Our Father Isn't Condemning Us

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Romans 8:1

Have you ever been around religious people who are always finding fault with themselves? They do this because they do not know who they are in Christ. For whatever reason they have not been empowered by the Holy Spirit to allow our Father to indwell them and they are trying to earn their relationship with God through works, Galatians 3:3. The Truth is that they never will be able to either! My kids, Kennedy and Lauren, never could do anything to become my kids; Beth and I had to birth them. Without me they would not be, they have fellowship with me, because Beth and I are their parents. They are built upon the foundation of Beth and I! It’s exactly the same way with God; we are not earning our fellowship and our unity with our Father, because it has just been given to us. Its our birth right, John 1:13. Our Father birthed us, He chose to have us, and we have been born again of His seed, 1 Peter 1:23. We are only alive because of Him. His Spirit is within us and our characteristics are directly from Him. We have the new heart that He has given us, we now have the mind of Christ, we are members of His body, of His flesh, His bones, and we now have His Spirit, Ephesians 5:30! 

Now as children we will grow, but as with children our parents determine what we are. Our DNA, our genes, are directly from them, and our Father is now God. We have been born again form His Incorruptible Seed! You can’t be born of God and have the characteristics of another father, it’s impossible, because we are from His seed, James 3:11. Now a person could tell you that they are Beth and mines child, but there testimony would be false. Only those children born of us, are ours!

Now if Beth and I are able to do this how much more has our Father done with us? God has not only birthed us, He now indwells us, so that we will never be apart from Him, Hebrews 13:5. Our Father has sealed us with His very Spirit, Ephesians 4:30, and He ever lives to intercede for us, Hebrews 7:25. Unlike with human parents and kids, we are never left alone; we are constantly in fellowship with our Father. Never does satan or evil have an opportunity to grab us because we are separated, we are now the Holy Habitation of God, we are His friends, and we are His kids! Satan can only do to us what he can do to God and that is nothing! God is the perfect Father and He knows how to raise us into perfect children. I don’t think this is talked about enough. We say Father, but it’s just words, God is our Father and we are His kids, we are His habitation, and Who He is has been born into us and we are now one with it. Our Father is love, and through Christ we are now one with it. So how can we be anything but love? Perfect Love where we came from, it’s what we are one with. And of course we are holy, because our Father, the One Who sanctifies us, is Holy, and we are one with Him!

The Lord's Prayer And Free Will

Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:10

Have you ever prayed the Lord’s Prayer? There are an awful lot of us who have. What is so great about this prayer is: how can we mess it up? I mean Jesus told us exactly what to pray and one of the first things that He told us to pray is that our Father’s will be done. Jesus did not tell us to pray that we know our Father’s will or that we understand our Father’s will and then choose to act on it. Jesus just told us to pray that our Father’s will be done. We cannot ask amiss with this. Amen, it is impossible to ask amiss with this prayer and we all have prayed, “Father Your Will Be Done.”

[Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual pleasures.  James 4:3

We can’t fail to receive when making this request, because there is no way to use our Father’s will being done for our own sensual pleasures. Our Father’s will is never evil. It is impossible to be selfish with our Father’s will being done. So it is impossible for this prayer to not be answered 100% of the time. Jesus absolutely knew what He was doing when He told us how to pray.

Our Father showed me this awesome Truth a couple of days ago, after I was attacked for being used to tell someone that they had complete freedom because our Father’s Will is in control of our lives. The person who attacked me is a very religious person. He goes to church all of the time, but he believes that he must first allow or choose for our Father to act in our lives. Could you imagine if my kids had to first allow or choose for me to act in their lives? That is just crazy and if that is crazy for me, it sure is crazy for our Father!

O Lord [pleads Jeremiah in the name of the people], I know that [the determination of] the way of a man is not in himself; it is not in man [even in a strong man or in a man at his best] to direct his [own] steps. Jeremiah 10:23

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

Think about Heaven. Do you believe that in Heaven that there is a bunch of free will’s going on? Do the angels have a free will? Do the 24 Elders have a free will? Do the 4 beings that surround the Throne have a free will? Does Jesus have a free will? Is Jesus’ Will something different then our Father’s? Does Jesus have to decide each and every moment to choose to act on our Father’s Will, or is He just One with it? He is One with our Father’s Will, because He is our Father and we are now one with Jesus. We are now Jesus’ flesh and His bones, Ephesians 5:30. We now have the mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2:16. We have been crucified with Christ, and nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who live, it is Christ in us Who lives, Galatians 2:20. Our Father has the free will and His will is being done in us, just as it is being done in Heaven! 

Ephesians 5:8-10

8 For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of Light [lead the lives of those native-born to the Light].

We are now light, because we are now one with the body of Light. We are now one with the Light, Jesus Christ, so how could we be anything but light? The powerful Truth about light is that it cannot be both light and dark. Good water and bitter water cannot come from the same fountain, James 3:11. We are either one or the other.

For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we do not belong either to the night or to darkness. 1 Thessalonians 5:5

 9 For the fruit (the effect, the product) of the Light or the Spirit [consists] in every form of kindly goodness, uprightness of heart, and trueness of life.

We are plainly shown here the Truth that it is the Spirit that causes us to do what our Father wants. This is our victory and this is our peace. Far too many want to bring us again to bondage, teaching and preaching what we have to do for our Father. This teaching would be like teaching what the branch has to do on its own to produce fruit, or what the hand must do on its own to serve the body. There is no separation between us and our Father at all. All that He is, we are now one with just as Jesus is. We are new creatures in Christ, every old thing in our life’s has past away and now all things are new!

10 And try to learn [in your experience] what is pleasing to the Lord [let your lives be constant proofs of what is most acceptable to Him].

The great thing that we are shown here is that we can actually know what is pleasing to our Father. Our Father doesn’t hide things from us, we have real fellowship with Him.

But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future]. John 16:13

Ephesians 2:1

1 AND YOU [He made alive], when you were dead (slain) by [your] trespasses and sins

In Christ we have been made alive, we are not being made alive, or going to be given life, in Christ we are alive. When we were born again by the will of our Father, we became one with Jesus and we now are one with His life. This is being alive, we are alive just like Jesus is alive, the two of us have become one flesh, one spirit, and one soul. We have been grafted into the Vine of Jesus and now all of the power and energy that allows Jesus to have eternal life flows through us as well.

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

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

We are now members of Jesus’ body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bones, Ephesians 5:30. Our old self has been nailed to the Cross with Jesus, so that our old unrenewed selves could be destroyed. In Christ we do not possess and old nature along with a new nature. Our old self has been destroyed through the power of Christ, it hasn’t just been wounded, it has been destroyed. Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, this is the Truth that will set us free, to hope to live as Jesus lives. 

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness? 2 Corinthians 6:14

Does a fountain send forth [simultaneously] from the same opening fresh water and bitter? James 3:11

There can be no fellowship between light and darkness and a fountain is only able to deliver good water or bitter water. In Christ we have been perfected, not by our works, but through our Father’s grace. It is all free, it is all undeserved, and it is all apart from our own works. To be made alive in Christ means to be free from sin just as Jesus is free from sin.

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]. 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. Romans 6:10-11