Colossians-2:11-14

[God] hath raised us up together; and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:6).

In the first stage of our Christian life we seek to bring the Lord Jesus down to our level, for our use; later on we learn to take our position in Him at His level, for His...

And you, that were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in His sight" (Col. 1:21; 22).

  For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ" (Gal. 3:27).

The Holy Spirit baptizes us into the Lord Jesus, and fills us with Him.

"The one spiritual baptism positions the believer in Christ' (

You are made partakers of His resurrection, through the faith wrought in you by God, who raised Him from the dead" (Col 2:12, Cony.).

All true believers are gratefully aware that they are not going to hell, but few realize that they are already in heaven.