We Are Light By Jesus' Blood

"But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." Ephesians 2:13

"This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all." 1 John 1:5

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

We are now light because of the power of Jesus’ Blood. Before we were chosen and empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus we were far away, but now through the eternal power of our Lords Blood, shed on the Cross, we are nigh Him. Which means we are united and one with our Father as Jesus is united and one with our Father, John 17:23. We are now members of Jesus’ body, we are now His Temple, and we are now the branches of His Vine! When Jesus talks about us it is always as unified with Him. Jesus is a hands on Savior and He never will leave us or forsake us! With Jesus we are never in the dark, we are able to see clearly through the faith that He Authors and Finishes for us!

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

We Are Now One With The Light

"This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all." 1 John 1:5

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

In Jesus there is no darkness at all, and as we have been studying, we are now in Jesus! The great Truth of our salvation is that we just aren’t saved from hell because we believe, we actually are saved from Hell because we become one with God through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Jesus is now in us and we are now in Him and there is no darkness at all in Jesus! There are so many of us who really don’t believe this Truth. There is far too much condemnation amongst Christians, most of it is self-condemnation, but it still is condemnation. I see so many of us putting off the blessings of our salvation, believing that we can only come to this light when we arrive in Heaven. But that is just not the Truth of who we are in Christ and hopefully all of these studies have made that Truth, the Truth that sets us free, known. When the power of our salvation: righteousness, sanctification, glory, and holiness is directed at God, we are light, and when it is self directed, darkness, and then failure. We are light because of Jesus, His power and glory have driven the darkness from us. There is no ability for us to boast in this Light, because Christ has done it all for us, and praise God He has done it all for us! And now through Jesus we may have full joy and peace in living in the Light as His Blood eternally cleanses us from all unrighteousness!

Jesus is great and He is in us and we are one with Him.

We Have Confidence That We Cannot Fall Away

“And now, little children, abide in Him; that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.” 1 John 2:28

God’s Truth is that He has put a new heart within us, so that we are now able to serve Him and walk in His ways. If we could fall away, then our Father never really put a new heart in us that allows us to be confident, so He lied? Wrong! God is not a man that He should lie! God did put a new heart within us, and that is why we can confidently approach Him, without any shame, because we now approach our Father with the full power and faith of the new heart that He gave to us. People always want to talk about backsliding, as if we can be in God then out of God. People we cannot fool God, we are either completely in, or completely out, there is no in between! We cannot fool God!

So what is happening? Read the parable of the sower of the tares, Matthew 13. Read how Jesus says that all who say Lord, Lord will not be saved, Matthew 7:21-23. Just because someone says they are saved doesn’t mean they are, look to their fruit that they are being used to produce and then judge it by the Word. I have heard it said a lot lately, “who are we to judge anyone’s salvation?” Sounds religious and good doesn’t it. But we are to judge people by their fruit and we are to test the spirits to see if they are of God. “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” 1 John 4:1 On our own and without the Word of God and the Spirit of Discernment we aren’t in any position to judge someone else. But we are not alone, we judge as we are judged, by the Word of God. We will know each other by the fruits that we see God producing through us. We will know a good branch from a bad one by what we see God doing with it, and we can know what is of God by the Word of God that never changes!

Father, I pray in the Name of Jesus that all who read this have confidence and boldness in their unity with You through Jesus, because You are perfected in them. I pray that they know beyond any shadow of a doubt that You have sanctified them, that You have equipped them to go into the world as You equipped Jesus to go into the world. Father You have declared that as You are so are we in this world, let us not just talk about this Truth, but through Your power Father, let’s live it! Father, I thank you that there is absolutely no shame in us, that the spirit of lies that tries to bring condemnation is bound and cast out of Your children and that Your Spirit of liberty abounds within us! I pray that we mature fully in the gifts that You have born into us. Father I thank You that our minds are renewed with the knowledge that it is You, and only You, that is providing everything needed that pertains unto life and unto godliness. I thank You Father that we stand fast, because You have enabled us through Christ to stand fast. I thank You Father that we walk in faith, because You Author our faith, and that we stand righteous, because Your righteousness abides within us. Father it is You within us that does the works and I thank You that this is lived, and enjoyed, and not just spoken of. Father be Who You are in us today. Your will, and Your will is magnificent, be done completely in us! A-men.

We Have Confidence In The Truth That We Shall Never Be Ashamed

“And now, little children, abide in Him; that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.” 1 John 2:28

If we had to rely on our own ability to be good enough, there would be absolutely no confidence in us whatsoever when Jesus returns. It would be like a High School Monday after a Friday test. You may not know what that means, but I sure do! So how can we be so confident when our eternity is at stake? We are able to stand confident before our Father, because we abide as one with Jesus. He is our Lord and Savior. He ever lives to intercede for us so that we may be saved to the uttermost and He gives us the confidence.

"But the anointing which ye have 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

Let me ask you this, can God be fooled? Can we fake God out, or lie to Him? There are a lot of people who believe that we can stop abiding in Him once that we have been truly saved. How? Did we fool God to start with? He knows the beginning and the end and He knows our hearts. So if we could all of a sudden stop being in Him, then there had to be wickedness in our hearts all along. God declares that our inheritance is incorruptible, and that it never fades away, and that we are kept by His very power.

"To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled and that fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." 1 Peter 1:4-5

I believe there are many who falsely confess salvation who seem to be falling away, but for those of us who have actually and truly been chosen and empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as our Lord, there is no way for us to fall away. For us to fall away would mean that we were keeping ourselves with our own power and not our Father's! If we had to keep ourselves from leaving God, we would all leave God, but we don’t keep ourselves, our Father keeps us and our inheritance in Him is incorruptible and never fades away! This is why we can be confident and know that we shall never be ashamed is because of the Truth that we will always be one with Jesus!

Through Christ We Have Absolutely No Shame

“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

On our own we would always be ashamed! We can’t stand before God, even if we never sinned, and not be ashamed of ourselves. However, we can stand before God, our Father, without any shame. 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. We can be unashamed because we have the Holy Spirit within us and He lets us know beyond any shadow of a doubt that God 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, than 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, King of Kings and Lord of Lords!

God Has Fully Equipped Us To Be His Sanctified Children

“And lo a voice from heaven, saying, this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” Matthew 3:17

Think for a minute about how fully our Father equipped Jesus to be on this earth as a man and also remember that God was well pleased with Him. Our Father made Jesus! Jesus only was because God birthed Him, Jesus was God Himself, and He was completely and thoroughly made and equipped by God for the task of being the Lord of Lords. Our Father fully equipped Jesus to succeed and He did it by making Jesus completely One with Himself. There was nothing lacking in Jesus, He was empowered and perfect because of God, because He was and is God!

Jesus was fully man and He was fully God, both at the same time. And as we have studied over and over again in these posts, Jesus has done the same for us. Jesus has thoroughly and completely made us and we are perfectly complete in Him. We are now one with our Lords body and the body of Jesus is perfectly complete! Jesus sanctified us, which means He set us aside for holy use, just as God set Jesus aside for Holy use.

“As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.” John 17:18

Jesus is Lord, He has His part in the Kingdom of God and we are His body and we have our part. The building is all fit together with Jesus being the Chief Cornerstone. With Jesus we can be used by our Father to do all things. Without Him, we can do nothing and without Him we have nothing that pertains to life or godliness. Jesus is the Vine and we are the branches and the life force of the Vine continually flows through us, we are only because He is. So for Jesus to be ashamed of us, He would have to be ashamed of Himself! Without Christ we are nothing but sin, but because of Jesus and because of the Holy Spirit empowering us to confess Him, we are continually cleansed from all sin by His Blood. Jesus’ Blood continually cleanses us from all sin and there is now no occasion for us to stumble or fall. This strength and power is according to Jesus’ might and we are now strong in all of the power of God’s might!

We Are One And We Are Sanctified With Jesus

"For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren." Hebrews 2:11

Jesus is not ashamed to call us His brothers and sisters; A-men we are actually Jesus’ brethren and we are actually joint-heirs with Him. Jesus is not ashamed of us in any way, because He is the One Who has sanctified us. Jesus has set us apart for God’s Holy use and He has cleansed us from all of our unrighteousness. Jesus did the job completely for us and He knows that the job was done right, complete and done perfectly. Jesus is not ashamed of us because there is nothing to be ashamed of. God wrote that it was Jesus Who sanctifies us and He wrote that all who are sanctified by Him are one with Him; this is the Truth. So is there any reason for Jesus to be ashamed of Himself? We are members of His body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone. We are new creatures in Him and we have been perfected in Him, so that the world may believe and be saved. Jesus is complete and He has completed us in Himself, He has empowered us with Himself, and He has filled us with the very Spirit of God. His Light has driven out the darkness from us and because, and only because of Him, we can stand before God with confidence and boldness, without being ashamed in anything! We now have the Holy Spirit within us confirming with our own spirits that we are the sons of God, and He is strengthening us in all Truth to know that all things work for good for us now because we love the Lord! Jesus was born perfect, it’s how God made Him, and through Jesus’ sacrifice and the power of His Blood, we have now been born again in perfection! We have been eternally sanctified by Jesus and we are eternally one with Jesus!

Through Christ We Take No Thought For Our Own Lives

“Which of you by taking thought cad add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies in the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; And yet, I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, what shall we eat? Or, what shall we drink? Or, wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek for. Your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 27-33

This is the power of our salvation through Christ; we are able take no thought about our own lives, because Jesus is ever living to intercede for us. Find a child who is well provided for, whose parents love him, and who are raising him properly, and you will see what Jesus is saying that we can and should be like. We stand fast in the Lord because He has empowered us to stand fast in all of the power of His might and He has provided everything for us to stand fast! Through the love and glory of God, we are able to be just like little kids, as we take no thought for our own lives! Salvation allows us to enter God’s perfect rest, and His peace that passes all understanding allows us to confidently trust in His abundant provision for our lives! Through Christ we stand fast and through Christ we have life and we have it abundantly! Through Christ we have life, just as Jesus has life; as He is, so are we in this world!

And we have been empowered by Jesus Himself to seek first the Kingdom of God as He leads us in the Path of Righteousness! Jesus knows exactly how to Shepherd us and He ever lives to intercede for us. He is our Head and through our unity with Him we are saved to the uttermost! There is nothing that our Lord is and there is nothing that He has that He has not given us and made us one with! So just as Jesus does not have to take thought for His life, neither do we, because we stand eternally in the power of His might!

Through Christ We Trust In Our Father Like Little Kids

“And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.” Matthew 18:3

Think for a minute about a young child. Kids don’t take thought for paying a mortgage. They don’t take thought for utility bills, and they don’t worry about groceries. They don’t worry or take thought about these things because they are standing fast in their parents’ provisions. This is exactly how Jesus said we are to be and He said that we have to be.

Through Christ we are converted into new creatures and through Christ we enter into our Father's rest. The power and freedom of our salvation empowers us to be as little children. Jesus allows us to dance like a child, to love to be around people like a child, to play like a child, and to be accepting like a child; this is the peace of Jesus that passes all understanding. My two kids and all the neighborhood kids have such a blast. They just come over, who cares if they are dirty and have on old clothes, there are boys and girls, Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, and Indian, they laugh, they play, they rejoice, it’s awesome. And unless we are converted through Christ and become as these little children are, we shall never enter into the Kingdom of Heaven!

Look in the Gospels at how Jesus lived. He talked in riddles or parables. He loved to be around people: young and old, rich and poor, male and female, sick and well! Kids were around Jesus so much that the adults rebuked them and then Jesus rebuked the adults! Jesus’ earthly ministry was for the Jews, Gentiles were to receive it after His death, yet when He came upon a non-Jew who needed help, He helped them as well! Jesus loved to cause trouble by going against the establishment and His first miracle was turning water to wine at a party! When someone would trouble Jesus, He would moan or cry out, “how long do I have to be with you?” Jesus’ life kind of sounds like a child’s life doesn’t it?

When Beth and I first moved into our sub-division, we had moved in from the country, all of the neighborhood kids just gravitated towards us. If I was lying in the hammock they would just run and jump right on in, if I was shooting hoops they just joined in. I was uncomfortable with this at first, I had never experienced anything like it. But then God said to me, relax, kids loved to be around Jesus as well, Matthew 19, Mark 10, and Luke 18.

God is the best parent of all, He has all, He is in all, He loves us just like He loves Jesus, and He doesn’t respect any of His kids over another. Because our Father is Who He is, we are able to be like a little child with Him. Our Father began to use these little children around me to reveal to me just what Jesus was teaching us in the Sermon on the Mount. I clearly saw that when children have strong loving parents, they just naturally go into the world and take no thought for their needs. There is just an outright confidence in their parents taking care of everything! We are now born again of God Himself and we now have all of God’s strength and might working through us. Our Father is the Creator of everything and through His Anointing we are strong in all of the power of His might and we too are able to take no thought for our own lives. God knows that we have needs and He has provided for all of them, according to His riches and glory! If we look at the Lilies in the field, we can see just how magnificently our Father will provide for us! Children don’t lay up money for themselves, they get money and they want to spend it. If a friend needs a dollar for an ice cream cone, they just give it, or come and ask their mom or dad for it. They do this because they are confident in their parents provision, through personal experience, and they are taking no thought for their lives, they just know that dad and mom are providing, that is the rest that we enjoy in our Father through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

The Last Act Of Our Free Will

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17

The last act of our free will was to allow God to crucify us with all of Christ, which allowed us to completely live, because all of Christ was now the One living within us. We can’t even brag about giving up our free will, because it was God Who gave us the strength and the ability to do so! And praise God, the burden of messing up is no longer solely our concern; it is God's as well. Don't believe me? "And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land I gave your fathers; and ye shall be My people, and I will be your God. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses:" Ezekiel 36:27-28 God is the Gardener, Jesus is our Shepherd, we are the branches of the Vine of Christ, and we are the sheep of God Himself. Branches do not bear the responsibility of producing quality fruit, it is the vine and the gardener that do. Sheep do not bear the burden of their own safety, the shepherd does. God is the One Who cast the burdens of our salvation on Himself. Jesus teaches us that to be the greatest in God’s Kingdom, we have to be the biggest servants. Jesus is by far the greatest, because He is by far the biggest servant, ever living to intercede for us so that we may be saved to the uttermost. Any remnants of our free will are pruned out of us by God and burned out of us by Jesus, Who is the refiner’s fire, so that we may be used fully by God to produce everlasting righteous fruit! We are never alone; God in all of His forms: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is always vitally united with us! We are always strong in all of the power of God’s might and no weapon, none, even our carnal free will, will ever prosper against the power of Christ that is now within us! We have been empowered with the very Will of God to make Jesus our Lord and we are now one with our Father just as Jesus is One with the Father. And just as Jesus’ will is the Fathers’, so now is our through Christ that strengthens us!

Free Will????????

"For now we live, if we stand fast in the Lord." 1 Thessalonians 3:8

There are so many who are wishy washy about their salvation. Too many of our brethren are self-condemning, fearful and in doubt of their eternal state because they are in doubt of who they are in Christ. And they are in doubt of Who Christ is within them. They question the extent that God is involved in our lives. They believe that God is limited according to our abilities to believe or serve Him. They may have gone to church for years, yet they never walk in any power or demonstration of His Spirit. The reason they are living this way is because they are trying to stand fast in the Lord on their own and they fail each and every time! Jesus told us that He never said anything that He had not heard first from our Father. And Jesus always said that it was God in Him Who was doing all of the works. Until we are truly crucified with Christ and until we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to give it all up, including our free will, we will never be able to stand fast in the Lord. I hear about free will and I just marvel. The Word teaches us that if we put anything before Jesus, than we are not worthy of Him, Matthew 10:37. The first thing that God gave me the desire to do was to allow Him to get rid of my free will. Not my will Lord, but yours! And praise God we all have Jesus Who has circumcised our sinful natures away, so that God’s will is now done through us! All who have truly been chosen have the full strength of God’s might within them. The Light and power of God’s will has pruned out the weakness and darkness of all of our carnal will and now through the full power of Christ all things work together for our good!

People, who say they maintain their free will to walk away from God, have never been chosen and truly empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. They may have a form of godliness, but they have denied the power of godliness because their free will has not been circumcised away by the operation of Jesus Christ! Jesus causes all who are truly saved to possess God’s will by circumcising away the burden of our free carnal will. “No man can serve two masters; for they will either love the one and hate the other; or else they will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Matthew 6:24 People who think they still have a free will are trying to serve two masters, Jesus and themselves and they will fail every time, they are a divided house, and they will never stand fast in Jesus, they cannot!

We Now Stand Fast In All Of Jesus

"For now we live, if we stand fast in the Lord." 1 Thessalonians 3:8

On our own and with our own human strength, we could never stand fast in the Lord. Our Father knows this Truth better than we do! This is why God saved us and made us one with Him through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, so that we may live permanently united and stand fast in the full power of His might.

“Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;” Colossians 1:11

We are now strong in all of the power of God’s might, because we now have the Holy Ghost, as Jesus has the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost teaches us and strengthens us in all things! God said that we are strengthened with all might, not just some might, but all might! We now have all might according to our Fathers power and our Father is God and God is limitless! We are now one with the whole armor of our Father, as Jesus is one with the whole armor of God, so that we are able to stand with all of God’s might against all of the attacks of the world and evil! We are dead, and still we live; yet it is not us who is alive, but it is all of Christ within us Who is alive. We stand fast because we are now one with all of the Lord and all of Jesus stands fast within us! Greater is He that is now within us than he that is in the world! We have put on all of Christ and we have been renewed in the very image of God, recreated in righteousness and true holiness. Christ is now in all who are saved and Christ is now all for us who are saved!

All that Jesus is, all that He has, all of His glory and power, we are now united and one with, and we stand fast as the One who we are one with stands fast! As Jesus stands fast in faith, so do we! As Jesus stands fast in love, so do we! As Jesus stands fast in the glory of God, so do we! As Jesus stands fast in knowledge, so do we! There is nothing that Jesus is, or nothing that He knows and believes, that we do not stand fast in. Faith comes for us by hearing and hearing by the Word of Truth.

The Saved Are All Christ

"And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created Him: Where there is neither Jew nor Greek, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all." Colossians 3:10-11

Christ is all; that is an interesting statement of Truth and such a powerful one. When God chose us and empowered us to accept Jesus as Lord we put on the new man and now Christ is all and Christ is in us all. We are now members of Christ’s body, members of His flesh, and members of His bones. We now have His Spirit and we now have the His mind, we now have the actual Mind of Christ. Jesus’ joy is now fulfilled within us, we have been given His glory, we have His peace, we have His salvation, plain and simple Christ is now all for the truly saved! A-men, this is such a powerful Truth. Through the power of Christ we are now renewed in the very image of God, just as Jesus is in the very image of God. Jesus said that if we have seen Him, then we have seen the Father, well we too are renewed in that image by the Anointed One, Jesus Christ! And praise God, it is available to all who want it: to Jew or Gentile, to Young and to old, to male or female, to rich or poor, to every race, and our past has nothing to do with it, it does not matter, all who are empowered with the Holy Spirit to choose life will have it! Now here is something that needs to be realized today, in Christ there is neither Baptist or Church of God, there is neither Church of Christ or Nazarene, there is neither Methodist or any denomination, for we are all Christ, He is in all and He is all! We have been renewed and we have put on the new man of Christ, and we now have all of Christ, not just some of Him. All that Jesus is, all that He possesses, all of His faith, all of His glory, all of His joy, all of His love, all of His hope, and all of His wisdom and knowledge, we are now one with and He now has all of us! And the world will believe and be saved by the power of Him working through us!

We Are Dead, And Yet We Are So Alive

"For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." Colossians 3:3

The Truth of who we are in our Father and Who our Father is within us is so simple, and through the complete and eternal power of Christ we are so blessed! God does not say that we are dying. God says that we are dead and our lives are hid, right now, and at this very moment we are alive in Christ. At this very moment all who have been chosen and saved have had their sinful flesh circumcised away. Christians can mature and we will grow, but we are all new creatures in Christ right now, our sinful flesh was circumcised when we were born again, and we are one with Christ right now, we are not becoming one with Christ. We are complete in Christ right now. Through Jesus our bodies of sin have been destroyed, so just like Jesus we may ever live to serve the Living God! Everywhere we read, God talks about it being done, it’s finished, we are complete now, so we can serve Him now, so we can be used by our Father to witness now, so God can do His works through us now, so the world may believe right now!

My two daughters Kennedy and Lauren have a lot of growing to do, but from the time of their conception, they were Beth and mines kids, they are never becoming our kids; they never had to earn it, or even prove themselves to be, because they just were made that way. Beth and I were used by God to freely give them life; from the very second that their lives began, they were our kids! God is not making us His kids. The Prodigal Son was always the son. He may have left, he may have not appeared to be an heir, but he was always that dad’s son! No matter what Kennedy and Lauren may do, they will always and forever be my children, they can never change that fact, no action, no statement, nothing will ever change the fact that they are my kids and that they are one with me. Without my seed, they would not be, it is impossible for them to stop being my kids. No action on my part or theirs can ever change the fact that they are directly from my seed. That is the union we have with God, because we have been born again from His Incorruptible Seed! Our Father chose to have us and so we live eternally through the power of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Jesus Has Circumscised Our Sinful Flesh

“In Whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:” Colossians 2:11

Jesus has circumcised our sinful flesh, now to circumcise means to cut off. It doesn’t mean to cover up, to just not consider, with circumcision there is a cut and then wham it’s instantly gone, and you know what I mean! A circumcision is quick and it is performed on new born babies! And because Jesus has circumcised our sinful flesh, we are now risen with Him and our bodies have been quickened, or made alive together, with His. This is what Jesus has done for us, He has performed an operation that allows us to stand as one with Him, eternally with our Father, God, and according to God because Jesus has done this we are able to stand with Him boldly. Jesus has made us one with Himself, so that we are now members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bone. The body of Christ is just like He is and we who have been quickened, now make up His body! We are now part of the One Whom God has made perfect in ever way and in every aspect. Jesus shed His blood, so that through one sacrifice, we all may stand righteous and complete forever more in Him! God has forgiven us all of our sins, and all of those ordinances, the do’s and the don’ts, Jesus took away and nailed them to the Cross. Jesus spoiled evil for us and He triumphed openly over the powers of the devil! This is for now, we are not just going to be complete in Jesus, praise God, we are complete in Jesus! Because we are one with Jesus!

It’s not hard either to be complete, because as we have learned, Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith, Hebrews 12:2, and Jesus' yoke is easy, Matthew 11:30. Jesus made it easy and He has given us the needed faith to accept Him and thus be perfect, glorified, holy, without blame, and filled with all of His fullness, and He has given us the ability to be as He is on this earth, because we are now actually one with Him! Through Christ we are ashamed of nothing, and through Christ we have complete and unbroken fellowship with our Father, Who now does His works through us. We have all of this on the earth, so that the world may believe and be saved. And it is all a free gift of God, and in no way could it ever be earned, we just use the faith that Jesus gave us and walk in the victory of His power.

We Are Now Complete In Jesus

"And ye are complete in Him, which is the Head of all principality and power: In Whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God, Who hath raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; Having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." Colossians 2:10-15

We are now complete in Jesus; hallelujah we have been made complete in Christ and we have been raised together with Him from the dead by the operation of God! It’s kind of hard to still say that we are just sinful humans after reading this verse isn’t it? I mean complete does mean complete and the most powerful Being in the universe, our Father, the Alpha and Omega, has made us complete! Now remember in our previous studies that God said that we would not be ashamed in anything, and that He has equipped us just as He equipped Jesus, and that He loves us just as He loves Jesus. Our Father made Jesus complete and now through Jesus, He has made us complete!

Here is another great Truth of what God has done for us. Our Father has purged our consciences so that we can think of ourselves as now being complete in Jesus.

“How much more shall the Blood of Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God?” Hebrews 9:14

Through Christ we have been made complete and through Christ we can think of ourselves that way! Praise God that is good teaching of the Truth that will set us free!

We Have God's Level Of Magnificence Within Us

"According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death." Philippians 1:20

Do you want Jesus to be magnified in your body? Because what we been studying over the last couple of days is the level of magnification God has in mind! And praise God we now have the mind of Christ to accept and believe that God is willing and able to cause it to come to pass in our lives. We have the Spirit within us to teach us. We have a new heart directly from God and our bodies have been quickened, or made alive, with Jesus Himself. So we are spiritually, soulfully, and physically capable of being used by God to magnify Jesus completely and perfectly here on this earth, we don’t have to wait for Heaven. God has provided the way for Jesus to be magnified completely and totally through us today!

Now a lot of people believe the lie that says that we cannot have all of this unity and power until we are in Heaven. But here is my question to those who believe this way, what scriptures teach us that? Paul wrote that he had not yet attained, but God never had Paul write that we cannot attain!

"Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved." Philippians 4:1 We stand in Jesus now and He is Who He is within us now, and we are strong because He is strong! And we are as strong as Jesus is strong because we are now one with Him!

"To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" Colossians 1:27 Jesus has given us the glory that He has, John 17:22, so that God may be glorified through us! Today is the day of our salvation and now is our appointed time! Jesus is coming back for a glorious church and Christ will be magnified completely and fully through that church!

"As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him: rooted and built up in Him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving." Colossians 2:6-7 True thanksgiving comes from joy and we now have Jesus’ joy within us, so that our joy may be full! “These things have I spoken unto you, that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.” John 15:11 Everything required for us to live abundantly is being performed through us by the power of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! And through Christ we now possess God’s level of magnificence, just Jesus our Head, Whose body we are, possesses it!

God Asked Some Questions Today

God showed me this today and He started by asking me, “was Jesus fully equipped to perform the tasks that I asked Him to?” I said sure He was. Then God asked me, “Do I love you exactly as I love Jesus?” I said sure, Jesus said You do in John 17:23. God went on to ask me, “Am I a respecter of persons?” I said no, Acts 10:34 teaches us that. God said, “now wasn’t Jesus a person?” I said yes. Then God said, “don’t I love you, just as I love Him? I said yes and He went on and asked, “if Jesus was fully equipped, who equipped Him?” I said you did God. God then said, “so don’t you think I have equipped you to fully and completely achieve all that I have set for you to do, exactly like I did for Jesus?” God just didn’t equip Jesus so that Jesus would be magnified, He fully equipped Him so that we could have life and have it abundantly as He is magnified through us! Jesus was fully equipped as God before He ever was in Mary’s womb. He was able to do everything because God had fully and completely enabled Him, with the fullness of Himself, so that Jesus could, and God has done exactly the same for us. This in no way demeans Jesus as Lord! God is only able to do these things for us because of Jesus. Jesus is our Head, our Shepherd, and our Lord. He is the firstborn among many brethren. We are nothing without Jesus, but with Him we are glorified to be called the sons of God!

Now with that in mind let’s look at the following verses. “Then answered Jesus and said unto them; Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.” John 5:19 Now Who are we one with? We are now one with the One Who said this, so shouldn’t we say the same thing? We can do nothing on our own, yet we are able to do all things through Christ Who strengthens us!

Jesus saw all things from God, now how can we live the same way? “All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.” John 16:15 Everything God has, He has shown to Jesus, and Jesus said, that He could do nothing that He had not first seen from the Father. We have seen that God loves us just as He loves Jesus, and that we are now one with Jesus, and here we see that Jesus shows us all things, and He does it through the Holy Ghost. “Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all Truth; for He shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak, and He will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me, for He shall receive of Mine, and shall shew it unto you.” John 16:13-14

Now here is a really cool part, as if this all isn’t cool? Turn to John 15:15, “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you.” Jesus makes all things known to us. He doesn’t limit us with just some things, we are now His friends and He now tells us all things. Jesus gave us the Holy Ghost Who will guide us in all Truth and He will show us the things to come. Jesus gave us the Holy Spirit, so that we see and know what is to come, just as He knows and sees what is to come! The Holy Spirit will show us all of the things of Jesus.

In the Name of Jesus we will walk in the fullness of His Truth. God’s standard is His Own perfection, and He equipped Jesus fully to serve us, by making Jesus One with Him. Then Jesus came and made us one with Him as well, and He gave us the very Spirit of God, to insure we also know all things. There is only one thing the Bible teaches us that we will not know, and even Jesus does not know, the exact day of His return. Jesus doesn’t know it, because He is not a liar and Jesus said that He would show us all of things that He knows, this one thing is known by God alone. “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” Matthew 24:36

Jesus Is Magnified To The World Through Us

“Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?” John 14 8:9

Jesus answered Phillip’s question by saying that if you have seen Him, then you have seen the Father. Now how awesome would it be to have someone ask us to show them Jesus, and our answer be, if you have seen us, then you have seen Jesus. To think this way is not wrong, and according to the Truth it should be our earnest desire. If we are crucified with Christ, if we are new creatures in Christ, if we are members of His body, and if we are now one with Him, all of which are Truths that we have studied in the Word, then when people see us, they see the One Who we are one with. If God inspired all of these scriptures, and He is not a man that He should lie, then why can’t we say the exact same thing that Jesus said, because according to the Word of God it is actually the case? Think about it, being ashamed in nothing, having no fault, perfectly and completely united with Jesus. That should be our hope and our desire. There are no scriptures that tell us that it cannot be. The power of the Holy Spirit within us strengthens us to abound in the hope of who we are in Christ, so that Christ may be magnified through us! Think about a magnifying glass, people don’t look at the instrument; they look at what the instrument is enlarging! This is the same Truth for us, people see Jesus magnified through us. They no longer just read about Him, they can see Him! And when people see the Truth they are set free. The dead are raised, the lame walk, the blind see, the unsaved are born again, there is forgiveness, and faith, hope, and love abound! Through Christ and our oneness with Him, we are now as Jesus is, even while we are this earth!

"According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death." Philippians 1:20

It should be our earnest expectation and hope that we will never be ashamed in anything! The great Truth is that it is God’s hope for us as well, and to insure that God gets what He hopes for, He did something about it! “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” Romans 15:3 God has given us His very Own Spirit and through our Fathers Spirit we are filled with all joy in the peace of knowing His Truth, and through the Holy Spirit we abound in hope! Through the Spirit of God we are able to have boldness that Christ is going to be magnified through our lives! Through the power of Christ we are able to have the boldness that God has, and we are able to know beyond any shadow of a doubt that Jesus is going to be glorified through us. God knows the beginning and the end, He knows what is going to be and we have His peace and joy regarding it! God knows that He is never going to be ashamed and He knows that He is in us, that we are His Temple, His body, and if God is never going to be ashamed, then we will never be ashamed! The great thing here is that we just don’t talk about Jesus, but that the Spirit of God magnifies Jesus through us! God has given us the peace and joy of His faith that knows beyond any shadow of a doubt that He is going to use us to magnify His chosen Savior and our Lord Jesus Christ! “And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.” John 17:10