THE THINGS THAT ARE ABOVE

Where are you looking? Are you looking at the terrible things that are happening down here on the earth? The apostle Paul says, “we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen”. Then he explains, saying, “for the things that are seen are for a time”. Everything that your eye rests upon will come to an end. Everything! The things that are seen, whatever they are, are for a time. He makes no qualification. The millennium is a temporal thing. I am not detracting from it. It will be a wonderful testimony to God, showing that He can keep men alive here in flesh and blood as a testimony in spite of Satan’s work. But the millennium is limited, it is only for a time. But what is not seen, the assembly’s proper place and portion, is eternal. Are you looking at that?

The day of Pentecost is the beginning of eternity for us. The more you sow to the Spirit, the more you reap what is eternal; the more you look at it the more you are prepared for it. The Spirit, through Paul, engages the heart with what is eternal, so that before we get there we are prepared for it, 2 Cor.4:13. In chapter 5 Paul is looking for his ‘house from heaven’. If you get a ‘house from heaven’ you will not be a stranger when you go there; the house is for that place. Paul goes further and says, “he that has wrought us for this very thing is God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident”.

JT NS Vol.67 p.108

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