When we use the fact of His substitution like we would an elevator, then the Word becomes a reality.
We never think of faith when we take an elevator. We simply use it.
When we are new creation-conscious, just as we use our physical senses to walk in the world, then we would walk in the realm of victory.
You cannot be God-inside-conscious without being a victor.
John 4: 4 “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them (whatever is against Christ), because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
“You are of (motion into) God, little children.” Let that soak into the consciousness of your spirit.
I am a master of everything connected with the old creation. Satan has no dominion over the new creation. He has no dominion over me. That hidden man of the heart, my spirit, the real me, is a new creation. The old things have passed away.”
The old man with its weaknesses, its failings, its doubts, its fears, and its sense of servitude to circumstances is all gone.
The new spirit, the new man in Christ, is now a master where the other was a slave.
This new creation is redeemed out of the hands of the enemy.
When I write or preach, I am giving place to “Holy Spirit, the opportunity for him to speak through me, think through me; rise with me. Impart the Spirit of God, through my words”
You see that great substitution is ours. His ability is ours.
All that Jesus did is ours, just as our hands and feet are ours.
We look at ourselves now as a new creation. We have been taken out of the realm of death as truly as Jesus was when He was raised from the dead.
His body was taken out of the realm of physical death; our spirits have been taken out of the realm of spiritual death.
In the mind of justice, we were raised together with Him. When we became new creations, we passed out of death into life.
He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
You see, we were born out of spiritual death into the realm of spiritual life. We passed out from Satan’s authority and dominion and have been translated into the kingdom of the Son.
God is now our Father. We are His very children. Jesus has become our righteousness. By the new birth, we became partakers of the divine nature; we became the righteousness of God in Christ.
That means that we can stand in the Father’s presence with the same liberty and freedom that Jesus had. Before that time, we had a sin-consciousness developed in us by spiritual death. Now we have eternal life-consciousness.
We are the sons and daughters of God. We are growing in righteousness-consciousness, and we are beginning to take our legal place and act the part of sons and daughters. As we act on the Word and experience his righteousness.
How vitally necessary it is that we become experienced in the Word which has taught us about righteousness and have taken our place in righteousness.
When Jesus began His public ministry, He was really the righteousness of God unveiled.
Jesus had no sense of sin, no sense of inferiority. He was a super-man. He was a Master of demons. He was a Master of disease and sickness. He was a Master of those who need spiritual and physical food.
When we received Jesus as Lord He became our righteousness, and then, by the new creation, we became the righteousness of God in Him.
We have not been taught about our righteousness. We have not been taught about our freedom in Christ. We didn’t know we were the masters of demons in the name of Jesus.
We didn’t know we had authority over all the authority and power of the enemy.
We didn’t know that we could stand in the Father’s presence just as freely as Jesus did, with no sense of inferiority, no sense of unworthiness, that we were the very sons and daughters of God.
Jesus wasn’t afraid of the adversary.
Jesus could walk into the presence of the devil without any fear. He wasn’t afraid when He stood beside the tomb of dead Lazarus.
Why was Jesus so fearless? Because He was the righteousness of God. It is that simple.
He had no sense of sin. He had no sense of condemnation.
If the believer knew that he was the righteousness of God as Jesus knew He was, he would use the name of Jesus with a fearlessness that would shake the demonic and bless humanity.
Jesus said after He arose from the dead, “All authority has been given unto Me in heaven and in earth; I am the head of the church. (Matthew 28:18.)
“Now I give you the legal right to use My name, and all this authority is in that name. ‘In my name shall they cast out devils’ (Mark 16:17).
I have given you authority over Satan. I have given you dominion over all the work that he has done.
Jesus said I have come, “to ‘destroy the works of the devil’ (1 John 3:8). “I am leaving it in your hands now.”
If a believer becomes righteousness-conscious, Son-conscious, Satan will run in terror from them.
Satan knows that as soon as the church becomes conscious of the reality of redemption, that moment his reign over the earth is interrupted.
Jesus would never have given us the invitation in Hebrews 4:16, to “come boldly unto the throne of grace,” unless He had expected us to take our place and to act the part that belonged to us.
We are what He says we are. We should learn to use that name as we use our own, to use prayer as we use an automobile.
When we think about the problems in the world, they now become our responsibility.
The trouble is, they have been taught us as doctrines.
A doctrine we believed, and most of us have joined a doctrinal church.
That doctrine has locked Jesus up so that He is helpless and has locked us into a world of conformity that makes us useless.
What the Lord wants to do is make us free, to loose us from the all the bondage that has held us all these years.
The Pauline revelation is not a set of doctrines. It is just the Father speaking to us through Paul, unveiling what belongs to us in Christ.