The average Christian does not object to my telling what they need or what they should do or be, but they may not understand me when I tell them what they are in Christ.
I have been teaching on the legal aspects of redemption. God speaks from the realm of eternity and from the realm of Time in the New Covenant.
Hebrews 10: 14 For by one offering He has perfected forever (eternity) those who are being sanctified (time).
So, I have been teaching on the legal aspects of redemption. The way YHVH see’s us, He sees us in Jesus. The reason I do that is to establish your identity before the Father.
Now the Holy Spirit has been sent to take the perfect provision of the finished work of Christ on the Cross and helps us appropriate it.
This is the milk of the word. Once you are established in your identity. That you are righteous in your Father’s sight.
Then it is time to start working out your gift of righteousness here on earth. This is the vital aspect of Redemption.
This is all about the demands of discipleship-dedication, and consecration.
In the Bible, dedication means setting oneself apart from the world to be exclusively dedicated to God, this is our part.
Consecration is God Part in accepting our dedication and sanctifying it.
We see a type of this in the Old Testament where a person would offer a sacrifice to God, and the fire of God would come out of heaven and consume it. This is sanctification.
I will teach on this, and the title will be “A workshop on a dedicated lifestyle”
So, there are two sides to the cross, the legal side and the vital or experiential side.
So, when I teach on the legal side, the immature in the Lord are thinking I am teaching what people may call “hyper grace” or “greasy grace” giving people a license to sin.
When I teach on the vital aspect of redemption, then people think I am teaching people legalism, and putting them in bondage because the message is hard for them to receive, but it is all about functioning in the governmental positions of the Kingdom. It is about responsibility and rewards. It is being faithful in what God is calling you to do and manifest his nature in what you are do, so that they will see your good works and glorify our Father in heaven because he is doing the works through us by the Holy Spirit.
APPROPRIATE 2
There are verses in the Bible we need to appropriate. We need to become before we can do. Otherwise, we are just working for God, not with Him and they become dead works and not living works.
We need to know that the Lord has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ- Ephesians 1:3
1 Corinthians 3:21 For all things are yours: 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours. 23 And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
All things are mine, whether the revelation was given to Paul or Cephas or Apollos, it is mine.
Everything that the Father wrought in Christ in his great substitution belongs to the individual believer.
It makes no difference whether the believer is educated or uneducated, whether he is rich or poor.
The boundless grace unveiled in Christ belongs to every one of us.
Philippians 4 :13 is absolutely ours.I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
I can do anything that is necessary to be done, because of His ability that has been imparted to me.
Psalm 27: 1 The YHVH is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The YHVH is the strength (a fortified place, a fortress, a shelter) of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?
Observe that carefully, The Lord is my light, that is wisdom, that is ability. He is my ability to use the knowledge of what belongs to me.
I am able to take advantage of what the Epistles tell me belongs to me.
He is not only my ability but my salvation, my deliverance, my redemption.
I am as free from Satan’s dominion in the mind of the Father as Jesus was when he arose from the dead because his resurrection has freed me.
I have become a partaker of His resurrection the moment I become a New Creation.
Colossians 3:1 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
I am a partaker of Christ’s resurrection.
The ability of God that was exercised in the resurrection of Jesus belongs to the believer today.
Ephesians 1: 19 I want to show you what the exceeding greatness of the ability of God on our behalf who believe. It is according to the working of the strength of his might which he wrought in the Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his right hand.
We have never grasped the significance of this. The Father has given to us the ability that he exercised in the resurrection of Jesus.
Then we who have received eternal life have in our possession today the resurrection power or ability of God.
I am convinced that before the kingdom is manifested on the earth, there will be groups of men and women who will recognize this and take their place and begin to show to the world a type of supernatural ability that will amaze a sense-knowledge-ruled world.
POWER 3
It is no impotent thing to have the Holy Spirit in you.
The Lord says, “Have I been so diminished?” Have I become so small and so weak and ineffectual that you can disregard me?
The God who raised Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you and He has lost none of His ability or power. When He enters your life to dwell there, He doesn’t lay aside His glory and majesty and might.
When God’s Son took upon Him the garment of flesh, He laid aside His divine attributes. And lived by the nature of the Holy Spirit in Him and by the Power of the Holy Spirit that rested upon Him.
But when the Holy Spirit comes into you, he comes in- fully qualified. He is the same mighty Holy Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead.
Romans 8:11 And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life to your death-doomed bodies.
We need to begin to reckon on him. To say in the morning, That Mighty One is in me. He can put me over today. I can face any emergency. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I can hear the Holy Spirit whisper.
Isaiah 41:10 Fear thou not, for I am with you.
But you say, “I am in need”.
10 Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.
The lord says, “I am today all that you need, your helper, your wisdom, your strength, your ability”.
You see, it is not what you should be. It is not what you can be, it is who you are in Christ.
THE HOLYSPIRIT IS WITH YOU 4
We are not trying to be righteous, we are righteous,
We are not trying to be strong, for God is the strength of our life.
We are not trying to be wise, because Jesus has been made wisdom unto us.
We are what he says we are, so we can do what he says we can do.
Jesus uttered some prophetic facts about believers in the gospels that we need to get in our spirit.
This next verse I am going to share is ours to claim, to confess (Matthew 19:26) The context of it is talking about the rich young ruler who trusted in his wealth, which was an Idol in his life and he asked Jesus what good thing should I do to receive eternal life?
Jesus told him to sell all that he had and give it to the poor, and he would have treasure in the Heavenly places, and come follow him. And the young man when he heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
And Jesus’s disciples were greatly astonished and said “who then can be saved” -(Matthew 19:16-25)
Matthew 19: 26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Jesus is speaking a fact, in and of ourselves we are powerless to do what He commands, but with God all things are possible.”
John 14: 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper (paraklētos- which literally means “called to one’s side”) that He may remain WITH you throughout the age.
The word WITH is “para” which means by the side of. He is talking about the Holy Spirit our helper, the one called alongside to help, for us to partner with.
BELIEVING ONES 5
Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you all things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have received them, and ye shall have them.
Mark 9:23 All things are possible to him that believeth.
The word believeth means a believing one.
Now Jesus sent out the 12 and the 70 ahead of him and gave them a temporary Authority and power to use His name. Jesus told them to say (the kingdom has come near to you, “is at hand”-Luke 10:9” But they were not born again, there were no born-again believers at this time.
The Kingdom came on the day of Pentecost after Jesus ascended to the Father was coronated as king of Kings and sat down at the right hand of the Father and poured out the Holy Spirit.
The disciples were born again when Jesus was raised from the dead and appeared to them (John 20:22) but were told to wait 50 days until he sent the promise of the Father (Luke 24:49) then the Holy Spirit was poured out, and the 120 disciples were baptized in the Holy Spirit and the Kingdom age began. The Kingdom was no longer near but here. But the Kingdom is in a different realm, the realm of the spirit.
When the epistles talk about heavenly places it is sort of misleading. It is talking about “the spirit realm or the invisible realm”, which includes hades, the earth, the atmosphere, the universe, heaven and eternity “where there is no time” but is in a different dimension that cannot be seen which the physical eyes.
In my messages when I talk about the natural realm (I am talking about physical substance, time and space) when I talk about the spirit realm (I am talking about spiritual substance, a different dimension). The natural realm came out of the spiritual realm when YHVH created it.
So, there were no believing ones in the time while Christ was preaching. They were Jews under the law. His disciples most of the time did not know what he was talking about until Jesus was raised from the dead and breathed into them the Holy Spirit and they were born again, and Jesus said to them in Luke 24: 49 “Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.” The day of Pentecost.
The believing ones came into being at Pentecost. It meant a believer, a New Creation man or woman. The New Creation man or woman is a partaker of God’s nature. They are really an incarnation. They have received the nature and life of God.
Then they invite the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead, who came on the day of Pentecost to make his home in their body.
This person not only has God’s nature but has God actually living in them.
SUPERMAN 6
When you were born again the seed of God (DNA) was impregnated in your spirit. It is Christ in your spirit in seed form. The seed in your spirit cannot sin, the life of God in your spirit cannot sin.
The seed in your spirit is planted in the soil of your heart. There are certain things in your heart that can hinder that seeds development. (Matthew 13:1- 18: Mark 4:1–20; Luke 8:4–15)
This seed is the divine nature of God which produces the fruit of the Spirit if you keep the soil of your heart pure. This seed has the potential of growing up into the stature of a full-grown male or female son of God exactly like Jesus Christ.
When the bible talks about the heart it is basically talking about your soul, unless it says the hidden man of your heart which is your spirit.
When you are baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues you are filled with the Spirit where he interpenetrates your whole being, spirit soul and body. Now you have two spirits in your body. Christ in your spirit, and the Holy Spirit in you.
When you learn how to be continually filled with the Spirit, he will lead you into the wilderness which is a type of testing, and if you pass the test you will have an outward miracle working power (power from on high) and you will become what the world would call a superman or a superwoman.
This man or woman with God’s nature, and God dwelling in them, is given a legal right to the use of the name of Jesus with the power of attorney.
The question is, what is that name worth, what authority is there backing it up?
Matthew 28: 18 and Jesus said, all authority has been given me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore, with this authority, and make disciples or students, of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 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.
You see what we have now, we have the power of attorney to use the name of Jesus, and all authority in heaven and on earth is invested in that name.
The believer is a new creation. The old things of weakness and failure have passed away, and behold the old man has become a new man, and all these things are of God-2 Corinthians 5:17.
This man or woman is a partaker of the divine nature, eternal life. He that hath the Son hath the life.
Now when you have the Holy Spirit indwelling in you. Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
This believer, this new creation, is a child of deity.
This person stands before the world as a very branch of the vine. They are taking Jesus’ place in the world. And if this isn’t a Superman or Superwoman, then we do not know what has taken place in us.
The Church has kept this Samson imprisoned by false teachings and by false doctrines.
They have not only held him a prisoner to their philosophies and dogmas, but they have actually put out his eyes.
But the father is going to restore sight to him and break the bonds that hold him.
The bonds of false teaching are going to be broken. And this child of God, this Superman, is going to come into his inheritance.
TWO ENEMIES OF SPIRIT FILLED BELIEVERS 7
He has two challenging enemies. Demonic forces and the carnal mind.
The worst one is the carnal mind(physical sense knowledge). This kind of knowledge is ingrained in all our universities, colleges, and technical schools, backed up by the press, and religious publications.
The great mass of most ministries that are not Spirit filled are bound by the realm of natural knowledge, the knowledge that comes into our minds from the natural world around us, our soul interpreting what our physical body senses.
And this superman in Christ has been held in bondage by them. They are the jailers. Religion has kept Christian’s earth bound, limited to human abilities.
The Father is calling for his sons and daughters to come out of the ditches of fear, doubt and unbelief and meet their enemies in open combat.
Satan can no more conquer this body of Christ when it knows its legal rights in Christ, than he could conquer Jesus on the day of the resurrection.
We are partakers, sharers in his resurrection.
Ephesians 2: 6 and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
We possess resurrection ability, but many believers doubt it.
Acts 1: 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.
The word power comes from the Greek word dynamis– Divine ability. Ye shall receive divine ability when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.
Ephesians 3: 20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.
If that doesn’t make supermen out of common men or women, then the English language cannot express God’s thoughts.
The problem is this: how long are we going to be held in bondage by physical sense knowledge?
How long are we going to refuse to take our place as the sons of God?
How long are we going to be intimidated by the fears and doctrines of men, while the word of God remains veiled by the natural mind?
Here is the Spirit’s challenge, learn how to get the word of God in your spirit so that you can become the kings and priests of God in the earth.
Begin to act like sons of God, you have all heaven backing you up. You have the very angelic forces “who harken to the word of God that comes out of your mouth in faith”.
God is your strength and ability. All things are possible to you because you are daring to act on the word of God, you are daring to live as Jesus lived when he was on the earth.
You are the righteousness of God that gives you authority over Satan, that gives you access to the throne of God, that you might become a spirit warrior, more than a conquer.
Spiritual things are as real as material things. Spiritual forces are stronger than natural forces.
Spiritual forces govern disease; spiritual forces govern natural laws.
Satan caused the wind on the Sea of Galilee; Jesus caused them to be still.
The believer is a new creation, created by God himself. We have the nature of God in our spirit. We are ambassadors of God on the earth.