"This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all." 1 John 1:5
"At that day ye shall know that I am in the Father, and ye in Me, and I in you." John 14:20
In Jesus there is no darkness at all, and as we have been studying, we are now in Him. The great Truth of salvation is that we just aren’t saved from hell because we believe, we actually are saved from Hell because we become one with God through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! He is now in us and we are now in Him and there is no darkness at all in Him! There are so many of us who really don’t believe this Truth. There is far too much condemnation amongst Christians, most of it is self-condemnation, but it still is condemnation. I see so many of us putting off the blessings of our salvation, believing they can only come to us when we arrive in Heaven. But that is just not so and hopefully all of these postings have made that Truth, that sets us free, known. When the power of our salvation: righteousness, sanctification, glory, and holiness is directed at God, we are light, and when it is self directed, darkness, and then failure. We are light because of Jesus, His power and glory have driven the darkness from us. There is no ability for us to boast in this Light, because Christ has done it all for us, and praise God He has done it all for us!
We are now light because of the power of Jesus’ Blood. "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." Ephesians 2:13 Before we were empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus we were far away, but now we are nigh Him. We are now members of His body, we are now His Temple, and we are now the branches of His Vine! When Jesus talks about us it is always as unified with Him. Jesus is a hands on Savior and He never will leave us or forsake us! With Jesus we are never in the dark, we are able to see clearly through the faith that He Authors and Finishes for us!
"Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh; How much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God?" Hebrews 9:12-14
"Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate." Hebrews 13:12
The power of Jesus’ Blood is what allows us to be light. Jesus has obtained eternal redemption for us and He has purged our consciences from all dead works. He has done this so that we might serve God as He serves God, in Truth and in holiness! I will do anything to help my kids if they are in trouble. Not only would I, but I would be responsible to, they are mine. Well think about our Father, how much more can He come to our aide when needed and doesn’t He have the responsibility to? He is our Father and He chose to have us. Our Father doesn’t shy away from this duty either, He welcomes it and it brings Him great joy to have the responsibility of raising us!
"At that day ye shall know that I am in the Father, and ye in Me, and I in you." John 14:20
In Jesus there is no darkness at all, and as we have been studying, we are now in Him. The great Truth of salvation is that we just aren’t saved from hell because we believe, we actually are saved from Hell because we become one with God through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! He is now in us and we are now in Him and there is no darkness at all in Him! There are so many of us who really don’t believe this Truth. There is far too much condemnation amongst Christians, most of it is self-condemnation, but it still is condemnation. I see so many of us putting off the blessings of our salvation, believing they can only come to us when we arrive in Heaven. But that is just not so and hopefully all of these postings have made that Truth, that sets us free, known. When the power of our salvation: righteousness, sanctification, glory, and holiness is directed at God, we are light, and when it is self directed, darkness, and then failure. We are light because of Jesus, His power and glory have driven the darkness from us. There is no ability for us to boast in this Light, because Christ has done it all for us, and praise God He has done it all for us!
We are now light because of the power of Jesus’ Blood. "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." Ephesians 2:13 Before we were empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus we were far away, but now we are nigh Him. We are now members of His body, we are now His Temple, and we are now the branches of His Vine! When Jesus talks about us it is always as unified with Him. Jesus is a hands on Savior and He never will leave us or forsake us! With Jesus we are never in the dark, we are able to see clearly through the faith that He Authors and Finishes for us!
"Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh; How much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God?" Hebrews 9:12-14
"Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate." Hebrews 13:12
The power of Jesus’ Blood is what allows us to be light. Jesus has obtained eternal redemption for us and He has purged our consciences from all dead works. He has done this so that we might serve God as He serves God, in Truth and in holiness! I will do anything to help my kids if they are in trouble. Not only would I, but I would be responsible to, they are mine. Well think about our Father, how much more can He come to our aide when needed and doesn’t He have the responsibility to? He is our Father and He chose to have us. Our Father doesn’t shy away from this duty either, He welcomes it and it brings Him great joy to have the responsibility of raising us!
“Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith; Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2
Man was in trouble, sin was destroying us, so our Father sent Jesus, and now we are free in Him. Death was defeated at the Cross and the sting of it removed from us, and it brought Jesus great joy to do it. Satan lost his grip over us, perfect love came and fear was cast out. Light now shines where there was once darkness! Remember, we were not originally made in darkness, it found us. We were in trouble and Jesus came, and saved us, and He did not do the job half way! The power of His Light far exceeds the power of our darkness! And through the power of His Light our bodies of sin have been destroyed. “Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” Romans 6:6
Let’s talk for a minute about our Father being responsible for insuring that we are redeemed until the day of Christ. We don’t hear that preached often do we? But when we look at what God has said, we see that He is responsible. Jesus teaches us that He is our Shepherd. "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be glory for ever and ever. A-men." Hebrews 13:20-21
A shepherd is responsible for the sheep. There are other scriptural references of Jesus being our Shepherd, but this is by far the most powerful! In two short verses we have so many Truths: the Great Shepherd, the God of peace, the blood, and perfection in every good work that pleases God! Wow, you have to love these two verses! Through them we see clearly that our Father has taken the responsibility of our walk into His Own hands. We are perfect in every good work and we are well pleasing only because of Jesus, and Jesus is One with God! We are pleasing to our Father because He makes us that way!
Our Father also calls Himself the Gardener and we are the branches, John 15:1, once again He takes the responsibility for us. Jesus says that He is the Head of the Church, Ephesians 5:23. All of this said, God call’s Himself our Father, and He is, so there is responsibility there. Why am I teaching on this? Because we are not alone, we are never alone! We are not solely responsible for everything being right or wrong in our lives. This is not a solo journey we are on. Our Father is right here with us, He is one with us, He is in us, on us, over us, before us, and behind us. He is willing and able, and He is responsible for our fruitful and abundant lives.
This is not being taught nearly enough. People are looking to themselves. If things are good in a persons life, than they believe they must be doing something right, and if they are bad, then something wrong. Faith preachers call it faith, others call it living rightly, whatever it’s called, it leaves God subservient to what we do first. He is right in here with us and He carries the largest part of the load, as our Father, our Shepherd, and our Head!
I asked God why He kept saying this to me, and this is what He said. “How than shall they call on Him in Whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe on Him of Whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!” As you may know that is Romans 10:14-15
Our Father told me, “what can be more peaceful than teaching that I hold the responsibility in your success?” Man tries to find God with his own power, like do A, B, and C and than God will be found. Bologna! The heart does not respond like the hand, the foot like the eye, the tongue as the kidney, we are members of the body, all different parts, and our Father comes to us where we are and exactly how we need Him! This needs to be taught. Think I am wrong, Jesus said that without Him, we could do nothing, John 15:5. If that isn’t taking the responsibility, I don’t know what is?
So you see, we are light, we are not darkness, because we are in Him, and the Light has driven out the darkness. And through Him we have everything we need, our bodies that could sin have been destroyed, Romans 6:6. What if we don’t feel like it has. Let me ask you this, how often do you hear it preached that our bodies of sin have been destroyed? Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free! Romans 8:1 says there is now therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. There is now no condemnation for us because there is now no darkness in us, because we are in Christ Jesus! No bragging rights here, only because of Jesus, no works on our behalf can make this happen, it is solely based on Jesus and what He has done and offered for us!
How will the world believe unless we preach it?
"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them." Ezekiel 36:26 This is the message that we have heard from Jesus and declare unto you. That God is Light and there is no darkness in Him and we are now in Him! Through the power of the Light that we now live in, we shall go into all of the world and preach the Gospel of this Truth to every creature and through our unity with Christ the world will believe!
Let’s talk for a minute about our Father being responsible for insuring that we are redeemed until the day of Christ. We don’t hear that preached often do we? But when we look at what God has said, we see that He is responsible. Jesus teaches us that He is our Shepherd. "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be glory for ever and ever. A-men." Hebrews 13:20-21
A shepherd is responsible for the sheep. There are other scriptural references of Jesus being our Shepherd, but this is by far the most powerful! In two short verses we have so many Truths: the Great Shepherd, the God of peace, the blood, and perfection in every good work that pleases God! Wow, you have to love these two verses! Through them we see clearly that our Father has taken the responsibility of our walk into His Own hands. We are perfect in every good work and we are well pleasing only because of Jesus, and Jesus is One with God! We are pleasing to our Father because He makes us that way!
Our Father also calls Himself the Gardener and we are the branches, John 15:1, once again He takes the responsibility for us. Jesus says that He is the Head of the Church, Ephesians 5:23. All of this said, God call’s Himself our Father, and He is, so there is responsibility there. Why am I teaching on this? Because we are not alone, we are never alone! We are not solely responsible for everything being right or wrong in our lives. This is not a solo journey we are on. Our Father is right here with us, He is one with us, He is in us, on us, over us, before us, and behind us. He is willing and able, and He is responsible for our fruitful and abundant lives.
This is not being taught nearly enough. People are looking to themselves. If things are good in a persons life, than they believe they must be doing something right, and if they are bad, then something wrong. Faith preachers call it faith, others call it living rightly, whatever it’s called, it leaves God subservient to what we do first. He is right in here with us and He carries the largest part of the load, as our Father, our Shepherd, and our Head!
I asked God why He kept saying this to me, and this is what He said. “How than shall they call on Him in Whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe on Him of Whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!” As you may know that is Romans 10:14-15
Our Father told me, “what can be more peaceful than teaching that I hold the responsibility in your success?” Man tries to find God with his own power, like do A, B, and C and than God will be found. Bologna! The heart does not respond like the hand, the foot like the eye, the tongue as the kidney, we are members of the body, all different parts, and our Father comes to us where we are and exactly how we need Him! This needs to be taught. Think I am wrong, Jesus said that without Him, we could do nothing, John 15:5. If that isn’t taking the responsibility, I don’t know what is?
So you see, we are light, we are not darkness, because we are in Him, and the Light has driven out the darkness. And through Him we have everything we need, our bodies that could sin have been destroyed, Romans 6:6. What if we don’t feel like it has. Let me ask you this, how often do you hear it preached that our bodies of sin have been destroyed? Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free! Romans 8:1 says there is now therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. There is now no condemnation for us because there is now no darkness in us, because we are in Christ Jesus! No bragging rights here, only because of Jesus, no works on our behalf can make this happen, it is solely based on Jesus and what He has done and offered for us!
How will the world believe unless we preach it?
"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them." Ezekiel 36:26 This is the message that we have heard from Jesus and declare unto you. That God is Light and there is no darkness in Him and we are now in Him! Through the power of the Light that we now live in, we shall go into all of the world and preach the Gospel of this Truth to every creature and through our unity with Christ the world will believe!
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