John 3:12-15
If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
Jesus spoke to those around Him of earthly things because He was talking with those who dwell on the earth. This is why He came. To give voice to the word of God. To speak to us where we are so we might be drawn to where He is.
When Moses lifted the serpent in the wilderness, he was prefiguring the lifting of the Son of Man to become the sin of mankind and nailed to the cross. The sin for all who believe in Him has been absorbed by the body which hung in our place.
Those who dwell in the kingdom of heaven can understand the language of the Spirit and it is the Spirit who brings us into all truth. When we hear earthly words in the Spirit we have received, our spirits begin to be understand heavenly things. They begin to shape us in His image.
We enter the life that has no beginning or end. The eternal life of God. We move beyond the end of man as we completely become the sons of God, made in His image. We begin in the finite and end with the infinite. We become one with our Father who has no beginning or end.
Our bodies will follow with the spirits who are led by the Holy Spirit.
He loves us as we are with the life of His Son, but He loves us as a son when we believe in His Son. Believing in His Son clothes us in the righteousness of Jesus Christ. We trade the rags of man by putting on Christ, by entering the body of Christ. When the Father looks upon us, He sees a beloved son.
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