Romans 8:28

28 We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.

   

Only the Holy Spirit can assure us that all things now work for our good. He assures us that the good things and amen even the bad things now work out for our good. He assures us that there is now no condemnation for us. He assures us that our Father will never leave us or forsake us. He assures us that we are saved to the uttermost and He assures us that it is always our Father’s power within us doing the works.

The Holy Spirit gives us this peace that passes all understanding. The freedom that comes from knowing that nothing that we do will ever harm us, goes beyond logic. It doesn’t make any sense, but that is the glory of Grace. This Truth allows us to go to our Father and know that there is nothing that is hindering Him from helping us and given us all that is needed to live an abundant life.

And, beloved, if our consciences (our hearts) do not accuse us [if they do not make us feel guilty and condemn us], we have confidence (complete assurance and boldness) before God, 1 John 3:21

If our actions mattered, we would always be thinking were they good enough? If we were bad, did we repent enough? The Truth is that our righteousness is as filthy rags, so to have a clear conscience one must be empowered by the Holy Spirit to know that our own actions do not matter. The only action that mattered was Jesus on the Cross. He was that successful. He overcame our actions and now mercy flows to us in abundance. 

The wise will say that I am saying that we just now can go and do whatever we want, that I am teaching that we will freely go and sin. They will say that this is an extremely dangerous teaching. But what they fail to realize is that we are now controlled and directed by the Holy Sprit and not by our flesh. They fail to realize that the Truth sets us free from the presence, power, pleasure, and penalty of sin. The only way for us to ever stop sin is by being enlightened with the Truth that it just doesn’t have any power over us. The Truth is what will stop us from committing sin, not a bunch of rules and laws that tell us what to do and not to do. 

In Christ’s freedom we can now serve the lost and take no thought for what they have done. We can give and never fear not having provision. We can go into all of the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. We can lay hands on the sick and they will recover, we can cast out demons, freely we have received and freely we are used to give. Nothing that we have done enhances our service to our Father or hinders it. We aren’t condemned and we cannot boast. 

In Jesus’ Name I ask You Father for all who read these postings to be blessed with the knowledge of the Truth. We are all in Christ and He is victorious through us all!  

Romans 8:22-27

22 We know that the whole creation [of irrational creatures] has been moaning together in the pains of labor until now.

    

23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves too, who have and enjoy the firstfruits of the [Holy] Spirit [a foretaste of the blissful things to come] groan inwardly as we wait for the redemption of our bodies [from sensuality and the grave, which will reveal] our adoption (our manifestation as God's sons).

    

24For in [this] hope we were saved. But hope [the object of] which is seen is not hope. For how can one hope for what he already sees?

    

25 But if we hope for what is still unseen by us, we wait for it with patience and composure.

    

26 So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.

    

27 And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the [Holy] Spirit [what His intent is], because the Spirit intercedes and pleads [before God] in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God's will.

    

If you are being told that you have to believe on your own so that our Father can act or give you what you need, that is flat out wrong. It doesn’t matter at all if we don’t know what to pray for or ask for. Because we now have the Holy Spirit and He is constantly interceding for us and asking for what we do need. He takes our prayers and turns them into our Father’s Will so that we cannot help but be blessed beyond expression, Ephesians 3:20. 

Not only do we have our Father’s Spirit interceding for us, we have His Body.

Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost (completely, perfectly, finally, and for all time and eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He is always living to make petition to God and intercede with Him and intervene for them. Hebrews 7:25

We are saved to the uttermost through Christ. Our Father has given us everything that He has to insure that we are. So often people will take James 4:3 and try to say that we can ask amiss. The wolves in sheep’s clothing want our focus to be on us and our abilities and not on our Father’s abilities working through us. The Truth is that even if we do ask amiss, that doesn’t stop our Father from giving us exactly what we need. He just simply turns it around to match His will and we are blessed. Jesus intercedes for us and we are saved to the uttermost. 

This Truth also blows the notion that our free will drives our life’s. My prayer is that our Father is empowering you to see the Truth that sets us free. The Truth is that we are free from all laws that would ever convict us of sin. The Truth is we have all of our Father’s power insuring that we succeed. The Truth is that we are one with Jesus, so as He is, so are we in this world. And the Truth is that these blessings are what allows us to go and serve the world and meet their needs according to our Father’s riches and glory through Christ Jesus. 

Romans 8:18-21

18 [But what of that?] For I consider that the sufferings of this present time (this present life) are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and [g]for us and [h]conferred on us!

    

19 For [even the whole] creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God's sons to be made known [waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship].

I want you to ask yourself this question here, why would all of our Father’s creation be waiting for the day for us to be revealed as His sons? If it was the Truth that those who don’t accept Jesus in this lifetime were going to spend eternity in Hell, why would they want us to be revealed? Wouldn’t they be dreading that day? But if they were finally going to be forgiven and allowed to stay at the Wedding Feast of the Lamb, then they would be eagerly awaiting this glorious day! Remember the Truth, not only are those who deny Christ in this lifetime allowed to stay for eternity, they will be served as guests and Jesus’ guest will be served very well at His Wedding. 

20 For the creation (nature) was subjected to frailty (to futility, condemned to frustration), not because of some intentional fault on its part, but by the will of Him Who so subjected it--[yet] with the hope

    

Wow, hold on for a moment, did the Holy Spirit just have it written that our frailty was not our fault? He sure did! He also had it written that we are frail because or Father, the Him is capitalized in this verse, subjected us to be that way.

For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike]. Romans 11:32

I was always told that it was Adam’s fault. But right here we are told that it was our Father’s will, not human free will, that made us weak. Our Father made all of us to be disobedient, so that He can have mercy on all of us alike. Grace, free and undeserved grace, is our Father’s motivation in everything. 

21 That nature (creation) itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and corruption [and gain an entrance] into the glorious freedom of God's children.

    

Everything and everyone, all of creation, wait for the day that we will be revealed. This will be the day that our Father sets everyone free from the bondage of decay. Everyone and everything will gain entrance into the freedom that we now have. All men are included in nature, believing men and non-believing men, we are all part of nature. Jesus has been glorified to insure that all of mankind, whether they know it or not, will have eternal life. So whether someone believes the Truth or not makes absolutely no difference, all of us have been made to long for the day that Jesus reveals Himself. The dead will be raised to enjoy it and the living will equally enjoy it. The animals and plants will enjoy it. The angels will enjoy it and every other thing that our Father has created will enjoy it as well. 

Remember the glorious Truth that we have been shown here, it’s not our fault. There is know no condemnation for anyone, because everyone is in Christ Jesus. We will all spend eternity with our Father. His will has been fulfilled, all will be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth. 

Romans 8:15-17

15 For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father!

If we had to concern ourselves for one second about keeping a law or a rule, then we would always have fear. This is why we have the Holy Spirit within us, He gives us bliss. He gives us peace that passes all understanding We don’t have to take any thought whatsoever about ever falling short or messing up. The Holy Spirit continually tells us that we are always going to be God’s children and that our Father will never leave us or forsake us. 

    

16 The Spirit Himself [thus] testifies together with our own spirit, [assuring us] that we are children of God.

    

17 And if we are [His] children, then we are [His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His inheritance with Him]; only we must share His suffering if we are to share His glory.

We are every bit as much a child of God as Jesus is. This is the Truth that empowers us and drives us to serve others. We have the same Spirit born into us that was born into Jesus and it will not allow us to ever neglect the needs of others. Our Father’s Spirit controls us to ever live to intercede for others, to forgive others, regardless of what has been done, to give, to love, and to share. There is nothing that our Father has that He hasn’t given us and the Holy Spirit insures that there is nothing that we have that we do not share with others. 

This attitude of selflessness is why we will be hated by the world and this is how we share in our Lord’s sufferings. We don’t fear the persecution and death that comes from being a child of God. What we suffer is people denying our Father and ignoring the love that He has for them. This is what Jesus is suffering right now and this is what we too are suffering. However, we know the glorious Truth, that one day the blind will see and that even those who have denied and fought against the Truth will live in it. The Holy Spirit testifies this peace to us. He allows us to never loose hope that our Father will absolutely get His way and have all men saved and come to the Knowledge of the Truth. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus loves them and they will receive our Father’s full provision.   

Romans 8:12-14

12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh [we are not obligated to our carnal nature], to live [a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates] of the flesh.

    

13 For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever.

    

The Holy Spirit is constantly at work within us. He is constantly causing us to be righteous and holy. He is controlling us to always love and forgive. He gives us the strength to offer up our right cheek after our left one was hit. He empowers us to walk two miles when one was demanded of us. He is leading us to ever live to intercede for others. The Holy Spirit is teaching us all things. He is taking everything that Jesus has and He is making it active in our life’s. He is leading us, whether we know it or not, and whether we accept it or not. We do not empower the Holy Spirit to act, He empowers us to act. He causes us to do the works that Jesus did and He causes us to do even greater works. He leads us into all of the world to lay hands on the sick, so that they can recover. He prays for us with an intensity and words that cannot be uttered by man. 

We have been baptized into Jesus’ death, so that we can now live as He lives. The Holy Spirit is our Lord’s power and He is our power as well. We are not limited by our flesh. Absolutely our flesh is weak and sure it will fail, but there are now no laws to convict us with. Grace allows our Father to place His Holy Spirit within us and grace allows Him to use us in the full power and demonstration of the Spirit.  

14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

    

We are the sons of God right now! The Holy Spirit now controls every aspect of our life’s. He is there empowering us as we brush our teeth and as we are praying over a sick family member. He is our strength in playing a game and witnessing to a lost soul. There is nothing to small or too big for Him and we are never, and I mean never, left alone to do anything without Him. There is no part of life that we play on our own. We never take a first step that allows Him to then take two for us. The Holy Spirit never leaves us at a crossroads to decide the path that we should take. We owe our flesh nothing. It holds absolutely nothing over us. We are not ruled by it and we are not dictated by it. There is no opportunity for the Holy Spirit to fail and He insures the same victory for us. 

Faith comes from hearing this Truth and this Truth sets us free to be used to serve the world. 

Romans 8:6-8

6 Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].

Faith comes for us from hearing the Truth and it is our Father’s Truth that sets us free. Faith, even as small as a mustard seed, will move a mountain and the Truth is that we now have the Holy Spirit controlling us. He doesn’t pick and choose only a few areas of our life’s to control either, He controls everything that there is in our life’s. He never leaves us and He never forsakes us, therefore He is always causing us to triumph. Everything that happens in our life’s now works out for our and our Kingdoms good. 

To believe any other way is to be fleshly minded and that kind of thinking only brings fear. But the Truth brings us great peace and allows us to be used by our Father to serve the world. If we had to be concerned about what we had to do, or if we had to take thought about whether we were properly keeping a set of rules, we would always be focused on ourselves. We would also find a reason to condemn ourselves and others. When we feel intimidated or insecure, we tend to find faults in others. This allows us to feel like were not alone and that we aren’t that bad. But when we are given the Mind of Christ that doesn’t take thought for such things, we are able to forgive and intercede and never take any negative thought for the actions of those who our Father is using us to serve. We are able to fully apply grace because we fully live in grace. If we had to live in Law, we would demand the Law from those we serve. There is no freedom in rules and laws, there is however freedom in Christ.   

7 [That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot.

To believe that our Father has a set of rules that we on our own have to keep, slaps Him in the face and insults Him. That kind of thinking says that His grace has to be earned and that His mercy has to be accepted, not just freely applied. Religion with all of its rules does not please our Father. It never has and it never will.  

8 So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him.

    

Religion is not acceptable to our Father. Jesus is acceptable and Jesus is life and He is peace. Church is great, we are to gather together with like minded believers. But if that gathering turns into a group of people developing a set of rules and laws to show others how to live, it becomes carnal and is unacceptable. We are all individual body parts of Christ. The hand does not act or need what the kidneys do. Our hair needs and acts differently that our eyes. The same holds true with us. Our Father will use and provide for each of us as He sees fit. We are all different and we are all used differently. This is why it is all Grace. What our Father wants me to do and what I need is different than what He wants for you. We are all one body, but we all are individual members of that body. There is not a set of laws that can fit us all, only grace does and we now have it in abundance. 

Romans 8:5

5 For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit.

    

Amen, notice how our Father so clearly and plainly tells us the Truth that we are now controlled by His Holy Spirit. I cannot say this enough, because I honestly believe that people really don’t know this glorious Truth, the Holy Spirit controls us. Far too many believe that we control ourselves. They believe that we, on our own, must decide to choose or not to choose to follow our Father’s will. This couldn’t be farther from the Truth because through Christ we are free from anything that would ever separate us from our Father. His will is what controls and leads us into righteousness.

For it was in Him that all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [by His service, intervention] and in and for Him. Colossians 1:16

Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come! 2 Corinthians 5:17

Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love. For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and was His kind intent]-- Ephesians 1:4-5

O Lord [pleads Jeremiah in the name of the people], I know that [the determination of] the way of a man is not in himself; it is not in man [even in a strong man or in a man at his best] to direct his [own] steps. Jeremiah 10:23

Our old condition has passed away, we have been re-created in Christ to exist, and it is not in us to direct our own steps. We are now one with God just as Jesus is one with Him. This is what allows us to go and honestly be used to tell the world the Truth that sets them free, John 17:18-23. We are controlled by the Holy Spirt and therefore there is now no condemnation for us. We are always fully pleasing to our Father because our Father is always greater in us, then we are in this world. Our Father always causes us to triumph, because He doesn’t know failure. For us to fail would mean that God had failed. We are all, 100% of the time, victorious through Christ. Never, and I mean never, let anyone tell you any differently. I do not care what you have done, there is absolutely no law to convict or commend you with. You have been made free through Christ and therefore you are free indeed! 

Romans 8:4

4 So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met in 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].

    

So many people are in a religious situation where laws and rules are being preached and commanded of them. This is such a shame, because they are being taught lies that bind them. The Truth, and it is so freeing, is that every requirement for righteousness was fully accomplished for us by Jesus. Righteousness is not found by us keeping rules. 

Let’s put this Truth in the real world plain English: we are now as righteous as Jesus is! I want you to think about Jesus, do you believe that He is worried about messing up? What about ever being overtaken by satan? Do you believe that Jesus can be sick? Every single glorious thing that we believe about Jesus, He has because He is so righteous. Now because of His Blood, we are as righteous as He is, 1 John 4:17. That is why Jesus came and that is was He accomplished for us. Jesus secured complete and total success for us. We are sanctified by this Truth, John 17:17, and the Truth is that Jesus has made us every but as righteous as He is. 

Grace and spiritual blessing be to you and [soul] peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah), Who gave (yielded) Himself up [to atone] for our sins [and ]to save and sanctify us], in order to rescue and deliver us from this present wicked age and world order, in accordance with the will and purpose and plan of our God and Father—Galatians 1:3-4

We are rescued from this wicked world, not by being taken out of it, but by being kept by our Father while we are still in it, John 17:15. Our Father's Grace is what keeps us and there are no longer any laws to stop us from fully realizing that we have it. We have our Father’s favor just as Jesus has it. Our Father definitely wants us to know and enjoy this Truth. If you don’t believe that He does, just look at how many chapters in Romans that He had written to tell us that we are free from the Law. He also had it written of in Galatians, Ephesians, and Corinthians. 

There is another real world application to this Truth, we can now go into the world and actually serve them through our Freedom in Christ. We can intercede for people and they will be healed, just as they were healed with Jesus. We can cast out demons, raise the dead, and prophesy the Truth just as Jesus did. We can freely receive and freely give and all without any condemnation. We can because there are no laws that anyone has broken. There is nothing that holds us back from loving all people in the full power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit that dwells within us. 

Romans 8:2-3

2 For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.

Our Father tells us that we are free. He doesn’t tell us that we will be free, or that we are in the process of being freed. The Truth is that through Christ we are free right now, because now is the day of our salvation, 2 Corinthians 6:2. I really don’t believe that people know this Truth. I believe that most people believe that we are bound by sin and the weaknesses of our flesh. I honestly believe that most Christians think that they are disappointing to our Father and believe that they are in control of how much grace that they are able to enjoy from Him on this earth. 

This is why our Father is so plainly showing us His Truth: it is to set the captives free! We no longer are living a life that is bound by the law that says as soon as you do something wrong there is punishment. We no longer live by the law that proclaims that it is up to us to seek forgiveness. We now live under the law of grace that proclaims that forgiveness is just given to us because of what Jesus did. I use to go to a church where the preacher would preach that our Father cannot bless us past our last act of disobedience. That is such a slap in the face to Jesus and what He accomplished for us. What always bothered me was how loud the congregation would shout amen when he would say it. That was the blind leading the blind, Matthew 15:!4. 

    

3 For God has done what the Law could not do, [its power] being weakened by the flesh [the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, [God] condemned sin in the flesh [subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice],

    

Our Father has done what rules and laws can not do. Our Father condemned sin in the flesh, so that we would no longer be condemned. Through Christ our Father has completely freed man from all laws and rules. We are no longer justified by our works, Romans 3:20, and this freedom is for all who are in Christ. And amen, as we have seen in the Word, we are all in Christ. Some of us are empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept this Truth now, on this earth and during this time, we are the Bride of Christ. Some will be empowered to accept this Truth when they are raised from the dead, these are the guests of the Bride. But the glorious Truth is that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord, Philippians 2:10. Our Father will not loose any of us. He will get His way, all men will be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth, 1 Timothy 2:4.    

Jesus has been given the responsibility to protect and keep all flesh and our Father has glorified Jesus so that He can give eternal life to all that He has been given. The sacrifice of Jesus has given all men eternal life, Romans 5:18. 

Romans 8:1 Part II

THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.

Remember in our last posting that we were shown that all of humanity is now in Christ. We were also shown in that study that Jesus will keep all of us who are in Him for all of  eternity. 

Jesus alludes to this Truth, that He will gather all of humanity to spend eternity with Him, in His parable of the Wedding Feast, Matthew 22:2-14. You will notice in this parable how Jesus tells us that the ballroom is filled with people when the King, or our Father, comes to dwell on the earth. This ties right in with Revelation 20:12-14 when John sees our Father coming to the earth after the Millennial Reign of Christ. John sees that all who have ever lived are there. Even if a person was dead, they are raised up from the dead to be there. 

When Jesus tells us in the parable of the Marriage Supper that the people are judged, only one is found to be guilty. Only one, out of all of the people who have ever lived, only one is not allowed to stay with Him for eternity. How glorious is that. Now lets look at Jon 17:12

While I was with them, I kept and preserved them in Your Name [ in the knowledge and worship of You]. Those You have given Me I guarded and protected, and not one of them has perished or is lost except the son of perdition [Judas Iscariot--the one who is now doomed to destruction, destined to be lost], that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Jesus begins John 17:2 by telling us that He has been given all flesh. He then goes on to say that He will give eternal life to all that He has been given. Now here in John 17:12 He tells us that He has kept all that He has been given safe, except Judas, so that the scriptures might be fulfilled. Only one was not kept safe and preserved. Only one is not allowed to stay in the parable of the Marriage Supper. 

There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ and the Truth is that all are in Christ. This does not mean that all will be the Bride of Christ, because Jesus tells us in Matthew 22 that the room was filled with guests. The Bride is not a guest at her own wedding. All will spend eternity with Jesus, because there are no longer any laws to convict us of sin. Some will be there as His Bride and some as His guests, but amen all will be there.

You may say but what about Matthew 22:14. This verse tells us that many have been called, not all have been called. When our Father comes to the earth to dwell, all will have been called to be there. Whether they are alive or dead, at the time when He comes, they will be there. So what Jesus is telling us in Matthew 22:14 is that many have been called to be His Bride, but only a few of us have actually been chosen to be. So only a few of us have been chosen to serve with Jesus for eternity. That doesn’t mean that Jesus loves us and not the guests. It just means that eternity has structure and some serve and some are served. But amen all are loved and all are allowed to be there, except Judas. Our Father would that all men be saved, 1 Timothy 2:4, and He gets His way. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord, and that means every person will be saved, Romans 14:11. 

Romans 8:1

THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.

There is now absolutely no condemnation for us because there is now absolutely no law to convict us of sin. While there still is sin in this world, there is now nothing that convicts us of sin. Sin has lost all of its abilities to hold us hostage. There is no longer anything to fear about it. I know how that sounds, but our Father knows what He is doing and there is a reason that He did away with the Law for us. The power of sin to harm us was the Law convicting us of sin, Romans 7:8. But now we are free, because through Christ we are discharged from the law.  

But now we are discharged from the Law and have terminated all intercourse with it, having died to what once restrained and held us captive. So now we serve not under [obedience to] the old code of written regulations, but [under obedience to the promptings] of the Spirit in newness [of life]. Romans 7:6

There is now also no condemnation for us because we are not justified by our own actions. We are justified by Jesus’ actions.

Now it is evident that no person is justified (declared righteous and brought into right standing with God) through the Law, for the Scripture says, The man in right standing with God [the just, the righteous] shall live by and out of faith and he who through and by faith is declared righteous and in right standing with God shall live. Galatians 3:11

This glory and freedom applies to all who are in Christ, amen! Now the question is, who is in Christ? 

[Just as] You have granted Him power and authority over all flesh (all humankind), [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him. John 17:2

For it was in Him that all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [by His service, intervention] and in and for Him.  And He Himself existed before all things, and in Him all things consist (cohere, are held together). Colossians 1:16-17

We are shown that Jesus is responsible for all flesh, all flesh. Jesus is not just responsible for the flesh that accepts Him, but He is responsible for all flesh. We are also shown that all things exist through Jesus and in Jesus. Our Father plainly tells us that all things consist and are held together in Jesus. So tie these verses with Romans 8:1: there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Amen, all are in Christ Jesus. This is a glorious Truth, all of us, whether we accept it or deny it, are in Christ Jesus. So there is now no condemnation for any of us. That is grace. It is all free. It is all undeserved and it is for all. Our Father is not a respecter of persons, Acts 10:34. 

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Romans 7:23-25

23 But I discern in my bodily members [in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh] a different law (rule of action) at war against the law of my mind (my reason) and making me a prisoner to the law of sin that dwells in my bodily organs [in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh].

    

24 O unhappy and pitiable and wretched man that I am! Who will release and deliver me from [the shackles of] this body of death?

    

25 O thank God! [He will!] through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One) our Lord! So then indeed I, of myself with the mind and heart, serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

So often Romans 7 is used to develop a doctrine that imprisons us with the weaknesses of our flesh. When actually the chapter is our Father telling us that we are completely free it. Our Father is telling us that our flesh is absolutely incapable of living right. Romans 7 is our Father telling us that He knows this and that to insure that He will never be without us, He has done away with any and all laws that could ever separate us from Him. He tells us that we have been liberated because of Jesus and that through Christ we are able to look past our flesh. 

Our Father has now quickened, or made alive, our mortal bodies, Ephesians 2:5. We have been crucified with Christ and it is now Christ that lives through us, Galatians 2:20. This is the peace that we have: we have died once and for all to sin, just as Jesus has died once to sin, Romans 6:10. Our flesh is not in the equation any longer, only grace is and grace is all free and it is all undeserved. We can do nothing that allows or hinders our Father from exerting His influence on our souls, we have been made free.

So if the Son liberates you [makes you free men], then you are really and unquestionably free. John 8:36

I am accused all of the time that I tell people that they can do whatever they want. If you have read very many of the postings that our Father empowers me to write, you will see that He never has me tell anyone to go and do whatever they want. It is the people who accuse me of this that seem to be constantly talking about sin. I have just been empowered to tell the people that we are now free from the Law of sin and death, Romans 8:2. I tell people that our best is sin. I also am used to tell people that there are no longer any laws that will ever convict us of sin. This is the Truth that sets us free and when our Father allows us to see His Truth, He will also empower us to actually stop doing the evil things that we know as sin. As long as we try to keep a law or a rule, we will commit sin. This is a foolish thing that confounds the wise, but it is so freeing!  

Romans 7:19-22

19 For I fail to practice the good deeds I desire to do, but the evil deeds that I do not desire to do are what I am [ever] doing.

    

Our flesh has absolutely no abilities to be pleasing to our Father. Our righteousness, our very best, is as filthy rags.  

20 Now if I do what I do not desire to do, it is no longer I doing it [it is not myself that acts], but the sin [principle] which dwells within me [fixed and operating in my soul].

    

The power that sin had over us was the Law, because the Law is what convicted us. But amen the Law is now dead to us, so there is now no condemnation for us, Romans 8:1 There is no rule, law, or ordinance any longer that can convict us of sin. Jesus did away with each and every last one. He nailed them all to the Cross with Him, Colossians 2:14. It's now just all grace, free and undeserved, and given to all men. 

But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment [to express itself], got a hold on me and aroused and stimulated all kinds of forbidden desires (lust, covetousness). For without the Law sin is dead [the sense of it is inactive and a lifeless thing]. Romans 7:8

Likewise, my brethren, you have undergone death as to the Law through the [crucified] body of Christ, so that now you may belong to Another, to Him Who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God. Romans 7:4

21 So I find it to be a law (rule of action of my being) that when I want to do what is right and good, evil is ever present with me and I am subject to its insistent demands.


Notice how when Paul wants to do something on his own that he fails. It's a law, so he fails. We now have the mind of Christ and that Mind wants our Father to do it all through us and that brings peace and success. 

    

22 For I endorse and delight in the Law of God in my inmost self [with my new nature].

We haven’t been given a spirit by our Father that wants to sin. We don’t want to lie, steal, murder, cheat, or any other thing. But as long as we believe that there are any laws that will convict us of these things, we will continue to do them. It is only when our Father causes us to have the faith that there is now absolutely no laws that we have to keep, is when we will actually stop doing sinful things. It is only when we are empowered with the Truth that our Father has placed all of the responsibility of our eternity on Jesus, that we will be free. It is only when we are empowered to believe that our Father has placed none of the burden of our eternity on us, that we will actually stop doing bad things. The Truth is that we are dead, yet we live, yet it is not us who live, it is Christ in us that lives, Galatians 2:20. So how can a dead man be responsible for his actions? I know this sounds foolish and the wise will say that without laws we will just go and do whatever we want, but it is the Truth that sets us free. Our Father calls things that are not as though they were and they become what He wants, Romans 4:17. And our Father uses foolish things to confound the wise, 1 Corinthians 1:27.

Jesus is our Head. Jesus is our Shepherd. Jesus is our Vine. He is our Master and He alone is our Lord. Without Jesus we can do nothing, John 15:5. Jesus alone has been given power over all flesh and our Father has glorified Him, so that He can give eternal life to all that He has been given, John 17:2. 

Romans 7:18

18 For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot perform it. [I have the intention and urge to do what is right, but no power to carry it out.]

Our flesh can do nothing right and I honestly believe that most of us know this. Our flesh on its own is incapable of performing anything correctly. Without Christ our flesh simply fails. The Law is a set of rules that tells the flesh what to do on its own. The Ten Commandments are never displayed with a statement that Jesus has to do these things through us, even though our flesh is absolutely incapable of doing what they tell us to do. Our Father made the flesh to be that way. He did this so that He could send Jesus and then have mercy on all men regardless of what they have done. 

Remember what our Father told us in Romans 11:32 that He would have mercy on all men alike! Through Jesus, our Father has mercy on all of us. He never favors one of us over another. If it was up to our flesh to accept this glorious Truth we would fail. But thank God that all men are now sold into being a slave of Jesus Christ. We were all slaves of sin, but now we are all Jesus’ possessions. He bought us and He now owns all of us, whether we accept this Truth or not. Jesus is responsible for each and every one of us and is is responsible for each and every one of us to have eternal life.

 [Just as] You have granted Him power and authority over all flesh (all humankind), [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him. John 17:2

Jesus now has power over all flesh and our Father glorified Him so that He will give eternal life to all flesh. There are a lot of people who try and place The Law and other man made religious rules on us. Laws like where to worship, when to worship, and how to dress when we worship. They try to tell us what to eat and tons and tons of other man made obligations. Jesus did away with all of these laws, except love. Because of Jesus’ success, all laws are now dead for us. They have to be dead for us, so that sin can now be dead for us. It all has to be grace, which means that it all has to be our Father’s power working through us. We cannot boast and we cannot condemn because it is always our Father’s power being greater in us. 

This freedom applies to all men. Think of a worldly judge. What if his son came up before him and had committed a crime, yet the judge let him off, only because that he was his son. Then right after that case, a man who had said nasty things about the judge came up before him. With this case the judge found the man guilty and sentenced him with the maximum sentence, only because he had spoken against the judge. We would be outraged and throw the judge out of office. Today this kind of thing happens all of the time with corrupt judges, politicians, dictators, and dishonest businessmen. When it makes the news we are all outraged and demand that the person is punished. Yet on Sunday we hear that this is the very thing that our Father does. We say that we are forgiven only because we are God’s children, when the Truth is that Jesus died so that the world could be saved. Jesus did away with all of the laws and He did it for everyone. Our Lord is no respecter of persons. When Jesus was here as a man, He favored those who believed Him and those who did not believe Him. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He never changes!   

Grace is always underserved. We do not have to accept grace, if we had to accept it then grace would be earned and not free. The glorious Truth is that all men have been set free from the Law and grace is for all men. Some of us have been empowered to know this Truth now. We are called the Bride of Christ, which means that we will serve with Jesus for all of eternity. Some of us don’t know this Truth now, but we will after the Resurrection. These people are the guests of the Bride, which means that they will be served by us. But all men will spend eternity with our Father, because Jesus was that successful. 

 [Just as] You have granted Him power and authority over all flesh (all humankind), [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him. John 17:2

Jesus has secured eternal life for all that He has been given and He has been given all. Our Father will have mercy on all men alike.

For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike]. Romans 11:32

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