Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
—Hebrews 4:14
This Scripture can become a reality in you. The word here is not “profession” but “confession.” Christianity is called the great confession.
Your confession is that you are in Christ.
All we have said to you in these lessons is a reality to you.
You hold fast to it.
The adversary will try to make you deny your confession. He will try to make you confess another thing rather than this.
He will try to make you confess weakness and failure and want.
But you hold fast to your confession that “my God does supply every need of mine.” (See Philippians 4:19.) You stand by that confession.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13)
You make the declaration that He is the strength of your life.’
Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed. (1 Peter 2:24)
You died unto sins with Christ on that cross; you arose to walk in righteousness, and by His stripes, you are healed.
When Jesus arose from the dead, healing belonged to you.
You hold fast to your confession in the face of every assault of the enemy.
You rebuke it in the name of Jesus.
You walk in the way of righteousness. That is the way of victory.
That is the way where you cast out demons and disease in the name of Jesus.
Every disease that has afflicted a Christian could have been healed if there had been anyone who had dared to walk in righteousness toward that believer and who would have dared walk in the fullness of his privileges in Christ.
The devil could have been driven out and healing could have been his.
For we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but [one] tempted in all things in like manner—apart from sin; we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace. (Hebrews 4:15–16 YLT)
You are invited to come now to the throne room and sit with the Master and with the Father.
You are to come in with the Master and with the Father.
You are to come boldly. Don’t come creeping in. Don’t come in confessing your sins, bewailing your weakness and failures.
Put on the new garment. Dress fittingly to appear before the throne.
You are the sons and daughters of God Almighty, without condemnation.
You will “obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16).
If we realized what we were in Christ and knew that we had the ability to be what God says we are, our lives would be transformed in a week.
We do not know what redemption and the new creation have made us.
We do not know what we are to the Father’s heart and what He is to us.
Most of us are theological Christians instead of Bible Christians.
We have theological experiences and are ever attempting to square the Word with those experiences.
We have been taught that there is no truth beyond our creed.
We lock our people in a creed, making them prisoners of the theories of men born a hundred years ago.
The creed Christian is not a Bible Christian. Each creed must have the Bible translated to fit it.
We have discovered a Christ who is greater than the creeds, a redemption that is greater than the creeds, and a new birth that bursts the bonds of creedal Christianity and sets the prisoners free.
We are discovering a type of Christianity that is better than the creeds, better than anything to which the creeds have given birth.
The creeds, beautiful though they are, are largely born of sense knowledge.