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We Are Already There

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Isaiah 66:1 Thus says the Lord:

Heaven is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
Where is the house that you will build Me?

And where is the place of My rest?
2 For all those things My hand has made,
And all those things exist,”
Says the Lord.
“But on this one will I look:
On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
And who trembles at My word.


Ephesians 2:
4 But God, who is rich in mercy,
for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins,
hath quickened us together with Christ,
by grace ye are saved
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us
sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding
riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.


2 Corinthians 5:
For we know that if our earthly house, this tent is destroyed,
we have a building from God, a house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed
with our habitation which is from heaven,
3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened,
not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed,
that mortality may be swallowed up by life.
5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God,
who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

We are already there,
when we set our mind on it, in true humility.

Colossians 3:
1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above,
where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
3 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.
 
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