Grace is Divine enablement.

In the beginning God created man in His image.

It includes all the Virtue, authority, and power that flows from God through Christ for the purpose of forgiving us and then enabling us to proceed through the development phase of salvation.

Faith is our moment by moment looking to Jesus for grace (Divine enablement) to help us as we seek to abide in Christ in every detail of our personality and behavior, becoming righteous, holy, and obedient to God.

Eternal life is union with God through Christ in our spirit, our soul, and our body.

The Christians who "overcome," who follow Christ through the development stage of salvation, entering the fullness of union with God, will live (in their bodies) and rule with Christ throughout the thousand-year period (Revelation 20:4-6).

Such will be placed on the thrones of the universe, the spiritual thrones in the air previously occupied by Satan and the fallen angels.

This is the royal priesthood. They have been "beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God." This means they have ceased to live according to their human minds and are living by the mind of Christ—an extremely important achievement for the victorious saint.

The spiritual forces are so powerful today that now—and throughout the days to come until Jesus appears in the clouds of heaven—people are not able and will not be able to think their own thoughts. Either we will put on the mind of Christ or else we will take the mark of Antichrist into our hand and head.

Not to press into Jesus with all our might is to take the mark of Antichrist by default, to become part of the actions and thinking of the present world economic system. We must go one way or the other.

Those who keep the Word of Christ’s patience will be kept by the Lord throughout the hour of temptation. His Presence, His Life in us will enable us to discern and turn away from the spirit of Antichrist. Woe to those who, having heard the Word of Christ, continue to live in the spirit of the world! They will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the Presence of Christ and the holy angels of God.

We reap the Life of Christ a hundredfold or sixtyfold or thirtyfold. These are not percentages such that sixtyfold means that sixty percent of our life is Christ and the remaining forty percent is flesh but is brought into the Kingdom in any case. Rather, the three levels of attainment refer to the abundance with which we reap Christ (the number of bushels to the acre, we might say), and as a result to our level of rulership in the Kingdom of God.

Flesh and blood cannot enter the Kingdom of God. Only the eternal Life that is Christ can enter the Kingdom of God and is the Kingdom of God. The part of our life that is not of Christ cannot enter the Kingdom. The Lake of Fire still has dominion over it. Our fleshly nature escapes judgment while Christ is working with us, because of the principle of the firstfruits.

Because there is a portion of Christ in us, in our spiritual nature, our whole personality is holy even though there are parts of our personality that have not as yet entered into Christ, into eternal life. The part of our personality that is not of Divine Life cannot enter the Kingdom of God. Yet it is saved temporarily because of the firstfruits portion of Christ that is in our inner man.

Our task is to persevere in Christ untilall of our personality has entered Christ and has become immortal. This is the hundredfold grasp of salvation. It is available to whoever chooses to lay hold on it.

If we are saved but do not press forward in Christ, the part of our personality we have held back from Christ will be cut off and burned. We will lose part of our personality, being saved as by fire.

We shall reap in the Day of Christ what we are sowing today. If we sow to the fullness of life we will reap the fullness of life. If we sow partly to our flesh we will reap part life, part lashes or destruction. The Lord Jesus, who is our Judge, will decide our fate in the Day of the Lord.

The part of our personality we do not surrender to Christ will not enter the Kingdom of God. Only that which has been filled with Christ will endure. We can have an abundant entrance into the Kingdom or we can appear as a naked spirit. It is our decision and responsibility.

Whether we attain to the hundredfold or sixtyfold or thirtyfold depends on the extent of our willingness to surrender our personality to Jesus for re-creation, our willingness to be pruned. It is only the new creation that is eternal, that is of the Kingdom of God. As Paul declared, everything that is gain to our first personality is loss to Christ, to the Kingdom of God. It is of the first creation; therefore it will pass away. Only that which is of Christ will live in God’s Presence for eternity.

When Paul was seeking to attain to the first resurrection he was striving to become what God means by "man."