In your patience possess ye your soul.

Jesus Christ said these words pertaining to a time that would come upon the whole world and test the hearts of people. Their affections for the things they have and the things they think they need, would distract them from what is really important, and the only thing they can obtain to keep, and the only real thing God is concerned about, being your invisible part that is uniquely designed to interact and cohabitate with Him called your heart, mind soul and spirit. Even as Jesus said “what does it profit a man to gain the world and loose his soul”, given that the world and all its embellishments will be removed for the eternal to be unhindered. (Hebrews 12.26) So you know what the real meaning of life is, to live eternally with the Father undistracted.

We use words  like soul, heart and conscience to define this expanse in spirit and occupied by those who are of “the body of Christ”. Not like the body of a man, but somewhat like a political body of edicts, but much greater, being a collective ownership of selves/cells that make up the Body of Christ. His body is a conglomeration of those who have obtained the things given to us described in scripture and called them their own, as co-owners and joint heirs of the things of God in Christ. We are the Elect and the purpose of this time is our preparation and maturation.

In possessing your soul, when there are those who seek to hurt or kill you, God said “not a hair on your head shall be lost” showing us that our physical body is not what we hold on to tightly. That is only a vessel, a container, a bag and a rag that gets put off and returns to the dust.

And again from Jesus “do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell”. Which shows us what really matters and it is not the flesh.

In truth, our new person is an embodiment like God is, and not confined to a time or place, but your physical body is. We don’t let that define or limit us. We know we don’t keep that. It was said of the Israelites that “seeing with their eyes they see not and hearing with their ears they hear not because it is with the heart that we must see and hear to understand the things of God”. So let’s be sure we don’t make the same mistake.

As Paul teaches in Colossians 3. That “we have put off the body of the sins of the flesh, and (we have) put on the new person who is just like Christ”. This was spoken as being operational and active for us today and not being crafted with elements specific to time and matter for that is completely unsuitable for eternal beings.

But our constructs are of eternal words, Gods words. These all collected together and re-assembled inside us. This qualifies us as “the Elect”, of those having received the gift of God seen in His Son through scripture then appropriated to us for the aquisition if the things unseen. As we read from 2 Corithians 4.18, ¹⁸ while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

Some prophets call Gods collection a “terrible crystal” and others “a sea of glass”, as being a congruant, harmonious transparency of saints and holy ones. Did you know the word holy means transparency, a clarity, to see clean through? That those who are called saints are a piece this? Even as Jesus said “be Holy as I am Holy”. He didn’t give us a task that He didn’t empower us to do.

To put off the body of the sins of the flesh, is to detach from the dependency, services and products of this age that appear to empower people, but have them bound by contracts, terms, conditions and services and such. Do not touch, handle or taste for those that do will perish with using them them. Stay clear of these and you can say like Jesus said “the god of this age comes and has nothing in Me” because we have put off the deeds of the flesh with all its glitter and embellishments, and put on true righteousness which is according to (or just like) Godliness. This is our task God willing.

There are no deposits we need to return, there are no contracts that we are beholden to, there are no balances of services we need to use or perform. All our accounts are paid in full. We remain paid in full with no real obligations but to love God and the souls God has given us. In doing so, we have come clean. The god of this age comes? Let him blow right on by. There are no entanglements for him to hold on to, to slow his fall.

This is why the Psalmist says “Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; The snare is broken, and we have escaped.” So you see maybe you have permission to do this too.

What a blessedness to be beholden to nothing but the grace of God. What a tender love.

Christ, when asked about His Kingdom He said “My Kingdom is not of this age” so we know what our inheritance is. It’s a timeless piece.

As a matter of fact, every time we were withheld from accomplishing and attaining to something in the world and denied, it is because God already gave it to us, but He reserved it for us in our rightful home with Him eternal in His Heavens. We have lost nothing. This is why Paul wrote to the Colosians “For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.” And not a moment sooner.

Where our treasure is, there our heart our heart is also? The things of this age comes and goes, but “the Word of the Lord endureth forever”. Word is what we keep. Word is our eternal consumable product that needs no preservatives and never wears out and needs no subscriptions, just persistence. Moses called it  “the burning bush that was not consumed”.  There is nothing in this age that’s good that doesn’t have a Heavenly counterpart that never wears out. That’s why we set our sights above where Yeshua sits.

For the things we were denied or stolen from us, in truth we were kept from spending our inheritance here. If you are of this sort, Thank you for your patience and perseverance, there is a reconning coming your way. Rejoice, your reward in Heaven is Great. And it is not that it is reserved in some far away place because we partake and participate with it even now. And it is not as if the reward is an it. It is a Him and we call it Christ and The Word of God. He is called Christ first because that is central to what He does, but He has many other names, like wonderful counselor, almighty God and King of kings.

The modern name Jesus has lost its true meaning, so we know Him as savior. He saves us from the rapid fire procession of distractions that try to pull on you as if to hold you back. But these things have no gravitational pull on us who are born of the spirit. We know what to let go of.

And from David in Psalms 11.

In the Lord I put my trust;
How can you say to my soul,
“Flee as a bird to your mountain”? As if to defy gravity? According to Isaiah some of us have done that. We know how to flee like a bird to His mountain. We have taken God at His Word as the rightful heirs and co-owners of the things of God, that He had before He ever said “let there be light. We are seated in the Heavenlies in Christ Jesus” the Originator and architect of all of creation. We know it as “that which is from the beginning” which is the same as all that is left after the dust of creation has been recalled. It served it’s purpose to some. God’s Word accomplished all His desire and we are done. Like bread in an oven. We have risen and been taken out. We are His desire of those that have made it home.

Does this all sound strange to you? Well think of the testimony of Enoch, ⁵ By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.” This one was not distracted by the unfolding events in the place that is in constant change, creation. He rested by faith in the Everlasting. So can you. We call it The Rest of God. (Hebrews 4)

So you have to ask, why did God put that testimony of Enoch being taken in scripture? It is to entice you, to spur you on to “the upward call of God in Christ Jesus”. He is resting too “waiting for His prescious cargo called the Elect”.

Yes the action plan is in play and needs no more effort on His part. If Enoch obtained such a reward, so can we because we have the same composition, design and calling, providing that we stay focused and keep on growing in the knowledge of Him. This grants us access to Him and His things that are with Him beckoning us upward.

In this way the Kingdom of God is always at hand. It is a timeless call of a place that is always open. Where there is no need for a sun because the lamb of God is its light.

From Enoch to Moses, from David to Elijah, from to Joshua the high priest, and on to us in our day.

It is “The Kingdom prepared from the foundations of the world”,,, if you can receive it, then welcome home. Pull up a chair and join in the discussion because “²² you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, ²³ to the ^[j]general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,  (Hebrews 12)

The Kingdom of God really is “at hand”