Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Through Christ We Will Grow

“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me. I am the Vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples.” John 15:4-8

It is so awesome who we now are in Christ. We don’t say yes to Jesus and make Him Lord of our lives and then just get by. We grow in His perfection! God has said that He would cause us to grow, everyone who has actually made Jesus their Lord will grow; God does not fail! And as we grow, we grow with the increase of God Himself. And as we grow people will see God’s righteousness through us, and they will know, because of what they see through us, that we are born again! We will do the works that Jesus did, and we will be as He is in this world, because we are now one with Him. We are perfected in our oneness with Him! The power of sin has been done away for us, and we are to consider ourselves dead to it, just as Jesus is dead to it. “For in that He died, He died unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:10-11 God doesn’t ask us to lie. If He tells us to consider ourselves to be dead to sin in the exact same way that Jesus is dead to sin, it’s because it’s true.

A little leaven, leaveneth the whole lump! I know so many who think that we still have sin and that sin still has power over us, even after we are saved. But the Truth is that the Righteousness of Jesus overcame sin and threw it out of us, and the Blood of our Lord and Savior destroyed it’s ability to ever come against us again! Our body that was capable of being effected by sin has 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. For he that is dead is free from sin” Romans 6:6-7 Think about that, our body which could be effected by sin has been destroyed! Our body that could hinder God from having complete unity with us has been destroyed! We are now new creatures in Christ, old things are passed away and all things have become new to us. We are now the body of God’s Anointing, pure as He is pure, created by God in righteousness and true holiness, after the image of our Father! Not by works, least any man could boast, but all just a free gift according to our Fathers riches and glory in Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior!

Monday, May 30, 2005

By Grace We Are Saved

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:” Ephesians 2:8

We are not now free from sins convicting power of death and its power of separation through our own works of righteousness or obedience. We are free from sin and all of its power by God’s gift of grace! And God is able to offer His grace freely to us because of the Blood of His Son, Jesus, which was offered on the Cross for us! Through Jesus’ sacrifice every law and every ordinance that would convict us of sin were destroyed! “Blotting out the handwritings of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to the Cross. And having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” Colossians 2:14-15 Through Christ there is now no law for us, and where there is no law, there is no sin! "Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Romans 4:15 "But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter." Romans 7:6 Now we are delivered from the Law and since there is now no law for us, sin now has no power over us, not even a little! Think of it like this, on American Highways there are laws that declare that we cannot go over 65 miles an hour, but in Germany on the Autobahn there are no such laws. The roads look the same, yet the consequence of speed isn’t the same! In Germany there is freedom, just as in Christ there is freedom!

The great thing about our walk with God is that our freedom from the law of sin and death is only the beginning for us! This is a beginning principle of salvation in Christ and with the strengthening of the Holy Spirit, we are able to move past it, and move on to perfection! This Truth allows God in, this Truth gives God the ability to offer His grace, and this Truth permits unbroken fellowship between God and us. He is no longer hindered by our actions, He doesn’t have to wait for us to repent and offer a sacrifice to take action is our lives as He did under the Old Covenant! God is now able to work through the least of us under the New Covenant greater than He ever worked through the greatest under the Old! God is now free to continually work within us, to continually lead us and guide us, and to continually prune out all that is against us! Freedom from the law and thus freedom from sin, is every bit as much a liberating force for God as it is for us! He can now show His undying love for us, regardless of our actions! As King David said, blessed and to be envied are those who are righteous without any works, and he was talking about us! We are now one with the Vine of Jesus Christ, and since we are His branches, we are holy just as the Vine is holy! Since there is now no way that leaven can affect us, God is able to produce righteous fruit through us that will bring victory for us, and that will bring praise and glory to Him!

Sunday, May 29, 2005

Sin Doesn't Even Have A Little Power Over Us

"A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." Galatians 5:9

The Holy Ghost was directing Paul to write to the Galatians here about a few individuals who had tried to bring the law back into their Christian worship. To illustrate the effect of just a little sin, or a little false teaching, the Spirit had Paul use an example of leaven, or yeast, a little of it will effect the whole lump of dough! This Truth holds true with us as well; a little sin will make us completely sinful! Look at Adam, He ate the fruit that God told him not to eat, and then through fear he lied about it to God. Adam didn’t kill anyone, he didn’t commit some hennas crime; he committed what most would call a little white lie. Yet look at the consequences of such a small amount of sin! God is pure righteousness, He is Light, and there is no fellowship between righteousness and unrighteousness, there can’t be. “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?” 2 Corinthians 6:14 It’s like oil and water, they just cannot mix! Righteousness is Light, and the Light will always drive out the darkness. If sin still had any power or effect on us, even just a little, then our whole person would be sinful! If there where the smallest amount of the power of sin within us, there would be no righteousness within us, and there would be no fellowship with God. Jesus taught that we are one with Him, so if sin still had any power over us, even just a little, then the whole body of Christ, that we are one with, would be sinful. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump! God doesn’t just say things to be saying them, what He speaks is eternal and what He speaks is Truth, 100% of the time! Heaven and earth will pass away, but every Word that God has spoken will remain! A little leaven will leaven the whole lump!

Here is the awesome Truth of our salvation, and God is not a man that He should lie, once we say yes to Jesus, there is now no power of sin within us! Think about yeast for a minute, as long as the conditions are perfect it is a very powerful thing. But dissolve it in too hot of water and it will not work! If it is old it will not work! It may look the same and even smell the same, but if things aren’t right it will fail to leaven! This is what has happened to sin’s power over us. The Blood has destroyed its ability to affect us! The Light of Jesus that now dwells within us drives out the darkness of sins leavening power over us! “But if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 The Light of God destroys sins abilities over us, just like scalding water destroys yeasts abilities over dough!

Saturday, May 28, 2005

Through Christ We Are Free From Sin

“But now being made free from sin, and become servants of God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.” Romans 6:22

We are now free from sin, and the fruit that God now produces through us is holy and righteous! We have been delivered from every evil work, our consciousnesses have been cleansed from every evil work, and through the power of Christ we are now God’s instruments of glory! We have surrendered all to Him, so that we might have all of Him! Through Christ we are now complete, all of our trespasses have been forgiven and everything that was contrary to us has been removed! "And ye are complete in Him, which is the Head of all principality and power: In Whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God, Who hath raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiving you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; Having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." Colossians 2:10-15

There is now no temptation that can overcome us; our salvation through Christ has delivered us from the power, the presence, the pleasure, and the penalty of sin! "Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be merciful and faithful high priest in all things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succor them that are tempted." Hebrews 2:17-18 This is the power of our preservation through Jesus, evil can’t overcome Him; and we are eternally secured by Him! We now have the mind of Christ, and evil cannot tempt or overcome Christ! We have a new heart that is directly from God, we are born again from His Incorruptible Seed, and God’s heart cannot be tempted with evil. We are now the body of Christ, and Jesus’ body has overcome temptation and has been raised up and glorified! We are complete in Jesus and He is able to keep us from all temptation of evil. Jesus is our Shepherd and we do not want! Jesus has delivered us from every evil work and He has preserved us for eternity; faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free! As we hear the Truth, we grow, and the increase that we grow in is God!

Friday, May 27, 2005

Jesus Has Purged Our Sins

"Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at he right hand of the Majesty on High;" Hebrews 1:3

Jesus has purged us from all of our sins and He has glorified us with His very glory. Jesus stands with us, as the Vine stands with the branches and we are completely and totally connected and united to Him. There is never a time when there is separation; we are eternally united with our Savior Jesus Christ! He will never leave us or forsake us. Sin and the author of it have been destroyed for us by Jesus, so that the righteousness of our Father might be fully and completely lived by us! God has sealed us with His Spirit and the power of the Blood of Jesus is forever at work for us!

"But the Lord is faithful, Who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil." 2 Thessalonians 3:3

"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

We are now holy and unblameable before God, because through the power of Christ in our lives, we are holy and unblameable! Jesus has removed every evil work that would make us other wise and we are preserved in Him. We are preserved in holiness, how great is that! The seal has been sealed and the top has popped, and there is nothing that would spoil us that can penetrate the perfect seal of our salvation through Jesus Christ!

“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid.” John 14:27

This is the peace that we now have, just as Jesus is free from sin, so are we, and the insurance of this is determined solely by Jesus and not by us, thank God it’s not by us! If our being kept from evil had anything to do with our own abilities, even just a minuscule amount, there could be no peace. We would fail each and every time, but our being kept from evil and sin is totally dependent upon Jesus. So there is peace that passes all understanding! Hallelujah, those whom Jesus has made free are free indeed!

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Jesus Keeps Us From All Evil

"And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto His heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory forever and ever. A-men." 2 Timothy 4:18

The inspired Word of God boldly proclaims that once we are saved then Jesus will deliver us from every evil work and that He will preserve us for eternity! There is no maybe in this Truth and there are no preconditions that say that Jesus will only do it for us if we first do this or that. This work of the Lord isn’t based on our actions; it is based on His grace and the power of His love for us! Now is the time of our salvation, today is the day of our salvation, so today is the day that Jesus will deliver us from every evil work and today is the day that Jesus will preserve us! Jesus is our Shepherd and through Him and His love for us we shall not want. We no longer have to earn a life of righteousness through our own works, or want for a life that is free from sin, through Jesus these things are free gifts that just come with our salvation!

Sin is no longer a factor for us! If sin were still a factor for us who have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to make Jesus the Lord of our lives, then Jesus would be a lousy Shepherd. If sin could still harm us then this verse, that proclaims that we are preserved and delivered from every evil work, would be a lie! If the only thing, which is sin, that can separate us from our Father were allowed to come in and snatch us away, then Jesus would be a failure as our Shepherd! But Jesus has defeated sin and through His victory the power of sin has been destroyed for us. Jesus’ Blood, the Blood of our Savior, is victorious! Jesus has triumphed over sin and He has made a shew of it openly. Jesus has preserved us from sin and we are delivered from the guilt of it by having the mind of our Savior Jesus Christ, a mind that understands who we are in Him. A mind that knows the power of the Blood that has been applied to our lives, and a mind that has peace and joy in believing the Truth that has set us free!

Jesus is at work within us and we are being increased with the increase of God Himself! Through Christ we have passed from death unto life, we have passed from sin unto righteousness, and every last thing that stood in our Father's way of completely and fully saving us has been removed! The Truth is Jesus has removed us from every evil work that the world and the devil had. Jesus has removed us from sin, from fear, from doubt, from sickness, from poverty, from hopelessness, from ignorance, from anything and everything that is contrary to the ways and purposes and will of God!

Jesus is able to do all of this for us because He stands as one with us! “Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me, that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.” 2 Timothy 4:17 God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He changes not, Malachi 3:6, and we are all able bodied ministers unto the Lord! So if Jesus strengthened Paul and delivered him from every evil work, than He will do the same for us as well!

But am I taking these verses out of context, is God just talking about evil works that others will try against us? Well let’s look at the Word and see. The first thing that we must remember is this, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against spirits and principalities of wickedness, Ephesians 6:12. The wicked works that are trying to attack us are being generated through satan and satan’s power has been destroyed by Jesus and through Him we now live in freedom and liberty. "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." Hebrews 2:14-15 We are no longer under bondage, the bondage of sin and the fear of its consequences, have been destroyed for us by Jesus! Jesus has destroyed the devil, which is the author of evil and sin. Jesus has delivered us from every evil and from every force that would try to work evil against us. Sin, being the only force that could separate us from God has been destroyed, attacks against us by the children of satan have been destroyed, and we are delivered from every evil work, regardless of where it is coming from!

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Jesus Is Our Shepherd, Not Laws

“I am the Good Shepherd, and know My sheep, and am known of Mine.” John 10:14

Jesus is our Shepherd and we are His sheep. Now stop and really consider the Truth that it is not the sheep's responsibility to protect themselves from the wolves, it is the shepherd’s responsibility to protect the sheep. If a sheep is harmed or lost, the shepherd is to blame! You see what I am getting at here? We have seen in the Word of God over and over again that Jesus will keep us and that God will perform the needed works of salvation through us. For years I have seen people trying to do it, making ordinances and rules to follow, and encouraging laws to be passed. I have seen a church that lacks power and demonstration of the Spirit. I have seen a church that is timid when it comes to talking about the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, and the Spiritual gifts that come as a result of our relationship with God, for fear of running people off. I have seen so much sickness and disease, divorce, condemnation, and fear. These things seem to be accepted by the church, as though they are just part of living, however, the Word of God clearly and completely contradicts this. Through the Word we see a glorious church without spot, wrinkle or blemish. The Word says that we have Jesus' glory, the Word teaches us that Jesus keeps us, and that He protects us. The Word teaches us that Jesus died to do away with all of the ordinances and laws that man had absolutely no ability to keep. So that we all could serve through the power of God within us! God says that His joy remains within us, so that our joy may be full. “These things have I spoken unto you, that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.” John 15:11 God proclaims that we have not been given a spirit of fear, but of power, and peace and a sound mind. “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7 Jesus said that His yoke is easy and that His burden light, and that it is pleasant to be borne.

The Truth will set us free, and the Truth isn’t about creating laws declaring that we are to touch this and not touch that, wear this or don’t wear that, or keeping this day holier than that day, these are the things that men try to do to be justified with God, and they fail each and every time. We have a better Covenant, a far better way, and a way where righteousness is had without works. We have grace through faith and our faith is Authored and Finished by Jesus Himself! God sent Jesus, and Jesus made an open shew of all these carnal works at the Cross, destroying all of the ordinances and handwritings that were against us. Jesus came so that God could indwell us and so that we could be free from the rudiments and ordinances of this world, as He is free from them! Touch not, taste not, handle not have a shew of worship, but they are carnal and they bring no one closer to God! We are made holy and righteous by the Blood of Jesus Christ, and by nothing else!

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Through Christ We Are Dead To Ordinances

“Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in all worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honor to the satisfying of the flesh." Colossians 2:17-23

"But the Lord is faithful, Who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil." 2 Thessalonians 3:3 So many of the ordinances that man has come up with are in an attempt to keep us from evil. But the more rules that we come up with, the more evil thrives! Look at how divorce has increased, abortion, pornography, child abuse, spousal abuse, drug use, and all of the other evils that are going on in the world! There is only one thing that will keep use from evil, and that is Jesus, and He only gave us two rules: love God and love one another. “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord they God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Matthew 22:37-39

The great thing about these two commandments, is that it is God within us keeping them for us. God has shed His love abroad in our hearts. “And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” Romans 5:5 God has given us the mind of Christ. “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 2:16 God has given us the Holy Spirit to teach us and to empower us in all things, including the power to love. And Jesus has given us the love that the Father had for Him. “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 God is love, and we are born again from His Seed, so are we born from love and we are now one with love. “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” 1 John 4:8 Jesus gave us only two commandments, and then He completely and totally empowered us to keep them! The evils are a symptom of the real problem in the world, and that problem is our relationship with God through Jesus. When people look towards works before they look towards Jesus, evil symptoms flourish! No matter how we try to legislate against them, or make people work to get rid of them, if Jesus isn’t first, failure is the only result!

Monday, May 23, 2005

Through Christ We Are Increased With God

“And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.” Colossians 2:16

Jesus is now our Head, and through Him, and through the power of the Holy Ghost, God is increased within us. The Truth teaches us that we are increased with the increase of God, how great is that? As we grow through Christ, what is actually being added to us is God! We grow in the perfection of God Himself! “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20 We don’t just grow in our ability to understand God, we actually are growing with the increase of God Himself! I hope I am preaching that in a way that can be understood? As we grow through the power of Christ, we actually are loosing more of us, and gaining God!

Just as Jesus is fully God and fully man; He has been raised from the dead and glorified, that is exactly what we are being made into. Jesus is the firstborn among many brethren and all of us who are born after Him, will be like Him. Because we are born from the same Father, from the same Incorruptible Seed, and we are now one with Him! Faith comes from hearing the Truth, praise God, we are growing with the increase of God Himself! From the moment that we say yes to Jesus as Lord, we are of Him, one with Him, perfect in Him, and yet, we can grow, and as we do, it is God being added to us! Just as muscle is added to our bodies, God is added to us! God is not hindered in any way from making us as He is in this world. The power of Christ is that strong! God is no longer hindered in recreating us in His very image in true righteousness and true holiness!

Why do we try to justify ourselves and grow in God through works, when it is Christ within us, when it is Jesus within us allowing us to increase with the increase of God? Why do we try to get to God through eating this or not eating that, by saying this day is holy, or by keeping some man made ordinances? This stuff looks religious and appears to be filled with wisdom, but it absolutely has no place in our lives! Just look at religion, there has to be a thousand different denominations because man has so many different rules that separate us. We call them doctrine and creed, but there is only One God, and His Eternal Word says that there is only one Body and only one Church! Jesus is not separated or divided, but yet all of these carnal things have vainly puffed us up and they have absolutely failed at furthering the Kingdom of our Father!

Sunday, May 22, 2005

Through Christ We Have Freedom

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days; Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angles, intruding in those things which hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,” Colossians 2:16-18

No man can judge us any longer regarding a holy day or a Sabbath day, or about what we eat, or about any worldly ordinances that attempt to make us holy, how awesome is that? Oh, people will try, think about how many people judge us in regards to how we go to church or how we celebrate Easter or Christmas, or Palm Sunday? But there is now no condemnation for us; we have passed from judgment unto abundant life and unto righteousness! We were dead in this world, but now through Christ we have been raised up from the dead and we have been made to sit together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior! “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:6-7 These worldly rules that attempt to show worship are only a shadow of things to come, but the one thing that is here, and the one thing that is now, is Christ! Christ, the Anointing of God, the Anointing that was on Jesus, is right now, and we are of it, and we are one with it! We are now the body of God’s Anointing! We have the mind of God’s Anointing, we are more than conquerors through God’s Anointing, and we can do all things through the Anointing of God that strengthens us! Christ strengthens us; we do not grow strong in the Lord by keeping one day holier above another, or by celebrating an event that has happened, or by eating certain foods, or by wearing certain clothes, or praying to some angel or some saint. These things vainly puff people up in their carnal minds, and the carnal mind is against God.

“For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” Romans 8:6 The spiritual mind, our new mind, the mind of Christ, that mind that God has given us, is filled with the fullness of God, and carnal things just don’t matter, and through the mind of Christ, we now have peace and joy! So if someone celebrates Sunday as the Sabbath, great, or if another celebrates the Sabbath on Saturday, great, or if every day is celebrated as a Sabbath, great; as long as we are in Christ, there is now no condemnation for us! God is the One leading us into the paths of righteousness and if we have truly said yes to Him and made Jesus our Lord, He will lead us at the pace into His fullness that is perfect for us and for His Kingdom! But regardless of where we are in our walk with Jesus, it is Christ and only Christ that matters! No day, or event, or ordnance is above Jesus!

Saturday, May 21, 2005

Alive Faith Means Alive Works

“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.” James 2:26

As born again believers we will do mighty works, but those works do not bring righteousness or our relationship with our Father. We are called unto a holy calling, but not according to our works. "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began." 2 Timothy 1:9 Our relationship with our Father through Jesus comes first, then because of it, we are made righteous and holy by being recreated in the very image of our Father, and then come the works! “And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” Ephesians 4:24

We will be used by our Father to do many righteous works, because the sacrifice of Jesus has enabled Him to use us! Through Jesus we can be used to do all things and because of Jesus we will be used to do all things! People will see our relationship with God by seeing the works that the Father is doing through us. We will be able to show God’s glory through us, by the works of His Word that He is performing through us! Because of our Father working His Word through us, we will know that we are righteous and we will know that we are born again! We are now complete in God Who is our Father!

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 Because our faith is not based upon our abilities and efforts, but rather on Jesus’, we will be used to do works of righteousness! We will be used by God to go into all of the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. We will be used by our Father to preach recovery of sight to the blind! We will be used by God to do the works that He used Jesus to do and even greater ones, because Jesus accomplished what He was sent to do! Through Christ we have been empowered to be used by our Father to conquer all things! Be blessed in the power of His might!

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!

Thursday, May 19, 2005

We Know That We Are In Our Father By Keeping His Word

“But whoso keepeth His Word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby we know that we are in Him.” 1 John 2:5

You want to know beyond any shadow of a doubt that you are saved? According to our Father, we will know that we are saved when we keep His Word. The awesome Truth about us keeping God’s Word is this; it actually is the Holy Ghost within us that enables us to keep God’s Word! We never could, our Father knows that, so He gave us Himself to keep the very things that will bring an abundant life. Our Father has placed Himself within us, so that we would know that we are saved, and through Him we have peace and we actually have joy in keeping His Word. “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” Romans 15:13

The burden of our salvation is light and the yoke of our salvation is easy! “For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:30 I would say so, because it’s God within us doing the works, as it was God within Jesus doing the works! Not only do we have our Father within us, we now live under a Covenant that has nailed all of the ordinances and rules that were contrary to us to the Cross with Christ! Not only is it God within us empowering us, all of the powers and principalities, satan and evil, have been nailed to the Cross with Jesus. He made a shew of them openly and triumphed over them at the Cross! “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” Colossians 2:14

We don’t just keep God’s Word, we become one with it, and through our union with it, we are perfected and the world will believe, and so will we! Jesus is the Word and we are now one with Him, we can’t help but keep it, the Word is our Head, and we are now its body. We have been crucified with the Word, and nevertheless we live, yet it is not us that lives, it is the Word within us that now lives!

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

We Are Holy & Unblameable In God's Sight

“For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.” Hebrews 7:19

The Ten Commandments and religious laws have never made anyone perfect. No one has ever been made perfect in the sight of God by not stealing, by not lying, by not coveting, by not committing adultery, by not killing, by keeping a Sabbath day, by honoring their parents, by not having other God’s, by not making graven images, or by not using the Lord’s Name in vain! We aren’t made holy and perfect by eating only certain foods, going to certain buildings, or by washing things in a certain way! We aren’t made holy by wearing certain clothes or by wearing our hair in a certain way, but we are made perfect and draw nigh to God by the hope of Jesus Christ! The hope of Christ makes us perfect in the eyes of God, and to insure that those who have accepted Jesus have such a perfecting hope, God has given us His Holy Spirit, to dwell within us, to strengthen us, and to encourage us so that we may abound in hope, and thus we may abound in God’s perfection! “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” Romans 15:13

The Holy Ghost has empowered us to abound in perfection because the God of hope has filled us with all joy and peace in believing His Word! Through God we now have peace that Jesus’ sacrifice was strong enough to perfect us. Through God we now have joy in the Truth that the Blood of our Savior has removed every obstacle that stood in our way. Through the Spirit of God we now abound in hope and His hope brings the perfection that religious laws never could! Through the power of God within us we are now perfect and since we are, we will walk as He walked, in perfection, in love, in service, in hope, in peace, in joy, in confidence, in knowledge, in wisdom, and in faith! We will walk as Jesus walked, because we have been given the very Spirit that He had which allowed Him to be Who He was! We just cannot preach this Truth enough; we should walk as Jesus, because we have been empowered with the same power of Jesus, the Holy Ghost of the Living God. We should walk like Jesus, because we have the same Father as Jesus, we all have been born of God’s Incorruptible Seed. We should walk like Jesus because we have the same mind as Jesus; we now have the mind of Christ. We can walk like Jesus because His hope has perfected us, as He is perfect. If the Vine is perfect so are the Vines branches perfect! “He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.” 1 John 2:6

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

God Has Delivered Us From Darkness Into His Light

"For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son; In Whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins:" Colossians 1:9-13

God has delivered us from the power of darkness and God has made us able to be partakers of His Divine inheritance! "But God, Who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:" Ephesians 2:4-5 The Truth of our salvation in Christ goes so much farther than just us being delivered from the power of darkness. I mean, if we were just delivered from darkness, we could go back, but there is no going back! “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 We have been chosen by God and we have been born again by His will! We have now been made alive together with Jesus and our old man, our body of sin, has been destroyed, there is no going back! We can’t fool God, He knows our hearts, so we either have all of this, or we have none of this; there is no getting in and then getting out! We don’t just choose God, He chooses us, and we can’t fake Him out and get in without a pure heart! But once we are in, we are in; He destroys our old sinful man through the power of the Blood of His Son and our Savior, Jesus Christ! And once God does, we are strengthened with all might, so that we might be all pleasing, knowing all things, and all by the glory of His power that works within us! Faith comes from hearing the Truth that God has fully delivered us from the power of darkness and this Truth sets us free! This is God’s desire for us and for all who accept it, and it will be accomplished through the power of His might that now works within us!

"He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. "And being fully persuaded, that what He had promised, He was also able to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification" Romans 4:21-25

Be blessed; look to Jesus to Author and Finish His faith within you this day, so that you can fully know God’s will for your life. It’s God’s desire that His fullness is completed within us this day. Through Jesus we can have complete and perfected salvation this day. It is not hard, we don't have to work at it, we have been born again and we now have Jesus Who will lead us and guide us in all of His Truth. Even if we are struggling at accepting all of this power that we read about, we can be as the father of the sick child was with Jesus, who said, Lord I believe, help me with my unbelief. Mark 9:24 It’s that simple; if you want it, just ask. It has been born into us to ask, this is the desire of the Seed that has born us, that we walk in this fullness and in this glory. "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For everyone that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." Matthew 7:7-8 "And whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will do it." John 14:13-14 "And in that day ye shall ask Me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My Name, He will give it unto you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." John 16:23-24

Jesus is Lord and through the power of His Blood within us, we will receive what He has Authored and Finished our faith to ask for!

Monday, May 16, 2005

God Desires That We Fully Understand That Through Christ We Can Always Be Righteous

"For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son; In Whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins:" Colossians 1:9-13

"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." 2 Timothy 3:16

Look at what God had Paul write for us in Colossians, the Holy Ghost, Who never speaks of His own, but Who takes what He hears from Jesus and then speaks it to us, inspired Paul to write that it is God’s desire that we are filled with the knowledge of His will. This Truth is profitable for us, this Truth will correct us, and this Truth will instruct us in God’s righteousness! It is God’s will that we be righteous in every work and part of us being righteous means being filled with the knowledge of His will, filled with it! It is the desire of God that we completely and totally know what His desires are. God tells us in 1 Corinthians 14:1, that we should all desire to prophesy, which means we should all desire to be able to know and share the will of our Father! God has held nothing back from us and He wants us to have all spiritual understanding and all wisdom. There is no situation that God ever wants us to guess at, and He has given us the Holy Ghost to teach us all things. God has given us all things that pertain unto an abundant life and all things that pertain to abundant godliness as He strengthens us with all might! God is right here with us in everything: in witnessing, in being a parent, at work, in marriage, with friends, in politics, in times of joy, and in times of sadness. There is never a time that we do not have the ability through the Holy Ghost to be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all wisdom and in all spiritual understanding! Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth that it is the will of God for us to fully understand Him, will set us free! We need to share this with each other daily and look to Jesus to Author and Finish our faith, so that we actually can live in the abundance of this Truth!

Saturday, May 14, 2005

God Desires & Empowers Us To Be Fully Pleasing

"For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son; In Whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins:" Colossians 1:9-13

It is the desire of God that we always walk worthy and pleasing to Him, and that we are fruitful in every good work! We never have to fail, we can be victorious in every area of our lives, we can be successful in every action, and every one of our actions can be fully pleasing to God and every action that we do can be fruitful! “I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in Him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5 “If ye abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples.” John 15:7-8 Through the power of Jesus Christ within us, we can be used by our Father to produce much fruit and not only will the fruit benefit us, it will also bring glory to God! So many of us walk around thinking that there is Jesus and then there is us, and we will never really be able to fully measure up, but we never read that in God’s Word. God’s Word tells us that through Christ we will measure up, and we will measure up to God’s Standards, because it is God within us doing the Works! God actually tells us that anything that would hinder us from walking in full righteousness, He will prune out of us! Faith comes from hearing the Truth that it is God’s will and desire that we be fully pleasing to Him and that we are fruitful in every good work through Christ, and that to enable us to live this way, He has placed Himself within us to accomplish His desires for us!
God has strengthened us with all might, because He has given us His glorious power! “And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are One.” John 17:22 Whenever we think of Jesus, when we consider His glory and His power, that is what God has given us! God has strengthened us with all might and all glory! Because He has strengthened us with all of His might and all of His glory, just as He does with Jesus! God sent Jesus to accomplish the task of obtaining our salvation, so He empowered Jesus with all of Himself, and Jesus accomplished what He was sent to do, by the power of God that was within Him. Now, we are one with God through Jesus, and all that Jesus has, so do we. We have His Spirit, we have His mind, we have His gifts of the Spirit, we have His glory, we have His love abiding within us, we have His righteousness, and we have His wisdom and His knowledge, because we are now and forevermore one with Him. We are His body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone! Faith comes from hearing the Truth that we are strengthened with all of God’s might and that we have His glory! Faith comes from hearing that through Jesus, God can now do all things through us!

Trust In Works And There Is No Grace

"Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit wait in hope of the righteousness of faith" Galatians 5:4-5

We like to say that we have faith as Christians, but do we really have faith? Or have we just renamed a bunch of laws and rules, and thus brought ourselves right back under the curse that our forefathers under the Old Covenant lived in? Think of all the burdens that we have under religion, wear this, don’t wear that, our hair cuts, offer this prayer for this and that prayer for that. What church do you go to? Were you sprinkled or were you dunked when you were baptized? Do you use wine or grape juice for communion? And I can go on and on, but if we have faith in these things as our justification, then we have fallen from grace. Through Christ we have been freed from such works, now the only thing that truly matters is faith that Jesus is Lord, and once we have that, everything else falls right into place! Once we make Jesus the Lord of our lives and are filled with the Holy Spirit of God, there is liberty! These are the works that justify us and God is the One Who has completed and fulfilled them in our lives! God stands at that door knocking! He is the One Who has called us and chosen us, and God has given every one of us the measure of faith to accept Jesus as Lord! Jesus is the One Who has sent the Holy Spirit into our hearts to strengthen us and comfort us and to lead us into the paths of righteousness as He teaches us all things! God performed the works of our justification through the power of Jesus. We are now and forever more saved to the uttermost because Jesus now and forever more lives to intercede for us!

"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangles again with the yoke of bondage." Galatians 5:1 People who try to place a long list of do’s and don’ts as the requirements of our justification for salvation are wolves in sheep’s clothing. We will be known to the world by our fruits, because it is Jesus within us producing God’s fruit. We now have liberty and freedom for God to do His works through us, because Jesus has justified us through the cleansing of His Blood! We have been perfected for holy use, so that God can now work through us! Jesus has opened the doorway so that God is now free to prophesy through us and He can now use our hands to heal the sick. God is now able do the works that He did through Jesus and even greater ones, and God can now do all things through us because Christ has strengthened us so that He can! The days of do this and do that and then God will act are gone! We now live in liberty and freedom, we now live in the days where it’s God will do this and God will do that through us, and if something needs cleaned out of us, God will do that as well! We don’t need to do works or keep rules to be used by God; we don’t need to do works or keep rules to keep our fellowship with God, the work of the Blood of Jesus has fulfilled all of that. Once we are chosen by God and empowered to say yes to Jesus and make Him Lord, we are permanently justified, and now, it’s the Father within us, He does the works! We have been justified so that He can! And the fruit that God now will perform through us goes so far beyond keeping a Sabbath day, or not lying, it goes into the world of believing that we can have been strengthened by Christ so that we may be used by Him to do all things! Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Atheist, Communist, Capitalist, Liberal, Conservative, Male, Female, Young, Old, Rich, Poor, Black, White, Red, Yellow, or Brown, the righteous works of God through us will allow the world to believe and walk in the liberty that Jesus has given! And the least of us has the power of the Greatest of us, which is Jesus, working through them!

"And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;" Ephesians 2:1 "But God, Who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:" Ephesians 2:4-5 This is the Truth of our salvation, God is now able to use us, as He used Jesus, because our dead bodies of sin have now been made alive together with Jesus! There is nothing hindering God from being fully involved and united with Jesus, and through Jesus’ Blood, there is now nothing hindering God from being fully involved and united with us! We have been raised up together and we have been made to sit together in Christ. We were dead, but now we are alive! Righteous works are now a byproduct of our unity with God, it is God within us doing the works, and He is now able to use us by the righteousness that came to us through faith. We have freedom and liberty and all without works, but praise God through our freedom and liberty we will be used to do works that only can be accredited to God! We are forever redeemed from the curse of our forefathers; who had to try and earn a relationship with God through works. They were willing to be tortured and even killed for the privilege of just talking about the grace that God was going to give us! So the next time you hear about a group of Christians who are all up in arms over the Ten Commandments being displayed. Pray for them, that they might be set free from the curse and that they might come to enjoy the liberty that we have been called to through Jesus Christ!

Praise God we will be used to perform His works of righteousness. But never, never, do those works justify us or bring us into a greater relationship with our Father. These works are a sign of the Father in us willing that it is time that we are to be used. Look at Jesus’ life. Jesus began His public ministry when He around thirty years old. And wasn’t He fully God from the very moment that He was conceived of the Holy Spirit in Mary? Sure He was, He was fully God from the very beginning of time! But He wasn’t sent out to serve until He was thirty, even though He was always fully God. Jesus was always united and one with God and He was always fully pleasing to God. Jesus never did one work to earn it; He was just born into it! And we have now been born again from the same Incorruptible Seed that bore our Lord and Savior. We enjoy the same privilege as our Lord, we don’t earn unity and oneness with our Father through works, we have just been born into it through His will! The Word teaches us that Jesus grew in wisdom, but He never had to grow in justification, being born of God justified Him and we too have now been born of God! “Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:13 New King James

Thank You Father that we are always fully and completely justified to You through Jesus. And thank You Father that we will be used by You to produce the Fruit of Righteousness that will allow the world to believe and be saved!

Thursday, May 12, 2005

Through God There Is No Curse

"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. But no man is justified by the law in the sight of God: for the just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith: but; the man that doeth them shall live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:" Galatians 3:10-13

The Ten Commandments and religious laws are not of faith and it is impossible to please God without faith! The Holy Spirit Divinely directed Paul to write these verses and 2000 years have passed and people still want to go back to the works of the law! We want so desperately to earn our justification with God through our own works and efforts. This is the way the world works; God honors those who help themselves, right? Wrong! Even if we would keep every last one the Commandments, one hundred percent of the time, we still would not be justified in the eyes of God! Look at the greatest who ever lived under the Old Covenant, the Covenant of the Law, the Covenant of the Ten Commandments, and who was also the greatest man ever born of a woman, John the Baptist. Jesus tells us that the least person who has ever been born of the Holy Spirit surpasses John! The least of us, who now lives under grace, is greater than John! “Verily I say unto you, among them that are born of a woman there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.” Matthew 11:11

We are in a major battle right now in America over displaying the Ten Commandments, when God said that they are done away with. Christians are now a people of faith and through faith we are justified and glorified. Our faith is not even of our own doing anymore, it is Jesus within us Authoring and Finishing it. Our faith is actually Jesus’ ability to trust and believe in the Truth’s of God working through us. If we should be in any battle over displaying God’s Word, it should be over displaying the Truth that through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord, all men can be saved! If you want to display the Ten Commandments, you better place a sign right along with them saying don’t even think about keeping these things without Christ in your life! We get all religious over the sayings on our money as well, “In God We Trust,” that is a cowardly statement of faith. If we truly want to be faithful; we should make our money read, “Through The Power Of Jesus Christ Within Us, We Are Able To Trust In God!”

If we try to please God by keeping the Ten Commandments or any other law that religion comes up with, than we are actually condemning ourselves to live under the curse. Because according to God, we have to keep every last one of them one hundred percent of the time and even then, we would fall short of the glory that God has called us unto. Man just can’t do it; we do not have the capacity to perform works that will maintain our relationship with God. God knew who and what we are and what we were capable of doing and that’s why He sent Jesus. If we could be justified by doing things right, than why did we need Jesus? And man we do need Jesus! We need Him to empower us with Himself, so that we can be justified. We need Jesus and the power of His shed Blood, so that all sin can be removed from us, and so that God can indwell us and make us His holy habitation! Jesus came and redeemed us from the curse and He came so that He could Author and Finish our faith, so that we might be fully pleasing unto God! Jesus came so that we might have an abundant life, a life where the blessings of God are fully enjoyed and lived by those who believe and Trust in Him. Jesus came so that serving God would no longer be a heavy burden, a work that could never be achieved! Jesus came so that we might be fully justified, completely redeemed from sin, and so that we may abound in all wisdom and prudence. Jesus came so that the only law that really matters, love, would abound through us. Jesus came so that we might be born again of love, so that we might be filled with His love, so that His love might be perfected within us, and so that His love would cast out all fear from within us. Jesus came so that we would be under blessings and not under the curse! “How much more surely shall the Blood of Christ, Who by virtue of [His] eternal Spirit [His Own preexistent Divine personality] has offered Himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, purify our consciences from dead works and lifeless observances to serve the ever Living God?” Hebrews 9:14 Amplified

Father I thank You that through Jesus our consciences have been purified from all dead works! And Father I thank You that it is a sure thing, so that we may ever live to serve You. I thank You Father that You are greater in us than anything and everything that is in the world and that through us Your power is exhibited in all of its fullness, far above what we are able to ask or even think of! Yours is truly the power and the glory forever and ever, A-men!

Through Christ We Have Peace

"For He is our peace, Who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make Himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the Cross, having slain the enmity thereby;" Ephesians 2:14-16

There is now no enmity between God and us, the Cross and the Blood of Jesus shed on it has allowed God to create a new man, a man that has absolutely no separation between God and himself, a man that is filled with the fullness of God! The Cross has allowed God to create a man that may abound in all wisdom, a man that can have all peace and all joy, and a man that can be armed with the full armor of God! The Blood of Christ has allowed God to create a man that is perfected in his unity with God and a man that can be used by God to do all things through the Anointing of Jesus, and a man that can be used as a true instrument of righteousness and holiness so that the world may believe. The Blood has allowed God to create a man who is a friend, so that all of the things that He possess may be shared with him. The Blood has allowed God to create a man, who can be spoken of, as God is spoken of! Everything that hindered God from having these things, the things that He desired, has been abolished and they have been destroyed, by the power of the Blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus! And through faith Authored and Finished by Jesus we are that new man!

"But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ." Galatians 4:4-7 The fullness of times has come so that the fullness of God may come, and now is the day of our salvation! “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love. May be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that ye might be filled with the fullness of God. Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.” Ephesians 3:17-20 Now we are filled with the fullness of God and through His power that is within us we may know His love, His perfected love, His love that casts out all fear: fear of sin, fear of death, fear of failure, fear of anything has been cast out of us by His power that is within us! We have our Fathers very Spirit within us and it can do more than we can even think of, and He will do it from within us, because we are filled with all of His fullness. And through the power of the mind of Christ that we now have, we are able to fully understand this as Jesus understands it! This is the power of being redeemed by the Blood of Christ!

Father I praise You that today is the day that we come to fully and completely understand the fullness of Your salvation. And that there is absolutely no fear in expecting all that it has to offer! A-men.

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Through Christ We Are Redeemed From Sin

"In Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace; wherein He hath abounded towards us in all wisdom and prudence; having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself: That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in Him:" Ephesians 1:7-10

Jesus has redeemed us from all sin and from all of its power by His Blood. “But if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 Jesus has rescued us from all sin; past, present, and future, all is all, and Jesus’ Blood is that powerful! Jesus has freed us, all of us, both in Heaven and on earth, from sin and from all of its consequences. The power to set man free, from the only thing that could ever separate him from God, was delivered at the Cross, and it is eternally powerful for all who accept it. The Blood of Christ will never leave us or forsake us, the Blood of Christ has made us more than conquerors over sin, and the Blood of Christ has allowed us to live under righteousness and under all the fullness and abundance that righteousness brings! The Blood has destroyed our body of sin and we have been renewed in the very image of God Who created us! The Blood of Jesus destroyed the curse of the law and all of the ordinances and powers that thrived under it. Jesus made a shew of them openly at the Cross, triumphing over them, and He did it all according to the riches of God’s grace. God’s grace prevailed through the Blood that was shed at the Cross so that we might be born again, recreated in true righteousness and holiness after the image of God Himself! That is the abundant level of God’s grace; nothing would stop Him from having unity with us, nothing, even if it meant suffering the death of the Cross. God was willing to do whatever it took, so that we could be free from all sin, so that we might have eternal fellowship with Him! There is nothing more important in God’s eyes than us, and in His sight we are righteous and holy, and we are free from all sin! That is the power of the Blood of our Lord and Savior and we have it working fully for us, as it ever lives to intercede for us, so that we may be saved to the uttermost!

Jesus not only saved us from all sin, but He has also has given us all wisdom and all prudence. Jesus has abundantly given us all wisdom and all prudence, so that we might have life abundantly, so that we might live abundantly, and through His power that is at work within us He is able to use us to allow others to do the same! God has held nothing back from us. Think about all wisdom; God wants us to know who we are, how we are, Who He is, How He is, and who and how we are together with Him! His ways are higher than our ways, God knows that, so He has abounded towards us all wisdom, so that we might have wisdom in His ways, all of His ways. There used to be mysteries between God and man, but now through Christ, there are none!

“Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you.” John 15:15 “Having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself:” Ephesians 1:9 God has given us His Holy Spirit to teach us all things, He has given us Himself to abundantly supply us with all wisdom into all of His mysteries! He has given us His very own Spirit so that we may fully and abundantly know His will. Through Jesus we can now actually know what God is thinking. We don’t need a prophet to tell us about God, we all can be prophets, it is our Fathers desire and will that we all know Him and that we are all filled with all of His wisdom. All, whosoever, abundantly, perfect, glorious, and holy, these are the Words of God, and they have been shed abundantly within our hearts by the power of the Holy Ghost, and now our mouths speak them. God created us to have fellowship with Him, and we actually can, we now commune and fellowship with God Himself. Our fellowship with God goes so much deeper than just between friends or between family members, and it is even deeper and more intimate than a husband and a wife. We are now one with God, He is in us, and we are His body through Christ! When the mind thinks something the whole body reacts in that thought, that’s how our fellowship is with God! There is now unbroken fellowship between God and us and through Jesus that relationship is eternal and unbroken!

God has placed Himself within us so that we may be abound in all prudence. Not only are we saved from sin; we now are empowered by God Himself to accomplish and perform the very works of righteousness! And through the power of the Holy Spirit within us we can have peace and joy in believing this! “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” Romans 15:13 Look at how God uses all: all wisdom, all prudence, all joy, and all peace, all of these so that we may abound in our lives through Him. God uses the same words towards us, that we use towards Him. We say that God is all knowing, and He says the same towards us! We say that He is the God of Hope, and He goes on and says that we are filled with all hope. We proudly proclaim that God is all powerful, and He says we will do the works that He has done and even greater ones! We say that nothing can stand against Him, and God says that we are more than conquerors through Him! It is so awesome that God talks about us, as we talk about Him! Now here is a great Truth, He knows far better who we are, than we know Who He is! And here is even a greater Truth, He will teach us everything He knows! Through God, we can actually fully understand that as He is, so are we in this world!

Thursday, May 05, 2005

We Are Delivered From This Evil World By Jesus

"Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: To Whom be glory forever and ever. A-men." Galatians 1:4-5

Jesus offered Himself on the Cross so that we may be set free from our sins and so that we might be delivered from this present evil world. Now the question is this, is our deliverance from this present evil world had when we say yes to Jesus and make Him Lord of our lives or is our deliverance from this evil world when He returns? “Nay, in all things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 8:37-39 There is no force that is present or that is to come, and there is no creature that can ever separate us from God when we are in Christ, and through Christ we are more than conquerors! So even though we are in the world, the world has no power over us! We have been sealed with the Holy Spirit and Jesus will never leave us or forsake us!

“I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]” John 16:33 Amplified Bible We can be confident and certain that the world has no power over us! Because Jesus is the One Who has delivered us from all of our sins, and through Him and through His power the world and all of the forces of evil within it have been deprived of their power over us! The wage of sin was death, and Jesus defeated the power and fear of death by giving us life eternal. Sin brought sickness into the world, and by Jesus’ stripes we are now healed. Sin brought separation between God and man, but through Christ, man and God have become one, and through our oneness with God, we have been perfected! Sin brought fear into the world, but God’s perfected love, shed abroad in our hearts, has cast out fear and the torment associated with it. Sin hardened man’s heart, but God has given us a new heart and a new mind that is filled with His Holy Spirit, and we are now open to live in the freedom and liberty of God. Satan gained control of the earth through sin, but Jesus came and defeated satan and robbed him of his power and made a show of him openly at the Cross! We can be confident of these things, because we have the Holy Spirit within us teaching us that they are Truth, and the Truth sets us free! We have been delivered from all of the evil powers of this world, and there is nothing that will ever separate us from God, once we truly accept Jesus as our Lord!

The peace and confidence we have is this, Jesus did it for us! "But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me." Galatians 2:6 God will never accept what we do apart from Jesus. “I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5 We can do nothing without Jesus, anything that man does alone is denied by God. But with Jesus, we can do everything and through Jesus God is able to use us to produce much fruit, and through Jesus God enriches us in all things. Through Jesus we are accepted and pleasing to God. Jesus has delivered us from this present evil world by taking away our sins! We cannot earn it, and this Truth should bring us so much peace, because we don’t even have to try. Just by believing that Jesus actually is, is all that is needed. Once we do that, the rest is really up to Him. He is the One Who now leads us into the paths of righteousness and God is now the Gardener that prunes out the unfruitful parts of us, and the Holy Ghost now teaches us all things! Man you talk about entering God’s rest; this is rest! “For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His.” Hebrews 4:10 God doesn’t accept our works, so why try, cease and allow Jesus to work through us, and then our works are accepted and our works are righteous! That is peace that passes all understanding. That is also the spirit that has been born into us, this is our new nature in Christ, this is the mind that we have been given, and it’s who we are! We no longer look to ourselves, we are just the body, Jesus is our Head, and the Head leads us and the Head guides us!

"Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." Galatians 2:16 We are not justified by keeping the Ten Commandments. We are not justified by not breaking the seven deadly sins! God justifies no one for doing these things! God justifies us because we believe in Jesus, and God has given every one of us the measure of faith to accept Him. God would that all men be saved! And when we do accept Jesus, God enriches us in all things so that we can do what is right. Jesus empowers us to love the Lord our God with all of our hearts, souls, and minds. He empowers us to not steal, kill, lie, covet, cheat, commit adultery, or commit any other sin. Jesus enriches us so that we may do the works of righteousness, but even after He is in us, these works are not what justifies us; it still is His righteous Blood! This is a great Truth, we don’t grow in our maturity by not messing up, we grow in our maturity by trusting in Jesus more, and God performs that work within us! I hear people saying all of the time, I need to do this or I need to stop doing that, but what they really need to do is look to Jesus to Author and Finish their faith. Relax, God is the Gardener, Jesus is the refiners fire and the fullers soap! Faith comes from hearing and hearing from the Word of God. We are not in this alone; God knows what we need before we even ask, or if we even ask! He knows exactly what we need, and if we are saved He will empower us to cease from our own works so that Jesus can work through us, and He will allow us to produce much fruit! So relax, works do not justify us, God will strengthen us and lead us into the works, and we will do them by His power that is within us. The works do not bring God, yet God will bring the works!

Remember when you first said yes to Jesus the freedom that you felt. I remember when I was filled with the Holy Spirit, I was healed and I began to speak in tongues, but more than those things, I knew beyond any shadow of a doubt that I was now in God. I knew that God and I had a relationship, I could feel Him and I knew that I never would be alone again. I instantly had a peace that passed anything that I could understand, but even though I didn’t understand it, I knew that I had it. I instantly began to look to Him, and He has always led me, I have never really condemned myself, because God gave me this Truth right from the start, "Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?" Galatians 3:3 I knew that there was nothing that I had done to get what I had experienced. I didn’t ask for tongues, but I was speaking in them. I didn’t ask to be healed; yet I was. I didn’t even ask to be filled with the Spirit, but God knew my heart, and He knew what I needed, and He gave it to me! Right from the start, God has been perfecting me, and He has always allowed me to understand that it was Him, and the peace and joy that go along with that is awesome. God is not a respecter of persons, if He has given me this peace, it is for everyone, and as He led me into His Word, I saw that it was for everyone! Our flesh and actions have no part in justifying us! Jesus alone justifies us and His power working through us perfects us!

Too many people first focus on the works of righteousness. These works will come, God will bring them, but we first are to seek God’s Kingdom and His righteousness, and then after that, come the works of righteousness through us! What is really awesome about our salvation is that we have Jesus and the Holy Ghost within us, leading us and guiding us in the way we should live. Just as loving parents, they are right here, but even stronger than parents, because they are in us and they are one with us! Infants must first become toddlers, then toddlers become kids, kids become teenagers, and then teenagers become adults! There is a process, we don’t ask toddlers to do the works of an adult, they aren’t capable! Righteous and miraculous works will come, but these works are a byproduct of our maturing relationship with God through Jesus Christ. What brings the victory of God for us is trusting in Him, faith, faith Authored and Finished by Jesus, and that may or may not be evidenced by the actual works we do! Think about it, how many times has God blessed you and delivered you from a situation, when everything you did was wrong? The only thing that you did was give up and look to God. There was no real faith in it, it actually was done as a last resort, after everything else had failed and you had no other option, but you finally looked to Jesus. Jesus is always the key to our victory and our maturing, and that may or may not show itself in works! As we grow, it will, but thank God, as we are growing it doesn’t have to! Our flesh does not perfect us; God’s Spirit perfects us. But no matter where we are in Christ, we are justified by Christ, and He has delivered us from this evil world and He has delivered us from our sin. And those, whom the Lord has freed, are free indeed! The World has lost all hold on us, and sin has been removed from us by the power of Jesus Christ within us! It’s a done deal!

Through Christ We Are Righteous, Sanctified, Wise, and Redemed

"But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, Who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption." 1 Corinthians 1:30

Through Jesus we have been given us wisdom and He has made all things known unto us, and He has enriched us in all things. “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you.” John 15:15 God wants us to know what is going on, He has hidden nothing from us; God wants us to completely know Him: Who He is, What He is, and How He is. He has given us His very Spirit to teach us all things about Himself! “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, Whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26 A born again believer has every right, because we have been justified by the Blood of Christ, to know all that our Savior knows! Jesus came so that we might have life abundantly and our abundance is not limited! Jesus came so that we may actually live as He lives. God has given us His Spirit as He gave Jesus His Spirit. He has given us the mind of Christ. He has given us His Word and He has filled us with His fullness, so that we may walk in the abundant life that Jesus has provided for us! And as He is, so are we in this world! We now have Jesus’ wisdom, His righteousness, His sanctification, and His redemption!

Jesus is our righteousness! We are right with God by the actions of our Lord and Savior! The sin that had separated us has been removed and through the power of Christ we are now right with God. There is now no hindrance between God and us, and through Jesus we have unbroken fellowship with our Father. This fellowship no longer is based on our abilities or our own works; it’s based on the eternal sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus. Our fellowship with God is based on Jesus’ abilities! Christians no longer have to fear separation; we are now permanently united with God. The sting of death has been removed for us, and through Christ we now live in liberty and freedom! "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 We now have liberty in Christ and we are not just free, we are righteous and sanctified, because the Spirit of God within us has changed us into the very image of Jesus! “And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” Ephesians 4:23-24 As a believer we are no longer hindered by the weaknesses of our old man, we have been liberated from it. Jesus has moved in, driving out the forces of darkness that had kept us in bondage. Jesus is the Light and the Light has driven out the darkness! The Light has made us righteous, and the Light has given us wisdom, and the Light has enriched us in all knowledge! “But if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, with have fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 We walk in the same Light as Jesus and His Light drives out all darkness from us as effectively and as completely as it has driven all darkness away from Him! Darkness cannot touch Jesus and the power that keeps it away from Him, keeps it away from us! Satan still tries to harm Jesus, just read Revelation, but He always fails against the Lord and Jesus is now in us! This is why all things now work for good for those of us who love the Lord! “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28

Jesus has sanctified us; He has set us apart for God’s holy use! Jesus has enriched us in all things so that we will never fall behind in any of the gifts of God. We have been empowered to serve the world as Jesus serves: in power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit. Jesus came and taught the Truth, so that the Truth would set us free. Jesus came and healed the sick, without medicines and without surgery, He freely healed the multitudes; He healed by allowing the virtue of God to flow from Him. He came and raised the dead. Jesus had compassion, even when those whom He was helping denied Who He was, and He came and served God and allowed Himself to be used by God, even as a sacrifice! Jesus was able to speak to the poor and to the rich, to the laborer and to the employer, and to the sick and to the well! Jesus now works through us to proclaim God’s Truth. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever! Jesus has given us the power of the Holy Spirit and through Him we are now able to speak God’s Truths in times of peace, as well as in times of trial! “But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.” Matthew 10:19 Jesus has set us apart for holy use to further the Kingdom of Heaven and our abilities are now directly from God!

Jesus has redeemed us; He has redeemed us from the curse! “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree.” Galatians 3:13 Jesus has justified us and all of the forces that were contrary to us have been nailed to the Cross and Jesus has triumphed over them openly! There is no force, physical or spiritual, that has not been defeated by the power of the Blood of our Lord and Savior! None, and we have all of this right now, and we have it all in this world! "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us." 2 Corinthians 4:7 All of these things are now ours. We have them apart from our own works and they are all ours directly from God. The power to be pure, perfect, sanctified, holy, sin free, powerful, and godly here on this earth, and in these bodies, is directly given to us by God! There is no earning it; we just accept the free gift of Jesus and live in His righteousness!

"Now He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God. Who hath sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." 2 Corinthians 1:21-22

"For He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." 2 Corinthians 5:21

Jesus has established us and sealed us to be the righteousness of God! A-men that is awesome, we are now the righteousness of God, for today is the Day of our Salvation! We are not just some ugly adopted children, taken in by God as charity cases. We are a glorious church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish! We are set apart for His holy use, created in the very image of our Father. We have passed from death unto life, and because of Jesus, we are now more than conquerors! There is now no condemnation for us, we have been given a spirit of power, of love and of a sound mind, and we have been perfected in our unity with God. Today is the Day of our Salvation and today we have been raised up together and made to sit together in Heavenly places in our Lord Jesus! There is no weapon that is formed against us that will prosper! We have taken on the whole armor of God and with it all of the attacks of the wicked one have been squelched! God now dwells within us and His Light has driven out the darkness! "And what agreement hath the Temple God with idols? For ye are the Temple of the Living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people." 2 Corinthians 6:16 This is who we are in Christ, and by hearing the Truth, faith will come, and the Truth will set us free!

Jesus Makes Us Wise, Sanctified, Righteous, and Redeemed

"But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, Who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption." 1 Corinthians 1:30

Through Jesus we have been given us wisdom and He has made all things known unto us, and He has enriched us in all things. “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you.” John 15:15 God wants us to know what is going on, He has hidden nothing from us; God wants us to completely know Him: Who He is, What He is, and How He is. He has given us His very Spirit to teach us all things about Himself! “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, Whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26 A born again believer has every right, because we have been justified by the Blood of Christ, to know all that our Savior knows! Jesus came so that we might have life abundantly and our abundance is not limited! Jesus came so that we may actually live as He lives. God has given us His Spirit as He gave Jesus His Spirit. He has given us the mind of Christ. He has given us His Word and He has filled us with His fullness, so that we may walk in the abundant life that Jesus has provided for us! And as He is, so are we in this world! We now have Jesus’ wisdom, His righteousness, His sanctification, and His redemption!

Jesus is our righteousness! We are right with God by the actions of our Lord and Savior! The sin that had separated us has been removed and through the power of Christ we are now right with God. There is now no hindrance between God and us, and through Jesus we have unbroken fellowship with our Father. This fellowship no longer is based on our abilities or our own works; it’s based on the eternal sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus. Our fellowship with God is based on Jesus’ abilities! Christians no longer have to fear separation; we are now permanently united with God. The sting of death has been removed for us, and through Christ we now live in liberty and freedom! "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 We now have liberty in Christ and we are not just free, we are righteous and sanctified, because the Spirit of God within us has changed us into the very image of Jesus! “And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” Ephesians 4:23-24 As a believer we are no longer hindered by the weaknesses of our old man, we have been liberated from it. Jesus has moved in, driving out the forces of darkness that had kept us in bondage. Jesus is the Light and the Light has driven out the darkness! The Light has made us righteous, and the Light has given us wisdom, and the Light has enriched us in all knowledge! “But if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, with have fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 We walk in the same Light as Jesus and His Light drives out all darkness from us as effectively and as completely as it has driven all darkness away from Him! Darkness cannot touch Jesus and the power that keeps it away from Him, keeps it away from us! Satan still tries to harm Jesus, just read Revelation, but He always fails against the Lord and Jesus is now in us! This is why all things now work for good for those of us who love the Lord! “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28

Jesus has sanctified us; He has set us apart for God’s holy use! Jesus has enriched us in all things so that we will never fall behind in any of the gifts of God. We have been empowered to serve the world as Jesus serves: in power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit. Jesus came and taught the Truth, so that the Truth would set us free. Jesus came and healed the sick, without medicines and without surgery, He freely healed the multitudes; He healed by allowing the virtue of God to flow from Him. He came and raised the dead. Jesus had compassion, even when those whom He was helping denied Who He was, and He came and served God and allowed Himself to be used by God, even as a sacrifice! Jesus was able to speak to the poor and to the rich, to the laborer and to the employer, and to the sick and to the well! Jesus now works through us to proclaim God’s Truth. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever! Jesus has given us the power of the Holy Spirit and through Him we are now able to speak God’s Truths in times of peace, as well as in times of trial! “But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.” Matthew 10:19 Jesus has set us apart for holy use to further the Kingdom of Heaven and our abilities are now directly from God!

Jesus has redeemed us; He has redeemed us from the curse! “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree.” Galatians 3:13 Jesus has justified us and all of the forces that were contrary to us have been nailed to the Cross and Jesus has triumphed over them openly! There is no force, physical or spiritual, that has not been defeated by the power of the Blood of our Lord and Savior! None, and we have all of this right now, and we have it all in this world! "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us." 2 Corinthians 4:7 All of these things are now ours. We have them apart from our own works and they are all ours directly from God. The power to be pure, perfect, sanctified, holy, sin free, powerful, and godly here on this earth, and in these bodies, is directly given to us by God! There is no earning it; we just accept the free gift of Jesus and live in His righteousness!

"Now He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God. Who hath sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." 2 Corinthians 1:21-22

"For He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." 2 Corinthians 5:21

Jesus has established us and sealed us to be the righteousness of God! A-men that is awesome, we are now the righteousness of God, for today is the Day of our Salvation! We are not just some ugly adopted children, taken in by God as charity cases. We are a glorious church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish! We are set apart for His holy use, created in the very image of our Father. We have passed from death unto life, and because of Jesus, we are now more than conquerors! There is now no condemnation for us, we have been given a spirit of power, of love and of a sound mind, and we have been perfected in our unity with God. Today is the Day of our Salvation and today we have been raised up together and made to sit together in Heavenly places in our Lord Jesus! There is no weapon that is formed against us that will prosper! We have taken on the whole armor of God and with it all of the attacks of the wicked one have been squelched! God now dwells within us and His Light has driven out the darkness! "And what agreement hath the Temple God with idols? For ye are the Temple of the Living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people." 2 Corinthians 6:16 This is who we are in Christ, and by hearing the Truth, faith will come, and the Truth will set us free!