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John.3:13 No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

Jesus continues his profound Spirit filled discussion with Nicodemus a great teacher of Israel, God's people. The question is how can a person truly know God without God revealing himself to us? Words written in the scriptures are truth, but human are not, they digest what is truth, but who know what comes out of heart where truth and emotions are mixed?

Matthew 15:18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. 15:19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

James 3:8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 3:9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God. 3:10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 3:11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?

Jesus did not mix truth with his feeling, being he is the truth, he state a fact, a truth, no person had ascended into heaven, but he who descended the Son of Man, who is in heaven. How could Christ be in heaven while upon earth? First let us remember there only one way into heaven, which the bible makes perfectly clear, and that is Christ Jesus, but why?

Luke 13:25 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'

John 10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

Simply put, to enter into heaven one must be sinless! No human before Christ was sinless, they all fail short of God's glory, all needing atonement for sin by animal blood, a temporary arrangement granted by God's mercy to Israel. Christ open the door into heaven for mankind, how? By his perfect sinless life given too us by God freely. In other words, life, not found in written word in the scriptures, but the eternal sinless life of Christ was given to mankind by Spirit!

1 John 5:20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

1 John 5:12 He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.

Colossians 3:3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Yes, something Nicodemus could not know? Nicodemus had written records of God's words studied by the nation of Israel, but not the Spirit of God indwelling him. This is the door, and the entire discussion of John Chapter Three. Christ being sinless, on earth, dwelt in heaven by Spirit making him a living part of heaven God's life while upon earth. No other man accept Adam before sinning had, had that privilege, but Christ in flesh, while upon earth. The animal blood was not enough worth/merit to redeem human into a new life, a life with enough merit to make them sinless before God until Christ gave his own life. Our pattern must follow the course of Christ own life, to enter in, one must have enough merit without sin to have God's Spirit indwell them, raising the person in Christ seating them while still upon earth in the heavenly places with Christ. (Righteous New Heavens)

Romans 6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Ephesians 2:6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

There is no separation between Christ and God, it is sin that is the separation, and nothing more. Christ was sinless, so he existed in heaven while upon earth. Those born again of Holy Spirit making them part of Christ are seated in heaven while in the flesh upon earth. They have received a gift of undeserved kindness in the merit of Christ life opening the door into heaven, communing as a part of Christ life, that is, his mind, making them one with heaven the temple of the living God.

Colossians 3:1 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

1 Corinthians 2:16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?"{Isaiah 40:13} But we have Christ's mind.

Romans 8:27 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

1 John 3:5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

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