Jesus Enriches Us In Every Area Of Our Lives

"That in everything ye are enriched by Him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 1:5-8

Jesus has enriched us in everything, in everything! He ever lives to intercede for us and since He does we are saved to the uttermost. There is not one area of our lives that Jesus doesn’t bring to its fullest! He gives us everything that pertains unto life and unto godliness, and He does it perfectly! Through Christ we are enabled to grasp the completeness of His salvation and live a life that is worthy and fully pleasing to our Father! Jesus enriches us in all of our speech, and the Truth of God is this, that out of the abundance of our hearts our mouths speak! So for Jesus to enrich our speech, He has had to first enrich our hearts with the Word of God. Our Father has given us a heart that is able to love and serve, and a heart that is completely confident of the power of Him within us, and since He has all of our speech is enriched by it. We should talk like Jesus, with power and authority, because He is the One within us; Jesus is the One enriching us. We have His strength, His love, His glory, His peace, His knowledge, and His joy. The fruit produced through us should resemble the Author of it, Who is Jesus, the Beginning and the End!

Jesus has enriched us in all knowledge! There is nothing that is beyond our capacity to understand, nothing! Jesus has enriched us in everything, so that through Him, we now have His mind. We now have the mind of Christ! “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 2:16 We now have a mind that is able to understand that through the power of the Anointing of Jesus, we are enriched in everything. We now have the knowledge of the Mind of our Savior! Jesus has experienced the fullness of God’s power and He knows it intimately. We have our Lord’s knowledge of how God is and what God can do. We have the knowledge of what it means to be raised from the dead and what it means to call things into being when there was nothing before hand! This Truth is not offensive to us and we don’t stumble at the promises of God, even when He says everything and all. Our minds are now capable of understanding the fullness of our Father's Truths, because our minds have experienced the things of God first hand. We now have the Mind of Christ! Our Father has given us knowledge that looks past our flesh and our circumstances. We now have an Anointed mind that sees God’s Truth through faith Authored and Finished by Jesus. We are now strengthened with Christ so that we can walk and live in Godly knowledge!

Jesus has enriched us in everything, so that we will come behind in no gift. The gifts of God can be found all throughout the Bible. Our Father has given us health, peace, joy, faith, hope, prosperity, and love. He has also given us gifts of His Spirit, which are: wisdom, knowledge, faith, the gift of healing, the working of miracles, prophecies, discernment, tongues, and the interpretation of tongues, 1 Corinthians 12:8-10. Jesus has enriched us in everything, so that we will come behind in none of the gifts of God as we wait for His return! Actually our Father tells us to eagerly desire His Spiritual gifts, especially that we would prophecy, 1 Corinthians 14:1. Jesus has enriched us so that we can have everything of our Father and He has enriched us so that we will never come behind in any of His gifts! That is just such a great Truth that really shows the personality of God; He wants everything for us, just as a loving Father should!

We all should be able to serve our Father as Jesus and the Apostles we read about served. Think about it, Stephen, was one of seven men whose job it was to serve food to the believers. He was a waiter and yet he was so full of the Holy Ghost, that he was killed for his testimony of the Truth. It doesn’t matter what our Father has us doing, we all should serve in the fullness of the power of our Lord, because we are all filled with His Spirit of Power, the Holy Spirit! “And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.” 1 Corinthians 12:6

The power of our Father will confirm us until the end of time. Isn’t it cool that God talks about us being kept by Jesus for eternity as He also talks about His gifts being for us! We aren’t just kept by Jesus; we walk in power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit as we are kept. Jesus said that if we didn’t believe Him for His Words, believe Him for His works, John 14:11. Paul said that He didn’t come with enticing words, but with power and demonstration of the Spirit, 1 Corinthians 2:4. People should be able to see our Father through us, and our Father is a God of righteousness and miraculous works. When Jesus was here, His ministry was all about healing and prophecies, the Apostles ministries were the same, and so was Paul’s ministry. In the Old Testament God performed miracles through Moses, Elijah, Elisha, Daniel, and Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego! God’s normal is miraculous to man, and we are enriched by Jesus so that God’s gifts will flourish within us. Through Christ we should walk as our brothers before us walked, in the undeniable power of God! Power that goes beyond that of man’s, power that truly serves the needs of man, our Father's power!

God goes on and has Paul write that we will be blameless when Christ comes. We will be blameless because Christ will have been the One keeping us. Through Christ we have crucified our old man and through the power of the Holy Spirit we have been raised up from the dead, just as Jesus was, so that we may walk in newness of life! "Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection: Knowing this that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him. 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 Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:4-11 Our body of sin has been destroyed and through the power of Christ we are now free from sin. Our old man has been crucified and Jesus confirms our new man until the end of time! Jesus has enriched our new man in all things, and Jesus has enriched us in all of the knowledge of this Truth!

We no longer serve sin; through the power of Jesus we now serve righteousness! "Being made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness." Romans 6:18 "But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life." Romans 6:22 Our fruit is now produced by the Vine of Jesus, and our Vine is Holy, so the fruit that He produces through us is Holy! The reason we have everlasting life, isn’t just because we have been forgiven, it’s because Jesus is in us. He is one with us and we have become vessels of honor through His power. Our Father just doesn’t forgive us, He enriches us in everything and our fruit will bear witness of it! People will know that we are born again, because we do righteous things, as Jesus did righteous things! People will know us by our fruit, but a better saying is this, people will know us by the fruit that Jesus is producing through us!

Our Father said that faith would come to us as we heard His Word. We need to hear what our Father has said regarding our freedom from sin. We are not under sin any longer; sins power doesn’t come and go in our lives. Jesus has set us free from its power, presence, pleasure, and penalty! We have been set free from sin because God is the One Who has done it for us. One can’t brag over another here, it is only by the grace of God and by His power within us that we can be free from the very thing that has destroyed millions over the years! Our Father did away with the law for those who would accept it and with it went the power of sin. But our Father also came to dwell within us, so that we could actually not work the works of wrath, but so that we actually could work the works of righteousness. God first had to free us, so that He could then empower us, and He has done both through Jesus our Lord and Savior! Jesus has enriched us in all things so that we can be absolutely free from sin!

We Are Justified And Have Peace Through Faith

"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by Whom we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God." Romans 5:1-2

We are justified by faith, which means we are justified by believing God. We are justified by believing what God has said and we are justified by believing and accepting what He has done. Think about what being justified means for a moment; it means we belong, that we have purpose, and that we are where we are supposed to be. We’re justified in being the children of God! The Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, and the only One Who has the power to justify us, has done it! And it is impossible for us to please our Father without faith. “But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 God knows His Own personality. He knows what pleases Him and what doesn’t, and God hasn’t hidden His will and desires from us. God has revealed them to us, and He has done it through His Word and through His Holy Spirit that teaches us all things! God knows that faith is the key force for Him to be pleased with us. God didn’t just tell us this Truth and then leave us on our own to figure it out. He gave us Jesus to Author and Finish our faith, so that we could always be pleasing to Him. God gave us the Holy Spirit to strengthen us and He gave us the Bible that never changes so that we can hear it, and faith comes from hearing and hearing from the Word of God! “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 10:17

We are born again! We are born of God, born from His Incorruptible Seed, and we have been created in His image, so faith also pleases us. If you really look at people you will see that this is true, we want to believe! God also wants for us to believe, so He gave us the best He had, Jesus, and through Jesus we have the Anointing to be the best that we can be! “Looking unto Jesus the Authorer and Finisher of our faith, Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the Cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2 I never get tired of reading how God has provided everything for us that is needed to live a completely successful and abundant life. We are justified by faith, so God gave us Jesus, the best He has to insure it! God wants it for us every bit as much, no; He wants it more, than we do! God will never leave us or forsake us and He is right here with us giving us everything needed to be justified and He is right here with us pruning out anything that would be contrary to our justification! Hallelujah, we have complete salvation that is built upon the Rock of Jesus Christ and we now live in complete justification and faith by the power of God within us. We no longer have to try to live and please God with our own human abilities! Faith is not our ability to believe God and accept His Truths; faith is God’s ability working within us to believe and accept His truths!

OK, so God has now justified us by giving us Jesus, Who Authors and Finishes our faith; but what should we be doing with our justification? “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of the things which do appear.” Hebrews 11:3 The justification and peace of Christ allows us to know that what we see with our physical eyes does not matter! Our justification allows us to know without doubt and without fear that only what God has said matters. We have been justified and since we have God has allowed us into the power of His world. We are now permitted to live as He lives, which is by faith! There was nothing and yet God spoke, and here it all is! There was dirt, and God breathed into it, and here we are! Faith allows us to know that God calls things that are not as though they are, and they become what He has spoken. Through Jesus we are justified to be used by God to do the same! Justification and peace allow us to know that God is within us and that He never changes, and that He is doing the same things through us that we read that He was doing in the Bible. Jesus even says that He will do greater works through us; we have been justified by the Blood of Christ so that He can! God is in abundance within our hearts and our mouths speak what He has spoken. Justification allows us to say unto mountains to move and they move. Faith allows us to be used to cast out demons, to heal the sick, and to proclaim the Truth in all boldness and love! Faith and the justification that comes with it allows us to live as God made us to live, in righteousness and true holiness, created after His Own image! We are new creatures in Christ, we are now members of His body, and we are perfected in our oneness with Him, we are completely justified in believing this!

We now have peace with God. That is an understatement if there ever was one; we actually have the very peace of God! “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid.” John 14:27 Jesus has given us His peace, He did not just give us the ability to have peace that was like His, He actually gave us His very own. And Jesus’ peace passes all human understanding and His peace keeps our hearts and minds and allows us to not be troubled. Think about how Jesus acts regarding any situation and think about the peace that He has in that situation. That is the peace that He has given us. Jesus knows the Truth and the Truth has set Him free; Jesus is tormented by nothing! Jesus has no troubling thoughts and doubt cannot be found in Him. Jesus has peace because He knows the power of the faith of God that is at work within Him. He knows about the faith that created the worlds and He knows that the exact same faith is in Him. Jesus also knows that He has given us everything He has, so that we to can be in perfect peace, just like He is in perfect peace. Jesus knows that He is dead to sin and alive unto God, and Jesus knows that through our acceptance of Him, so are we! Jesus has perfected His love within us, and that perfect love casts out all fear and torment, so that we can actually have His peace! There is now no fear for us; we just haven’t been given that spirit. We have a spirit that allows us to be at peace with our unity with God. We can be at peace with our justification by God and we can have peace that it is God within us doing His works of righteousness. We can have the exact same peace that Jesus has that He we will spend eternity with God and we can have the exact same peace that Jesus has regarding being used by God. Jesus ever lives within us so that we can; He Authors the faith and gives us the Spirit that allows us to be as He is, even while we are in this world!

We can rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. What good would it be for us to rejoice in God’s glory if there was no direct benefit and power for us? But we don’t just rejoice in the fact that God has glory, we rejoice in the fact that God has given us His glory. “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 17:22-23 The reason that people will believe in Jesus through us, is because God has given us His glory, as He gave Jesus His glory, so that the world can see Him through us! We rejoice in the glory of God, because He has made us glorious in Christ. The Vine is glorious and so are the Vine’s branches! We rejoice in the glory of God, because His glory produces glorious fruit through us. We rejoice in the glory of God, because He allows us to have it!

We are a royal priesthood and a chosen generation, God has actually chosen us, and we have been set apart by God for His holy use, we are sanctified! “And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified through the Truth.” John 17:19 The Truth is that we have faith that comes directly from God, and His faith justifies us so that we can go and serve Him in all fullness. As long as people look to themselves to provide service for God, they will fail. But when we stop and look to Jesus, the world will believe! The world, with all of its divisions and hatred will believe because of our unity with God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Man apart from God can’t even begin to understand that he can actually be righteous like Jesus is righteous. But when we allow the mind that is in Christ to be in us, we can’t help but see that God has more than enough ability to make us righteous, just as He made Jesus to be righteous. When we see the Truth, through the power of the Holy Spirit within us, we will see that God has provided these things for us and that it is His will and desire for us! When Jesus spoke, He spoke of the world believing. He is coming back for a glorious church, without spot, wrinkle, or blemish and that church will include the world, every nation, every age, and every social class! God would that all men be saved, and through Jesus they can be! Jesus has sanctified Himself; Jesus has set Himself apart for God’s use, and since He has, we to can be set apart for God’s use. The world should be our goal and if God is for us, who can be against us?

"For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous." Romans 5:19 We are made righteous by one man, Jesus Christ the Righteous One! And since He has made us righteous, we now have peace in all things! "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, Who is even at the right hand of God, Who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, for Thy sake we are killed all the day long; for we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us." Romans 8:33-37 We are more than conquerors through Jesus Christ. Because of Him we have conquered sin, because we are now made righteous by His Blood. Through Jesus, we have conquered fear, because His love has cast out all fear! Through Jesus, we have conquered condemnation, because He has justified us! Jesus has conquered sickness and because of His stripes we have been healed! Through Jesus, we have conquered death, because we have been raised up together with Him! The obedience of Jesus has given us all things that pertain unto life and unto Godliness! Through Jesus we have peace to believe that the world can actually be saved: Iran, Iraq, China, North Korea, America, and every other country and every inhabitant within them, the entire world. We have conquered our humanity through Christ, because we have been made perfect in our unity with Him! God has done it all for us, we have been made righteous apart from any of our own works, and we now work righteously because it is the Father within us, He now does the works!

Be blessed in the Truth, the Truth has set us free! The Truth is that God has justified us, if this is a battle in your life, if you feel that you are somehow failing with your relationship with God, your not. If you have said yes and made Him Lord of your life, you’re not failing. If you were than God is part of that failure, and He isn’t going to fail at anything! Faith comes from hearing the Word and the Truth of His Word will set us free, and the Truth is God has justified us and that God has given us His peace! Now we may not be as mature in these things as we could be, but God is doing exactly what is needed in each of our lives so that we can be! There is now no condemnation for us, and even though many would try, there is none for us! God is with us, He is leading us directly in the paths of righteousness that best suites our needs! He is our Father, and God does not lag in His parental duties!

Through Christ We Have Victory Over Sin

“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

Now here is the question that I want you to ask yourself, do you believe that there is now no condemnation for us because our Father just doesn’t condemn us, even though He should? Or do you believe that there is now no condemnation for us because there is nothing to condemn within us? I would say that the honest answer from most of us would have to be, that there is now no condemnation for us because of God’s grace, and He just doesn’t condemn us. But that’s not what Jesus came to do for us. Jesus came and was sacrificed for us so that we might have life and that we might have life abundantly. Part of an abundant life is God’s wonderful grace, but there is power for us as well! Sure if we mess up, Jesus’ Blood will cover the situation.

“My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” 1 John 2:1-2

The Holy Ghost had John write that if any man sin, not when every man sins! Our Father also wrote that His Word was given so that we would not sin. We have become one with Jesus, the Righteous One and He is more than capable of empowering us and enabling us so that not only are we covered if we mess up, but through Him we are actually capable of not messing up. We have grace and through Christ we also have the power to be righteous. Through Jesus we have been recreated in righteousness and in true holiness!

"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 15:55-57 The strength of sin was the law? "But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter." Romans 7:6

Through Jesus Christ we have been delivered from the very thing that gave sin its power, the law, the Ten Commandments and everything else that went along with them! The sting of death was sin, but now death has no sting for us and the grave has no victory over us. Where there is no law, there can be no conviction of breaking it, and through the power of Jesus’ Blood, there is now no law for us! You heard me right, no more law for us who are in Christ!!!!!!

"Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression." Romans 4:15

These Truths are what empowers Jesus to work through us. Sins power is now gone from us and the fear that went along with sin is now gone as well! Jesus’ perfect love has cast out all fear for us, and His love has cast out all of the torment that went along with it, so that we can walk in faith, faith Authored and Finished by Jesus Himself. There is now no fear of condemnation from God to contaminate His faith from working within us! So what if we mess up, there is now no fear in that for us. Jesus has covered that situation and now the power of sin and the fear that went along with it are gone! Through Christ we have this abundant peace and joy!

Think about a person who is going on a diet. As soon as they say that they are going to diet and then cheat on it, they condemn the daylights out of themselves and then they eat like a horse. But as soon as they realize that there is now no condemnation and they realize that they actually have the power to succeed, they eat right and loose the weight. As long as there is condemnation and fear, they will do the very thing that brings the condemnation and fear. But as soon as the condemnation and fear are gone for them, they walk in victory. This is what needs to happen with us! Faith comes from hearing and hearing by the Word of God, and as the Holy Ghost had John write, these things have been written so that we will not sin! Through the power of Christ, we actually can walk without sin, and not just walk in the forgiveness of sin! We can actually enjoy and live the fourfold salvation of no penalty of sin, no presence of sin, no power of sin, and no pleasure of sin!

"And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” 1 Corinthians 6:11 We have been washed, we have been sanctified, and we have been justified by the very Spirit of God. We have been empowered with the Holy Ghost to succeed and while our flesh was weak before our salvation, it is now strong through the strength of God that dwells within us! Just as it is with Jesus, it is with us! It is the Father within us doing His righteous works! If the Vine is righteous so are the branches, and so is the fruit that is produced through the branches! We can only produce the fruit of the Vine that we are united with, and we are united with the Righteous One.

“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 6:10-11 The Bible teaches us that we believe with our hearts and confess with our mouths, and out of the abundance of our hearts our mouths will speak. “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.” Luke 6:45 So what is in abundance in your heart, that you are a sinner who is just saved by grace, or that Jesus the Righteous One is now within you and that it is the Father within you doing the works? Is the focus of your heart on yourself or is it on God? Does your heart believe that you actually can live and be used by our Father to perform righteous works, because it is the power of God within you? Does your heart believe if you sin, or does it believe when you sin? Faith comes from hearing and hearing from the Word of God, and our Father believes if we sin, not when we sin!

"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 forgiving 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 God believes that we are complete in Him! God believes that the circumcision of Jesus Christ our Lord and His Son has put off the body of our sin. God believes that the power and principalities that were against us have been spoiled. God believes that the Cross was sufficient to allow Him to live through us completely as He lives through Jesus! God has placed a new heart and a new spirit within us that allows us to believe the same way, and to insure that we do believe; God gave us His very Spirit, His Holy Spirit! God has given us the ability to believe as He believes and to walk as He walks, because God has allowed us to be united with Him through the power of Christ! And now when people look at us they will know that we are born again, because we are righteous even as He is righteous! “If ye know that He is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of Him.” 1 John 2:29

“And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” Ephesians 4:23-24 We are not just forgiven, we have put on a new man that is actually created after God in righteousness and in true holiness. God actually did this for us; God is not a man that He should lie. God is willing and God is able to do that which He has spoken, and through His power within us, we are more than capable of being fully persuaded of it!

“Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:4 Because of Jesus we can actually walk in newness of life, not just forgiveness of life. Because He lives, we can live, and we can live as He lives. Jesus came that we might have life and that we might have it more abundantly and an abundant life is more than just a life that is walked in forgiveness, it is a life that is walked in righteousness and true holiness. An abundant life is a life that is created after God, a life that is lived as He lives! “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17 If we are just forgiven, there will be no boldness on the Day of Judgment, there will only be a bunch of Nervous Nellie’s. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of love, and of power, and the power is God, and it is God within us. God will do His works through us in the earth. God will live through us just as He lives through Jesus, and since He does, we can walk and be used to work righteously just as Jesus. We can be every bit as sure that God will raise us up in righteousness, as Jesus was sure that God would raise Him up. We are so much more than just forgiven, we are empowered with every force of God to live as He desires for us to live, doing the works that Jesus did, and even greater ones, because Jesus has gone to the Father!

The Spirit of God Will Destroy The Evil of Our Flesh

"For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." Romans 8:13

The Spirit of God will kill the evil deeds of our flesh, which are sin! The Spirit quickens our mortal bodies and only through the Holy Spirit can these things be accomplished! There is nothing that we can do to perfect our flesh from sin; it all has to be done by God. “And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.” Romans 8:10 Now here is what is really cool about Romans 8:10, “..but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.” We are now alive and we are no longer in the flesh because of righteousness. We are able to have all of the power of God, because God has made us righteous through Jesus. The power of the Blood of Christ has done it for us! Righteousness has set us apart for holy use. Righteousness has given us peace and righteousness has made us alive together with God. Righteousness has made us the very body of God. "For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church." Ephesians 5:29 God loves us, we are His flesh, and since we are, He nourishes us and He cherishes us. Righteousness allows Him to; there is now no separation between God and us. Jesus has made us perfect in One! We are now in Jesus, Jesus is now within us, and we are now all in God! In the world there will be tribulation, but we are of good cheer, because Christ, our Savior has overcome the world, and we are now new creatures in Him! We are now more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us, and God is now for us, so who or what can be against us!

"Now He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God. Who hath sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." 2 Corinthians 1:21-22 God has established us, by taking away the weakness of our mortal flesh. God calls things that are not as though they are, and He said that because of the power of His Spirit within us, we are no longer in the flesh. So, a-men, we are no longer in the flesh! “(As it is written, I have made thee the father of many nations;) before him who he believed, even God, Who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.” Romans 4:17 We were dead, but God has quickened us; He has sealed us, and He has placed Himself fully in our hearts! God has done all of this because of righteousness, because He is righteous and because we are righteous through Him. If the Vine is righteous, so are the branches!

"And being fully persuaded, that what He had promised, He was also able to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness." Romans 4:21-22 Abraham did not have the Holy Ghost dwelling within him as we do. Jesus had not gone to the Cross for him and yet he believed that God was willing and able to do what He had promised, and since Abraham did believe, God counted him as righteous! Through the power of Christ that is within our lives how much more righteous than Abraham are we? We have been given the Holy Spirit and we have the sacrifice of the Cross, and the Blood of Jesus has cleansed us! Through the power of God within us, we can be fully persuaded, far more than Abraham ever was. We have the earnestness of God within our hearts! We can be fully persuaded that verses such as 1 Corinthians 6:11-12 are true! “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful unto me, but I will not be brought under the power of any." Because we are no longer in the flesh, as Abraham was, we can believe and fully trust that God has justified us, that He has sanctified us, and that He has washed us. Through the power of God, we have a mind, a heart, and a spirit that can be fully persuaded that God has made our mortal flesh alive together with Him!

"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 God knew that our flesh was weak, so He sent Jesus and did something about it. Faith comes from hearing these verses that we have studied and all scripture is given by God, so that we can be perfect! "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." 2 Timothy 3:16-17

“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 17:23 We have been made righteous because of what Jesus has done for us and God can now perform His works of righteousness through us! We can move past the beginning teachings of Christ and we can move on to perfection. We can move on to being fully persuaded that God is willing and able to work through us, just as He worked through Jesus! The righteousness that comes from the Blood of Christ allows Him to!

Father I ask You in Jesus’ Name that You bring to complete maturity the knowledge of who You have made us. I thank You that Your Church is a perfect one without spot, wrinkle, or blemish as we are used by You walk in the fullness of Your glory and power. I thank You that You have given us peace that passes all understanding regarding the freedom from sin that Jesus has provided for us. And that His joy remains in us as we are used by You to go into all of the world and preach the Gospel to every creature! Yours Father truly is the power and the glory and the victory forever and ever, A-men!

Our Flesh Is Made Alive By God

"But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you." Romans 8:9-11

It’s important to notice that there are two Spirits here, the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ. Now God and Jesus are One and their Spirits are One, but there are two different manifestations mentioned here, the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Christ. According to God, if we have His Holy Spirit dwelling within us, we are no longer in the flesh. The Spirit of God has that power for us! Now in the flesh there is sin, there is sickness, there is fear, there is hate, and every sort of evil. But in the Spirit there is life and life abundantly. In the Spirit there is peace, power, and soundness of mind! In the Spirit there is righteousness and in the Spirit there is life eternal, even for our mortal flesh!

I know it sounds weird, especially since we are sitting here in the world, all of us with flesh, saying that if we are filled with the Holy Spirit, then we are no longer in the flesh. But don’t allow that to throw you, it’s really not a difficult Truth to accept, because here is what is being said. When we were unsaved, we only had our flesh to trust in. We trusted in our own abilities and in our own efforts. We were in the world apart from God and we could only rely on ourselves. But we are now one with God through Jesus Christ and we are now in God through His Spirit. And while we may still be in the world, we are every bit as much in God here on this earth, as we will be one with God when we are in Heaven! God is God! There is not the God of the earth and then the God of Heaven; He is the God of Heaven and of earth! “God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of Heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.” Acts 17:24 And we are in Him now, we may have flesh, but our flesh is not what we depend upon. We are now new creatures in Christ, old things are passed away and behold all things are new for us. We are now members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones! We have now been perfected in our union with God through the perfection of our Savior Jesus! We now have the mind of Christ. We are now filled with His Spirit, and we now have a new heart and a new mind given to us by God Himself. Our mortal bodies have been renewed and made alive together with Jesus, and we are now united with the Eternal God through the power of the Blood of Christ!

Our old flesh, our mortal flesh, the flesh that was apart from God, has been quickened together with God. Our flesh has been made alive together with God through the power of His Holy Spirit that now dwells within us. Just as Jesus was raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit, we too have been empowered by Him. Our mortal flesh has been made alive with God by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus’ flesh was dead after the Cross. The Romans had beaten Jesus, they tortured Him, and then after brutalizing Him, they killed Him. Jesus’ flesh was so brutalized that Isaiah prophesied that He wouldn’t even be recognized as a man, and yet the power of the Holy Spirit raised that destroyed dead body up. The Holy Spirit made Jesus alive again. The flesh of Jesus that was dead, His carnal flesh, was made alive by the power of the Holy Spirit, just as the Holy Spirit has made our mortal flesh alive. “Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved,) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus:” Ephesians 2:5-6 Our flesh that was dead, our flesh that was separated from God, has now been made alive together with God, and we now sit together in Heavenly places with Christ. We have been raised up together with Him! We no longer are dependent upon our on efforts, or our own abilities. We are now dependent upon God’s abilities and efforts! “I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same bringeth froth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5 And the only way that we may have the Holy Spirit, and this freedom from our flesh, is if we first have Christ’s Spirit; we must accept Jesus first, and only after we have, can we have the Holy Spirit!

“For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” Romans 8:6 The carnal mind cannot begin to understand or accept this Truth: that even though we have flesh, we are not in the flesh. But the spiritual mind, the new mind that God has given us, the mind of Christ, easily accepts and understands the freedom that God has provided for us! Jesus has given us peace that passes all understanding. “And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:7 The peace of Jesus will keep our hearts and our minds in all of His Truths, and the peace of Jesus will keep our hearts and minds even if that Truth passes understanding!

If we were still in the flesh, we would have a chance to loose God, and that isn’t peace. But God has given us Himself. He has given us the exact same Spirit that He gave Jesus, and just as Christ has died to sin once, so have we. “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 6:10-11 And just as Jesus has been made alive together with God, so have we! “Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:4 This is the spiritual mind that pleases God, a mind that looks to Him for everything, a mind that is kept by Christ, and a mind that hears the Truth and is set free by it! God knows fully the heart that will please Him, that is why He has given us a new heart that is able to accept and believe! “A new heart will I give unto you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. 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.” Ezekiel 36:26-27

The Truth of Romans 8:9-11 is this, our flesh no longer hinders us from being perfectly united with God! The Spirit of God is extremely far more powerful within us than the weakness of our flesh. The grace of God easily overcomes the carnal shortcomings of man! Everything that God did for Jesus to insure His success; He has done for us! We are born from the same Incorruptible Seed as Jesus. We have the same Father as Jesus and we are filled with the same Spirit that Jesus was filled with. Truly greater is He that is within us than he that is in the world! The glory and the power are God’s and through Him and through His grace that is at work within us we are able to escape the corruption that is in this world through the flesh!

Jesus Came And Gave Us Freedom

"All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not." 1 Corinthians 10:23

We are free to do as we please? Now how in the world is it that Holy Ghost could have Paul write such a thing? Well, the Holy Ghost did, because it’s the Truth. God did have Paul write it because this is the power of our salvation through Jesus Christ. The Holy Ghost knows the full extent of God’s power that He now has through us when we are truly saved! “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, Who hath reconciled the world unto Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given unto us the ministry of reconciliation.” 2 Corinthians 5:17-18 When we say yes to Jesus our old man passes away. Now God didn’t say that just some of our old man would pass away and that some would stay. No, God said that all of our old man passes away and that all things become new for us! The sinful flesh of our old man has been buried with Jesus by the baptism of the Holy Ghost and we are now raised up together with Him by the power of God. Just as God raised Jesus from the dead, He raised us from the dead! And when He did, He placed a new heart within us, and that heart is not a heart of sin, but a heart of His righteousness. Old things are passed away for us and we now have the Incorruptible Seed of God dwelling within us! “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 6:10-11

"And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful unto me, but I will not be brought under the power of any." 1 Corinthians 6:11-12 We have been washed clean by the Holy Spirit, we are sanctified by the Holy Spirit, the Blood of Christ has now cleansed us, and every old thing about us has passed away. The life we now live, we live unto God, and we live by the power of the Holy Spirit that is within us. Jesus now leads us into the paths of righteousness for His Name’s sake and we are now filled with the fruits of righteousness! We have taken on the full Armor of God and we have the Breastplate of Righteousness protecting our hearts from the evils of this world! Christ came that we might have life and that we might have it more abundantly, and the power of our abundance is the Holy Spirit within us, the same Holy Spirit that is within Jesus. The same Holy Spirit that strengthened Jesus now strengthens us. The same Spirit that encouraged Jesus now encourages us. Every function that the Holy Ghost operated in for Jesus, He now operates in for us. For we are members of Jesus’ body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone! God never leaves us or forsakes us! We are not in this journey alone, trying to keep ourselves righteous. God is right here with us, one with us, and He is pruning out all that would hinder His production of righteous fruit through us. We have been cleansed, sanctified, and justified so that He can!

The righteousness of the law is now fulfilled within us because Jesus has condemned sin in our flesh. Jesus has enabled us to put on a new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness, being born again from His very Seed! By Jesus’ sacrifice we have been made righteous, apart from any works! God did it, and He is more than capable and more than willing to, and since the Vine is Holy, so are His branches Holy. Jesus is our Vine and we are His branches! We are complete in Him, Who is the Head of all power and principality! Jesus has removed us from the law that was contrary to us, and where there is no law, there is no sin! He has removed us from the law and by doing so made a shew of every evil that was against us! He removed us from the law, and now we are free to do all things! But Jesus just didn’t remove us from the law, He made us one with Himself, so that we would act as He acts. Jesus just didn’t set us free, He empowered us to act as we were created to act, and to live as we were created to live, in the image of God! We are free to do all things, as God is free, yet as God doesn’t do all things, neither do we, because we now live by the power of God through us. “I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20 “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3

“For God hath not given us a spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7 This absolute freedom that we now have in Christ should inspire us to serve, it shouldn’t bring fear. Here is the Truth, if we aren’t saved, we won’t have this freedom, it’s that simple; the wage of sin for the unsaved is death. But if we are saved, we have the gift of God, and that gift is eternal life through Christ Jesus! You see as a Christian, we may mess up, but that isn’t going to cause us to be separated for one second from God. God is right here with us, and He will prune out what caused it, so that He can produce more and more fruit through us. We have the freedom to do all things, yet if they are not expedient for us, God will remove them from our lives. The burden is not solely on us, we have a loving Father Who is right here with us, and if there is any disciplining to be done, He will do it. He will never allow satan, who came to kill and destroy us, to correct us. Correction for us is reserved for our Father alone! The law that allowed satan in, has been removed. We now have grace, and with it comes righteousness, and not just any righteousness, God’s righteousness, and His righteousness is now our breastplate!

"But if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law." Galatians 5:18 We are not under the Law, Jesus has removed us from it, and where there is no law, there can be no conviction. We have been baptized with the Holy Ghost, and He now leads us, so we have been removed from the law. “There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death” Romans 8:1-2 There is now no condemnation for us, no price to be paid by us, and there is now no penalty for us!

Finally, I want you to think of being free to do all things, and as you think about this, remember this verse. “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 17:23 Now think about being free, so that God can do all things through you. Think of being free so that God can use you to heal the sick. Think of being free so that God can use you to cast out demons. Think about being free to have direct access to God and having complete unbroken fellowship with Him. Think about being free to be perfect in your unity with God through Jesus. Think about being free so that God can use you to minister just as He used Jesus to minister! These are now the things that God is free to do through us. The law that held us back from being used by God has been removed. Jesus has fulfilled the requirements of the Law, and now we are free to be who God has created us to be! This is the freedom that we now have in Christ, and everything that was in man’s way, has been removed by the power of the Blood of Christ! This is the freedom that we hope for, because we have the mind of Christ; a freedom that allows God to be the One within us doing the works, as He was the One in Jesus doing the works. This is who we are now, for now is the time of our salvation. There is even greater things awaiting us, but there is also greatness in Christ Jesus now! “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 3:2-3 We need to ask ourselves this question, do we believe that we are truly free, or do we believe that we are still bound? There is absolute freedom for us in Christ. There is perfect love, and His perfect love will cast out all fear, and His freedom and His love are for every one of us this day!

There Is No Conviction of Sin For The Saved

"For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law." Romans 5:13

We read in Romans 4:8 that King David wrote that we are blessed because our Father will not impute sin against us! How can our Father do this for us? He can because all of the law that would impute sin, has been nailed to the Cross and the condemnation and power that satan used through the weakness of our flesh has been made a show of openly and Jesus has triumphed over it! Sin is not imputed where there is no law and without law there is no sin. We are blessed beyond expression and we are blessed apart from any work of our own. Jesus came and secured for us an abundant life, by doing away with the law that robbed us of it!

"But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter." Romans 7:6 Now we are delivered from the law! Hallelujah, now we are delivered from the Law! So now sin is not imputed to us and now there is no sin for us, because now we are delivered from the law, and now we are righteous only because of Jesus! We can take on the breastplate of God’s very own righteousness, which protects our hearts because all of the laws that we were unable to keep, have been taken away from us! We have been delivered from them all! Blessed are we, for God will never count our sins against us! We serve our Father by the power of His very Spirit that dwells within us. Our Father strengthens us with Himself and there is nothing that can stand up against the strength of God! We serve in a new way, we are new creatures in Christ, old things are passed away, and behold all things are new for us!

"Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." 1 John 3:9 You see we cannot sin because Jesus did away with the very thing that would convict us of sin, the law! There is now no Law for us! We have free access to this freedom because Jesus is now within us; God’s Seed, His Incorruptible Seed, Jesus, is now within us. We now live under the Law of Liberty through Christ Jesus, freedom applies to our lives, and there is now no condemnation for us. We are no longer carnally minded, concerning ourselves with the flesh; we have the mind of Christ, and serve our Father by the power of the Holy Spirit! Just as Jesus serves God by the power of the Holy Spirit! We no longer serve in the old way of do this and don’t do that. Jesus’ Blood and the rights that it brought forth are what keep us from sin, not our actions. Blessed are we who God does not impute sin, blessed are we whose iniquities He remembers no more, and blessed are we whose sins have been removed, removed from us as far as the East is from the West. There would have to be a law for us that could be broken for us to sin, and there’s not, we have been removed from the law!

Because we cannot sin, think of what we can now be used by God to do! We now have direct access to our Father and there is no unrighteousness that can hinder it. We can now have fellowship with God as Jesus fellowships with God and God can now work through us as He works through Jesus! We can hear the things of righteousness and we can serve God in righteousness. We can now be used to do the works of Jesus; we can be used to heal the sick, raise the dead, and preach recovering of sight to the blind. Our Father can now use us to ever live to serve others as Jesus ever lives to serve us! We can be as He is in this world! “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17

Because sin is never imputed against us, our love has been made perfect, and our Father's perfect love casts out all fear and all torment from us! There is no fear in love and we are born of Love! We can serve our Father and live with our Father without any fear of ever loosing Him. We can serve others and never fear what they shall do to us. All of the torments of failure are gone, because now the righteousness of the law has been fulfilled within us! Now it’s the Father within us doing the works and we are now righteous because He is righteous! And the world will look at us and see it, and they will know that we are born again because of it! Jesus will Author and Finish all of the faith needed for us to accept and believe this. The Holy Spirit has abundantly supplied all of the hope needed within us, to have the faith to live it. This is who we are in Christ Jesus; this is the hope of the Seed that bore us. This is the will of God, that sin and all of its power against us should be removed from us, and He did it! God did it with the perfect Blood of our Savior and His Son Jesus! People who want to hang out and preach on the errors and weakness of the flesh are preaching an erroneous message. We preach Christ and His strength, and we preach it because of Him. Sin is not imputed unto us and we preach this because His Seed remains within us. We are perfected in God’s love and there is no fear with this Truth, and there is no fear in the Truth that as He is so are we in this world. Because it’s God within us doing all of the works of His righteousness! True preachers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Gospel of Freedom, the Gospel of Liberty, direct the hearer’s attention towards God and His abilities, not towards man and our inabilities! Faith is not a human ability to accept God’s Truths, faiths is God’s ability through us to accept His Truths, and God has given every man the measure of faith!

"Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself will be saved; yet so as by fire." 1 Corinthians 3:13-15 The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is life eternal through Jesus Christ. We may not always do what is right, but our actions are never counted as sin against us, and we never loose our salvation because of them. If a person is truly saved, I mean truly saved, he cannot sin. There is no law to convict him with, because Jesus has removed the law and all of the ordinances and handwritings that were against us. Jesus remains in us, He never leaves us or forsakes us! For the person who has truly been empowered by the Holy SPirit to accept Jesus as Lord, God is now the One Who removes anything that would be contrary to producing righteous fruit through them. There is complete and total freedom through Christ Jesus, and Jesus said we are to take no thought for our own lives, because God has taken every thought for them!

If your first thought in this freedom is now to go and commit some evil act, or to do someone harm, I want to invite you to be saved. This freedom from sin inspires us to walk in power and demonstration of the Spirit. This freedom inspires us to ask for our Father to move in power through our lives, because the fear of sin has been done away with, the fear of messing up, the fear of disappointing our Father, and the fear of loosing our salvation. This freedom is only available for those who truly accept Jesus, no one is able to fool God, and so no one will fake their way in! If you, or someone that you tell this to, first reaction is, "I have freedom to go do harmful or mean acts," salvation has not been accepted or received. Our Father has made us free to be the tools of His righteousness, not the workers of iniquities! If someone has truly been chosen by God to accept Jesus as Lord and has truly become one with Him, they are united with His Spirit and His will, His desires and His hopes, His faith and His love. They will act like Him, not like the fallen one. We are born from God’s Incorruptible Seed. We are members of His body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone, and there is no fellowship between righteousness and unrighteousness!

Pray and ask God for a full understanding and wisdom in this. If we can get the church to get past worrying about sin, think of where we can move to in our Father. Think of the power, the faith, the healings, the prophecies, the love, and the unity. Remember all of the scriptures that say that we are one with God and that He lives within us. Remember the scriptures that say we are holy, blameless, sanctified, perfect, and godly because of our unity with Christ. This just builds on those scriptural Truths. We are one with Jesus, so we are perfect and sanctified, and since we are perfect and sanctified, we have been delivered from the Law, and because of Jesus we cannot sin! "Beloved if our heart condemn us not, then we have confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight." 1 John 3:21-22

No Law, No Conviction

"Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Romans 4:15

Where there is no law there is no transgression! That is an awesome statement from our Father and when we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to allow Jesus to Author and Finish our faith in actually accepting it, and when the Holy Ghost teaches us all of what it means, it’s a Godly Truth that will set us free. It will set us free from guilt, free from sin, free from fear, free from condemnation, and free from the power, presence, penalty, and pleasure of sin! The Truth that where there is no law, there is no transgression, sets us free from the wrath of God! “For God hath not appointed us unto wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Thessalonians 5:9 These Truths allow us to live and enjoy all of the fruits of our Father's righteousness. The righteousness that has been freely bestowed upon us through the power of Christ, and they allow us to live as God intended for us to live, as Jesus lives, without transgression!

"And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiving 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 2:13-14

Jesus blotted out all of the handwriting and all of the ordinances that were against us, all of them, all of the “thou shalt not’s and thou shalt’s.” Jesus took these things out of the way for us and because they are no longer in the way that we find God or serve God, all of satan’s power against us has been broken. The flesh of man was weak, and satan knew it, and our Father knew it. But Jesus isn’t weak and we are now members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones! “For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.” Ephesians 5:30 Jesus’ Blood that has been shed for us and which has washed us isn’t weak. The Holy Ghost within us isn’t weak, and we have now been quickened, or made alive together, with them! We are now strong in the power of Jesus’ might! “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.” Ephesians 6:10 We are now more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us, and with Jesus, our Father is now able to do all things through us! Our flesh was weak, but now let the weak say they are strong! We have been quickened together with the Strong Eternal One and greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world!

Jesus made a shew of satan and all of his power openly at the Cross. Jesus made a new way for us, a way that was not harsh, a way that was pleasant, and a way that was easy to be born. “For My yoke is easy, and My burden light.” Matthew 11:30 Our trespasses no longer count against us. Jesus’ Blood has been shed and all of our trespasses, all of them, past, present, and future, are now forgiven us, because of Jesus’ sacrifice for them, not because of our works and not because of our sacrifices offered for them. "Even 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. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin." Romans 4:6-8 The Law required works, we are righteous without works, our sins are covered eternally by the Blood of Christ and God will never count any of them against us! The man that our Father used to write so many of the Psalm’s that we enjoy to read, also was used by God to write about how through Christ we would be righteous without works. King David, the Giant slayer, envied us!

The Holy Ghost had Paul write in Colossians 2 that Jesus took away the ordinances and the handwritings that were against us. And the Holy Ghost also had Paul write in Romans 4 that where there is no law, there is no transgression. All scripture is given by Divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit, these are Truths that fully apply to us! Jesus is the end of the law for us. When we accept Jesus as Lord, all of the things under the Old Covenant that were contrary to us, were nailed to the Cross and we are now free to live as Jesus lives! “In Whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: buried with Him in baptism, wherein ye are also risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God, Who hath raised Him from the dead.” Colossians 2:11-12 Notice in these verses that the body of our sins have been put off and that we are risen with Christ by the faith of the operation of God. These things do not come into being by anything that we can do, they come into being by God, and to show that He is more than able, our Father raised Jesus from the dead first! This is our proof that we too live as Jesus lives, dead to sin, and eternally alive unto God! We do this through faith, faith Authored and Finished by Jesus, Who is our Lord and Savior. We no longer do this by the works of keeping laws! The Ten Commandments served a purpose, but they are no longer the way of righteousness for those who have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior! We have moved on to the works of righteousness through Jesus Christ, the works of God through us! Mighty works that glorify Him and exalt Him, works that only our Father can do! Everything that was in our way, everything that hindered our Father from working through us, has been nailed to the Cross! God is now free to use us, as He used Jesus! Jesus was born righteous; He never performed one work that earned it. His Father was God and He was conceived of a woman and the Holy Ghost. God’s Divine Seed made Jesus righteous. We too have been born of a woman and of the Holy Spirit! The same Divine Seed of God makes us righteous, just as it made Jesus righteous! We are righteous apart from any works, just as Jesus was righteous apart from any works!

We Are Filled With Righteous Fruit

“Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.” Philippians 1:11

We are filled with the fruits of righteousness through Jesus and since we are, we do the works of righteousness, and we speak righteously and it brings glory and praise to God! “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.” Luke 6:45 We will work righteously and we will talk righteously by the power of Christ that is within us and that will bring glory to God, and since we do, people will know that we are born of God! Not all who say Lord, Lord, will be saved. Only those who are known by Jesus and who are empowered with the Holy Spirit to do the works of the Lord shall be saved!

What are the fruits of righteousness? Well, first let’s read what Jesus said about us and fruit. “Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My Name, He may give it you.” John 15:16 The first fruit of righteousness and the reason that Jesus has chosen us and ordained us is to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature! Now to assist us in producing this fruit we have the power to go to God and ask for what is needed and it will be given us! We have the Holy Ghost within us to teach us all things, so as we are preaching the Gospel to every creature the Holy Ghost will tell us what we need to accomplish it. The Name of Jesus gives us access to go to God and get it, and out of the abundance of our hearts we will speak it, and then the power of God through us will produce righteous fruit that will remain! And every angel in Heaven will rejoice because a lost sheep has come home, someone is saved! This is our great commission; to ever live to serve others by allowing God to freely work through us. Just as it is Jesus’ great commission, and we are one with Him, to ever live to serve believers! And since Jesus does ever live to serve us, we are saved to the uttermost! And Jesus says that with the Word of God, we will be used to produce thirty, sixty, and even a hundredfold return! Faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.

The next fruit of righteousness is this: “But now being made free from sin, and become servants of God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.” Romans 6:22
We are free from sin, praise God we are free from sin! Just as if we are free from debt, and owe no man anything, we are free from sin; there is none within us. What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? Notice that we are made free from sin? God doesn’t say that we just don’t sin, God actually frees us from sin and He does it through the Blood of Christ, and the Blood washes us clean from sin! And since we are free from sin by the Blood of Christ, we are holy. Being holy is a fruit of righteousness. I know so many people that believe we will always be sinners while we are here on this earth, but that’s not true. The real problem with this thought process is that the people who believe this way are relying on themselves to keep clean from sin, and they will fail every time! They are putting their trust and faith in their own abilities and not where it should be, which is in God! God is not weak in this area, Jesus’ Blood doesn’t fail to wash us clean from all of our sin, and as King David said, we are blessed, because we are righteous and our works didn’t make us that way! We are now free from sin, and we are holy only because of Jesus, and this is one of our fruits of righteousness! “For if the First-Fruit be Holy (Jesus), the lump is also holy: and if the Root be Holy, so are the branches.” Romans 11:16

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” Galatians 5:22-23

We are now filled with all of these things, the glass isn’t half full, it’s full! We are filled with the fruit of the Spirit by the power of Jesus Christ within us and since we are full, it brings praise and glory to God! Jesus fills us with all of these things, and if there is anything that would hinder them from filling us, God will prune it out of us! “Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” John 15:2 This is the greatness of His salvation for us; we continually grow in the fruits of righteousness! We will continually produce more fruit by the power of Christ within us, and God will continually receive more and more glory through us! God is the perfect Gardener, and we are one with the Perfect Vine, and if the Vine is righteous, the branches are righteous as well! Hallelujah, that is great preaching! We will continually be used by God to produce more love, joy, peace, faith, goodness, gentleness, meekness, temperance, and we will continually suffer people not believing in Jesus, even though they see His righteousness through us. This is the fruit of the Holy Ghost within us! “(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and Truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord” Ephesians 5:9-10

“Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins gird about with Truth, and having the breastplate of righteousness upon you. And your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace; Above all taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God” Ephesians 6:13-17 Now this is really good here, we have the breastplate of righteousness, we have God’s breastplate of righteousness, it’s not a duplicate, it’s His very own! That’s good Truth in and of itself! But, what does God’s breastplate of righteousness protect? The breastplate protects our hearts; righteousness protects our hearts! We believe with the heart and that is how we are saved! Oh, do you see where God is going with this? Faith is to be taken above all of the other armor, but if we fail to allow God to use it through us in a situation, His righteousness still protects our hearts! Glory be to God, I have lived this so many times. Something comes and shakes me, and I don’t allow Jesus to Author and Finish His faith within me to speak the Word to the situation, and yet I come out unharmed, and stronger than before the attack! And I do, because God’s righteousness has protected the very thing that I have to believe in Him, my heart!

We are righteous because Jesus is righteous. Jesus fills us with the fruits of righteousness, and the Holy Spirit produces the fruits of righteousness within us, and if anything is hindering this process, God removes it, so that He can produce more fruit through us! And praise God if we fail to allow Him to Author our faith, or we fail to use His Word, or if we fail to act in peace, or if we fail to operate in Truth, the breastplate of God’s righteousness will still protect our hearts! We are completely saved and through Christ we are righteous, and that is how people will know that we are born again!

God Uses Us Righteously

“If you know (perceive and are sure) that He [Christ] is [absolutely] righteous [conforming to the Father's will in purpose, thought, and action], you may also know (be sure) that everyone who does righteously [and is therefore in like manner conformed to the divine will] is born (begotten) of Him [God].” 1 John 2:29

This scripture is one of the most powerful scriptures that we will ever find in the New Testament and the reason is this, the eternal Word of God says that we are actually righteous! We can actually be righteous, our flesh doesn’t hinder us from being righteous, and our past doesn’t limit us. Not only does the sacrifice of Jesus make us righteous in our Father's eyes, it actually empowers Him to use us to do righteous works! And because we are used by God to do righteous works, people will know that we are born again. Now the really powerful thing with this verse is that our Father puts our righteous works right in the same category as Jesus’ righteous works! God does this because He is the One doing the works through us, just as He was the One doing the works through Jesus!

Jesus came so that we might be saved. He came to be offered on the Cross and to shed His Blood for us. Jesus offered Himself as a sacrifice; so that we could stand righteous before God, apart form our own works. Jesus came so that our Father's grace and mercy might be fully shown to all who are called and chosen.

Yet ask yourself this question, if this was the only reason that Jesus came, why did He have to wait until He was in His thirties to be offered? If this was the only reason that Jesus came, why did He have a ministry before hand? Why did Jesus heal people, why did He perform miracles? Why did He expound on our Father's Truths and why did He prophesy? The reason Jesus did all of these things as well is because Jesus came not only to save us, but also to show us how we could live through the power of God which is His Holy Spirit, the same Holy Spirit that He has!

“He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.” 1 John 2:6 Jesus didn’t begin His public ministry or any of His miraculous works until He was filled with the Holy Spirit. Now He was fully God before He did any of these things, so He was fully the Holy Spirit before His baptism. But yet our Father had it happen as an event, so John the Baptist could see the Spirit descending upon Him as God told him that he would. This was to show that we too would have the Holy Spirit come upon us, that Jesus wasn’t apart from us, but rather that He was the First-born among many brethren. “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.” Romans 8:29

Jesus did all of His ministerial works, He spoke all of His prophesies, and He performed all of His healings and miracles by the power of God that dwelled within Him. “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doth the works.” John 14:10 We have the exact same Holy Spirit within us that Jesus has and we have the exact same God within us that Jesus has. We are born from the same exact same Incorruptible Seed that bore Jesus; so we too will have God performing His righteous works through us just as He did through Jesus! Because the same forces of righteousness that worked through Jesus, now work through us!

This is the biggest mistake that most people make about Jesus while attempting to glorifying Him as Lord, they think we have to limit God’s ability through us to something less than it was through Him. It doesn’t glorify Jesus by attempting to degrade our Father's power through us. What glorifies Jesus as Lord is our Father being the force within our lives, as it is the force within His life! Jesus came as a Savior so that God could be all He is within us. Jesus repeatedly said that it was our Father within Him and Jesus called Himself the Son of Man. He did this to show us, that we could serve God in the same way He serves God, by God being all that He is within us! Now because that is true, our works will be righteous ones. This is how people will know that we are born again, by our Father working righteously through us, just as He worked righteously through Jesus! We aren’t just called righteous by God, we actually are righteous and we actually perform righteous works. Our humanity doesn’t limit God; the Blood of Christ has overcome the weakness of our flesh! “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father.” John 14:12

Through Christ There Are No Do's And Don'ts

"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 forgiving 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

Our Father tells us that through Christ, He has taken off our body of sins of the flesh. Now look at just how far the Word of God says that the sins of our flesh have been removed from us; according to God, they were buried with Jesus. Our sinful flesh was buried with Jesus! Yet we still live and according to our Father we have been resurrected with Jesus. What does all of this actually this mean? Look at Romans 6:9-10, "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."

Jesus died to sin once and death now has no dominion or power over Him. Jesus forever lives unto God; He forever lives by the power of God! Their relationship will never be broken; there will never be any separation between the Two at all. Jesus is now and forever united with God and sins power has no ability to come upon Him! This is exactly how we now are and this is how we should think of ourselves! Do I mean that we should think that we are dead to sin and alive to God like Jesus? Absolutely!

"Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:11 We are to consider ourselves dead to sin and dead to the power, presence, penalty, and pleasure of it, just as Jesus is dead to it! Faith Authored and Finished by Jesus sets us free, not our works! Our Father has quickened us, which means He has made us alive together with Christ. And because we are now one with Christ, we are like Christ; we have His mind, we are now members of His body, and we are filled with His Spirit. We have been given His glory, He ever lives to intercede for us, and with Jesus God is able to do all things through us, because Jesus’ strength permits it! Jesus never leaves us or forsakes us and through Him we are empowered with the Anointing of God to be like Him! “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

Our Father, through the power of the sacrifice of Jesus has forgiving us all of our trespasses, all of them! Our Father has blotted out all of the handwriting of ordinances that were against us, which were contrary to us. Jesus took the don'ts and the do's out of the way, nailing them to the cross. Jesus spoiled the principalities and powers of darkness and He destroyed sin and its effects for those of us who have been empowered to accept Him. Jesus made a shew of the principalities that were against us and that were contrary to us, and He did it openly, triumphing over them at the cross. He took all of the ordinances that were impossible for man to live and nailed them to the Cross as well. He set us free from a life filled with do this and don’t do that. He gave us an abundant life, a life to be richly enjoyed by God’s grace, a life full of faith! And as we studied a life that King David said was to be envied because of the freedom we enjoy through Christ! Because of this we can truly walk as God's children, we can walk as the perfect Church, without spot, wrinkle, or blemish, the perfect body of Jesus Christ. Just as Jesus died to sin once, so did we. When we were empowered by the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus we died to sin, and just like Jesus, sin has lost its power to harm us and the wages of it were destroyed! Our Father loves us that much and His salvation through Christ is that complete.

God has forgiven us of all our trespasses and He has removed all of the ordinances that would condemn us. Our Father has removed them all! There are no longer any ordinances to judge us by, they were nailed to the Cross and blotted out; we are now only judged by our faith and acceptance of Jesus as Lord! “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity.” Matthew 7:22-23 Jesus said that these people must depart from Him because He never knew them, not because of their works of iniquity!

"Even 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. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin." Romans 4:6-8 We are blessed through Jesus and our Father will never count our sins against us. He has forgiven every last one and He has covered every last one, and we enjoy all of this apart from any works!

The righteousness of the Law has been fulfilled within us by Jesus and greater is He that is now within us than anything that is in this world! By the obedience of one man, Jesus Christ, we have been made righteous! We now are filled with the fruits of righteousness because of our Lord and Savior Jesus. And because we are, we can truly be used by our Father to do the works that Jesus did and even greater ones, because He has gone to the Father. Our Father has now been given the ability and freedom to work through us by the Blood of Jesus that is ever living to allow Him to!

You want to talk about works, it goes so far beyond thou shalt not, it goes into raise up from the dead, receive your sight, and water now be wine! Jesus came and gave us was a personal intimate relationship with God. Jesus gave us a life of ever living to serve others. He came and gave us the ability, the will, and the desire to be just as He is. People want to hang out at the Ten Commandments, why? Those are nothing compared with what Jesus came to give us. Think about it, those are what God gave to people who did not have the Holy Ghost dwelling within them. Jesus came and gave us perfection, He gave us righteousness, He gave us glory, and He gave us faith, hope, and love. Jesus came and gave us peace that passes all understanding, He came and gave us His joy, and He came and gave us life, just as He has life! You want to hang out at the Ten Commandments, go right ahead, but through Christ, we have access to perfection!

Be blessed in this grace that God has so freely bestowed on us this day! We are not saved and unsaved by our actions; we have been made righteous apart from our works. If we have said yes to Jesus, we are saved, once and for all! Stop worrying about sin, it means nothing to us anymore, we have been made free, and who God makes free, is free indeed!

We Are Now Complete In Christ

"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 forgiving 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 complete in Jesus right now! Our Father doesn’t say that we are becoming complete in Jesus; He says that we are complete in Jesus. We don’t have to wait until Jesus’ return or wait until we are in Heaven to be complete; we are complete in Christ right now. “And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” Ephesians 4:23-24

We are complete in Christ because we have been born again, born from God’s Seed, created in righteousness and in true holiness. We are complete in the One Who is the Head of all power and all principality. We are no longer just humans. Through Christ God has made us new men, born again from His Incorruptible Seed in righteousness and true holiness, not born in sin! There is nothing above Jesus, and we are now complete in Him. There is nothing that can overcome Jesus and God has now made us complete in Him. We are complete in the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega, the Head of all principality and all power. We are now members of His body, we are flesh of His flesh, and we are bone of His bone, Ephesians 5:30. We are now complete in Jesus because we have been born again from Jesus. We aren’t just born from Him though, we are one with Him, and there is no separation between us. There is no room for satan or evil to come between us, because we are now one and united with the Complete One! The Holy Ghost has renewed us and regenerated us in God’s image, the image that God desired for us. And unlike Adam, we now have the strength of Christ, which is God’s Anointing. Jesus has given us His glory, the glory of God Himself.

“And the glory 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 17:22-23 And because of these Truths, we now have life abundantly and we now have righteousness that is of God.

Here is a question to ask yourself, the Word of God says that we are complete; does this Truth mean that we cannot mature or grow in our completeness? “Furthermore, brethren, we beg and admonish you in [virtue of our union with] the Lord Jesus, that [you follow the instructions which] you learned from us about how you ought to walk so as to please and gratify God, as indeed you are doing, [and] that you do so even more and more abundantly [attaining yet greater perfection in living this life.]” 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Amplified Bible.

We absolutely can grow and mature in Christ, even though we are now complete in Him, and even though Jesus said that we have been made perfect in our oneness with Him. Our Father showed it to me like this. Think about a person’s bicep muscle. They may only be able to curl 10lbs. But their muscle may be perfect and complete. All the muscle tissue that they have can only lift 10lbs. The muscle is perfect; lifting all that it has the capacity to lift. However, that muscle can grow. If muscle tissue is added, that arm can now lift 15lbs. You might say that their bicep grew in perfection. It is exactly the same way that we are in Christ. When we are chosen by God and truly accept Jesus as the Lord of our lives, we are complete in Him. Yet we have the capacity to grow in Him. This capacity to grow in no way makes those who are younger in Christ less perfect or less complete. Our Father says that we are all complete in Him, it just means we can grow, no one left behind, no one less saved, because God is not a respecter of persons! Isn't that great! All who are saved are complete in Jesus this day! We are raised with Him this day. We are born from the very Seed that bore Jesus, God’s Incorruptible Seed, so that He may be the first born among many brethren. We are joint-heirs with Christ, He is our Head, we are His body, and we are made perfect and complete with Him!