We Are Clean Through Christ

"Now ye are clean through the Word which I have spoken unto you." John 15:3

"For the Word of the God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of joints and morrow, and is a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart." Hebrews 4:12

The very first thing that our Father had us study with this blog was about our salvation. He showed us that we are to study to show ourselves approved unto Him, workmen who need not be ashamed. We studied that in the beginning was the Word and that the Word was God. Now we see that we are clean through the power of the Living Word. The Word, which is actually Jesus, lives in us, we are now one with it. The Word keeps us and it gives us the ability and the power to be the sons of God. "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,) and we beheld His glory, the glory as the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." John 1:14

We are now clean by the Word and the Word is Jesus. We now have abilities that are quick and powerful because of the Word. "(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;) 2 Corinthians 10:4

Our Father had Paul write a warning to Timothy. "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they, which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts. Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth." 1 Timothy 3:5-7

There are many who confess to be saved and many who teach, but they deny the power and unity that God’s Word proclaims that we have. Turn away from such people. We now have the Holy Spirit dwelling within us, Who empowers us and leads us in studying to show ourselves approved unto God, workmen who need not be ashamed. And through the Spirit of God we are able to discern these wolves in sheep's clothing.

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou should be no priest to Me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." Hosea 4:6 But through Christ we have the knowledge of the Truth that has set us free and through Christ we are now clean to be used fully by our Father to win the world!

God Keeps Us Clean

"I am the Vine, and My Father is the Husbandman. (or Gardner)" John 15:1

Jesus refers to us as the branches in John 15:5. Now a branch does not defend itself, or keep itself, from the things that can destroy it, the Gardener does, and our Gardener is God. There is no one more capable, more qualified, more loving, more powerful, more understanding, or more omnipotent, and we have Him and He has us completely! God is our Dad, our Father, and His Spirit cries this Truth out from within us.

In the Bible Jesus is referred to as our Shepherd. Now is it the responsibility of the sheep to keep themselves from harm and danger, or is it the responsibility of the Shepherd? Are the sheep responsible for finding food, or water? What about shelter? When their hair grows too long, are they required to trim it? What if they are injured? Who is responsible for their entire well being? The shepherd is responsible completely for the well being of the sheep and Jesus is now our Shepherd! Jesus is also referred to as the Head of the body. We see all throughout the Bible that our Father declares that He will keep us from sin, that He will guide us, that He will lead us, that He will give us His Spirit, and that He will protect us. That is the love that God has for us, absolute eternal salvation, insured by Himself, because there is no greater to insure it by. There is no greater insurance available than the presence and promises of the Living God!

We have gone to great lengths in our studies to prove with God's Word, the only Word that matters, that we are now one with Him, this day, through Jesus our Lord and Savior. We have learned that Jesus is in us and that we are in Jesus. Now we are going to build on that study with scriptures that proclaim that we are clean, pure, sanctified, holy, and perfect because of this unity. And remember that today is the day of our salvation, and God is not a respecter of persons, so all who have truly been chosen and empowered to call on the name of the Lord can have all of these promises and scriptures realized in their lives this day!

I love you, and through the power of God that is within us we are able to proclaim from the rooftops what Jesus has proclaimed in silence! We are blessed beyond expression through the power of Jesus’ might that keeps us clean.

We Have Been Given 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. 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: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. And I will multiply the fruit of your tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen." Ezekiel 36:26-30

We have studied extensively on this blog on our unity with our Father through Jesus our Lord and Savior. We have established with the Word that we have been given the Holy Spirit to abide within us and that the Spirit of Christ continually dwells within us. We have also seen that through Christ we are actually one with God. So now we are going to begin a study on what these Truths mean for us. We have touched on it, but now we need to establish with the Word, that because we are now one with God, we are now pure, clean, holy, godly, and perfect. We are all of these things because of God, all by His power, all because it is His will. There is nothing that we could do to establish these truths on our own; no work could even begin to scratch the surface of what would be needed. But, because of Jesus we now have it all and through Him we can walk in the perfection that our Father created for us.

To begin, look at what God prophesies through Ezekiel: that He will give us a new heart, that He will give us a new spirit, and that His Spirit now dwells within us. Our Father proclaims that He will cause us to walk in His statutes and that He will cause us to keep His judgments. Ezekiel also prophesies that God will save us from all uncleannesses. The first step to being clean is to be cleansed and our Father, through His Spirit, cleanses us. That is why Jesus told His disciples in John 16:7 that it was better that He would go away, because if He did, than the Spirit would come, and with it salvation from all of our uncleanness! “Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you.”

This prophecy in Ezekiel clearly shows the love that God has for us. Our Father's overwhelming desire is for us to be saved. His desire is so strong for us to be unified with Him, that He alone will take care of all the needed actions to insure it. Remember God created us as His children, in His image, He breathed life into us, and He did it to have fellowship with us. We are of God. So our Father did not give an angel the responsibility of keeping us, He did not give a preacher the responsibility, and He did not even give us the responsibility. Our Father loves us so much, and He is so unwilling to be without us, that He gave Himself the responsibility. Our Father alone will keep us from all uncleanness. This truth should give you a peace that passes all understanding and our Father has given us a heart that can believe it and rejoice in it.

We Are Perfect In Christ So That The World May 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

After all that we have studied together with these posts concerning our unity with our Father, I wanted to end up this topic with these verses. After all of the verses that God has had us study together, do you see why Jesus can say this? And now here is the real question, do we actually believe it? Do we really accept that we are perfect because we are now in Christ, and do we believe that our perfection is based solely on Jesus and not on us? If we truly believe this, than through the power of Christ we are to go into all of the world and preach the Gospel that allows it to be. And if you don't believe that we are actually one with God, I want you to go and try and find the verses to prove that this is not the Truth. Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free.

Either way, Jesus loves us and through His grace and His power that is alive within us we are able to love each other. Pray for me and I will pray for you. Pray that the love of God is perfected in us, that He is glorified in everything we do, that our lives are a living proof of Him, and that in nothing shall we be ashamed! Pray that our Father's strength is perfected in our weakness and also that the eyes of our understanding are enlightened and that together and as one in Him we are used to win the world! Jesus loves you so very much, and so do I! Be blessed and full in Him this day!

Jesus And The Holy Ghost Dwell Within Us

“And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever. Even the Spirit of Truth: whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. " John 14:16-17

"At that day ye shall know that I am in the Father, and ye in Me, and I in you." John 14:20

"Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him" John 14:23

"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing." John 15:4-5

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

"And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am come to Thee. Holy Father, keep through Thine own name those Whom Thou hast given Me, that they may be one, as we are." John 17:10-11

I know that we have discussed all of these verses several times before, but what a great stretch of Chapters in the Gospel of John, with all the power and glory of what was said by Jesus! Don't just read these verses, really stop and consider what Jesus has proclaimed! Jesus said that He is glorified in us and that we are the vessels that allow Him to receive His glory. Jesus said that it is God Who now keeps us, and if it is God Who is keeping us, we are kept, sealed and perfected without fear in His perfect love. As we previously studied, we are preserved in Christ until the day that God destroys evil! God actually dwells within us, we are actually in Jesus right now, and Jesus actually is in us! Through Christ we are one with God! Because of this we can and should bare much fruit. The peace of these Truths, the joy that they proclaim, and the awesome power associated with them allow us to be as He is in this world. If you want to have some meat go and read John 14-17 and see just what Jesus has provided for us, and see what God can and should be doing through us! Greater is He that is within us than anything and everything that is in the world! There is no weapon that is formed against God that can prosper and we are now preserved in the greatness of His power! Today is the day of our freedom and victory in Christ and today is the day that He causes us to rejoice and be glad! Jesus has delivered us, He has called us, He has chosen us, He has glorified us, He has preserved us, He has sanctified us, He has perfected us, and He has given us life abundantly! Our victory is based on His victory and our power is His power that is within us, and His power that is in us is greater than we can ever imagine! The Truth of our unity with God through Jesus, has set us free to ever live to serve the Living God. Our bodies of sin have been destroyed and we have been raised up together and made to sit together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus! There is no more defeat for us, only victory, because now all things work together for us who love the Lord!

Father I thank You that You empower each and every one of us to proclaim Your Truth in fullness and in true love! Father I thank You that You enlighten the eyes of our understanding so that we may comprehend and live in the fullness of Your salvation! I thank You that You allow us to magnify our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in every action, thought, and deed! And I thank You Father that you grant unto us your servants great power to proclaim Jesus as Lord and that You stretch forth Your hand to perform signs and wonders through us as You lead us in the paths of righteousness! I thank You Father that through Christ we come behind in none of Your gifts as we are used by You to further Your Kingdom. Father glorify us, so that we may glorify You! I thank You Father that we all live in the full power of Your love. That we live in the full height, length, breadth, and depth of Your love! Father Your will be done and I thank You that Your will brings peace that passes all understanding and Your will allows us to live a life that is abundant in Christ! God bless all of you!

There Is No Guessing When It Comes To Our Salvation

"Even David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin." Romans 4:6-8

Life in Christ is not a craps shoot, if we truly say yes to Jesus, than it’s a done deal, because God has chosen us and empowered us with Himself to do so! When our Father talks about our salvation He uses terms like preserved, sealed, dead, yet nevertheless we live, perfect, united, and one with Him. Man uses words like maybe and possibly, but not God. To God our salvation is a sure thing, it is settled, and it is finished! This is why we have boldness, because God is Love, and Love would have it no other way. You accept Love and Love will insure your eternity with Him! Love covers a multitude of sin, and we don’t have so much sin that He can’t cover it! Love looks only at the Blood of Jesus and judges that we are cleansed by it and not by our actions!

David, the man whom God called His friend, the man who stood up to the giant Goliath and slew him, writes about how blessed we are. The Prophets of old, so longed to see our day, no more sacrifices, no more works, just unbroken fellowship and union with God. We are preserved through Jesus and with Him we have access into God’s rest! Allow the Words that we study to bathe you in peace, and consume you with the Truth, and the Truth will set you free!

God Is Always With Us, Even When We Are Bad

“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

Our Father is not only with us as long as we do what is right. He is with us until the day that Jesus returns. God now keeps us from all evil and He will continue to keep us safe until the day that He destroys evil completely! If we mess up, satan doesn’t get free reign to beat the snot out of us! If that were the case then we would still be in a Covenant that was just like the Old Covenant. There may be a different set of rules, but still our communion with God would be based upon our own actions. This is not the power of the New Covenant that Jesus has established for us. Our Father knew that were weak, so He sent Jesus, to ratify a New Covenant that would allow Him to be strong within us. We enjoy a Covenant that is not determined by our own works. We now enjoy a Covenant that allows God to be united with us continually, walking with us, and leading us, right here in the thick of things, just as He was and is with Jesus. If there is any disciplining to be done, it will be done by God and not by satan! “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten, be zealous therefore, and repent.” Revelation 3:19

We are preserved in Christ. We are now preserved in the Anointing of God! There is now no more fear of messing up for us. It’s no longer like. “oh man, I just had a bad thought; I am no longer in fellowship with God.” Our actions no longer limit our Father from being with us. We are now kept by God until He does away with evil all together! Sure we repent, but that doesn’t mean that we have been separated from our Father, it just means that He has led us in the paths of righteousness and that He has empowered us to have the hope and faith to change our ways. Our Father is now continually within us. He never leaves us or forsakes us and if we mess up, and it is if we mess up, not when we mess up, remember 1 John 2:1, God will still remain. “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:” Our disobedience does not cause God to flee from us; it causes Him to correct us and to bring us back into the paths of righteousness! Our actions no longer separate us from God; the Blood of Christ insures that they don't. Through Christ we stand united in God, preserved in Him, and sealed by Him. We are sealed by the actions of Jesus, by the perfect actions of our Lord and Savior! Don’t let people preach to you that if you mess up, than your actions give satan some kind of right to come and reap havoc on you. No way, God is still in control and He still is our Father, and our Father will discipline us, not satan!

God's Love Emboldens Us

"No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us." 1 John 4:12

Since we now have perfect love through Christ, because the fullness of God now dwells within us, we now have boldness. We have boldness to stand in the Day of Judgment. We now have boldness to approach God’s Throne of Grace in time of need. “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:16 Standing before God on the Day of Judgment will not be a new thing for us. Because we now walk with God, He is in us, and He is leading and guiding us to come to His Throne of Grace. When the Day of Judgment comes, God won’t all of a sudden leave us, so that we will have to go up there on our own. No, God will still be one with us, leading us right up there, with His perfect love within us casting out all fear. In the Day of Judgment we will be bold, we will be full of boldness in Him, knowing that no harm will come to us, and that there is no condemnation for us! We will know, with the Anointed Mind that God has given us, that we have abided in God here on the earth, and that we will abide in Him for eternity. We know the Truth that has set us free, we know that God will never leave us or forsake us, never! Through the power of Christ we will have boldness and confidence that through Him we have passed from wrath unto righteousness!

Now here is the great part, since we now abide in God’s love, we know beyond any shadow of a doubt that God now dwells within us, and that gives us boldness to serve God just as Jesus serves God. “For in that He died, He died unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:10-11 “He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.” 1 John 2:6 Look how God takes our service to the extreme limits of His power, He is God, and as He is, so are we in this world! Bam! Talk about being bold. I know I have preached on this already, but do you see what this means? As God is so are we in this world! God is love, He is lay down your life love. He is never leave us or forsake us love. Love is the key, love unlocks it all, and we are just like God in love. People preach that we need to love all of the time, but I have never heard it preached like this, that in God we can’t help but love! We are born of love and our love is just like God’s love, because our love is now God’s love. His love now abides within us, never leaving us or forsaking us! Through Christ we know the depth, the length, the height, and the width of God’s love! Faith comes from hearing this Truth that passes all knowledge and hearing comes from the Word of God. How shall they hear without a preacher? Man through the power of Christ we need to be used by God to preach this Truth, so that we can be set free and walk in the fullness and power of our Salvation!

Jesus I pray that You will use us and allow all of us to understand completely what God is telling us here. Jesus allow us to understand that we can’t help but love, because we are now one with God, Who is love! It’s who we are, and Father in Jesus’ Name allow the church to realize this and not be offended, that we should and can be love, just as You are Love, no difference, because it is You in us! No more fake reverence, we can and should be just like You Father. Allow us to honor and serve You Father by causing us to be just like You, in thought, action, and in deed. Allow us to be used by You to see as You see Father, think as You think, walk as You walk, serve as You serve, and be as You are, even when we are in this earth! Father I pray for boldness for Your church to accept all that You have provided for us through Jesus our Lord and Savior. Father Your will be done through us on this earth as Your will is done in Heaven, A-men!

Love Perfects Us

“At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you.” John 14:20

The Word of God clearly proclaims that we dwell in Love and that God dwells in us, and since God now dwells within us, our love is made perfect. “.. God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us." 1 John 4:12 Our love is not perfected because of our own actions, it’s perfected because God is in us. People who possess the love of God, who love perfectly, don’t get there by practice; they get there by God abiding in them, and the Light of God’s love drives out the darkness of carnal hate. We are strong to love by the power of God’s might that is within us and God doesn’t need practice to love! We love because Jesus is within us causing us to love! We can love because we are born of love; the same love that bore Jesus has bore us! Through Christ we have ceased from our own labors and the perfect love of our Father has perfected us as it perfected our Lord and Savior, Jesus! We are new creatures in Christ, all of our old has passed away and behold everything has become new for us. These aren’t just catchy phrases meant to motivate us to a higher walk, they are the absolute Truth that has set us free! The love of our Father is so perfect and so strong that it has perfected us.

What Love Has Made Us

“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

Jesus prayed in John 17:26 that the love of God would dwell in us. In John 15:26 Jesus said that we would have the Spirit of Love teaching us all things, interceding for us, comforting us, and strengthening us. Praise God we are born of Love and Love has called us and Love has chosen us. We have been chosen by Love Himself, Love has justified us, and Love has glorified us! And what can we say to all of this, if Love is for us, who can be against us! We are now more than conquerors through Love, and greater is the Love that is within us, than anything that is in the world! We can do all things through God’s love that strengthens us! When we were chosen and empowered to say yes to Jesus and make Him our Lord and Savior, we were born again of Love, not of corruptible love, but of Incorruptible Love! Today is the day that Love has made and He has left His joy within us so that we may rejoice and be glad in it! And we are now members of Love’s body! “For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.” Ephesians 5:30

We Dwell In God, So We Dwell And Have Boldness In Perfect Love

"Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in Him, and He in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 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 4:15-17

"Therefore there is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." 1 John 4:18

"No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us." 1 John 4:12

I am always so thankful when I read what our Father had John write, “as He is,” and I always want to talk about it. The glory of what our Father has given us is so awesome and it has been given to every one of us who truly has been chosen and empowered to confess Jesus Christ as Lord!

But before we talk about being as God is, let’s talk about us dwelling in love and loving one another as our Father loves us. I heard it preached years ago that God doesn’t just have love, but that He is love, 1 John 4:16 Our Father cannot help but be what He is and He is love!

“Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.” 2 Corinthians 13:11

The God of love, the God Who is love, and the God Who we are born of, and the God Who we are one with allows us to be perfect as we live in His peace with one mind and in good comfort! We are born of God and God is love, so we are born of love. We are now one with God, Who is love, so we now abide in love and we are now sealed in love. We are born again of God’s perfect love and that perfect love casts out all fear from us. Our Father's perfect love allows us to be one with each other and one with Him, with one heart, one mind, and one accord, just as God and Jesus are One. We are one in God, so that the world will believe! Our Father is not divided and in Him we are a unified house. We are a house that has been built upon the solid rock of Jesus Christ! This is Truth is that empowers us to go into all of the world and boldly proclaim the Gospel of the Kingdom. Because we are one with our Father and we now possess His very love we can go to the world with more than just words, we go in the full power and victory of Jesus. 

Don't Argue Religion

"BELOVED, DO not put faith in every spirit, but prove (test) the spirits to discover whether they proceed from God; for many false prophets have gone forth into the world. By this you may know (perceive and recognize) the Spirit of God: every spirit which acknowledges and confesses [the fact] that Jesus Christ (the Messiah) [actually] has become man and has come in the flesh is of God [has God for its source];" 1 John 4:1-2

These verses in 1 John are a great test to use when confronted with religion; so many people seem to want to argue religion. Don’t argue religion, it’s a total waste of time! Especially when people get off on their denomination, Christ is not divided. Don’t argue, just allow the Holy Ghost to use you to share our Father's Truth’s in love. Always let God’s Word stand on its own.

So if you find yourself with someone who does want to argue here is what you can do, ask the person to describe their relationship with Jesus? If it never comes up that Jesus is in them, and that they are in Him, or that they are united or one with Him, than you know what is going on. The Holy Ghost clearly tells us what to do; out of the abundance of our hearts our mouths will speak. If a person doesn’t answer according to 1 John 4:1-2, start sharing these scriptures, share about how you were indwelled with the Holy Spirit and how you are one with Jesus. The sower sows the Word of God and our Father's Word will not fall void to the earth, it will accomplish what He intended for it to do!

"Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that I sin the world." 1 John 4:4

"In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him." 1 John 4:9

Jesus is now in us and we are now in Him; we are now one with Him. The Holy Ghost is now in us and we are all now in God. This is our peace, it is our joy, and this unity is our protection. No weapon formed against The Trinity shall prosper, and thus, no weapon formed against us shall prosper. We are sealed until the day of our redemption and we have been given the Anointing of God, so that we may operate in the full power of His Word, which is in abundance in our hearts! We have the Spirit of Christ, Who is for us, and through Jesus nothing can be against us! So just share the Truth the best that you can and don't get all caught up in denominations or man made doctrines, just sow the Word.

Be blessed in our Father's love and try the spirits with the power of His love. Serve all those whom God leads into your life and through the love and the power of Christ that is within you, you will never be ashamed!

We Are Actually One With All Of Jesus Today

"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they be of God: because many false prophets are gone into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God." 1 John 4:1-2

This is the missing power in the church today. People confess that Jesus came in the flesh, people confess that Jesus is the Son of God, but very few people confess and really believe that Jesus is in them right now. The sad truth is that so many have no idea that they have actually become one with all of Jesus and with all of His fullness. The glorious Truth is that if we are saved then we are 100% Jesus' body, His flesh, and His bones, Ephesians 5:30.

This is why our Father has empowered me to share so many scriptures with you; it is to allow Him to talk to you. Because unless He shows us this truth, we will never accept it. Some who hear this Truth will have it stolen right away when they first hear it. Some will accept it for a moment, but as soon as the church says that they are wrong and a little persecution arises because of it, they will abandon it. Some will loose this Truth because of the cares of this world. But amen some will accept it and be used by the Holy Spirit to produce a return of 100, 60, or 30 fold!

Jesus is coming back for a glorious and powerful Church. The Truth of our unity with Him will be accepted and walked in by the Church and the world will believe. Our Father is not a man that He should lie and God will not be mocked! Through Christ our sons and our daughters will prophesy the Truth that will set the world free! Through Christ our young men will see visions and our old men will dream dreams. Through Christ there will be signs in the heavens and wonders on the earth! Through Christ we will be glorious without spot, wrinkle, or blemish, because greater is He that is within us, than he or anything that is in the world! Through Christ we are never ashamed and we are always victorious. He never stops being our Shepherd that leads us in the paths of righteousness. 

Jesus Is Now In Us

"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they be of God: because many false prophets are gone into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God." 1 John 4:1-2

This verse teaches us that every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, not that Christ did come, not that He came, but that He is come, right now, present tense. For example this is a study guide, do you see what is being said here? Every spirit that proclaims Jesus is come in the flesh, every spirit that says Jesus is here right now, in me, in you, and in every believer, is of God. This verse does not mean that Jesus came in the flesh. Think about it, how many false teachers have you heard that confess that Jesus was here? Half the world celebrates Christmas and even goes to church on Christmas Eve, yet they have never accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, even though they will confess that He was born. After all of the verses we have read about our unity with Christ, you now can see what this truth is saying. If a person believes and confesses that Jesus Christ is in them, if they confess that they are the Temples of God, right now, they are of God, one with God, and every spirit that does not confess their unity with Christ right now, is not of God. 1 John 4:3.

The only way we will ever believe that we are glorified with the same glory as Jesus; the only way that we will ever accept our perfection and power in Christ; the only way we will believe that we are as He is in this world, is to believe and confess that Jesus is in us this day. And the only way to do this, is by having the Holy Ghost within us, confessing it! “Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.” 1 Corinthians 12:3

God Is Responsible For Us

"Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the Blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be glory for ever and ever. A-men." Hebrews 13:20-21

This Truth is not being taught and preached nearly enough. People are looking to themselves far too much. If things are good in a persons life, than they believe they must be doing something right, and if they are bad, then something wrong. Faith preachers call it faith, others call it living rightly, whatever it’s called, it makes God reactionary to our actions. Our Father is right in here with us and He carries the full load, as our Father, our Shepherd, and our Head! Jesus is not our co-pilot. He is our Head and we are His body!

I asked our Father why He kept saying this over and over to me, and this is what He said. “How than shall they call on Him in Whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe on Him of Whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!” As you may know that is Romans 10:14-15

Our Father told me, “what can be more peaceful than teaching that He alone holds the responsibility in our success?” Man tries to find God with his own power, like do A, B, and C and then God will be found. Bologna! The heart does not respond like the hand, the foot like the eye, the tongue as the kidney, we are members of the body, all different parts. God comes to us where we are and exactly how we need Him! This needs to be taught. Think I am wrong, Jesus said that without Him, we could do nothing, John 15:5. If that isn’t taking the responsibility, I don’t know what is? And as Hebrews 13 teaches us: it is Jesus making us perfect and it is Jesus working within us!

So you see, we are light, we are not darkness. We are light because we are in God and His Light has driven out the darkness. Through Jesus we have everything we need. Our bodies that could sin have been destroyed, Romans 6:6. But what if we don’t feel like it has? Let me ask you this, how often do you hear it preached that our bodies of sin have been destroyed? Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free! Romans 8:1 says there is now therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. There is now no condemnation for us because there is now no darkness in us, because we are now in Christ Jesus! No bragging rights here, only because of Jesus, no works on our behalf can make this happen, it is solely based on Jesus and what He has done and offered for us!

How will the world believe unless we preach it?

"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them." Ezekiel 36:26 This is the message that we have heard from Jesus and declare unto you. That God is Light and there is no darkness in Him and we are now in Him! Through the power of the Light that we now live in, we shall go into all of the world and preach the Gospel of this Truth to every creature and through our unity with Christ the world will believe!

Jesus' Blood Makes Us Perfect

"Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be glory for ever and ever. A-men." Hebrews 13:20-21

Let’s talk for a minute about the Truth of our Father being responsible for insuring that we are redeemed until the day of Jesus’ return. We don’t hear that preached often do we? But when we look at what God has said to us, we see that He is responsible for us. Jesus teaches us that He is our Shepherd. And the Truth is that a shepherd is fully responsible for his sheep. There are other scriptural references of Jesus being our Shepherd, but this is by far the most powerful one! In two short verses we have so many Truths: the Great Shepherd, the God of peace, the Blood, and perfection in every good work that pleases our Father! And we are also shown that it is God working in us that which is well pleasing to Him. This is a great verse to share with a person who still believes that we possess a free will that is separate from our Fathers will.

Wow, you just have to love these two verses! Through them we see so clearly that our Father has taken the responsibility of our walk into His Own hands. Through the Blood of Jesus we are perfect in every good work and through Christ we are well pleasing to God! We are all of these things only because of Jesus! We are pleasing to God because God makes us that way! Jesus Himself makes us perfect in every good work to do God’s will, and Jesus uses us to perform works that are well pleasing to God. Jesus just doesn’t make us please God, He makes us pleasing to Him as well!

Our Father also calls Himself our Gardener and we are the branches, John 15:1. Once again we see that our Father takes the responsibility for us. Jesus says that He is the Head of the Church, Ephesians 5:23. All of this said, the most powerful Truth is that God call’s Himself our Father, so there is great responsibility there. Why am I teaching on this? Because we are not alone, we are never alone! We are not solely responsible for everything being right or wrong in our lives. This is not a solo journey we are on. Our Father is right here with us, He is one with us, He is in us, on us, over us, before us, and behind us. He is willing and able and He is responsible for our fruitful and abundant lives. And because He is, there is therefore now no condemnation for us who are in Christ Jesus, Romans 8:1! The Blood of Jesus has made us perfect!

Jesus' Blood Sanctifies Us

"Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate." Hebrews 13:12

The power of Jesus’ Blood is what allows us to be one with the Light. Jesus obtained eternal redemption for us and He purged our consciences from all dead works. Jesus did this so that we might serve God as He serves God, in Truth and in holiness! I will do anything to help my kids if they are in trouble. Not only would I, but I would be responsible to, they are my kids. Well think about God, how much more can He come to our aide when needed and doesn’t He have the responsibility to? He is our Father and He chose to have us. God doesn’t shy away from this duty either, He welcomes it and it brings Him great joy to have the responsibility of raising us! “Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith; Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2 Man was in trouble, sin was destroying us, so God sent Jesus, and now we are free in Him. Death was defeated at the Cross and the sting of it has been removed from us, and it brings Jesus great joy to do it. Satan lost his grip over us, perfect love came and fear was cast out. Light now shines where there was once darkness! Remember, we were not originally made in darkness, it found us. We were in trouble and Jesus came, and saved us, and He did not do the job half way! The power of His Light far exceeds the power of our darkness! And through the power of His Light our bodies of sin have been destroyed. “Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” Romans 6:6 The Blood of Jesus more than strong enough to completely sanctify us, regardless of who and what we were!

We Are Light By Jesus' Blood

"But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." Ephesians 2:13

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

"At that day ye shall know that I am in the Father, and ye in Me, and I in you." John 14:20

We are now light because of the power of Jesus’ Blood. Before we were chosen and empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus we were far away, but now through the eternal power of our Lords Blood, shed on the Cross, we are nigh Him. Which means we are united and one with our Father as Jesus is united and one with our Father, John 17:23. We are now members of Jesus’ body, we are now His Temple, and we are now the branches of His Vine! When Jesus talks about us it is always as unified with Him. Jesus is a hands on Savior and He never will leave us or forsake us! With Jesus we are never in the dark, we are able to see clearly through the faith that He Authors and Finishes for us!

"Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh; How much more shall the Blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God?" Hebrews 9:12-14 Jesus has brought us into the Light that drives out the all darkness from us!

We Are Now One With The 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

"At that day ye shall know that I am in the Father, and ye in Me, and I in you." John 14:20

In Jesus there is no darkness at all, and as we have been studying, we are now in Jesus! The great Truth of our salvation is that we just aren’t saved from hell because we believe, we actually are saved from Hell because we become one with God through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Jesus is now in us and we are now in Him and there is no darkness at all in Jesus! There are so many of us who really don’t believe this Truth. There is far too much condemnation amongst Christians, most of it is self-condemnation, but it still is condemnation. I see so many of us putting off the blessings of our salvation, believing that we can only come to this light when we arrive in Heaven. But that is just not the Truth of who we are in Christ and hopefully all of these studies have made that Truth, the Truth that sets us free, known. When the power of our salvation: righteousness, sanctification, glory, and holiness is directed at God, we are light, and when it is self directed, darkness, and then failure. We are light because of Jesus, His power and glory have driven the darkness from us. There is no ability for us to boast in this Light, because Christ has done it all for us, and praise God He has done it all for us! And now through Jesus we may have full joy and peace in living in the Light as His Blood eternally cleanses us from all unrighteousness!

Jesus is great and He is in us and we are one with Him.

We Have Confidence That We Cannot Fall Away

“And now, little children, abide in Him; that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.” 1 John 2:28

God’s Truth is that He has put a new heart within us, so that we are now able to serve Him and walk in His ways. If we could fall away, then our Father never really put a new heart in us that allows us to be confident, so He lied? Wrong! God is not a man that He should lie! God did put a new heart within us, and that is why we can confidently approach Him, without any shame, because we now approach our Father with the full power and faith of the new heart that He gave to us. People always want to talk about backsliding, as if we can be in God then out of God. People we cannot fool God, we are either completely in, or completely out, there is no in between! We cannot fool God!

So what is happening? Read the parable of the sower of the tares, Matthew 13. Read how Jesus says that all who say Lord, Lord will not be saved, Matthew 7:21-23. Just because someone says they are saved doesn’t mean they are, look to their fruit that they are being used to produce and then judge it by the Word. I have heard it said a lot lately, “who are we to judge anyone’s salvation?” Sounds religious and good doesn’t it. But we are to judge people by their fruit and we are to test the spirits to see if they are of God. “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” 1 John 4:1 On our own and without the Word of God and the Spirit of Discernment we aren’t in any position to judge someone else. But we are not alone, we judge as we are judged, by the Word of God. We will know each other by the fruits that we see God producing through us. We will know a good branch from a bad one by what we see God doing with it, and we can know what is of God by the Word of God that never changes!

Father, I pray in the Name of Jesus that all who read this have confidence and boldness in their unity with You through Jesus, because You are perfected in them. I pray that they know beyond any shadow of a doubt that You have sanctified them, that You have equipped them to go into the world as You equipped Jesus to go into the world. Father You have declared that as You are so are we in this world, let us not just talk about this Truth, but through Your power Father, let’s live it! Father, I thank you that there is absolutely no shame in us, that the spirit of lies that tries to bring condemnation is bound and cast out of Your children and that Your Spirit of liberty abounds within us! I pray that we mature fully in the gifts that You have born into us. Father I thank You that our minds are renewed with the knowledge that it is You, and only You, that is providing everything needed that pertains unto life and unto godliness. I thank You Father that we stand fast, because You have enabled us through Christ to stand fast. I thank You Father that we walk in faith, because You Author our faith, and that we stand righteous, because Your righteousness abides within us. Father it is You within us that does the works and I thank You that this is lived, and enjoyed, and not just spoken of. Father be Who You are in us today. Your will, and Your will is magnificent, be done completely in us! A-men.

We Have Confidence In The Truth That We Shall Never Be Ashamed

“And now, little children, abide in Him; that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.” 1 John 2:28

If we had to rely on our own ability to be good enough, there would be absolutely no confidence in us whatsoever when Jesus returns. It would be like a High School Monday after a Friday test. You may not know what that means, but I sure do! So how can we be so confident when our eternity is at stake? We are able to stand confident before our Father, because we abide as one with Jesus. He is our Lord and Savior. He ever lives to intercede for us so that we may be saved to the uttermost and He gives us the confidence.

"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

Let me ask you this, can God be fooled? Can we fake God out, or lie to Him? There are a lot of people who believe that we can stop abiding in Him once that we have been truly saved. How? Did we fool God to start with? He knows the beginning and the end and He knows our hearts. So if we could all of a sudden stop being in Him, then there had to be wickedness in our hearts all along. God declares that our inheritance is incorruptible, and that it never fades away, and that we are kept by His very power.

"To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled and that fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." 1 Peter 1:4-5

I believe there are many who falsely confess salvation who seem to be falling away, but for those of us who have actually and truly been chosen and empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as our Lord, there is no way for us to fall away. For us to fall away would mean that we were keeping ourselves with our own power and not our Father's! If we had to keep ourselves from leaving God, we would all leave God, but we don’t keep ourselves, our Father keeps us and our inheritance in Him is incorruptible and never fades away! This is why we can be confident and know that we shall never be ashamed is because of the Truth that we will always be one with Jesus!

Through Christ We Have Absolutely No Shame

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

“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 9:33

On our own we would always be ashamed! We can’t stand before God, even if we never sinned, and not be ashamed of ourselves. However, we can stand before God, our Father, without any shame. We can because as we stand before Him, we stand as His children, born of Him, born from His seed, glorified and righteous because of what Jesus has done for us. We are sanctified by Jesus’ actions and we are glorified with His glory. We never stand before our Father alone, Jesus is with us and One in us. We can be unashamed because we have the Holy Spirit within us and He lets us know beyond any shadow of a doubt that God is not ashamed of us!

“For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed.” Romans 10:11 We are eternally free from condemnation and the shame of falling short! We are now strong in the power of Jesus’ might because greater is He that is within us, than the shame that is in the world! Today is the day of our glorious salvation and now is our appointed time of righteousness and true holiness through Jesus Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords!

God Has Fully Equipped Us To Be His Sanctified Children

“And lo a voice from heaven, saying, this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” Matthew 3:17

Think for a minute about how fully our Father equipped Jesus to be on this earth as a man and also remember that God was well pleased with Him. Our Father made Jesus! Jesus only was because God birthed Him, Jesus was God Himself, and He was completely and thoroughly made and equipped by God for the task of being the Lord of Lords. Our Father fully equipped Jesus to succeed and He did it by making Jesus completely One with Himself. There was nothing lacking in Jesus, He was empowered and perfect because of God, because He was and is God!

Jesus was fully man and He was fully God, both at the same time. And as we have studied over and over again in these posts, Jesus has done the same for us. Jesus has thoroughly and completely made us and we are perfectly complete in Him. We are now one with our Lords body and the body of Jesus is perfectly complete! Jesus sanctified us, which means He set us aside for holy use, just as God set Jesus aside for Holy use.

“As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.” John 17:18

Jesus is Lord, He has His part in the Kingdom of God and we are His body and we have our part. The building is all fit together with Jesus being the Chief Cornerstone. With Jesus we can be used by our Father to do all things. Without Him, we can do nothing and without Him we have nothing that pertains to life or godliness. Jesus is the Vine and we are the branches and the life force of the Vine continually flows through us, we are only because He is. So for Jesus to be ashamed of us, He would have to be ashamed of Himself! Without Christ we are nothing but sin, but because of Jesus and because of the Holy Spirit empowering us to confess Him, we are continually cleansed from all sin by His Blood. Jesus’ Blood continually cleanses us from all sin and there is now no occasion for us to stumble or fall. This strength and power is according to Jesus’ might and we are now strong in all of the power of God’s might!

We Are One And We Are Sanctified With Jesus

"For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren." Hebrews 2:11

Jesus is not ashamed to call us His brothers and sisters; A-men we are actually Jesus’ brethren and we are actually joint-heirs with Him. Jesus is not ashamed of us in any way, because He is the One Who has sanctified us. Jesus has set us apart for God’s Holy use and He has cleansed us from all of our unrighteousness. Jesus did the job completely for us and He knows that the job was done right, complete and done perfectly. Jesus is not ashamed of us because there is nothing to be ashamed of. God wrote that it was Jesus Who sanctifies us and He wrote that all who are sanctified by Him are one with Him; this is the Truth. So is there any reason for Jesus to be ashamed of Himself? We are members of His body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone. We are new creatures in Him and we have been perfected in Him, so that the world may believe and be saved. Jesus is complete and He has completed us in Himself, He has empowered us with Himself, and He has filled us with the very Spirit of God. His Light has driven out the darkness from us and because, and only because of Him, we can stand before God with confidence and boldness, without being ashamed in anything! We now have the Holy Spirit within us confirming with our own spirits that we are the sons of God, and He is strengthening us in all Truth to know that all things work for good for us now because we love the Lord! Jesus was born perfect, it’s how God made Him, and through Jesus’ sacrifice and the power of His Blood, we have now been born again in perfection! We have been eternally sanctified by Jesus and we are eternally one with Jesus!

Through Christ We Take No Thought For Our Own Lives

“Which of you by taking thought cad add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies in the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; And yet, I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, what shall we eat? Or, what shall we drink? Or, wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek for. Your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 27-33

This is the power of our salvation through Christ; we are able take no thought about our own lives, because Jesus is ever living to intercede for us. Find a child who is well provided for, whose parents love him, and who are raising him properly, and you will see what Jesus is saying that we can and should be like. We stand fast in the Lord because He has empowered us to stand fast in all of the power of His might and He has provided everything for us to stand fast! Through the love and glory of God, we are able to be just like little kids, as we take no thought for our own lives! Salvation allows us to enter God’s perfect rest, and His peace that passes all understanding allows us to confidently trust in His abundant provision for our lives! Through Christ we stand fast and through Christ we have life and we have it abundantly! Through Christ we have life, just as Jesus has life; as He is, so are we in this world!

And we have been empowered by Jesus Himself to seek first the Kingdom of God as He leads us in the Path of Righteousness! Jesus knows exactly how to Shepherd us and He ever lives to intercede for us. He is our Head and through our unity with Him we are saved to the uttermost! There is nothing that our Lord is and there is nothing that He has that He has not given us and made us one with! So just as Jesus does not have to take thought for His life, neither do we, because we stand eternally in the power of His might!

Through Christ We Trust In Our Father Like Little Kids

“And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.” Matthew 18:3

Think for a minute about a young child. Kids don’t take thought for paying a mortgage. They don’t take thought for utility bills, and they don’t worry about groceries. They don’t worry or take thought about these things because they are standing fast in their parents’ provisions. This is exactly how Jesus said we are to be and He said that we have to be.

Through Christ we are converted into new creatures and through Christ we enter into our Father's rest. The power and freedom of our salvation empowers us to be as little children. Jesus allows us to dance like a child, to love to be around people like a child, to play like a child, and to be accepting like a child; this is the peace of Jesus that passes all understanding. My two kids and all the neighborhood kids have such a blast. They just come over, who cares if they are dirty and have on old clothes, there are boys and girls, Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, and Indian, they laugh, they play, they rejoice, it’s awesome. And unless we are converted through Christ and become as these little children are, we shall never enter into the Kingdom of Heaven!

Look in the Gospels at how Jesus lived. He talked in riddles or parables. He loved to be around people: young and old, rich and poor, male and female, sick and well! Kids were around Jesus so much that the adults rebuked them and then Jesus rebuked the adults! Jesus’ earthly ministry was for the Jews, Gentiles were to receive it after His death, yet when He came upon a non-Jew who needed help, He helped them as well! Jesus loved to cause trouble by going against the establishment and His first miracle was turning water to wine at a party! When someone would trouble Jesus, He would moan or cry out, “how long do I have to be with you?” Jesus’ life kind of sounds like a child’s life doesn’t it?

When Beth and I first moved into our sub-division, we had moved in from the country, all of the neighborhood kids just gravitated towards us. If I was lying in the hammock they would just run and jump right on in, if I was shooting hoops they just joined in. I was uncomfortable with this at first, I had never experienced anything like it. But then God said to me, relax, kids loved to be around Jesus as well, Matthew 19, Mark 10, and Luke 18.

God is the best parent of all, He has all, He is in all, He loves us just like He loves Jesus, and He doesn’t respect any of His kids over another. Because our Father is Who He is, we are able to be like a little child with Him. Our Father began to use these little children around me to reveal to me just what Jesus was teaching us in the Sermon on the Mount. I clearly saw that when children have strong loving parents, they just naturally go into the world and take no thought for their needs. There is just an outright confidence in their parents taking care of everything! We are now born again of God Himself and we now have all of God’s strength and might working through us. Our Father is the Creator of everything and through His Anointing we are strong in all of the power of His might and we too are able to take no thought for our own lives. God knows that we have needs and He has provided for all of them, according to His riches and glory! If we look at the Lilies in the field, we can see just how magnificently our Father will provide for us! Children don’t lay up money for themselves, they get money and they want to spend it. If a friend needs a dollar for an ice cream cone, they just give it, or come and ask their mom or dad for it. They do this because they are confident in their parents provision, through personal experience, and they are taking no thought for their lives, they just know that dad and mom are providing, that is the rest that we enjoy in our Father through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

The Last Act Of Our Free Will

“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

The last act of our free will was to allow God to crucify us with all of Christ, which allowed us to completely live, because all of Christ was now the One living within us. We can’t even brag about giving up our free will, because it was God Who gave us the strength and the ability to do so! And praise God, the burden of messing up is no longer solely our concern; it is God's as well. Don't believe me? "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 God is the Gardener, Jesus is our Shepherd, we are the branches of the Vine of Christ, and we are the sheep of God Himself. Branches do not bear the responsibility of producing quality fruit, it is the vine and the gardener that do. Sheep do not bear the burden of their own safety, the shepherd does. God is the One Who cast the burdens of our salvation on Himself. Jesus teaches us that to be the greatest in God’s Kingdom, we have to be the biggest servants. Jesus is by far the greatest, because He is by far the biggest servant, ever living to intercede for us so that we may be saved to the uttermost. Any remnants of our free will are pruned out of us by God and burned out of us by Jesus, Who is the refiner’s fire, so that we may be used fully by God to produce everlasting righteous fruit! We are never alone; God in all of His forms: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is always vitally united with us! We are always strong in all of the power of God’s might and no weapon, none, even our carnal free will, will ever prosper against the power of Christ that is now within us! We have been empowered with the very Will of God to make Jesus our Lord and we are now one with our Father just as Jesus is One with the Father. And just as Jesus’ will is the Fathers’, so now is our through Christ that strengthens us!