As we journey with Christ each day, embracing our unique participation in His offering and sufferings, we are learning how to worship the Father by doing the works of sonship that belong to our name. We are also learning how to minister life one to another. Wonderfully, we are being glorified with Christ as the son whom we were predestined to be, before! Rom 8:16-17. Rom 8:30.

Having been raised to sit with Christ in heavenly places, we are being changed from glory to glory as we receive, and walk in, the light that shines from His face as the glorified Son of Man. 2Co 3:18. This light is ministered to us when the word is proclaimed from the presbytery through the ascension gift graces of Christ. Importantly, to be progressively sanctified and glorified as a son of God means that we are changing to be just like Him through regeneration and the cultivation of the divine nature within us. Rom 8:29. Note the wonderful words of Paul, who said, ‘For both He who sanctifies [the Son of Man] and those who are being sanctified [those connected to His offering and sufferings] are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren.’ Heb 2:11.

It is confronting to realise that the heights of first love, from which the aggelos presbytery of the church in Ephesus fell, was from the fellowship of Yahweh Elohim, before. Rev 2:4-5. In this season, the Spirit is calling us to remember from where we have fallen, to repent, and to do the first works that belong to our sonship in the fellowship of Christ’s offering and sufferings, as members of His body. Christ promised to restore us to the agape meal at the tree of life, which is in the midst of the heavenly places, if we will hear, repent, and respond with faith to His word. Rev 2:7.