Use The Word For Correction

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

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

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

Leaving The Doctrine Of Repentance

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

So as we are considering Jesus, Who He is, what He is, how He is, what He is like, consider this: is He repenting from dead works? No, so we too can move past that, because as He is so are we in this world!

Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him; For in that He died, He died unto sin once, but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:9-11

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

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

For I will be merciful and gracious toward their sins and I will remember their deeds of unrighteousness no more. Hebrews 8:12

Let's Move Past The Doctrine Of Faith

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

Is Jesus right now laying a foundation of faith for Himself towards God? No way, He isn’t because it’s settled and complete for Him. There is no question to Jesus that God is it; He is the way, the answer, and the provider, God is the All!

Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith; Who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2

Our Father has made us one with His power to live as Jesus lives, never having any doubts about Who our Father is, what He is, how He is, and what is the greatness of His love towards us. Just as Jesus knows the breadth, length, height, and depth of our Fathers love, so do we!

That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it]; Ephesians 3:18

Through Christ we are now one with and have possession of the perfect and complete faith of Jesus Christ. Just as Jesus is one with His faith, there is no difference with us, because Jesus has given all of His faith to us! Through Christ perfection is for us! Two plus two is four, we can move on past this Truth to division, multiplication, algebra, and trigonometry. The truth of two plus two is still there, but there is more, and there is more for us than just believing that God is, and believing that He will reward those who are empowered by the Holy Spirit to believe He will reward us. The Truth of 1 John 4:17, as He is, so are we in this world, awaits us! And the peace here is that we know beyond any shadow of a doubt that Jesus will completely lead us in the path of this righteousness for His Name’s sake!

The Hope Of Being Perfect Draws Us To God

For the Law never made anything perfect—but instead a better hope is introduced through which we [now] come close to God. Hebrews 7:19

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

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

For if because of one man's trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God's] overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). Romans 5:17

Jesus Saves Us Perfectly

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

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

Through the power of Christ we are saved to the uttermost, which means that we are now perfected by Christ. Through Christ we are now nigh unto God our Father, and through Christ we are now the children of Light! Jesus teaches us in Matthew 11:6 that if we will accept and not stumble at His Truth, than truly we will be blessed. Jesus has given us the Holy Spirit and through the strength of the very Spirit of God, our Father will reveal the Truth of who we are in Christ to us. What Jesus has done for us is our foundation and now it’s time to move past the beginning principles of Christ, and through the full power of our Savior move on to perfection!

Therefore let us go on and get past the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ (the Messiah), advancing steadily toward the completeness and perfection that belong to spiritual maturity. Let us not again be laying the foundation of repentance and abandonment of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith [by which you turned] to God, Hebrews 6:1

Faith comes from hearing the Truth and faith is the evidence of things hoped for. If we are saved these Truths that we have been studying are just in us. We are born of them and they nourish us and feed us. Jesus came not to just show us how great He was, but to show us how great we are in Him and He is in us! Jesus came so that we could be one, just exactly as He and God are One! This is how the world will believe and be saved. This is how the dead will be raised, the blind will see, the deaf will hear, and the Gospel will be preached to every nation.

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

Perfect Love

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

We now have perfect love through Christ, we have this perfection because the fullness of our Father now dwells within us. We now have boldness as well. We have boldness to stand in the Day of Judgment. We now have boldness to approach our Father’s Throne of Grace in time of need. 

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16 

Standing before our Father on the Day of Judgment will not be a new thing for us. Because we now walk with Him, He is in us, and He is leading and guiding us to come to His Throne of Grace. When the Day of Judgment comes, our Father won’t all of a sudden leave us, so that we will have to go up there on our own. No, our Father will still be one with us, leading us right up there, with His perfect love within us casting out all fear. In the Day of Judgment we will be bold, we will be full of boldness in Him, knowing that no harm will come to us, and that there is no condemnation for us! We will know, with the Anointed Mind that God has given us, that we have abided in God here on the earth, and that we will abide in Him for eternity. We know that our Father will never leave us or forsake us, never! Through the power of Christ we will have boldness and confidence that through Him we have passed from wrath unto righteousness!

Now here is the great part, since we now abide in our Father’s love, we know beyond any shadow of a doubt that God now dwells within us. We know that He gives us boldness to serve Him just as Jesus serves Him. 

For in that He died, He died unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:10-11

He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked. 1 John 2:6 

Look how God takes our service to the extreme limits of His power, He is God, and as He is, so are we in this world! Bam! Talk about being bold. I know I have written on this already, but do you see what this means? As God is so are we in this world! God is love, He is lay down your life love. He is never leave us or forsake us love. Love is the key, love unlocks it all, and we are just like our Father in love. People preach that we need to love all of the time, but rarely do we hear it preached like this: that in God we can’t help but love! We are born of love and our love is just like God’s love, because our love is now God’s love. His love now abides within us, never leaving us or forsaking us! We now and forevermore abide in perfect Love.

Jesus Makes Us Perfect

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

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

As Paul wrote in Hebrews, let us go on to perfection and as Jesus said to us, be perfect even as God is perfect. These are two awesome statements of faith. Perfection is not an unattainable goal of the believer. Why isn’t it, because perfection comes for us from Christ. Look at what Jesus said to us in John 17:23. He taught us that our unity with Him and the oneness that it brings with God makes us perfect.

A pupil is not superior to his teacher, but everyone [when he is] completely trained (readjusted, restored, set to rights, and perfected) will be like his teacher. Luke 6:40

Now how cool is Luke 6:40? Jesus tells us that everyone who is perfect shall be like his master. Jesus is our Master, we are perfect because of our Master, Jesus, and we are like Him even while on this earth, if He lives within us, 1 John 4:17. Jesus is in us and we are in Him, and we all are in God, all are made perfect in One! Jesus said it, now do you actually believe Him or do you believe some bumper sticker that says we aren’t perfect just forgiven?

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

We Live In The Power Of Jesus’ Resurrection

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:11

When does our Father say that we are to consider ourselves to be dead to sin? In the future or right now? Our Father teaches us that now is our accepted time and that today is the day of our salvation. Through the power of Christ that we have been freely anointed with, we now have freedom from all sin. As the Greek word for salvation, soteria, taught us, we are free from the power of sin, the presence of sin, the pleasure of sin, and the penalty of sin. Through the power of the Holy Spirit we know God right now and knowing God means we now have eternal life.

And this is eternal life, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent. John 17:3

We know God right now. We are now His children, His friends, His servants, and we are now His body. We know our Father, we don’t just know of Him, we actually know Him. That is an awesome thing and something the world needs to hear. God knows us, so why shouldn’t we know Him. If the only thing my kids ever had were letters about me, they would never truly know me. The Bible is great, I love it, but yet, I don’t want to just read about our Father, I want to know Him. I want to hang out with Him, talk to Him, hear Him, and be taught by Him. I want to be as He is! And He absolutely wants the same things for us! Our Father has provided a way and the way is by being empowered with the Holy Spirit to look unto Jesus to Author and Finish the faith within us that brings the very righteousness of God into us. If we are one with God, we are one with His righteousness. That’s just good and simple Truth!

Our righteousness is as filthy rags, yeah, so what? We no longer look unto our own righteousness for anything; we now only look unto Jesus’ righteousness. We stand before God on Jesus’ merits, not our own. Our best doesn’t even equal Jesus’ worst. Don’t freak out about that, it is only symbolism! Glory, righteousness, sanctification, holiness, and perfection, these are all God’s qualities and when it comes to us He isn’t stingy with any of them, through Christ He has allowed us to become one with them. We are born from them, they are who we are. We can’t help but exhibit these qualities; we are flesh of God’s flesh and bone of His bones. We are born again of all these things, it’s just who we are! We are filled with the fullest measure of our Father's Divine Presence and He remembers our sins no more. 

Be blessed this day. Jesus loves you and He has given you everything that pertains unto life and unto godliness!

Do We Just Have A Form Of Godliness

And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. Mark 16:15-18

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

That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.  John 17:21

The question is: are we truly one? Look at how many different churches that we have, right across the street from each other, towns with less than 500 people have three and four different churches, in the Book of Acts our Father was adding 5000 people a day to one church! I hear it preached all of the time that we can agree to disagree, bull; our Father is not divided! Can the hand disagree with the arm? If it does the body is handicapped, is Christ handicapped? Look at what the Word says the Church should be like. And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. Acts 2:1

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

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

The Truth is that we cannot become united on our own. We cannot just decide that today we will no longer have divisions. Our unity must come form our Father. He is the only One Who can join us together in the unity and the power of His might. So do not look at yourselves or at your church, look to our Father and ask Him to unite us as we never have been before.

Our Salvation Is Eternal

And for this cause He is the Mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Hebrews 9:15

Let’s read this verse from the Amplified Bible as well.

[Christ, the Messiah] is therefore the Negotiator and Mediator of an [entirely] new agreement (testament, covenant), so that those who are called and offered it may receive the fulfillment of the promised everlasting inheritance-since a death has taken place which rescues and delivers and redeems them from the transgressions committed under the [old] first agreement. Hebrews 9:15

Jesus has offered us and He has given us a New Covenant, a totally New Covenant which guarantees our everlasting salvation. The Old Covenant was a covenant of works, the Ten Commandments, the Law, do these things and don’t do those things. The New Covenant that Jesus has given us is a Covenant of faith. Jesus has offered and chosen us to be part of a covenant that allows Him to be the Author and Finisher of our faith.

Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2

So through the perfect power of our Lord and Savior we are now able to believe and completely trust in God. And since we now operate in the power of Jesus’ faith, our Father is able to accomplish His perfect works of righteousness through us.

Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]— Ephesians 3:20

This is what it really boils down to, Jesus gave our Father the ability to be in Control of our lives and since He is, Jesus gave us the ability to live free from the burdens and distresses that came from sin. We have received the fulfillment of the everlasting inheritance, which has redeemed us and delivered us from all sin.

Jesus Has Freed Us From The Guilt Of Sin

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, Romans 8:1-4

How is it that we are free from the law of sin and death, I mean just look at us? But according to our Father, we who are in Christ are now free from sin! The answer is very gracious, we don’t sin, because Jesus is just that great. He is that powerful, He is that loving, and He is that awesome! Jesus came and freely laid His life down for our freedom. Our Lord absolutely and 100% fulfilled all of the needed requirements of the consequences of sin for us. Through His eternal power, which ever lives to intercede for us so that we might be saved to the uttermost, we are now totally free from sin. 

We are not free from transgressions through our own actions, thank God we aren’t; we are free from sin only because of Jesus’ actions. The penalty has been paid; the consequences have been satisfied. We are free from sin and its powers because Jesus has accomplished what we could not do. The law said that if you sin, than there is death, or separation from God, there would be no eternal life where the penalty and price of sin still existed. But because of Jesus and because of His Blood, the law is now of no effect for us, the price has been paid, the debt is cancelled, the penalty is fulfilled. If you are empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as Lord, there is no more separation by actions, there is no more condemnation, because we are redeemed, rescued, and delivered from the law of sin and death. Jesus is that Great and because He is, there is no more guilt for us.

So let it be clearly known and understood by you, brethren, that through this Man forgiveness and removal of sins is now proclaimed to you; And that through Him everyone who believes [who acknowledges Jesus as his Savior and devotes himself to Him] is absolved (cleared and freed) from every charge from which he could not be justified and freed by the Law of Moses and given right standing with God. Acts 13:38-39

Through Christ We Are Purged From Dead Works

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

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

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

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

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

Jesus Is Strong Enough

And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent. John 17:3 

Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen Him, neither known Him. 1 John 3:6 

For He says, in the time of favor (of an assured welcome) I have listened to and heeded your call, and I have helped you on the day of deliverance (the day of salvation). Behold now is truly the time of a gracious welcome and acceptance [of you from God]; behold now is the day of salvation! 2 Corinthians 6:2 

Take these three verses together along with Hebrews 9:15 and what do we see? 

[Christ, the Messiah] is therefore the Negotiator and Mediator of an [entirely] new agreement (testament, covenant), so that those who are called and offered it may receive the fulfillment of the promised everlasting inheritance-since a death has taken place which rescues and delivers and redeems them from the transgressions committed under the [old] first agreement.

We see that eternal life, or eternal inheritance, for us is to know God and to know Jesus. We see that Jesus is the One Who gave eternal life to us, through His death and sacrifice we have eternal life, only by His death do we have our freedom. We do not have freedom and an eternal inheritance by us keeping a set of ordinances or laws. It’s not by our works that we have all of the fullness of God; it’s just a free and gracious gift that has been offered to us! The time of that gift is right now, it’s not a future promise, it’s a now promise! We see that this promise has rescued us from sin and Jesus has delivered us from it. How did He do it? He did it by fulfilling all of the requirements of the Law for us. That responsibility has been taken away from us, Jesus was the only One Who could do it and He did it; Jesus succeeded! We see in the Word of our Father that if we abide in Jesus we do not sin, and if you read on in 1 John 3 you will see that we don’t sin because Jesus is within us, it’s all His power, not ours. Jesus is strong enough, He is willing, and He is more than able to fulfill His calling of rescuing us completely from sin and all of its destructive powers!

All Things Are Now Pure For The Saved

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

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

Hallelujah, once again as we search the scriptures for the Truth, we will see Jesus to our rescue!

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

We could never be pure on our own and our Father knew it. So He sent Jesus, Who has the strength, the will, and the ability to purify us completely, so that now all things are pure for us. That is how strong the Blood of our Savior is, it covers all! It redeems us from all iniquity and it purifies all things for us so that we may be used by our Father to produce much fruit, and He makes us eager for good works. Now stop and look at that, Jesus makes us eager, or zealous, for good works! 

How many times have you spoken a scripture of real power and had some religious person come back with a warning or a caution? They do this because they believe that it is the power of man that is being used to carry out the purposes and will of our Father. But we don’t operate in the power of our own might, we operate in the power of our Lord’s might. We are more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us! Jesus is the One and only One Who makes us desire and want righteous works! Greater is He that is within us, than he that is in the world! Jesus has made us pure so that we may be one with God just as He is one with God, John 17:21-23. We are now the body of Jesus, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone, Ephesians 5:30. And since we one with Jesus, we are now as He is, and all things are pure for Him, and so we are the same way, even when we are on this earth, 1 John 4:17. Praise God that is how strong Jesus is, He has saved us to the uttermost and through the power of His might we stand strong as He is strong!

God Keeps Us Clean

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

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

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

We have gone to great lengths in our studies to prove with God's Word, the only Word that matters, that we are now one with Him, this day, through Jesus our Lord and Savior. We have learned that Jesus is in us and that we are in Jesus. These are the Truths that the Holy Spirit will have us so to a world that so desperately needs it. 

The Power Of Just Two Believers

Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. Matthew 18:19

When our Father empowers the Church to actually begin to walk in the power of our unity with Christ, who will care what the governments of this world have to say. Just two of us can be used by God to join together and bring His will to pass! 

That they all may be one, [just] as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me. I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one: I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and [definitely] recognize that You sent Me and that You have loved them [even] as You have loved Me. John 17:21-23

There won’t be just two of us either; God’s fullness will be united with and working through millions of us! When Jesus walked this earth 2000 years ago look at how the world responded. One man united and born of God and look at what happened: the dead were raised, storms ceased at His command, thousands were fed with just table scraps, the lame walked, the blind saw, and the world was given a Savior! Now that Man, Jesus our Lord and Savior, said that we would be used by our Father to do the same things and even greater things. So it is an absolute sure thing that the power of God working through us that we are talking about will come to pass! It absolutely will, that is why Jesus so boldly proclaimed in John 17 that the world will believe. There is no other way for the world all together and all at once to believe unless we are walking in the full and complete power of Jesus, as He is, united and strengthened with God Himself, and perfected for glorious service! 

Do I mean that all men will believe? I sure hope so! It is the will of our Father that all men be saved, so we should desire the same thing! But if it only means that true Christianity will be working in all nations at one time, so be it. But I sure hope that all men will have it! 

We Stand Against Tribulation By Being In God’s Power

These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33

Now here is another awesome thing, in Heaven there is no tribulation, yet Jesus says that on the earth there is, so where do we stand? We are here, yet we have been raised up together with Christ in Heavenly places, Ephesians 2:6. Think about it, Jesus is here on the earth, as well as in Heaven. So ask yourself, is there any situation in this earth that can stand up against Him? What about our Father, is He moved by any earthly woe or ill? Does the Holy Ghost back down from any force of the earth? No, there in lies our power; as He is so are we on this earth, 1 John 4:17! Tribulations will arise for the Words sake, but be of good cheer; Jesus has given us the power to be used and protected by God just as He is. Through Christ we are unmovable! So as Jesus enjoys the Heavenly blessings, so do we, even though we are here on the earth, just as Jesus is. Our Lord is in both places, and so are we, be of good cheer, Jesus has deprived the earth of its power against us! We are now one with Jesus, we are now members of His body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone, Ephesians 5:30. Nothing can harm Jesus and we are now one with Jesus!

Hey, do I think that I understand this all yet, no! But this one thing I do through the power of Christ, I forget the things that are behind, and I press towards the prize of His high calling, and as many as be perfect in Christ, be thus minded! I am telling you the Truth, when Jesus appears we shall be like Him, the Church is heading places before Jesus returns that are far beyond what we can think of, pray for, or ask for, and it is all going to happen by the power of Christ that is within us, the power of the Holy Spirit! The Church will be used by our Father to do greater works than Jesus did, the Church is going to be as He is, the Church will be glorious and without spot, wrinkle, or blemish! God said it, it will be! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for!

How do I know this will be, our Father has allowed me to taste bits and pieces of it. Our Father has instructed me to lay hands on the sick, and they have recovered, right there, no other reason than God worked through me. I have been praying and my spirit grew beyond the confines of my body. Our Father allowed me to taste a fraction of how He is, it was so small, and only for a moment, yet He allowed me to see that we do have the capacity to be in touch with the Body of Christ beyond our flesh. He allowed me to experience just a little taste of His omnipotence. I never will ask you to believe just because I have written it, shoot I never would, taste it for yourself, ask our Father to come to you and ask your Father to allow you to experience His fullness. Ask for God’s Word to consume you, it will empower you to surrender all and then receive it all. If you still have your will, ask God to give you the power to give it away, take on Your Father’s will, it’s a lot better!

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

We Are In Heaven, While We Are On This Earth

But God, Who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: Ephesians 2:4-5

Now let’s look at the second half of this verse, our Father hath raised us up together with Christ in Heavenly places. People talk about Heaven as if it is some future tense thing, all of the benefits, all of the glory, and all of the power, yet our Father says with Christ we have already been raised up to Heavenly places. This is why Jesus said we have peace. 

These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33 

We can be of good cheer now because we are in Christ right now. We have been raised up together with Him right now and we have been made alive together with Him right now. In heaven there is no tribulation, no foes, no distresses, and through Christ we have now been raised up to be with God in Heavenly places!

But we are here, on this earth, where Jesus teaches that there are tribulations. How can we be in both places at the same time? Hold on, because this is awesome stuff! Turn over to 1 John 4:17.

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. 

Ask yourself, is God in Heaven and on the Earth? Is Jesus in Heaven and in the Earth? Is the Holy Spirit in Heaven and on the Earth? Yes, they are! Who are we now one with? As He is, so are we on this earth! Our Father is omnipotent; He is everywhere all at once, yet He is intimate with us all at once! As He is so are we in this world! It’s no issue to think of God as being in multiple places. We are now one with Him, created in His image, made to be conformed to the image of Jesus, so where is the stretch for us to be? We have been raised up together and made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus! As He is, so are we in this world, crucified with Him, yet we live, yet it is not us who lives, but Christ in us! Our Father is God and He can do all things, so empowering us to be as He is, in Heaven and on the Earth is no big deal! Our Father, Who is God, is that powerful! The ability lies in God, not in man. Our Father is not limited by our weaknesses, A-men!

Jesus Alone Sanctifies Us

[Therefore I do not treat God’s gracious gift as something of minor importance and defeat its very purpose]; I do not set aside and invalidate and frustrate and nullify the grace (unmerited favor) of God. For if justification (righteousness, acquittal from guilt) comes through [observing the ritual] of the Law, then Christ (the Messiah) died groundlessly and to no purpose and in vain. [His death was then wholly superfluous]. Galatians 2:21 

Don’t think for one second that we are to believe that the acts of sin are alright: murder, lies, stealing, adultery, whatever; they aren’t. But for those of us who have truly been empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as Lord, these acts no longer separate us from our Father. We don’t come in and out of our salvation, our eternity isn’t based on us keeping a set of rules. Our eternity is based on Jesus, who fulfilled every rule!

What our Father has given us is complete and eternal freedom through Christ! We have been chosen by God to walk eternally with Him. We can do this only because of the power of Jesus’ sacrifice and because His Blood allowed us to be empowered and sealed with the very Holy Spirit of God. Our Father is now within us and we are now in Him. He is now given us His strength, His energy, His faith, His love, His hope, and His power to walk in full and complete righteousness. We are no longer trying to walk uprightly alone, we have God within us, and our Father is more than able and willing to keep us right! God may very well need to mature us, but we have been born of perfection, and Dad is right here with us, one with us, and He is doing what is needed to fully equip us in righteousness.

We are perfect because the penalty of sin, that separated us from perfection, has been removed. The new Law, the Law that Jesus came and ratified with His Blood, says that if we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as Lord, then we are made perfect in the sight of God. We are perfect because we are born again of perfection, our Father’s Incorruptible seed bore us, and He is perfect! Jesus was born of God and a woman, and our Father's perfection overrode the woman’s imperfection, His seed hasn’t changed, it’s done the same for us! We are sanctified not because we have done something right; we are sanctified because Jesus provided sanctification and gave it to us. We are glorified because Jesus asked God to glorify us; we are born of it, an apple tree does not produce grapes! Not only are we born of perfection, we are grafted into the Vine, which is Jesus, to insure that perfection and glory, and honor, and righteousness, continually and forever nourishes us and provides life for us. There is now no condemnation for us. Jesus has fulfilled the righteousness of the law within us. We have been delivered from the consequences and penalties of sin by a Savior Who did the job completely! Our freedom from guilt and our justification came solely from the acts of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Love Perfects Us

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

The Word of our Father clearly proclaims that we dwell in Love and that God dwells in us, and since God now dwells within us, our love is made perfect. 

No man has at any time [yet] seen God. But if we love one another, God abides (lives and remains) in us and His love (that love which is essentially His) is brought to completion (to its full maturity, runs its full course, is perfected) in us! 1 John 4:12

Our love is not perfected because of our own actions, it’s perfected because God is in us. People who possess the love of God, who love perfectly, don’t get there by practice; they get there by God abiding in them. They get there because the Light of God’s love drives out the darkness of carnal hate. We are strong to love by the power of God’s might that is within us and our Father doesn’t need to practice to love! We love because Jesus is within us causing us to love! 

I have made Your Name known to them and revealed Your character and Your very Self, and I will continue to make [You] known, that the love which You have bestowed upon Me may be in them [felt in their hearts] and that I [Myself] may be in them. John 17:26

We love because we are born of love; the same love that bore Jesus has bore us! Through Christ we have ceased from our own labors and the perfect love of our Father has perfected us as it perfected our Lord and Savior, Jesus! We are new creatures in Christ, all of our old has passed away and behold everything has become new for us. These aren’t just catchy phrases meant to motivate us to a higher walk, they are the absolute Truth that has set us free! The love of our Father is so perfect and so strong that it has perfected us.

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

What Love Has Made Us

And I have declared unto them Thy Name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them. John 17:26

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

For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. Ephesians 5:30

[That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! Ephesians 3:19

But concerning brotherly love [for all other Christians], you have no need to have anyone write you, for you yourselves have been [personally] taught by God to love one another. 1 Thessalonians 4:9

Our Godly DNA

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

In Christ we are preserved blameless. In Christ we are sanctified wholly, delivered from every evil work, preserved until Heaven, sealed with the Holy Spirit, thoroughly furnished, without blemish, and we are glorified with Jesus’ glory. 

I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one: John 17:22

We now also have the Mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2:16. We now have His Spirit and His anointing, so that we may be perfect until the day that He is revealed. That is what our Father say’s and it is Truth, and it is righteousness, and it is fact! It’s what we are born of and if we have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus, it is in us, so we can’t help but believe it, because it’s what we are. We may not fully understand it all, we may still be immature, but this is the Incorruptible Seed that we have been born of, it’s in our spiritual makeup, our Godly DNA!

You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from one that is immortal by the ever living and lasting Word of God. 1 Peter 1:23

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

Do You Hope To Be Filled With All Of God

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. John 5:19

Jesus never said or did anything that He hadn’t first heard from our Father. Jesus was always One with God, so He could be no other way! And through the truly awesome power of Jesus, we too are now one with our Father. Through Christ we are empowered with God’s very own Spirit, so that we too can be successful 100% of the time. There is no reason that through the power of God within our lives that we can’t be perfect each and every day! Our Father can do through us what He did through Jesus and He can even do greater things, John 14:12! We have God Himself within us empowering us and leading us to seek Him out and God is empowering us with the Holy Spirit to be fully guided by Him. Pray what the Spirit tells you to pray, go where He leads you to go, speak what He tells you to speak. The Holy Spirit will teach us all things. He will take everything that is Jesus’ and He will show it unto us and then He will empower us to do it. 100% Success, 100% of the time, now that is producing fruit, and that is what glorifies God! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, and through the abounding presence of the Holy Spirit within us, we can abound in the hope that God is willing and able to allow us to live fully in His power!

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends: for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you. John 15:15

God's power and demonstration through us should come as no surprise. We are His friends and we know what our Lord is doing. We are one with Jesus, He is perfect, and we are now His body, so we are perfect through Him! Let’s get use to that Word: perfect, because it’s what Jesus has made us! Through the perfecting power of Christ we are now more than capable of being successful 100% of the time! Jesus is plain and simple that powerful!

We Are Actually One With Jesus Today

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

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

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

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