Thursday, June 30, 2016

Ephesians 4:16

For because of Him the whole body (the church, in all its various parts), closely joined and firmly knit together by the joints and ligaments with which it is supplied, when each part [with power adapted to its need] is working properly [in all its functions], grows to full maturity, building itself up in love. Ephesians 4:16

Because of Jesus we are now perfect. He supplies us with whatever we need and His love causes us to be mature even as our Father is Heaven is mature. That sounds crazy I know. But Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:48 that we have to be this way.

You, therefore, must be perfect [growing into complete maturity of godliness in mind and character, having reached the proper height of virtue and integrity], as your heavenly Father is perfect.

So being perfect as God is perfect is a need of ours and our needs are now met by our Father’s riches and glory through Christ Jesus. We really cannot talk about it enough, but we are really successful because Jesus is causing us to be. We have been grafted into perfection and we have become one with it. Everything that Jesus is and everything that He has we are now one with. He has held nothing back from us, even perfection.

Let us all come forward and draw near with true (honest and sincere) hearts in unqualified assurance and absolute conviction engendered by faith (by that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), having our hearts sprinkled and purified from a guilty (evil) conscience and our bodies cleansed with pure water. Hebrews 10:22

I honestly believe that most people have no idea that because of Jesus’ success we now enjoy all of the privileges, rights, and honors that He does. There is absolutely no reason to have any guilt at all. Grace has trumped every last thing that could ever come against us. Jesus has made sure that we cannot fail and none of it is dependent on our own abilities. We don’t have to pray right and actually the Bible tells us that none of us even knows how to pray right. We don’t have to be righteous and once again the Bible tells us that none of us is righteous. We don’t have to be able to quote scriptures or belong to a denomination. We don’t even have to author or finish our own faith, because Jesus even does that for us. 

We are now one with Jesus and as He is, so are we in this world. He is our Head and He is now completely responsible for us. So never question yourself or allow anyone to ever bring condemnation on you because there is none to be brought. If our Jesus and our Father aren’t condemning you then there is no one of any consequence to bring any fault against you, including yourself.

Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect [when it is] God Who justifies [that is, Who puts us in right relation to Himself? Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will God, Who acquits us?] Who is there to condemn [us]? Will Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Who died, or rather Who was raised from the dead, Who is at the right hand of God actually pleading as He intercedes for us? Romans 8:33-34


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