t that is
given unto us" (Rom. 5:5). "Now we have received not the spirit of the
world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things
that are freely given to us of God" (I Cor. 2:12). "What? know ye not
that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye
have of God, and ye are not your own?" (I Cor. 6:19).

Another phase of the believer's position is revealed in the fact that he
is said to be a citizen of heaven; his home center or citizenship having
been moved there from the earth. His name would, therefore, appear only
among the celestial beings, in any true census of the universe. The
reality of this unseen relationship is brought out in several passages:
"For our citizenship is in heaven; from whence also we wait for a
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall fashion anew the body of our
humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of His glory,
according to the working whereby He is able even to subject all things
unto Himself" (Phil. 3:20 R.V.). "For ye know that if our earthly house
of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan,
earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from
heaven: if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we
that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we
would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed
up of life. Now He that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God,
Who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are
always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we
are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) we are
confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to
be present with the Lord" (II Cor. 5:1-8).

Again, as to the believer's position in that which is termed in
Ephesians "the heavenly _places_,"--though the supplying of the word
"places" is very misleading. The meaning of the word "heavenly" here is
not so much of locality as of experience: as is indicated by the use of
the same word in other passages where the believer is said to be
"heavenly" in standing and relationship (Heb. 3:1; Eph. 2:6. See also
Matt. 18:35; Jno. 3:12; I Cor. 15:48).

Dr. C. I. Scofield makes the following statement on this important phase
of the believer's position:

"The Christian is 'heavenly' by cal