spiritual dimension. This is where the miracles flow and nothing is impossible.
God has saved us and given us of his Spirit, and we are “in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.” We are in this great Spirit God, if we have received His Spirit into our hearts. This gives us access to our Father. Before, we did not realize that we are inside of Him, inside of the Spirit. He in us and we in Him (Romans 8:9).
Understanding this opens the gates of agape love’s living waters. “…He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. “…That the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them” (John 17:26).
That is a wonderful oneness that waits patiently for us to believe Him, believe that we are literally inside of Him in His Heavenly Spiritual Dimension. Many call it the Kingdom of God.
Closing Thoughts
“And I will put my Spirit within you…” (Ezk. 36:27). Until we receive our new celestial bodies, we should “walk in the Spirit.” We should walk inside the Spirit (Gal. 5:16).
In Christ, we are now spiritual beings with the capability of living in God’s spiritual dimension.
My prayer is that these teachings edify you. May you and I walk together in our King’s grace and Spirit. Kenneth Wayne Hancock
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