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Enter the Fifth Dimension

by Robert Beames  
9/02/2014 / Devotionals


Cornered by Grace

Enter the Fifth Dimension
Rob Beames

In physics and related studies, the fifth dimension is a hypothetical existence outside the generally accepted three spatial dimensions and one time dimensionalthough no one can entirely describe it. Popular literature, movies and television use the mysterious nature of this unproven dimension to summon a feel of the supernatural. Although we are now able to experience movies in what is being called 4-D, which is simply a 3-D movie viewed in seats modified to move in direct correlation to actions on a screen while engaging our other senses with fans and an occasional spray of water, any eventual move to a 5-D experience would be nothing more than a marketing scheme having very little to do with the postulated fifth dimension in question here.
However, the way the supernatural world mirrors what we can see, touch and hear is hardly coincidental. For example, outside of the obvious display of compassion that the many miraculous healings of Jesus were, they also served as symbolic representations of spiritual realities and His mastery over them. When Jesus healed the blind, He did so out of an overwhelming love, but in the process He communicated that only He could reveal God's truth to a world blind to it. When He caused the paralyzed to physically jump in the air for joy by the power of the Spirit, those who were so paralyzed by pride or fear were shown that they no longer had to live as a spiritual vegetables.
God speaks to us from heaven in ways we can understand in our dimension, because He loves us and wants us to believe in Him, although we can never fully grasp the His nature completely or the dimension in which He dwells. Could it be that heaven is really the fifth dimension? Either way, we are to understand the magnitude of what the gospel of Christ means to us in the spiritual realm although we can only taste it now in our corporal element.
Fortunately for us, God has not waited for us to discover Him. We would have never done it. Rather He broke into our dimension, in order to fulfill the required demands of His infallible laws. Paul puts it n a way we can easily understand:
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." So you are no longer a slave, but God's child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir" (Galatians 4:4-7).
In our visible universe, we have defined, at least four dimensions, and perhaps a fifth. There are, at least, four dimensions of the gospel, and perhaps a fifth, as well. We belong to God based on the implications of Christ's death and resurrection which address different aspects of our need or could be said to exist in four dimensions: justification, propitiation, regeneration and reconciliation. Since, we could not attain the level of perfection required, as God said, "...therefore be holy, because I am holy" (Leviticus 11:45), the death of the only holy One justified us in His sight. Our guilt begs our condemnation, but in His mercy, God placed the blame and punishment we earned on Jesus instead (propitiation). Since our sin and unbelief paralyzes us, God made us new through the power of the resurrected Christ, so that we could live with the freedom to be what He created us to be (regeneration). Our rebellion, selfishness and overall sin nature made us enemies with God. He sacrificed His Son in order to repair the relationship with Him we had previously destroyed (reconciliation).
While there's a sense in which our adoption into the family of God is merely a deeper reality of our reconciliation, we might say that adoption is that mysterious fifth dimension of the gospel. Okay, maybe the analogy loses something in the time-space continuum, but the fact that we are adopted into His family is no less a mystery than a theorized fifth dimension. When we ponder that God's wrath targets His enemies in order to utterly destroy them, we struggle to comprehend why we, having once been His foes, no longer have to fear this awful plight. Due to the work of Jesus, our relationship with our Father has been restored absolutely, so much so, that not only has God removed the utter devastation for which we were destined, He takes the mending of our relationship to another level by making His enemies sons and daughters. Adoption is much more than having the ability to escape annihilation and live out our lives in a miserable existence as conquered enemies of a great power. Instead it means we are considered by Him in all aspects, revered, honored, much loved and well esteemed, even as much as He considers His beloved and blameless Son. What He has promised to Jesus, He has also promised to us! He wouldn't heir to us all that is His, if we were merely a conquered nation. No, for some reason hidden only in the folds of His eternal will and pleasure, we are brothers and sisters to Christ. We had nothing to do with it, as Paul explains, "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves" (Ephesians 1:4).
It's not molecular mechanics. It's not string theory. It is, however, a spiritual reality in which we exist, live, breath because of the accomplishments of Jesus on our behalf and because God wants us in it. The relationship between Jesus and His Father is tight and dear. It is not a distant one between king and subject or between slave and master. Thanks to adoption... so is ours! We have to accept it by faith, but it is no less real. By God's Spirit, we are family. This is astounding and worthy of more consideration than there are theoretical physicist studying some proposed fifth dimension. After a lifetime of studying the implications of Christ's death and resurrection, we will have only one recourse: to praise and thank Him for placing us in this beautiful dimension of adoption. This gives us the capacity to do what we were created to do. (Ephesians 2:10)
Life in the fifth dimension isn't creepy or scary at all. In fact, once there, we will never want to be anywhere else. Due to His great power and love for us, we won't ever be!
(I believe He wanted me to remind you of this.)

Copyright 2014, Robert Beames.
Rob Beames is the author of the book, Cornered by Grace. For details or to read his blog visit www.robertbeames.com. Get the book at kalospress.com or Amazon.com

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