HEAVENLY BLESSINGS ON EARTH

"For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ (Phil. 3:2). The English word “citizenship" in this context is considered a poor translation of the Greek term politeuma, which means the status rights and privileges of citizenship.

The apostle Paul borrowed the term from a Roman colony living in Philippi as an extension of Rome, where the Roman citizens residing in Philippi enjoyed the same status held by those in Rome. They enjoyed the rights, privileges, protection guaranteed by the Roman laws which elevated them from among their neighbors. Such citizens enjoyed great privileges usually unavailable to others.

Politeuma implies privileges and protection for citizens of a powerful state residing in a distant colony. It was a highly coveted position and spelled superior opportunity. Apostle Paul used the term politeuma in reference to Church Age believer's state of nobility as members of the royal family of God and citizens of heaven residing on earth.

The Roman politeuma privileges were indeed very impressive but the privileges of the believers are beyond description. Every individual Church Age believer holds the rights and privileges of heaven while living on earth. There are ten unique privileges of our heavenly citizenship that determine the Christian way of life. The politeuma privileges are:

• The baptism of the Holy Spirit
• The divine protocol plan
• Mystery doctrine
• The portfolio of invisible assets
• The equality factor’
• Royal commissions
• The indwelling of the Trinity
• The availability of divine power
• The absence of prophecy
• Invisible heroes

All these privileges form a single, integrated system. These privileges constitute the unique life of purpose, meaning, and definition of the Christian way of life designed by God for maximum prosperity and happiness. The politeuma privileges are summed up in Ephesians 1:3: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. The phrase every spiritual blessing refers to a portfolio of blessing which God has prepared even before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:3-8, 18, 3:8, Phil. 4:19, Col. 1:27, 2:2).

God wanted to bless every Church Age believer with the maximum blessings that He prepared in the eternity past, even before He created man and the entire universe (Eph. 1:4). God incorporated suffering into the life of the believers with divine purposes to give them blessings that will glorify Him in time and all throughout eternity.

The eager anticipation to receive the resurrection body is not because of the present agony and pains brought about by undeserved sufferings (Rom. 8:23-24) but because of the incredible blessings which the Lord Jesus Christ will personally distribute to every mature believer at the Judgment Seat of Christ or the Bema.

The politeuma privileges are for the purpose of attaining spiritual maturity that will unlock the blessings of eternity. Spiritual maturity (with its resultant blessing in time) is the prerequisite for receiving the blessing of eternity. The Church Age believers are the royal family of God, the aristocracy of heaven on a brief sojourn in this cosmic system while waiting for our departure to a final destination.

The Christians are transient residence of the world and must never make it their permanent home. The princes and princesses of heaven must set their focus on their home (heaven) and not on their transient and dirty hotel room (cosmic system). Every Church Age believer must focus his life on the things with eternal values (Col. 3:2) and never waste  time and energy on anything that will  burn with fire (1 Cor. 3:15).

The politeuma privileges are designed to assist the growing and advancing believers for them to reach spiritual maturity. The plan of grace (see: The Plan of Grace for Blessing Men) provides the fantastic sequence of divine blessing which is complementary to the politeuma privileges. God has already provided everything pertaining to our life support, protection, material and spiritual provisions so that we can just relax and concentrate on our spiritual advance (Matt. 6:33).

The Baptism of the Holy Spirit: The baptism of the Holy Spirit places every believer into an eternal, permanent union with Christ (Gal. 3:1-5, 14, 26-27, Eph. 4:4-5, 2 Thess. 2:13-14). The baptism of the Holy Spirit is unique only to the Church Age. No other dispensation in the past and in the future will experience such indwelling. The Old Testament believers received temporal, selective, exclusive and conditional indwelling of the Spirit.

Every Church Age believer has absolutely and completely become a new spiritual species which has not existed before. The term “new” ( kainos in Greek) of 2 Corinthians 5:17, denotes something that has not existed before (Eph. 1:22-23, 5:22-32). The new spiritual species refer to the royal family of God, the Church Age politeuma believers. The baptism of the Holy Spirit links the great power of the Hypostatic Union of Christ and the great power of the Church Age.

The union of the believer with Jesus Christ provides the rights to utilize the same power utilized by the humanity of Christ. The humanity of Christ utilized the power system called divine dynasphere, which God made available to every Church Age believer. The baptism of the Holy Spirit marked the beginning of the Church Age (Acts 2:1-4, 11:15-17) and will form the royal family of God (also called the Body of Christ) until the Rapture of the Church (1 Cor. 12:12-13).

The baptism of the Holy Spirit sets the Church Age believers apart from the unbelievers and believers of all other dispensations. Every Church Age believer has been set apart (1 Cor. 1:2, 30), and (positionally), made holy for the glory of Christ (2 Thess. 2:13-14). By application, God has created the Church Age as a new spiritual royalty, set apart for maximum glorification of Jesus Christ.

The baptism of the Holy Spirit puts every Church Age believer in permanent union with the King of kings forever. God has provided and designed experiential sanctification to make each Church Age believer like the humanity of Christ, (each conform to the image of the glorified Jesus Christ (Rom. 8:29). God accomplishes the Church Age believer's sanctification in three stages.

Positional sanctification is the Church Age believer accomplished by the baptism of the Holy Spirit. By baptism of the Holy Spirit, the believer shares retroactively the victory of our Lord*s spiritual death on the cross (Rom. 6:3, Col. 2:12). By baptism of the Holy Spirit, every Church Age believer currently shares Christ's exalted position in heaven (Psalm 110:1, Rom. 6:4-5, Col. 2:12, Heb. 1:13, 2:9-11, 10:12).

The phrase, in Christ is a technical term for the Church Age believer’s enormous, astounding, and unique union with Christ (John 14:20). In Christ each Church Age believer is positively superior to all angels including Satan (Heb. 1:4, 13-14, 2:9-11). This doctrine signals the defeat of Satan which Christ announced prior to the cross. This union gives equal position  and equal privileges to every Church Age believer, eliminating any basis for prejudice, bias, racial discrimination or antagonism among Christians (James 1:9-10).

Experiential sanctification is residence, function and spiritual momentum in the divine dynasphere, which the Holy Spirit energizes, fulfilling the protocol plan of God (John 17:17, 2 Tim. 2:21, Heb. 9:13-14). The filling of the Holy Spirit enables the believer to walk by the Spirit (Gal. 5:16) in a manner worthy of our calling (Eph. 4:1).

The believers are equipped to be imitators of God and to walk just as Christ walked (Eph. 5:1-2, 1 John 2:6). Because Christ functioned in the divine dynasphere, we can also function in the same power system (John 14:11-12). Christ remained inside the divine dynasphere all throughout the Hypostatic union and victoriously overcome every testing that aimed to distract Him from the plan of God.

In the divine dynasphere, we live through the Spirit by the Bible doctrine in the souls, which is the material the Spirit uses to manufacture the virtues of Christ in our lives (Rom. 13:14). Bible doctrine is the nutrient that the Holy Spirit uses to produce the "fruit of the Spirit" (Gal. 5:22-23).

The filling of the Holy Spirit is the absolute aspect of the experiential sanctification which means that the believer is either 100 percent carnal or 100 percent spiritual. The believer is either outside or inside the divine dynasphere. Outside the divine dynasphere, the believer grieves or quenches the Holy Spirit (Eph. 4:30, 1 Thess. 5:19), executes human plans, follows satanic will, and resides in the cosmos diabolicus (Satan's world).

The continual residence in the divine dynasphere is the progressive aspect of the experiential sanctification. The power of the divine dynasphere is essential to all the  details of the spiritual life. Spiritual growth comes from consistent residence, function, and application of Bible doctrine inside the divine dynasphere.

The believer learns and applies doctrine everyday, his inner person is renewed day by day (2 Cor. 4:16). The daily progressive and systematic intake of Bible doctrine renovates the believer*s thinking pattern until he acquires the virtues of Christ (Rom. 12:2, Eph. 4:23).

Experiential sanctification is also called godliness (1 Tim. 3:16, 4:7-8, 2 Peter 1:3). Genuine godliness is living inside the sphere of love also known as divine dynasphere (John 15:10, Eph. 5:2). The divine dynasphere is the only place where the Church Age believer can experience godliness because it is insulated from all satanic and humanistic intervention.

The divine dynasphere is a complex mixture of integrated divine power and divine love which is mutually interrelated and that which supports each other. The divine system of love and power is the place of genuine godliness. Experiential sanctification is potential for the believer, commanded but not guaranteed. God provides the resources, opportunity, instruction, assets and divine discipline, but each individual believer chooses to reside and execute the protocol plan of God inside the divine dynasphere.

Ultimate sanctification is achieved after the believer’s life on earth is ended. The believer’s failure to live by the marvelous of experiential sanctification will never cancel ultimate sanctification which is guaranteed by divine essence (2 Tim. 2:13). After the Rapture and resurrection of the Church, God will provide the resurrection body, making every believer physically like the glorified humanity of Christ (1 Cor. 1:8, Eph. 1:4, 1 Thess. 5:23, 1 John 3:2). Ultimate sanctification is guaranteed to all believers regardless of their spiritual status during their experiential sanctification.

The baptism of the Holy Spirit does not involve ecstatic or emotional expressions since it is not connected with feelings. At the moment of faith in Christ regardless of how a person feels, the Holy Spirit unites him with Christ. No senses can detect the baptism of the Holy Spirit in any way. The human sigh, hearing, smell, taste, touch, intuition, or even the so-called sixth sense can not confirm the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The salvation ministry of the Holy Spirit is known only through Bible doctrine which the believer learns after salvation. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is never earned, deserved or merited by the believer. There is no need to repeat the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

God gives this fabulous gift by grace without regard for human merit or good works. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is permanent, it cannot be undone, lost, canceled, and does not need repetition. The baptism of the Holy Spirit causes the Christian to share in all Christ has and is. Every member of the royal family of God shares Christ’s election (Eph. 1:4), His destiny (Eph. 1:5), His son-ship (Gal. 3:26), His heir-ship (Romans 8;16-17), His priesthood (1 Peter 2:9), His sanctification (1 Corinthians 1:2, 30), His royalty (2 Peter 1:11), His righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21), and His eternal life (1 John 5:11-12).

The imputed divine righteousness and eternal life is necessary for a permanent relationship with God. To live with perfect God forever, man needs God’s own righteousness and eternal life. The Old Testament believers received these blessings through imputation rather than through union with Christ (Gen. 15:6, Psalm 23:6). In the Church Age every believer receives eternal life and divine righteousness by imputation and by union with Christ (2 Cor. 5:21, 1 John 5:11). This double portion belongs to spiritual royalty alone.

The Protocol Plan of God: God has prepared a protocol plan for His royal family, which is the extraordinary way of life for all Church Age believers. Royalty lives by protocol. In human aristocracy, the high standards of conduct, the refined behavior and the exemplary manner how certain activities are conducted are supported by a system of protocol. Protocol enables everyone to know what to do in a given situation and thus create an environment of poise and graciousness. The divine protocol plan of God is the complete spiritual manual that we have to learn and master in order to reach spiritual maturity.

The protocol resolves routine questions and gives freedom to the individual believer to devote his energies to substantial issues and enjoy the event at hand. The Church Age believers are never left wondering what the Christian life requires of them and are not left wandering from God*s system. God has provided a complete royal protocol for each believer to learn and master. Every Church Age believer belongs to a spiritual royalty in which the standard of conduct follows the pattern clearly established by the humanity of Christ while He was on earth. Protocol is defined as rigid long-established code prescribing complete deference to superior rank and strict adherence to due order of precedence and precisely correct procedure.

The protocol plan of God is long-established in the mind of omniscient God. The divinely prescribed way of life (the protocol plan) for the royal family of God is new to human history but ancient to God. God has always known the way of life for the Church Age. He has known the protocol plan from the eternity past (Eph. 3:9), but for the Church, though it has been enforced only for nearly two thousand years.

The exactness of God’s code for spiritual royalty expresses divine perfection. God decreed how to do things the right way. The right way of doing things is the protocol way. We cannot define the Christian way of life in any way we please. God has prescribed complete deference to the ends and the means of His plan. Under the concept of protocol plan, even the right thing becomes wrong when done in a wrong way, and a wrong thing is still wrong though done in a right way. Only a right thing done in a right way is right. This is ‘precisely correct procedure”.

The right thing is the protocol plan of God. The right way demanded by protocol is the life inside the divine dynasphere. The basic concept of Christian way of life is residence, function and momentum inside the divine dynasphere, which is the believer’s invisible palace. The divine protocol is the perfect plan of the perfect God for the imperfect man. The imperfect man (1 John 1:8-10) cannot contribute anything to the perfect plan of God without corrupting it.

The believer cannot execute God’s protocol plan through human power, ability, talents, intelligence, dynamics, personality, good works and righteousness. The perfect plan of God is never dependent on human merit because God allows no weak link in His plan, and any human contribution will only make it imperfect. God guards the integrity of His plan. Man can enter God*s perfect plan exclusively on the merits of Christ, and by living the Christian life on divine resources only (Eph. 4:20-24).

The perfect God has provided the perfect truth (Eph. 4:21, 24-25, 29-30) and His own power for the execution of His protocol plan. Falsehood cannot in any way find acceptance in the divine system. Truth and falsehood do not mix without becoming false. Gradually but progressively the Truth of Bible doctrine must replace human viewpoint. Human power remains outside the divine system and the believer must abandon every desire to approach and utilize cosmic power.

The Truth (Bible doctrine) and the power of the Holy Spirit on which the humanity of Christ relied during the entire Hypostatic union defined the only correct approach to life for every Church Age believer. Bible doctrine is the life of the Church Age believers and apart from it, no genuine spiritual growth is possible.

No contradiction can exist in the protocol plan of God. Either a believer executes the protocol (utilize the available omnipotence of God) or executes his own inferior plan   (utilize human energy). Unbelievers and ignorant believers presumptuously called their own plans the plan of God or the will of God. Most of these human plans are satanic counterfeit designed to entangle believers in the devious sphere of religion. Church leaders of various cultic and pseudo-Christian groups are brilliant liars and counterfeiter of God*s plan. Faithful intake and application of Bible doctrine protect believers from such inconsistency and rejection of Truth.

Spiritual discernment is the result of Bible doctrine in the soul, in which the ignorant and immature believer has no capacity to evaluate or discern lies from truth, and incapable of grace orientation. The lack of Bible doctrine in the soul, prevents the believer from becoming true to his spiritual heritage. Ignorance mixed with negligence cannot avoid the trap of arrogance. Such believer assumes he is doing the will of God, even as he falls into Satan's cosmic system and becomes a loser at the end. Ignorance does not imply the absence of Truth but the rejection of such Truth and replaces it with the lies of men.

Losers are believers who have failed to execute the protocol plan of God who have lost their blessings in time and eternity. At physical birth, every individual is born ignorant of life. Likewise at spiritual birth, every believer is born ignorant of the protocol plan of God. However, "the privilege to remain ignorant" of Bible doctrine is not included in the politeuma. We are mandated to spiritually advance through consistent study of the Word.

The Church Age believers are mandated to learn and master the divine essence and divine protocol plan. Bible doctrine alone determines the Christian way of life and no believer can execute the protocol plan of God apart from learning and applying Bible doctrines.

Mystery doctrine: The mystery doctrine unveils the Church Age with all of its divine assets and mandates which defines the Christian’s way of life. Mystery (musterion) in the Biblical context refers to the Church Age doctrines that are well known among the advancing believers but unknown to many, including the Old Testament writers. God did not disclose these Church Age doctrines to the Old Testament believers but has revealed them throughout the New Testament epistles (Rom. 16:25-26, Eph. 3:1-9, Col. 1:25-28, 1 Cor. 2:7, 1 Tim.3:9).

Mystery doctrine reveals all the politeuma privileges of the Church Age believer, which set it apart from all other dispensations. Every Church Age believer is mandated to keep holding the mystery which identifies the most vital function of the royal family: to continually learn, retain, and apply doctrines of the Church. The highest form of worship is hearing, meditating on doctrine, living by doctrine.

The royal family of God has the unique and genuine potential to worship God because of the unprecedented extent of divine revelation in the mystery doctrine (Eph. 3:18). The baptism of the Holy Spirit, the protocol plan of God and the mystery doctrine are three tremendous benefits of our heavenly citizenship that unveil the portfolio of the invisible assets. God is thinking of blessing every Church Age believer to the fullest.

The Invisible Assets: In the eternity past, God the Father has designed and provided a portfolio of spiritual assets for every Church Age believer (Eph. 1:6-8, 18, 3;8, 16, Phil. 4:19, Col. 1;27, 2:2). God has lavished the riches of His grace upon every Church Age believer making them fabulously wealthy beyond comparison with the treasures of the world. Citizens of heaven (Philippians 3:20) implies extreme wealth that includes every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places (Ephesians 1:3). The source of all these blessings is God the Father and the only way to receive these blessings is through Christ.

In the eternity past God the Father prepared escrow blessings for each Church Age believer and deposited these blessings with Christ (Eph. 1:4). God the Father is the Grantor, Jesus Christ is the Escrow Officer and the Church Age believers are the grantee. These spiritual inheritances for each individual believer are imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven (1 Peter 1:4). In legal term, it is called escrow account.

An escrow contract is binding agreement in which one party gives the other party something valuable. Instead of giving it directly, the grantor places the item in the custody of a third person called the depository or escrow officer. The escrow officer keeps the item secure and distributes it to the grantee only after certain conditions are met, which has been set forth in the escrow agreement. If the conditions in the escrow are not met by the grantee, the deposited item will remain under the custody of the escrow officer or will be distributed to other grantees who have complied with the conditions prescribed in the escrow account.

The condition which God the Father has set forth for receiving these escrow is spiritual maturity. Spiritual maturity is the maximum bible doctrine in the soul where the believer resides, functions and advances inside the divine dynasphere. Spiritual maturity is the objective of the Christian life.

The Lord Jesus Christ will begin to distribute blessing for time when the Church Age believer reaches spiritual maturity. Our Lord will award escrow blessing for  eternity at the Judgment Seat of Christ or Bema, which will occur immediately after the Rapture of the Church (1 Cor. 4:5, 2 Cor. 5:10). Believers, who fail to reach spiritual maturity and do not receive their escrow blessing for time, also will not receive their escrow blessings for eternity (1 Cor. 3:12-15). The criterion for receiving the blessings for time is human volition that is the believer*s consistent positive response to God*s plan for the Christian life. The precondition for receiving the escrow blessings for eternity is that the believer must have received escrow blessing in time.

Positive volition is an asset. Positive volition is the active desire to know God, the love for truth, and the strong choice to keep strengthening the positive volition itself. It is expressed in persistent desire to learn and apply Bible doctrine. The good decisions to learn Bible doctrine create further options to keep learning. As the believer's capacity for Bible doctrine expands, his love for Bible doctrine increases (Prov. 8:30-31). This blessing also comes from the grace of God.

Positive volition enables the believer to build his life on knowledge of Bible doctrine. Knowledge is built on knowledge. The more Bible doctrine a believer knows, the greater his frame of reference for comprehending other doctrines. This sharpened receptivity for Bible doctrine rests upon the positive volition of the believer. The advancing believer develops keener spiritual discernment and stronger desire for more Bible doctrine. The believer must never forget that such positive volition is from God, and spiritual momentum and maturity are the gifts of grace. The strengthening of the positive volition is indeed a blessing from the grace of God.

However, advancement to spiritual maturity requires a consistent pattern of good decisions made from a position of strength. Good decisions are those that obey the mandates of the divine protocol. The decision to learn Bible doctrine and to utilize the spiritual resources of the divine dynasphere is an example of the tangible aspect of positive volition. The position of strength is the divine dynasphere, in which the Holy Spirit makes Bible doctrine understandable and uses the believer’s storage of doctrine to ignite his spiritual momentum.

The Holy Spirit supplies the intangible, unfelt and behind-the-scene effectiveness of the believer’s positive volition. The invisible dynamics which the believer’s senses cannot detect are disclosed only in the content of Bible doctrine in his soul. Knowledge of the Holy Spirit’s unseen role gives the believer a sense of gratitude for the increasing  desire for truth, perception, assimilation, metabolism of Bible doctrine and personal love for God, all of which he does experience. Emotion or feeling has nothing to do with any spiritual experience.

Spiritual advancement is a marvelous achievement. Simply desiring to grow does not produce growth, nor does slavish adherence to some religious formula, including rigid, unthinkable, legalistic attendance to hear Bible teaching. Spiritual growth comes not by hoping or striving but as a result of learning, thinking, applying Bible doctrine to solve human problems.

Bible doctrine is the power of God (Rom. 1:16, Heb. 4:12), and God the Holy Spirit assists the believer inside the divine dynasphere in spiritual perception, comprehension, assimilation, and application of the truth. The positive volition of the believer is non-meritorious and without the presence of the unseen power of the Holy Spirit and the provision of spiritual IQ, nobody can understand the mystery doctrine.

When the believer chooses to reside in the divine dynasphere and listen to Bible teaching, the Holy Spirit makes the doctrine available and comprehensible (1 Cor. 2:12). The believer chooses to think about Bible doctrine, to believe and integrate the truth with the truth he already knows. The Holy Spirit converts academic knowledge of Bible doctrine into epignosis (1 Cor. 2:13). The believer chooses to apply Bible doctrine in the circumstance of his life.

The Holy Spirit aids in the recall of the truth so that the believer can walk by means of the Spirit (Gal. 5:16). The Holy Spirit is the Teacher of Bible doctrine. The Holy Spirit's invisible communication ministry supports the normal human learning process (2 Tim. 2:15). The teaching is on focus not the Teacher. The pastor or Bible teachers are simply the communicator of Bible doctrine and should never take the center stage. People must avoid pampering the ego and the thirst of the preacher for approbation and human glorification.

The Holy Spirit glorifies Christ rather than Himself (John 16:13-14), He illuminates the “mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:10-16). The Church believer “knows” the Spirit but ‘beholds” Christ, in contrast to the world which neither beholds nor knows the Holy Spirit (John 14:16-19).

Genuine Christian service is a privilege, an asset acquired as a result of faithful adhering to the protocol plan of God. Learning and the desire to master Bible doctrine is the priority of the new believer not Christian service. Most Christians serving in legitimate fields are not really serving God because of false their motivation, intrusion of personal and selfish ambitions, and the utilization of human dynamics.

The plan of God operates on divine power not on human power and system. Genuine spiritual production comes from spiritual growth (Eph. 2:10, Phil. 2:13-16, Titus 2:14) but most Christians are attempting to grow up spiritually through the works they perform. Spiritual production is for the spiritually mature believers not for the babes in Christ (1 Peter 2:2).

The "good works" of Ephesians 2:10 refer to "intrinsically good achievements" by which every Church Age believer must walk. The intrinsic good refers to spiritual momentum, and not to Christian service. Believers can perform any act of Christian service from true or false motivation; it can come from genuine love for God or from legalism or coercion. A believer can serve with dedication and zeal for God which is not based on Bible doctrine but rather from human desire or emotion. Anybody can serve God with hidden motivation or personal aggressiveness which might be mistaken for zeal or love for God.

Serving God is not a sign of spiritual growth or maturity because many carnal and immature believers are zealously "working for Him." God has provided His protocol plan for serving Him, which requires every believer to know God first before any service. God is glorified by the blessings we received not by the things we do for His name sake, however inside the divine dynasphere, every divine good that based on Bible doctrine, done in the power of the Spirit is acceptable to God.

In His marvelous grace God designed suffering for each spiritual adult believer for the purpose of accelerated spiritual growth. God wanted to pour out His maximum blessings upon the adult believer in spiritual maturity. Suffering has different purposes in each successive stage of spiritual adulthood but it is generally designed for maximum happiness and prosperity of the believer.

Every Church Age believer received from God at least one spiritual gift at the point of salvation (1 Cor. 12:7, 11, Heb. 2:4). Spiritual gifts are God's given abilities related to the function of the royal family of God on earth (see: Royal Commissions). The Holy Spirit sovereignty bestows spiritual gifts apart from human knowledge, coercion, begging, intercession or intervention. The spiritual gifts operate apart from human power, merit, ability, talent, or human energy.

It operates only on divine power and apart from human exploitation. The spiritual gifts remain unexploited until the believer has begun to grow and until it reaches full capacity at spiritual maturity. God bestows the spiritual gifts to every believer at the moment of salvation and there is no need to ask God for that which He has already provided.

Spiritual gifts create differences in function within the Body of Christ (Rom. 12:4-8, 1 Cor. 12:1 -14: 40) as part of the believer*s destiny within the body of Christ and his unique contribution in resolving the angelic conflict.

The Equality Factor: Election and predestination are tremendous advantages to the Church Age believer because they are the equality factor. Every Church Age believer has equal privilege and equal opportunity. No one is superior, no one is inferior, no one is higher, no one is disadvantaged. All standards of superiority and inferiority are set aside by election and predestination, because none of these can contribute or hinder the believer from fulfilling the protocol plan of God.

Help lies entirely in the divine assets and the only hindrance is the believer's own refusal to learn Bible doctrine and ignorance in utilizing the divine assets.  All Church Age believers have the same position in Christ through the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Under predestination, the divine dynasphere provides every believer equal opportunity to advance by execution of the divine protocol plan of God. Every believer has his own operational divine dynasphere. These equal privileges and equal opportunities to spiritually advance in time will become inequality of blessings in eternity.

Royal Commissions:  Every Church Age believer is a royal priest and a royal ambassador. As a royal priest, each Church Age believer represents himself before God (Rom. 12:1, Eph. 6:7-8, Heb. 13:11-12), which is the basis of the believer*s spiritual privacy, in which he lives his own life before the Lord (Rom. 14:4, 10, 2 Thess. 3:11-12)., and the basis for offering effective prayer . The setting for the royal priest’s duties is inside the divine dynasphere. The royal priesthood operates toward God while royal ambassador operates toward men.

Every church Age believer represents the Lord Jesus Christ to mankind on earth (2 Cor. 5:20, Eph. 6:20, Philimon 9). A detailed discussion of the Church Age believer’s royal commissions is available on the booklet "Royal Commissions". Every royal ambassador is appointed by God to be His representative on earth, provided with all the support necessary to carry out his function.

The logistical grace provision is necessary to perpetuate the believer’s physical and spiritual life in the cosmic system. The royal ambassador operates under the divine protocol and written instruction (mystery doctrine), being a non-citizen of the country in which he works, the royal ambassador operates as citizens of heaven (Phil. 3:20).

His sole purpose is to represent Christ in the world. The royal ambassador is not assigned in the world to advance his own agenda, personal interests, or ambitions but through divine assets fulfill his royal warrant and function (1 John 2:15-17). The royal ambassador focuses on the affairs of heaven (his home) refusing any distraction to his concentration (Col. 3:2) and spiritual momentum. The royal ambassador will not take personally any insult or assault directed to his Kingdom or to his King of kings.

The Indwelling of the Trinity: The indwelling of the Trinity is unique and exclusive for the Church Age believers. At the moment of salvation, God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit take up residence in the Church Age believer. God's personal, indwelling presence within every believer’s body is an astounding fact and the basis of blessings beyond imagination. The indwelling of the Father is related to the glorification of His protocol plan (Eph. 1:3, 6, 16) since He is the author and Grantor of our portfolio of invisible assets. He is designer of the divine dynasphere. His indwelling guarantees His personal ministry to every believer (John 14:23, Eph. 4:6, 2 John 9).

The indwelling of the Son is the Badge of the royal family of God (John 14:20, 17:22-23, 26, Romans 8:10, 2 Cor. 13:5, Gal. 2:20, Col. 1:27, 1 John 2:23-24). The Son is the revealed member of the Godhead (John 1:18) which provides the special divine presence because He is the Shekinah Glory (2 Cor. 6:16). Under the protocol plan of God for the Church Age, the Shekinah Glory (see: The Shekinah Glory) indwells every believer's body for the purpose of reflecting the glory of Christ.

By advancing to spiritual maturity, the Church Age believer is transformed into the same image and thereby glorifies Christ in his body (1 Cor. 6:19-20). The indwelling of the Trinity is permanent (Col. 1:27), this provides every Church Age believer unique opportunity for spiritual impact (2 Cor. 3:17-18), unlimited resources to carry out the protocol plan of God, and great opportunity to overcome the most horrible suffering of spiritual maturity (Psalm 23:4). The Holy Spirit indwells the Church age believer to make his body a temple worthy of Christ (1 Cor. 3:16, 2 Cor. 6:16).

The believer is incapable of providing an acceptable dwelling for Christ because of the inherited old sin nature but by the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Spirit (Titus 3:5), the Holy Spirit has created a temple fit for Christ. The Holy Spirit has created an invisible inner sanctuary for Christ to occupy.

This makes it possible for Church Age believer to obey the command to glorify God in your body (1 Cor. 6:19-20). This command is fulfilled by the Holy Spirit who executes the plan of the Father in the life of the positive volition believer who adheres to divine protocol and maintains residency in the divine dynasphere. Only the Holy Spirit can glorify Christ in the body of the believer.

The Availability of the Divine Power: The power of God during the Old Testament dispensation was available only too few believers who held positions of unusual responsibility to carry out their particular functions. In the Church Age, God has made His power available to all believers for perception and application of Bible doctrine by which they advance toward spiritual maturity. The power of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit has been made available to every believer.

Each person of the Trinity exercises His absolute power in behalf of the Church Age believer. The omnipotence of God the Father is related to the portfolio of the invisible assets. As the believer learns and obeys the Father’s plan, he begins to experience the "riches of His grace" (Eph. 1:7-9). The omnipotence of God the Son preserves the universe and perpetuates the human race (Col. 1:17, Heb. 1:3). The power He used for creating the universe is available to every Church Age believer inside the divine dynasphere.

He controls human history by blessing nations that have large pivot of mature believers and by judging nations with large unit of negative volition believers. The manifestation of the power of the Son also operates uniquely toward the Church related to the lack of prophecy and the invisible heroes. The ordinary believer of the Church Age has become an extraordinary being because of indwelling

Trinity and the availability of divine power. The available divine power is not designed for controversial performance or for showing off miracles or wonders but to advance the growth of the believer. The omnipotence power of God is available only inside the divine dynasphere and for spiritual momentum of the believer and not for some capricious act; but operates under the divine protocol.

The Absence of Prophecy:The post canon Church age is the only era in which no biblical prophecy will be fulfilled. The only prophetic events related to the Church Age are in its beginning as prophesied by Christ (John 16:7-15, Acts 1:5) and its termination at the resurrection or Rapture (1 Cor. 15:15-55, 1 Thess. 4:13-18). The prophecies fulfilled in the pre-canon Church Age are related to Israel and not to the Church Age.

All the prophetic events after the Rapture of the Church are related to Israel and not with the Church. No geopolitical prophecies of the Tribulation will find its fulfillment during the Church Age. With the absence of prophecy in the Church age, the Lord Jesus Christ who controls history is directing our concentration on the tremendous mystery doctrine rather than prophecies. Since the Church is the Body of Christ which is in permanent union with Him, the believers have direct access to the same assets that sustained the humanity of Christ.

God excluded prophetic events from the post canon Church Age to emphasize the dynamics of Bible doctrine rather than specializing in prophecy. The absence of prophecy in the Church age is consistent with the separation of Church and Estate. The absence of prophecy in the Church Age emphasizes the individual believer's historical impact in the world. Knowledge of Bible doctrine helps the believer to accurately interpret historical events and trends without bias and prejudice toward anyone.

Invisible Heroes: The politeuma privileges teach the Church Age believer to have influence on history. When the believer advances to spiritual maturity he creates positive impact. In the Old Testament, God works through visible heroes like Moses, Abraham and others, but since the Church Age have equal privilege and equal opportunity to advance and reach spiritual maturity, God works through invisible heroes. The positive impact of the believer is the result of his execution of the divine protocol plan of God. In the Church Age every believer has the potential to become an invisible hero by the grace of God.

God may directly bless the spiritually mature believer or indirectly bless those around him. As Christ distributes blessing to the mature believers those blessings likewise benefit their immediate periphery and the nation as a whole. God may protect and bless their nation as means of blessing the mature believers.

The vigor of a nation and the divine blessings that it enjoys spring from those believers who thrive under God’s plan, not from social, economic, political, military or religious programs.  The spiritual mature believers are the reasons for divine blessings that God pours upon a nation.

The negative impact of the royal family also comes from the individual believer who rejects the plan of God brings suffering and divine discipline upon himself and becomes a source of adversary in his periphery and the nation. Every believer can become a channel of blessing or curse. The politeuma privileges are designed to create invisible heroes who have fivefold impact that benefits man and angels: 

      Personal impact: Individuals (loved ones, friends, associates, and anyone) around the mature believer's periphery receive blessing by their association with him.      

Historical impact: The spiritually mature believers contribute positively to their nation's vigor, prosperity, survival and stabilization (Rom. 11:2-5, Eph. 1:21-23). A nation receives blessing through the mature believers who reside within its boarders.

       International impact: Any nation is blessed by association with mature believer's who come to reside (transient or permanently) within its borders. Two nations (the nation from which he came and the nation where he resides) receive blessing because of one mature believer.

      Angelic impact: The spiritually mature believer create remarkable evidence of the grace of God under evidence testing by utilizing the divine resources to maintain poise and graciousness in the midst of severe sufferings (Job 1:6-12, 2:1-6, Eph. 6:11-12), which results to the unseen impact among the angels (1 Cor. 4:9, Eph. 3:10).

Heritage impact: The loved ones and intimate friends of the mature believers receive blessing after his death.

 11/30/06

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