Email from Abiding Place Daily Bread – April 25, 2025 (The Sixth Day – Genesis 1:24-31) Ephesians 2:4-6 – But God Who is rich in mercy through His abundant love with which He has loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved – and has raised us up together, and has made us sit together in the Heavens in Christ Jesus. Seated Together With Jesus Heaven is not just a place. Heaven is the realm of the spiritual, and the place of oneness with God that we were born into when we were born of the Spirit (1 Corinthians 14:1, 15:44, 46; 2 Corinthians 4:18; Hebrews 12:22-25; Romans 8:6, 9; Galatians 4:26; Philippians 3:20). This realm is where we were raised up to walk in when we were raised up together with Christ (Romans 6:4; Colossians 2:12). Here is where we are to set our affections, and to exercise the rights of rulership over everything that is opposed to God (Colossians 3:1-4). As heirs and joint-heirs together with Christ, we are more than conquerors and victorious in everything we do (Romans 8:37; Philippians 4:13; 1 John 5:4; Revelation 3:21). We are standing in the place of Christ Jesus on this Earth – and we have been given the responsibility to do the works of Jesus, and execute the will of the Sovereign God. We were sent by Jesus to do the same things that the Father sent Him to do – we are to put an end to the works of the devil everywhere we encounter them! (2 Corinthians 5:20; John 14:12, 20:21; Colossians 2:6; Galatians 3:27; 1 John 2:4, 3:8; Mark 16:17-18; Romans 8:29) Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
Daily Bread 4/25/2025
