002.D 00. Living "In the Heavenlies"

A Way of Growth by T. Austin-Sparks Chapter 4 - Living "In the Heavenlies"

Reading: Ephesians 1:3; Ephesians 1:20; Ephesians 2:6; Ephesians 3:10; Ephesians 6:12; Ephesians 1:6; Ephesians 1:9-10; Ephesians 3:11; Ephesians 3:21. In meditating on the subject of spiritual enlargement as seen in Paul’s epistles, when we pass into this letter to the Ephesians we come into an entirely new realm. It is like passing from one world into another. In ’Corinthians’ we find everything earthbound in a carnal and soulish way, and all the features which we find there are due to an earthliness of Christian life. In ’Galatians’ we still find things earthbound, but this time in a religious way. When we pass into ’Ephesians,’ the earthly ties are severed. The one governing word is "the heavenlies." It is a new realm with a new time factor. We have passed out of the earthlies into the heavenlies, and out of time into eternity. We want to understand as far as we can what that means.