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Romans 8:1 Part II

2012-02-15T08:03:00.000-05:00

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

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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.

Romans 4:1-9 Video Recap

2012-02-13T09:48:00.000-05:00

Romans 7:23-25

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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

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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

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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

Romans 4:3-8 Video Teaching

2012-02-10T15:25:00.002-05:00

Romans 4:1-3 Video Teaching

2012-02-09T18:10:00.000-05:00

Romans 7:14-17

2012-02-07T06:40:00.003-05:00

14 We know that the Law is spiritual; but I am a creature of the flesh [carnal, unspiritual], having been sold into slavery under [the control of] sin.

15 For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled, bewildered]. I do not practice or accomplish what I wish, but I do the very thing that I loathe [which my moral instinct condemns].

So many people believe that this flesh is what we are to depend on and place our trust in? Why, when is nothing good in our flesh! We all act like Paul acted, doing what is wrong. Why would anyone want to believe that they must first do anything on their own for our Father to be able to then act in their life’s? Why do people believe that we ever have any part to play on our own, when we are never left alone? We can do nothing without our Lord and Savior Jesus, but amen, we are never without Him, so we will produce much fruit, John 15:5.

16 Now if I do [habitually] what is contrary to my desire, [that means that] I acknowledge and agree that the Law is good (morally excellent) and that I take sides with it.

17 However, it is no longer I who do the deed, but the sin [principle] which is at home in me and has possession of me.

The people of Israel called Jesus good and He asked them why they said such a thing? He told them very plainly that His flesh was not good. The flesh of God Himself confessed that He was not good. If there was nothing good in Jesus, then what hope would our flesh have?

And Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me [ essentially and perfectly morally] good? There is no one [ essentially and perfectly morally] good--except God alone. Mark 10:18

As we have studied so often before in these postings: our Father made all flesh to be disobedient.

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

Our Father will not let our flesh ever be successful own its own, or apart from Him. The Truth is that He will never let our flesh do anything on its own, Colossians 1:16. If He did, then He couldn’t provide His mercy to all of us alike. Without Christ our flesh is dead, but with Him it lives and is used by God abundantly. Don’t ever believe that you are on your own, it’s just not the Truth.

John 7:11-13

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14 We know that the Law is spiritual; but I am a creature of the flesh [carnal, unspiritual], having been sold into slavery under [the control of] sin.

15 For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled, bewildered]. I do not practice or accomplish what I wish, but I do the very thing that I loathe [which my moral instinct condemns].

So many people believe that this flesh is what we are to place our trust in? We all act like Paul acted. Why would anyone want to believe that they must first do anything on our own for our Father to be able to then act in their life’s? Why do people believe that we ever have any part to play on our own, when we are never left alone? We can do nothing without Jesus, but because of Him we are used to produce much fruit, John 15:5.

16 Now if I do [habitually] what is contrary to my desire, [that means that] I acknowledge and agree that the Law is good (morally excellent) and that I take sides with it.

17 However, it is no longer I who do the deed, but the sin [principle] which is at home in me and has possession of me.

And Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me [ essentially and perfectly morally] good? There is no one [ essentially and perfectly morally] good--except God alone. Mark 10:18

As we have studied so often before in these postings: our Father made all flesh to be disobedient.

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

Our flesh can do nothing right. Our flesh on its own is incapable of performing anything correctly. Without Christ our flesh fails at each and everything that it ever tries. The Law is a set of rules that tells the flesh what to do on its own. Yet the flesh is absolutely incapable of doing what the Law tells it 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.

Catch what our Father tells us in Romans 11:32: He tells us “all men alike!” Through Jesus, our Father has mercy on all of us. If it was up to our flesh to accept this 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 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 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 laws 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 rules. Jesus did away with all laws except love. All laws are now dead for us; they have to be dead, so that sin can now be dead. 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.

Romans 7:11-13

2012-02-04T08:36:00.002-05:00

11 For sin, seizing the opportunity and getting a hold on me [by taking its incentive] from the commandment, beguiled and entrapped and cheated me, and using it [as a weapon], killed me.

When the Law was alive sin had an opportunity to grab a hold of us. But now that the Law is dead sin no longer has that opportunity. Sin has lost its ability to cheat us and entrap us. Sin has lost all of its ability to harm us because the free and undeserved Grace of our Father has now replaced the Law. Where sin did abound, our Father’s Grace now much more abounds, Romans 5:20.

12 The Law therefore is holy, and [each] commandment is holy and just and good.

The Law was Holy. It did exactly what our Father intended for it to do. He gave the Law to show us that we could never live on our own. The Law showed us how much we needed our Father. The Law showed us that even though we have flesh, it is the Spirit that gives us life and life abundantly, John 6:63. Without the Law sin no longer has any opportunities to work death through us. Through Christ we now have only life, just as Jesus has life. There is no longer any death for us, John 5:24. Because of Jesus’ success we have passed from death to life. There is no longer any condemnation for us, Romans 8:1.

13 Did that which is good then prove fatal [bringing death] to me? Certainly not! It was sin, working death in me by using this good thing [as a weapon], in order that through the commandment sin might be shown up clearly to be sin, that the extreme malignity and immeasurable sinfulness of sin might plainly appear.

The Law showed us sin, or in other words, the Law showed us that on our own we couldn’t see our Father and His Truth. Sin didn’t stop our Father from being active in humanity. When we were still in sin He sent Jesus and saved us, Romans 8:3. Jesus healed sinners. He forgave sinners. He ate and drank with sinners. Our Father caused Herod and Pilate, two notable sinners, to do what He wanted and they didn’t even know it, Acts 4:27. All things exist by our Father and through our Father, Colossians 1:16. Sin doesn’t stop Him, it stops us from seeing the Truth and from seeing Him. So the Law served its purpose and heralded in Jesus. Sin was the problem. It needed the Law, so our Father did away with all of the rules and replaced it with His Grace. Now sin has no opportunity to harm us because there is nothing to convict us with.

The Law is now dead and there is only Grace. We now have a Savior that intercedes and serves us, so that we are saved to the uttermost, Hebrews 7:25. In Jesus we have all things. There is nothing in Him that is against us. Sin has no ability to seize anything from us through Him. We have complete and total freedom. Because of Christ the Law of sin and death has been destroyed, Romans 8:2. We are now more than conquerors through Christ. Every old things of sin has passed away from us and now all things are new for us. Our Father is now able to do far more through us then we can ask, think, believe, or pray for.

Romans 7:9-10

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9 Once I was alive, but quite apart from and unconscious of the Law. But when the commandment came, sin lived again and I died (was sentenced by the Law to death).

10 And the very legal ordinance which was designed and intended to bring life actually proved [to mean to me] death.

Look at what our Father has Paul write here: The Law brought death. Our Father repeatedly tells us in the Book of Romans that Law only brings failure. Trying to keep a set of rules and ordinances will cause every one who tries to keep them to fail. Our Father knew that this would happen. He wanted it to happen, because He wanted His children to see the Truth that would set them free. Our Father wanted us to know that He was always with us. He wanted us to enjoy the glory of never doubting that it was His power that was operating through us. The Law tells us that we are left alone to do things correctly. The Law causes us to look to ourselves and our flesh and not look to our Father. And remember what Jesus said: there is nothing good in human flesh, Luke 18:19. Our Father sent Jesus to absolutely do away with all Law except love.

Having cancelled and blotted out and wiped away the handwriting of the note (bond) with its legal decrees and demands which was in force and stood against us (hostile to us). This [note with its regulations, decrees, and demands] He set aside and cleared completely out of our way by nailing it to [His] cross. Colossians 2:14

Sin can only live when there is Law.

[To be sure] sin was in the world before ever the Law was given, but sin is not charged to men's account where there is no law [to transgress]. Romans 5:13

This Truth is why our Father has me preach so hard that there is now no laws for us. Because without any Laws, there isn’t any sin. Jesus came and did away with all laws for us, so there is now no sin for us! Yes and amen, there is now no sin for us. If a person believes any other way, then they are calling our Father a liar and going against His Word. We are plainly told that we are to consider ourselves to be dead to sin, Romans 6:11. The only way that we are able to consider ourselves to be totally dead to sin is by being enlightened by the Holy Spirit. He Alone must reveal the Truth to us that there are no longer any laws to convict us of sin!

When a person believes that our Father has a set of rules that we must follow, then they are being killed by their belief. This means that they will absolutely fail. There is no opportunity for them to succeed. They will 100% of the time commit the very acts that they believe that they should not do. The only way to not lie, not kill, not covet, to love everyone, not hate, or any other thing, is to be empowered by the Holy Spirit to believe that there are no longer any laws that say to do or not to do these things. That means being given the Mind of Christ to believe that it is all free and undeserved grace. It means being empowered to accept that our actions in no way bring us closer or distance us from our Father. This faith is freedom and this faith can only come from Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, Hebrews 12:2.

Romans 7:7-8

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7 What then do we conclude? Is the Law identical with sin? Certainly not! Nevertheless, if it had not been for the Law, I should not have recognized sin or have known its meaning. [For instance] I would not have known about covetousness [would have had no consciousness of sin or sense of guilt] if the Law had not [repeatedly] said, You shall not covet and have an evil desire [for one thing and another].

The Law is not sin. The Ten Commandments are not sin, but the Law did convict us of sin. The Law showed us how we should act and then set consequences. But remember what our Father told us in Romans 7:6, that the Law restrained us and it held us captive. Our Father also told us in verse 6 that we have now terminated all relationship with the Law. The Law was not sin, but that did not mean that it wasn’t contrary to us.

The Law served a purpose for a season, but its season has passed. We now have and live in the freedom of grace. We are no longer alone. We now have our Father acting and empowering us to live. Does this mean that we now just go and do whatever we want? How can we do that when Jesus is now our Head? When He is our Shepherd? Do people not know that the Holy Spirit now causes us to walk in that paths of righteousness and we are never left alone or forsaking by our Father. We are now new creatures in Christ, old things have passed away for us and now all things are new.

8 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].

Look at what the Law did, it told us what we couldn’t do and then we wanted to do it. Remember what our Father told us in Romans 11:32, that He made all of us to act this way.

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

Our Father gave the Law to cause us to understand that we can never do anything on our own. He gave the Law to show us that we will fail miserably every time that we believe that it is us doing anything on our own. Our Father made us so that we could never be without Him. The Law showed men the futility of trying to live by their own efforts and that they never could. Go to a church today that is a fire and brimstone preaching church. Listen to the preacher condemn the people and their actions. Listen to him tell them what they have to do. Then go and see how the congregation is actually living. You will see that they are all failing miserably at living by the Ten Commandments. It is impossible for them too live right, because they all believe that they are doing it own their own. The Law was designed to make men realize that it has to be our Father being greater in us, then we who are in the world.

We will only start living righteously when we realize that their is now no Law for us to follow. Righteous living will only happen when we truly begin to acknowledge that what Jesus did for us on the Cross was successful and that sin is now dead. True righteous living will only come when we stop thinking that we have a part to play in this life on our own. As long as man believes that God has made rules and that we must follow them through our own free will and with our own efforts, there will always be non-righteous living. People can preach all they want and as loud as they want that we shouldn’t sin. But unless they begin to tell the Truth that there is now no Law to convict us of sin, and that sin is dead, people will continue to live the opposite way of what they preach.

Romans 7:6

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6 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].

Right now we are now discharged from the Ten Commandments. We have terminated all relationship to them and to every other Law, except the Law of Love.

Love does no wrong to one's neighbor [it never hurts anybody]. Therefore love meets all the requirements and is the fulfilling of the Law. Romans 13:10

I have made Your Name known to them and revealed Your character and Your very [a]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

The only Law that we now live under is Love and to insure that we love, Jesus lives to ever intercede for us so that we are saved to the uttermost, Hebrews 7:25. Jesus lives to make the Truth known to us and because He does, we now have His very own love living in us. The Truth is that in Christ we cannot help but love. Amen, we now serve our Kingdom through the power of the Holy Spirit that dwells within us, not by us keeping rules.

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever-- John 14:16

When we talk about our freedom from any and every law that would convict us of sin, people far too often assume that we are advocating going out and getting drunk, killing people, lying, stealing, doing drugs, or whatever else they consider to be sin. That is the farthest thing from the Truth. We are sharing the only way that those acts will ever stop in our life’s. The Law restrained us from being free from sin. It held us captive to being dependent on ourselves and our own abilities. Grace, which is our Father directly influencing our souls, is the only way that we can be free from sin. Grace frees us from sins presence, pleasure, power, and penalty.

It is a reason for pride and exultation to which our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world [generally] and especially toward you, with devout and pure motives and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God (the unmerited favor and merciful kindness by which God, exerting His holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, and keeps, strengthens, and increases them in Christian virtues). 2 Corinthians 1:12

Our old husband, the Law, has died and we have remarried Grace, and Grace is a far better husband!

Romans 7:5

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5 When we were living in the flesh (mere physical lives), the sinful passions that were awakened and aroused up by [what] the Law [makes sin] were constantly operating in our natural powers (in our bodily organs, in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh), so that we bore fruit for death.

The important Truth here in verse 5 is that the Holy Spirit writes that when we were in the flesh. He does not have Paul write that these passions are in our flesh now. I have found that most people still believe that we are limited by our flesh. They believe that our spirits are somehow the only things that our Father sent Jesus to deal with. How weak would salvation be if our Father knew that there was nothing good in our flesh and then He did nothing about it?

And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall heed My ordinances and do them. Ezekiel 36:27

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

Jesus came so that we could be one with Him right now, even while we are on this earth and even though we possess flesh. We are right now completely one with Jesus, John 17:23. How can Jesus be connected to sin, when He has died to sin once and for all, Romans 6:10? So it is impossible for us to still have a sin nature in our flesh and be one with Christ.

Also notice what our Father tells us here in Romans 7:5, that the Law awakened and aroused a sinful attitude in us. I know that most people do not believe this, but it is the Truth, our Father made man to want to do what we are told not to do. He did this so that none of us could ever depend on ourselves. We were made to depend on our Father being greater in us. We were made to need Christ, John 15:5.

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

Romans 7:2-4

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2 For [instance] a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies, she is loosed and discharged from the law concerning her husband.

3 Accordingly, she will be held an adulteress if she unites herself to another man while her husband lives. But if her husband dies, the marriage law no longer is binding on her [she is free from that law]; and if she unites herself to another man, she is not an adulteress.

4 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.

How much clearer can our Father be to us? No one considers a woman to be committing adultery if she remarries after her husband dies. Our Father tells us plainly and repeatedly that the Law has died for us. Jesus came and was successful and through His sacrifice and success the Law is now dead. So the Truth is that we are now discharged from it. We have remarried, we are now the Bride of Christ, and Christ is all about free and unearned Grace.

Could you imagine how bad a marriage it would be if a woman continually kept talking about and doing the things that her dead husband demanded of her? What if her new home was filled with his pictures and she daily tried to talk about and do what he had said? The new marriage would stink! Yet, go into churches and see all of the Ten Commandments hanging around. Listen to the preachers tell us what we have to work and how we have to act. They mention grace, our new husband, but it's always tied to getting to Him through our old dead husband. That is just creepy when you think about it. It's like telling the woman that to please her new husband, she must work through her dead husband.

Father that is good teaching right there! Empower us Father to really know what your grace is. Allow us to live in its fullness and power and empower us Father to share its Truth with the world so that they may be set free.

Roman 7:1 Continued

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Even the Father judges no one, for He has given all judgment (the last judgment and the whole business of judging) entirely into the hands of the Son, John 5:22

Our Father has given all judgment over to Jesus. This is a glorious thing, because Jesus is our High Priest and He knows what it is like to be human, Hebrews 4:15. When Jesus was here on the earth as a man we repeatedly were shown how He judges. Jesus forgave and let an adulterous woman go free, John 8:11. He forgave the very people that were killing Him, Luke 23:34. He forgave a sick man His sins and the man was restored to health, Matthew 9:2. Jesus told us to always forgive, Matthew 18:22. The glorious Truth is that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, Hebrews 13:8. There is also another powerful Truth here with these examples of Jesus’ judging style: none of the people being forgiven by Jesus were asking to be. This shows us plainly how Jesus will judge on Judgment Day because He never changes. He will judge with pure grace, all freely given and all completely underserved!

There is also another Truth that many people do not know and that is that we will sit in judgement with Jesus on Judgement Day, 1 Corinthians 6:2.

Do you not know that the saints (the believers) will [one day] judge and govern the world? And if the world [itself] is to be judged and ruled by you, are you unworthy and incompetent to try [such petty matters] of the smallest courts of justice?

In Revelation John saw the Thrones of the Judges, not the Throne of the Judge.

Then I saw thrones, and sitting on them were those to whom authority to act as judges and to pass sentence was entrusted. Also I saw the souls of those who had been slain with axes [beheaded] for their witnessing to Jesus and [for preaching and testifying] for the Word of God, and who had refused to pay homage to the beast or his statue and had not accepted his mark or permitted it to be stamped on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived again and ruled with Christ (the Messiah) a thousand years. Revelation 20:4

As we talked about in our Study of Romans 7:1, so many in religion try and fear us into acting right by threatening us about the consequences of our actions on Judgment Day. The Truth is that we are raised up, transformed to be just like Jesus, 1000 years before Judgement Day. We actually rule with Him for the 1000 years prior to Judgment Day. So for us to be judged on Judgment Day doesn’t make any since. Jesus would actually be judging Himself and His actions, because we are now members of His body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone, Ephesians 5:30. The Truth is that we have already passed from judgment and now live a new life in Christ Jesus. This is the Truth that allows us to live righteously and honor our Father and our Kingdom, not that we have to fear.

I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the person whose ears are open to My words [who listens to My message] and believes and trusts in and clings to and relies on Him Who sent Me has (possesses now) eternal life. And he does not come into judgment [does not incur sentence of judgment, will not come under condemnation], but he has already passed over out of death into life. John 5:24

Romans 7:1

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1 DO YOU not know, brethren--for I am speaking to men who are acquainted with the Law--that legal claims have power over a person only for as long as he is alive?

Before we start on this study of Romans 7, I want you to know that this Chapter, far more than any other Chapter in the Bible, has been used by people to try and disprove the Truth of our freedom from sin in Christ. But, as we will see, our Father shows us, with this Chapter, the glorious Truth of our Freedom.

The very first thing that we are told here is that legal claims only apply to us as long as we are alive. This should bring out of you a great big amen, because our Father has shown us repeatedly through His Word that we are now dead.

Are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Romans 6:3

For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:3

I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Galatians 2:20

There is not a single legal claim that can be laid against us. We have been made free and this Truth is what empowers us to live as our Lord lives. Not just as He lived, but as He lives! We have passed from all judgment and we now have eternal life!

Too many religious people try and bring us into fear of Judgment Day. When the Truth is that we will have been transformed and ruling with Jesus for 1,000 years before Judgment Day ever occurs! For us to be judged on that day would mean that Jesus would have to bring us back to human form, separate Himself from us, and then judge Himself for how He lived through us.

My next post will be on that we have passed from judgement and that we actual are the judges on Judgment Day.

Romans 6:19-23

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19 I am speaking in familiar human terms because of your natural limitations. For as you yielded your bodily members [and faculties] as servants to impurity and ever increasing lawlessness, so now yield your bodily members [and [d]faculties] once for all as servants to righteousness (right being and doing) [which leads] to sanctification.

20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

21 But then what benefit (return) did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? [None] for the end of those things is death.

This is what is missing with so many who stumble at our freedom in Christ: they don’t realize that we have been enlightened with the Holy Spirit. They don’t understand that we now have Jesus’ very mind and so we know that sin has no benefit, 1 Corinthians 2:16. When our Father grafts us into The Vine, which is Jesus, not only is the penalty of sin removed from us, the pleasure of sin is removed as well. We now have the same attitude towards sin that Jesus has. Our Head doesn’t enjoy murder, lying, stealing, or any other harmful act, so how can His body? People need to know that we now actually have the Mind of Christ and our minds now desire righteousness as much as Jesus desires it. Righteousness allows us to serve others and further the Kingdom of our Father.

Far too many people believe that sin still holds power over us. As long as a person believes that the ability to sin or not to sin lies within themselves, they will desire to sin. Our Father made us this way. He demands that we look unto Him to Author and Finish our faith, Hebrews 12:2. The Truth sets us free and the Truth is that through Christ we are free from sin, John 8:32. The Truth is there is no longer any law to convict us with, Romans 8:2. The Truth is that we are now more than conquerors through Christ, Romans 8:37, and the Truth is that Jesus is greater in us, then anything that is in this world, 1 John 4:4.

22 But now since you have been set free from sin and have become the slaves of God, you have your present reward in holiness and its end is eternal life.

We are now free from sin and our present reward is that we are truly Holy. In this world we are Holy. Man, I really do not believe that people know this glorious Truth. We absolutely need to preach this from the rooftops. Far too many people believe that they are still under a curse, when the Truth is that Jesus has redeemed us from the curse, Galatians 3:13. They believe that our Father is against them because of their actions. Our Father knows our limitations because He made us, Romans 11:32. He isn’t angry at us. He has given us full access to His grace. Our actions, whether good or bad, in no way limit our Father from taking care of us. He never leaves us and He never forsakes us, Hebrews 13:5. Where sin abounds, our Father’s grace much more abounds, Romans 5:20. We are now one with Jesus and He has given us His very glory, John 17:

23 For the wages which sin pays is death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord.

The effects of sin have been destroyed through Christ. Jesus did away with the law of sin and death. We are now Holy and we now possess eternal life. These things are not waiting for us in Heaven, they are our possessions right now. We posses them every bit as much as Jesus possess them. That is what salvation has freely given us.

Romans 6:18

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18 And having been set free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in thought, purpose, and action).

You have to just love this Truth: we have been set free from sin. Through Christ we have become the servants of righteousness. So many of us place so much weight on sin. People are constantly talking of its wages, when the glorious Truth is that we have been set free from the Law of Sin and Death, Romans 8:2.

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.

What is in abundance in our hearts our mouths will speak, Luke 6:45. If a person is always talking about what sin will do and the consequences of it, sin is what is in abundance in their heart. Human nature is that we will aggressively preach against what it is that we are actually doing, Romans 2:1. We feel condemned by our shortcomings and so we try to tell others that it is wrong. It makes us feel better, especially when we see others and their shortcomings.

I use to ask for forgiveness dozens of times a day. I would preach what was wrong and how our Father would discipline us for our sin. The problem was that the focus of all of my efforts was on man and not on Jesus. But as soon as our Father showed me the Truth about our freedom in Christ and just how successful that He was, everything in my life changed. Our Father began to use me to share the Truth and He empowered me to tell people to look to Jesus. He filled my heart with the knowledge and actual experiences of His grace. My carnal thought process, which before only focused on my actions and the negative consequences of them, went right out the door. Our Father showed me that all things now work out for our good, Romans 8:28. He showed me that Jesus’ sacrifice was so powerful that it overcame sin. I was shown that what Jesus did dwarfed anything wrong that we would do.

The Truth finally allowed my life to begin to be lived the way that it should be. As long as I thought about how I controlled my destiny through my actions, I constantly did the things that I thought would damn me. But when the Holy Spirit set me straight and showed me the Truth of grace, it took my focus off of myself and placed it solely and completely on Jesus. Only after He did this for me, did I began to live in the ways of righteousness. What is in abundance our hearts we definitely speak and only the Holy Spirit and His Truth can take the focus off ourselves and that is what set us free!

Romans 6:16-17

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16 Do you not know that if you continually surrender yourselves to anyone to do his will, you are the slaves of him whom you obey, whether that be to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience which leads to righteousness (right doing and right standing with God)?

Now if you just read this verse alone, one could easily say that we are to obey either God or sin on our own, as if we alone have the power. Whole doctrines are created by taking a verse and then making a law out of it, which only brings people under bondage. The Truth however is that through Christ we are now new creatures, 2 Corinthians 5:17. We are now members of Jesus. We are now flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone, Ephesians 5:30. We have been sacrificed with Him, the ultimate surrendering, Romans 6:3-5. We cannot help but be obedient to righteousness because we are dead, yet we live, but it is not us who live, it is Christ in us Who lives, Galatians 2:20.

17 But thank God, though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient with all your heart to the standard of teaching in which you were instructed and to which you were committed.

We are now obedient with all of our hearts, because our Father has given us a new heart to be obedient with.

A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26

Romans 6:15

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15 What then [are we to conclude]? Shall we sin because we live not under Law but under God's favor and mercy? Certainly not!

I absolutely love this verse. Two thousand years ago Paul was dealing with the same responses that religious people give today when we tell them just how free that we are in Christ. I hear this all of the time, “You mean to tell me that I can go kill someone and still be saved?” I love to freak people out and say yes, without any hesitation whatsoever. The glorious Truth is that in Christ we are now free from all law. Because of what Jesus did for us we are free from don’t eat pork and don’t kill.

All things are legitimate [permissible--and we are free to do anything we please], but not all things are helpful (expedient, profitable, and wholesome). All things are legitimate, but not all things are constructive [to character] and edifying [to spiritual life]. 1 Corinthians 10:23

When a true born again person hears the Truth that we are now free from all law, they rejoice and realize that it is not a license to sin, but it is power to be used by our Father to serve as our Lord serves. We now have the Mind of Christ and we ever live to be a benefit to others, not a hindrance. All things are now legitimate to us, but through the power of the Holy Spirit that strengthens us, we are not drawn to or attracted by all things. Salvation has set us free from the power of sin, the penalty of sin, the pleasure of sin, and the presence of sin. This is the glory that we now have in Christ.

We may not fully understand this freedom, but I have never met a true Christian that doesn’t welcome it. It has been born into us to desire the freedom that Jesus came and secured for us. When a person hears the Truth and then they desire or believe that they can now freely sin, is a true sign of where that person is. There is no condemnation, it is just a realization that there is a really good chance that they have not yet been empowered to accept the Truth that will set them free. They may very well be chosen to be the Bride and just don’t know it yet. They may be called to be a guest of the Bride. But amen, either way, they will one day come to know the glorious freedom that our Father has given to all of us through Christ.

Romans 6:12-14

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12 Let not sin therefore rule as king in your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies, to make you yield to its cravings and be subject to its lusts and evil passions.

13 Do not continue offering or yielding your bodily members [and faculties] to sin as instruments (tools) of wickedness. But offer and yield yourselves to God as though you have been raised from the dead to [perpetual] life, and your bodily members [and faculties] to God, presenting them as implements of righteousness.

14 For sin shall not [any longer] exert dominion over you, since now you are not under Law [as slaves], but under grace [as subjects of God's favor and mercy].

Our Father repeatedly tells us in Romans that we are no longer under any law, but that through Christ we are now only under grace. This is the Truth that empowers us to not yield our bodies to sin. Because grace is not just the undeserved favor that we receive from God, it is our Father actually exerting His Holy influence on our souls.

LABORING TOGETHER [as God's fellow workers] with Him then, we beg of you not to receive the grace of God in vain [that merciful kindness by which God exerts His holy influence on souls and turns them to Christ, keeping and strengthening them--do not receive it to no purpose]. 2 Corinthians 6:1

Our Father, Who is God, never leaves us alone to do anything on our own, Hebrews 13:5. He especially doesn’t leave us on our own to stop ourselves from sinning. We are only able to not yield to sin, because greater is He that is in us, 1 John 4:4, and because we are now more than conquerors through the power of Christ that lives within us, Romans 8:37. Our Father is an active Father. He is the Initiator of all things, He is not the Reactor of things. It is His power that enables us to be as He is, even while we are still in this world, 1 John 4:17.

Our Father is not limited in our life’s by our knowledge of Him. He is not limited by our mental capacity to believe His Truth. Addictions do not limit His ability to direct us, illnesses, handicaps, medicines, and age have no power to stop our Father from working through us in all of His fullness. Grace is greater than any fleshly or worldly situation. Sin has been defeated and we now are able to see our Father’s Truth and His Truth sets us free!

Romans 6:7-11

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7 For when a man dies, he is freed (loosed, delivered) from [the power of] sin [among men].

8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

The question here is have we died, because we are in Christ, or are we going to die?

For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:3

The saying is sure and worthy of confidence: If we have died with Him, we shall also live with Him. 2 Timothy 2:11

The Truth is that we are dead with Christ, so we are free, delivered, and loosed from the power of sin.

9 Because we know that Christ (the Anointed One), being once raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him.

10 For by the death He died, He died to sin [ending His relation to it] once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him].

11 Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus.

Amen look at that glorious bit of Truth: we are to consider ourselves to be completely dead to sin, just as Jesus is dead to sin! Is our Father asking us to lie here? Are we to say that we are dead to sin, even though we are still alive to it? Lying is a sin, so we have to be completely dead to sin to consider ourselves to be dead to sin. Are we dead to sin by our works? No, because our works are as filthy rags. Also if it was by our works then we could boast, but no man can boast before God. We are dead to sin by grace and only grace. We do not earn a better relationship with our Father by our actions or works. We will work righteous works, but it is only by our Father’s power that is at work within us. This is why there is no condemnation for us, Romans 8:1. Greater is He that is in us, then he that is in this world.

Ask yourself this, do you consider yourself to be dead to sin? Our Father tells us that we can and that we should. Here is some great Truth: whether you believe it now or not, your dead to sin by the sacrifice of Jesus. How will they hear this Truth without a preacher, Romans 10:14?

Romans 6:6

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6 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.

Do you believe that people really know what our Father tells us here? Do they really know that their flesh is now ineffective for evil? Do people really know that they are no longer slaves to sin? I can tell you from my experiences is that most people do not believe this glorious Truth and they often times will aggressively attack it when it is told to them. But amen, it is the Truth. Jesus came and was sacrificed for our shortcomings. He was raised from the dead and that work was far, far, greater then any evil work our flesh has done or will ever do! Jesus deprived sin of any opportunity to take us away from Him.

Jesus was successful in removing any law that could ever convict us of a sin, Romans 8:1-4, Romans 10:3-4, Galatians 2:16-21, and Galatians 3:10-14. Jesus came and was successful in implementing grace and grace is all undeserved and all unearned. Our righteousness is as filthy rags, Isaiah 64:6. Our best is sin. Even Jesus said that His Own flesh wasn’t good enough, Mark 10:18. So if Jesus’ flesh wasn’t good enough, how could ours be? Our Father knew who and how we were, so He gave a sacrifice and that sacrifice secured our eternal life with Him through Christ. There is no sin in Christ and we are now in Christ, John 17:23.

I was asked yesterday if this is true, why is there a Hell? That is a great question, why is there a Hell, if Christ now has all flesh and has given eternal life to all flesh, John 17:2? There is a Hell because that is where our Father throws things that are to cease to be, Revelation 20:14. Once something is thrown into Hell, it ceases to be, it can never come back. Our Father will throw death and Hades and all that has to do with them into Hell, or the Lake of Fire, and they will forever cease to be. Our Father will throw satan and the fallen angels into Hell and they never come back, Revelation 19:20 and Revelation 20:10. There will also be at least one person thrown into the Lake of Fire, Matthew 22:13. Jesus tells us in John 17:12 that He has only lost one person that He has been given and that one person is Judas. There is a Hell, but no one is there yet, because Judgment Day has not yet occurred. Hell exists for our Father to end things.

But amen, there are far less things ended then most of us believe. Because as we have studied where sin abounds, grace much more abounds, Romans 5:20. Our Father is not so insecure that He will destroy people because they don’t believe Him. Actually the Truth is that we can only believe Him because He first empowers us to believe Him, 1 Corinthians 12:3. Grace tells us that people are still blessed even though they do not believe. We are told to bless those who curse us, Luke 6:28. We are told to feed our enemies, Romans 12:20, and we are told to always forgive, Matthew 18:22. This is how our Father is and this is how He is through us and He never changes, Hebrews 13:8. Grace saves us, not our works, thank God that is True!

Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess the Truth that will set them free, our Father's grace will accept nothing less.

Romans 6:5

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5 For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be [one with Him in sharing] His resurrection [by a new life lived for God].

Amen, we now live as Jesus lives. We now live by the complete control and power of our Father and the glorious thing is that we have been empowered to know and accept this Truth. I want to talk a little here about Jesus’ flesh. Our Father did not just raise Jesus’ Spirit up from Hades, He also raised His flesh up from the dead and we now share in that resurrection as well. Think about Jesus’ flesh, because He still has flesh. Jesus’ body was tortured to the point where you would not even recognize Him, Isaiah 52:14. It was pierced with nails and a sword and eleven days after all of this happened, a person could still place their fingers in His open wounds, John 20:26-27. Jesus did not have to bandage or treat His wounds after He was raised up from the dead. He did not regain all of the Blood that had drained out of Him, yet His flesh lived and walked and even ate, Luke 24:42-43.

Our Father tells us that we are now one with the power of Jesus’ resurrection. What I am getting at is this: our bodies, which are our flesh, are now controlled and function through the power of the Holy Spirit, just as Jesus’ body is controlled and functions by the power of the Holy Spirit. This is the glory of what it means to be one with His resurrection. The benefits are for our spirits, our souls, and yes, even our bodies.

So who cares what a doctor says? Jesus doesn’t need functioning organs to be alive and fellowship, why do we? Jesus still has flesh, but His flesh is no longer bound by the rules of this world. Jesus’ flesh is ruled by the laws of the Holy Spirit and the Laws of the Holy Spirit are limitless. We now walk and live in this life by the faith of our Lord, not by the dictates of our carnal flesh. This is why we now enjoy life and peace. This is what it means to have life and have it more abundantly.

So often we only talk about our spirits and the glory that they have been given in Christ. But Jesus came and allowed Himself to be sacrificed for our spirits, souls, and bodies.

This is just another glorious Truth of being as Jesus is, even while we are in this world.

Romans 6:3-4

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3 Are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

4 We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life.

The word baptized means to be made one with. So the Truth is that we have been made one with Jesus’ death. Everything that happened to Jesus by dying has now happened to us. And everything that happened to Jesus by being resurrected from the dead has now happened to us.

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

Everything that Jesus is, we are now one with. Jesus gave us His glory, so that we may be one with our Father as He is One with our Father. Think about what we have in Christ. We actually have the very glory of Jesus! We have His mind, His victory, His love, His grace, His Spirit, His abilities, and His relationship with God. We are now one with it all.

In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world. 1 John 4:17

As Jesus is, so are we, even while we are in this world, Amen!

Romans 6:2

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2 Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?

Herein lies the Truth that so many people don’t know, but they absolutely need to, through Christ we have totally died to sin. We have died to sins presence, power, pleasure, and its penalty. Far too many people believe that even though we are in Christ, we still have sin and are held accountable to it. Ask yourself this: how can Christ have sin? The Truth is that we are now flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone, Ephesians 5:30. It is also true that we have been crucified with Him, nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who lives, but it is Christ in us Who lives, Galatians 2:20. Far too many do not know that we have become one with Jesus, there is no separation between us at all, John 17:19-22. We are dead and our lives are hid in Him, Colossians 3:3. So for us to be held accountable to sin would mean that Jesus would be held accountable to sin.

The Word of our Father also clearly tells us that there are no longer any Laws to convict us of sin. Jesus came and He did away with every ordinance that could ever convict us.

The glorious Truth is that through Christ we have died to sin. Jesus is now our Head and He now leads us in the paths of righteousness for His Name’s sake. Jesus is our Shepherd 100% of the time. We are never left alone to do anything on our own. Jesus is always 100% accountable for us. It is like this, we do not convict an arm for pulling the trigger of a gun, we convict the whole person. To convict us of sin and not our Head would be like convicting just body parts for crimes. To accept our absolute freedom from sin begins with being enlightened with the Truth of our oneness with Jesus.

As long as a person believes that they are saved or not saved by their own actions they will always do the works of sin. But when the Holy Spirit empowers us with the Truth that we are free from sin, regardless of what we do, then we will actually stop doing the things that are called sin. When a person realizes that there is now no Law to convict us with, they will loose the desire to do the things that are wrong. It is just like dieting. When a person goes on a diet they are always hungry. But when they stop dieting they loose weight. It is the same way with sin. Tell someone not to lie and they will lie like crazy, feel guilty about it and lie some more. But tell them the Truth that through Christ it doesn’t matter and they will feel free and through Christ's power finally stop lying.

Romans 6:1

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1 WHAT SHALL we say [to all this]? Are we to remain in sin in order that God's grace (favor and mercy) may multiply and overflow?

For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart. 1 Corinthians 2:16

We now have the mind of our Lord. We have been empowered to think exactly as Jesus thinks, which is exactly how our Father, Who is God, thinks. When our Father first began to show me just how successful Jesus was and just how powerful His grace is, I never for one second thought, “great, now I can go sin!” The Truth that was shown to me through our Father’s Word was freedom. I was finally set free from all of the worry and burden of messing up. Jesus came and gave us His very own peace, John 14:27. Jesus doesn’t take any thought whatsoever about sin in His life and now through what He accomplished on the Cross, we don’t have to either.

This verse shows us the complete and absolute freedom that we now enjoy in Christ. We can do anything and still be one with Him. Yet, we don’t do just anything that we want to, because we now have the Mind of Christ. We are now one with Jesus, so we think as He thinks. We ever live to serve others as our Head ever lives to serve others, Hebrews 7:25. We rejoice in our freedom from sin, not in our freedom to commit sin.

So the next time you share one of these scriptures that clearly tell us that we can do whatever we want and a religious person asks you: you mean I can go kill someone? Tell them absolutely you can. It will blow their minds. Don’t water down the Truth of grace. Tell them amen, that is just how glorious our Father’s grace is and that is just how successful our Lord was! We can be so bold because there is no fear in the perfect love of our Father, 1 John 4:18. We do not have to be timid when we talk about our Father’s grace, because we fear that someone will go kill someone or do some other bad thing. We know that Jesus is always our Head and if a person is truly saved and one with Jesus, they will always have Him being greater in them, than anything that is in this world.

However, their will always be wolves in sheep’s clothing. They will go and intentionally sin and then blame you for causing them to do it. It happens to me all of the time. Rejoice, because they would have done it anyway. And preacher’s, I have news for you. If you are always telling your congregations what to do and not do, they are going to do the opposite of what you tell them when your not looking. The Truth sets us free and the Truth is that it is always what Jesus is doing through us and for us, not what we do on our own. Grace is so wonderful and it is the only way that we will ever live and act like our Lord and Savior.

Romans 5:20-21

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20 But then Law came in, [only] to expand and increase the trespass [making it more apparent and exciting opposition]. But where sin increased and abounded, grace (God's unmerited favor) has surpassed it and increased the more and superabounded,

Notice that grace, not wrath or vengeance abounds when sin abounds.

Then Peter came up to Him and said, Lord, how many times may my brother sin against me and I forgive him and let it go? [As many as] up to seven times? Jesus answered him, I tell you, not up to seven times, but seventy times seven! Matthew 18:21-22

Jesus became flesh to show us just how our Father is. Jesus healed ten lepers and only one thanked him, Luke 17:14-15. He knew that would happen, yet He showed compassion on all ten. Jesus forgave a woman who was caught in adultery. He healed and fed thousands even though He knew that they would turn on Him. He chose a disciple who would betray Him. He chose eleven other disciples who would all run when He was arrested. Jesus gave grace freely to all people even though they never deserved it. He never gave vengeance and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever! So if you think that sin is abounding rejoice, because through Christ our Father’s grace will now much more abound!

21 So that, [just] as sin has reigned in death, [so] grace (His unearned and undeserved favor) might reign also through righteousness (right standing with God) which issues in eternal life through Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) our Lord.

Through Christ all flesh will have righteousness.

[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

All whom Jesus has been given, and He has been given all, have grace being applied to their life’s. Religion wants us to believe that we still operate under law, praise God we don’t. Law’s do not bring us any closer to our Father. How we act or don’t act doesn’t change our relationship with Him in the least. If we are acting right it is only because of grace and if we are acting wrong, amen our Father’s grace still abounds towards us. The battle is always His and the victory is always ours. Jesus came and won and we live in the eternal victory of our Father’s grace.

Romans 5:15-19

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15 But God's free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass [His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man]. For if many died through one man's falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God's grace and the free gift [that comes] through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of] many.

Look at what our Father had written: His grace is profoundly out of proportion to Adams sin! Our Father’s grace abounds towards us, it overflows to us, and it it is all underserved. Grace is underserved, it cannot be earned, there is nothing that we do to get it. We can’t even do the work of believing that we have it. So many believe that grace has to be accepted to be enjoyed, that is rubbish. If that were true then grace would be earned. The people who killed Jesus didn’t believe or accept His grace when He said that they were for forgiven. But amen, they all were forgiven.

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

Our Father will have mercy on all of us, not just those of us who accept His mercy.

16 Nor is the free gift at all to be compared to the effect of that one [man's] sin. For the sentence [following the trespass] of one [man] brought condemnation, whereas the free gift [following] many transgressions brings justification (an act of righteousness).

17 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).

Notice that those of us who are empowered to receive our Father’s grace now will reign as King’s. Our Father tells us about His Bride here. All men alike are going to receive our Father’s mercy, but not all men will reign as King’s.

18 Well then, as one man's trespass [one man's false step and falling away led] to condemnation for all men, so one Man's act of righteousness [leads] to acquittal and right standing with God and life for all men.

Read what our Father had written here, Jesus’ act lead to the acquittal and right standing of all men. Jesus was extremely successful on the Cross.

19 For just as by one man's disobedience (failing to hear, heedlessness, and carelessness) the many were constituted sinners, so by one Man's obedience the many will be constituted righteous (made acceptable to God, brought into right standing with Him).

Adam’s disobedience led to the many, or all, to be sinner’s. So for Jesus’ act of obedience to be more successful then Adam’s act, all must be constituted righteous. Jesus was that successful, He has not and will not loose any of us and He will cause all of us to have life and have it more abundantly. Grace is all undeserved. We do not have to accept it to get it. Some of us are empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept it now, some of us will be empowered later. But all men will enjoy the gracious and free gift of our Father’s grace.

Romans 5:14

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14 Yet death held sway from Adam to Moses [the Lawgiver], even over those who did not themselves transgress [a positive command] as Adam did. Adam was a type (prefigure) of the One Who was to come [in reverse, the former destructive, the Latter saving].

Ask yourself this question: was Jesus successful on the Cross? Really think about it, was Jesus more successful then Adam? Adam sinned and all men died because of his disobedience, so for Jesus to be more successful then Adam, all men must be able to live and have life more abundantly because of what He did. If Jesus only died for the few of us who accept Him in this life, then Adam was far more successful then Jesus was.

There is a glorious Truth that many do not believe and it is this, all men are going to accept Jesus. Our Father plainly tells us that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord, Romans 14:11. Jesus tells us in John 17:2 that He has been given all flesh and then He tells us in John 17:3 that He is going to the Cross so that He may glorify all that He has been given. So the Truth is Jesus has been given all of us whether we believe and confess it or not. Some of us will be empowered to acknowledge Him in this lifetime, we are His Bride. Some will be empowered to acknowledge Him after they are raised up from Hades, these are the guests of the Bride, Matthew 22:11. But amen all will be saved by what Jesus did!

It’s a shame that so many don’t believe this wonderful Truth, but that doesn’t change the fact that all men are going to believe with their hearts and confess with their mouths that Jesus is Lord. I marvel that people really believe that our Father is going to raise people up from Hades, reunite them with their bodies, have them bow down and confess that Jesus is Lord and then throw them into Hell to suffer for all eternity. Our Father tells us to pray that our sins are forgiven as we forgive those who sin against us, Matthew 6:14. Jesus tells us to forgive or we cannot be forgiven. Jesus actually forgave the people who killed Him and He tells us that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, Hebrews 13:8. Why would He change on the Day of Judgment?

Here is another Truth that many do not understand, we are going to be the Judges on Judgement Day. Jesus tells us that all Judgement has been given to Him, our Father doesn’t judge anymore, John 5:22. We are now one with Jesus, we are flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone, Ephesians 5:30. As Jesus is, so are we, even while we are in this world. So we act as our Head acts. This is why the Holy Spirit had Paul write that we would judge the world, 1 Corinthians 6:2. John wrote that he saw the thrones of those who would judge, not the Throne, Revelation 20:4. If we are empowered with our Lord’s Love to forgive sins now, we will forgive sins on Judgment Day as well. Jesus’ grace has no ending, it will be applied to all!

These postings are intentionally short. They only begin to scratch the surface of topics. My hope is that they are a starting point for you to really be led to see the glorious Truth of just how successful Jesus was.

Romans 5:12-13

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12 Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man, and death as the result of sin, so death spread to all men, [no one being able to stop it or to escape its power] because all men sinned.

13 [To be sure] sin was in the world before ever the Law was given, but sin is not charged to men's account where there is no law [to transgress].

Here is a Truth that so many in religion fail to realize: our Father does not charge sin against anyone when there is no law. Take hold of this Truth, it will set you free from all guilt and condemnation.

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. Romans 8:1-2

For Christ is the end of the Law [the limit at which it ceases to be, for the Law leads up to Him Who is the fulfillment of its types, and in Him the purpose which it was designed to accomplish is fulfilled. That is, the purpose of the Law is fulfilled in Him] as the means of righteousness (right relationship to God) for everyone who trusts in and adheres to and relies on Him. Romans 10:3-4

Christ purchased our freedom [redeeming us] from the curse (doom) of the Law [and its condemnation] by [Himself] becoming a curse for us, for it is written [in the Scriptures], Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified); Galatians 3:13-14

Here is a link listing all of the New Testament Scriptures that say that there is now no Law:

web.mac.com/ijn/IJN/Topic_Scriptures/Entries/2009/11/8_No_Law_For_The_Saved.html

The glorious Truth is that there is now no Law to be broken and that means that our Father will never reckon sin against us.

Blessed and happy and to be envied is the person of whose sin the Lord will take no account nor reckon it against him. Romans 4:8

Romans 5:10-11

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10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, it is much more [certain], now that we are reconciled, that we shall be saved (daily delivered from sin's dominion) through His [resurrection] life.

Notice when we were reconciled to our Father: when we were enemies! We were not reconciled to Him when we were saved, but when we were enemies. Amen that is awesome. So if we were reconciled to our Father when we were enemies, it is a certain thing that sin no longer has any hold on us. Sin is a thing of the past for us, there is nothing that can now separate us from our Father’s love, Romans 8:35-39.

We have already died to sin, it no longer has any dominion over us, Romans 6:6. We are now as Jesus is, even while we are on this earth, 1 John 4:17. Jesus died to sin once, it can never have any effect on Him again, and we are now as He is, Romans 6:10. To think any other way is a lie, Romans 6:11.

11 Not only so, but we also rejoice and exultingly glory in God [in His love and perfection] through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we have now received and enjoy [our] reconciliation.

We now enjoy all of the freedom that Jesus enjoys. Now is our accepted time and today is the day of our salvation.

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 for a gracious welcome and acceptance [of you from God]; behold, now is the day of salvation! 2 Corinthians 6:2

Romans 5:7-9

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7 Now it is an extraordinary thing for one to give his life even for an upright man, though perhaps for a noble and lovable and generous benefactor someone might even dare to die.

8 But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.

Amen, the glorious Truth is that our Father does great things for us, even if we are sinners. You ever hear the statement: “I accepted the Jesus as my Lord?” This is not really what happens, the Truth is our Father chooses us to be the Bride of Christ, we do not choose Him. It is also True that we were chosen to be the Bride before our Father ever created the world, Ephesians 1:4. Our Father attracts and draws us to Him by the power of His Holy Spirit that operates within us, 1 Corinthians 12:3. We were chosen before we ever did any works at all.

And the children were yet unborn and had so far done nothing either good or evil. Even so, in order further to carry out God's purpose of selection (election, choice), which depends not on works or what men can do, but on Him Who calls [them], Romans 9:11

Think about it, sinners have only done bad works and yet Jesus died for them so that He could marry them. Jesus also repeatedly healed sinners even though He knew that they would go sin again. He fed sinners and He constantly ate and fellowshipped with them. Jesus loved hanging out with the sinners and as He did He told them to be wary of the religious people. Our Father’s love and responsibility for us isn’t limited by our works. Our Father has chose those of us who He wants to be the Bride of Christ. Our works do not effect His choice at all. Our works did not save us and they will not un-save us, Galatians 3:3.

I was always told growing up that God cannot bless us past our last act of disobedience, BULL! Our Father’s correction is a blessing, Hebrews 12:5-7. Everything that we now do works out for the Kingdom’s good and we are part of the Kingdom, Romans 8:28. Could you imagine a life were we were the instruments that initiated God’s blessings? We would fail 100% of the time, it would be a miserable life. Thank God we are blessed beyond expression, regardless of what we do. Even in correction we are blessed.

9 Therefore, since we are now justified (acquitted, made righteous, and brought into right relationship with God) by Christ's blood, how much more [certain is it that] we shall be saved by Him from the indignation and wrath of God.

We are righteous and justified by Jesus’ Blood, not by our works. We are saved from our Father’s wrath because we are going to be used by Him to serve up His grace during it. The Lord has used me to post several studies on the Truth that we are justified apart from our works. If you struggle with this glorious Truth, please go and read them. The Truth will set you free!

Also, please go and read the postings on the guests of the Wedding Feast of the Lamb. Even though only a few of us have been called to be the Bride, does not mean for a second that our Father is going to send the rest to Hell. Eternity is filled with guests!

Romans 5:6

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6 While we were yet in weakness [powerless to help ourselves], at the fitting time Christ died for (in behalf of) the ungodly.

There is a powerful Truth here in verse six and it is that we can do nothing on our own.

I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing. John 15:5

I was raised in a Full Gospel, Tele-evangelists, Mega Church. It was preached to us all of the time that we had to first believe in order for our Father to do anything in our lives. That teaching is so false and it is straight from the mouth of satan. The glorious Truth is that we are always powerless to help ourselves, Romans 11:32. We need Jesus for everything. We need Him for the big things in our life’s, the small things, and everything in between. We can never do anything on our own without Him, especially to first believe.

Think about when Jesus came, no-one believed Who He was. The Disciples said they did, but they ran away when He was arrested and crucified. They doubted that He could feed the masses, even after they saw Him feed the masses. When Jesus was raised from the dead no one believed Mary when she told them that He had been. Thomas didn’t even believe that Jesus was alive when the other ten Disciples told him and none of the Israelites believed that He was the Lord. Yet even though no one believed, Jesus still died for all of them and He helped them. And He is helping us all today whether we believe that He is or not.

Look at the sick man at the Pool of Bethesda. When Jesus asked him if he wanted to be healed the guy didn’t believe that Jesus could. The sick man only complained to Jesus. He never acknowledged Jesus as Lord. He never even said that he wanted to be healed, yet Jesus healed him, John 5. Jesus acted first and the sick man responded.

Our Father is never limited by our weakness. He does not need us to first do anything on our own for Him to then act in our life’s. Our Father is The Activator, He does not react. Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith. Jesus is our Shepherd and shepherds lead, they don’t follow. A vine does not react to the branch, a vine first causes the branch to react, and Jesus is our Vine. All things, whether seen or not, exist for and through our Father and all things are for His good pleasure.

Romans 5:3-5

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3 Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance.

The Bible asks us: how will people hear without a preacher, Romans 10:14? Far too many of us believe that troubles and sufferings come on us because we have done something wrong. That is flat out wrong and we need to preach this Truth! Troubles and sufferings come into our lives so that our Father can become stronger in us. Think about Jesus’ life, what did He do wrong? Jesus was perfect, yet He was constantly afflicted. He healed thousands of people and then they tried to kill Him. They were constantly trying to arrest Him and throw Him into jail. Look at Paul, Peter, John, and James. They were constantly being beaten, imprisoned, and killed and all they were doing was healing people and telling them that the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand and that Jesus came so that they could have life and have it more abundantly.

Paul was sick all of the time, Galatians 4:14. So was Timothy, 1 Timothy 5:23. What did these two do wrong to suffer this? According to Paul what He did was get caught up to the third Heaven and hear powerful things, so our Father sent a messenger of satan to constantly harass him so that he would stay humble, 2 Corinthians 12:7. Paul actually began to rejoice when he was sick and afflicted because he realized that it was making our Father stronger in him, 2 Corinthians 12:10.

4 And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity). And character [of this sort] produces [the habit of] joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation.

5 Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us.

We are plainly told in Romans 8:1 that there is now absolutely no condemnation for us who are in Christ. We are never left alone by our Father to do anything on our own. Our Father never leaves us or forsakes us, Hebrews 13:5. Jesus is always our Shepherd, we are never left alone to make a choice, because Jesus is always our Head. The glorious Truth is that we are persecuted and afflicted to cause us to be strong in our Father’s might.

Here is the Truth: if we are doing things right, it is only because our Father has empowered us to do them right. This is why we cannot boast. So for this to be true, it also has to be true that if we are doing things wrong, it is only because our Father has not yet empowered us to do them right. This is why there is now no condemnation for us. Don’t ever let anyone, including yourself, tell you anything different. So rejoice in all things, even when you are suffering!

Romans 5:1-2

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THEREFORE, SINCE we are justified (acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God) through faith, let us [grasp the fact that we] have [the peace of reconciliation to hold and to enjoy] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

We are justified through faith and the glorious Truth for us is that we now have Jesus Authoring and Finishing our faith, Hebrews 12:2. We are in right standing with our Father and we will always be in right standing with Him because our Lord and Savior ever lives to insure that we are, Hebrews 7:25. Through Christ we are eternally sure that we are saved and through Christ we now have and enjoy the exact same peace that Jesus has in His eternity, John 14:27. Jesus never doubts that He is One with God and that He always will be and through our Lord’s anointing so do we.

2 Through Him also we have [our] access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this grace (state of God's favor) in which we [firmly and safely] stand. And let us rejoice and exult in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God.

Grace goes beyond us just having our Father’s favor, it also means that He exerts His influence on our souls.

Our Father actually causes us to be strong and virtuous. He directs us and leads us. He never leaves us or forsakes us, Hebrews 13:5. If you ever hear someone tell you that you have decide which path to take, rejoice in the glorious Truth that you don’t. What Shepherd ever leaves his sheep alone to decide where they should go? What vine ever leaves a branch alone to decide what kind of fruit to produce? What head ever leaves its body alone to decide what to do? Jesus is our Shepherd, He is our Vine, and He is our Head. Our Father never leaves us alone, not even for a second, and because He doesn't we are always and eternally justified. This is why we are able to rejoice and have confidence.

Merry Christmas 2011

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She will bear a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus [the Greek form of the Hebrew Joshua, which means Savior], for He will save His people from their sins [that is, prevent them from failing and missing the true end and scope of life, which is God]. Matthew 1:22

The gift that our Father gave to us is that Jesus has saved us from our sins. Jesus alone is the power that has saved us. Jesus alone has sanctified us, Hebrews 2:11. Jesus alone has caused us to have faith and love. He didn’t just provide a way for us to do it, He is the One Who is actively working in us, through us, and for us. It is Jesus’ power and abilities causing us to be glorious and sin free. He ever lives to intercede for us and because He does, we are now saved to the uttermost, Hebrews 7:25. We are now saved from the power of sin, the presence of sin, the penalty of sin, and the pleasure of sin. This is the gift that we have been given and because our Father gave it to us, we are now free from all guilt, 1 Corinthians 6:11.

The other great Truth of Christmas is that the gift of Jesus working through us and for us will never be withdrawn from us.

For God's gifts and His call are irrevocable. [He never withdraws them when once they are given, and He does not change His mind about those to whom He gives His grace or to whom He sends His call.] Romans 11:29

We now have and are one with Jesus and His anointing, which is Christ, working through us for evermore! This is the gift of Christmas. This is why Jesus came and this is why we are now as He is, even though we are in this world.

Merry Christmas, Jesus loves you!

There Is No Shame In Being Us

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“And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are One.” John 17:22

“As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed.” Romans 9:33

If we were ever left by our Father to do anything on our own we would always be ashamed of ourselves! We can’t stand before God, even if we never sinned, and not be ashamed. However in Christ, we can stand before God, our Father, without any shame at all. We can because as we stand before Him, we stand as His children, born of Him, born from His seed, glorified and righteous because of what Jesus has done for us. We are sanctified by Jesus’ actions and we are glorified with His glory. We never stand before our Father alone, Jesus is with us and One in us 100% of the time. We can be unashamed because we have the Holy Spirit within us and He lets us know beyond any shadow of a doubt that our Father is not ashamed of us!

“For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed.” Romans 10:11

We are eternally free from condemnation and the shame of falling short! We are now strong in the power of Jesus’ might because greater is He that is within us, then the shame that is in the world! Today is the day of our glorious salvation and now is our appointed time of righteousness and true holiness through Jesus Christ, Who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords!

You Want Rewarded?

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Thus, whenever you give to the poor, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites in the synagogues and in the streets like to do, that they may be recognized and honored and praised by men. Truly I tell you, they have their reward in full already. But when you give to charity, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, So that your deeds of charity may be in secret; and your Father Who sees in secret will reward you openly. Matthew 6:2-4

Our Father wants us to be rewarded and well taken care of, Philippians 4:19. He wants this for us now on this earth as well as in eternity. This is why He repeatedly tells us how He causes us to be. The first Truth to being rewarded is having faith that it is always our Father in us causing us to give, John 15:5. We reap what our Father has us sow! It is always His grace and His provision working through us that allows us to care about the needs of others. We are never left alone by our Father to give anything on our own. Faith with this Truth comes for us by Jesus Authoring and Finishing it through us, Hebrews 12:2. If we believe that we are the ones acting on our own to give, we will always brag about it. But because it is our Father’s abilities using us and causing us to give, we can keep silent about it and thus be rewarded openly. We now have the mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2:16. So we think and act as Jesus acts and Jesus always acknowledges that it is our Father working through Him, John 14:10.

We are the very body of Christ, we are flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone, Ephesians 5:30. He causes us to give to those who we can receive nothing back from. He causes us to give to the poor, visit the elderly, clothe the naked, and take care of the orphans. Jesus insures that we are blessed and rewarded and He also causes us to not talk about it and bring the attention to us. Jesus is always greater in us then anything that is in this world, 1 John 4:4. We cannot help but be rewarded because we are one with Jesus. We have been chosen to be blessed just as our Head is blessed. We give and never talk about it and our Father blesses us by causing us to give even more.

Predestined To Be Christ Like

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For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren. Romans 8:29

Before our Father ever said let it be, He knew and loved us. He knew that He was going to choose us and He knew that He was going to make us to be just like Jesus is. He knew that He was going to use us to serve the world. Now there are a lot of people that believe that we will become better people when Jesus returns to the earth, but not many of us actually have faith and believe that we will be just like Jesus. But here is the glorious Truth: Jesus cam so that we could be just like He is right now on this earth!

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

You and I were predestined by God to be just like the best that He has, which is Jesus. Our Father has always known that He was going to choose us and make us one with Jesus. We have a destiny and our destiny is to serve our Father by being one with Him through Christ. It is His desire and His will and our Father always gets His way. We cannot help but be who God has called us to be because His power makes us the way that He wants us.

And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being]. What then shall we say to [all] this? If God is for us, who [can be] against us? [Who can be our foe, if God is on our side?] Romans 8:30-31

We cannot mess up! We have been predestined to be the Bride of Christ. We have been chosen before the foundation of the world to be a royal priesthood that goes into all of the world and preaches the Gospel to every creature. We have been destined to lay hands on the sick, raise the dead, and cast out demons.

God Insures That We Are Healthy

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And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through [separate you from profane things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God]; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved sound and complete [and found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). Faithful is He Who is calling you [to Himself] and utterly trustworthy, and He will also do it [fulfill His call by hallowing and keeping you]. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

For which is easier: to say, Your sins are forgiven and the penalty remitted, or to say, Get up and walk? Matthew 9:5

Our Father is not a man that He should lie. With that Truth in mind read what He had written in 1Thessalonians 5 and in Matthew 9. Jesus tells us that if our sins are forgiven then we are healed and our Father tells us that He Himself will wholly consecrate us. We are plainly told by our Father that He will completely separate us from profane things and that He alone will make us pure. According to Jesus this means that we are healed. Faith comes for us from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us absolutely free!

There is no doubt that our Father is trustworthy. It is totally His responsibility to make sure that we are healthy. This is not waiting for us in Heaven, this is for us right now, because now is the Day of our Salvation, not tomorrow.

Our Father sent Jesus to save us and as is written in 1 Thessalonians 5, He has saved our spirits, our souls, and yes even our bodies. There is no now condemnation for us, Romans 8:1. There is now no law in place to convict us of sin, Romans 7:6. We no longer serve by obeying rules, we serve because of our Father’s grace, Romans 6:14. Our Father has separated us from profane things right now and the consequence of His mercy is our health. We have been set free and those who are set free by God are free indeed.

Devine Medicine

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Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap. Galatians 6:7

One of the first things that happens when we are sick is that we want the focus of others to be on us. We want helped, we want a doctor, we want medicine, chicken soup, but most of all we want attention. The exact opposite of this self directed attitude is the secret of Devine Medicine. When we get sick, the first thing that we should do is focus all of our attention to others and to their needs. When sickness comes, through the power of Christ that is in us, we should sow the gift of laying our hands on others. The secret to an abundant life of health and peace is achieved by our Lord causing us to lay our hands on others to release our Fathers Divine Medicine on them. Jesus will cause us to lay both of them on people and in His glorious Name tell sickness to leave them. This act of love releases Jesus’ health on them, it binds demons from them, and it empowers them to be whole. The act of laying on of hands does all of this because greater is He that is in us and through Christ we are always more than conquerors. The power that flows from us is a Living River of Life. The Spirit that abundantly flows from us heals the sick, forgives sin, and covers a multitude of sins.

The Truth that sets us free is not to focus on ourselves when we are sick, but to focus on others and we will reap what we sow. Our Father will not be mocked about this Truth. Look at how Jesus acted on the Cross. He had been tortured and was about to die and He was telling John to take care of His mother. He was praying for the forgiveness of those who had done and supported His death sentence. Paul had been beaten and was wrongfully imprisoned and he was only concerned about the jailer and his family. Stephen was being stoned to death and as he was he was seeking the well being of those who were killing him.

Our medicine is not carnal, it is spiritual and it is mighty to the bringing down of strongholds. Our medicine heals all sicknesses and even raises the dead. Our Father will cause us to lay hands on the sick and they will recover and He will cause us to reap His healing power as well. Everyone wins!

Relax: We Were Made To Mess Up

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And all mankind shall see (behold and understand and at last acknowledge) the salvation of God (the deliverance from eternal death decreed by God). Luke 3:6

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

There is no condemnation in Christ, Romans 8:1, and there is no boasting in Christ, 1 Corinthians 1:29. Now the glorious Truth is that everything is in Christ.

Our Father has a plan that has consigned all of us to totally and completely rely in Him. We all mess up. He made us that way! He made us that way so that we could not brag about what we have done or condemn ourselves for what we haven’t done. It is all our Father’s glorious power and grace that is operating in our life’s. Our Father even operates in the life’s of those who don’t acknowledge Him or believe in Him, Acts 4:27. Our Father controls everything, He has too. Nothing can be that He doesn’t bring into existence and control. Our Father is everything, He is the Alpha and the Omega and the Beginning and the End.

Grace Has Now Been Given To All

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And all mankind shall see (behold and understand and at last acknowledge) the salvation of God (the deliverance from eternal death decreed by God). Luke 3:6

Well then, as one man's trespass [one man's false step and falling away led] to condemnation for all men, so one Man's act of righteousness [leads] to acquittal and right standing with God and life for all men. Romans 5:18

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

For the grace of God (His unmerited favor and blessing) has come forward (appeared) for the deliverance from sin and the eternal salvation for all mankind. It has trained us to reject and renounce all ungodliness (irreligion) and worldly (passionate) desires, to live discreet (temperate, self-controlled), upright, devout (spiritually whole) lives in this present world, Awaiting and looking for the [fulfillment, the realization of our] blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One), Who gave Himself on our behalf that He might redeem us (purchase our freedom) from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people [to be peculiarly His own, people who are] eager and enthusiastic about [living a life that is good and filled with] beneficial deeds. Titus 2:11-14

Who wishes all men to be saved and [increasingly] to perceive and recognize and discern and know precisely and correctly the [divine] Truth. 1 Timothy 2:4

For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God [acknowledge Him to His honor and to His praise]. Romans 14:11

We are plainly told by our Father that all of mankind will understand and acknowledge salvation. We are told that Jesus has given life and eternal salvation to all mankind. We are told that our Father will have mercy on all men. We are told that our Father has now given us grace, so that all of mankind can be saved from sin and enjoy eternal salvation. We are told that our Father wishes for all men to be saved and we are told that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord.

People, Jesus was successful. He was far more successful at providing grace then Adam was at causing damnation. Just read what our Father had written and enjoy the freedom that has been provided to us. I love that word all, there is no way of mistranslating it. Jesus came and He succeeded. We may not all be one with Him as HIs Bride, but we sure are all saved from the Lake of Fire. Some may have to loose their reward of being the Bride, but they will be saved, even as one who has passed through the fire.

But if any person's work is burned up [under the test], he will suffer the loss [of it all, losing his reward], though he himself will be saved, but only as [one who has passed] through fire. 1 Corinthians 3:15

Happy Thanksgiving

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Thus David congratulates the man and pronounces a blessing on him to whom God credits righteousness apart from the works he does: Blessed and happy and to be envied are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered up and completely buried. Blessed and happy and to be envied is the person of whose sin the Lord will take no account nor reckon it against him. Romans 4:6-8

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. Romans 8:2

This Thanksgiving we in America, and also for our brothers and sisters in other countries who don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, should celebrate our complete and total freedom through Christ. We should all be so thankful that we are righteous apart from any work that we ever do. Every one of our iniquities and sins are completely forgiving us because of what Jesus accomplished. Our sins aren’t just forgiven by our Father either, they are completely forgotten by our Him. Jesus, Who has been given all judgment, John 5:22, will never bring them up against us and He will never cause us to give and account of them. Jesus came and set us free from the Law of Sin and Death. That means we are completely free from being weakened by our shortcomings.

We are now new creatures in Christ, everything is now new for us. We are to be envied because of what our Father has freely given us. This complete freedom from sin and all of sins consequences is what grace is. We didn’t deserve it, but yet we have it. We now enjoy and live in the glorious Truth that all things now work out for our good, Romans 8:28. This is what we as Christians should be thankful for, because this freedom in Christ is what allows us to be used by our Father to go into all of the world and heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, and drink deadly things and not be harmed. This freedom from sin is what allows our Father to cause us to serve as Jesus serves.

We are blessed this day and every day in the power of our Father’s might!

It Is Impossible For A Saved Person To Fail

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

Now you may be saying to yourself, there absolutely is an opportunity to fail, because it is all based on me loving others. But the glorious Truth for us can be found in John 17:26.

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.

Jesus lives so that you and I will love each other just as He loves us. Jesus is actually in us and His very love lives in us and because it is, there is never an occasion for us to stumble or sin. Jesus’ love that never leaves us or forsakes us covers all sin for us, 1 Peter 4:8.

Let’s just look at Jesus’ love for a minute to see how it acted. It groaned when people didn’t believe Him, Mark 8:12. It repeatedly asked how long that it had to be around people, Matthew 17:17. It made a whip and chased people away, John 2:15. It called a woman, who only wanted her daughter healed, a dog, Matthew 15:26. It asked to be removed from what our Father called it to do, Luke 22:42. It made more wine for a bunch of partying and probably drunk people, John 2. It told the Disciples to go and take a colt and not to tell anyone unless they were asked first, Mark 11:2-3. It slept while others were scared for their lives, Mark 4:38.

I don’t know about you, but Jesus‘ love sounds like it did a bunch of things that we today would call wrong. I don’t know what church you go to, but if I called a mother of a sick child a dog, the people would definitely call me a sinner. But none of these things were sin for Jesus, because He constantly and permanently dwelt in our Father’s love, just as we do, and our Father’s love covers all sin. Jesus got mad at people, He was disappointed in them, He was frustrated with them, and He let them know it. He acted just as we do and yet with no sin and He now lives so that we to can never have any occasion to sin either. It is all His power and victory dwelling within us that gives us such a great gift and such great freedom. We walk by faith in the Truth that sets us free, not by the politically correct world that surrounds us.

Jesus Is In Control Of All Flesh

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[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 in this city there actually met and plotted together against Your holy Child and Servant Jesus, Whom You consecrated by anointing, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and peoples of Israel, To carry out all that Your hand and Your will and purpose had predestined (predetermined) should occur. Acts 4:27-28

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. Romans 8:28

It is easy for us to accept and believe that Jesus is active in controlling the flesh of those who have been empowered to accept Him. But the glorious Truth is that Jesus controls all flesh. He even controls the flesh of those who do evil. The worst of the worse, Jesus is in control of them as well. Look at what the Holy Spirit tells us, our Father anointed and consecrated both Pilate and Herod to carry out His will of torturing and killing Jesus. We also read in the Old Testament that our Father was in control of Pharaoh and hardened his heart to keep on attacking the Israelites.

The peace of the Truth of Jesus being in control of all flesh is this: everything works out for our good. Hardships bring a faith and trust in people like nothing else can. Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance. Romans 5:3

The Truth that Jesus even controls the evil people of this world also brings us great peace. It does because the wicked can only do what our Lord permits and allows them to do. Even satan, the father of the wicked, is controlled completely by Jesus. When the devil wanted to attack the Apostles, Jesus told him no, Luke 22:31. Jesus will never allow us to be tempted above that which we can stand, 1 Corinthians 10:13. So relax in the peace that Jesus is even in control of the evil people.

Does God Want Us To Help Ourselves?

2011-11-03T07:35:00.001-04:00

Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.] Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me. I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing. John15:4-5

There is a very religious statement that is right out of the sermon of the anti-christ and it is this: God helps those who help themselves. I received an email yesterday stating that the President was mocking God by denying that God wants us to help ourselves. The Truth is that our Father doesn’t want us to ever, or under any circumstance, do anything without Him. Jesus tells us plainly that we can do nothing without Him. It is a flat out lie, and it will be used mightily by the anti-christ, that we are to do things on our own.

Jesus tells us that He will actually deny that He ever knew people who claim that they have done things on their own, even when they say that they are doing it in His Name.

Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name and driven out demons in Your name and done many mighty works in Your name? And then I will say to them openly (publicly), I never knew you; depart from Me, you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands]. Matthew 7:22-23

Jesus tells us that it is a wicked thing to say that we have done anything on our own, even if we say that we are doing it for Him. The Truth is that greater is He that is in us. The Truth is that we are only more than conquerors because of Christ working through us. The Truth is that we can do absolutely nothing on our own. A confession of anything other than the Truth is wicked! We never, and I mean ever, do something first on our own, so that our Father can then do something for us or through us. Our Father never leaves us and He never forsakes us. He is 100% of the time our Head, our Vine, our Gardener, our Potter, and our Shepherd. If our Father doesn’t first cause us to do it, it will never be done.

The Kingdom Of Heaven Is At Hand

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But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand! Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons. Freely (without pay) you have received, freely (without charge) give. Matthew 10:6-8

He has blinded their eyes and hardened and benumbed their [callous, degenerated] hearts [He has made their minds dull], to keep them from seeing with their eyes and understanding with their hearts and minds and repenting and turning to Me to heal them. John12:40

Jesus sent the Disciples out to go and tell the Israelites that the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand for them. Jesus told the Disciples to heal the lost, drive out demons from the lost, and to raise the lost from the dead. Jesus empowered the Disciples to show the lost children of Israel that the power of Heaven was for them. Yet Jesus also tells us that our Father would not allow the children of Israel to believe. Jesus tells us that God hardened their hearts and made their minds dull so that they could never understand the Truth. How can both of these things be true?

Here is what our Father has been showing me, there is a difference between the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God. The benefits of the Kingdom of Heaven can be enjoyed by everyone, those who believe and are chosen and those who do not believe. The chosen are part of the Kingdom of God. We are empowered to serve the guests of the Kingdom of Heaven. Think about it? The children of Israel hated the Lord. They used Him to get healed, yet they quickly threw Him under the bus so that they could still go to church on the Sabbath. They were healed by Jesus and then they cried out for Him to be killed. Yet, they still enjoyed the fruits of the Kingdom of Heaven that was at hand for them. How cool is that? That is our Father’s grace in full action!

This is why Jesus told Peter to feed both the sheep, the guests of the Kingdom of Heaven, and the lambs, the born again of the Kingdom of God, John 21:16-18. The power of our Father is all based on His grace, not on any works. So of course the Kingdom of Heaven and all of the power of it is for those who don’t believe. The guests are not part of the Kingdom of God, meaning they are not one with God. But that doesn’t mean that they are not able to be fully served with power and demonstration of the Spirit by those of us who are.

Forgiveness For Those Who Don’t Want It

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And Jesus prayed, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And they divided His garments and distributed them by casting lots for them. Luke 23:34

Then they dragged him out of the city and began to stone him, and the witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. And while they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, Lord Jesus, receive and accept and welcome my spirit! And falling on his knees, he cried out loudly, Lord, fix not this sin upon them [lay it not to their charge]! And when he had said this, he fell asleep [in death]. Acts 7:58-60

The really powerful Truth with these verses is that not one of the people who were forgiven were seeking forgiveness. That is the power of the anointing that our Father has placed within us. It doesn’t matter one iota if people want forgiveness or not. When we are empowered by the the Holy Spirit to forgive them, they are forgiven. Their sin will never be held against them.

[Now having received the Holy Spirit, and being led and directed by Him] if you forgive the sins of anyone, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of anyone, they are retained. John 20:23

The love that abides within us lives to forgive others. We have the very power of Christ permanently living within us to intercede for others. It doesn’t matter what a person has done. It doesn’t matter if they have done it to us or to others. It doesn’t matter if we know what they have done or not. Through Christ we intercede for others and forgive them and amen they are forgiven. It doesn’t even matter if the don’t want the gift that we are being used to give. If we forgive, they are forgiven. Their acceptance of their forgiveness is not a requirement at all. Isn't that great!

So in the full power and demonstration of Christ, go and forgive all today. Intercede for strangers and for loved ones. Forgive those who you know what they have done and those that you have no idea what they have done. Grace is all undeserved and we have grace abounding from us. Grace is a river of living water flowing from us. Go and flood the world today with forgiveness.

They Say That Today, Oct 21 Is The End Of The World, The Rapture Will Occur

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I was listening to the morning news and the so called preacher who predicted the end of the word earlier this year is back and he now says that today is actually the end of the world. So I decided to repost the Truth from the last time this false prophet spoke. It is our Father’s Truth that sets us free and it is His Truth that brings peace.

Take notice! I tell you a mystery (a secret truth, an event decreed by the hidden purpose or counsel of God). We shall not all fall asleep [in death], but we shall all be changed (transformed). In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the [sound of the] last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead [in Christ] will be raised imperishable (free and immune from decay), and we shall be changed (transformed). 1 Corinthians 15:51-52

The seventh angel then blew [his] trumpet, and there were mighty voices in heaven, shouting, The dominion (kingdom, sovereignty, rule) of the world has now come into the possession and become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ (the Messiah), and He shall reign forever and ever (for the eternities of the eternities)! Revelation 11:15

For this we declare to you by the Lord's [own] word, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall in no way precede [into His presence] or have any advantage at all over those who have previously fallen asleep [in Him in death]. 1 Thessalonians 4:15

These four verses show us plainly that there will be no rapture today. If there were a pre-tribulation rapture today, then these verses would be incorrect and the last 3 1/2 years, which would have had to have been the Great Tribulation, were pretty easy to endure. Sure the economy has been bad, but it has in no way been what Jesus tells us that it will be in Revelation.

The Truth is that before we can go to be with Jesus, our brothers and sisters who have died in Him have to be raised from the dead first. We who are living in Christ can in no way precede the dead in Christ. The dead in Christ cannot be raised from the dead until the last trumpet is sounded. We are plainly told that the last trumpet is the Seventh Trumpet, and when it sounds, Jesus returns to take over the rule of the earth. The living in Christ are not taken away seven years before Jesus returns. Where would we go, because according to the Bible, we could not go to be with Jesus? If we did, then we would have preceded the dead in Christ to be with Him. So relax, there is no pre-tribulation rapture today. The Truth is that many false prophets are going to arise before Jesus returns and they will prey on people. The Truth is what sets us free from their lies and attacks and the Truth is Jesus and He is alive and active in us.

Eternal Life For All?

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[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

We are shown here that our Father gave Jesus control over all flesh. Jesus tells us that our Father did this so that He could give eternal life to all who have been given to Him. Can I get an amen from the choir here? The Truth is our Father gave all flesh to Jesus so that all flesh could have eternal life. Hey I am not misquoting this, Jesus said that all have been given to Him and He will give eternal life to all who have been given to Him.

Therefore [because He stooped so low] God has highly exalted Him and has freely bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, That in (at) the name of Jesus every knee should (must) bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, And every tongue [frankly and openly] confess and acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:9-11

Every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord and isn’t that what we are told that must happen for a person to be saved?

Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9

Every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord and Jesus will give eternal life to all who He has been given and He has been given all flesh! People eternity is going to be filled will all flesh. Some flesh will be transformed to be just like Jesus and we will rule and reign with Him forever, 1 Corinthians 15:52. Some flesh will be raised up from Hades to be made like the angels, these shall be the guests, Matthew 22:10 & 30. And some flesh will remain just as we are now, except they will never die. We know this because in Revelation 20 we are never told that those who are living, those who are not raised from the dead, when our Father comes to the earth are ever judged.

Jesus was super successful by going to the Cross and He will save all flesh from the Lake of Fire. He will allow us to come to know our Father and we will live forever with Him in glory.

Now, don't get me wrong, this Truth in no way limits what we are to preach on this earth. There is a Hades, Luke 16:23. It is a place of discipline and we are to go into all of the world and preach to all of the people, Mark 16:15. We are to tell them that the Kingdom of our Father is for them right now. We are to tell them the Truth that will set them free and we are to show grace to all, especially our enemies. We will not get to all, Jesus tells us that many will be called, not that all will be called, Matthew 20:16. A few who we are used to tell are chosen to be the Bride of Christ. The others we tell are called to be our guests at the Wedding Feast, Matthew 22:10. These people will first have to go through Hades to arrive at the Wedding Feast, 1 Corinthians 3:15. But amen, they will be allowed to attend.

The Anti-Christ's Sermon

2011-10-10T07:04:00.003-04:00

For people will be lovers of self and [utterly] self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate [greedy] desire for wealth, proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane. 2 Timothy 3:2

I was listening to a national radio talk show a couple of days ago and the host was talking about how everything is going to change with the world in the near future. He was talking about economies crashing and societies completely falling apart. Yet he proclaimed that he had the answer and the answer to stop all the impending doom, was ourselves. Yep, he was saying that we have the power on our own to stop all the catastrophes. He said that we can change everything if we only come together and just begin to do what it right. He briefly mentioned God in his address but he never mentioned Jesus. His message and his answer to all the worlds problems was us. He spoke of how he had prayed and that he had searched for the Truth and now he was ready to lead us from our own self destruction. Our Father was sprinkled ever so slightly through his message, he does not and did not deny that God had a role to play, but the main course of what he was saying was all man. According to what he was selling it was up to us to do on our own what God wanted us to do. He was saying that we had a choice to act or not to act. According to him we have the responsibility and if we first act, then God will act. He went on to say that if we do what is right, future generations will build museums that will honor our heroic efforts.

Look at what our Father had Timothy write about the end times: lovers of self, self-centered, proud, boasters, and arrogant. The message of what this guy was saying on the radio is the message of the anti-christ. The anti-christ will speak of glorious things and he will do it better than anyone else ever has, Revelation 13:2. He will speak of the power of man and he will cause people to glory in what they believe that they have done. It will all look and sound very religious. Our Father will be spoken of but man will be the center and end of every proclamation. The anti-christ will cause people to be blasphemous as they boast of what they have done for the Lord and how they have chosen to do the right things. They will brag about how they have prayed enough and that they have worked enough. They will arrogantly proclaim that they are working the works that will allow God to move in this world. The anti-christ and his followers will act and sound very religious, but Jesus will proclaim that He never knew them, Matthew 7:23.

When the people called Jesus good, He proclaimed to them that only God was good, Mark 10:18. Jesus told the people that it was God in Him doing all the works, John 14:10. The anti-christ’s message will be that we do the works that allow our Father to work in this world. The True message of Christ is that our Father is doing all of His works through us and that He is greater in us and that without Him we can do nothing. The Truth is Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the Author and Finisher of our faith. Jesus should be the message with the focus on His power fully working through us and enabling us to do all things.

How Many People Are Killed At Armageddon?

2011-10-08T07:21:00.001-04:00

Revelation 14:19-20 tell us how much blood will flow at the Battle of Armageddon.

So I used my very basic, and I do mean basic, understanding of Math and here is what I came up with.

3,097,600 Yards in 1 square mile

619,520,000 Yards in 200 square miles

1,858,560,000 Yards in 200 cubic miles

3,717,120,000 Yards in 200 Cubic miles 6 feet deep

202 Gallons in a square yard

18,401,584 Gallons of blood in 200 square miles 6 feet deep

1.5 Gallons of blood in average person

12,267,723 Number of people to fill 200 square miles 6 feet deep

3,500,000,000 Half of Earth’s population (estimated number of people left after 3 1/2 years of wrath)

0.0035 Percent of people gathered to Armageddon to be destroyed

58” Height in inches of average horse bridle

I am sure that there are math major’s that will be able to clarify this formula far better than I, but even if I

am 100% short, that still means that less than 1% of the worlds population will be gathered to

Armageddon to be destroyed. That shows us the power of salvation during the last 3 1/2 years of this

age in our history! Over 99% of the people who are here right before Jesus returns have not taken the Mark of the Beast!

How Do We Wash Each Other's Feet?

2011-10-05T15:00:00.000-04:00

If I then, your Lord and Teacher (Master), have washed your feet, you ought [it is your duty, you are under obligation, you owe it] to wash one another's feet. John 13:14

Jesus said that we are obligated to wash each other’s feet, yet we never read about the disciples going around and washing other people’s feet. Why would Jesus make such a bold statement of what we are to do, then we never read in the Bible about it being done again? The answer is that it was done all of the time and we do read about it. The act of washing feet, the thing that we are obligated to do, isn’t taking water and soap and washing a persons feet, it is interceding for them and forgiving their sins.

Jesus said to him, Anyone who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is clean all over. And you [My disciples] are clean, but not all of you. John 13:10

Once we are saved we become clean. There is no longer anything that can ever separate us from our Father, we can never loose our cleanliness, Romans 11:29. We will never be left or forsaken by God once we are grafted into Jesus. Dirt can get on us, but that dirt will not separate us from our Father. Dirty feet can cause problems though. So what did Jesus tell us to do? He told us to intercede for each other and forgive each other. In other words, wash each other’s feet. We keep the dirt off of each other by interceding for each other.

For if you forgive people their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], your heavenly Father will also forgive you. Matthew 6:14

Above all things have intense and unfailing love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins [forgives and disregards the offenses of others]. 1 Peter 4:8

Be gentle and forbearing with one another and, if one has a difference (a grievance or complaint) against another, readily pardoning each other; even as the Lord has [freely] forgiven you, so must you also [forgive]. Colossians 3:13

What is really powerful about washing feet, is that Jesus doesn’t tell us to wash our own feet, but to wash other people’s feet. So many are always asking God to forgive them for what they have done, when Jesus tells us to always be forgiving others. We are kept clean by interceding for others, not because we intercede for ourselves. Read the Lord’s prayer, we are forgiven because we forgive, not because we ask for ourselves to be forgiven. Love covers up our sins. They are not covered because we ask for them to be forgiven. We are forgiven by our Father because we have been empowered with the Holy Ghost to forgive others. We have conquered sin in our own lives because Christ is within us causing us to love others and intercede on the behalf of others.

Don’t believe this? Go and try to find the scriptures that tell us that we are to ask to be forgiven. You will find that time and time again Jesus tells us that our forgiveness is based on us forgiving others. Now thank God that we have Jesus in us causing us to forgive, so there is no worries whatsoever. Jesus will absolutely cause us to forgive others, so that we can absolutely be forgiven!

Can We Stop Bearing Fruit?

2011-09-29T20:43:00.000-04:00

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Any branch in Me that does not bear fruit [that stops bearing] He cuts away (trims off, takes away); and He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more and richer and more excellent fruit. John 15:2

This verse has been used by preachers my whole life to threaten us with. But let’s dissect the Truth and see if this verse should frighten us or encourage the daylights out of us. The first Truth to be considered here is that to be one with Christ is a gift. Salvation is a free gift from God, Ephesians 2:8.

The second Truth that our Father tells us is that He never takes His gifts back once He gives them. For God's gifts and His call are irrevocable. [He never withdraws them when once they are given, and He does not change His mind about those to whom He gives His grace or to whom He sends His call.] Romans 11:29

The third Truth to consider, if someone wants to threaten you that you may stop bearing fruit can be found in Ezekiel 36:27: And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall heed My ordinances and do them.

Now taking all of these verses together we can see that if we are saved, we are only saved because our Father gave it to us. And our Father will never take it back, because He never withdraws a gift once He gives it. We also can see that because we have been given the gift of salvation, or in other words the gift of being one with Jesus, that our Father will place His Spirit within us and cause us to bear fruit. So there is absolutely no chance that if we are saved that we can ever stop bearing fruit and be cast out of our perfect union with Christ.

So why did Jesus say this? Jesus often spoke in parables and in ways that seemed to confound. He did this because the Truth is not for everyone to know, Mark 4:10-12. It is not a lie that if a born again person would stop bearing fruit, that they would be cast out of Jesus. But the greater Truth, the whole Truth, is that it is impossible for a true child of God to not be used by our Father to bear fruit. The wolves in sheep’s clothing will use this verse to try to keep the focus on man and not on Jesus. They will use it for fear instead of sharing the glorious Truth that it is impossible for us to not continually be used by our Father to bear luscious and everlasting fruit.

John 15:2 is a glorious verse and there is no fear in it at all. The Truth is that our Father will constantly do whatever is needed so that He can always cause us to grow and be used in more and more powerful ways!

We Possess And Give Unconditional Forgiveness

2011-09-28T07:05:00.002-04:00

Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Romans 4:6-7

Our Father tells us that we are righteous without ever doing anything to be righteous. Our Father forgives us our sins regardless of what we have done. This is why we are blessed. We have complete freedom and redemption and we never did anything to earn them. We didn’t pray to earn this freedom. We didn’t attend church to receive it. We didn’t even perform the work of asking for it. It was all just grace, our Father just decided, for whatever reason, to give it to us. The glorious Truth is that we did absolutely nothing on our own, there was no work at all that we ever did, that brought this glorious state of righteousness on us.

Now here is the power of this Truth for us, we now have the mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2:16. So if this is how our Father acted towards us, this is how our mind now acts towards others. This is why we are able to live in so much peace, even when all Hell is breaking out around us. We forgive before people ask us to forgive them. We are empowered by the very thoughts of our Father to intercede for others whether they know it or not. Peoples sins are covered and forgiven by us regardless of what they have done and apart from any work that they have done.

Our Father causes us to sow this unconditional forgiveness so that we reap this unconditional forgiveness. You and I are now empowered to think and act just like God. We are our Father’s instruments of forgiveness. He uses us to forgive all, apart from any works that they have done. This is our gift to them and this is what causes us to see beyond all the evil of the world and see the perfect righteousness of our Kingdom.