DIVINE DISCUSSION - PART 2

TUESDAY 28 JANUARY 2025

Reference: John 17:10 New Living Translation (NLT)

"All who are mine belong to you, and you have given them to me, so they bring me glory."

This Scripture is so powerfully articulated because it represents how God and Christ express their great deal of executive dealings powered by divine wisdom on behalf of the saints who at the centre of all they plan [also known as eternal plan]. So we are the subject and object of divine discussion, and the relative perception and permanence of such alliance with the Godhead and His new creation transmits the disclosure of our long-term relevancy in the Kingdom of light. Having divided the versified reference as follows:

1. All who are mine belong to you, (Sense of Belongingness).

2. And you have given them to me, (Precious souls gifted to Christ).

3. So they bring me glory (The saints' revelance in glorifying Christ with godly lifestyles).

I am going to focus on expounding the first segment in today's article. Firstly, you must gain the spiritual understanding that we have superior supernatural connexions with the entities of Godhead and their interactive indications. Have you ever asked yourself a question about what Christ's conscious utterance really means:  "All who are mine belong to you"? That means, I belong to Christ and God, denoting a perceptual phenomenon in which my sensory or cognitive indulgence is receptive to divinely-inspired experiences, and I have a lifelong history of such experiences because I am born again and I'm immensely drawn to the things of the Spirit.

Dear God, all who are mine belong to you! What an awe-inspiring crystal clear affirmation! Jesus Christ wasn't making reference to animals, non-living things, or ordinary humanity. By accurate denotation, He meant those who are alive to God, and if you are spiritual alive, your commitment to this affirmation should be - to develop and nurture its thrivability conditions in your personal life, so you can fully blossom on planet earth, as a new creation in Christ Jesus, and as a spiritually minded living being, as long as God of heaven is concerned. So you must sustain the sense of belongingness to God's own family, combined with an inclusive participatory desire for the things of God and a transformative understanding of your divine origin.

Now watch this: Jesus said to God the Father, "All who are mine belong to you, (Sense of Belongingness)." How did the saints become Christ's possession, as well as God's own children? It happened when we got born again into an unshakeable Kingdom of light. To that effect, the Bible says:

"But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels [in festive gathering], and to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are registered [as citizens] in heaven, and to God, who is Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous (the redeemed in heaven) who have been made perfect [bringing them to their final glory], and to Jesus, the Mediator of a new covenant [uniting God and man], and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks [of mercy], a better and nobler and more gracious message than the blood of Abel [which cried out for vengeance]" (AMP).

Honestly, it will take me one full month to expound the hidden mystery behind the above versified passage, because its revelatory infinitude is of manifold capacity in terms of considering it as a written work. However, in a nutshell, having experienced the new birth, which entails being born of the Spirit, we spiritually arrived at:

1. Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem (Spiritually blessed location).

2. To myriads of angels [in festive gathering], that is (Great company of Angelic hosts or beings).

3. To the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are registered [as citizens] in heaven, that is (Assemblage of all the saints).

4. And to God, who is Judge of all (Supreme Deity).

5. And to the spirits of the righteous (the redeemed in heaven) who have been made perfect [bringing them to their final glory], that is ( assemblage of spiritually-embodied sainthood in heavenly realms).

6. And to Jesus, the Mediator of a new covenant [uniting God and man], that is, (Office of Christ's Priesthood).

The overall summary of this passage is mainly about God, bringing together an astonishing and incredible divine team in His eternal council, which is absolutely mind-boggling, and they are the alliance of highly redeemed and committed saints, new creatures made perfect as first born registered citizens, angelic influencers, Kingship and Priesthood solutionaries, and spiritual bellwethers from diverse fields of commitment in the heavenly realms. Stay tuned for part 3. Shalom!

Scripture Reading - 1 Corinthians 6:17; Romans 15:7; Ephesians 1:5; Colossians 3:1-3.

Guided Prayer:

Heavenly Father, I thank you for discussing me in heaven - as your significant beloved creation, significant most prized possession, and significant spiritual living being, and also, for empowering me with a significant system of operation in Christ, in Jesus' name, Amen!