Our Bodies Have Been Destroyed, So That We Can Be Used

We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin. Romans 6:6

Our Father has given us the Mind of Christ and His Mind tells is that we can have no confidence in our flesh, 1 Corinthians 2:16. The Mind of Christ shows us that through Him 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, Galatians 2:20! 

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! Through our Father’s power working in us 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! We have confidence because we have been fully equipped, so that we can be the very vessels of honor that our Father 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 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 do not make us righteous; Jesus makes us righteous! This is the freedom of salvation, and our Father would that we all have it!