The most awe-inspiring thing that I have ever learned about redemption is the marvelous ability of God that is in the believer. We have God’s life in us.
2 Corinthians 5:17 There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.
Notice carefully that the believer is a new creation. He is created in Christ Jesus. He is the workmanship of God.
This new creation has become a reality to the believer because they have received the life and nature of God.
1 John 5: 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
You can see now that you have within you, as you read this, the life and nature of God if you are born from above.
We have become partakers of the divine nature.
2 Peter 1: 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Jesus emphasizes this by His illustration, “I am the vine, ye are the branches”.
John 15: 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
The object of His coming was that we might have life and have it abundantly
John 10:10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
You have received eternal life. That eternal life is the nature of the Father as unveiled in Christ.
As a branch of the vine, the same life that is manifested in the vine is flowing out through you and bearing fruit. It is the vine’s life in you that produces the fruit of love, faith, and joy.
YOU HAVE GOD’S WORD ABIDING IN YOU
Colossians 3: 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
What is the Word doing here? It is admonishing, it is educating, it is training, it is correcting, and it is building faith and love into your spirit.
Acts 20: 32 “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
It is the Word that builds you up. It is the Word that makes you know of your inheritance.
It is the Word that unveils to you your relationship to God the Father. It is the Word that makes you know your rights and privileges in Christ.
You remember it was the words of Christ that healed most of the people who came to Him. He said they were His Father’s words.
The Pauline revelation is the Father’s words about Jesus.
When you say you are a new creation created in Christ, the Father’s words are expressing a fact through your mouth.
When you say, “In the name of Jesus, disease, stop being,” you are using the Father’s words that He spoke through Jesus’s mouth.
When you step out into your rights of righteousness and begin to bear fruit, it will be the same kind of fruit Jesus bore in His earth walk.
Righteousness means the ability to stand in the Father’s presence without a sense of guilt or inferiority. This righteousness becomes yours through the finished work of Christ.
Abraham was;
Romans 4: 21 Fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His word and to do what He had promised. 22 That is why his faith was credited to him as righteousness (right standing with God). 23 But [the words], It was credited to him, were written not for his sake alone, 24 But [they were written] for our sakes too. [Righteousness, standing acceptable to God] will be granted and credited to us also who believe in (trust in, adhere to, and rely on) God, Who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, 25 Who was betrayed and put to death because of our misdeeds and was raised to secure our justification (our acquittal), [making our account balance and absolving us from all guilt before God]
Credited (logízomai) Actually, the verb logízomai means to put together with one’s mind, to occupy oneself with what was put in our heavenly account.
Another translation reads, “Who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous” (YLT).
When the life of God is liberated within us, the ability of God is let loose.
If the power that is invested in the life of God is in you, the power that is invested in the Word of God, which Word spoke a universe into being we need to let loose the power of that word in our life.
This message is to let you know that God wants to be set free to flow through you.
YOU HAVE THE NAME OF JESUS
John 14: 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.
This is not praying to the Father, nor making a request of Jesus. It is using the name as Peter used it at the temple’s beautiful gate when he set that man free from childhood paralysis.
Acts 3:1 Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 2 And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple; 3 who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms. 4 And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, “Look at us.” 5 So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. 6 Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” 7 And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. 8 So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them-walking, leaping, and praising God.
It is commanding the forces of darkness to become obedient to the authority of the name of Jesus.
That name is yours. You may not yet have taken advantage of it. Jesus gave you the power of attorney to use His name.
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
The word disciple means student, one who learns, and then practices what they have learned.
We are to make disciples of all nations.
Mark 16: 17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
That belongs to you now. The age of miracles is your age. It is the present age you are living in. You can live and walk in the fullness of God’s ability. You can let that ability loose in you, if you will.
This is love’s challenge to let the life of God loose in you, to let the Word loose in you, and to give the name its real place in your life.
YOU HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT IN YOU
Jesus promised the disciples that the Holy Spirit, who was with them, should be in them.
On the day of Pentecost, after the disciples were born from above, The Holy Spirit entered into their bodies.
What a miracle it is to have God in us.
It is wonderful to have His Word abiding in us when we realize that the universe has been created by His Word, and we have that creative ability in us.
Now we have God Himself in us, along with His Word. No wonder He said:
1 John 4: 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
The God in us is the same God who spoke a universe into being. The same God is in us who walked the sea in Galilee. The same God is in us who arose from the dead.
For God it is who is working in you. —Philippians 2:13 YLT
We have not taken advantage of the riches of grace that belong to us. How few of us have let God loose in us.
I can hear Him knocking to have His place and have His rights in the individual members of the body of Christ.
How He longs to heal the sick and break the power of Satan over the lives of men and women through us! Let us let Him loose in us.
YOU HAVE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
We are the righteousness of God in Christ.
2 Corinthians 5: 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Now He wants us to bear the fruit of righteousness.
2 Corinthians 9: 10 Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness.
Righteousness is the ability to stand in the Father’s presence without condemnation.
It gives us the legal right to the use of the name of Jesus. It gives us ability to stand in the presence of diseases of all kinds without fear and in the presence of Satan as an absolute master.
1 John 2: 29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.
How few of us have ever walked in righteousness. We thought it meant only conduct, carefulness in our walk.
That is implied, but that is not doing righteousness. Doing righteousness is doing the works that Jesus wrought, for we are taking Jesus’s place on the earth.
Righteousness gives us the ability to stand in the presence of God anytime and to stand in the presence of Satan as absolute victors.
How little has this been understood. How little we have majored in it.
Now God is waiting for us to bring this truth to the front of our consciousness.
He wants us to begin to live righteousness, to practice righteousness, to break Satan’s dominion, and to speak with authority just as Jesus did.
YOU HAVE GOD’S WISDOM
You might say this is the summation of all.
If you have God’s ability and God’s wisdom and you let them loose, what limitlessness there will be to your ministry.
It is not a problem of education, but of letting God loose in you, liberating the ability of God that is within you.
Locked up in you today is the ability of God. Jesus has been made wisdom unto you.
1 Corinthians 1: 30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
James told the babes in Christ that if they lacked wisdom, they could ask God for it.
Whoever of you is defective in wisdom, let him ask God who gives to all men without question or reproach, and the gift will be his. Only, let him ask in faith, with never a doubt; for the doubtful man is like surge of the sea whirled and swayed by the wind; that man need not imagine he will get anything from God, double-minded creature that he is, wavering at every turn. —James 1:5–8 MOFF
You are grown up now. You have passed the period of babyhood and now you know that Jesus is your wisdom.
Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge. You have the knowledge of the life of God that is in you. You have the knowledge of the power and authority of the Word.
You have the knowledge of your legal right to use the name of Jesus in your combat with spiritual forces.
You have the knowledge of the fact that God is in your body.
Now you are going to use these mighty facts to bless humanity.
LETTING GOD LOOSE IN US
The imprisoned God at last is set free with the bill of rights to use us as He pleases.
We are no longer hidden. People know who we are.
There is a path worn to our home, no matter where we live, for we have let God loose in us and have given Him His liberty to heal the sick and bless the world.