Through Christ We Are Purged From Dead Works

"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

When I read all of the verses that we have studied together in these posts, I look in the mirror and have to say no, we are definitely not truly serving the Living God in the fullness of the power that Jesus came for us to have. But I am not hopeless, and I actually get excited because I believe that our Father is calling us and strengthening us with His very Own strength to be who He has born us to be. I have seen that I cannot do it and that you cannot do it, and even all of us put together cannot do it.  I do see though in our Fathers Word that He can absolutely do it through us. I have seen that it is His will, that it is His desire, and that He has provided a way and that He will cause us to walk in that way!

I believe that our Father is calling us to serve Him and that He is giving us the will, the mind, and the heart to serve Him. I believe that we are chosen to truly serve our Father as Jesus serves Him. Not with this false sense of humility that says, yeh but He was Jesus. But in power, because our Father has given us the mind of Christ. We have been made to be part Jesus’ body. We have been given the same Spirit that Jesus has and through the anointing of Christ we are now one with Him! If all of these things are true, if we are truly dead and if the only reason we live is because it is Jesus living within us, how could we serve God differently that Jesus serves Him?

This excites me to no end and as I talk to others they also are being directed by God this way. I honestly believe that the glorious church will not be divided, that we will serve our Father and that we will not have a false consciousness that condemns us, but one that glorifies God through action, thought, and deed! I believe that through Jesus we will be used by our Father to do the works that Jesus did and even greater ones. I believe that through Jesus we will have mature fellowship with our Father and that through Jesus we will be one and that the world will believe! America will believe, Asia, South America, Russia, Central America, Australia, the Middle East, the Far East, Africa, and Europe will all believe. I believe that through Christ we will be one and that the world will believe! Jesus prayed it in John 17, and I don’t think that He was wasting His time with just some words; this is God’s will, and thank You Father You have made it ours as well! The Word teaches us all of these things, and we have the Holy Spirit within us teaching them as well. They will be so, argue about them if you want, but our Father, Who is God, will not be stopped, and what He has spoken will come to pass!

Think about having a purged conscience, one that is fully and completely cleansed and think about being fully pleasing to God in every thought, word, and action. It’s not pie in the sky; it’s ours through the Blood of Christ. It’s who we are, it’s what we have been born of, it’s our inheritance, and in Jesus’ Name it will grow and mature within us, and it will come to pass before He returns, God has spoken it! Jesus loves you and so do I, in Him you will be blessed this day and every day for all of eternity, because as He is so are we in this world!

Do We Just Have A Form Of Godliness?

"And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. 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 16:15-18

Let me ask you this question, is the Church today really serving God in the fullness of His power, or do we have a form of godliness but deny the real and complete power of our Father? I don’t think that we are truly serving God in the power that Jesus came and died for us to have, not as a whole we aren’t. And here is why I believe this; Jesus teaches us in Mark 16 that signs will absolutely follow them who believe. So we have to ask ourselves, as a whole are these signs following the Church? Read in the Book of Acts, our older brothers and sisters were being used by our Father to do these things! Right from the very beginning of their salvation, babies in Christ were being used by God to raise the dead, to prophesy, and to heal all manner of sickness!

Jesus teaches us that all who believe should be one. “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.” John 17:21

The question is: are we truly one? Look at how many different churches that we have, right across the street from each other, towns with less than 500 people have three and four different churches, in the Book of Acts our Father was adding 5000 people a day to one church! I hear it preached all of the time that we can agree to disagree, bull; our Father is not divided! Can the hand disagree with the arm? If it does the body is handicapped, is Christ handicapped? Look at what the Word says the Church should be like.

“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.” Acts 2:1

One accord, one mind, the church is not one today, we are divided, different doctrines, creeds, and whatever other term we may want to use, but not one.

“For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?” 1 Corinthians 1:11-13

Let me ask you what is the first question that you are asked when you tell someone that you are saved? Usually it is what church do you go to? Are you a Baptist, a Lutheran, a Methodist, a whatever, is Christ divided? Are we serving the Living God when denominations all seek their own interpretation? Faith that we should be one comes from hearing the Truth, and the Truth sets us free to be used by our Father with all of His fullness! Through Christ we will move onto perfection and the glorious church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish will shine brightly throughout all of the world and the captives will be set free!

The Power Of The Blood Of Christ

"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

God's love for us surpasses everything! He willingly, readily, and freely provides for us all of the needed requirements for our eternal fellowship. Our Father has fully equipped us with Himself to serve; He has left nothing out! Have you seen through His Word the enormous responsibility that God places on Himself to insure that we are never separated from Him? Religion wants to place all of that burden on us, but God has spoken that He is the One. He is our Father and Jesus is our Shepherd. God has placed His Spirit within us and He will cause us to walk in His ways. God is the One that will teach us all things through His Holy Spirit. God is the one that will meet our needs according to His riches and glory in Christ Jesus. Our Father is the One that will heal us by Jesus’ stripes. We have God’s mind through Christ, He has given us His angels to protect us, and He can now use us to do all things through Christ Who strengthens us and without Him we can do nothing! It’s all God; He even Authors and Finishes the faith we need to accept these Truths. It’s all God, He accomplished everything needed for us, He provides everything that pertains to our godliness, He is the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega, the First and He is the Last.

And the precious Blood of Christ has obtained our eternal salvation and the Blood of Christ has purged our consciences from dead works so that we may serve the Living God. “I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in One; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” John 17:23 "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 “For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.” Ephesians 5:30 “I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20

Jesus Has Saved Us To Perfection

“By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better Testament.” Hebrews 7:22

“Wherefore He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.” Hebrews 7:25

Through the power of Christ we are saved to the uttermost, we are now perfected by Christ. Through Christ we are now nigh unto God, and through Christ we are now the children of Light! Jesus teaches us in Matthew 11:6 that if we will accept and not stumble at His Truth than truly we will be blessed. Jesus has given us the Holy Spirit and through the strength of the very Spirit of God, our Father will reveal the Truth of who we are in Christ to us. What Jesus has done for us is our foundation and now its time to move past the beginning principles of Christ, and through the full power of our Savior move on to perfection! Faith comes from hearing and faith is the evidence of things hoped for, if we are saved these Truths are in us, we are born of them, they will nourish us and feed us.

Jesus came not to just show us how great He was, but to show us how great we could be in Him and He could be in us! Jesus came so that we could be one, just exactly as He and God our One! This is how the world will believe and be saved. This is how the dead will be raised, the blind will see, the deaf will hear, and the Gospel will be preached to every nation.

The Hope Of Being Perfect, Draws Us Nigh To God

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

Look at what God teaches us here; the hope that brings perfection also draws us nigh to Him. The more that we realize that we are perfect, fully equipped, mature, or whatever other term we may use, the more we will draw nigh to God. My kids and I are close, but when they were infants, babies, the relationship was one sided, Beth and I served them, they loved us and we loved them, but as they have grown we have even become closer. They know me, and I know them. I am still their dad, yet we are also friends, and as each day goes by, we become closer and closer. The same is true with God, as we grow, we grow nigh, it’s not that we become perfect, no, we are already there by Christ, we can’t help it, our Father birthed us into perfection on the day of our salvation. But do grow to understand our perfection. Now just as with Kennedy and Lauren this understanding is not one sided, totally dependent upon them, Beth and I have raised them, taught them, showed them, directed them, and the same is true with God. The only way that we can understand our perfection in Christ is by God being intimately involved in the learning process! Our Father will never leave us or forsake us and He has allowed us to become one with the Holy Spirit to teach us all things!

The wisdom of man states that our perfection comes to us by our works, our actions. If we mess up than obviously we are not perfect, but if we don’t mess up than we are perfect. Praise God we don’t have to deal in the wisdom of man, we are allowed to deal in God’s wisdom and God say’s we are perfect by Jesus and only by Him. This is foolishness to most, but not to those who have accepted it. There is no work we could ever do that would make us perfect, yet we have received a freedom that passes all understanding, we are perfect just because the One Who created it all gave it to us. The price wasn’t free, Jesus paid dearly, yet for you and I who are saved, it is just freely obtained. Through the power of Christ we just accept it. A Stumbling Stone to everyone except those who have looked to the Light and who have stepped out of darkness.

We Are Made Perfect By Christ

“I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in One; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” John 17:23

“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Matthew 5:48

As Paul wrote in Hebrews, let us go on to perfection and as Jesus said to us, be perfect even as God is perfect. These are two awesome statements of faith. Perfection is not an unattainable goal of the believer. Why isn’t it, because perfection comes from Christ. Look at what Jesus said to us in John 17:23. He taught us that our unity with Him and the oneness that it brings with God makes us perfect. Now how cool is Luke 6:40, Jesus said that everyone who is perfect shall be like his master. Jesus is our Master, we are perfect because of our Master, Jesus, and we are like Him even while on this earth, if He lives within us, 1 John 4:17. Jesus is in us and we are in Him, and we all are in God, and all are made perfect in One! Jesus said it, now do you actually believe Him or do you believe some bumper sticker that says we aren’t perfect just forgiven?

The reason that we have to continue to talk about our perfection in Christ is because Jesus teaches us that it is how the world will know that God sent Him, and it is how the world will know that God loves them every bit as much as He loves Jesus! The world, America, China, Europe, Asia, Africa, Israel, the Middle East, Russia, South America, and Australia, the world! The world being a glorious church in Christ, without spot, wrinkle, or blemish! Our Father would that all men be saved and perfection by Christ is how we can be! This is the Day of our Salvation and now is our accepted time!

The Hope Of Christ Has Made Us Perfect

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

"Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment." Hebrews 6:1-2

“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Matthew 5:48

“The disciple is not above his master: but everyone that is perfect shall be as his master.” Luke 6:40

“I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in One; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” John 17:23

“That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Howbeit, we speak wisdom among them that are perfect; yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princess of this world, that come to naught.” 1 Corinthians 2:5-6

Religious laws have never made anyone perfect. Even if we could have kept and followed perfectly the do’s and the don’ts of the Law, we still would not be perfect. Works have never made anyone perfect, but the hope of Salvation through Jesus Christ does! Notice that God does not say to us in Hebrews that this hope will make us perfect, but that it did make us perfect! Trying to keep rules never worked and it never will, but being empowered by the Holy Spirit to allow Jesus to Author and Finish our faith will work, and it will work each and every time that it is done. Works do not make us righteous or perfect, however being righteous and perfect will produce works, and it will produce everlasting fruit that brings praise and glory to God! And we have the peace of our Lord that passes all understanding, and that peace is that it is our Father within us doing the works!

Let's Move Past The Doctrine Of Faith

"Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment." Hebrews 6:1-2

Is Jesus laying a foundation of faith for Himself towards God, no way, it’s settled and complete for Him. There is no question to Jesus that God is it; He is the way, the answer, and the provider, God is the All! “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

God has made us one with His power to live as Jesus lives, never having any doubts about Who our Father is, what He is, how He is, and what is the greatness of His love towards us. Just as Jesus knows the breadth, length, height, and depth of our Fathers love, so do we! Through Christ we are now one with and have possession of the perfect and complete faith of Jesus Christ, just as Jesus is one with it, no difference, because Jesus has given it all to us! Through Christ perfection is for us! Two plus two is four, we can move on past this Truth to division, multiplication, algebra, and trigonometry. The truth of two plus two is still there, but there is more, and there is more for us than just believing that God is, and believing that He will reward those who are empowered by the Holy Spirit to believe He will reward us. The Truth of 1 John 4:17, as He is, so are we in this world, awaits us! And the peace here is that we know beyond any shadow of a doubt that Jesus will completely lead us in the path of this righteousness for His Name’s sake!

Leaving The Principal of Repentance?

"Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment." Hebrews 6:1-2

So as we are considering Jesus, Who He is, what He is, how He is, what He is like, consider this: is He repenting from dead works? No, so we too can move past that, because as He is so are we in this world! “Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him; 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 6:9-11

Satan and man want us to look at ourselves to see just how powerful God is, but the Truth that has set us free is that we look to Jesus and through Him we live and enjoy the full power of salvation. Jesus is our strength, He is our ability, because we live in the power of His capabilities. He Authors and Finishes our faith. He leads us in the paths of righteousness. He has given us and made us one with His joy, His peace, His Spirit, His love, His power, His freedom, His wisdom and knowledge, and we are now strong in all of the power of His might! Jesus has been freed from ever even considering dead works, and we are now one with Him, we are now His body, His flesh, and His bone, and as He is free from dead works, so are we, even while in this world!

Move To Perfection: Part 2

"Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment." Hebrews 6:1-2

Look at what the Holy Spirit has Paul write, that faith towards God is considered to be a beginning principle of Christ. God says let’s move on past this to perfection. Let’s move on past baptisms; let’s move on past the laying on of hands, and move past eternity? These principles are the main focuses of church today, and obviously they were over a thousand of years ago as well. But there is more and God wants us to go there, and through the power of Christ we will.

Perfection is Jesus, plain and simple, Jesus is our example of perfection. So let’s consider Him, let’s move on towards His standard. The first thing to remember is our example of perfection repeatedly said that it was God within Him. They talked about the miraculous works that He did and Jesus said that it was God within Him Who did the works. They called Jesus good, and He said none was good but God. Jesus our example of perfection was perfect because God made Him that way. Jesus never spoke of Himself as the Author of perfection. He never spoke of His own efforts allowing Him to be perfect. He was perfect because God made Him that way, and God made Jesus that way by making Him of Himself! The two were and are One! Now, who are we one with? Who are we born of? Whose body are we? Who gave us a new heart? Whose Spirit abides within us, and Whose mind do we now have? Whose seed are we born from? When we are born again, we were born just as Jesus was, of a woman and of God! Jesus is perfect because of God, and God loves us just as He loves Him! And through Christ we are now one with God, as Jesus is One with God.

Lets Move On To Perfction

"Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment." Hebrews 6:1-2

Did God just say that we should leave the principles of the doctrine of Christ? Wow, can you imagine standing up in church today and saying let’s leave the doctrines of Christ and move on to perfection? I believe the congregation would pick up stones and bring to a swift end such heresy, or politely ask you to leave, yet God had it written hundreds of years ago, why? Stop and really think about it, why did the Holy Ghost have this written, that we should leave the principles of Christ?

Look at what God was saying here in Hebrews, they were continuing to lay the foundation of repentance from dead works. Think of today’s church. Most people don’t believe that they actually can walk without dead works; the foundation of such power has never been laid, yet alone re-laid. How many alter calls have you seen where the preacher goes beyond calling the lost to calling anyone who has fallen short that week? I was involved in a Bible Study where the preacher actually would start the studies with reading a verse, than follow it up by asking who failed at it. There is little to no hope to be found in religion that dead works can be done away with on this earth and perfection can be obtained. This is because religion focuses on us, not on Jesus; the One Who will bring perfection to us. When you are empowered by the Holy Spirit to look at Jesus, perfection is easily accepted, because the burden of perfection has been cast on the One Who it should be. “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.” 1 Peter 5:6-7 Jesus is perfection and He ever lives to intercede for us so that we may be saved to the uttermost.

The Word of our Father teaches us that as Jesus is, so are we in this world, 1 John 4:17. Our Father tells us to consider ourselves to be dead to sin and alive to Him, just as Jesus is dead to sin and alive to Him, Romans 6:11. And our Father tells us that faith is the evidence of things hoped for, and that faith comes from hearing the Word of God. So we need to encourage each other with the Truth that sets us free and the Truth is that Jesus is our power of perfection. We serve God with His abilities, not with our human ones. Faith is actually our Lords ability to believe, not ours, because Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith! Through Christ we can actually live without dead works and we can live as one in the full and complete power of our Father, just as Jesus does!

Preach The Fullness Of Salvation

"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost: Which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior;” Titus 3:5-6

God has given us the Holy Ghost abundantly! We are now heirs with Jesus, we are now saved, we are now God’s children, we are now perfect, we are now pure, we are now sanctified, we are now holy, and we can go on and on. Salvation is awesome; remember I asked at the beginning of our studies why should we want to be saved? Do you now see why salvation is so great, not only for tomorrow, but for today? We all talk about Jesus, and we should, we absolutely should praise Him, glorify Him, thank Him, worship and honor Him, it’s all because of Him. But when we think of His absolute glory and power, we have to remember that He gave us all of it and has made us one with it as well. Jesus held nothing back from us; we have the complete fullness of God just as He does. We are one with Him, and the only reason we are alive is because He is alive within us. It can be no other way; we are what Jesus is. We are born of the same seed, we are anointed with the same anointing, we have the same Spirit, and praise God we are heirs with Him! He is our Vine that produces much fruit through us!

We cannot candy coat this. People are hurting, they are scared, confused, sick, angry, and they need to know that God is ready, willing, and able to do all of these things for them. Religion is not working! To often we shy away from talking about the Holy Ghost being one with us. It sounds to far-fetched. We think we need to be cautious, if we talk like this people may be turned off. My God they need to hear it, they don't need some watered down version of salvation, they need to hear it as God's Word proclaims it!

What will do more damage, telling it like God tells it or candy coating the message, giving just enough Truth to tickle the ear? God says that He will spit the lukewarm ones out of His mouth, Revelation 3:15. Look how Jesus talked to the people, they did not have the Holy Ghost, and they had never seen or heard anything like what He was saying. Jesus never candy coated it; they wanted to throw Him over a cliff for what He was teaching. So why is there now so much concern over running people off with the absolute Truth? Wolves in sheep’s clothing, having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it, ever learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth is why!

Religion has failed, God has not, so talk as our Father talks, His Word is alive within us! God’s Word will not fall void to the earth. Heaven and earth will pass away, but God’s Word will still be, so if He said we are justified it’s so. If God said perfect, preserved, heirs, glorified, and sanctified, regardless of what we think, these verses are fact. We can either be humble and accept the awesome glories that God has freely bestowed on us and allow Jesus to Author and Finish the faith in us to walk in them or we can be arrogant and deny them, in a self-condemning humility trying to raise God up by focusing on our own human frailties, either way we go these Truth’s will stand!

"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

Through Christ We Have Everything That Jesus Has

That being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." Titus 3:7

We are saved by God’s mercy and His Holy Spirit has renewed us. God has Paul write in Romans 6 that our old self has been crucified with Christ. In Galatians Paul writes that we are crucified with Christ, yet nevertheless we live, because it is now Christ living within us. So of course we are justified, how could we be anything but justifed? If we are alive and one with Christ, how could we be unjustified? Jesus isn’t, and we are now alive with Him and united with Him, so neither are we! We are filled with the fullness of God and we are abundantly supplied with and one with His Holy Spirit and that means something! It passes knowledge, it gives strength, ability, it grounds us and settles us on the Truth and the Truth sets us free!

We are not only supplied with this abundance of Christ, we are heirs with Jesus. God looks at you and I and He sees us in the exact same way that He sees Jesus, which is One with Him! How many times have we studied that God loves us exactly as He loves Jesus, John 17:23?

When God sent Jesus to this world, He fully equipped Him to complete the task, and He has done exactly the same for us. We lack absolutely nothing needed to be as Jesus is on this earth. We are heirs and that means if Jesus has it, so do we. “Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He [the Spirit] will take the things that are Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you.” John 16:15 Amplified

An Abundnant Holy Ghost

"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost: Which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior; That being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." Titus 3:5-7

God shed His Spirit on us abundantly, praise God, abundantly! We didn’t get just some little smidgen of God. No, He has shed Himself on us abundantly! "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

Everywhere we turn in the Word of our Father, Old Testament or New Testament, He writes that He has given us all of His completeness and fullness through Christ. And He doesn’t say that He has just given us them either, but that we are one with them, just as Jesus is One with them! We never read that we are limited; we never read that God asked us to go it alone. When God talks about us, He uses Words like abundance, completeness, perfection, glory, preservation, pure, justification, and perfection! According to God we are all of these things, because Jesus came and He came so that we might have life and have it more abundantly as HE has life and has it abundantly!

How Pure Can We Be?

"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the Sons of God; therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure." 1 John 3:2-3

Through Christ just how pure can we be? Are there any limits for our purity, because we do by the way still have flesh and blood? The answer for us is glorious. The power of our Savior is absolute: through Christ there are no limits for God’s children. If we have the hope of Jesus; we are pure even as Jesus is pure! This only makes sense, look Who is purifying us, we aren’t pure through our own efforts, we are pure through Jesus’ and His standard is perfection, so of course we are pure as He is pure!

If you know and understand that you are pure only because of Jesus, then you will never struggle with this level of purity. However, if you are trying to earn it, or trying to obtain purity through your own human efforts, faith in absolute purity will be an offense and a stumbling block for you, something that is almost even an abomination to think of. But for the truly saved, our strength lies solely with Jesus and our Saviors Blood has the ability, the power, and the will to purify us to His perfect level of purity! We are perfect even as our Father in Heaven is perfect, because our Father has made us that way through Christ! Christians are perfect, because we have been forgiven and because the shed and eternal Blood of our Savior is that powerful!

"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth you, Who also will do it." 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

Ask yourself this, what did Jesus have to do to be pure other than to be born of God? If Jesus was made pure by His works, we could stand and argue that He didn’t live long enough to prove it. I mean He was only in His thirties when He suffered the temptation of the Cross, could He have done it in is sixties? But the Truth is that Jesus was just born pure. He was One with God from the beginning, our Father made Him that way. We have the same Father, the exact same Spirit, and the exact same birth as Jesus. Jesus was born of a woman and of the Spirit, and you and I have been born again of a woman and of the Spirit!

With our Father all things are possible: purity, perfection, sanctification, power, love, faith that moves mountains, being completely blameless, free from all iniquity, these are all of our blessings through Christ Who strengthens us! Be blessed in the power of His might because as He is, so are we even while in this world!

Jesus Has Purified Us

"Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." Titus 2:14

We are pure because Jesus gave Himself for us, so that all who would ever be empowered to accept Him as Lord would be redeemed from all iniquity. Jesus gave Himself for us and He purified us unto Himself! So if you have been chosen by God and have said yes to Jesus, all things are now pure for you and since you are pure, God Himself makes you zealous for good works! And producing fruit brings glory to our Father and through good works we prove ourselves to be His disciples!

Jesus gave Himself for us, so that we could become one with Him, and through our unity and oneness the world will believe and be saved! Our Father will be praised in the midst of hopelessness and through us victory will arise out of chaos. As we see a rise in terrorism and evil within the world, rejoice, because for us everything is pure. When the world sees doubt, our Father allows us to see faith. When the world sees hatred, through Christ we see and enjoy the presence of love. And when the world has no answers, we have the mind of Christ and the Holy Spirit, so that we may know all things! Everything is now pure for us and through the power of God’s might, we will be used to shed it abroad. Through Christ the world will be saved!

All Things Are Pure For The Saved

"Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess they know God; but in works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate." Titus 1:15-16

Ask yourself this: are we pure or not? Can we be pure? Is purity something that a human can even obtain while on this earth? Well according to our Father, we are either pure or we are defiled. According to the Word there is no in-between, if we are pure then all things are pure to us, and if we are defiled than everything is defiled for us, even religion. Our Father proclaims that a little leaven, will leaven the whole lump of dough, 1 Corinthians 5:6! So really ask yourself, are we pure or are we defiled?

Hallelujah, once again we will see Jesus to our rescue!

"Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." Titus 2:14

We could never be pure on our own and our Father knew it. So He sent Jesus, Who has the strength, the will, and the ability to purify us completely, so that now all things are pure for us. That is how strong the Blood of our Savior is, it covers all! It redeems us from all iniquity and it purifies all things for us so that we may be used by our Father to produce much fruit, and He makes us eager for good works. Now stop and look at that, Jesus makes us eager, or zealous, for good works! How many times have you spoken a scripture of real power and had some religious person come back with a warning or a caution? They do this because they believe that it is the power of man that is being used to carry out the purposes and will of our Father. But we don’t operate in the power of our own might, we operate in the power of our Lord’s might. We are more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us! Jesus is the One and only One Who makes us desire and want righteous works! Greater is He that is within us, than he that is in the world! Jesus has made us pure so that we may be one with God just as He is one with God, John 17:21-23. We are now the body of Jesus, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone, Ephesians 5:30. And since we are, we are now as He is, and all things are pure for Jesus, and we are this way even when we are on this earth, 1 John 4:17. Praise God that is how strong Jesus is, He has saved us to the uttermost and through the power of His might we stand strong as He is strong!

Our Godly DNA

"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth you, Who also will do it." 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

In Christ we are preserved blameless. In Christ we are sanctified wholly, delivered from every evil work, preserved until Heaven, sealed with the Holy Spirit, thoroughly furnished, without blemish, and we are glorified with Jesus’ glory. We now also have the Mind of Christ, we have His Spirit, and His anointing, so that we may be perfect until the day that He is revealed. That is what our Father say’s and it is Truth, and it is righteousness, and it is fact! It’s what you are born of and if you have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus, it is in you, you can’t help but believe it, it’s what you are. We may not fully understand it, we may still be immature, but this is the Incorruptible Seed that we have been born of, it’s in our spiritual makeup, our Godly DNA!

We are one with Jesus who sanctifies us. God makes our way perfect. He established our hearts unblameable before Him in love. Our righteousness is of God. He has quickened our mortal bodies and He has predestined us to be conformed to the very image of Jesus! We are completely and thoroughly furnished unto ever-good work. Our Father will keep us and preserve us until we get to Heaven. These scriptures are for us today and in Jesus’ Name they are going to be lived and enjoyed and shared, no longer just talked about, but lived! It’s time that we move on to the perfection that Jesus has provided for us, and in the power of our Lords might we will!

Satan Will Never Win Against Us

"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth you, Who also will do it." 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

Paul, Peter, John, all of the Apostles, and all of the Prophets in the Bible suffered persecution, Jesus teaches us that we will too, but our Father will deliver us from every evil work. I hear it preached all of the time about the struggles that we have with satan. People there is no struggle with satan! If you have been chosen by God and empowered with the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus as the Lord of your life, then satan is no longer a threat to you! If he were than he would have to be a threat to Jesus, Who is our Head! Through Christ we have been sealed with the Holy Ghost, so how could satan penetrate the Holy Ghost to harm us? If Jesus is our Shepherd; how it is that satan can get by Him? How is it that if God is preserving us and keeping us from evil until Heaven, that He can fail? Satan is not an issue for the believer, he wants to make you think that he is, but if he is, than all of these verses that we have read are lies! We will wrestle with satan, but it will be as the conquerors that we are through Christ! We will go into all of the world and run satan and evil off from every area that we are led in! From the sidelines satan will attempt to stop us, but there is no weapon that he has and there is no one that he is in control of, that can come against us as we stand anointed and united with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords!

Will we be persecuted for the testimony that we are used by God to share, absolutely, but God will deliver us from it and we will win, and God will receive the praise and glory and others will see our victory and God will be praised! Death has no victory over us, to be absent from the body is to be present with Christ! Persecution has no victory over us, we are more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us. We win, each and every time. I know it’s not preached, I mean we hear sermons that ask why do bad things happen to good people? But through persecution we grow in the strength of the Lord. When we are weak, He is strong and His strength is perfected in our weakness! We win each and every time. No one who has been chosen by God, and who has truly been empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as Lord, ever looses, ever! All things now work for our good! “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

Christ Has Defeated The But Devil

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

But what if we are killed for testifying about Jesus? “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” 1 Corinthians 15:55

But what if we are throne into jail and persecuted for believing? “And to him they agreed: and when they had called the Apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.” Acts 5:40-42

There is not one area in a believer’s life that satan can win at, not one! If he could win than we would have to throw 2 Timothy 4:18 out, it would be false, because God would not deliver us from every evil work. The Truth is that we are now actually one with Jesus, John 17:23, and since we are we have been delivered from every evil work, just as Jesus is delivered from every evil work!

You may think but sin, what about sin. The wage of sin is death, but through Christ we have passed from death unto life, Romans 6:4-11. So through Christ we have been delivered from sin. God is not a man that He should lie and if our Father has proclaimed that we are delivered from every evil work and preserved unto His Kingdom, than we are delivered from every evil work unto His Kingdom! Done deal, absolute, with no chance of failure! When God empowered us to believe, we won, just as Jesus won!

Jesus Delivers US From Every Evil Work

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

Stop right here and read that verse again, “The Lord, Jesus, will deliver us from every evil work, and Jesus will preserve us unto His Heavenly Kingdom.” Jesus proclaimed that satan came only to steal from us, to kill us, and to destroy us! Now here is the Truth that sets us free, so what, who cares what satan came to do, we care about what Jesus came and did and we care about what He is doing! The bracelets ask us what would Jesus do (WWJD)? Well Jesus will keep us from evil and He will preserve us, that is what Jesus will do! Praise God, how awesome is that, Jesus will deliver us from every evil work! The Truth is God is for us, so who or what can be against us? The Truth is that God has made us more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us! No weapon formed against us will ever prosper, through Christ our darkness is as the noonday, and we are preserved and sealed with the Holy Spirit of God! Let satan try to do what he came for, Jesus is our Shepherd, the thief will be ran off each and every time! Because greater is He that is now and forevermore within us, than he that is in the world! Satan cannot harm us, who are the body of Jesus, any more than he can harm Jesus! When God chose us we won, and we always win, because the One that we are now one with always wins! Welcome to salvation, all things now work together for our good!

Use God's Word For Correction

"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." 2 Timothy 3:16-17

If you are dealing with someone who just wont latch on to the power of God, whether it is salvation, or any other issue within their life, the best way to serve them is by using the Word of God. Speak scripture to them, show them where it is at, pray it for them, pray it with them, read it with them, email them, or write them, whatever God leads you to do. So many times we try to speak of a similar situation in our own life to comfort or aid a person, but the Word is profitable for the perfecting of the Saints. People sometimes feel that their situation is far worse than yours was and you could never understand or even compare your life with their misery. But the Word of God has life and the Word of God is what has made us perfect and the Word of God has thoroughly prepared us for instruction in righteousness. It does not matter if we say it with its chapter number and verse number, or just say it, the Word of our Father will not fall void to the earth, it will accomplish what He has intended for it to do. We may see it, or we may not. We may be used by God to plant a seed that He uses another person to water, and than has another harvest, but it was God Who made it grow. And Jesus has led us all in the path of being used to further the Kingdom of God!

All scripture is given by Divine inspiration. We have been honored by God Himself to become one with it. The sower sows the Word of God, some may fall on stony ground, some in the thorns, some in shallow soil, but some will fall in good ground, and it will produce a crop of 30, 60, or 100 fold! With the Word we are perfectly and thoroughly equipped to be used by God to do all good works!