The whole issue of our identity is about our coming into full maturity, so that we can rule over the created order.
Hebrews 10: 12 but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;13 from henceforth (used of time, hence forward) expecting (continuous action, 1- ek- out of, denoting origin -the point whence the action proceeds(sitting on the throne). 2-to actively receive, to watch for, expect, about to receive) till his enemies (in opposition) be made his footstool. (1-underfoot, footstool 2-treading down, to subdue) 14 For by one offering he hath perfected (past-perfect tense-the finished result of the action, To complete, make perfect by reaching the intended goal, a spiritual condition brought about by the action) forever (two words in the Greek 1- motion into 2-diēnekēs-perpetually-from the root 1-dia-through 2-phero-be, bear, to carry, bring forth, to lead or move)them that are sanctified (continuous or repeated action, to make clean and pure, to purify, to set apart exclusively for Gods use).
Jesus is seated on the throne expectantly waiting for His enemies to be put under our feet. He will remain in heaven seated until the restoration of all things.
Verse 14 reads in the Greek- because offering one offering, he has completed, motion into the perpetual, the holiness.
Continual access into the perpetual cleansing has been granted us on the other side of the veil. All of our growth and change comes through exposure to this dimension.
In the kingdom realm of our Father we are already perfect. It is as we are enabled to enter into this dimension that we experience transformation in the natural realm. What we experience in the heavenly realm enables us to then carry that in the natural realm.
The kingdom realm of our Father is a spiritual dimension that we have access to. It is the infilling of the Spirit that begins to transition us into this realm. It is a reciprocal abiding where He abides inside of us, and we abide inside of Him in the heavenly places in Christ which are outside of our physical body. When we are filled with the Spirit we are filled with His perfection.
The infilling of the Spirit is the life of God in heaven, flowing into us, and His life is perfect. The infilling of the Spirit opens the spiritual dimension of the kingdom to us.
It is through the sanctifying or transformation process that we experience more and more of God’s perfection interpenetrating us.
Everything we receive from God is by grace through faith. His grace is the energy of the kingdom realm, and His faith is the spiritual substance that is communicated to us.
His righteousness is given to us as a gift, and we partake of it as we enter into the kingdom. The kingdom is a spiritual dimension that we are enabled to step into through sanctification.
But Holiness is a choice to surrender everything to the Lordship of Jesus over our spirit, so that our soul comes under submission to the life flow of God into our spirit, so that our soul does not act independently of the Lord.
Therefore sanctification is a process of surrender and yielding to the flow of God’s Spirit into us. Our soul does not want to lose control; we have to lose our soul, so that it can enter into eternal life.
Our soul is the part of us that is earth bound. Our spirit is right now seated with Christ in heavenly places, but our soul has no awareness of it, until it becomes transformed from the inside out. Our soul has been programmed from the outside in.
Our spirit has to grow in its capacity to appropriate God, and our soul has to be transformed through surrender to the life flow of God into our spirit, so that our soul can receive what we already have in the kingdom realm of God’s Spirit.
Our soul is the part of us that is self-conscious. So when we are struggling with character defects or sin, we become conscious of who we are not, and we cannot get free. We have to disconnect from that consciousness by turning toward the Lord.
When we turn towards the Lordship of Jesus, our spirit senses the Spirit of the lord (freedom), the glory of the Lord (his essence), and the veil is removed and as we are beholding we are changed.
How much change we experience depends upon our ability to hold the gaze. If we can do it for a couple minutes it is victory. The more we practice increases our capacity so that we can do it longer and longer.
As our spirit grows in its capacity to appropriate God, our soul-life changes, our soul stops trying to get its needs met through the effort of self, because that is the pathway of the knowledge of good and evil, trying to become like God apart from God.
When Jesus died on the cross the whole Adamic race died with Him. He became the first born of a whole new race of beings. We have already been perfected; we just do not believe it because we are focused on what we are not.
The moment our soul acts independently of God our spirit becomes aware of it. We are then living in our soul, so we have to step back into our spirit. We have to learn how to be continually aware of our spirit communing with God’s Spirit, so that our soul no longer acts independently of God.
Transformation or change comes through our awareness of the presence of God. So it is a process of dying out to that which is not like God’s character by not focusing on it or partaking of it. When we become aware of negative thoughts, or thoughts not inspired by God in our heart, we have to disconnect from them and then they lose their intensity.
We need to realize that the Father is looking for mature sons. He is looking for Lords and kings. The earth will respond to our position in heaven, so we have to learn how to set our affections and our mind on the things above so that we can start experiencing them.
As we develop our capacity to receive from heaven, then the earth will begin to change, because we are suppose to be governing the earth.
The function of the fivefold ministry was put in place for the building of the body of Christ, for the maturing of the believers until that which is perfect has come.
That which is perfect has to do with the ability to access the heavenly realms, so that we can then release that in the earth.
We have been mystically united with Christ. We have access to the supernatural realm’s of God’s Kingdom