Free Will????????

"For now we live, if we stand fast in the Lord." 1 Thessalonians 3:8

There are so many who are wishy washy about their salvation. Too many of our brethren are self-condemning, fearful and in doubt of their eternal state because they are in doubt of who they are in Christ. And they are in doubt of Who Christ is within them. They question the extent that God is involved in our lives. They believe that God is limited according to our abilities to believe or serve Him. They may have gone to church for years, yet they never walk in any power or demonstration of His Spirit. The reason they are living this way is because they are trying to stand fast in the Lord on their own and they fail each and every time! Jesus told us that He never said anything that He had not heard first from our Father. And Jesus always said that it was God in Him Who was doing all of the works. Until we are truly crucified with Christ and until we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to give it all up, including our free will, we will never be able to stand fast in the Lord. I hear about free will and I just marvel. The Word teaches us that if we put anything before Jesus, than we are not worthy of Him, Matthew 10:37. The first thing that God gave me the desire to do was to allow Him to get rid of my free will. Not my will Lord, but yours! And praise God we all have Jesus Who has circumcised our sinful natures away, so that God’s will is now done through us! All who have truly been chosen have the full strength of God’s might within them. The Light and power of God’s will has pruned out the weakness and darkness of all of our carnal will and now through the full power of Christ all things work together for our good!

People, who say they maintain their free will to walk away from God, have never been chosen and truly empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. They may have a form of godliness, but they have denied the power of godliness because their free will has not been circumcised away by the operation of Jesus Christ! Jesus causes all who are truly saved to possess God’s will by circumcising away the burden of our free carnal will. “No man can serve two masters; for they will either love the one and hate the other; or else they will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Matthew 6:24 People who think they still have a free will are trying to serve two masters, Jesus and themselves and they will fail every time, they are a divided house, and they will never stand fast in Jesus, they cannot!

We Now Stand Fast In All Of Jesus

"For now we live, if we stand fast in the Lord." 1 Thessalonians 3:8

On our own and with our own human strength, we could never stand fast in the Lord. Our Father knows this Truth better than we do! This is why God saved us and made us one with Him through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, so that we may live permanently united and stand fast in the full power of His might.

“Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;” Colossians 1:11

We are now strong in all of the power of God’s might, because we now have the Holy Ghost, as Jesus has the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost teaches us and strengthens us in all things! God said that we are strengthened with all might, not just some might, but all might! We now have all might according to our Fathers power and our Father is God and God is limitless! We are now one with the whole armor of our Father, as Jesus is one with the whole armor of God, so that we are able to stand with all of God’s might against all of the attacks of the world and evil! We are dead, and still we live; yet it is not us who is alive, but it is all of Christ within us Who is alive. We stand fast because we are now one with all of the Lord and all of Jesus stands fast within us! Greater is He that is now within us than he that is in the world! We have put on all of Christ and we have been renewed in the very image of God, recreated in righteousness and true holiness. Christ is now in all who are saved and Christ is now all for us who are saved!

All that Jesus is, all that He has, all of His glory and power, we are now united and one with, and we stand fast as the One who we are one with stands fast! As Jesus stands fast in faith, so do we! As Jesus stands fast in love, so do we! As Jesus stands fast in the glory of God, so do we! As Jesus stands fast in knowledge, so do we! There is nothing that Jesus is, or nothing that He knows and believes, that we do not stand fast in. Faith comes for us by hearing and hearing by the Word of Truth.

The Saved Are All Christ

"And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created Him: Where there is neither Jew nor Greek, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all." Colossians 3:10-11

Christ is all; that is an interesting statement of Truth and such a powerful one. When God chose us and empowered us to accept Jesus as Lord we put on the new man and now Christ is all and Christ is in us all. We are now members of Christ’s body, members of His flesh, and members of His bones. We now have His Spirit and we now have the His mind, we now have the actual Mind of Christ. Jesus’ joy is now fulfilled within us, we have been given His glory, we have His peace, we have His salvation, plain and simple Christ is now all for the truly saved! A-men, this is such a powerful Truth. Through the power of Christ we are now renewed in the very image of God, just as Jesus is in the very image of God. Jesus said that if we have seen Him, then we have seen the Father, well we too are renewed in that image by the Anointed One, Jesus Christ! And praise God, it is available to all who want it: to Jew or Gentile, to Young and to old, to male or female, to rich or poor, to every race, and our past has nothing to do with it, it does not matter, all who are empowered with the Holy Spirit to choose life will have it! Now here is something that needs to be realized today, in Christ there is neither Baptist or Church of God, there is neither Church of Christ or Nazarene, there is neither Methodist or any denomination, for we are all Christ, He is in all and He is all! We have been renewed and we have put on the new man of Christ, and we now have all of Christ, not just some of Him. All that Jesus is, all that He possesses, all of His faith, all of His glory, all of His joy, all of His love, all of His hope, and all of His wisdom and knowledge, we are now one with and He now has all of us! And the world will believe and be saved by the power of Him working through us!

We Are Dead, And Yet We Are So Alive

"For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." Colossians 3:3

The Truth of who we are in our Father and Who our Father is within us is so simple, and through the complete and eternal power of Christ we are so blessed! God does not say that we are dying. God says that we are dead and our lives are hid, right now, and at this very moment we are alive in Christ. At this very moment all who have been chosen and saved have had their sinful flesh circumcised away. Christians can mature and we will grow, but we are all new creatures in Christ right now, our sinful flesh was circumcised when we were born again, and we are one with Christ right now, we are not becoming one with Christ. We are complete in Christ right now. Through Jesus our bodies of sin have been destroyed, so just like Jesus we may ever live to serve the Living God! Everywhere we read, God talks about it being done, it’s finished, we are complete now, so we can serve Him now, so we can be used by our Father to witness now, so God can do His works through us now, so the world may believe right now!

My two daughters Kennedy and Lauren have a lot of growing to do, but from the time of their conception, they were Beth and mines kids, they are never becoming our kids; they never had to earn it, or even prove themselves to be, because they just were made that way. Beth and I were used by God to freely give them life; from the very second that their lives began, they were our kids! God is not making us His kids. The Prodigal Son was always the son. He may have left, he may have not appeared to be an heir, but he was always that dad’s son! No matter what Kennedy and Lauren may do, they will always and forever be my children, they can never change that fact, no action, no statement, nothing will ever change the fact that they are my kids and that they are one with me. Without my seed, they would not be, it is impossible for them to stop being my kids. No action on my part or theirs can ever change the fact that they are directly from my seed. That is the union we have with God, because we have been born again from His Incorruptible Seed! Our Father chose to have us and so we live eternally through the power of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Jesus Has Circumscised Our Sinful Flesh

“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:” Colossians 2:11

Jesus has circumcised our sinful flesh, now to circumcise means to cut off. It doesn’t mean to cover up, to just not consider, with circumcision there is a cut and then wham it’s instantly gone, and you know what I mean! A circumcision is quick and it is performed on new born babies! And because Jesus has circumcised our sinful flesh, we are now risen with Him and our bodies have been quickened, or made alive together, with His. This is what Jesus has done for us, He has performed an operation that allows us to stand as one with Him, eternally with our Father, God, and according to God because Jesus has done this we are able to stand with Him boldly. Jesus has made us one with Himself, so that we are now members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bone. The body of Christ is just like He is and we who have been quickened, now make up His body! We are now part of the One Whom God has made perfect in ever way and in every aspect. Jesus shed His blood, so that through one sacrifice, we all may stand righteous and complete forever more in Him! God has forgiven us all of our sins, and all of those ordinances, the do’s and the don’ts, Jesus took away and nailed them to the Cross. Jesus spoiled evil for us and He triumphed openly over the powers of the devil! This is for now, we are not just going to be complete in Jesus, praise God, we are complete in Jesus! Because we are one with Jesus!

It’s not hard either to be complete, because as we have learned, Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith, Hebrews 12:2, and Jesus' yoke is easy, Matthew 11:30. Jesus made it easy and He has given us the needed faith to accept Him and thus be perfect, glorified, holy, without blame, and filled with all of His fullness, and He has given us the ability to be as He is on this earth, because we are now actually one with Him! Through Christ we are ashamed of nothing, and through Christ we have complete and unbroken fellowship with our Father, Who now does His works through us. We have all of this on the earth, so that the world may believe and be saved. And it is all a free gift of God, and in no way could it ever be earned, we just use the faith that Jesus gave us and walk in the victory of His power.

We Are Now Complete In Jesus

"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 forgiven 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

We are now complete in Jesus; hallelujah we have been made complete in Christ and we have been raised together with Him from the dead by the operation of God! It’s kind of hard to still say that we are just sinful humans after reading this verse isn’t it? I mean complete does mean complete and the most powerful Being in the universe, our Father, the Alpha and Omega, has made us complete! Now remember in our previous studies that God said that we would not be ashamed in anything, and that He has equipped us just as He equipped Jesus, and that He loves us just as He loves Jesus. Our Father made Jesus complete and now through Jesus, He has made us complete!

Here is another great Truth of what God has done for us. Our Father has purged our consciences so that we can think of ourselves as now being complete in Jesus.

“How much more shall the Blood of Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God?” Hebrews 9:14

Through Christ we have been made complete and through Christ we can think of ourselves that way! Praise God that is good teaching of the Truth that will set us free!

We Have God's Level Of Magnificence Within Us

"According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death." Philippians 1:20

Do you want Jesus to be magnified in your body? Because what we been studying over the last couple of days is the level of magnification God has in mind! And praise God we now have the mind of Christ to accept and believe that God is willing and able to cause it to come to pass in our lives. We have the Spirit within us to teach us. We have a new heart directly from God and our bodies have been quickened, or made alive, with Jesus Himself. So we are spiritually, soulfully, and physically capable of being used by God to magnify Jesus completely and perfectly here on this earth, we don’t have to wait for Heaven. God has provided the way for Jesus to be magnified completely and totally through us today!

Now a lot of people believe the lie that says that we cannot have all of this unity and power until we are in Heaven. But here is my question to those who believe this way, what scriptures teach us that? Paul wrote that he had not yet attained, but God never had Paul write that we cannot attain!

"Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved." Philippians 4:1 We stand in Jesus now and He is Who He is within us now, and we are strong because He is strong! And we are as strong as Jesus is strong because we are now one with Him!

"To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" Colossians 1:27 Jesus has given us the glory that He has, John 17:22, so that God may be glorified through us! Today is the day of our salvation and now is our appointed time! Jesus is coming back for a glorious church and Christ will be magnified completely and fully through that church!

"As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him: rooted and built up in Him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving." Colossians 2:6-7 True thanksgiving comes from joy and we now have Jesus’ joy 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 Everything required for us to live abundantly is being performed through us by the power of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! And through Christ we now possess God’s level of magnificence, just Jesus our Head, Whose body we are, possesses it!

God Asked Some Questions Today

God showed me this today and He started by asking me, “was Jesus fully equipped to perform the tasks that I asked Him to?” I said sure He was. Then God asked me, “Do I love you exactly as I love Jesus?” I said sure, Jesus said You do in John 17:23. God went on to ask me, “Am I a respecter of persons?” I said no, Acts 10:34 teaches us that. God said, “now wasn’t Jesus a person?” I said yes. Then God said, “don’t I love you, just as I love Him? I said yes and He went on and asked, “if Jesus was fully equipped, who equipped Him?” I said you did God. God then said, “so don’t you think I have equipped you to fully and completely achieve all that I have set for you to do, exactly like I did for Jesus?” God just didn’t equip Jesus so that Jesus would be magnified, He fully equipped Him so that we could have life and have it abundantly as He is magnified through us! Jesus was fully equipped as God before He ever was in Mary’s womb. He was able to do everything because God had fully and completely enabled Him, with the fullness of Himself, so that Jesus could, and God has done exactly the same for us. This in no way demeans Jesus as Lord! God is only able to do these things for us because of Jesus. Jesus is our Head, our Shepherd, and our Lord. He is the firstborn among many brethren. We are nothing without Jesus, but with Him we are glorified to be called the sons of God!

Now with that in mind let’s look at the following verses. “Then answered Jesus and said unto them; Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.” John 5:19 Now Who are we one with? We are now one with the One Who said this, so shouldn’t we say the same thing? We can do nothing on our own, yet we are able to do all things through Christ Who strengthens us!

Jesus saw all things from God, now how can we live the same way? “All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.” John 16:15 Everything God has, He has shown to Jesus, and Jesus said, that He could do nothing that He had not first seen from the Father. We have seen that God loves us just as He loves Jesus, and that we are now one with Jesus, and here we see that Jesus shows us all things, and He does it through the Holy Ghost. “Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all Truth; for He shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak, and He will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me, for He shall receive of Mine, and shall shew it unto you.” John 16:13-14

Now here is a really cool part, as if this all isn’t cool? Turn to John 15:15, “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.” Jesus makes all things known to us. He doesn’t limit us with just some things, we are now His friends and He now tells us all things. Jesus gave us the Holy Ghost Who will guide us in all Truth and He will show us the things to come. Jesus gave us the Holy Spirit, so that we see and know what is to come, just as He knows and sees what is to come! The Holy Spirit will show us all of the things of Jesus.

In the Name of Jesus we will walk in the fullness of His Truth. God’s standard is His Own perfection, and He equipped Jesus fully to serve us, by making Jesus One with Him. Then Jesus came and made us one with Him as well, and He gave us the very Spirit of God, to insure we also know all things. There is only one thing the Bible teaches us that we will not know, and even Jesus does not know, the exact day of His return. Jesus doesn’t know it, because He is not a liar and Jesus said that He would show us all of things that He knows, this one thing is known by God alone. “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” Matthew 24:36

Jesus Is Magnified To The World Through Us

“Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?” John 14 8:9

Jesus answered Phillip’s question by saying that if you have seen Him, then you have seen the Father. Now how awesome would it be to have someone ask us to show them Jesus, and our answer be, if you have seen us, then you have seen Jesus. To think this way is not wrong, and according to the Truth it should be our earnest desire. If we are crucified with Christ, if we are new creatures in Christ, if we are members of His body, and if we are now one with Him, all of which are Truths that we have studied in the Word, then when people see us, they see the One Who we are one with. If God inspired all of these scriptures, and He is not a man that He should lie, then why can’t we say the exact same thing that Jesus said, because according to the Word of God it is actually the case? Think about it, being ashamed in nothing, having no fault, perfectly and completely united with Jesus. That should be our hope and our desire. There are no scriptures that tell us that it cannot be. The power of the Holy Spirit within us strengthens us to abound in the hope of who we are in Christ, so that Christ may be magnified through us! Think about a magnifying glass, people don’t look at the instrument; they look at what the instrument is enlarging! This is the same Truth for us, people see Jesus magnified through us. They no longer just read about Him, they can see Him! And when people see the Truth they are set free. The dead are raised, the lame walk, the blind see, the unsaved are born again, there is forgiveness, and faith, hope, and love abound! Through Christ and our oneness with Him, we are now as Jesus is, even while we are this earth!

"According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death." Philippians 1:20

It should be our earnest expectation and hope that we will never be ashamed in anything! The great Truth is that it is God’s hope for us as well, and to insure that God gets what He hopes for, He did something about it! “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 15:3 God has given us His very Own Spirit and through our Fathers Spirit we are filled with all joy in the peace of knowing His Truth, and through the Holy Spirit we abound in hope! Through the Spirit of God we are able to have boldness that Christ is going to be magnified through our lives! Through the power of Christ we are able to have the boldness that God has, and we are able to know beyond any shadow of a doubt that Jesus is going to be glorified through us. God knows the beginning and the end, He knows what is going to be and we have His peace and joy regarding it! God knows that He is never going to be ashamed and He knows that He is in us, that we are His Temple, His body, and if God is never going to be ashamed, then we will never be ashamed! The great thing here is that we just don’t talk about Jesus, but that the Spirit of God magnifies Jesus through us! God has given us the peace and joy of His faith that knows beyond any shadow of a doubt that He is going to use us to magnify His chosen Savior and our Lord Jesus Christ! “And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.” John 17:10

God Has Given Us His Best

"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

The Anointing of our Father, which is Christ, has established us. Our Father's anointing has sealed us and because it has, we are able to be taught all things and be used by God to do all things! We can now be used to do all things by our Father through Christ Who strengthens us! We are now strong in the Lord and the power of His might! The earnest of God and all of His fulness now abides within us! We have the best of God, we have His all, and we are sealed with it until the Day that Jesus returns!

“And grieve not the Holy Spirit, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4:30 The Holy Spirit has sealed us until Jesus returns! Our Father has strengthened us with His earnest until Jesus returns! We now have the mind of Christ and we are now confident through it. We are confident in Jesus’ abilities and we don’t grieve the Holy Spirit by denying God the ability to use us to do all of His good works through! We can’t deny our Father, because we are now crucified with Christ, and nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who is living, it is Christ within us Who is living! Jesus has never denied God and He never will, and we are now His body and we have been given His mind. And with His mind comes His thoughts, through Christ we now think like Jesus thinks!

“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 Our Father began this within us and He will continue to produce abundant amounts of fruit through us! Our Father is a God of action. When He called the heavens and stars into existence He never said stop and to this day the Universe is still growing! Our Father's first miraculous work through Jesus was to turn hundreds of gallons of water into wine! Jesus called upon God and fed thousands of hungry people with only table scraps and when they were full there were basketfuls of leftovers! Our Father worked through the Apostles to heal the sick and whole cities turned to Jesus! God has always worked abundantly through those who He empowers to believe and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, so He always will!

I think you probably get the picture, it is our Father in all His forms, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Who keeps us and Who now works through us! I thank God that He reveals this to me every day. We live in a world that looks to itself for advancement. So many preach that we are limited by ourselves and by our own abilities and actions. But the Word of God teaches us that our Father is able to do exceedingly abundantly all that we can ask or think! The Truth that allows us to be set free is that our Father is the One Who places the burden of our salvation on Himself. God is the One performing His good works through us, and we just don’t live in a world where that is believed.

I have heard, as I am sure you have, God helps those who help themselves. This is absolutely a false teaching and because it is so widely accepted, we need to daily encourage each other with the Truth. The Anointing of God that abides within us, and which is no lie, will show us that our Father is the One within us allowing us to walk righteously. The Truth is that we are now one with Him, and because we are He can now do everything through us. Through the power of Christ the two of us have become one flesh. Born again, born from God's righteous seed, born of love, this is who we are now in our Father. We are all of this and more through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! God began His good work within us and He will continue His good works through us for eternity!

We Are Anointed To Know Who Christ Is Within Us

“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

Jesus was absolutely confident in Who He was 2000 years ago when He walked the earth as a man. He knew that He was the Christ. He was absolutely confident that He was sent to be sacrificed and that it was the will of God. He was absolutely confident that when He told Lazarus to rise from the dead that he would. He was confident that the water would become wine, that the demons would flee, that the sick would be healed, and that a couple of fish and some bread would feed thousands of hungry people. Jesus was absolutely confident because He was one with God. Jesus was confident because the Anointing of God was upon Him, and He was confident because He was permanently abiding and One with God’s Anointing! And A-men, we now have the exact same Anointing upon us, and we now abide in the exact same anointing that Jesus abides in, and we now are one with the exact same Anointing that Jesus is one with! We now have the mind of Christ. God is now strong in us through Christ Who strengthens us. We are now more than conquerors through the Anointing that Jesus gave to us. Go and read how Paul spoke, how Peter spoke, how John spoke, and really read how Jesus spoke, and then you will see how we too should speak! We have the same power within us that all of these men had and Jesus is every bit as alive within us as He was in Himself! Now stop and really take hold of that Truth: Jesus is as alive in us, just as He was back some 2000 years ago. He is the same, He never changes! The way Jesus acted back then, is the way He is acting today, in complete confidence and boldness of Who God is and Who we are in Him! There is no lie in our Anointing from God, our Anointing from God never leaves us or forsakes us, and our Anointing from God teaches us all things! As Jesus is, so are we in this world! And we can God and His Anointing just as our Lord and Savior knows God and His Anointing!

God Causes Us To Perform His Good Works

"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

When we were chosen by our Father and empowered with His Holy Spirit to make Jesus the Lord of our lives, God took over our life's completely! At the moment of our re-birth our Father placed His Spirit within us. From the very moment that we said yes to Jesus, He was directing our paths in the ways of righteousness! From the very moment that we were chosen and born again we were eternally made one with God through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! At that very moment God saved us from all of our uncleannesses and He Anointed us with all of His glory! We became His Temple and we became the instruments of His righteousness. God now uses our hands to be laid on the sick, so that they may recover. He uses our lips to proclaim His Truths, so that the captives will be set free! He uses our bodies to go into all of the world to preach His Gospel and all of the time He is working within us! “


Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works.” John 14:10

Jesus teaches us in John 15:5 that He is the Vine and that we are the branches. When we were born again we became part of and one with the greatest thing there is, God! Just as a branch is part of a Vine, so are we part of Christ. And through that unity our Father now uses us to perform His good works!

God Works Within Us On This Earth

"Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." Philippians 1:6

Who will perform the good works through us? Do we perform the good works? Absolutely not, God is the One Who performs His good works through us and He will do it until the day that Jesus returns! We are confident and we are strong in this Truth, that as long as we are on this earth, God will perform His good works through us! As long as evil is allowed to be here on the earth, our Father will be within us performing His good works, His works of love, faith, hope, healing, prophecies, and miracles! God never leaves us or forsakes us and He never stops performing His good works through us! God is able and willing to perform all of the miraculous things that we have studied and we have Jesus Authoring and Finishing our faith to believe this Truth that sets us free! God wants us filled with all of His fullness as He works through us; He wants us to be part of them, actively involved in them, and one with them as He does them. God wants us strong in His might and He has Anointed us with the same Anointing that He gave Jesus, so that we can be! God has sanctified us, glorified us, perfected us, and called us; God is for us, who can be against us! God now lives vitally united and permanently united with us! We are now His flesh, His bones, and His body. No weapon formed against us will prosper and we are now more than conquerors through the power of Christ Who loves us. Our darkness is as the noonday, we are blessed beyond expression, and in Him we are above only and we are not beneath. Today is the day of our salvation and God strengthens us and allows us to rejoice and be glad in it!

Jesus Is Above Everything

“Which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church, Ephesians 1:20-22

All things, each and last every thing, has been placed under Jesus’ feet! He has been raised up and is seated with God in power! Jesus is the Beginning and the Ending! And we are now in Christ, He is our Head, so as He is, so are we, because we are His body! This is what we should be and this is how we can be. Through the power of Jesus we can be used by God to do all things, because Christ has strengthened us so that we can! We are now more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us, because Jesus has conquered everything that was against us! Greater is Jesus Who is in us, than He that is in the world. God is for us, who can be against us? No weapon that is formed against us can prosper, because no weapon can prosper against God! We are new creatures in Christ, old things are passed away, and all things have become new! We are now strong in the power of His might, our strength is now measured by Jesus’ strength, and His strength is limitless!

Father we come to you in the Name of Jesus our Lord and Savior and ask that we become mature in the power of Your Truth! Father I thank You that Jesus Authors and Finishes our faith to believe and trust in the power that You possess! I ask You Father that you mature us so that we know beyond any shadow of a doubt that Your strength is always working for us and through us. Father I thank You that we have Jesus’ peace, that passes all understanding, that You have favored us with the power of Your strength, and that we love You enough and those in the world enough to allow You to fully use it through us, in love and compassion, and in power and demonstration, as You serve the needs of the world through us! Thank You Father and may You always be glorified within us!

Nothing Can Stand Against Us

“And He arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.” Mark 4:39

The world claims to have powers and forces that no man can withstand: a tornado, a hurricane, a tsunami, an earthquake, who can stand against such things? Jesus can and He did! Our Lord’s might is able to tell the natural forces of this world to cease and they obey Him, and we are now strong in the power of His might. People say there are only two certain things in this world, death and taxes! Jesus overcame death and He paid His taxes miraculously! “Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for Me and thee.” Matthew 17:27 The glorious Truth for us is that we are now strong in the power of Jesus’ Godly might that did all of these things! How great is that? Jesus was strong on the earth 2000 years ago and He is strong through us in the world today!

What about a fire, can Jesus walk through fire and not be harmed, of course He can and we can be strong in the power of His might. “And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counselors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire. And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.” Daniel 3:23-27

What about a parent who has harmed us, can the power of Jesus’ might allow us to forgive them for that wrong? Absolutely, we are strong in the power of Jesus’ forgiving might. Recessions, terrorism, hatred, sickness, fear, all of these are powers that hold absolutely no ability against Jesus, and we are now one with Him! We have the very presence and power of the Living God dwelling within us and we too are strong in the power of His might. The result of our oneness with Jesus is that earthly things have no abilities to harm us. “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17 There is no weapon: spirit, soul, or body, that can harm us. And this is our peace that passes all understanding, all things now work together for our good through the power of Jesus Christ! “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

We Are Strong In Jesus

"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might." Ephesians 6:10

Think about Jesus’ might and power for a minute, and as you consider His immense abilities, think about the Truth that we are now strong in it. Also remember that we are now one with all of Jesus' power and abilities! We are strong in the power of Jesus’ might each and every day, it never leaves us or forsakes us!

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13

Jesus told the weather to be what He desired and it happened. Our Lord, Who we are now one with, told water to be wine and it obeyed Him! Our Savior, Whose body we now are, told the dead to live and they did! Jesus was hated and yet He loved, and He now Authors and Finishes our faith! He spoke with God and heard from God and never doubted what He heard, and He is now our Head! Jesus endured the brutal death of the Cross for the joy of being able to serve us, and we are now members of His body and flesh of His flesh! He raised Himself up from the dead! He ever lives to intercede for us. He is the Alpha and the Omega, He is the First and the Last, He is the Great I Am, and we are now strong in the power of His might! We have been Anointed with the power of the Creator of it all and we are now strong in the power of His might!

“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.” Romans 8:37

We are now strong in Jesus, because Jesus is now strong in us! We are one with Him and He is One with God. Jesus is in us, through us, above us, and behind us. We are strong because through Christ we have been made perfect in Him. We are strong because we have God's very Spirit dwelling within us. We are strong because God is for us, and nothing can ever be against us.

“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: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:29-31

We are strong in Jesus because our Father, Who is God, loves us!

Now in the knowledge of this Truth we are able to be used by our Father to serve a world that so desperately needs to see the glory and power of the Living God! Our Father can now use us to do the works that He did through Jesus and He can use us to do even greater works because Jesus went to the Cross and empowered Him to. We will be used to cause the blind to speak, the lame to walk, the deaf to hear, the dead to live, the lost to be found, and we will be used to speak specific prophesies that will strengthen the body and glorify the Kingdom! Today is the Day of our Salvation and now is our appointed time!

How The Mind Of Christ Handles Doubt

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that beliveth 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 Whose body are we now?

“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 any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Mark 16:17-18 Whose body are we now?

We are now and forevermore members of Jesus’ body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bones. Ask yourself this, do you consider yourself to be? If you don’t you can, and if you do praise God that is what His desire and will is for us. Here is a Biblical Truth that shows us how we ought to think if we are not quit as far along as these verses say we should be. “Brethren, I count not myself as to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things that are behind, and reaching for those things which are before, I press towards the mark for the prize of the High calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded; and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.” Philippians 3:12-15

Have I attained all of these verses on this earth? No, will I, my hope is that through the power of Christ I will. But you see that really doesn’t matter, because God is the One leading us. I know that Jesus is coming back for a glorious church with spot, wrinkle, or blemish. If we are here, than we will be without spot, wrinkle, or blemish, if not, than we will be without spot, wrinkle, or blemish with Him in eternity! The Truth is there are no scriptures that say we cannot be as He is in this earth. So forget what has happened in the past, press towards what we are studying. Press towards them through the power of Christ which is allowing God to lead you and guide you. Jesus will Author and Finish our faith to be who He has made us to be. And through the Holy Ghost we are able to trust in God to do far above, exceedingly and abundantly above, what we can ask or think for. And remember, there is now therefore no condemnation for us who are in Christ Jesus!

I pray that all of us will realize who we are in Christ and what it means to be His body, the peace, the joy, the love, the power, and the love to serve that it brings. I pray that each and every one of us will forget those things that are behind, and that we will press towards those things above. Father you forget our sins, Your Word says as far as the east is from the west is how far You remove our sins into the sea of forgetfulness. I pray the same for us, that we too, will forget those things that are in the past, just as You forget them. I thank You Father that we just don’t talk about these verses; we all live them, that we all experience them to their fullest extent. I thank You Father for this, glory and honor and praise be to You, the only True God, the only Living God, our Father!

What Being The Body Of Christ Means For Others

“For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.” Ephesians 5:30

Let’s go beyond our own personal benefits of being the body of Christ and now lets look at the benefit for those around us. How does Jesus live? “Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.” Hebrews 7:25 Jesus ever lives to intercede for us; whose body are we? When Jesus was here 2000 years ago, how did He live? He was used by God to cure the sick, raise the dead, feed the masses, turn water to wine, and teach the Truth that sets us free! Jesus showed the people the Father, He gave, and He served. Whose body are we now? “He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself to walk even as He walked.” 1 John 2:6 We should walk like Jesus because we are now alive with Him. How can we walk any other way? “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 have to walk like Jesus because we have been crucified with Him, and nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who is living, it is Christ within us! Through Christ we are now able to be used by our Father to serve others as Jesus is used to serve others! Jesus is our Head, He is our Lord and Savior, and through the power of the Holy Spirit as our Lord is, so are we in this world!

What Being The Body Of Christ Means For Us

“For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.” Ephesians 5:30

God has proclaimed that through Christ we are now cleansed from all sin, the Blood of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior cleanses us from all sin. “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 All is all! Through Christ we are clean and all darkness has been removed from us! Now take a minute and actually think of us as being the body of Christ. First let’s consider sickness. Can Jesus be sick? No! Whose body are we? Can Jesus fear? No! Whose body are we? Can Jesus fail? No! Whose body are we, whose mind have we been given, whose heart has been placed within us, whose love do we now walk in? Does Jesus ever question what God wants Him to do? No! Whose mind do we now have? We are no longer on our own, we have been grafted into the Vine of Jesus Christ and He will never leave us or forsake us! Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free from fear and the torment of it! The Truth gives us peace that passes all understanding and joy that remains stable and fixed regardless of what is going on around us! The Truth allows us to walk by faith Authored and Finished by Jesus and not by sight! Greater is He that is within us than anything and anybody that is in the world! Whatever Jesus is, we have become one with, we are now members of His body! How Jesus is, so are we even while on this earth, 1 John 4:17. There is absolutely no weapon that has been formed that can prosper against Jesus, and we are now one with the Invincible One! Today is the Day of our great salvation in Christ and we cannot help but to be blessed and prosper in it!

We Are Jesus' Body

"For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church." Ephesians 5:30-32

Let’s start this study off with a couple of quick questions: what fellowship does light have with darkness and what communion is there between good and evil? “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 And can sweet and bitter water come from the same fountain? “Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?” James 3:11 And can divided house stand? The answers are: there is no fellowship between light and darkness, for as soon as the light appears, the darkness flees. A house divided will fall every time. There is no communion between good and evil, the two have nothing in common; and finally a fountain either produces sweet water or it produces bitter water. These are plain and simple Truths, there is no gray area; they are absolute Truths of God! If there is any leaven at all in a lump of dough, the whole lump of dough is leavened!

So let me ask you this, if we are now Jesus’ body, His flesh, and His bones, how can we be darkness as well? If Jesus is Light and we are darkness, then the Temple of God would be a divided house, a house that Jesus says would not stand. So for what Jesus said to be true, the Truth has to be that through the power of Christ we are no longer evil! “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 We are no longer darkness because the Light now lives within us and through Christ we are one with it! “At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you.” John 14:20 The power of Jesus’ sacrifice is absolute!

Praise God, We Now Have His Faith Working For Us

“When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, He saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.” John 5:6-7

Look at the man at the Pool of Bethesda mentioned in John 5, this poor guy had no faith whatsoever. Jesus asked Him if he wanted to be healed and the guy only talked about his problems. He never acknowledged Jesus as Lord and showed no faith, none whatsoever. Yet Jesus moved by compassion healed him. We saw yesterday in Ephesians 3 that God had Paul write that He could do exceedingly abundantly above what we could ask or think of. God used these verses to first show me that faith is not our human ability to believe for His Truths, faith is His ability Authored through us to accept and believe His Truths. We could never author or finish anything close to believing what God has for us. But Jesus sure can believe what God can do, and praise God, our Savior and High Priest is willing and He is able to do it.

The glory that God gave to Jesus as His Son, Jesus gave to us, so that we can be one with God, just as Jesus is One with God, and why, so that the world may believe and have the exact same thing! This unity is not just waiting for us in Heaven; it is for us right now! Carnal minds are unable to grasp this Truth, but we now have the mind of Christ that Authored it! We have the glory of Christ and we are now one with Christ, so even if we don’t understand it fully yet, who cares? Our Lord understands fully and Jesus is able to allow us to believe and accept it, far above what the carnal mind can believe or ask for! The Anointed mind that God has allowed us to become one with knows that we are filled with the fullness of God! It knows that the full breadth, length, height, and depth of God’s love now abides within us! We have Jesus living within us and He knows exactly how to use the love of God that passes all understanding. We are never alone, we have the fullness of God within us at all times and we have Jesus Who has always lived in the fullness of God within us! Together and in the power of Their might we are more than conquerors!

"One God and Father of all, Who is above all, and through all, and in you all." Ephesians 4:6

God's Salvation Is Exceeding Abundant

“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

Do you see it, do you see what all of the scriptures that we have studied so far are saying? In Jesus' name the Holy Ghost is revealing to us who we are in Christ Jesus this day! In Jesus' name the Spirit is revealing to us the complete power of the sacrifice of the Cross for us. We have the strength of God Himself within us insuring that we can know completely the full love of God! We have the full strength of God Himself within us allowing Him to do more through us than we can ever even begin to pray for or dream of! And why does God do all of this for us, so that all of the world may believe and walk in Jesus' complete salvation. All of the world, young and old, male and female, and each and every nationality! “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

God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask, and He does it by His power that is within us! How cool is that? Exceedingly abundantly: perfect, whoever, whatsoever, all, and now, these are the Words that God uses concerning us. John 14:12, "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."

Man has absolutely no ability on his own to be perfect, but with God, who can do above all that we ask or think, we are perfect and we are filled with all of our Fathers fullness! This is where so many in religion loose it. They want to limit God’s ability to be successful through us. People want to believe that God’s success is limited to our ability to believe and accept His Truths. There are many who preach that we only have as much as we can believe for. That preaching is flat out wrong! We are limited only to God’s ability to believe and His abilities are limitless. We have been strengthened with God’s Anointing, so that He can fill us with all of His fullness, so that He can do far more through us than we can ask or think of!

Jesus Dwells WIthin Us By Faith

"That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 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. A-men." Ephesians 3:16-21

Through Christ we have been strengthened with the might of the Holy Spirit, so we are now able to be filled with all the fullness of God! We are not partially filled with God, we are not somewhat filled with God, we are not filled with just as much of God as a human can handle, O no, God wants us filled completely with all of His fullness. Our Father is God, He is everywhere, He knows all, sees all, has all power, and a-men He wants us filled with all of Himself. I know that sounds big, but look at what John writes in 1 John 4:17, "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world." As God our Father is, so are we in this world. The only way that we can be as God is, is to be filled completely with His fullness. On our own we have no capacity whatsoever to even be somewhat like God, yet God had John proclaim that as He is, so are we in this world.

Jesus has the fullness of God within Him and we now have Jesus within us! “Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?” John 14:9 Jesus was able to say this because He was born of God and because He was filled with God. Jesus was perfectly God because He was One with God. Now we are one with God through Jesus and just as Jesus is perfected by the presence of God, so are we! Not by works, least any man should boast, but because of the abundance of God’s grace! We are perfected in Christ because the Blood of Christ continually allows God to exert His influence on our souls, strengthening us in His faith and love!

Godley Hope Never Dissappoints Us

"Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given us." Romans 5:5 Amplified Bible

Hope in the Truth of God never disappoints or shames us! Wow! Hope never disappoints us! God has poured His love into our hearts and we will never be ashamed or disappointed! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, the substance of things not seen, and hope in God’s Word never disappoints us! Satan has crept into religion; He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:15 Satan uses false prophets who speak softly, they profess that perfection in Christ is arrogance, that we can agree to disagree, and that we are only men. This is why God is having us going over scripture after scripture that proclaim His Truth that has set us free. God’s Word says something entirely different. So if we can get people to read the Truth of who we are now in Christ, hope will come, then faith, true faith, Authored and Finished by Jesus Himself! Jesus will Author His faith through us that will allow Him to transform the world. Faith that will set the captives free, faith that will allow God to do the works through us that He did through Jesus, and which will allow our Father to do even greater works because Jesus has been raised from the dead! This is why God keeps me writing and talking about these verses. God wants people to hope for the Truth, and how can we hear the Truth without a preacher, and how can we preach the Truth without the Word! And Praise God we are all able bodied ministers through the strength of our Lord and Savior Jesus!

What God Has Called Us To Be

“(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, Who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.” Romans 4:17

Our Father calls things that are not as though they are, and they become what He proclaims they are. And our Father has proclaimed that through Christ we are now and forevermore one with Him. God has proclaimed that we are glorious, that we are as He is, and that we are sanctified and perfected by the Blood of Christ; these are the things that God has proclaimed for us. God has proclaimed that we now have the mind of Christ that dares to profess that we are filled with all of His fullness! God has given us a heart and a Spirit that dares to believe that He is powerful and loving enough to provide all of these things for us! We have the Spirit of Jesus within us that dares to ask God for all that He has and is, so that the world may believe in Him as their Savior! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for! And these are the things that our Father hopes for us to be, and through Christ and the Holy Spirit, He will cause us to be! Today is the Day of our Salvation and now is our accepted time. Our Father is greater within us than anything or any situation that is in the world and there is absolutely no weapon that has been formed against us that can ever prosper! Jesus has born every one of our sicknesses and diseases today and by His stripes we are healed of every last ailment! Our Fathers perfect love casts out all fear from within us and through Christ we are able to be used to be more than conquerors as we have life and have it abundantly! This is who God has called us to be! We are blessed completely in the power of our Father might!

We Are Secured In Gods Love

“May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God's devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it]; [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!” Ephesians 3:17-19 Amplified Bible

We don’t just live in the Love of God, we actually know the love of our Father! We are rooted in it, we are secure in it, and we are one with it! We are strong in God’s love and it works through us in every area of our lives! Through the love of God, which we are now one with, we are filled with the richest measure of our Fathers Divine presence and we are bodies wholly filled and flooded with God Himself! This is how greatly God has accepted us, that we are filled with all of Him! Our Father has held nothing back from us! We live with the very glory that Jesus has. We now have the mind of Christ; we are now His body, His flesh, and His bones. We live with complete knowledge and wisdom because we now have the Holy Ghost dwelling within us, Who teaches us all things, and we live abundantly because we are filled with the fullness of God.

“Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17

Jesus had all of these Truths fully realized within Him while He was on earth as a man, because God accepted Him and because He was One with God! And we have all of these Truths because our Father has now accepted us and because we are now one with Him through Jesus our Lord and Savior. Jesus had all of these things because He was perfect; He was born of God and He was God in the flesh! Well, we have been born again from God’s Incorruptible Seed, the same Seed that bore our Savior and raised Him from the dead has chosen and birthed us. We are now His body. Our Father accepts Jesus completely and we are now Jesus’ body, so God accepts us completely! Who Jesus is, we are, and what Jesus is, we are; we have been freely given these glorious attributes through grace. The only thing that Jesus has that we don’t, is sovereignty. Jesus is the Lord; we are the Lords body! He is the Christ; we are one with the Christ! Jesus is the Head, He is the Vine, we are the body and the branches, but everything else that He has, He has given to us! And we are secured and empowered eternally by our Father love, just as Jesus is!

We Are Accepted In Christ

"To the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved." Ephesians 1:6

God hath made us accepted in Christ and since He has, it brings praises to the glory of our Fathers grace! Through the power of Christ we are a Church without spot, without wrinkle, and without blemish. “That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” Ephesians 5:27 We have been made glorious in our oneness with Christ. The Spirit of God that raised Jesus from the dead has now quickened our mortal bodies and our flesh, and all of the evils that were associated with it have been destroyed. “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” Romans 6:6 Yet even though our old man has been destroyed, we still live, and live abundantly, full of faith, hope, and most of all full of love. We now live in the love and posses the love that God has for Jesus. We live in the love of God that covers a multitude of sins, the love that allows the Gifts of the Spirit to flow through our lives, the perfect love of God that casts out all fear! A-men, we now live in God’s love! “And I have declared unto them Thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them.” John 17:26 Hallelujah, we live continually united and one with the love that God has for His Son Jesus. Through Christ we are accepted and it brings praise to the grace of our Father!

We Serve Our Father Through The Spirit, Not Through Laws

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

Man made laws are not the tools that unlock the favor and blessings of God! What pleases our Father is for us to serve Him through the power of His Spirit that now dwells eternally within us. We are now empowered by the very Spirit of God to allow Jesus, our Lord and Savior, to Author and Finish our faith in believing that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those of us who have been chosen. We have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to have Jesus leading us and guiding us in the paths of our Father's righteousness!

If we truly want to change the attitudes of the world, it is not accomplished by influencing governments to pass laws. It is accomplished by God using us as lamps on the side of the hills! The weapons of our warfare are spiritual and they are mighty to the bringing down of strongholds. We change the world by showing them Christ and by proclaiming our Father's Word of Truth that does not fall void to the earth. In America we have passed laws that resemble the Ten Commandments and every year the crimes against those laws abound. We need to stop trying to pass laws that attempt to force righteousness and allow our Father to show the world Jesus through us. So that the presence, pleasure, penalty, and power of sin will be destroyed and then people will be truly be set free. Laws didn’t allow the Israelites to become one with God and be free, and laws won’t allow us to either. Why Christians are so concerned with passing laws always stumps me. We weren’t set free and saved by a law, why do we think that laws will now bring the favor and blessings of God into our lives?

Are we so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are we now made perfect by laws? There is no fear for us, and we don’t need laws to protect us; God is for us, who can be against us! Our Father doesn’t pour His favor on us because we have laws that resemble the Ten Commandments. Our Father pours His blessings on us because we are His kids and we have been enabled to believe in Jesus. We are blessed because the Holy Spirit has empowered us to accept Jesus as Lord! Be blessed and where are energies and efforts are, that is where are hearts will be as well!

Jesus Is A Stumblingstone To The Ungodly

“Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed.” Romans 9:32-33

Jesus is called the stumbling stone. When we talk about perfection, holiness, glory, and honor, people tend to immediately think of human works and efforts as the forces that bring these things to pass. This type of belief is the stumbling stone and the rock of offense that is Jesus, because these things are only obtained by faith and not by works! The great humbling Truth is this; even our faith is not a human work, because our faith is Authored and Finished by Jesus. We have boldness and access to true Holiness through the free gift of Jesus’ Blood. We are as He is, because He is Who He is, and He is now is within us. Jesus has chosen us to be one with Him, without fault and without blame. Jesus paid a high price to buy our redemption! Don’t stumble at who we are in Christ, because of who you think we are in the flesh. Our flesh is not the force that brings the blessings of God into our lives; Jesus’ flesh is, and His flesh has accomplished it all. There is no need for us to ever stumble, we have the Anointing of God within us, strengthening us with the Truth and the Truth sets us free! God has placed His Spirit within us, and He will lead us into the paths of righteousness, and He will cause us to walk in His ways. Through Christ God can now do all things through us, and without Christ we can do nothing! The Blood of Jesus has made us all of these things!Faith comes from hearing and hearing from the Word of God! The Word of God is what allows us to walk in this revelation of the power of Jesus’ Blood. The Spirit will lead us into the paths of righteousness that the Word of God holds for us, and through the power of Christ (the Anointing), God will be able to do all things through us! Our part is to be used by God, to have Jesus to Author and Finish the faith in our lives, and be the branches that bear the fruit that the Vine produces. Jesus is our Head and we are His body. The Head directs, leads, unifies, and allows the body to walk in perfection. Remember faith is not the human ability to believe God and thus unlock the riches and power of His Kingdom; faith is from God and it is His key, that He Authors and Finishes through us, to unlock the power and victory of His Kingdom! Through Jesus we are now holy and blameless before God in love! Through Jesus we are now one with God Himself, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone! Ephesians 5:30-32