Friday, May 20, 2005

Through Jesus We Are Reconciled And Unblameable

"And you that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled. In the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight:" Colossians 1:21-22

Jesus has reconciled us so that we are now holy and unblameable in our Father's sight. We were alienated from God by wicked works, but now we are holy through Jesus and we now do the works of righteousness by the power of God that is within us. Because of Jesus we may be used by our Father to lay hands on the sick and they will recover, we will speak in new tongues, we will cast out demons, and if we drink anything deadly, it will not harm us!

“And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Mark 16:17-18 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto My Father.” John 14:12

Hallelujah, you have to love “they shall,” Our Father is not a man that He should lie and He said we shall do all of these things! These are now the works that God will do through us, because there is nothing within us anymore to hinder Him from doing them. There is now no sin within us to separate us from God. Jesus has cleansed us with His righteous Blood. There is now no fear within us, because our Father's love has been perfected within us and His perfect love casts out all fear! In the eyes of the One Who will do the works through us, there is now nothing wrong with us! Who knows better, God or us? So if our Father sees us as holy and unblameable, we are holy and unblameable!

There is nothing wrong with the Ten Commandments. They represent the right way for us to live and act. But they have no power to perfect us and they have no power to allow us to even begin to keep them; Jesus solely has that power! Through Jesus we will keep the Ten Commandments. He came so that the righteousness of the law might be fully met within us.

“For what the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His Own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Romans 8:3-4

Through Jesus we will keep the Word of God, all of the Word of God, and we will have peace and we will have joy in believing the Word, and because He is within us empowering us to keep His Word, we will know that we are born again!

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