Hebrews 4:9-11 (KJV) There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own (self) works, as God did from his. 11  Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

We did not ‘work’ to be saved and receive Christ. We don’t ‘work’ to continue in His blessed favor.

Colossians 2:6 (KJV) As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord (by faith), so walk ye in him (by faith):

Ephesians 1:3-4 (KJV) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath (already) blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

We can always rest in our ascended position… in union with Christ. For we now are living our new life in Christ in the “inner man.” This does not, however, change our environment.  Our circumstances and problems are the same, our personalities have the same characteristics; we most often live among the same people. 

What new kind of life, then, do we live, and how do we live it? First, we as believers have a new center, Christ is guiding us from within our spirit; therefore, its essential new requirement must be time taken pause and to be still in His presence, no matter how busy we are. 

We are now to understand that our daily lives with all its problems and responsibilities, great and small, are an integral part of God’s universal purposes for us.  In us and through us He is working out His plan of grace and salvation, which is to be consummated in the personal return of Christ to gather us in the Rapture of “His body” (cf. 1Thes 4:13-18, 1Cor 15:51-53). Every decision we make, every act we take, is meant to be of God in us, moving out in action by us.

He would have us, therefore, to always live by “the mind of Christ” within us. This we do if we will learn to withdraw into His Presence, make our decisions according to what seems to us to be His will, and in conformity within the standards of His written Word.  He has plainly stated that He has made “Christ to be wisdom” in us (1Cor 1:30). We should therefore confidently expect that our thoughts and decisions, when made after consultation with Him in us, are His thoughts in us.

Thus, we’ve seen that Eve in the Garden was not fulfilled, having that void in her spirit and unfulfilled soul because she and Adam did not have Christ in them as we have Christ in us as believers. This is what Paul and we also should preach; “… Christ in you.” His life IN us “is the riches” of “His inheritance IN the saints” – that we might ‘rest’ IN our union with Him.

Colossians 1:27-28 (KJV) To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28  Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

Ephesians 1:15-18 (KJV) (I Paul)Cease not 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 unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; (so) that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance IN the saints,

Having been so well reconciled and equipped by His life, and knowing His will, let us go forth in our new ministry of offering this glorious ‘reconciliation’ to God that we enjoy by Christ IN us… to every person.

2 Corinthians 5:18-20 (KJV) And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19  To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20  Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.