Through Christ Our Father Will Use Us To Do All Things

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

Is there anything that Jesus cannot do? Absolutely not, He can do anything and that is the force that is now strengthening us. Jesus has unlimited access to the full power of God our Father, because the Two of Them are One! This is our strength! Jesus spoke to situations, He told them what to do and they obeyed Him! Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, He changes not! He will speak through us as He spoke. No, it’s even more powerful than that, He will speak through us as He now speaks, with the full power of the New Covenant! As we speak people should hear God, they should see His righteousness through us. We should tell storms to stop, the sick to be whole, and the dead to be raised. We should tell the demons to flee, because it is our Father within us! We should speak with the full power of the resurrection and of the love of God! The Truth is this: our Father now has the full freedom to speak through us just as He spoke through Jesus, because the separation of sin has been removed from us!

Our Father has not given us a spirit of fear; we can have all joy in accepting and believing this. We have been given us a sound mind, a mind of God's very Anointing; so that we can understand this, and He has given us His love that now dwells within us. To speak as Jesus speaks shows the love of God to be fully active within our lives! Jesus came and He healed the sick, He spoke of the love of God and now our Father has millions of bodies to speak through! Jesus came as one man united with God and He spoke of salvation, and millions throughout the ages have believed and been saved. And now our Father has millions of us who are one with Him through Christ to speak the same message! Jesus has given us all of Himself and through His strength we are now able to allow Him to be all that He is within us! There are now no limitations for the power of God to be revealed within us on the earth! Our Father can now do all things through us, because His Anointing has strengthened us so that He can!

We Speak With The Power Of God Himself

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

Our Father is now greater in us than anything or anyone that is in the world, and this absolute Truth is how righteousness speaks! This Truth is what has been shed abroad in our hearts! This is the Truth that we have been born again of and it is what we have become one with! The Supreme Court is not greater than God, Who we are now in and Who is now within us! There is no sickness and no disease that is greater than God, Who is now in us! Recessions or Depressions are not greater than God, Who is now in us! There is no terrorist or threat that is greater than God, Who is now within us! The US Congress, the European Union, the UN, or any President or Prime Minister is nothing compared to the Living God, Who has made us His Living Temple and Who is our Father!

Jesus spoke to storms and they ceased! He told the devil to get lost and he fled! He told the dead to rise and even when they were still bound in grave clothes they came forth! Our Father spoke aloud and the people marveled at what they had heard and said that it had thundered, and Jesus simply said that God had spoken on their account and not on His. He spoke this way because He knew where God was. He didn’t need a sign from our Father, because Jesus had the sign to know where God was, He was born of Him! The people were all looking for God up in Heaven, but Jesus knew that He was right there, and that God was in Him!

Jesus knew of the greatness of God and He spoke with that confidence, because it was God speaking through Him! Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free, so that we too are able to have our Father speaking through us, in all of His power and with the full force of His grace, love, and virtue! We now have the exact same mind that Jesus has, the mind of Christ, so with all of our Lords confidence, because of what He knows and what He has experienced, we are able to know of the power of our Father that is great within us!

You are blessed in the power of God’s might!

Why We Speak Of Abundant Faith

“But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into Heaven? (That is to bring Christ down from above:” Romans 10:8

Our Father and His Word are now in abundance in our hearts and since they are, that is what is spoken abundantly out of our mouths! For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth will speak, Matthew 12:34! God has given us a new heart and we no longer have to seek for Him, because we know that He is always with us, we are one with our Father, just as Jesus is One with Him. We are now eternally one with God through our Lord and Savior. This is how the righteousness of faith, which is in abundance in our hearts, speaks. This is how the faith that is Authored and Finished by Jesus speaks! We speak this way because it is the actual Anointing of God speaking through us. God’s Holy Spirit cries out from within us that God is our Father, that we are born of Him, and that we are one with Him through Jesus Christ our Savior! We talk like Jesus talks, because Jesus is now our Head, and He is now our righteousness! We have been crucified with Jesus, and yet we still live, but it is not our old self that is alive anymore, that body of sin and unrighteousness was destroyed, it is now the new man, recreated in Christ that lives! We are now new creatures in Christ, old things and the old way of speaking have passed away. It is now Christ that is alive within us and everything has become new for us! We speak like Christ, because we can speak no other way, we are now one with Him; we are joint-heirs with Him, we are His body! We have been recreated in God’s image in true righteousness and true holiness! We have been born again from the Incorruptible Seed of God and we will speak as the Seed that has bore us speaks! A-men, how glorious is the awesome power that God now has through us because of Jesus!

How Righteousness Speaks

"But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into Heaven? (That is to bring Christ down from above: Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it? The Word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the Word of faith, which we preach; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed" Romans 10:8-11

A-men, we don’t have to go up to Heaven and get Jesus to come down here to help us! We don’t have to bombard the Gates of Heaven with our prayers to get our Father's attention! Our salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior gives us direct access and unity with God. Jesus hasn’t just given us access to God either; He has made us one with Him, just as He is One with Him! We are now members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bone. We are now the Holy habitation of God Himself. God’s righteousness cries out from within us that He is always with us, that He is in our hearts, that we have His Spirit, that we have the mind of His Anointing, that He is our Father, and that we are now one with Him here on this earth! “And because ye are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then a heir of God through Christ.” Galatians 4:6-7

Our conversation should reflect these absolute Truth’s! There is never a situation, good or bad, when we are separated from our Father. And out of the abundance of our hearts our mouths will speak! Now our hearts are filled with God Himself and the Truth’s that He has filled us with will set forth His righteous works in our lives! We are a glorious church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish and greater is He that is in us than anything that is in the world! And we through the power of the Holy Spirit we are strengthened to talk and act like it!

Our Flesh Has Been Destroyed, So That We May Be Used By God

“Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” Romans 6:6

We have no confidence in our flesh, because through Christ our flesh has been destroyed! We have been crucified with Christ, nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who lives, it is Christ within us! Think of it, if you are in a battle and the soldier beside you is killed, would you put any confidence in His ability to protect you? Absolutely not, and that is how it is with us, we have no confidence in our flesh, because our flesh is as dead as dead can be. Our flesh has no ability to do anything that would earn us right standing with God! We now put our trust in the Bright and Shinning Star that is Jesus. He is alive, He is brilliant, and He is with us, He is in us, and He is One with us! This is where our confidence lies, this is the wisdom and knowledge that fills the new mind and heart that our Father has given us! Our minds now look towards the Truth and they do not stumble over it! And we have been fully equipped, so that we can be the very vessels of honor that God desires to work through!

Our Father now has millions of born again believers, all united and one in Christ, that can be used by Him just like Jesus was used. We are truly an army of one! These mortal bodies of ours have been quickened and made alive together with Christ, because we are born again from the very Incorruptible Seed of God. “Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)” Ephesians 2:5 We are now the very tools that God works through on this earth! And since we have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to give ourselves up for God, He has raised us up together and we have been seated together with Jesus our Savior. And the only reason that we could even do this is because Jesus gave us the ability and the opportunity to give ourselves over to God! “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:6-7 Faith comes from hearing the Word, and the Truth of God’s Word sets us free!

Righteousness is ours, it’s ours because Jesus gave it to us, our Lord gave us His very own righteousness. Righteousness allows our Father to be with us, and righteousness allows God to work through us! The works that our Father does through us does not make us righteous; Jesus makes us righteous! This is the freedom of salvation, and our Father would that we all have it!

We Have An Anointed Mind

"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." 2 Timothy 1:7

Jesus has given us a sound mind, actually the soundest mind of all, because He has given us His mind. “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 2:16 Jesus has given us His mind and Jesus’ mind knows beyond any shadow of a doubt that our Father will produce much fruit through us! We now have the peace and the wisdom that Jesus has about us; that it is God within us producing His fruit! We have been given a mind of knowledge that knows it’s only by the Anointing of God, which is Christ, that our Father is able to work through us! We do not fear this Truth that we have to put complete and total trust in God and that we can place no trust in ourselves. The sound mind that our Father has given us, gives us the ability to believe this way! We have been given the same mind as Christ, we now believe as He believes! We know that it is a lie of the devil that says God helps those who help themselves! We now have a mind that does not fear the complete and total power of God that is working through us! We have a mind that desires the fullness of our Father to be within us, and a mind that expects Him to do His works through us! We have a mind that expects victory in every situation and in every area of our lives!

"Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of His knowledge by us in every place." 2 Corinthians 2:14

This is the faith that Jesus has given us, His very own faith, and there is not one work that we could ever perform that could earn it. Our flesh on its own just doesn’t have the ability to work that way! But through Christ, our Father will always cause us to triumph and He will always use us to make Jesus known in every place! Through Christ, our Father will lead us into the world to preach the Gospel to every creature and through Christ we will proclaim from the rooftops what Jesus proclaimed in silence!

Our Confidence Is Jesus

"For we are of the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." Philippians 3:3

Through the Anointing of God in our lives we have absolutely no reason to ever put any trust or confidence in ourselves to do anything that would allow God to move in our lives! We have been given the peace of God that passes all understanding and God has allowed us to see the Truth that we are righteous because Jesus is righteous. “For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.” Romans 11:16 God has freed us and we are now blessed because we have obtained righteousness apart from our own works. God has now revealed the Truth to us and we no longer have to rely on ourselves, or our own abilities to be right with God. Through the revelation of who we are in Christ, we now have no confidence in human abilities!

Even our faith is not our own, our faith is now Jesus’ faith. We now stand in the power of Jesus’ ability to believe God. Jesus has given us the Holy Spirit, to dwell permanently within us, so that through the power of God Himself, we are now able to look to Jesus for His faith! Jesus does not stumble at the promises of God, He is completely confident that God is willing and that God is able to do all that He has spoken. This is faith, and this is what Jesus Authors and Finishes within us! Since Jesus has given us His faith, God is now able to work His works of righteousness through us. God is able to cast out demons through us, God is able to heal the sick through us, and God is able to preach the Gospel to every creature through us. God does not fail and with Him working through us, we will never be ashamed and we will always rejoice in His Anointing! We will rejoice because Jesus has given us the faith that it is God within us working, we no longer have to look to ourselves. People are not healed by the power of our hands being laid on them; they are healed by the power of God that is within us, Who led us to lay hands on them! It’s no longer us sharing the Gospel, it’s God within us! We will never be ashamed because Jesus has given us His faith that God is able and willing to work through us completely! Jesus Authors our faith to be just as His faith, so that we know beyond any shadow of a doubt that we can do nothing without Him. But with Jesus, God will use us to do all things! We have not stumbled at the Stumblingstone, we have accepted the Truth that we can do nothing, and we have been saved from the lies that say we should even try. And through Christ and God’s Truth of who we are in Christ we are never ashamed!

Righteousness Comes By Faith, Not By Works

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

Whoever has been empowered by the Holy Spirit to believe in Jesus shall never be ashamed! Thank God that we do not have to depend on our own works to obtain righteousness! We are no longer limited by the power of our humanity; the power that sin had over us has been removed and we have been set free to walk in the greatness of God. Jesus isn’t ashamed and we are now and forevermore one with Him! Our Father has given us Jesus, the best that He has and Jesus has been made the righteousness of God for us! And through Jesus and through the power that He now exhibits through us, we will never be ashamed! Through Jesus we succeed in every area of our lives. Jesus will never fail us and He will always allow our Father to triumph through us!

Jesus is completely dead to sin! The power that separated man from God, which is sin, was destroyed for us by Jesus at the Cross! Sin lost all effect and power over us because of the righteous Blood that Jesus shed for us! All of the forces of evil that attempted to overcome Jesus while He was here as a man, lost all of their abilities over Him when God raised Him from the dead!

“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.” Romans 6:9-10

Jesus is the righteous Stumblingstone that our Father has laid in Sion! Man apart from Christ wants to earn his own righteousness and many stumble over the free grace of God that is Christ! Righteousness without Christ is sin to our Father! The Truth for life is this, it’s God’s way or it’s death. Our Father wants us righteous and He gave us only one way to become righteous, and that way is Jesus! No work will do, it's all just a free gift from our Father and Jesus gives us the faith to accept it!

We Have Jesus' Anointing To Be Used

“And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” Ephesians 3:19

Hallelujah, our Father is going to work through us in the full power and demonstration of His Spirit! Think of the way that Jesus lived when He was manifested in the flesh, He had compassion on the sick, so He allowed God to use Him, so that the sick were healed and the dead were raised! He didn’t stumble at Who He was, He rejoiced in it. We are now one with Him and our Father has given us our Lord's Anointed mind that looks toward Him for full understanding of who we are. Jesus knows exactly who we are, He knows exactly Who He is, and He will show us and He will give us the ability to accept and have boldness in the Truth that we are now one with Him!

Now here is the powerful Truth of our salvation, if we have truly been empowered by the Holy Spirit to make Jesus the Lord of our lives, we can’t help but look unto Him!

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20

If we are truly saved, it is now Christ, which is God’s anointing, the exact same anointing that Jesus has, that now lives within us. The exact same anointing that our Father gave to Jesus to live and to fulfill all that He is to do, now lives within us! The same anointing that allows Jesus to know that it is God within Him doing the works now lives within us! The same anointing that allows Jesus to fully know that He is One with God, now lives within us! We have not been given a different anointing than Jesus has, we have the exact same anointing, and it is that force that now lives within us. We will look unto Jesus to Author and Finish our faith, the very life force within us can do nothing else! We will win and our Father will work through us, and it’s not dependant upon our abilities to accept our Fathers Truth’s. We are dead and it is now Christ that lives within us, so it’s dependent upon Jesus’ abilities, and He finished all that was needed for us to fully believe at the Cross!

Jesus will Author and He will Finish our faith and it will allow God to be all that He is within us! How great is that? The freedom that we have been given through salvation: Our Father does the works and we receive the rewards! We are now rewarded just as Christ is rewarded, for we are now one with Him! Through Jesus, our Father, Who is God, can now have fellowship with us, and through Christ He is able to work through us as He has always desired to. Jesus makes us able vessels unto God’s righteousness! Our Father works through us now exactly as He works through Jesus, there is no separation at all. Not as robots, but as one flesh! God will show His signs through us and we will glorify Him in every action, just as our Lord does and did! Through Christ we will never stumble or fall!

“Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.” Jude 24

Because we are saved, and because we are now one with Jesus, and since we have His Anointing, we will never fall, and we will stand before God with boldness and with all joy! Greater is He that is within us, than he that is in the world! “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.” 1 John 4:4

No Fear For Us

“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

The Light of our Savior will cast all of the darkness of fear from us! Jesus’ love is perfect love and He will do all that it takes for us to insure that we walk in His perfect love. And He will lead us in a path that insures that we accept His perfect love and that we trust in it, so that there will be no fear at all within us! We are perfect in His love because of the power of His love! The power of Jesus’ perfect love cast out all fear from within us of not measuring up, or questions about God’s willingness to use us. Read anywhere in the Bible, about any thing we are to do and then remember, Jesus will Author and He will Finish the faith within us to live it! God has not given us a spirit of fear; all of the fullness and power of God that we read of in the Bible is for us! “And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” Ephesians 3:19 Through Christ, there is no darkness at all for us! Through Christ and the freedom that His Blood brings, we can have the fullness of God within us, 100% of the time, working all of the works of an abundant godly life, an abundant life here on this earth, and an abundant eternal life!

“Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17 Through Jesus we will stand fully confident with boldness on the day of judgment, there will be no fear within us, for His love has cast out all fear from us! We will have boldness, we will have full assured faith, Authored by Jesus Himself, that we have the right to stand there. Because just as Jesus lived on this earth, so did we; we will have lived by the power of God within us and He did the works! How awesome is that? Just as sure as Jesus, that’s how sure we will be! Jesus knew that He was going to be raised from the dead and that He was going to be seated at the right hand of God, and He knew that it was His right and there was no fear in Him at all that it was going to happen. That is how we will be when Jesus returns! The Church will be bold in who we are in Christ, there will be no fear and there will be no doubts, because as He is, so were we, even in this world! We stand in the confidence that Jesus has, Jesus knows that He was raised from the dead, there is no doubt for Him at all, and that confidence, that faith, is now within us!

God Will Use Us

“Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doth the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works sake.” John 15:10-11

The first faithful thing that Jesus will lead us into regarding works of righteousness is this: it is our Father within us, He does the works! Faith authored by Jesus regarding this Truth is the key to walking in the full power and love of God Himself! Faith in this Truth will allow us to walk as Jesus walked! “He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.” 1 John 2:6 “I am come a Light into the world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not abide in darkness.” John 12:46 Through Jesus we are empowered to live and understand all of the Truth’s of God! Through Christ and the Light that He provides there is now no darkness for us! And since there is now no darkness for us, there is now no occasion for us to stumble and fall! Jesus will teach us all that there is to know about God and He will give us the confidence and full assuredness that it is God within us doing His works of righteousness! Jesus will Author the faith within us so that God can give us the utterance to speak in new tongues. Jesus will finish the faith within us so that God can cast out all devils through us! Jesus we Author and Finish our faith, so that God can empower us to suffer no harm or ill effects from deadly things! Through Christ, and through the faith that He now gives us, we will lay hands on the sick and the power of God within us will cause them to recover, just as they recovered when Jesus laid His hands on them! Jesus will Finish our faith so that we just don’t talk about these Truth’s of God. He will Finish our faith so that we will actually live and rejoice in the Truth’s of God. And the world will believe and they will know that God loves us, just as He loves Jesus because of it! We will live in the fullness of God and in the power of God because Jesus has given us the faith that allows God to work fully through us!

Jesus Is Our Faith

“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

There is no greater Truth regarding our faith than this: true godly faith can only come from Jesus. Jesus endured the Cross and all of the pain and suffering that went along with it for the shear joy of being the only One Who could lead us into completely and totally trusting in God! Jesus begins our faith and He finishes our faith. Faith is not a human ability to accept and believe the things of God. Faith is God’s ability working through us, by the power of Christ, to accept and believe His eternal Truths! No one is greater at faith than Jesus and we have free access to Him, and Jesus will freely Author our faith and He will freely Finish our faith! Only with faith that has been Authored and Finished by Jesus can we accept and walk in the full power of what God has provided for us. Faith that comes from Jesus will never stumble at the promises of God and it will never hesitate or question the Truths of God. Only faith that is produced by Jesus is fully pleasing to God! “But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 When we are empowered with the very Spirit of our Father that allows Jesus to Author and Finish our faith, then we too are fully pleasing to God, just as Jesus is fully pleasing to God! On our own and through our own efforts we have no ability to believe any Truth of God, only through the power of Christ can we walk in true faith, and then we have the ability to accept all of the Truth’s of God! This precious gift is unlimited and it is available for all who seek it; Jesus will Author and Finish faith for everyone who looks unto Him!

Faith In The Power Of Signs

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” Romans 10:17 “And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” John 8:32

We need to hear the Truth that Jesus said that those who believe will have these signs following them: casting out devils, speaking in tongues, no deadly thing harming them, and being used by God to perform miraculous healings. The Truth of the power of God that is within us and that is for us will set us free! The Truth will set us free from fearing gifts like tongues. The Truth will allow us to see why we have them, what they are, and that it is God within us doing all of them! Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets the world free! The great Truth about the signs of God, the signs that will follow us, is that they are only happening because it is God within us doing them. Through the power and freedom that Jesus’ sacrifice has provided, God can now do all things through us! There are no limitations for God any longer; He is now free to work through us completely as He worked through Jesus completely. “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13 Christ, the Anointing of God, allows us to be used by our Father to do all things and it is the Father within us, He is doing the works! Christ allows God to do all things through us, and the world will see God through us, and the world will accept Him, not just because we talk about Him, but by the signs that He performs through us! There will be no doubt as to the One Who is working through us; the works will go beyond man’s abilities, and God will be glorified by them! We should all eagerly desire the love of God, which manifest itself in the signs He performs through us. We should all eagerly desire that God use us as vessels of His honor and that the sick are healed by His power working through us, that He uses our mouths to utter exact prophecies in whatever language that is needed, and that because of Him and the signs that are an evidence of His presence, multitudes come to believe and be saved!

Jesus is Lord and this is the day that He has made and through His glorious presence within our lives we will rejoice and be glad in it!

The Power Of The Sign Of Healing

“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 16:18

The Word of God says that we shall be used by our Father to lay hands on the sick and they will recover. The sick will recover, the sign of our Father within us goes beyond just praying for the sick, the proof of God actually being within us is that the sick recover!

“And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both men and women. Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow them. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.” Acts 5:14-16

We are shown that all that were sick were healed, they weren’t just prayed for, they were healed, and because of the power of God working through the believers, multitudes were saved! The ministry of miraculous healing grew the Church like nothing else! Without television, without radio, without telephones, without mailers, and without the Internet, people, even from far away cities, came and were added to God because of the ministry of healing! The power of the sign of healing is unmatched! Jesus healed everywhere He went, and so did the Apostles, so did Paul, and so did those who believed! Man has no ability to miraculously heal apart from God! We have to create a medicine with side effects, or cut a person open and remove something, or shoot poison into the sick and hope that it kills the sickness before it kills the person, this is man’s healing process! And we charge enormous amounts of money for it, but our Father just heals, no pain, no charge, and when He does, people get saved, even those who just watch it! Jesus taught us that all who believe would have this sign follow them and as our Father had Paul write, we all should eagerly desire it!

The Sign Of Tongues

“And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak in new tongues;” Mark 16:17

Jesus taught us that we would be empowered to speak in new tongues if we believe and are saved. “And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Acts 2:4 Notice that on the Day of Pentecost, all of the believers were speaking in new tongues, not just the Apostles, but all 120 people, both women and men spoke in tongues. All of the believers who were there at Pentecost spoke with new tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance! Jesus said the sign of speaking in new tongues would follow all who believe. Speaking in tongues is a sign of the presence of God. Whether we are speaking in an earthly language that is not our own or a heavenly one, it is the Spirit that gives us the ability to do so, and it is a sign that our Father is real, that He is alive, and that He dwells within us.

“Eagerly pursue and seek to acquire [this] love [make it your aim, your great quest]; and earnestly desire and cultivate the spiritual endowments (gifts), especially that you may prophesy (interpret the Divine will and purpose in inspired preaching and teaching).” 1 Corinthians 14:1 Amplified Bible.

Tongues are a gift from our Father that acts as a sign to the world, a sign that proves that He is real, and since it does, we should eagerly desire it. Should we desire tongues above the other gifts of the Spirit, no; but we should desire it. Think of never needing an interpreter to preach the Gospel. How awesome, regardless of which nation we will be in, the power of the Holy Spirit will give us exactly the Words that our Father wants spoken, exactly when they should be spoken, and exactly how the people hearing them need to hear them spoken. Through the power of the Spirit we can speak to a person, even if we have never spoken their language before, exactly as our Father would speak to them. Think of the intimacy and understanding that God has, and that is exactly how we may be used to speak to them! Awesome, absolutely awesome!

Think of praying in tongues, speaking the language of the Angels. The Spirit of God giving us the utterance, so we are praying exactly what needs to be prayed, exactly how it needs prayed, and all through the power of God Himself! Jesus said that we all would speak in new tongues, and the Holy Ghost inspired Paul to write that we should all eagerly desire it! The gifts of our Father are not to be feared, we haven’t been given a spirit of fear, but of power. God’s signs should be desired by all of us. Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free.

There is no condemnation here, if our Father hasn’t given you the gift of tongues yet, He will, for it is a sign for all who believe. This is just preaching that brings the hope that it is for all and should be desired by all who believe.

Victory Is Our Sign

“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 16:18

Really take hold of and notice that Jesus does not say that our testimony about Him would be the sign of our unity with our Father, but rather that the miraculous works of God through us would be the sign! Deadly drinks and poisonous snakes kill men, but they have no effect on God and on those whom God indwells!

“And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, no doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live. And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.” Acts 28:3-5

Paul didn’t have super human power, our Father had the power, and God is exactly the same within us, our Father never changes!

Our Father allowed Paul to be bitten by the snake, Daniel to be cast into the lions den, Goliath to taunt David, and Jesus to endure the Cross. Persecution will arise for the Words sake, but our Father will never leave us or forsake and through Christ we are always and eternally more than conquerors! No weapon, and there are many weapons that are formed against us, will ever prosper. Our Father working through us is the sign of His Truth and His Truth sets us free! So welcome the attacks, rejoice in the tribulation, for we have been counted as worthy to be used by God to glorify His Kingdom!

Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance. And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity). And character [of this sort] produces [the habit of] joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation. Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us. Romans 5:3-5

Why Signs?

“And Jesus said unto them, Go 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 in 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

Why did Jesus say signs? He could have said works, but Jesus said signs! Jesus said that signs would follow us because we are the living testament that God is real and that He has come to dwell as one with man! People see God through us; they see works and actions that man is incapable of! God does His miraculous works through us and only God can perform the works of God. “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doth the works.” John 15:10 Jesus told the people clearly that it was not Him alone doing the works, but that it was God doing the works through Him! And then to confirm His testimony, Jesus told the people to look at the works that were happening through Him. “Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works sake.” John 15:11

We should say the exact same thing as we are ministering. “People believe that we are saved and believe that we are in God and that He is in us through Jesus Christ our Lord; or else believe that we are saved and united with God because it is God working within us and we are not harmed by deadly drinks or snakes. Believe that we are saved and united with God because devils flee from us, believe because we speak in new tongues, and believe because God leads us to lay hands on the sick and they recover!” Jesus told the people to believe because of the works they saw God performing through Him, and Jesus tells us that we will see the works of God being performed through us. Signs prove to the world that we are saved: signs both for us and for the entire world to see. “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word. 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 17:20-21 We are one with God, just as Jesus is One with God. Now stop right there, we are one with God just as Jesus is One with God, when you think of Jesus and God, you too should think of you and God. That is why Jesus came, so that we could enjoy the exact same unity with our Father that our Lord and Savior enjoys! That is why Jesus freely went to the Cross! Jesus went to the Cross so that all separation between man and God would be eliminated. And as Jesus was used by God as a sign of His presence and His love, so shall we be used as a sign! Jesus didn’t come and minister with just Words, even though His Words are eternal. Jesus came in action and in deed, and God doesn’t change, He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow! “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” Hebrews 13:8

Signs will follow all who believe and are saved!

What Jesus Has To Say About Signs

“And Jesus said unto them, Go 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 in 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

If we have been empowered to believe in Jesus as Lord and are baptized with God’s Holy Spirit, we shall be saved; no questions, no doubts, and no maybes about it, it’s an absolute Truth, and if we don’t believe in Him, we shall be damned! It doesn’t get any clearer than that! God would that all men be saved and He has given all of us the measure of faith to accept and believe in Jesus as Lord, so that we all can be saved! “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” Romans 12:3 The Truth will set us free and faith comes from hearing God’s absolute Truth! “Who will have all men saved, and come to the knowledge of the Truth.” 1 Timothy 2:4

The Truth is this, all who believe in Jesus as Lord and who are saved will have the signs that Jesus spoke of in Mark 16 following them! Jesus doesn’t lie and Jesus said that signs will follow us; no questions, no qualifications, and no doubts. If we believe that Jesus is Lord and are baptized with the Holy Spirit these signs will follow us, it’s an absolute Truth! That is the awesome thing about our Father, He is absolute and His Word is absolute and eternal! Heaven and earth will pass away, but the Truth that God’s signs will follow all who believe will still be around!

Signs and wonders can not help but follow us; we are one with Jesus and signs and wonders follow Jesus wherever He is! God will use us as members of His body to cast out devils! Our Father will empower us to speak with new tongues! Poisonous snakes and deadly drinks will not harm us, because they cannot harm Jesus! And in the authority of the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we will be used by God to lay hands on the sick and they will recover, just as God used Jesus to heal the sick 2000 years ago, He will use all of us who are one with Jesus today to heal the sick! All who believe in Jesus as Lord shall have these signs following them, all of us who believe! These signs will not just follow preachers or evangelist; all of us will be used by God to have these miraculous signs following us! Because it is God within all of us doing the works of His righteousness and these signs follow God!

The Blood Of Jesus Purifies Us From All Sin

“But if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7.

Now one last tidbit of Truth from God’s Word, to overcome any issues of doubt concerning our purity. 1 Peter 2:9 teaches us that we have been called out of darkness into God’s Light, and 1 John 1:7 teaches us that if we are in the Light of God than Jesus’ Blood cleanseth us from all sin. Just as human blood cleanses the body of infections and viruses, the perfect Blood of our Lord and Savior continually and eternally cleanses us from sin! So if you are saved and have the Spirit of God within you, you are pure even as our Savior is pure! We are pure because of Jesus and we have the Holy Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are now the sons of God. Jesus’ Spirit also cries out from within us that we are. We know the Truth and the Truth has set us free. We are what our Father has born us to be and that is to be as He is! That is the Truth of God and that is good preaching brother! They may want to kill us for saying it, but man for those who are empowered to find it, peace that passes all understanding and Light that drives out all darkness are to be found! The glorious Truth of our salvation is that it makes us just like our Father, just as Jesus is just like our Father.

We are blessed beyond expression through the power of God’s might that eternally abides within us!

Born Again People Are Just Righteous

"If ye know that He is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of Him." 1 John 2:29

Our Father told us that the way we would know who was born of Him, was by the righteous acts that He would do through them. God not only said righteous acts, but righteousness as Jesus’ righteousness! Now that is righteous, and we see in 1 John 3:3, that through the power of the Holy Spirit’s hope we are pure as our Father is pure.

And everyone who has this hope [resting] on Him cleanses (purifies) himself just as He is pure (chaste, undefiled, guiltless

Jesus gave all of His righteousness to us. We were created in His image and He is the firstborn among many brethren. But it’s so much more powerful than just being in Jesus’ image, we are actually one with Jesus. We live because the same power that lives within our Lord and Savior lives within us. So it shouldn’t be a stumbling block, this should be an area of our rejoicing, because we are one, one with Jesus, and one with each other, and since we are one, the world will believe!

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

Remember what we have been studying about righteousness, it means to be guiltless? Well, so many don’t feel guiltless, so when we talk about now being God’s children and being pure as our Father is pure, they tend to have issues. Our Father knows who we are. He knows what we are. Jesus was tempted in every area of His life, just as we are, so Jesus was tempted to feel guilty. About what I don’t know, but the Bible teaches us that He was tempted as we are tempted, so He was! Now our Father did something about our feeling guilty, He sent Jesus, and God knew that the Blood of Jesus would purge our consciences from dead works. The Blood of Jesus will clean all of that guilt up. I have so many things I could feel guilty over, yet the Holy Spirit has empowered me not too. That’s not bragging on my ability to block feelings, that is being thankful for our Father's ability!

We have the Spirit of our Father within us. He is strengthening us to trust God’s Truth. He is allowing us to believe this and He is empowering us to live in it. The Spirit has given us the joy and peace of believing this, that we may abound in hope, and that hope has brought faith, faith Authored and Finished by Jesus!

The Importance Of Believing Your A Child Of God

"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

Let’s study why this hope of being a child of God is so important, “every man that has this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.” Wow, pure as God is pure, and all we have to do is have this hope. But wait, we have to hope, can we do it, do we have the power, this is big stuff, pure as God, can a mere mortal, weakened by the flesh hope for such a thing? Well, I honestly believe that God has never required us to do anything that He is not within us giving us the power to do, so let’s see what the Word says? “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope; through the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13

Praise God, if we want to be pure like God is pure, all we have to do is have the hope that we are now His children and that when Jesus comes back we will be like Him. No problem, because our Father, through His Holy Spirit, fills us with all joy and peace of believing so that we may abound in hope. And faith is the evidence of things hoped for, so we have the faith to live it, because God has empowered us with all of Himself to abound in hope, so that we may abound in faith. It’s all God. But look, we may have all joy and all peace in believing, that is so awesome, all peace in believing. When God says pure, as He is pure, we may have peace and joy in believing it. I have said this verse in so many churches and they have gotten so made at me. I have been asked to leave, I have been damned, I have been cursed and yelled at, but I have peace in this Truth, the Holy Spirit has given it to me. I know, because God is within me, that this is Truth. God has empowered me with His very Own Spirit and empowered me so I don’t struggle with it, I don’t hesitate at it, it’s just as sure within me as the Sun will rise! Heaven and Earth will pass away, but this Truth, will last forever. And this peace and joy is for every believer, no limitations with any of us!

We are now the children of God, and He has sealed us with His Spirit, and there is nothing that can penetrate that seal, nothing! We didn’t fool God to start with. We aren’t used by satan to fool God into accepting us, so that we can escape back to the world and then use it against Him. God knew us, and He chose us, and we have been born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible!

The Power OF The Lord's Prayer

“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.” Matthew 6:9

Here is the really powerful thing about our own lives, when Jesus taught us to pray, He said to begin the prayer with, “Our Father.” Thus Jesus is telling us to consider ourselves equal with God, and He said to do this because it is the Truth, God is now our Father. We can pray this because we are now one with Jesus. We can pray this with all of the confidence and boldness that Jesus prayed it! That is the measure of love that our Father has for us, that He allowed us to be born again of Him. He used the same power that He used to bring Jesus into a body, His Spirit, and He is allowed to do it for us because Jesus was sacrificed and His Blood was shed, and there was no fault found in Him! We are not born of the will of man; we are born of God! “But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name; Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12-13

A child does not choose to be born; he is just born. It is the parents that willed it. Well, the same is true with us, we can seek God, but He is the One Who chooses for us to be born again. Many are called but few are chosen. Now our Father is not stingy, He would that all men be saved, but He knows the hearts of all men, and He sees what is Truth, and He chooses who will be born again. That is a powerful Truth, because so many believe that we are the ones who choose to be born again, which is why they believe that we can fall away and loose our salvation! But we are not born again by a man’s will, or by our own will, we are born by God’s Will. There is no fooling God; He has no illegitimate children, that is why Jesus said that we should pray in a way that tells the world we are equal with our Father, Who is God! We are a chosen generation and we are a royal priesthood. “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him Who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous Light:” 1 Peter 2:9

Today We Are God's Children

"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

Now we are the sons of God, do you know just how powerful this Truth is? Turn to John 5:18,

“Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God."

When Jesus said that He was the Son of God, the Jews wanted to kill Him. I mean they really wanted to kill Him; they wanted to stone Him and throw Him over a cliff! Because when Jesus said that God was His Father, He was making Himself equal with God. That was a capital offense to the Jews, Jesus was breaking their supreme law, and He knew it, yet He still said it. Jesus had to; it was the Truth that would set the captives free! Jesus knew how they would react, yet He still said it. We see how our Father is here in John 5. There is no fear within Him, there is no political correctness, His love goes beyond that, most of what He has to say will offend, yet all that He has to say is love and is freedom. This is the Spirit that now abides within us.

“For God hath not given us a spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7

God has made us His children and He is our Father and the glorious Truth is that now makes us one with Him. Exactly like Jesus is One with Him.

We Can't Boast

“So that no mortal man should have [pretense for glorying and] boast in the presence of God. But it is from Him that you have your life in Christ Jesus. Whom God made our Wisdom from God, [revealed to us a knowledge of the Divine plan of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as] our Righteousness [this making us upright and putting us in right standing with God], and our Consecration [making us pure and holy], and our Redemption [providing our ransom from eternal penalty for sin.] 1 Corinthians 1:29-30 Amplified Bible

When Jesus walked down the street people were healed by just touching His garments, and as they did touch Him, He said that He perceived that virtue had gone from Him. Jesus had not yet gone to the Cross, the only thing that Jesus had done, was to be born and filled with the Holy Spirit. Jesus had done no work to earn righteousness, the Old Covenant was still fully in place, so there was no work that could be done, man's righteousness was as filthy rags! The only thing Jesus did was to be born of God, born of a woman and of the Holy Spirit, just as we have been born again! We cannot glory before our Father, as Jesus couldn’t glory before Him. That is why Jesus said that He wasn’t good, that only God was. This is why Jesus said He didn’t do the works, but that it was the Father within Him doing the works!

When the Spirit leads you to study the Word of God, Jesus will reveal to you the power of our Father's Truth. Life changing is an understatement of what will happen to you, talk about entering God’s rest! The burden of works will go and True living will begin! Jesus said to be the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven, we have to be the biggest servants; this is the only way that we will ever be able to serve! We need to stop trying to be righteous on our own, through works, and just rest in the peace that our Father will bring to fullness His righteousness within us. How do we do it, we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to allow Jesus to lead us into the paths of righteousness for His Name sake. Then the righteous works of God will come and we will be used by our Father to do the works that Jesus did and even greater ones, because He has gone unto the Father!

Be blessed, if you have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus, righteousness has been born into you. It may not be mature, but God is pouring His Spirit out on all men, and the glorious Church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish is coming into its fullness! "No weapon that is formed against us shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of Me, saith the Lord." Isaiah 54:17 "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake." Psalm 23:1-3

Righteousness: Part V

“For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” Romans 10:3-4

So many are preaching that we should walk righteously, as if by our own human power we have the ability too. The righteousness that is trying to be established by so many is this, we will sin, yet we will be righteous as long as we repent and ask God for forgiveness. What is the difference between that work or going out and offering up a goat or cow as a sin offering? There is no difference, none whatsoever.

Our Father doesn’t say that we will know who is born of Him by the way they repent. He says that we will know them by the way they are empowered by Him to walk righteously, as Jesus was empowered by God to walk righteously. Jesus didn’t earn His righteousness, He was born with it, He was born of God, and He was and is God! Jesus can’t help but be righteous, He is One with it, it’s in Him, and now who are we one with? People are trying to go out and earn righteousness, they are ignorant of the Truth of God and they will fail each and every time. You want to be righteous, it only comes from Jesus, and you have to be empowered by the Holy Spirit to look unto to Jesus to Author and Finish the faith within you that will allow you to see who God has made you! Then you will walk righteously as Jesus, in an unshakeable knowledge of who you are in God! Faith comes from hearing the Truth of God, and the Truth of God absolutely and eternally sets us free!

Righteousness: Part IV

“But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as 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 4:5-8

King David, and all who were under the Old Covenant, had to perform works and try to earn righteousness. They had to because the Blood of Jesus had not yet been shed for them. They longed for what we have, King David, an extremely blessed man of God, said that we were blessed because of this freedom through Christ. Our Father allowed David to see who we would be in Christ, as He did for the other Prophets of old, and they longed for what we have, and they were willing to be persecuted just for talking about it. “That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Romans 8:4 The thing they could never achieve, righteousness fulfilled, has been fulfilled within the least of us by the power of the Holy Spirit.

“Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.” Romans 6:18 This Truth does not get preached nearly enough, we are free form sin, we should consider ourselves dead to it, Romans 6:11, Christ has broken the relationship that we had with it. Our bodies which could sin have been destroyed by the power of Christ that has been freely given us, Romans 6:6. We are now members of Righteousness body, flesh of His flesh and bone of His bones. We are now the Temples of Righteousness. Righteousness is now our Head, we have the Spirit of Righteousness, the Mind of Righteousness, and as Righteousness walked so to do we walk. The requirements of righteousness have been fully met within us through Christ, freely and without any works!

This is grace my brothers and sisters!

Righteousness Part III

“Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” Romans 3:22-23

We are freely justified by our Father's Grace through Jesus our Lord. Sure we all have fallen short of His glory, which is why Jesus prayed in John 17 that we would have His glory, ours isn’t enough, it never has been enough and it never will be. We need to move on past the principle of Christ that says we have forgiveness of sins, so many of us dwell there. We need to move on to perfection, walking in the victory and love of the righteousness that has been freely bestowed on us who have been empowered by the Holy Ghost to believe! Freely, without any works, we have been made righteous, virtuous, morally upright, free from guilt and sin, approved and accepted by God, and through Jesus we are faultless. Jesus has saved us to the uttermost and we are now one with the One Who is sanctified and Who sanctifies, and He is not ashamed to call us His brethren. The power solely lies on our Lord and Savior and He ever lives to intercede for us so that we are absolutely and completely saved to the uttermost. Jesus is greater in us than anything or anyone in this world!

Righteousness: Part II

“Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.” Philippians 1:11

Our righteousness only comes from Jesus and His righteousness brings praise and glory unto our Father. Man has no ability to be faultless; yet for those of us who have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as Lord, His Blood makes us faultless, Hebrews 13:2. Man has no ability on his own to be sinless, yet for those of us who have been chosen and born again, who have God’s Seed within us, and because of our Fathers power, we cannot sin, 1 John 3:9. Man apart from God cannot be upright and virtuous, but God has given us a new heart and has placed His Spirit within us, and He causes us to walk virtuously and uprightly in the power of His might, Ezekiel 36:26-30. Righteousness and all that it means can only be had by Jesus freely given it to us, we can’t will righteousness into our lives, we can’t even come close to accomplishing righteousness; our righteousness is as filthy rags.

Thank God that we are no longer required to operate in our own righteousness, we are filled with the complete and full power of our Saviors righteousness and since we are, it brings praise and glory unto our Father. If we were righteous on our own, if we conformed to God’s will through our own efforts, it would bring praise and glory to us, because we did it. But since we can’t do it, yet righteousness is still the measure of if someone is saved, it brings glory to our Father. Every bit as much as the Israelites had no ability to part the Red Sea and escape the Egyptian Army, yet it happened and they did escape, so it is with us regarding righteousness! We have escaped the death of sin, by the act of righteousness bestowed on us by God! Through Jesus the righteousness requirements of life have been fully met within us. Our Father just now gave me that example of the Red Sea and that is good preaching, thank you Lord!

“So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met within us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Spirit [our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit.] Romans 8:4 Amplified Bible

Born Again People Are Righteous As God Is Righteous

"If ye know that He is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of Him." 1 John 2:29

“If you know (perceive and are sure) that He [Christ] is [absolutely] righteous [conforming to the Father’s will and purpose, thought, and action], you may also know (be sure) that everyone who does righteously [and is therefore in like manner conformed to the Divine will is born (begotten) of Him [God].” 1 John 2:29 Amplified Bible

As we begin this study on righteousness, let’s first look at what righteousness actually means. According to the Dictionary and Strong’s Concordance righteousness means to be morally upright, virtuous, without guilt or sin, innocent, faultless, approved and accepted by God, one whose thinking, feeling, and acting is conformed to the will of God, and integrity. So we can take these meanings and replace them for righteousness and be saying the exact same thing.

With that in mind, we can accurately say for us to know that someone is born again of God they must be morally upright, virtues, guiltless, sinless, innocent, faultless, accepted by God, and one whose thoughts, actions, and feelings are conformed to God’s will, and all of these things must be in a like manner to Christ’s righteousness! Our Father had John write it, so it’s Truth! Now I don’t know about you, but I don’t believe that most Christians have this mind within them. But as we have done so many times before with these posts, we are going to look at our Father's Word and we are going to see what the Truth is, and faith will come to us by hearing and studying the Truth of God’s Word. Because the Word will give us hope that extends past our own abilities and it will transcend us into the reality of God’s abilities.

We Will Know Each Other And Ourselves By Our Fruit

“Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” Matthew 7:16

The Bible teaches us that we will know each other by the fruit being produced in our lives. And the Truth of the saved is: Jesus is now our Vine that is producing our fruit.

“I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5

We need to settle it right now, we should all expect to be used fully by our Father to bear much righteous fruit that proves that we are in the Vine! According to Jesus, if we are saved we will be used by our Father to produce much fruit! Through the power of Christ that is at work within us, every one of us should be producing much godly fruit: love, peace, joy, gentleness, faith, longsuffering, and goodness, and producing much of it! God had it written that it would prove that we are part of the Vine of Jesus Christ!

I don’t want to sound condemning here, but Jesus said that through Him, we will bring forth much fruit and Jesus said that we would be known by our fruit! I think for most of us we believe that it is unrealistic to think this way. But we should expect that all of us are fully used by our Father to produce much fruit. Jesus said that if we are one of His branches then we will bear much fruit. That’s awesome, we should shout for joy, we have the Holy Spirit within us strengthening us in this hope and since we do, faith will come, and we will be used by God to bear much fruit. Think of how much the world needs it? Look at the Middle East, you think they need some gentleness, goodness, love, and peace? Take a gander at Washington DC, you think that group may need some of what God has to offer? If two of us agree as touching any Truth of God and it will come to pass. Together in the full power of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ we can agree that these verses of Truth are fulfilled within our lives. Through the full power of the Holy Spirit we can actually hope to be fully matured by our Father to the fullest stature of Jesus Christ. And through faith Authored and Finished by Jesus we will move on to perfection, and we absolutely will, our Father has proclaimed it!

We need to preach that we will absolutely be used to produce much fruit, because it’s Truth, and the Truth will set us free! I know people who never produce any fruit, and they have been so called saved for years, and no one loves them enough to tell them the Truth. The consequence is a life filled with failure and ask yourself this, wouldn’t Jesus tell them how wonderfully they can be used? I mean Peter said that he didn’t want Jesus to be crucified and Jesus called him satan! We all need to look in the mirror and desire for God to be Who He is within us.

Ask our Father, are you being used by Him to produce much fruit? He will tell you. The great thing about much, is it’s relative. A new branch may not be bearing as much fruit as a mature branch, but in reality, compared to its size, it’s producing more than the older one, or much. Our Father knows where you are and He knows what much is for you and what is great for you. It is our Father producing the fruit for us anyway, so He defines much for each of us. And if you are truly saved, it just happens, a branch doesn’t have to take thought for producing fruit, the Vine and the Gardener determine that! And the Gardener and the Vine have determined for us to have much!

“But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another.” 1 Thessalonians 4:9

Through Christ We Are Perfect For Every Good Work

"Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of 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

"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

When you see verses like these two, you can see that it’s not at all impossible to live as one who is saved to the uttermost, sanctified wholly, perfect in every good work, and well pleasing to God. It’s not even hard to have the faith that we can never stumble and live in perfection. Look at what God says, it’s not us doing it; it’s Him doing it within us. The Blood of Jesus makes us perfect in every good work, and God is faithful to preserve us blameless, He will do it! I don’t think any believer stumbles at believing God can do anything, we stumble when we think that we have to do it, but praise God it’s not up to us, it’s up to Him, and He is faithful to do what He has said.

The Power Of God's Perfect Love

"And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in Him. He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked." 1 John 2:3-6

Praise God for the power of the verses that we have studied over the last several postings. We have seen that the love of our Father is now perfected within us, that there is no occasion for us to stumble, and that we are actually able to walk as Jesus walked. These Truth's are what our Father has to say about those who are empowered to accept the sacrifice of Jesus and who are baptized with the Holy Spirit. Do you see that salvation is not us just getting by, barely making it into Heaven? Our Father talks about us abiding in His Holiest. God says that as He is, so are we in this world, and our Father says that through the Blood of Christ we are saved to the uttermost! Our Father tells us to consider ourselves dead to sin, in the same way that Jesus is dead to sin. Jesus tells us that we will be used by God to do greater works than He did, and Jesus tells us that the Holy Ghost will teach us all things, and knowing perfect love is part of all things.

Salvation is bringing us into line with what God created: man in His image. But salvation goes so far beyond just being in our Fathers image, it goes into us being one with Him, no separation, as the branch lives only because the vine is ever connected to it, so do we live, because we are always connected to Jesus. Jesus is the One Who is alive within us, so of course we would have and share in His personality, His character, His abilities, His everything, we are now one, and the only reason we live is because He lives. We are flesh of His flesh and bone of His bones! We now are one with the very Spirit of God. We are one with Who God is, what He feels, what He wants, and what He desires. Jesus has sent all that our Father is to become one with us and to dwell within us, the same Spirit that strengthens and makes God Who He is, now dwells within us and strengthens us to be as He is!

Think about it, do you hear that the Church actually has the power to never stumble or fall? Have you ever heard that God’s love can actually be perfected within us, or that we are saved to the uttermost? I have heard that we should strive for these things, but it was preached and implied that we must use our own efforts to get there, and if we did everything just right than it would come. It was never preached to me that we couldn’t help but be there, because we are now one with God, and He is always there. Actually if someone would have stood up and said that they were there, no one would have believed them. This is not pie in the sky thinking, it is reality, it’s who we are in Christ, and it’s Who He is within us.

In Christ We Can't Help But Love

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith.” Galatians 5:22

“And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that ye might be filled with the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:19

Jesus has sent the Holy Spirit of our Father to dwell within us, and because He does, we now have God’s love; we are now one with God’s perfect and complete love. We actually have living within us the very love of God, the love that came to die on the Cross, the love that lives for the very purpose of interceding for all believers. This is the love that has been born into us. We are commanded to love our brothers in the Lord if we are saved, that requirement is an easy yoke to be born, it’s pleasant, and we can’t help but accomplish it, because we are now one with Love! If we don’t love our brothers and sisters in the Lord, we are in darkness, and we don’t have salvation, that is what 1 John 2:9 has to say about it. But through Christ we do have the Holy Spirit and the fruit of that relationship is love, and since we know that love, we are filled with the fullness of our Father, and through Christ we have uttermost salvation! For the saved we can’t help but love, we are born of it and it now abides within us, we are one with the fullness of our God's love!

Love Others And Never Stumble

"He that loveth his brother abideth in the Light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him." 1 John 2:10

“Whoever loves His brother [believer] abides (lives) in the Light, and in it or in him there is no occasion for stumbling or cause for error or sin.” 1 John 2:10 Amplified Bible

If we love one another, there is no occasion for us to stumble and there is no occasion to sin within us, none! God said, and His Word is everlasting, if we love our brothers in the Lord, there is absolutely and positively no occasion that we can sin. Now that is some powerful stuff, but here is what even makes it even more powerful. “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 is declaring God’s Name to us, He ever lives to do it, so the love that God had for Jesus, the Head of the Body of whom we are part of, is now eternally within us. If we are truly saved, than we can’t help but love our brothers, because we have the same love for them that God has! Man that is so awesome, the love that has been born into us is the same love of God, now that just isn’t love, that’s perfect love. And since we now have God’s love within us, there is no occasion for us to stumble or to sin! Just allow the power and the wisdom of the Holy Spirit to teach you the full victory of this Truth! I know that it is easy to struggle with the power of these verses. I mean how in the world could we ever love as God loves. But we can love as God loves because the power of the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior has allowed our Father to do it through us. If we walk by sight with this, we will stumble and fall into the ditch. But if we allow Jesus to Author and Finish our faith, we will see clearly that God is willing and able to that which He has spoken. We will humbly accept the power of Jesus and acknowledge that it is the Father within us; He does the works! And the Truth will set us free and we will love as God loves and there will never be an occasion for us to stumble or fall!

The Full Power Of Jesus Within Us

"And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in Him. He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked." 1 John 2:3-6

Our Father proclaims that we are to walk as Jesus walked. “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 “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3 “Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:11 “For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.” Ephesians 5:30

If these verses are really true, how can’t we walk like Jesus? There is a freedom here in our Father's Truth that is not being enjoyed by the Church. God has provided a rest for us from our own works and we need to talk about it, faith will come that will set the captives free! The yoke of walking as Jesus walked is easy, because our faith is Authored and Finished by Jesus. It is the king of Kings Who is alive within us and He causes us to walk as He walks!

Our Father has really been showing me that we preach against the symptoms and not the problem. We look at someone who may be struggling with sin and we preach against that particular sin. When in reality the problem is that the person does not have God in their life to keep them from the uncleanness. The symptom may be cured, but if the problem isn’t fixed and the union with God accepted, another sin will arise. “When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.” Luke 11:24-26

So many of us believe that we will always struggle with human weakness until Jesus returns, but from the Truth’s of God that we have studied, we can see that this kind of thinking is false. Our Father said that He would keep us; and man, if God keeps us, we are kept! Through Christ, Who we are now one with, we have God’s perfect love, we have access to the holiest, we have sanctification, glory, power, and eternal faith, hope, and love! Through Jesus, our Father has saved us to the uttermost. Jesus now ever lives to intercede for us. We now have the mind of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We are now the Temples of God. Jesus is now our Shepherd and God is now our Dad. We are as He is, because we are born of His seed, so are we in this world! Salvation is more than what is being preached and in Jesus’ Name that is done away with today! Father I ask You that You allow laborers to boldly proclaim Your Truth everywhere, and anyone who is preaching anything but the Truth, let them be cursed! “As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:9

Jesus is Lord and all who are empowered by the Holy Spirit to call on the Name of The Lord, shall be saved!

God's True Desire For Us

“But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12-13

“Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, because is seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him, but ye know Him, for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.” John 14:17 We are born of God. We are born from our Father's free will, now stop and take hold of that Truth. You are saved because God willed for you to be saved! Your not just kind of accepted, the Great I am willed it, that is some truly powerful stuff, condemnation gets blown away when we realize that we are saved because God willed it.

We have a new heart within us today that is directly from God. We now have our Fathers very Spirit abiding within us. We are completely one with God. Our Fathers Spirit is strengthening us, encouraging us, teaching us, and guiding us. Our Father is saving us from all of our uncleanness and God is causing us to keep His Word. So, the love of our Father is perfected within us, and since His love is perfected within us, we know that He is in us!

This is God’s will and desire for all to have. Nowhere do we ever read that God only wants this for just a select few. Our Father would that all men be saved and now is the day of our salvation! Faith comes form hearing and hearing comes from the Word of God, and hope is the precursor of faith, and our faith is Authored and Finished by Jesus Himself! None of this is hard for our Father and He is perfectly equipped to perfectly fulfill it within our lives! God’s yoke is easy and His burden is light.

"For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light." Matthew 11:30

It really doesn’t get any easier than this does it? You want God perfected in you, keep His Word, and O, by the way, God will do it for you! Bam! Take that devil, we have God, the One Who sent a couple of angels over to throw you out of Heaven and the One Who took the keys of death and hell right from you! Yeh, God is the One within us, God is keeping us! It’s His will! Even if we are weak, that’s all right, because when we are weak, He is strong, and His strength is perfected in our weakness. “Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.” 2 Corinthians 13:10 Evil, throw the best you have at us, we rejoice even at the worst, and as you do it devil, we grow even stronger! Through Christ we win in everything, we are victorious in all things, because we are sealed with the very Spirit of God, and Jesus will never leave us or forsake us, and this is how we are forevermore!

God Empowers Us To Keep All Of His Word

"And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in Him. He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked." 1 John 2:3-6

Do you know how it is that we know that we are in God? Well, according to the Word, we will know that we are in God, when His love is perfected within us. Wow, how many will dare to say that God’s love is perfected within them? And do you know how we know that God’s love is perfected within us? When we keep His Word. Double wow! How many will even dare to think that they have been empowered to fully and completely keep our Father's Word? But let’s go on, and if we say that we abide in Jesus, than we should be walking as Jesus walked. Triple wow, walk as Jesus? These are not typical Sunday morning sermons are they? But, as we have discussed so many times before, wherever we read that we are required to do something in the Bible, we can find where our Father has said that He is the One doing it through us. So let’s see what we find concerning these requirements.

We are to keep God’s Word. “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

Well that is an awesome enough Truth to start with. God is the One Who is keeping us from all uncleanness; God has saved us from ourselves! I don’t know about you, but that is cause for a great big A-men! Our Father is the One Who is causing us to keep His commandments and He is causing us to keep His Word. Our Father has given us a heart that desires to do this, and a heart and spirit that allow us to do it by God doing it for us. Now, after reading these verses, ask yourself this, does our Father struggle with doing anything? So if it is God within us that is saving us from our uncleanness and it is God within us Who is causing us to live right, where is the struggle? There is none, because we are now more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us. And our Father can now do all things through us by the power of Christ that strengthens us! Christ has strengthened us with Himself so that we can now be the Temples of God and if we abide in Him and His Word abides within us, we can ask what we will and it shall be done, and herein is our Father glorified that we bare much fruit, and so are we His disciples!