Jesus Has Purified Us

Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Titus 2:14

We are pure because Jesus gave Himself for us, so that all who would ever be empowered to accept Him as Lord would be redeemed from all iniquity. Jesus gave Himself for us and He purified us unto Himself! So if you have been chosen by God and have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus, all things are now pure for you. And since you are pure, God Himself makes you zealous for good works! The glory in producing fruit is that it brings glory to our Father and through His good works we prove ourselves to be His disciples!

Jesus gave Himself for us, so that we could become one with Him, and through our unity and oneness the world will believe and be saved! Our Father will be praised in the midst of hopelessness and through His power that is operating within us victory will arise out of chaos. As we see a rise in terrorism and evil within the world, rejoice, because for us everything is pure. When the world sees doubt, our Father allows us to see faith. When the world sees hatred, through Christ we see and enjoy the presence of love. And when the world has no answers, we have the mind of Christ and the Holy Spirit, so that we may know all things! Everything is now pure for us and through the power of God’s might, we will be used to shed it abroad. Through Christ the world will be saved!

And so for their sake and on their behalf I sanctify (dedicate, consecrate) Myself, that they also may be sanctified (dedicated, consecrated, made holy) in the Truth. John 17:19

To the pure [in heart and conscience] all things are pure, but to the defiled and corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are defiled and polluted. Titus 1:15

Satan Can Never Win Against Us

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth you, Who also will do it. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

Paul, Peter, John, all of the Apostles, and all of the Prophets in the Bible suffered persecution. Jesus teaches us that we will suffer persecution too, but our Father will deliver us from every evil work. I hear it preached all of the time about the struggles that we have with satan. People there is no struggle with satan! If you have been chosen by God and empowered with the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus as the Lord of your life, then satan is no longer a threat to you! If he were, then he would have to be a threat to Jesus, Who is our Head! Through Christ we have been sealed with the Holy Ghost, so how could satan penetrate the Holy Ghost to harm us? If Jesus is our Shepherd; how it is that satan can get by Him? How is it that if God is preserving us and keeping us from evil until Heaven, that He can fail? Satan is not an issue for the believer, he wants to make you think that he is, but if he is, than all of these verses that we have read are lies! 

We will wrestle with satan, but it will be as the conquerors that we are through Christ! We will go into all of the world and run satan and evil off from every area that we are led in! From the sidelines satan will attempt to stop us, but there is no weapon that he has and there is no one that he is in control of, that can come against us as we stand anointed and united with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords!

Will we be persecuted for the testimony that we are used by God to share, absolutely, but our Father will deliver us from it. Through Christ we will win and God will receive the praise and glory as others see our victory! Death has no victory over us, to be absent from the body is to be present with Christ! Persecution has no victory over us, we are more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us. We win, each and every time. I know it’s not preached, I mean we hear sermons that ask why do bad things happen to good people? But through persecution we grow in the strength of the Lord. When we are weak, He is strong and His strength is perfected in our weakness! We win each and every time. No one who has been chosen by God, and who has truly been empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as Lord, ever looses, ever! All things now work for our good! 

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

Christ Has Defeated The But Devil

And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto His heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory forever and ever. A-men. 2 Timothy 4:18

But what if we are killed for testifying about Jesus? 

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 1 Corinthians 15:55

But what if we are throne into jail and persecuted for believing? 

And to him they agreed: and when they had called the Apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.” Acts 5:40-42

There is not one area in a believer’s life that satan can win at, not one! If he could win than we would have to throw 2 Timothy 4:18 out, it would be false, because God would not deliver us from every evil work. The Truth is that we are now actually one with Jesus, John 17:23, and since we are, we have been delivered from every evil work, just as Jesus is delivered from every evil work!

You may think but sin, what about sin. The wage of sin is death, but through Christ we have passed from death unto life, Romans 6:4-11. So through Christ we have been delivered from sin. God is not a man that He should lie and if our Father has proclaimed that we are delivered from every evil work and preserved unto His Kingdom, then the Truth is: we are delivered from every evil work unto His Kingdom! Done deal, absolute, with no chance of failure! When God empowered us to believe, we won, just as Jesus won!

Exactly How Pure Can We Be?

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the Sons of God; therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure." 1 John 3:2-3

Through Christ just how pure can we be? Are there any limits for our purity, because we do by the way still have flesh and blood? The answer for us is glorious. The power of our Savior is absolute: through Christ there are no limits for God’s children. If we have the hope of Jesus; we are pure even as Jesus is pure! This only makes sense, look Who is purifying us, we aren’t pure through our own efforts, we are pure through Jesus’ and His standard is perfection, so of course we are pure as He is pure!

If you know and understand that you are pure only because of Jesus, then you will never struggle with this level of purity. However, if you are trying to earn it, or trying to obtain purity through your own human efforts, faith in absolute purity will be an offense and a stumbling block for you, something that is almost even an abomination to think of. But for the truly saved, our strength lies solely with Jesus and our Saviors Blood has the ability, the power, and the will to purify us to His perfect level of purity! We are perfect even as our Father in Heaven is perfect, because our Father has made us that way through Christ! Christians are perfect, because we have been forgiven and because the shed and eternal Blood of our Savior is that powerful! The Blood of Jesus actually removes all guilt from us, so that we can consider ourselves dead to sin. 

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth you, Who also will do it. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

Ask yourself this, what did Jesus have to do to be pure other than to be born of God? If Jesus was made pure by His works, we could stand and argue that He didn’t live long enough to prove it. I mean He was only in His thirties when He suffered the temptation of the Cross, could He have done it in is sixties? But the Truth is that Jesus was just born pure. He was One with God from the beginning, our Father made Him that way. We have the same Father, the exact same Spirit, and the exact same birth as Jesus. Jesus was born of a woman and of the Spirit, and you and I have been born again of a woman and of the Spirit!

With our Father all things are possible: purity, perfection, sanctification, power, love, faith that moves mountains, being completely blameless, free from all iniquity, these are all of our blessings through Christ Who strengthens us! Be blessed in the power of His might because as He is, so are we even while in this world!

The Power Of Jesus' Blood

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

God’s love for us surpasses everything! He willingly, readily, and freely provides for us all of the needed requirements for our eternal fellowship. No thats not it, He just doesn't provide them for us, He insures they are applied and utilized in our lives.  Our Father has fully equipped us with Himself to serve; He has left nothing out! Have you seen through His Word the enormous responsibility that our Father places on Himself to insure that we are never separated from Him? Religion wants to place all of that burden on us, but God has spoken that He is the One. He is our Father and Jesus is our Shepherd. God has placed His Spirit within us and He will cause us to walk in His ways. Our Father is the One that will teach us all things through His Holy Spirit. God is the one that will meet our needs according to His riches and glory in Christ Jesus. Our Father is the One that will heal us by Jesus’ stripes. We have our Father’s mind through Christ. He has given us His angels to protect us and He can now use us to do all things through Christ Who strengthens us, without Him we can do nothing! It’s all God; He even Authors and Finishes the faith we need to accept these Truths. It’s all God, He accomplished everything needed for us. He provides everything that pertains to our godliness. Our Father is the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega, the First and He is the Last.

Hallelujah, the precious Blood of Christ has obtained our eternal salvation and the Blood of Christ has purged our consciences from dead works so that we may serve the Living God. 

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 

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

For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. Ephesians 5:30 

I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life 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

Use The Word For Correction

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

If you are dealing with someone who just won’t latch on to the power of God, whether it is salvation, or any other issue within their life, the best way to serve them is by using the Word of God. Speak scripture to them. Show them where it is at, pray it for them, pray it with them, read it with them, email them, or write them, whatever God leads you to do. So many times we try to speak of a similar situation in our own life to comfort or aid a person, but the Word is profitable for the perfecting of the Saints. People sometimes feel that their situation is far worse than yours was and you could never understand or even compare your life with their misery. But the Word of God has life and the Word of God is what has made us perfect and the Word of God has thoroughly prepared us for instruction in righteousness. It does not matter if we say it with its chapter number and verse number, or just say it, the Word of our Father will not fall void to the earth, it will accomplish what He has intended for it to do. We may see it, or we may not. We may be used by our Father to plant a seed that He uses another person to water, and then has another harvest, but it is God Who makes it grow. And Jesus has led us all in the path of being used to further the Kingdom of God!

The Truth is that all scripture is given by Divine inspiration. We have been honored by God Himself to become one with His Word. The sower sows the Word of God. Some of what is sown may fall on stony ground, some in the thorns, some in shallow soil, but some will fall in good ground, and it will produce a crop of 30, 60, or 100 fold! With the Word we are perfectly and thoroughly equipped to be used by our Father to do all good works!

Leaving The Doctrine Of Repentance

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment." Hebrews 6:1-2

So as we are considering Jesus, Who He is, what He is, how He is, what He is like, consider this: is He repenting from dead works? No, so we too can move past that, because as He is so are we in this world!

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

Satan and man want us to look at ourselves to see just how powerful our salvation is. But the Truth that has set us free is that we look to Jesus and through Him we live and enjoy the full power of salvation. Jesus is our strength. He is our ability, He is because we live in the power of His capabilities. He Authors and Finishes our faith. He leads us in the paths of righteousness. He has given us and made us one with His joy, His peace, His Spirit, His love, His power, His freedom, His wisdom and knowledge, and we are now strong in all of the power of His might! Jesus has been freed from ever even considering dead works and we are now one with Him. We are now Jesus’ body, His flesh, and His bone, and as He is free from dead works, so are we, even while in this world!

So if the Son liberates you [makes you free men], then you are really and unquestionably free. John 8:36

For I will be merciful and gracious toward their sins and I will remember their deeds of unrighteousness no more. Hebrews 8:12

Let's Move Past The Doctrine Of Faith

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment." Hebrews 6:1-2

Is Jesus right now laying a foundation of faith for Himself towards God? No way, He isn’t because it’s settled and complete for Him. There is no question to Jesus that God is it; He is the way, the answer, and the provider, God is the All!

Looking unto Jesus the Author 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

Our Father has made us one with His power to live as Jesus lives, never having any doubts about Who our Father is, what He is, how He is, and what is the greatness of His love towards us. Just as Jesus knows the breadth, length, height, and depth of our Fathers love, so do we!

That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it]; Ephesians 3:18

Through Christ we are now one with and have possession of the perfect and complete faith of Jesus Christ. Just as Jesus is one with His faith, there is no difference with us, because Jesus has given all of His faith to us! Through Christ perfection is for us! Two plus two is four, we can move on past this Truth to division, multiplication, algebra, and trigonometry. The truth of two plus two is still there, but there is more, and there is more for us than just believing that God is, and believing that He will reward those who are empowered by the Holy Spirit to believe He will reward us. The Truth of 1 John 4:17, as He is, so are we in this world, awaits us! And the peace here is that we know beyond any shadow of a doubt that Jesus will completely lead us in the path of this righteousness for His Name’s sake!

The Hope Of Being Perfect Draws Us To God

For the Law never made anything perfect—but instead a better hope is introduced through which we [now] come close to God. Hebrews 7:19

Look at what our Father teaches us here; the hope that brings perfection also draws us nigh to Him. The more that we are empowered to realize that we are perfect, fully equipped, mature, or whatever other term we may use, the more we will draw nigh to our Father. My kids and I are close, but when they were infants, babies, the relationship was basically one sided, Beth and I served them, they loved us and we loved them, but as they have grown we have even become closer. They now know and understand me and I know them. I am still their dad, yet we are also friends, and as each day goes by, we become closer and closer. The same is true with God, as we grow, we grow close to Him. It’s not that we become perfect, no, we are already perfect by Christ, we can’t help it, our Father birthed us into perfection on the day of our salvation. But we do grow to understand our perfection. Now just as with Kennedy and Lauren this understanding is not one sided, totally dependent upon them, Beth and I have raised them, taught them, showed them, directed them, and the same is true with our Father. The only way that we can understand our perfection in Christ is by God being intimately involved in the learning process! Our Father will never leave us or forsake us and He has allowed us to become one with the Holy Spirit to teach us all things!

The wisdom of man states that our perfection comes to us by our works, our actions. If we mess up than obviously we are not perfect, but if we don’t mess up then we are perfect. Praise God we don’t have to deal in the wisdom of man, we are allowed to deal in God’s wisdom and God say’s we are perfect by Jesus and only by Him. This is foolishness to most, but not to those who have been empowered to understand the Truth. There is no work that we could ever do that would make us perfect. Yet, we have received a freedom that passes all understanding, we are perfect just because the One Who created it all gave it to us. The price wasn’t free, Jesus paid dearly, yet for you and I who are saved, it’s just freely obtained. Through the power of Christ we just accept it. Perfection is a Stumbling Stone to everyone except those who have been empowered with the Holy Spirit to look to the Light and who have stepped out of darkness.

For if because of one man's trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God's] overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). Romans 5:17

Jesus Saves Us Perfectly

By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better Testament. Hebrews 7:22

Wherefore He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them. Hebrews 7:25

Through the power of Christ we are saved to the uttermost, which means that we are now perfected by Christ. Through Christ we are now nigh unto God our Father, and through Christ we are now the children of Light! Jesus teaches us in Matthew 11:6 that if we will accept and not stumble at His Truth, than truly we will be blessed. Jesus has given us the Holy Spirit and through the strength of the very Spirit of God, our Father will reveal the Truth of who we are in Christ to us. What Jesus has done for us is our foundation and now it’s time to move past the beginning principles of Christ, and through the full power of our Savior move on to perfection!

Therefore let us go on and get past the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ (the Messiah), advancing steadily toward the completeness and perfection that belong to spiritual maturity. Let us not again be laying the foundation of repentance and abandonment of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith [by which you turned] to God, Hebrews 6:1

Faith comes from hearing the Truth and faith is the evidence of things hoped for. If we are saved these Truths that we have been studying are just in us. We are born of them and they nourish us and feed us. Jesus came not to just show us how great He was, but to show us how great we are in Him and He is in us! Jesus came so that we could be one, just exactly as He and God are One! This is how the world will believe and be saved. This is how the dead will be raised, the blind will see, the deaf will hear, and the Gospel will be preached to every nation.

Grace and spiritual blessing be to you and [soul] peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah), Who gave (yielded) Himself up [to atone] for our sins [and to save and sanctify us], in order to rescue and deliver us from this present wicked age and world order, in accordance with the will and purpose and plan of our God and Father—Galatians 1:3-4

Perfect Love

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us. 1 John 4:12

We now have perfect love through Christ, we have this perfection because the fullness of our Father now dwells within us. We now have boldness as well. We have boldness to stand in the Day of Judgment. We now have boldness to approach our Father’s Throne of Grace in time of need. 

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16 

Standing before our Father on the Day of Judgment will not be a new thing for us. Because we now walk with Him, He is in us, and He is leading and guiding us to come to His Throne of Grace. When the Day of Judgment comes, our Father won’t all of a sudden leave us, so that we will have to go up there on our own. No, our Father will still be one with us, leading us right up there, with His perfect love within us casting out all fear. In the Day of Judgment we will be bold, we will be full of boldness in Him, knowing that no harm will come to us, and that there is no condemnation for us! We will know, with the Anointed Mind that God has given us, that we have abided in God here on the earth, and that we will abide in Him for eternity. We know that our Father will never leave us or forsake us, never! Through the power of Christ we will have boldness and confidence that through Him we have passed from wrath unto righteousness!

Now here is the great part, since we now abide in our Father’s love, we know beyond any shadow of a doubt that God now dwells within us. We know that He gives us boldness to serve Him just as Jesus serves Him. 

For in that He died, He died unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:10-11

He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked. 1 John 2:6 

Look how God takes our service to the extreme limits of His power, He is God, and as He is, so are we in this world! Bam! Talk about being bold. I know I have written on this already, but do you see what this means? As God is so are we in this world! God is love, He is lay down your life love. He is never leave us or forsake us love. Love is the key, love unlocks it all, and we are just like our Father in love. People preach that we need to love all of the time, but rarely do we hear it preached like this: that in God we can’t help but love! We are born of love and our love is just like God’s love, because our love is now God’s love. His love now abides within us, never leaving us or forsaking us! We now and forevermore abide in perfect Love.

Jesus Makes Us Perfect

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

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Matthew 5:48

As Paul wrote in Hebrews, let us go on to perfection and as Jesus said to us, be perfect even as God is perfect. These are two awesome statements of faith. Perfection is not an unattainable goal of the believer. Why isn’t it, because perfection comes for us from Christ. Look at what Jesus said to us in John 17:23. He taught us that our unity with Him and the oneness that it brings with God makes us perfect.

A pupil is not superior to his teacher, but everyone [when he is] completely trained (readjusted, restored, set to rights, and perfected) will be like his teacher. Luke 6:40

Now how cool is Luke 6:40? Jesus tells us that everyone who is perfect shall be like his master. Jesus is our Master, we are perfect because of our Master, Jesus, and we are like Him even while on this earth, if He lives within us, 1 John 4:17. Jesus is in us and we are in Him, and we all are in God, all are made perfect in One! Jesus said it, now do you actually believe Him or do you believe some bumper sticker that says we aren’t perfect just forgiven?

The reason that we have to continue to talk about our perfection in Christ is because Jesus teaches us that it is how the world will know that God sent Him, and it is how the world will know that God loves them every bit as much as He loves Jesus! The world, America, China, Europe, Asia, Africa, Israel, the Middle East, Russia, South America, and Australia, the world! The world being a glorious church in Christ, without spot, wrinkle, or blemish! Our Father would that all men be saved and perfection by Christ is how we can be! This is the Day of our Salvation and now is our accepted time!

We Live In The Power Of Jesus’ Resurrection

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:11

When does our Father say that we are to consider ourselves to be dead to sin? In the future or right now? Our Father teaches us that now is our accepted time and that today is the day of our salvation. Through the power of Christ that we have been freely anointed with, we now have freedom from all sin. As the Greek word for salvation, soteria, taught us, we are free from the power of sin, the presence of sin, the pleasure of sin, and the penalty of sin. Through the power of the Holy Spirit we know God right now and knowing God means we now have eternal life.

And this is eternal life, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent. John 17:3

We know God right now. We are now His children, His friends, His servants, and we are now His body. We know our Father, we don’t just know of Him, we actually know Him. That is an awesome thing and something the world needs to hear. God knows us, so why shouldn’t we know Him. If the only thing my kids ever had were letters about me, they would never truly know me. The Bible is great, I love it, but yet, I don’t want to just read about our Father, I want to know Him. I want to hang out with Him, talk to Him, hear Him, and be taught by Him. I want to be as He is! And He absolutely wants the same things for us! Our Father has provided a way and the way is by being empowered with the Holy Spirit to look unto Jesus to Author and Finish the faith within us that brings the very righteousness of God into us. If we are one with God, we are one with His righteousness. That’s just good and simple Truth!

Our righteousness is as filthy rags, yeah, so what? We no longer look unto our own righteousness for anything; we now only look unto Jesus’ righteousness. We stand before God on Jesus’ merits, not our own. Our best doesn’t even equal Jesus’ worst. Don’t freak out about that, it is only symbolism! Glory, righteousness, sanctification, holiness, and perfection, these are all God’s qualities and when it comes to us He isn’t stingy with any of them, through Christ He has allowed us to become one with them. We are born from them, they are who we are. We can’t help but exhibit these qualities; we are flesh of God’s flesh and bone of His bones. We are born again of all these things, it’s just who we are! We are filled with the fullest measure of our Father's Divine Presence and He remembers our sins no more. 

Be blessed this day. Jesus loves you and He has given you everything that pertains unto life and unto godliness!

Do We Just Have A Form Of Godliness

And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. Mark 16:15-18

Let me ask you this question, is the Church today really being used to serve our Father in the fullness of His power, or do we have a form of godliness but deny the real and complete power of our Father? I don’t think that we are truly being used to serve our Father in the power that Jesus came and died for us to have, not as a whole we aren’t. And here is why I believe this; Jesus teaches us in Mark 16 that signs will absolutely follow them who believe. So we have to ask ourselves, as a whole are these signs following the Church? Read in the Book of Acts, our older brothers and sisters were being used by our Father to do these things! Right from the very beginning of their salvation, babies in Christ were being used by our Father to raise the dead, to prophesy, and to heal all manner of sickness! Jesus teaches us that all who believe should be one.

That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.  John 17:21

The question is: are we truly one? Look at how many different churches that we have, right across the street from each other, towns with less than 500 people have three and four different churches, in the Book of Acts our Father was adding 5000 people a day to one church! I hear it preached all of the time that we can agree to disagree, bull; our Father is not divided! Can the hand disagree with the arm? If it does the body is handicapped, is Christ handicapped? Look at what the Word says the Church should be like. And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. Acts 2:1

One accord, one mind, the church is not one today, we are divided, different doctrines, creeds, and whatever other term we may want to use, but not one.

For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? 1 Corinthians 1:11-13

The Truth is that we cannot become united on our own. We cannot just decide that today we will no longer have divisions. Our unity must come form our Father. He is the only One Who can join us together in the unity and the power of His might. So do not look at yourselves or at your church, look to our Father and ask Him to unite us as we never have been before.

Our Salvation Is Eternal

And for this cause He is the Mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Hebrews 9:15

Let’s read this verse from the Amplified Bible as well.

[Christ, the Messiah] is therefore the Negotiator and Mediator of an [entirely] new agreement (testament, covenant), so that those who are called and offered it may receive the fulfillment of the promised everlasting inheritance-since a death has taken place which rescues and delivers and redeems them from the transgressions committed under the [old] first agreement. Hebrews 9:15

Jesus has offered us and He has given us a New Covenant, a totally New Covenant which guarantees our everlasting salvation. The Old Covenant was a covenant of works, the Ten Commandments, the Law, do these things and don’t do those things. The New Covenant that Jesus has given us is a Covenant of faith. Jesus has offered and chosen us to be part of a covenant that allows Him to be the Author and Finisher of our faith.

Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2

So through the perfect power of our Lord and Savior we are now able to believe and completely trust in God. And since we now operate in the power of Jesus’ faith, our Father is able to accomplish His perfect works of righteousness through us.

Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]— Ephesians 3:20

This is what it really boils down to, Jesus gave our Father the ability to be in Control of our lives and since He is, Jesus gave us the ability to live free from the burdens and distresses that came from sin. We have received the fulfillment of the everlasting inheritance, which has redeemed us and delivered us from all sin.

Jesus Has Freed Us From The Guilt Of Sin

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which 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. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, Romans 8:1-4

How is it that we are free from the law of sin and death, I mean just look at us? But according to our Father, we who are in Christ are now free from sin! The answer is very gracious, we don’t sin, because Jesus is just that great. He is that powerful, He is that loving, and He is that awesome! Jesus came and freely laid His life down for our freedom. Our Lord absolutely and 100% fulfilled all of the needed requirements of the consequences of sin for us. Through His eternal power, which ever lives to intercede for us so that we might be saved to the uttermost, we are now totally free from sin. 

We are not free from transgressions through our own actions, thank God we aren’t; we are free from sin only because of Jesus’ actions. The penalty has been paid; the consequences have been satisfied. We are free from sin and its powers because Jesus has accomplished what we could not do. The law said that if you sin, than there is death, or separation from God, there would be no eternal life where the penalty and price of sin still existed. But because of Jesus and because of His Blood, the law is now of no effect for us, the price has been paid, the debt is cancelled, the penalty is fulfilled. If you are empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as Lord, there is no more separation by actions, there is no more condemnation, because we are redeemed, rescued, and delivered from the law of sin and death. Jesus is that Great and because He is, there is no more guilt for us.

So let it be clearly known and understood by you, brethren, that through this Man forgiveness and removal of sins is now proclaimed to you; And that through Him everyone who believes [who acknowledges Jesus as his Savior and devotes himself to Him] is absolved (cleared and freed) from every charge from which he could not be justified and freed by the Law of Moses and given right standing with God. Acts 13:38-39

Through Christ We Are Purged From Dead Works

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

When I read all of the verses that we have studied together in these posts, I look in the mirror and have to say no, we are definitely not truly serving the Living God in the fullness of the power that Jesus came for us to have. But I am not hopeless, and I actually get excited because I believe that our Father is calling us and strengthening us with His very Own strength to be who He has born us to be. I have seen that I cannot do it and that you cannot do it, and even all of us put together cannot do it.  I do see though in our Fathers Word that He can absolutely do it through us. I have seen that it is His will, that it is His desire, and that He has provided a way and that He will cause us to walk in that way!

I believe that our Father is calling us to serve Him and that He is giving us the will, the mind, and the heart to serve Him. I believe that we are chosen to truly serve our Father as Jesus serves Him. Not with this false sense of humility that says, yeah but He was Jesus. But in power, because our Father has given us the mind of Christ. We have been made to be part Jesus’ body. We have been given the same Spirit that Jesus has and through the anointing of Christ we are now one with Him! If all of these things are true, if we are truly dead and if the only reason we live is because it is Jesus living within us, how could we serve God differently that Jesus serves Him?

This excites me to no end and as I talk to others they also are being directed by God this way. I honestly believe that the glorious church will not be divided, that we will serve our Father and that we will not have a false consciousness that condemns us, but one that glorifies God through action, thought, and deed! I believe that through Jesus we will be used by our Father to do the works that Jesus did and even greater ones. I believe that through Jesus we will have mature fellowship with our Father and that through Jesus we will be one and that the world will believe! America will believe, Asia, South America, Russia, Central America, Australia, the Middle East, the Far East, Africa, and Europe will all believe. I believe that through Christ we will be one and that the world will believe! Jesus prayed it in John 17, and I don’t think that He was wasting His time before He was killed with just some words; this is God’s will, and thank You Father You have made it ours as well! The Word teaches us all of these things, and we have the Holy Spirit within us teaching them as well. They will be so, argue about them if you want, but our Father, Who is God, will not be stopped, and what He has spoken will come to pass!

Think about having a purged conscience, one that is fully and completely cleansed and think about being fully pleasing to God in every thought, word, and action. It’s not pie in the sky; it’s ours through the Blood of Christ. It’s who we are, it’s what we have been born of, it’s our inheritance, and in Jesus’ Name it will grow and mature within us, and it will come to pass before He returns. It will because God has spoken it! Jesus loves you and so do I, in Him you will be blessed this day and every day for all of eternity, because as He is so are we in this world!

Jesus Is Strong Enough

And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent. John 17:3 

Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen Him, neither known Him. 1 John 3:6 

For He says, in the time of favor (of an assured welcome) I have listened to and heeded your call, and I have helped you on the day of deliverance (the day of salvation). Behold now is truly the time of a gracious welcome and acceptance [of you from God]; behold now is the day of salvation! 2 Corinthians 6:2 

Take these three verses together along with Hebrews 9:15 and what do we see? 

[Christ, the Messiah] is therefore the Negotiator and Mediator of an [entirely] new agreement (testament, covenant), so that those who are called and offered it may receive the fulfillment of the promised everlasting inheritance-since a death has taken place which rescues and delivers and redeems them from the transgressions committed under the [old] first agreement.

We see that eternal life, or eternal inheritance, for us is to know God and to know Jesus. We see that Jesus is the One Who gave eternal life to us, through His death and sacrifice we have eternal life, only by His death do we have our freedom. We do not have freedom and an eternal inheritance by us keeping a set of ordinances or laws. It’s not by our works that we have all of the fullness of God; it’s just a free and gracious gift that has been offered to us! The time of that gift is right now, it’s not a future promise, it’s a now promise! We see that this promise has rescued us from sin and Jesus has delivered us from it. How did He do it? He did it by fulfilling all of the requirements of the Law for us. That responsibility has been taken away from us, Jesus was the only One Who could do it and He did it; Jesus succeeded! We see in the Word of our Father that if we abide in Jesus we do not sin, and if you read on in 1 John 3 you will see that we don’t sin because Jesus is within us, it’s all His power, not ours. Jesus is strong enough, He is willing, and He is more than able to fulfill His calling of rescuing us completely from sin and all of its destructive powers!

All Things Are Now Pure For The Saved

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess they know God; but in works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. Titus 1:15-16

Ask yourself this: are we pure or not? Can we be pure? Is purity something that a human can even obtain while on this earth? Well according to our Father, we are either pure or we are defiled. According to the Word there is no in-between, if we are pure then all things are pure to us, and if we are defiled than everything is defiled for us, even religion. Our Father proclaims that a little leaven, will leaven the whole lump of dough, 1 Corinthians 5:6! So really ask yourself, are we pure or are we defiled?

Hallelujah, once again as we search the scriptures for the Truth, we will see Jesus to our rescue!

Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Titus 2:14

We could never be pure on our own and our Father knew it. So He sent Jesus, Who has the strength, the will, and the ability to purify us completely, so that now all things are pure for us. That is how strong the Blood of our Savior is, it covers all! It redeems us from all iniquity and it purifies all things for us so that we may be used by our Father to produce much fruit, and He makes us eager for good works. Now stop and look at that, Jesus makes us eager, or zealous, for good works! 

How many times have you spoken a scripture of real power and had some religious person come back with a warning or a caution? They do this because they believe that it is the power of man that is being used to carry out the purposes and will of our Father. But we don’t operate in the power of our own might, we operate in the power of our Lord’s might. We are more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us! Jesus is the One and only One Who makes us desire and want righteous works! Greater is He that is within us, than he that is in the world! Jesus has made us pure so that we may be one with God just as He is one with God, John 17:21-23. We are now the body of Jesus, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone, Ephesians 5:30. And since we one with Jesus, we are now as He is, and all things are pure for Him, and so we are the same way, even when we are on this earth, 1 John 4:17. Praise God that is how strong Jesus is, He has saved us to the uttermost and through the power of His might we stand strong as He is strong!

God Keeps Us Clean

I am the Vine, and My Father is the Husbandman. (or Gardner) John 15:1

Jesus refers to us as the branches in John 15:5. Now a branch does not defend itself, or keep itself, from the things that can destroy it, the Gardener does, and our Gardener is God. There is no one more capable, more qualified, more loving, more powerful, more understanding, or more omnipotent, and we have Him and He has us completely! God is our Dad, our Father, and His Spirit cries this Truth out from within us.

In the Bible Jesus is referred to as our Shepherd. Now is it the responsibility of the sheep to keep themselves from harm and danger, or is it the responsibility of the Shepherd? Are the sheep responsible for finding food, or water? What about shelter? When their hair grows too long, are they required to trim it? What if they are injured? Who is responsible for their entire well being? The shepherd is responsible completely for the well being of the sheep and Jesus is now our Shepherd! Jesus is also referred to as the Head of the body. We see all throughout the Bible that our Father declares that He will keep us from sin, that He will guide us, that He will lead us, that He will give us His Spirit, and that He will protect us. That is the love that our Father has for us, absolute eternal salvation, insured by Himself, because there is no greater to insure it by. There is no greater insurance available than the presence and promises of the Living God!

We have gone to great lengths in our studies to prove with God's Word, the only Word that matters, that we are now one with Him, this day, through Jesus our Lord and Savior. We have learned that Jesus is in us and that we are in Jesus. These are the Truths that the Holy Spirit will have us so to a world that so desperately needs it.