Romans 8:29

29 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.

Ask yourself this question: does our Father know everyone? Is there anyone who has ever been that our Father did not know? Is there anyone who our Father did not know before they were born? We are told that our Father knows the hairs on everyones heads, Matthew 10:30. Te Bible tells us that our Father has to consent for even a bird to die, Matthew 10:29. The Truth is that all things exist for our Father, by our Father, and through our Father, Colossians 1:16. King David wrote that God, Who is our Father, knew everything that he was going to do before he ever was born, Psalm 139:16. Paul wrote that our Father decided to us him to preach to the Gentiles before he was even in His mother’s womb, Galatians 1:15. The Truth is that our Father knew us all, whether we accept Him in this life time or not, before He ever said let anything be. 

What does all of this mean? It means that our Father has destined us all to be molded into the image of Jesus. Our Father would that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth, 1 Timothy 2:4. We are plainly told in the Word that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord, Philippians 2:10. We also have the peace of knowing that were sin abounds, our Father’s grace much more abounds, Romans 5:20. Jesus has been given all flesh and He has been glorified to give eternal life to all that He has been given, John 17:2. 

All people, except Judas, will spend eternity with Jesus, John 17:12. Some of us as His Bride and some as His guests, but all of us will be with Jesus for eternity, Matthew 22:11. The Truth is so plainly told to us over and over in our Father’s Word. Our Father has destined all that He knows to be conformed to be like Jesus and amen our Father knows everyone. Think about it, what shows us grace? A father favoring his own child, or a father favoring his enemy? 

I ask You Father to please empower us to go and tell the world this glorious Truth. Grant to us the power and faith to not look at things with our physical eyes but through Your eyes. Allow us to boldly proclaim from the roof tops the Truth that will set the world free. Father I also ask that You remove all doubt from us and that Your glorify us with all knowledge and wisdom this day. Thank You Father and in the Name of Jesus rebuke the world and all that it has and is from Your servants.    

Romans 6:16-17

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

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.

We Are Now Alive Like Jesus Is Alive

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

Our Father's ways are infinitely higher than mans ways, this is the absolute Truth. Our Father knows this Truth better than we do, so He gave Himself completely to us to guide us in all of His Truth, so that His ways can now be our ways as well!

“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, Whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26

There is absolutely nothing that our Father does not know and our Father gave us His very Own Holy Spirit to teach us and show us everything! Our relationship with our Father is so complete and so intimate that He proclaims, “But the anointing which ye received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is Truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.” 1 John 2:27

Our Father has provided a way for us to know all of His Truth, even if we never have a Bible! Even if we were cast out on an island with no other human beings around, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we could still be taught and shown everything and know everything and be free! Once we are born again by the will of God and empowered by the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus, we are never alone again. Our Father never leaves us or forsake us. Jesus will forevermore lead us in the paths of His righteousness and A-men, He knows the way! Our Father knows how to teach each one of us, what may be needed for me, may not be needed for you. Our Father deals with each of us individually, as He leads us into all of His Truths that set us free! And the great Truth of our salvation is this: through Christ, death has no more dominion over us. When we were chosen and born again, we died once to sin and from that very moment and forever more, we now live unto God as Jesus lives unto God! We have all of this because that is how powerful Jesus’ sacrifice was and is for us! We are great because Jesus is great. It’s all God, it’s always been all God, and it will always be all God!

God Conforms Us Into Jesus' Image

"For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them also glorified. What shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:29-31

Once we truly are empowered by the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus and make Him the Lord of our lives, it became our destiny to be conformed, by the Anointing of our Father, to the very image of our Lord Savior! Our Father has called us out of the darkness of this world and we are now a chosen generation and a royal priesthood! “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him Who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;” 1 Peter 2:9 Our Father has declared that it is our destiny and our birthright to be conformed into the image of Jesus, and God has justified us with the Blood of Christ, so that we can be! Our Father has glorified us so that He can fulfill His will of creating us in His own image! This is God’s desire for us, and since it is, nothing will stand in His way of accomplishing it! We are now more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us! “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” Romans 8:37 In every last thing and in every area of our lives, the Anointing of God is victorious through us! Our Father is going to fulfill His desire for our lives and nothing will stand in His way! Since He has saved us, we will be conformed to the very image of Jesus, it is our destiny!

“By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in this world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and becoming sharers (partakers) of the Divine nature.” 2 Peter 1:4 Amplified Bible We have become sharers of our Father's Divine Nature, and just as the rottenness and corruption of this world cannot touch Jesus, it now cannot touch us who are in Him! Our Father has rescued us from this world and He has given us His Own Nature, it’s our destiny in Christ! These precious and exceedingly great promises are for us right now! Our justification is now, our glorification is now, our calling is now, and we are now the sons of God! “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.” 1 John 3:1-3

In John 17:21-23 Jesus prayed that we would have the same glory that He has and Jesus proclaimed that we are now perfect through our oneness with God. These are the Truths of our salvation through Christ, and since these are Truth, it only makes sense that our Father has given us such great and precious things, and that we should be conformed to the image of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, the Firstborn among many brethren! How can we be anything except like Him, He is our Head, and we are His body, and we are now one with Him! God has given us an Anointed mind that knows the full extent of who He has made us in Christ! The Holy Spirit really needs to teach us all things concerning this transformation into our Father's Divine Nature! We need to stop considering ourselves to be mere humans, because the Holy Spirit of the Living God has quickened our mortal bodies. We are now the children of Jehovah and we have been giving the exact same glory as Jesus, and our Father loves us just as He loves Jesus. We have been made perfect by our unity with God, the Holy Ghost, and Jesus, and now Jesus is glorified within us. Look at the scriptures below, we continue to lay block upon block on the foundation that we are now and forevermore one with God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. God’s Word is Truth and His Word is the rock that establishes our firm foundation! We are now one with God through Jesus Christ, God now dwells within us through the Holy Ghost, and we now dwell in Him!

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

"That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me. And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one. I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me." John 17:21-23

"And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine; and I am glorified in them." John 17:10

"If ye abide in me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." John 15:7

"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can you, except ye abide in Me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in Him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing." John 15:4-5

It is our Father's will that we are conformed into the image of Jesus. God wants us to walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, think like Jesus, act like Jesus, have the glory of Jesus, be delivered from the evils of this world like Jesus, and to do the works of Jesus! To insure that He can do all of these things through us, our Father has called us, He has justified us, He has glorified us, and what can we say to all of this? Can we brag about our own efforts? Can we glory in our own abilities? No, all we can say is, “God is for us,” and praise His Holy Name, because of Him, we are now just like Jesus!

Ask yourself this, what if we are not there yet, what if we aren’t as mature as we can be? Does that bring condemnation on us? No, there is now therefore no condemnation to us who are in Christ Jesus, Romans 8:1. So if we aren’t as mature as we can be, what should we do? Well the first thing to know is this, the Holy Spirit teaches us all things and Jesus leads us in the paths of God’s righteousness. We are not alone here, we are never alone, God is our Father, and He abides within us. He shall never leave us or forsake us! God is our Father and He knows better than anyone what He needs to do to fulfill His calling within us! Faith in who we have become in Christ comes from hearing the Word of God, so let’s talk about these verses, let’s ask our Father to reveal their glory within us, and to give us a complete and perfect understanding of His will.

“Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.” John 16:24 Pray for me, and I will pray for you. Look unto Jesus to Author the faith to live in these Truths. Here is the Truth, we are either going to be transformed to the image of Jesus now, or later. If we are truly saved, our Father has proclaimed that we will be, so A-men, we will be! Jesus is returning for a glorious Church, without spot, wrinkle, or blemish, and that is a church that has been conformed into His image, and the desire of our hearts, the hearts given to us by God, desires for His will to be fulfilled within us! I have never met a brother or sister in the Lord who doesn’t desire to be more Christ like, but I have met many who believe that we can’t be! But the Truth that will set us free is something entirely different. The Truth is that it is God’s will that we be conformed into the very image of Jesus, and to insure that we will be, our Father has devoted Himself to ever live for us so that through the power of His might and through the strength of His Anointing, we will be! The Truth is this, what our Father desires, He gets!

Father, I ask You right now, in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus, that all who read this study, and all that I come into contact with, and all that they come into contact with, will be conformed into the very image of Jesus while on this earth. I pray that we love like Jesus, we serve like Jesus, that You perform miracles through us like You did through Jesus, that we understand like Jesus, that we see as Jesus sees, hear as He hears, and act like He acts! Father I pray that we are conformed to His very image, as is Your desire. Father I thank You that this goes beyond words and that it goes into practice and action! I thank You that we are now the glorious Church You have called and provided for us to be. No more infants tossed to and fro. But that we are steadfast in You, mature, and fully accepting and fully united with You, without spot, without wrinkle, and without blemish! I praise Your glorious Name, A-men!