Jesus has ‘translated’ us from the tyranny and oppression of the kingdom of darkness into His Kingdom of light, where we walk in the completeness of His Name, the fullness of what He did, and within the power of His authority (Colossians 1:12-17). We are not of this world; we have been born again from above.
The definition of translated is: 1. express the sense of (words or text) in another language.” (change, transcribe, convert something or be converted into (another form or medium); (change transform, metamorphose, transmute, transfigure); 2. Move from one place or condition to another.”
We are a ‘translated’ people.
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We are ‘transformed’ by renewing our minds to Who our Father is, what He has done for us, and who we are as a result; we walk in accordance with the truth of allowing Him to be the one people see on us, in us and through us. Our minds no longer rule us; they transform us by allowing the constant Kingdom Renaissance within us to grow and live and have its being. As our eyes and ears engage with Him more and more, we transform from the inside-out (not from the outside-in) because He is the Word made flesh and He holds the affections of our hearts (Romans 12:1-2).
We are a ‘transformational’ people.
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We are co-heirs with Jesus. Not orphans. Not distant relatives. Heirs. Dictionary.com defines an ‘heir’ as ‘a person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person’s death’. In fact, we are co-heirs alongside of Jesus. Miriam-Webster dictionary defines a ‘co-heir’ as ‘an heir who shares an inheritance with one or more other people’. What is it that we have inherited? Everything that Jesus has given us access to. What does this involve? ‘As sons and daughters, we now belong to His same Father, so He is not ashamed to introduce us as his brothers and sisters’ (Hebrews 2).
We are a co-reigning co-heired people.
Because Souls Are Like Gardens 