Maximum impact

The reason Satan hates body truth like he does is because he doesn’t want to contend with the shockwaves that we send up through his heavenly government, where his emissaries look over and see a fully functioning body of Believers manifesting the life and glory of the Jesus Christ.

“Let me tell you something, what we did last Sunday morning in this auditorium sent shockwaves up through the heavenly places all the way out to the deeps and you need to understand that,”  says Jordan in an old study on the subject. “You need to understand the far-reaching effect you have as you simply, by yourself, and as WE together reflect the life and the person of the Lord Jesus Christ and His actions and attitudes . . .

“There’s more than just the idea of, ‘Well, we’re going to go to heaven by-and-by.’ It’s a fantastic future for us out there.

“Just like God raised up the Lord Jesus Christ and set Him in heavenly places, and it affects His position now and in the ages to come, so it is that you and I have been united with Him, made members of His body, and that which is His and belongs to Him and He has accomplished, is ours and belongs to us, and we have accomplished by virtue of the fact of being in Him, therefore we’ve been raised up to sit together in heavenly places.

“If our position is up there, then what’s the place that we ought to be interested in? Folks, you ought to be interested in your position. If you go out and get a job in industry, they give you a position to fill and they give you a job description.

“You and I are making known the manifold wisdom of God. You and I today, as we function as members of the Body of Christ, as the fellowship of the mystery is in evidence in our midst, we have an impact in the heavenly places.

“Now, my dear friend everybody wants to have an impact, you know. You want to make an impact on history. When history pages are turned, people want to have their name printed there. They run into the power structures and the systems of the world and they try to build big political organizations. Religionists try to build ecclesiastical movements and all. Why? To make an impact!

“Real impact for God, folks, you notice where it’s made. Not just down here but up there!

“If you walk around and you don’t know about these things, how could you ever function the way God expects you to function?! Oh, I know, you can go to a How-to-Do-It seminar and get 15 secrets from a  fellow on how to have a successful prayer life or how to be happy though married, and maybe one or two will work for you some of the time and the rest of them don’t, and you go away frustrated and all bamboozled and you come to find out that that fellow didn’t any more have an answer for you than you figured he did when you went there and spent your $15!

“Philippians 3:20 say, ‘For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.’

“That word conversation there is ‘politamy’ and sometime you hear people translate it ‘citizenship,’ but the word doesn’t really just mean that. The word means the attitude of a citizen of a free city. Politamy is a word the Greeks use to talk about the great city-states of the Greek empire, the Roman Empire, and it was a word that described the manner of life of someone who lived in one of those free cities.

“What Paul’s talking about is the manner of life that becomes the citizen of heaven. The idea is our manner of life it comes from that city-state, from that place, not the earth.

“Listen, folks, if He’s going to come and take us out of here, He must not have much down here for us!

“My point to you is you need to be oriented toward and set your affections--your mind, your thinking--on things above and not down here. You need to have an understanding of that heavenly situation out there so that you can walk pleasing unto the Lord.”