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Death has no authority over Him in me

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Rom. 6:2, “Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?”

At salvation, we were immersed and drowned to death at baptism. In Him, we do not have the ability to live in something that no longer has power over us. For example, naturally speaking, if my legal record is clean then I am not capable of staying in prison according to the justness of the law or really the justness of the One giving the law.

We died with Christ at the cross. In this death, the power of sin1, the judgment and guilt of the law or even self-imposed law, does not have authority over us. We have been translated into the kingdom of God’s only Son. Who we were prior to knowing Christ is dead. The power of the law can no longer judge a dead person. The dead person or ‘old man’ is not capable of living anymore. The one who does live is Christ in us by His faith, Gal. 2:20.

Death was inoculated in Him at the cross. We partake in this inoculation. He gives us His immunity to death now as a free gift because He is LOVE! He is more than that!

Rom. 6:14, “For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.” Neither sin or its power has dominion over us in Christ.

Death vaccine

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Romans 5:12-13,

“12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.”

If something or rather someone cannot die because their nature is immortal then death cannot affect them or have any influence. This was and is true now with and in Christ according to His power towards those who believe1.

Verse 13 above says “sin is not imputed when there is no law.” If death is by sin according to verse 12, then death is not imputed2, reckoned or set to one’s account in Christ.

In Him, my conscience is purged from dead works. Dead works. Truly, in Him, I am being separated from death more as I grow in Him who is life3. In Him, I am becoming life according to the revelation of Him in me. In Him, I share in His death, but only to resurrect and live in continual newness of life daily. His will in me desires life for all because of love.

Romans 8:2, “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”

Obeying a religious to-do list does not impart life. Revelation by hearing and hearing the word imparts life.

Super-nature

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In Christ, we have a super-nature.

Heb. 11:3, “Through faith we understand and perceive with the mind…”

Col. 1:6 (KJV), “Which is come unto you, as [it is] in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as [it doth] also in you, since the day ye heard [of it], and knew the grace of God in truth:”

Col. 1:6 (NIV), “that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God’s grace in all its truth.”

The Greek word for “knew” & “understood” is ἐπιγινώσκω or epiginōskō. It means “to become thoroughly acquainted with, to know thoroughly.”

It seems that when Christ reveals Himself this quickened word and knowledge creates faith which is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. This faith is not blind. I did not accept Christ as my Lord and Savior blindly. I accepted Him in my heart and life knowingly with understanding.

This understanding of the word quickened by the Holy Spirit to my spirit commingles with my soul, mind and will. In this understanding of His will by faith, my image is renewed and changed continually to be like Him. In this regeneration1, Titus 3:5, I supernaturally bear His fruit and righteousness by faith through grace. I am not forced to bear His nature. I am not obligated to bear His nature because His nature is in me.

Isn’t this what Paul says? In Gal. 1:16, “To reveal his Son in me…”

If the same Son of God of Heb. 1:2-3 and Col. 1:14-22 truly dwells in me and you then for us to bear His nature is not far fetched, but reality.

What is newness?

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This blog builds on A work which you will by no means believe. This previous blog talked about ‘newness’ a little bit. I found another blog that touched on it as well in One New Man.

Matt. 9:17 the Lord says, “Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break,
and the wine runs out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine
into new bottles, and both are preserved.”

New for ‘new wine’ refers to the age of the wine.
New for ‘new bottles’ means,

1. new
    a) as respects form
        i. recently made, fresh, recent, unused, unworn
    b) as respects substance
        i. of a new kind, unprecedented, novel, uncommon, unheard of

Same Greek word for new is ‘newness’ in Romans 6:4.

Lamentations 3:22-23 says, “Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.”

In our understanding apart from Christ, our definition of “great” in ‘Great is Your faithfulness’ is small. It is. Think of something great in your life. Now apply that to God’s faithfulness. That doesn’t even make sense. In our attempt to understand God, we apply our small language and definitions to describe God’s nature. God is more than words, but words that are quickened by the Holy Spirit have His depth and understanding, Heb. 4:2.

I believe ‘great’ in this context is infinitely great. There is no end to His nature of mercy and compassion. I believe this is why “spiritually hearing” is crucial, essential, vital and fundamental in Romans 10:17.

Got sidetracked. Apologies. Back to newness. The other point in the Lamentations scripture is His mercies and compassions are new every morning. How? Why? Guess I just answered it by attempting to describe ‘great’. Also, our definition of full or fullness is limited when it comes to the ‘God-kind’ of faith. Are we talking about filling a cup metaphorically? Filling a pool, ocean, galaxy, universe, dimension?

I believe Paul describes fullness in various scriptures.

Here is one in Eph. 1:10, “That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him:“

What are all things in Christ? Col. 1:16-17 says all things were created by Him and for Him that He might first in all things. All things created by Him are held together or consist by Him as well. This is fullness in every universe to every molecule.

In this context and definition, His nature is self-sufficient in His fullness. In His fullness, His compassions and mercies are new everyday. This is applying God’s eternal and just nature to “days” in our existence in time. If His nature is infinite and eternal then Lam. 3:22-23 most definitely is true.

How does this apply to you or me? Who we were died with Christ on the cross. That person is dead and can no longer live. Who we are now is immersed, drowned, and diffused into Christ by revelation of Him according to the Word of God. In this knowledge of Him in us, we become righteous apart from works and are willing to exercise His will because of the affect of this supernatural, unearthly revelatory knowledge.

This knowledge is new everyday according to His nature and fullness. This implies our nature and who we are grows in newness continually and even daily by grace in the Spirit of Holiness.

A work which you will by no means believe

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Acts 13:40-41

“Beware therefore, lest what has been spoken in the prophets come upon you:
‘ Behold, you despisers,
Marvel and perish!
For I work a work in your days,
A work which you will by no means believe,
Though one were to declare it to you.’”

Paul was quoting from Habakkuk 1:5.

In the previous verse, Acts 13:39, he said, “and from all things from which ye were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous;”

So, what if someone told you it to you this way?

“God is love. He loves you. He sent His Son to this world to become like you, to become an ultimate sacrifice for you, to resurrect for you, and to sit down at the right hand of the Father for you. You do not owe Him anything even though He died for you. His will is that you know Him and the Father and become like Him.”

My response to this in the past was, “Awesome. So, what do I need to do?”

I believe this is the Lord’s response now. I believe this is what Paul was saying in verses 39-41.

The response is,

“You do not have to do anything.”

This is a work which you will by no means believe.

Do you believe what I just wrote?

My part which is really his part in me is to believe Who He is and what He has done. Really though, I believe because He enables me to believe according to His nature. It is because of who He is.

So, what about helping the world? What does the church do? Paul describes what we do now in Christ beautifully in Gal. 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ
lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the
faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

My life is His life in me, but is my life because my identity is hid and found in Him. The true nature of my identity is His righteousness unto holiness by faith through grace in me. This happens by revelation of Him through hearing first, then hearing His word.

Then I am compelled by “1 Corinthians 13 Love” through faith. This faith is His faith according to the Greek and King James version in me. This faith grows as He reveals Himself inwardly. Paul said God works in us effectually, 1 Thess. 2:13. It is Christ’s work, energy and power by revelation and knowledge of Him. This life is different and no comparison to a life without Him.

It is newness of life. Newness is new everyday not one time. God is not old. Old is something that is based on time. Death exists in time. He resurrected from death. Death has no hold on Him and never did. Newness is according to His fullness in Him and in us by infinite revelation of Him in us. Newness is what everyone desires. New clothes, houses, hair style, car, job, exercise, vacation, relationships, etc. Nothing “created” can compare to the Creator.

Marveled and Astonished

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The Pharisees tested Jesus asking is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar? After His reply, this was their reaction.

Matthew 22:22, “When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left Him and went their way.”

The Sadducees tested Him as well giving a hypothetically story of a woman who marries seven brothers. She marries the first, he dies, marries the second, he dies, and so on. The question was whose wife is she in the resurrection?

Their reaction to his response.

Matthew 22:33, “And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.”

So, what was so marvelous or astonishing in what He said?

In each of the above occurrences, neither the Pharisees or Sadducees approached the Lord in faith. They approached him in envy, arrogance, indignation, assumption, pride and self-righteousness sincerely expecting to entrap Him in their understanding of their doctrine. They did not live their lives in faith, but lived their lives by what they saw and thought they had understanding because they were able to entrap and burden others.

When they approached Christ they did not believe who He was and is. He spoke of the things He heard from His Father. He replied with undeniable, absolute, and apprehending truth.

John 1:5, “The light shines through the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.”

Eph. 4:18, “They are darkened (shadowed) in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance (lack of knowledge of real truth) that is in them due to the hardening (callous) of their hearts.”

According to scripture, the law of Moses is typified as a shadow. Legalism does not make the shadow. Christ is the body that makes the shadow!, Col. 2:12. A shadow dims an area leaving less light. Less light could imply less understanding. Our lives are hid in Christ. We are not under shadows anymore, but in light. This light is in us. It is not hidden anymore, but revealed.

They marveled and were astonished because initially they did not believe. Truth and light was shone brightly to their minds, hearts and conscience. Real revelation has this affect. Heavily diluted revelation is barely revelation if it is even it all. It is not as real, fresh, authentic, burning, consuming, invigorating, or life-changing.

I believe a day is coming when those who are in Christ will speak the word and people will walk backwards from you when you speak it to them because of the “realness” of what you are speaking. It is real because truth is always real. He is truth. Real truth sets me free!

“Lie to me”

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Just saw a very interesting show tonight called “Lie to me” and a thought came to mind, “Our bodies are not purposed to keep or hold things that are not true even if the things are subjective in the mind, heart and soul such as lies.”

In the show, the main actor, Dr. Kal Lightman, observes and discerns whether or not people are lying based on body language. Their tongues would lie, but their bodies were unable to contain the untruth. The untruth would manifest itself it some way either in the face, gesture, tone of voice, choice of words, or body. My wife brought up a good point. Some people can lie and pass lie detectors. They are pathological liars. I believe these individuals are either possessed or oppressed by the enemy who is the father of lies. There is no regard for authority, love, or truth in their hearts or minds. They are reprobate1.

Didn’t plan on it, but this blog builds on Residence.

In Christ, if our bodies are the temple and dwelling of the Spirit of Truth then the things which are not true or real cannot live or dwell there such as lies, deceit, bitterness, disease, death, malice and so on.

All of the aforementioned manifestations of the flesh and curse have a common denominator, fear. Perfect love casts out fear. When perfection comes the little becomes nullified2.

This perfect love is revealed in Christ. Love is not able to deceive, lie, hold grudges, impart or desire disease for someone, or be malicious. It is not fearful in itself and therefore is not compelled to emote itself out of fear. Love emotes itself out of its fullness. There is no fear or lack in love.

Residence

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Prior to Saturday night, 01/17/09, I noticed something different in my walk. I asked the Lord that night, “What happened?” I felt He told me, “I do not dwell in unforgiveness.”

The Hebrew definition of the word bitter is “the headwaters of a river are only a trickle and have stagnant pools causing the water to be bitter.”

Paul say in 1 Thessalonians 5:19 to not extinguish or quench the Spirit. Reading 1 Thessalonians and chapter 5 give indications of how this can occur. To me, putting law on oneself or another is similar to extinguishing a fire.

The word says the Spirit of God is the Spirit of Truth. Jesus said He is the truth. Ephesians says, “The truth is in Jesus.”

If Jesus died on the cross as an act of forgiving my sins then unforgiveness is not truth. Unforgiveness for whatever reason, according to His will, is non-existent at the cross in His flesh. Love does not keep any record of wrong. It cannot do so. It is not truth. Unforgiveness is not intrinsic with Love and Truth. Otherwise, Christ died in vain, but He did not. He died for my sins to redeem me. He resurrected to give me newness of life and to be a new creature of righteousness by grace in Him.

One might read this so far and say, “Well, I need to forgive. I must.” In ourselves, we cannot forgive ourselves much less anyone else. Jesus did not try to forgive us or exercise His forgiveness half-heartedly. He forgave because of His will. He came to do and did the will of the Father. Col. 3:13 says, “Forgive as the Lord forgave you.”

I can only give someone something that I have or something that has been given to me from someone else. Christ has given Himself. In the gift of Himself and everything He has done He has given absolute forgiveness.

At my salvation, I am dead on arrival into Him. Who I was is dead. Unforgiveness has no power over a dead person. At my salvation, I was spiritually immersed into Christ and received by revelation through grace and faith His divine, priceless, free gift of forgiveness.

I forgive because I have received and understand by faith the revelation of Christ in me. In this revelation, there is infinite fullness according to His nature. Part of this fullness is His forgiveness rooted in Love. This forgiveness, truth, love and grace continually changes me and grows in me.

Three areas in His will

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My willingness makes you righteous.

And is in the continual act of making you righteous.

Romans 12:1-2

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.“

Hebrews 10:10

“And by that will (Christ’s will in Heb. 10:7), we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”

In Rom. 12:2,

PROVE means “to test or examine something with the object of the test being to display or prove the genuineness of that which is tried.”

GOOD means “describes that which is “good” in its character or constitution or beneficial in its effect.”

ACCEPTABLE means “that which causes someone to be pleased. It is something which is well approved, eminently satisfactory, or extra-ordinarily pleasing.”

PERFECT means “an adjective which describes some entity which is finished, brought to its end, lacking nothing necessary for completeness.”

The above four things happen by “being transformed by the renewing of our minds” in Christ by hearing and hearing the word of God.

So, I can be in the good will of God. An example could be having the desire to preach or give to the poor.

I can be in the good and acceptable will of God. An example could be having the desire to preach or give to the poor and acting upon it by arbitrarily going to Africa and doing so.

Lastly, by grace, I can be in His good, acceptable and perfect will. An example of this could be having the desire to preach or give to the poor and knowing that the Holy Spirit is unctioning or compelling you to do so in Australia and then doing it.

If am in the good, acceptable and perfect will of God I am in His purpose and mine in Him. I am a righteous creature created by Him functioning, living, and fulfilling the Creator’s purpose which is my purpose in Him.

All of this happens by revelation, grace and faith in His love.

Demarcation

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A boundary, point, or line of demarcation gives the one who trespasses knowledge of the rule and the purpose of the rule.

Gal. 3:24 (YNG), “So that the law became our child-conductor — to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,”

The purpose of the law is for those who trespass it, 1 Tim. 1:9. If I am in Christ, it is not for me to live by. If I live and walk in the Spirit, I actually establish the law through grace and love, Rom. 3:31. God gave us the law. He created and establish it according to His will and nature. How would I know covetousness, lust, or envy is not good unless I was told? The knowledge of Ex. 20:7, 15, 17 makes me conscious of of these sins prior to knowing Christ, Rom. 3:20.

In Christ, the guilt and penalty of sin is not imputed or reckoned to my account ever because who I was is dead. That dead person cannot be judged. The law can only judge those under it living in the flesh. Those who are under grace and in the Spirit are no longer under its judgment  Who am I in Christ is resurrected and not under law, Rom. 5:13. On the contrary, I see many Christians ‘under law’ and condemnation when the Word says they are not. I they somewhere along the road they received an impotent, diluted, legal teaching or doctrine that implies they are not worthy, they are not doing enough, God is not satisfied, settle for less, at least you’re going to heaven, this is it there is nothing more, and they are stuck there in this cancerous doctrine.

Paul says in Gal. 5:1, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

In Eph. 6:10, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.”

Obeying a to-do list is like keeping the Old Covenant, but our righteousness is in Christ by His faith in us.

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