15.5 SIT – Sitting come through revelation

To sit is to be established in faith (to rest) on the finished work of Christ. How do we sit? How do we get established on the finished work of Christ? It comes through revelation. Without revelation, we end up in works of the law instead of depending on the finished work. With revelation, comes faith. With faith we start to sit and rest.

Let us show this through the book of Ephesians. We have shared about Eph 2:6 about being seated in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. But this is a continuation of the earlier verses in Chapter 1:20 which talks about Jesus being raised from the dead and got seated in the heavenly places. After Jesus got seated at the Father’s right hand, we were also raised up in Christ to the Father’s right hand.

(Eph 1:15-23, 2:4)
15 Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, 16 do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the EYES OF YOUR UNDERSTANDING BEING ENLIGHTENED; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He RAISED HIM from the dead and SEATED HIM AT THE RIGHT HAND IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES, 21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. 22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and RAISED US UP TOGETHER, and MADE US SIT TOGETHER in the HEAVENLY PLACES in Christ Jesus…

But how do we know the reality of Christ being seated at the Father’s right hand? How do we understand and appreciate that? Thereafter, how do we know the reality of us being raised to be seated at the heavenly places? It comes through the SPIRT OF WISDOM AND REVELATION – through THE EYES OF OUR UNDERSTANDING BEING ENLIGHTENED. Can you see the progression in the passage?

So we can pray for revelation of the Holy Spirit – to see what happened to Jesus at the cross, and to see what happened to us because we are in Christ. When we catch the revelation, we can be established in sitting.