How God Truly Is

“They say to Him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.” John 8:4,

You want to see a picture of how God really is; well here is a great one! “When Jesus had lifted up Himself and saw none but the woman, He said unto her, woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? She said, no man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.” John 8:10-11

Not only didn’t Jesus condemn this woman who had committed adultery, who had every right to be condemned, He was able to run off all of those who could condemn her! This verse shows us plainly how God is; He is compassionate. He knows who we are and how we are, and God knows what to do about it. God doesn’t want to condemn us; He doesn’t want to be separated from us. So to insure that He didn’t have to, He sent His Son, to make an everlasting sacrifice for us, so that we could stand before Him without blame! Through Christ we stand holy, sanctified, perfected, and all by the power of the Blood of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior! Jesus did it all for us, so that as Romans 8:1 proclaims, “There is now therefore no condemnation for us who are in Christ Jesus!”

If there is now no condemnation for us who are in Christ Jesus, than there is now no fault for us who are in Christ Jesus! There is no fault for us because the Blood of Jesus has cleansed us from all unrighteousness. “Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.” Romans 5:9 “In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace;” Ephesians 1:7 “But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the Blood of Christ.” Ephesians 2:13 “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the Blood of Jesus,” Hebrews 10:19

People may call us arrogant for confessing that we are perfect, holy, spotless, sanctified, and glorified in Christ, as all of these scriptures have proclaimed that we are. But we have to be extremely humble to confess and believe them, because all of the glory is totally directed towards Jesus, only He can do it, there is absolutely nothing we can do to even begin to scratch the surface to possess such awesome attributes. Humility does not mean tearing ourselves down, true humility is saying yes to Jesus and accepting and confessing we that possess all that He went to the cross to give us. We have been redeemed by the Blood of Christ! Redemption means that someone else did it for us, the ransom was paid for us by Jesus and true humility, not arrogance, accepts this Truth and directs all of the attention towards Him!

We Are Holy And Blameless In Christ

"According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:" Ephesians 1:4

We have studied together so many times that our Father boldly proclaims that through the power of Christ we have been glorified!

“And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are One.” John 17:22

We have seen in the Word of God that we are perfect through our oneness with Christ. “I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” John 17:23

We have seen that all things are now new for us. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17

And here in Ephesians 1 we see that our Father has chosen us and that we are holy and without blame before Him. God’s Truths are awesome, plain and simply awesome! The Blood of Christ is working so  strongly for us, no work can justify what the Blood of Christ, shed on the cross, has so freely bestowed upon us. The Holy Spirit that is within us will give us the strength and confidence in the Truth that through Christ we are living a life without any blame!

We tend to talk about this lifestyle of perfection and blamelessness in the future tense, when we are in Heaven, but the Truth that will set us free is that our Father is more than willing and able to cause us to live this way right now! We can never earn this own our own, through our own efforts, but through Christ we freely have it. It’s an easy yoke to be borne, because we have been empowered to simply look unto Jesus to Author and Finish our faith! Through Christ we stand before our Father blameless, apart from any work, with free and complete redemption through the power of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior! Our Father chose to have us because He is able and willing to do these glorious things through us! Our Father knew the way to make us glorious and holy, and our Father gave us the way, the Light, and the Truth, and Jesus is the only way!

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

We Are Sealed With The Holy Spirit

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

We now have Christ permanently living within us; we are now one with Him, so we can’t help but to walk in His Spirit. We have been sealed by the very Spirit of our Father. We have been Anointed by God, and He can now do all things through us by the power of His Anointing that strengthens us! Our Father has established us with His Anointing. He has sealed us with His Spirit. He has called us. He has chosen us, He has justified us, He has glorified us, and what can we say to all of this? Our Father, Who is God is for us, who or what, can be against us!

“And grieve not the Holy Spirit, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4:30

We are sealed by the Spirit of our Father until the day of our redemption. Well if we are sealed, that isn’t from the inside, that is from the outside. Think of a plastic baggie, the zip lock kind, that is sealed, think about Tupperware, that is sealed. Well we are sealed, so we can’t help but walk in the Spirit. Once again we see that it is our Father telling us to do something and again we see that it is God empowering us with Himself to do it. We can do all things through Christ that strengthens us! A-men!

We Are One With Love

“For all of the law is fulfilled in one word, even this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Galatians 5:14

God has Paul write that love covers all of the requirements of a godly life. Our Father is love and we are born again of Him, we are born again of love. Now if God is Love, then His Spirit is love. So if we walk in Love, we shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh, right? Well, turn again to John 17:26 and let’s see what Jesus said. “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.”

To insure that we walk in the Spirit, which is Love, so that we don’t fulfill the lust of the flesh, God gave us His very Own love. Jesus said that is why He declared God to the people and will declare Him; so that we could have the very thing that will allow us to walk in perfection, love! Nowhere does God ever write that we can’t have His level of love. Jesus said that He declared God’s name and that He will continue to declare it, so that God’s love may be in us. Well, Jesus is still declaring God and His Spirit remains in our hearts, crying out Father. Jesus does this so that we can spend eternity with Him from the moment that we are chosen and empowered to say yes to Him. That is the timeline of our salvation, from that point of acceptance throughout all of eternity, not from the time when we get to heaven on. We walk one with God from the very instant that He chose us and we accepted Him, that is when He empowered us to begin to walk in His Spirit, that is the very moment that we became eternally one with our Fathers love!

We Walk In The Holy Spirit

"This I say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh." Galatians 5:16

Remember how we have seen in our Father's Word that wherever we find a verse that instructs us to do something, we can find other verses that proclaim that is God within us given us His power, His will, and His ability to accomplish it. Well there is definitely no exception here in Galatians 5! We are told that we are to walk in the Spirit, and if we do, then we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. So what does our Father have to say about enabling us with Himself to only walk in His Spirit?

First God says, "And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land I gave your fathers; and ye shall be My people, and I will be your God. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses:" Ezekiel 36:27-28

We are to walk in the Spirit and here we see that our Father has placed His Spirit within us to cause us to walk in His statutes and to keep His judgments! Our Father gave us His Spirit so that we will do what is right and so that He can save us from all of our uncleanness! Our Father is God and we are not alone in our fight to live right. We have the Spirit of the Living God within us causing us to do what is right, so that we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh! We are completely saved from hell and from ourselves because Jesus Christ is our Lord!

Secondly, Christ is now the One living within us. We have been crucified with Him, so we can only walk in the Spirit. “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 Our bodies which could sin have been destroyed by the power of Jesus’ perfect Blood. Romans 6:6.“ 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.”

So many of us want to wrestle with our flesh. But when we are empowered to truly ask God into our lives, even though we were dead in our sins, our Father quickens our mortal bodies. Our Father has put His Spirit within us and He will cause us to walk in His statutes and keep His judgments and do them. We no longer look unto ourselves, we look unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith and the Holy Spirit allows Him to be all that He is within us. Since we are saved, we are now only able to walk in the power of our Fathers Spirit! Because we are now part of and one with God’s body, Jesus Christ. We are one with His flesh and one with His bones. We are one with God!

Jesus Never Leaves Us Alone

“Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” Hebrews 13:5

Jesus is dwelling in our hearts right now; we are never alone. Jesus will never leave us or forsake us. If we have a problem, Jesus is right here with us, our problems are His problems. When Jesus was on the earth as a man and He came upon a problem, what did He do about it? Did He walk away, no, He stopped and solved it, even when the problem was a naked guy who lived in a tomb, who could break the chains that bound him! Did Jesus condemn the people who had the problems, no! Even when the person was caught in a sin, He simply said go and sin no more! Did Jesus say that it was our Father's will that the person who had the problem continually stay in it, no! He said that satan came to kill, steal, and destroy, but that God sent Him so that we might have life and have it more abundantly! Jesus healed the sick, raised the dead, changed the weather, gave specific answers to specific problems, told the demons where to go, turned water to wine, and Jesus only spoke the Word of God. Jesus never stood passively by, He was and is action oriented; Jesus is the answer man! When Jesus went to His hometown and tried to heal the sick and the people rejected is offering, He simply marveled at their unbelief. Jesus did not condemn them and even though He marveled at their unbelief, He never condemned them. And remember this, before He marveled, He had first tried to serve them. Even though He knew what they were going to do, He still offered! Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He changes not, Malachi 3:6! If Jesus was that way back then, He is that way today. Jesus ever lives to intercede for us! And Jesus is always moved by His compassion for us!

This is Who we have living within us, this is what He is like, and just like 2000 years ago, Jesus marvels if people will not let Him help them. Yet the great thing about Jesus is, give Him the least bit of an opportunity and Help is right there! The great Truth for those of us who have been chosen and baptized with the Holy Spirit is that we have our Father's Spirit within us causing us to accept Jesus’ help. We now have a Spirit and heart to take Jesus for all He is, we are empowered to ask by God Himself, and it is given to us. We are empowered with God Himself to seek, and because we are, we always find. We knock and the door is always opened. For all of God’s children who ask, receive, and all who seek find, and all who knock, the door is opened! All things now work together for our good through the perfect love that our Father has for us through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. This is the Truth that is now in our hearts, this is what is crying out for us, this is salvation, and there is no down side to our salvation!

We have absolutely the most powerful and loving Being on our side, period! God's very Spirit cries out from within us of the greatness of who we are in Him. Together with Christ and through the power that comes from being one with Him, God is able and willing to cause us to walk in complete and total victory, ever pleasing to Him, without spot, without wrinkle, and without blemish. We are united with Jesus and there is no weapon formed that will prosper against us. With Jesus we have peace that passes all understanding, and with Jesus we have unity with each other. This unity will allow salvation to flourish around the world. We are now one with The One! We now are partakers of His Divine Nature and Jesus will never leave us or forsake us!

Faith

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” Romans 10:17

Faith comes for us by hearing the Truth that we are now the sons of God and that we are now the heirs of God. We need to share the scriptures daily with each other and we need to pray that those whom God has brought into our lives will rest in the Truth of who God has made us in Christ. We all need the encouragement of the Truth; the Word of God is Truth. The Truth of God will not fall void to the earth, and the Truth will set us free. “For the Word of God is quick, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asssunder of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 12:4 The Word of God is quick, it will rapidly change the hearts and minds and situations of those who are empowered by the Holy Spirit to find it! The Word of God will cut out all doubt from within us and it will quickly take over our hearts and fill us with the abundance of God’s Truth. God has proclaimed that He will give us a new heart, and the heart that is given by God is one that is filled with His eternal Word! The heart that we have from God rejoices in the glory of the Truth that we are now the heirs of God, just as Jesus is an heir of God. We are joint-heirs this day with Christ and we have the Spirit of Christ crying out this Truth from within us!

Jesus Causes Us To Have Abundant Hearts Of Righteousness

“A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.” Luke 6:45

Go back and review all of the verses that we have studied together so far. God’s Word clearly tells us that through Christ we are glorious, that we are perfected in Him, glorious through Him, and victorious with Him! Out of the abundance of our hearts our mouths will speak. And to insure that our hearts are filled with Jesus’ righteousness, God has sent the Spirit of His Son Jesus into our hearts, so that what is in abundance in our hearts will be the Truth that sets us free! No one knows better about being an heir than Jesus, and He has filled our hearts with the Word of God, and that is what our mouths speak! Our Father and our Savior are actively involved with insuring that what is in us is what is supposed to be within us!

It’s like a grape vine, the branch produces what the Vine gives it the power to produce. The branch doesn’t have to do anything except bare the fruit of the Vine. Without the Vine the branch is useless and withers and dies. But when a branch is one with the vine, it is alive and healthy producing much fruit! We are now one with the perfect Vine of Jesus Christ, and we now have the perfect Gardener of God protecting us and causing us to grow and ever produce more and more fruit! There is nothing lacking, God is able and willing to cause us to walk in His full righteousness and full glory, just as He has empowered and enabled Jesus to walk in them. God has made us one with Jesus and all that He is and all that He possesses we have been made to be partakers with! And out of the abundance of our new hearts we speak the Truth of God that sets us and the world free!

We Have Jesus' Spirit Within Us

"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 4:6-7

It’s not hard for us to say that we are God’s children; actually it’s really easy. But to say that we are now God’s sons and to believe that we are actually heirs of God and that everything He has is now ours, takes faith. And praise God our faith is now Authored and Finished by Jesus, Who knows exactly what it means to be an heir of God! And what does an heir receive? He receives all that the Father has. “And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.” Luke 15:31 An heir receives all that the father has and our Father has far more than we can think of! Our Father has omnipotence, righteousness, love, power, power unspeakable, glory, honor, knowledge, wisdom, faith, light, victory in every situation, ability, and so much more. This is what we are heirs of and these things are only a fraction of what we have as God’s heirs! How awesome is that? Every great and wonderful thing that we praise God for being is ours as well! We are no longer hired hands; we are now the son’s and daughters of God. We are now the heirs of God and to insure that we think this way, God has sent His very Spirit into our hearts to tell us continually who we are in Him. We are ever with God, and all that He has in ours! “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 3:20

We Have A New Righteous And Holy MInd

“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

We have been born again and by the power of Christ. And through the operation of God we have put on the new man that has been created just as the Alpha and Omega was created! The Beginning and the End, the Almighty, our Savior, Who is alive for evermore has perfected us by allowing us to become one with Him! Jesus lives within us and His voice thunders the Word of God through us and His brightness shines from within us! “Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.” Matthew 5:14 We say so casually that we are saved, but the Truth that sets us free is that this is Who we are now one with! We have been created with the same righteousness that created Jesus, and we are now new creatures in the same holiness that glorifies Jesus! The Light of Jesus has driven out the darkness of sin that was within us! The keys of death and Hell are in our Saviors hands, and He has used them to set us free from the torment that they deliver! Jesus has set us free from death and hell by raising us up together with Himself! “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:” Ephesians 2:6

Let’s talk about the word Christ, which means the Anointing of God, for a minute. We use the word Christ a lot as Christians; so let’s make sure that we know what it means. When we read Jesus Christ, it means Jesus the Anointed One. So with that in mind we can accurately say, we have been baptized into the exact same Anointing as Jesus, we have put on the exact same Anointing that God used for Himself, when He came to the earth as a man! Take hold of that Truth, we have been given the exact same strength that God gave to Himself when He was here as a man! We are continually one with the exact same anointing that God gave to Jesus, so that He could work through Jesus! God has freely given us His glory and the Holy Spirit has made us alive together with the Anointing of God! We can do nothing without the Anointing, yet with it, we have been strengthened, just as Jesus was strengthened, so that God can do everything through us. God actually desires for us to be used by Him to do marvelous and miraculous things! “Herein is My Father glorified that ye bear much fruit, so shall ye be My disciples.” John 15:8

Father I ask You in Jesus’ Name to allow the mind that was in Christ to be in all of us, so that we will know just as powerfully as Jesus knew Who we are in You and Who You are in us! "Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power to usward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power," Ephesians 1:16-19 In Jesus’ Name I ask You Father for the same things for us, that You enlighten us completely on being baptized into Christ so that we will know the greatness and power of Your Anointing within us this day! Father Your will be done!

Who We Are One With

“I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. Revelation 1:8

This is Who we are now one with! “I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive evermore, A-men; and have the keys of hell and death.” Revelation 1:18 This is Who we have put on and Who we have been baptized with! “And in the midst of the seven candlesticks One like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire; and His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and His voice as the sound of many waters. And He held in His right hand seven stars; and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and His countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. And He said unto me, Fear not; I am the First and the Last.” Revelation 1:13-17 This is Who is in us and Who we are in, and this is Who we are perfected with!

This is the new creature that we have become with; we are now members of this body, of this flesh, and of this bone. We live, and were dead, and behold we are alive evermore! We are now one with the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, which was, and is to come the Almighty! We fear not, we are one with the First One and the Last One! As He has no Spirit of fear, neither do we. As He was perfected by the glory of God, so have we been perfected by the glory of God. As He serves God, so do we serve God. We are one with Him. Everything that Jesus is, we have been empowered by His Blood to become one with! Everything that He has, He has given to us and we are now partakers of His Divine nature and His Divine possessions! Praise God as He is, so are we, even on this earth! We are one with Jesus today and He came so that we might be used by God abundantly!

We Are Sealed By God Himself

“And grieve not the Holy Spirit, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4:30

How long has God proclaimed that He has sealed us for? According to God, He has sealed us with His Spirit until the day of redemption! The Holy Ghost doesn’t seal us for just a moment, or just as long as we act right, no way! God seals us until the day of redemption, when Jesus returns to the earth! We are new creatures in Christ, who have been sealed with the very Spirit of God! We have been made one with the very Anointing of God, and we are now the Temples of God, how awesome are these Truths? These Truths set us free and faith comes by us hearing these Truths! These Truths will set us free from fear, from sickness, from doubt, and from sin! “Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:11 We are alive unto God, just as Jesus is alive unto God! We have been baptized with Christ and we have put on Christ! We are one with Him right now. We are not one with Who He was, we are one with Who He is! “And now O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine Own self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” John 17:5 Jesus has been raised from the dead, death has no more dominion over Him, and He now has the complete and full glory of God; this is Who we are now one with! So Just as Jesus is sealed from attack, so are we! Just as Jesus is sealed from sickness, so are we! Just as Jesus is sealed from all of the ills of the world, so are we! We have been sealed with the exact same Spirit of God that Jesus our Lord and Savior has been sealed with! “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 Through Christ our Father has given us all things that pertain unto life and unto godliness!

We Are Baptized And We Are Forever One With Christ

"For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus" Galatians 3:26-28

The Greek word that we translate baptized from is baptizo. And as we have discussed before the best way to explain what baptizo means is to use an example of a cucumber becoming a pickle. A cucumber is submerged into the pickling spice and is forever changed, while it is still looks like a cucumber, it has taken on the characteristics of the spices and even has the pickling spices through it. The cucumber can never go back to being a cucumber; it has been forever changed into a pickle. This is how we now are in Christ, our old man has passed away, and behold the new man, created in God’s image, a partaker of His Divine Nature, has been born. We may physically look like our old selves, but we now have Christ in us, on us, through us, and we are now one with Christ, we can never go back. “I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” John 17:23 We have been crucified with Christ, nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who lives, it is Christ in us Who lives. Praise God we need to say this Truth out loud daily! “We are new creatures in Christ, we have put on Christ, old things are passed away for us, and behold all things have become new for us.” Thank God we have been baptized into Christ and we have put on Christ, and A-men, we are now one with Christ, sealed by the Holy Spirit of God, and we cannot go back! “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise,” Ephesians 1:13

God Empowers Us To Serve Him

“Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?" Galatians 3:3

This is an awesome scripture of Truth; does our flesh, or the things of our flesh, the old things, now make us perfect to serve God? All things are now of God for us, they are not of our flesh. Old things are passed away from us, and behold all things are now new! God does not use the old things of our lives to witness of His new things. Look at Paul’s ministry, how often does he talk about His old life when witnessing the new Truths of God? Out of all of the books in the New Testament that God had Paul write, not often, not often at all. “For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.” 2 Corinthians 4:5 “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,” Philippians 3:15

God chose us, and our Father has renewed us in the very image of Jesus our Lord and Savior, by allowing us to become one with and partakers of His very Own Divine Nature. We are now members of our Lords body, of His flesh, and of His bones. We were birthed by the Spirit of God and we now are one with the Spirit of God and the Spirit of our Father now leads us and strengthens us to be as Jesus is, even while we are on this earth. Our flesh has been quickened together with Christ, our old things were crucified with Jesus on the Cross, and we now live in newness of life just as Jesus lives in newness of life, as we ever serve our Father the Living God!

The Holy Spirit has empowered us to allow God to be Who He is in within us this day. Jesus loves us and He has given us the power to love each other just as God loves us.

All Things Are Now Of God For Us

“And all things are of God, Who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given us the ministry of reconciliation.” 2 Corinthians 5:18

In 2 Corinthians 5:17 God boldly proclaims that all of our old things have passed away, and that all things are now new for us. And then God boldly proclaims in the very next verse that all things for us are now of Him. We have been completely and totally reconciled with God through the power of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Look at God, look at Who He is, and what He has, then you will see exactly what He has made us one with. “And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” Ephesians 3:19 God has given us all of Himself and He has made us one with all of Himself. Our Father has held nothing back from us, and the love of His Anointing that now abides within us allows us to be filled with and united with all of His fullness! “And of His fullness have we all received, and grace for grace.” John 1:16 “And hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the Head over all things to the church, Which is His body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all.” Ephesians 1:22-23 We have been chosen by God, so that we might be the vessels of His honor as we are filled with and one with all of His fullness! We are the new creatures of God’s Anointing and through Christ we are now filled with all of the fullness our Father!

Satan is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, he has crept into the church and has deceived so many into believing that sickness is acceptable, that a little fear is alright, that it is alright that we agree to disagree, that the old things are still present, and one day all things will be new, but that day isn’t until we are in Heaven. This is why divorce is running rampant in the church, this is why we have hundreds of denominations, and this is why the saints are just as sick as those who are in the world! Go and read the Book of Acts, the sick used to flock to the Church to be healed, not to hear a sermon about how God wanted them sick, so they could minister to the sick! God has hade me write this before, and I am going to write it again, that is just plain wrong, or as Paul wrote, dung! Think about it, let’s say I had cancer, yet it was curable, would I really be able to go and witness to a non-curable cancer victim? Do I have to be gay, to minister to a homosexual? Do I have to be divorced to minister to someone divorced? Do we see in the Bible where God sent only Gentiles to minister to Gentiles? Can men only minister to men, or women to women? God said that we were healed by Jesus’ stripes; He never said that we were made sick by Jesus stripes! Satan has crept into the Church and made these things sound religious, and now so many of the people are being destroyed by a lack of knowledge! In the power of Jesus’ Name and with His Truth this ends this day! God is able to use us to witness by the power of His Spirit that is within us, not by the evils of this world that we have experienced! “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, Whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26

What ABout Our Old Nature?

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new." 2 Corinthians 5:17

If all things are now new for us, do we still have a sinful nature? No, that was part of our old nature and it was crucified with Christ and it has passed away; we now have the mind of Christ! “Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” Romans 6:6 What about sickness? No, the Anointing of God came that we might have life and have it abundantly as we prosper and are in health! “Who His Own self bare our sins in His body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by Whose stripes ye were healed.” 1 Peter 2:24 Do we still have fear? No, “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 In Christ we now have no fear; fear was an old thing and it has passed away! What about hatred and unforgiveness? No, “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 Do we still have lack? Absolutely not, “And God is able to make all grace abound towards you; that ye, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound unto every good work.” 2 Corinthians 9:8 All of our old shortcomings, that were brought on by sin, are now gone, they have been destroyed as Romans 6 teaches, because God has given us His Anointing, which is Christ! We are now one with God and as He is, so are we, even while we are on this earth. We now are one with our Fathers love, His peace, His joy, His power, His abilities, and His grace. God’s very self is now united with us to insure that all things are new for us! If God said old things are passed away, old things are passed away! Today is the day of our salvation and faith comes from us hearing the Truth of God and God’s Truth sets us free! God is not a man that He should lie and God said that old things are passed away for us! Today is the day of our salvation, and now is the accepted time for all of these promises of our Father to be lived and enjoyed!

We Are Now In Gods Light

"This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all." 1 John 1:5

A-men, we are now one with Jesus, and He has always been and will forever be One with God, Who is the Light. We are no longer darkness, the Light of our Father has driven out the darkness that was within us and we have been glorified with Christ, old things are passed away for us and all things are now new. We have a new Spirit. "And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land I gave your fathers; and ye shall be My people, and I will be your God. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses:" Ezekiel 36:27 We now have a new heart. “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26 We now have a new mind. “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 We now have a new body. “For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.” Ephesians 5:30 We are completely new creatures in Christ, new in spirit, soul, and body!

Salvation is far more reaching than most give it credit for. But the Truth will set us free, and the Truth is that the Light of our Father has driven out the darkness that was in us.

We Are New Creatures Because We Are In Christ

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new." 2 Corinthians 5:17

When we were chosen by God and empowered by our Fathers Holy Spirit to make Jesus the Lord of our lives, the Anointing of God came upon us, and everything that was old about us was destroyed by that Anointing and passed away. The Anointing of our Father made us new in Christ, completely new creatures in Christ, our old self was crucified with its passions and lusts and we were united and made to be one with the Living God. Our Father perfected us with unity, so that the world would believe! "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life 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 God now lives as one with us, as He lives as One with Jesus, and we are now the Temple of the Holy Ghost. Greater is He that is in us, than he that is in the world. Jesus has given us His glory, and Jesus is now glorified in us and through us. Jesus has made us perfect, created in His image in righteousness and true holiness, and we are now filled with all of His fullness. "For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them also glorified. What shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:29-31 We are new creatures in Christ and all things, all things mind you, are new for us in Him!

We have been perfected by Christ to serve our Father as Jesus serves our Father. We have been perfected by Christ to love as Jesus loves, to witness as Jesus witnesses, to forgive as Jesus forgives, to be powerful as Jesus is powerful, and to have peace as our Lord has peace! What our Head is, so are we as His body. Just as my head is Brad, so are my arms, my legs, my eyes, and my hair. Everything that is part of me is Brad, and everyone that is part of Jesus, is Jesus. We are now strong in the power of His might to be used by God as Jesus was used by God; we are new creatures in Christ made to serve in the full and glorious power of our Fathers might!

We Lack Nothing In Christ

“That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” 2 Timothy 3:17

Look at all of the scriptures that we have studied together so far with this blog. They tell us that if we lack anything, we now have the Spirit within us that leads us to just ask our Father for what we need. Through Christ we have now been made perfect and through Christ all things are now thoroughly furnished unto us. We have all of this so that our Father can produce much fruit through us! God is the supplier of all of our needs and our needs are met according to His riches and glory.

“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19

There is no ten step program here; the answer for us is to simply ask, and the power and ability of our asking is that it is Jesus within us, leading and directing us to ask. Jesus knows where the answers come from and He is leading us in the paths of righteousness! We now have His Anointed mind and that mind knows fully that our Father is willing and able to do all that He has spoken, Romans 4:21! The mind that we have been given has been to the Cross and has been raised from the dead! The Anointed mind that we now have walked through the Red Sea with the children of Israel, it saw David triumph over Goliath, it saw Elijah call fire down from Heaven, it told storms to cease, it walked on the water, it was with God from the very beginning and it is seated with Him right now! Our mind knows the Truth and it knows that we now have the petitions that are required to receive fully from God!

“And if we know that He hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.” 1 John 5:15

Jesus, I pray in Your Name, the Name that has been placed above every other name, that all You have chosen and all who have been empowered to accept You as Lord, and all that we come into contact with will live and walk in the full and complete knowledge and faith of the Truth that You are now one with us. That You never leave us or forsake us. I pray that we truly accept and walk in the fact that Your love now abides within us, and that we love as You love, that we forgive as You forgive, and that we serve as You serve! I pray that it is Your glory that we walk in, and that we experience a glorious life of God producing much fruit through us. I pray that we are Your vessels of honor and virtue, and that Your virtue flows from us as rivers of living water! I thank You Lord that we are one, even as You and the Father are One! Thank You Jesus that we are healthy, that we are prosperous, that we are victorious, that we are honorable, that we see as You see, have faith as You have faith, hear as You hear, live as You live, and love as You love! I pray these things Father by Your power that is within me and I ask that they are truly lived in and walked in by us this day, thank You Father, and A-men! Your will be done!

What Do You Believe?

"That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me. And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are one. I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me." John 17:21-23

Ask yourself this question honestly; do you believe all of these verses that we have studied together over the last couple of days? If you don’t, here is what you do: First of all remember this Godly Truth, there is now no condemnation for us, none whatsoever! Say that out loud, there is now no condemnation for me in Christ! Faith comes for us from hearing the Truth of God! Jesus has set us free from condemnation by sending the Holy Spirit to dwell within us. “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Romans 8:1 God is not out to condemn us; He is ever living to save us to the uttermost! I thank You Lord for Your grace and the Truth is God does not want us condemning ourselves either, once again thank You Lord! But what God does want for us is to live in the fullness of His Truth and to be set free by it! God wants to live within us and one with us. God wants to cause us to walk in His Truth, and it’s not a burden, it’s pleasant, it’s life and peace that passes all understanding, and God’s Truth is easy to be borne and it will set us free!

If you are struggling with accepting who you are in Christ Jesus now, the Truth is your not alone, you have the Spirit of Truth dwelling within you, and He knows exactly and completely what you need. And that Spirit of Truth will cause you to call out for God for help. It’s really just that simple, all we have to do is ask! We don’t have to get all caught up in how we ask, God knows our hearts! “Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him.” Matthew 6:8 You may be empowered to start to believe immediately, it may take some time, but when we ask, we receive! “Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.” John 16:24 It is God’s will for us to live as He is in this world, and He empowers us to do so by Anointing us to be one with Him in this world? “In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17 Amplified Bible We are able to have confidence and boldness because of our union and communion that we now have with God! “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 We are now one with God and we now have union and communion with Him and God’s Light has driven out all of the darkness that was in us by crucifying us with His Anointing! We are blessed in the power of our Fathers might today and everyday, forevermore!

We Are Dead, Yet We Are So Alive

"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain" Galatians 2:20-21 (Notice all of the present tense words that God uses here!)

This is not just a godly saying; some nice little thing that we say to each other on Sundays, it’s the absolute Truth of our salvation! It is the Truth of God that has set us free, completely and totally free! When we were chosen by God and born again of His Incorruptible Seed, our old man was crucified with Christ and our body of sin was destroyed! “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” Romans 6:6 Our sinful nature, with all of its corruption, was crucified by the power of the Anointing of God and our bodies of sin were destroyed, and our relationship with sin and our old self was permanently destroyed. Christ came immediately to dwell within us and we were raised from the dead by the very power of God that raised Jesus from the dead, and we now live by the very power that Jesus lives by; God within us! And the life we now live in this world is lived by the exact same power that Jesus lives in Heaven with, the Anointing of God! Greater is He that is now within us, than he that is in the world! “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.” 1 John 4:4

"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

"That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me. And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one. I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me." John 17:21-23

"And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine; and I am glorified in them." John 17:10

"If ye abide in me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." John 15:7

Our Fellowship Is With God

“To reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood!” Galatians 1:16

Paul makes such a great statement of faith here. How many of us want to rush a new believer off to a class, or group, we don’t want them to loose the momentum! But the Truth is that all new believers have been chosen by God to be born again and they have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as Lord. God is big enough and powerful enough, and loving enough to insure that someone who has truly said yes to Him, will not loose momentum. God chooses us for a reason, and He doesn’t choose those who will fall away! God is an intimate Father and He has called us and He has chosen us. Salvation isn’t a one sided thing, we don’t have it solely because we chose it; we are saved because we have been chosen! “According as He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:” Ephesians 1:4

When a child is born, who does that child spend their time with? New born babies spend most of their time with their parents; brothers and sisters and friends come by, but new babies spend the majority of their time with their parents, and we are now born of God. We are not born of flesh and blood, we are born of the Spirit, and the Spirit is willing and able, and even demanding of our time. “But as many as received Him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12-13 Paul went right into an intimate relationship with God when he was born again, and look at the result of it, God used him to write ¾ of the New Testament and dozens of churches were started because of God using Paul throughout the entire Mediterranean Region. We are still learning from what God did through Paul thousands of years ago! “But the Anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same Anointing teacheth you of all things, and is Truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.” 1 John 2:27

Now I am not for one-second saying churches are bad. God had Paul setting them up all over the place! “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” Hebrews 10:25 But, far too often we try to make new believers and older believers find out about God through us. God is found and learned about through the precious and glorious relationship that we enjoy with Him, One on one. God is our Father, He chose to have us, and we are born of Him, born of His Incorruptible Seed. It was the will of the Almighty God to have us! We can tell our brothers and sisters about our Father, what He has taught us and what He has done for us, but there is no more powerful time, there is no more precious time, then when God is One on one with us, sharing His Truth and His will for our lives! Clearly you can see I believe in sharing the Word of God; He is having me write these studies! Yet, if you learn anything from these studies of God’s Word, learn that it is God in us that is the One thing that makes everything else come together. It is only because of God Anointing us with Himself that we can fellowship with each other! God is the One Who teaches us the Truth that sets us free! God is the One that heals our bodies, fills us with His joy and gives us His peace that passes all understanding! It is only because of God within us that we are able to forgive one another, walk in faith, and have hope. All of these things and everything else that pertains to life and to godliness come first from us having a life that first and foremost confers not with flesh and blood, but with our Father, Who is God! We are only able to proclaim God because He has revealed Himself to us and glorified us with Himself to do so! How can man apart from God speak of Godly things?

It's Our Destiny To Be Just Like Jesus

"For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified. What shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:29-31

It is the desire of our Father to reveal His Son and our Savior, Jesus Christ the Lord, within us. Our Father has predestined us to be conformed to the very image of Jesus. Our Father has not destined us to be conformed to some vague resemblance of Jesus; He has predestined us to be exactly and completely like Jesus. God has called us, He has justified us, and He has glorified us, so that we may be just like Jesus, a member of His body and flesh of His flesh. The blood of Jesus has now purged our consciences from all dead works. Because of this, Jesus is now able to glorify us with all of Himself, so that we are able to be used perfectly by God to preach the fullness of the salvation of Jesus Christ to the world!

“That they all may be one, as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us,: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me. And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are One.” John 17:21-22

Jesus prayed that He would be glorified by God so that He could glorify God, and then Jesus gave us the same glory, so that we too may be used by God to glorify God! We have been empowered with the exact same Godly force as Jesus to serve our Father. We are one with Jesus and His glory is revealed through us as He is glorified within us!

God chose you and I. He called you and I, He justified you and I, and He glorified you and I! Our Father is for us and there is nothing that can be against us as we preach the freedom of Jesus Christ with power and demonstration of the Spirit! Today is the Day of Victory in Jesus and our Father would that all men be victorious through Jesus!

We Should Desire For Jesus To Be Within Us

"To reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:" Galatians 1:16

When we read John 17:1, we see that Jesus prayed that our Father would glorify Him, so that He could in turn glorify God. “These Words spake Jesus and lifted up His eyes towards Heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify You.” Jesus wanted to be glorified by God, so that He could glorify God, and Paul wanted Jesus to be revealed within him, so that he might be able to preach the fullness of God. We cannot preach God without our Father enabling us to do so. We can’t serve Him, worship Him, we can’t do anything with Him, unless He first enables us with Himself to do so! This is the awesome Truth about our salvation; God has the desire and the ability to reveal Himself fully to us, so that we can be used fully by Him and the world will believe! “I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” John 17:23

Today is the Day of our Salvation, so today is the day that Jesus should be revealed within each of us, and through the power of Jesus within us the world will believe and be saved. Today Jesus is greater within us than anything that is within this world. Today we are new creatures in Christ and today we are more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us. Today there is no weapon that has been formed against us that can prosper and today we have been set free from all of the wages of sin that would hinder us from being fully used by our Father! Jesus is within us today. We are one with Him today, and since we are the full power and love of our Father can freely flow from us to a world that so desperately needs it!

God Will Work Through Us To Change The World

“And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all 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, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.” Ephesians 3:19-21

God can do all things through us and so much more, because greater is He that is in us, than he that is in the world! God can stop the lies of the Muslim Clerics who preach hatred and destruction, without a shot ever being fired, without a bomb ever being dropped. God can use us to stop the lies of abortion and the deceitfulness and destruction of a homosexual lifestyle. Through prayer, by looking to Jesus to Author and Finish our faith, and by allowing the power of the love of God to freely and completely flow through us, we can cause the governments of the world to be glorious and honorable, workers of righteousness. Through Christ we are a royal priesthood and a peculiar people, a united nation of believers, united in the Spirit, one with God through Christ, whose fruitfulness will overflow to every corner of the earth. We are the Temples of God, and His Spirit now dwells within us! Our consciousnesses of unforgiveness, of hatred, and revenge have been purged from us! We now pray for them that hate us, and we now bless them that curse us, freely we have received and freely we now give! "Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular." 1 Corinthians 12:27

Salvation Is The Only Thing That Will Change The World

"Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." 1 Timothy 2:4

How many of us where filled with hatred, anger, drugs, lust, whatever, and then Christ came to us, He called us, and then we where home, and He was at home within us. Our old self was destroyed and behold all things became new for us. The hatred and bitterness of the past was removed and replaced with the abounding hope that was shed abroad in our hearts by the power of the Holy Spirit! Most of us can credit a praying mother, grandmother, friend, child, or spouse for praying continually for us. There is the answer, the weapon of our warfare, the Spiritual force that will bring down the stronghold, love, and we are now the home of it. The Glory of God that stopped them dead in their tracks under the Old Covenant, now empowers those of us under the New Covenant of Jesus Christ. Through the power of Christ we need to pray that all men be saved, it is the will of our Father and it is the thought and desire of the Mind of Christ that has been given us. We need to pray for Muslims, Buddhists, Atheists, Jews, Christians, Young, and Old, Male and Female, Minority and Majority to be saved and come to the full knowledge of the Truth of God!

Jesus taught that the greatest man ever born of a woman was John the Baptist. Yet Jesus went on to say that the least in the Kingdom of God was greater than John, Mathew 11:11. The reason Jesus said this was because John was under the Old Covenant. The Power and Glory of God had not yet come to dwell within man, but it has now, and God is now able to work through the least of us far greater than He was ever able to work with John! The Kingdom of Heaven is now! Now is the Day of our Salvation, now we are the Temple’s of God, and now the Spirit of God dwells within us! So as Jesus proclaimed, “And as ye go, preach, saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.” Matthew 10:7-8 Through Christ God is able to work mightily through us, far greater than we can think of, dream of, or pray for, and He is able to do it by the power of His Spirit that is within us! And through the power of God that now dwells within us, the world can believe and be saved!