"To the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved." Ephesians 1:6
Our Father has made us accepted in Christ and since He has, it brings praises to the glory of His grace! Through the power of Christ we are a Church without spot, without wrinkle, and without blemish. “That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” Ephesians 5:27
Our Father has made us accepted in Christ and since He has, it brings praises to the glory of His grace! Through the power of Christ we are a Church without spot, without wrinkle, and without blemish. “That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” Ephesians 5:27
We have been made glorious in our oneness with Christ. The Spirit of God that raised Jesus from the dead has now quickened our mortal bodies and our flesh, and all of the evils that were associated with it have been destroyed. “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” Romans 6:6 Yet even though our old man has been destroyed, we still live, and live abundantly, full of faith, hope, and most of all full of love. We now live in the love and posses the love that our Father has for Jesus. We live in the love of God that covers a multitude of sins. The love that has been born into us allows the Gifts of the Spirit to flow through our lives. The perfect love of our Father that dwells in us also casts out all fear! A-men, we now live in God’s love! “And I have declared unto them Thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them.” John 17:26 Hallelujah, we live continually united and one with the love that God has for His Son Jesus.
“May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God's devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it]; [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!” Ephesians 3:17-19 Amplified Bible
“May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God's devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it]; [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!” Ephesians 3:17-19 Amplified Bible
We don’t just live in the Love of our Father, we know the love of our Father! We are rooted in it and we are secure in it! We are strong in God’s love and it works through us in every area of our lives! Through the love of God, which now dwells within us, we are filled with the richest measure of His Divine presence and we are bodies wholly filled and flooded with God Himself! This is how greatly God has accepted us, that we are filled with all of Him! He has held nothing back from us! We live with the very glory that Jesus has. We now have the mind of Christ; we are now His body, His flesh, and His bones. We live with complete knowledge and wisdom because we now have the Holy Ghost dwelling within us, Who teaches us all things, and we live abundantly because we are filled with the fullness of God. “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17
Jesus had all of these Truths fully realized within Him while He was on earth as a man, because God accepted Him and because He was One with God! And we have all of these Truths because God has now accepted us and because we are now one with God through Jesus our Lord and Savior. Jesus had all of these things because He was perfect; He was born of God and He was God in the flesh! Well, we have been born again from God’s Incorruptible Seed, the same Seed that bore our Savior and we are now one with God through Jesus; we are now His body. God accepts Jesus completely and we are now Jesus’ body, so God accepts us completely! Who Jesus is, we are, and what Jesus is, we are; we have been freely given this by grace. The only thing that Jesus has that we don’t, is sovereignty. Jesus is the Lord; we are the Lords body! He is the Christ; we are one with the Christ! Jesus is the Head, He is the Vine, we are the body and the branches, but everything else that He has, He has given us!
Our Father calls things that are not as though they are, and they become what He proclaims, these things God has proclaimed for us. “(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, Who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.” Romans 4:17 We have the mind of Christ that dares to profess that we are filled with the fullness of God! Our Father has given us a heart and a Spirit that dares to believe that He is powerful and loving enough to provide all of these things for us! We have the Spirit of Jesus within us that dares to ask our Father for them, so that the world may believe in Him as their Savior! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for! "Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given us." Romans 5:5 Amplified Bible
Hope in the Truth of God never disappoints or shames us! Wow! Hope never disappoints us! Our Father has poured His love into our hearts and we will never be ashamed or disappointed! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, the substance of things not seen, and hope in God’s Word never disappoints us! Satan has crept into religion; He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:15 Satan uses false prophets who speak softly, they profess that perfection in Christ is arrogance, that we can agree to disagree, and that we are only men. These false prophets are why our Father is having us going over scripture after scripture that proclaim His Truth. God’s Word says something entirely different.
Jesus had all of these Truths fully realized within Him while He was on earth as a man, because God accepted Him and because He was One with God! And we have all of these Truths because God has now accepted us and because we are now one with God through Jesus our Lord and Savior. Jesus had all of these things because He was perfect; He was born of God and He was God in the flesh! Well, we have been born again from God’s Incorruptible Seed, the same Seed that bore our Savior and we are now one with God through Jesus; we are now His body. God accepts Jesus completely and we are now Jesus’ body, so God accepts us completely! Who Jesus is, we are, and what Jesus is, we are; we have been freely given this by grace. The only thing that Jesus has that we don’t, is sovereignty. Jesus is the Lord; we are the Lords body! He is the Christ; we are one with the Christ! Jesus is the Head, He is the Vine, we are the body and the branches, but everything else that He has, He has given us!
Our Father calls things that are not as though they are, and they become what He proclaims, these things God has proclaimed for us. “(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, Who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.” Romans 4:17 We have the mind of Christ that dares to profess that we are filled with the fullness of God! Our Father has given us a heart and a Spirit that dares to believe that He is powerful and loving enough to provide all of these things for us! We have the Spirit of Jesus within us that dares to ask our Father for them, so that the world may believe in Him as their Savior! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for! "Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given us." Romans 5:5 Amplified Bible
Hope in the Truth of God never disappoints or shames us! Wow! Hope never disappoints us! Our Father has poured His love into our hearts and we will never be ashamed or disappointed! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, the substance of things not seen, and hope in God’s Word never disappoints us! Satan has crept into religion; He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:15 Satan uses false prophets who speak softly, they profess that perfection in Christ is arrogance, that we can agree to disagree, and that we are only men. These false prophets are why our Father is having us going over scripture after scripture that proclaim His Truth. God’s Word says something entirely different.
So if we can get people to read the Truth of who we are now in Christ, hope will come, then faith, true faith, Authored and Finished by Jesus Himself! Jesus will Author His faith through us that will allow Him to transform the world. Faith that will set the captives free, faith that will allow God to do the works through us that He did through Jesus, and which will allow Him to do even greater works because Jesus has been raised from the dead! This is why God keeps me writing and talking about these verses. Our Father wants people to hope for the Truth, and how can we hear without a preacher, and how can we preach without the Word! And Praise God we are all able bodied ministers through the strength of our Lord!
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