Growing

“Therefore, beloved, since you wait for these, be zealous to be found by Him without spot or blemish, and at Peace. ¹⁵ And count the forbearance of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the Wisdom given him, ¹⁶ speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. ¹⁷ You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, beware lest you be carried away with the error of lawless men and lose your own stability. ¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen” 2 Peter 3:14-18

Glowing

Arise and shine for your Light has come, and the glory of Christ can rise upon you and in you; His anointing abiding in you, Christ in you, teaching you to abide in Christ (1 John 2:27) through faith in the Son of God who loves you and gave Himself for you, draws you to Himself and is able to join you to Himself, in the one Body and one Spirit of Risen Christ as a new creation in Christ.

“So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any incentive of love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, ² complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. ⁵ Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ⁶ who, though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, ⁷ but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in human form He humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. ⁹ Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the Name which is above every name, ¹⁰ that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Shining as Lights in the World

¹² Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; ¹³ for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

¹⁴ Do all things without grumbling or questioning, ¹⁵ that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, ¹⁶ holding fast the Word of Life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. ¹⁷ Even if I am to be poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. ¹⁸ Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice…

3 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not irksome to me, and is safe for you.

² Look out for the dogs, look out for the evil-workers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. ³ For we are the true circumcision, who worship God in Spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh… that I may gain Christ ⁹ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own, based on law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith…¹² Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me His own. ¹³ Brethren, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let those of us who are mature be thus minded; and if in anything you are otherwise minded, God will reveal that also to you. ¹⁶ Only let us hold true to what we have attained…

now I tell you even with tears, many live as enemies of the Cross of Christ. ¹⁹ Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. ²⁰ But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ who will change our lowly body to be like His Glorious Body, by the Power which enables Him even to subject ALL things to Himself…

true yokefellows, help these women ⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. ⁵ Let all men know your forbearance. The Lord is at hand. ⁶ Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. ⁷ And the Peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. ⁹ What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, do; and the God of Peace will be with you. ¹³ I can do ALL things in Him who strengthens me…¹⁹ And my God will supply EVERY need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. ²⁰ To our God and Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen. ²¹ Greet every saint in Christ Jesus…²³ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit” Philippians 2:1-4:23

“Be aglow in the Spirit” Romans 12:11

“Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer” Romans 12:12

“But as to the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need to have anything written to you. ² For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. ³ When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape. ⁴ But you are not in darkness, brethren, for that day to surprise you like a thief. ⁵ For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. ⁶ So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. ⁷ For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. ⁸ But, since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. ⁹ For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ…

¹⁶ Rejoice always, ¹⁷ pray constantly, ¹⁸ give thanks IN all circumstances; for this is the Will of God in Christ Jesus for you. ¹⁹ Do not quench the Spirit, ²⁰ do not despise prophesying, ²¹ but test everything; hold fast what is good, ²² abstain from every form of evil.

²³ May the God of Peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ He who calls you is Faithful, and He will do it” 1 Thessalonians 5:1-24

Flowing

The old promised land was a land flowing with milk and honey. The new is the promised Spirit given to the pure, betrothed, many-membered bride out of every tribe, tongue, people, and nation who are faithful to Risen Jesus, the Word and the Spirit of God in the one Body flowing with the one Spirit Christ, the Holy Spirit poured out through Jesus; crystal-clear, fiery light, always fresh, the same river of Water of Life in King Jesus on the Throne, and in His beloveds who love Him so His Father loves you.

Jesus said, “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. ¹⁶ And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Counselor, to be with you for ever, ¹⁷ even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; you know Him, for He dwells with you, and will be in you.

¹⁸ “I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you. ¹⁹ Yet a little while, and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also. ²⁰ In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. ²¹ He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.” ²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” ²³ Jesus answered him, “If a man loves Me, he will keep My Word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our Home with him. ²⁴ He who does not love Me does not keep My Words; and the Word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

²⁵ “These things I have spoken to you, while I am still with you. ²⁶ But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name, He will teach you ALL things, and bring to your remembrance ALL that I have said to you. ²⁷ Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. ²⁸ You heard Me say to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I. ²⁹ And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place, you may believe” John 14:15-29

“These things I have spoken to you, that My Joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full” ~the things Jesus spoke in John 15:1-11

“Abide in Me, and I in you” 15:4

“If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, ask and receive to give glory to My Father” 15:7

“And He who sat upon the Throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Also He said, “Write this, for these Words are trustworthy and true.” ⁶ And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the fountain of the Water of Life without payment. ⁷ He who conquers shall have this heritage, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. ⁸ But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.” Revelation 21:5-8

“And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. ²³ And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb” Revelation 21:22-23

“Do you not know that your BODY is the temple of the Holy Spirit WITHIN that you have from God…glorifiy God in your body” 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

“Then He showed me the river of the Water of Life, bright as crystal, flowing from the Throne of God and of the Lamb ² through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. ³ There shall no more be anything accursed, but the Throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall worship Him; ⁴ they shall see His face, and His Name shall be on their foreheads. ⁵ And night shall be no more; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they shall reign for ever and ever. ⁶ And He said to me, “These Words are trustworthy and true…¹⁷ The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let him who hears say, “Come.” And let him who is thirsty come, let him who desires take the Water of Life without price” Revelation 22:1-5,17

“Therefore, having this Ministry [of Christ] by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. ² We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the Truth [Jesus is the Truth] we would commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. ³ And even if our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing. ⁴ In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the Light of the Gospel of the Glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God. ⁵ For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. ⁶ For it is the God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the face [face = presence = riches of glory] of Christ. ⁷ But we have this Treasure in earthen vessels…always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the Life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies…the Life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh…have the same Spirit of Faith” 2 Corinthians 4:1-7,10b,11b,13

Faith is a Gift and a Fruit of Christ’s Spirit, the Holy Spirit; without faith you cannot please God.

When Jesus returns physically, will He find faith flowing by the Holy Spirit in you? 

Moving

Why do you think so many refuse to move from the old covenant to the new covenant under Jesus, making Him your Head; Risen Christ Jesus Who is the one Body and one Spirit of God, the Head of the one, true, called-out “church” the ekklesia, the pure betrothed bride to her One Husband (2 Corinthians 11:2b; Matthew 25:1-13), no longer an enemy of God (James 4:4) when you move through the narrow gate of the Cross, move through the New Living Way (Hebrews 10:19-23), moving through the Open Door of Risen Jesus (John 10:9) the one Living Way to God our Father, so He can give you the Holy Spirit to be with AND in you (John 14:16-17) when you give all of your old nature and former manner of life to Jesus; putting off the old and putting on the new, created now after the image and likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness (Ephesians 4:20-24).

Why do so  many still reject Jesus as the Messiah, the Son of God, the Christ, the Living Holy Anointed One, the Risen Lamb of God, the Lord of lords and King of kings (Revelation 17:14); the Word and the Spirit of God, the King of kings and Lord of lords (Revelation 19:10-16)?

Why do so many still refuse to listen (Hebrews 12:25), hear, and obey His Words, Sayings, Teachings (John 12:48; Revelation 3:7-10) and deny His Name Above every name in heaven AND on earth? Why do so many reject Jesus, the visible manifestation of the invisible un-manifest Glory of God our Father; Risen Christ who is the exact image and likeness of God our Father, so that in beholding the Glory of the Risen Son, we are changing, transforming from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit (2 Corinthians 3:18);

clothed with the white garments and the riches of glory as our new inner light, Christ in you; the lamp of the Risen Lamb our new oil, fire, and eyes to see (Revelation 3:18, 21:23) by the Holy Spirit given to you under the new covenant, a much better covenant with much more excellent Promises, fulfilled in Risen Jesus. If the old covenant hadn’t been flawed, have faults, it would not have needed to be replaced with the new covenant (Hebrews 8:6-11) under which all can know God through Jesus, and all can be known by God through faith in Jesus, asking and receiving Christ in you, who teaches you to abide in Christ (1 John 2:27) as a member of the one Body of Risen Christ under the Head, so you can grow up in EVERY way into Christ (Ephesians 4:15), the Head of the one Body and one Spirit of God (1 Corinthians 12:27; Ephesians 4:4, 5:30-31); coming to fullness of life in Christ, in whom the whole Godhead dwells bodily (Colossians 1:19, 2:9-10).

Move into fullness of Life in Christ!

^“6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in Him, ⁷ rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

⁸ See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ. ⁹ For in Him the whole fulness of Deity dwells bodily, ¹⁰ and you have come to fulness of life in Him, who is the Head of all rule and authority. ¹¹ In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ; ¹² and you were buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. ¹³ And you, who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, ¹⁴ having canceled the bond which stood against us with its legal demands; this He set aside, nailing it to the cross. ¹⁵ He disarmed the principalities and powers and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in Him…²⁰ If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world?” Colossians 2:6-20

“What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? ² By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? ³ Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? ⁴ We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

⁵ For if we have been united with Him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like his. ⁶ We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. ⁷ For He who has died is freed from sin. ⁸ But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. ⁹ For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. ¹⁰ The death He died He died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. ¹¹ So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus” Romans 6:1-11

The greatest, best news! the true Light of the Gospel of the Glory of Christ, the true Light that enlightens and darkness can never overcome (John 1:1-16); the Light of the Gospel of the Glory of Risen Christ, the exact image and likeness of God our Father, but the “god of this world” blinds minds of unbelievers so they can’t see the new Way, Truth, Life (2 Corinthians 4:4; John 14:6) but our Father pours His Spirit, Light, Love, and Glory of Risen Christ into those who humble themselves and repent, turning from the darkness of this present world system of beliefs to believe Jesus, moving into the Marvelous Light of Risen Jesus as God’s new beloved people of all tribes, tongues, people, and nations (1 Peter 2:9-10; Revelation 5:9-10), turning from the power of satan and idols, sin and death, to the Power of the Living God, Father, Son, Holy Spirit; delivered from the dominion of darkness and transferred, moved into Christ where we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins in the new kingdom of the Beloved Risen Son of Righteousness (Colossians 1:9-14).

“Having purified your souls by your obedience to the Truth for a sincere love of the brethren, love one another earnestly from the heart. ²³ You have been born anew, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the Living and Abiding word of God [Jesus]…²⁵ but the Word of the Lord [Jesus] abides for ever.” That Word is the good news which was preached to you” 1 Peter 1:22-25

Amen. So be it. Hallelujah!

Cherished and Flourishing

“For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church, because we are members of His Body…the two become one flesh. This mystery is a profound one, and I mean in reference to Christ and the church” Ephesians 5:29-32

“There is one Body and one Spirit” Ephesians 4:4

“NOW you are the body of Christ and individually members of it” 1 Corinthians 12:27

“As many as are baptized into Christ have put on Christ” Galatians 3:27

“I write this to you about those who would deceive you; but the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; as Christ’s Anointing teaches you about everything, and is true and no lie, just as it has taught you to abide in Christ” 1 John 2:27

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us IN CHRIST with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places…destined us in love to be His sons THROUGH JESUS…through His glorious grace which He freely bestows upon us in the Beloved.  In Him we have redemption through His Blood…according to the riches of His grace which He lavishes upon us…In Him you also who have heard the Word of Truth…believe it…guaranteed…until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of His Glory…given the Spirit of Wisdom and revelation in the Knowledge of Him, having the eyes of your heart enlightened [enlightened Understanding], that you may know…the riches of your inheritance as a saint, and what is the immeasurable greatness of His Power in you who believe…Christ made the Head over all things for the church, which is His Body, the FULLNESS of Him who fills all in all” Ephesians 1:3-23

“NOW in Christ…He creates in Himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one Body through the Cross…for through Him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father…in whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit” Ephesians 2:13-22

“Therefore, if any one is in Christ you are a NEW creation, the old has passed away, behold, the NEW has come” 2 Corinthians 5:17

“According to the riches of His Glory He may grant you to be strengthened with Might through His Spirit in your inner man, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith…have the Power to comprehend with all the saints…to know the Love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who by the Power at work within us is able to do far more abundantly than all we ask or think, to Him be the glory IN THE CHURCH and IN CHRIST to  ALL GENERATIONS forever and ever. Amen” Ephesians 3:16-21

“Grow up in EVERY way into Him who is the Head” Ephesians 4:15

“Learn Christ…heard…taught in Him, as the Truth is in Jesus. Put off your OLD  nature which belongs to your FORMER manner of life and is corrupt…and be renewed in the Spirit of your mind, and put on the NEW nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness” Ephesians 4:20-24

“ONCE you were in darkness, BUT NOW you are light IN THE LORD; walk as children of Light (for the fruit of Light is found in all that is good and right and true)” Ephesians 5:8-9

“Be FILLED with the Spirit” Ephesians 5:18

“I give to the thirsty out of the Fountain of Water of Life…thirst, desire, take the Water of Life without price” Revelation 21:6, 22:17

Jesus told us in advance to ask Him for the Living Water (John 4:10); God is Spirit (4:24).

“Do not resist the Holy Spirit” Acts 7:51

“Do not quench the Holy Spirit” 1 Thessalonians 5:19

“Do not grieve the Holy Spirit” Ephesians 4:30

“Do not blaspheme the Holy Spirit, the unforgiveable sin” Luke 12:10

“Be continuously filled with the Holy Spirit” Ephesians 5:18

“Be aglow in the Holy Spirit” Romans 12:11

The Word of God is Jesus, the resurrection life and Spirit of God (John 6:63) do not be led astray from Jesus (6:66).

The King of kings and Lord of lords is the Word and the Spirit of God, Risen Christ Jesus on the Throne; the Risen Lamb of God on the Throne, the Lord of lords and King of kings who joins His pure betrothed bride, the wife of the Lamb, to Himself, so we can give all thanks, praise, glory, worship, and dominion to the Head, the Head of the one Body and one Spirit, the true church, the ekklesia, the called out ones, called out of the world system of beliefs and into Christ Himself; delivered from the dominion of darkness AND transferred into the kingdom of the beloved Son of Righteousness (Colossians 1:13); no longer joined to idols but joined with the Living and Abiding Word of God, the imperishable Seed of Jesus (1 Peter 1:22-23; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; Hosea 2:16-23).

The Risen Lamb of God, Jesus, ransomed for God OUT OF every tribe, tongue, people, and nations, making us a kingdom and a royal priesthood of believers who are receivers, not doubt-ers, distrust-ers, waver-ers, not double-minded but single, whole heartedly devoted to Risen Christ Jesus in the one Body and one Spirit of God, in Christ and Christ in you, giving all the glory to God!

Victory through Jesus

Victory is Jesus’ and we triumph in Christ and Christ in you; hearing and obeying Jesus’ Words, all trustworthy and true (Revelation  21:5, 22:6) “Abide in Me, and I in you” (John 15:4). “IF you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, ask and receive to give glory to My Father” (15:7). “I have spoken these things to you [to make you clean, 15:3] so My Joy can be in you, making your joy full and complete” (John 15:11). The Living God sits in the heavens and laughs at the nations raging and the leaders and kings conspiring together, planning and plotting (Psalm 2:1-5) those who have given their mind, power, and authority to the beast (Revelation 17:13) those who are against the called and chosen and faithful to the Risen Lamb of God, the Lord of lords and King of kings (Revelation 17:14) under His Blood, Water, and Spirit of the NEW covenant AND the Risen Lamb of God’s pure betrothed bride is clothed with Him (Revelation 12:1); clothed with the Son of Righteousness, clothed with His true light of glory and His glory within; kept safe and sound in Christ, taking refuge in Christ (Psalm 2:11b; 2 Corinthians 11:2b), clothed with His strength and dignity, laughing at the time to come (Psalm 31:25 RSV).

“Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you His Light” Ephesians 5:15

“Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed; ¹² the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; ¹³ let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy. ¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires” Romans 13:11-14

“As many as are baptized into Christ have put on Christ” Galatians 3:27

First we come out of the stories and wake up to the Reality of Jesus and what He did for us that no can do for themselves. Then we take the Words of Jesus to heart by faith, trusting the Way, the Truth and the Life of the Son of David as the Son of Man in the physical kingly lineage AND the Son of God conceived by the Holy Spirit; redeeming human beings from the womb to the tomb by God entering into the womb of a virgin, for woman was made from the first Adam’s breathed body, the first “living being” (1 Corinthians 15:45) the woman was not made from the dust like Adam was. NOW through Jesus we must be born again of God, both men and women, born anew from Above of the Holy Spirit, of the Fresh, crystal clear Living Water of Life, to be like the man of heaven, the last Adam, sinless, spotless Lamb of God who died and resurrected the NEW creation in Himself, draws us to Himself (John 12:32); is able to join you to Himself (Ephesians 5:30-31; 1 Corinthians 12:27; Galatians 3:27; 1 John 2:27). Taken by faith that pleases God (Hebrews 11:6) you are crucified WITH Christ, so it is no longer the old you who lives, but Christ who lives IN YOU, and the NEW life you begin to live, you live by FAITH in the Son of God who loves you and gave Himself for you (Galatians 2:20).

In Christ and Christ in you, you glory only in the Cross of Christ for the world is crucified to you and you to the world; you are a NEW creation (Galatians 6:14-15).

“Therefore IF any one is in Christ you are a NEW creation, the old is passed away, behold, the NEW has come” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

In Christ we are not in the old covenant but have been moved by the Holy Spirit given to you into the NEW covenant. “And all these [old covenant men and women of faith], though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised, ⁴⁰ since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect” (Hebrews 11:39-40). Now that Jesus has the Victory for us in Himself, he told those who will listen, believe, and receive to be holy (set apart) and perfect (lacking nothing in Matthew 5:48 and Peter told us in 1 Peter 1:13-23. We go through the tests of faith, made pure gold refined by fire, given the white garments of salvation, righteousness, and white wedding garment, with eyes to see (Revelation 3:18; 1 Peter 4:12-14) going THROUGH the trials, tribulations, tests of faith whose full effect is being complete in Christ and Christ in you, mature in Christ, made perfect, meaning lacking nothing of Risen Christ (James 1:2-4; Romans 13:5; 1 Peter 5:1-11) filled with the fruits of righteousness, giving all praise and glory to God Philippians 1:11). 

Jesus restored all the things you lost through sin and falling short of the glory. Risen Ascended Glorified Jesus made ALL things new, and when and if you thirst for righteousness, ask Jesus for His Living Water (John 4:10,24): His Spirit River of glory fire light and fire power, Christ gives you of His Fountain of Water of Life without payment (Revelation 21:5-6) so you can have His heritage as co-heir of all that Father gave His Son (Revelation 21:7; Romans 8:32; Matthew 6:33; Galatians 3:23-4:19); taking the fresh living Water of Life of the Spirit and the Bride without price, for Jesus already paid the FULL price and made the FULL payment for your sins and falling short of the glory (Revelation 22:17; Romans 3:21-26); in Christ and Christ in you, you are justified by faith in Jesus and His finished work of the Cross (Hebrews 4:1-11,16; Romans 3:26, 5:1-17), just as if you had never sinned; called, justified, sanctified, glorified by faith in Risen Christ Jesus; considering yourself also dead to sin and alive to God in Christ (Romans 6:11),

beholding His Glory with unveiled face, changing into His likeness from one degree of glory to another by the Holy Spirit given to those who are truly born again of God (2 Corinthians 3:2-18); His glory in your earthen vessel (4:6-7); His riches of glory supply all your needs (Philippians 4:19) with Christ formed in you (Galatians 4:19); strengthened with Might through the work of God in Christ, Holy Spirit in your “innermost spirit man” and Christ dwelling in your heart by faith, God working in you greater than you can ask or think giving glory to the Spirit and the Bride: Christ and His pure betrothed bride who gives all her “troth” her faithfulness to Risen Christ Jesus, the Risen Lamb of God, the Lord of lords and King of kings on the Throne with His Father, giving ALL power and authority to His Son and His Son of Righteousness rises in His bride, the church, the ekklesia, the called out ones, who are set apart by the Word and the Spirit of God, complete in Christ and Christ in you, maturing in Christ as Christ asked and received in you teaches you to abide in Christ, in Spirit and in Truth; in reverential awe and wonder of the King of kings and Lord of lords, the Word and the Spirit of Risen Jesus.

“The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’ And let those who HEAR say, ‘Come’ thirst, desire, take the Water of Life without price” Revelation 22:17

First you receive a born again spirit that is one with Christ’s one Holy Spirit. Then your soul can be redeemed, made righteousness by faith in the Blood, Water, and Spirit of Risen Christ Jesus, taken by faith in the Cross of Jesus and the resurrection light of the gospel of Christ’s Glory, the exact image and likeness of God our Father who is unseen, unmanifest Glory; your soul is purified by the Holy Spirit given to you: your thoughts change by the Power of the Holy Spirit in your mind, transforming you by the renewing of your mind in Christ (Romans 12:2; Ephesians 4:23); your feelings and desires change by the Holy Spirit in your heart, Christ dwelling in your heart by faith (Ephesians 3:17), your choices change by the Holy Spirit in your will to do the Will of God our Abba Father on earth AS it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10). Your living body becomes a NEW holy temple of God where Holy Spirit dwells, that you have from God (1 Corinthians 3:16-17, 6:19-20; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18).

“¹⁶ Rejoice always, ¹⁷ pray constantly, ¹⁸ give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the Will of God in Christ Jesus for you. ¹⁹ Do not quench the Spirit, ²⁰ do not despise prophesying, ²¹ but test everything; hold fast what is good, ²² abstain from every form of evil.

²³ May the God of Peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ He who calls you is Faithful, and He will do it” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24

“But as to the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need to have anything written to you. ² For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. ³ When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape [apart from Christ]. ⁴ But [in Christ] you are not in darkness, brethren, for that day to surprise you like a thief. ⁵ For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. ⁶ So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. ⁷ For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. ⁸ But, since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. ⁹ For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ” 1 Thessalonians 5:1-9

“But thanks be to God, who gives us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” 1 Corinthians 15:57

“But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in Triumph” 2 Corinthians 2:14

“As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in Him, ⁷ rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

⁸ See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ. ⁹ For in Him the whole fulness of Deity dwells bodily, ¹⁰ and you have come to fulness of life in Him, who is the Head of all rule and authority. ¹¹ In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ; ¹² and you were buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. ¹³ And you, who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, ¹⁴ having canceled the bond which stood against us with its legal demands; this he set aside, nailing it to the cross. ¹⁵ He disarmed the principalities and powers and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in Him” Colossians 2:6-15

Come out of this present dark world system, delivered from the dominion of darkness AND transferred into Christ, the kingdom of the beloved Son of Righteousness who rises in you with healing wings; the risen morning star rises in your heart with the NEW dawn of the Day, the prophetic Words of Jesus made sure by His Holy Spirit given to you (2 Peter 1:19; Malachi 4:1-3; Revelation 2:28, 21:23, 22:1-5,17). 

In the old covenant, David had all the “feels” as you see when you read the Psalms, but in the NEW covenant under the Blood of Jesus, conceived by the Holy Spirit and was the Son of David in the physical lineage of King David, but taking our sins in his body on the cursed tree, died, was buried, and resurrected the Living and Abiding Word of God, the Son of God, the NEW covenant brought forth in Risen Jesus the Christ, with the much more excellent Promises that keep you from the corruption of this present world and partaking in Christ’s nature, Name and Blood and Water and Spirit (2 Peter 1:3-4);

therefore, now, do not fear, do not doubt Jesus’ Name, Words, Sayings, or Teachings, do not waver from the Way, Truth, and Life of God, do not distrust Abba Father, do not let your heart be troubled or dismayed, discouraged, disillusioned, dis-eased, or take offense when you are dissed or misunderstood; do not be anxious about ANYTHING but in EVERYTHING make your requests known to God with thanksgiving, and the Peace of God that surpasses all understanding keeps your heart and mind, your redeemed soul, in Christ Jesus; keeping you thinking about what is true, pure, just, perfect, holy, excellent, lovely, gracious, and praise-worthy (Philippians 4:2-8),

not thinking about or focusing on the problems and tribulations of this present dark world that can NEVER overcome the True Light of Christ (John 1:1-5,9,12-16) and Christ in you (Colossians 1:25-28); receiving the abundance of grace and free gift of righteousness to reign in life through Jesus (Romans 5:27), poured out richly through Jesus (Titus 3:5-6); receiving the Holy Spirit to learn Christ, see, hear, and do what the Spirit is saying (Philippians 4:9; Revelation ch 2-5); ransomed for God out of every tribe, tongue, people, and nation; made a NEW kingdom and a priesthood of believers (Revelation 5:9-10; 1 Peter 2:4-5);

coming to Risen Christ Jesus, the Living Stone and like living stones BE yourself built into the spiritual Household of God (1 Peter 2:4-5; Ephesians 2:6-22), made holy and perfect as your Abba Father and His Son of Righteousness; “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s Own people that declare the Wonderful Deeds of Jesus who calls you OUT OF darkness into His Marvelous True Light of Glory, beholding His Glory and changing one degree of glory to another by the Holy Spirit given to you (1 Peter 2:4-10; Colossians 1:13; Acts 26:18) and the God of Peace is with you AND in you, unlike the world who cannot see or receive the Spirit of Truth (John 14:16-17).

“Come out of her My people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues” Revelation 18:4

IF and WHEN you repent, turn from darkness to the Light of Risen Christ, turn from the power of satan to the Power of the Living and Abiding Word of God; the Spirit of Truth is sent to you when you ask Abba Father for His Spirit (Luke 11:9-13) Who gives it to you, and you are guided into ALL the Truth of God in Christ (John 16:13) and in Christ you have His Peace, for He has overcome the world and her tribulations, so you can be of good cheer (16:33); hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:1-3); resting in Christ in God as Holy Spirit works upon, with, in, and through you like a river (Matthew 11:28-30; Hebrews ch. 4; Ephesians 3:16-20) giving all the glory to God! Amen. So be it. Hallelujah!

Vital Intercession

Risen Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit intercede for the saints (Romans 8:27,34); saints are those who consider themselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ (Romans 6:11); dead to sin and alive to righteousness by faith in Jesus and His Cross (1 Peter 2:24; Romans 1:16-17; Philippians 3:9; 2 Corinthians 5:21) holy, meaning set apart, perfect, meaning lacking nothing of Christ, mature in Christ, consecrating yourself to Christ so He can sanctify you wholly; keeping your spirit and soul and body sound and blameless; washed, cleansed, made spotless, no wrinkles, blemishes or any such thing; nourished and cherished as a member of the one Body and one Spirit of God in Christ and Christ in you, “two made one” that is Christ and the church (John 17:17-23; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Ephesians 5:23-32).

When we ask and receive the Living Water from Risen Jesus Christ (John 4:10,24, 7:37-39; Luke 5:37-39), taking the River of Water of Life (Revelation 22:17) coming down from Above that fills and fulfills, flows and overflows rivers from you so you can intercede for others; identifying with Risen Christ Jesus and not the problems of this present dark world; identifying with the True Light of the riches of Glory of Risen Jesus not the pervading darkness.

“It is impossible to intercede vitally unless we are perfectly sure of God…be identified with God not the person you are interceding for…Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to fault finding” Oswald Chambers, 5-3

“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. ³ For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,⁴ in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ⁵ For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ⁶ To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷ For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, indeed it cannot; ⁸ and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

⁹ But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Any one who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him…²⁶ Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. ²⁷ And He who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

²⁸ We know that in everything God works for good with those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose. ²⁹ For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that He might be the first-born among many brethren. ³⁰ And those whom He predestined He also called; and those whom He called He also justified; and those whom He justified He also glorified.

³¹ What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him?…Is it Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us?” Romans 8:2-34

“Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit” Ephesians 6:18

“But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; ¹⁸ they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.” ¹⁹ It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. ²⁰ But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit” Jude 17-20

“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. ² Now I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. ³ I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is bound to keep the whole law. ⁴ You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. ⁵ For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait for the hope of righteousness. ⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any avail, but faith working through love. ⁷ You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth? ⁸ This persuasion is not from Him who calls you. ⁹ A little leaven leavens the whole lump. ¹⁰ I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine; and he who is troubling you will bear his judgment, whoever he is. ¹¹ But if I, brethren, still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the stumbling block of the Cross has been removed. ¹² I wish those who unsettle you would mutilate themselves!

¹³ For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another. ¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” ¹⁵ But if you bite and devour one another take heed that you are not consumed by one another.

¹⁶ But I say, walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you would. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit you are not under the law. ¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, ²¹ envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. ²⁴ And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

²⁵ If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another” Ephesians 5:1-25

“That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. ⁷ Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ ⁸ The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit” John 3:6-8

“For in Him the whole fulness of deity dwells bodily, ¹⁰ and you have come to fulness of life in Him, who is the Head of all rule and authority. ¹¹ In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ; ¹² and you were buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. ¹³ And you, who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, ¹⁴ having canceled the bond which stood against us with its legal demands; this He set aside, nailing it to the cross. ¹⁵ He disarmed the principalities and powers and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in Him” Colossians 2:9-15

“As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in Him, ⁷ rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. ⁸ See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ…²⁰ If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world?” Colossians 2:6-20

Seated with Christ in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6; Revelation 3:20-21), your intercession comes from identification with the Victory and Triumph of Risen Christ Jesus and not from the problem.

“The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, who gives us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” 1 Corinthians 15:56-57

“But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in Triumph, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Him everywhere. ¹⁵ For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, ¹⁶ to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? ¹⁷ For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s Word; but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ” 2 Corinthians 2:14-17

Eternal Purpose in Christ

“According to the eternal Purpose, realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we HAVE boldness and confidence of ACCESS through our faith in Him. So do not lose heart over what Paul suffered for you, for your glory [it meant death for Paul, but life for us, 2 Corinthians 4:12]. For this reason, bow your knees before the Father, from whom EVERY family in heaven and on earth is named [in the Name Above every name that can be named, under Jesus, yoked to Risen Christ], that according to the RICHES OF GLORY, He may grant you to be strengthened with His Might through His Spirit in your inner man, and that Christ may dwell in your heart through faith…be rooted and grounded in His Love, having the Power to comprehend with all the SAINTS [sinners are under the power of sin and death and the works of the devil, under the law of sin and death, Romans 8:1-2; 1 John 3:4-10; sin gives the devil the right to hurt you, but righteousness through faith in Jesus and His Cross cancels the bond against you (Colossians 2:11-15), cancels the devil’s right to you, nailed to the Cross, so with Christ you are crucified, no longer you who live but Christ who lives in you, Galatians 2:20a; raised with Christ, seated with Christ in the new heavenly places, Colossians 3:1-3; Ephesians 2:6, as Christ dwells in your heart as a new creation, 2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 6:15] what is the length, breadth, height, depth, and to KNOW the Love of Christ [live by faith in the Son of God who loves you and gave Himself for you, Galatians 2:20b] which surpasses knowledge, that you may be FILLED with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who by the Power at work WITHIN US is able to do far more abundantly than we ask or think, to Him be the glory in the church AND in Christ Jesus to ALL GENERATIONS, forever and ever. Amen” Ephesians 3:11-21

God’s glory is in the pure mature betrothed bride AND her One Husband, Risen Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 4:6-7, 11:2b; John 17:22-23; Colossians 1:26-27)

“The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come’. Let those who HEAR say, ‘Come’ those who thirst, desire, and take the Water of Life without price” Revelation 22:17

“To the thirsty I give of the Fountain of Water of Life without payment” ~Risen Jesus the Christ on the Throne

Jesus paid the FULL price on the Cross; made the FULL payment through His death, burial, resurrection, ascension, glorification on the Throne, given the Name above every name that can be named, and His Words remain forever: Christ remains forever, ask AND receive when you truly believe in your heart and confess it with your mouth, not ashamed of the Gospel, the POWER to save you AND make you righteous through FAITH for FAITH in Jesus; have the faith of Jesus in God our Abba Father; through evidence and substance of the unseen for more evidence and substance of the unseen (Romans 1:16-17; Hebrews 11:10) UNLESS you reject Jesus, refuse His Words, deny His Name, and are led astray from Jesus (John 6:66).

The glory the Father gave His Son Jesus, the Son gives to His pure betrothed bride who has made herself ready by being faithful to the Faithful, Living Holy One, the Imperishable, Living and Abiding Word of God (1 Peter 1:22-23), Jesus, purified and refined and made whiter than snow in the Blood, Water, and Spirit of Jesus, the Risen Lamb of God, the Lord of lords and King of kings (John 17:22; Revelation 17:14, 19:7).

Your sorrow is turned to His Joy for the finished work of the Cross (John 16:20-22; Hebrews 4:3, 7:25-27, 8:6-7, 9:11-12, 10:1-39, 11:39-40, 12:2).

When you see Risen Christ Jesus, it separates you from those who refuse to come and see Christ as He now is (1 John 4:17), so you change, transform, transfigure beholding His Glory with unveiled face, revealed by the Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 3:12-18; 1 Corinthians 2:6-16; Revelation 1:1-18) seeing the glory and being changed as Risen Christ Jesus gives you of His riches of Glory in your earthen vessel (2 Corinthians 4:6-7), the Treasures of Heaven in your earthen vessel as a pure betrothed bride to her One Husband, supplying you with every need (Philippians 4:19) as you give all the glory to God, Father and Son who are one (John 10:30; 14:7-11); as a member of the one Body and one Spirit of God in Christ and Christ in you (Galatians 3:27; 1 Corinthians 12:27; 1 John 2:27); as you are washed, regenerated, and having the NEW renewed in you by the Holy Spirit, in the Holy Spirit poured out richly through Risen Jesus the Christ (Titus 3:5-6).

The continuous FRESH river of the Water of Life, the Living Water of Risen Christ Jesus, continually renews, refreshes, revitalizes, reforms, regenerates, activates, quickens, energizes, inspires awe and wonder of the amazing, astounding, marvelous True Light of the Glory of Risen Christ Jesus, as the royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9) of believers in Jesus are taken from the dominion of darkness and evil into Christ, into His True Light of Glory, and are enfolded, surrounded, immersed in His Mighty River of grace and glory and Holy Spirit and fire coming down from the Throne.

“Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. EVERY good endowment and EVERY perfect gift is from Above, coming down from the Father of lights without variation or shadow due to change. Of His Own Will we are brought forth by the Word of Truth [Jesus] that we should BE a kind of first fruits of His creatures” James 1:16-18

In Christ and Christ in you, you are NOT coming to what is coming to those who refuse Jesus (Hebrews 12:18-21).

But in Christ you “have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, ²³ and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, ²⁴ and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled Blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel. ²⁵ See that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape if we reject Him who warns from heaven. ²⁶ His Voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven.” ²⁷ This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of what is shaken, as of what has been made, in order that what cannot be shaken may remain [Christ remains forever; His Words remain forever]. ²⁸ Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe; ²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire” Hebrews 12:22-29

Give your living body in true spiritual worship, in Spirit and in Truth in Christ (Romans 12:1); be transformed by the mind of Christ renewing in you by His Spirit in your mind (Romans 12:2; Ephesians 4:20-23); putting on the NEW nature, created after the likeness of God [Christ] in true righteousness and holiness” (Ephesians 4:24).

Jesus ransomed for God out of EVERY tribe, tongue, people, and nation, making US a kingdom and royal priesthood of true believers in Jesus (Revelation 5:9-10); those who receive the abundance of grace and free gift of righteousness to reign in life through Jesus (Romans 5:17); therefore you must ALSO consider yourself dead to sin and alive to God in Christ (Romans 6:11); a NEW creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17), giving all thank, praise, and glory to God! Amen. So be it. Hallelujah!

now that Faith has come

“Now that faith has come” please God by believing Jesus! receive Christ in you to teach you to abide in Christ (1 John 2:27).

“Now before faith came, we were confined under the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed. ²⁴ So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith. ²⁵ But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian; ²⁶ for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. ²⁷ For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. ²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise…when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, ⁵ to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. ⁶ And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” ⁷ So through God you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son then an heir. ⁸ Formerly, when you did not know God, you were in bondage to beings that by nature are no gods; ⁹ but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental spirits, whose slaves you want to be once more? ¹⁰ You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years! ¹¹ I am afraid I have labored over you in vain. ¹² Brethren, I beseech you, become as I am…in travail until Christ be formed in you!” Galatians 3:23-4:19

“Called into the grace of Christ” Galatians 1:16

“As members of one Body” Colossians 3:15b

“Le the Peace of Christ rule in your heart” 3:15a

Let Christ nourish and cherish you as members of His Body” Ephesians 5:29-30

“one Body and one Spirit” Ephesians 4:4

“one Body, many members…one Spirit” 1 Corinthians 12:12,13

“two become one Flesh…Christ and His church” Ephesians 5:30-32

“He created IN HIMSELF one new man instead of two…reconciled to God in one Body through the Cross…PEACE…through Jesus we have access in one Spirit to the Father…members of the Household of God built upon the apostles and prophets…Risen Christ Jesus the Cornerstone…the whole royal household joined to Risen Christ Jesus, growing into a holy temple IN CHRIST, in who YOU ALSO are  built into it for a dwelling place of God in the SPIRIT” Ephesians 2:13-22

“NOW in Christ Jesus you who were once far off, have been brought near in the Blood of Christ” Ephesians 2:15

Jesus abolished the old in his last Adam body — creating IN HIS Risen Body the NEW flesh and blood, the NEW human creation in Christ, the NEW heavenly mindset and NEW earthly forms with Holy Spirit within, forming Christ within, born again of God, born anew of Spirit from Above, of Risen Christ’s Jesus’ Living Water. Ask Jesus for this Living Water! God is Spirit (John 4:10,24) FRESH Water of Life that “the Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come…thirst, desire, take’ ” (Revelation 22:17).

Jesus gave Himself for our sins, and delivered us from the present evil age” Galatians 1:4

Ask for the Living Water, Christ’s Living and Abiding Spirit, fire and glory (fire consumes the old, Hebrews 12:29) and glory light fills you with Risen Christ’s light, Luke 11:33-36; Matthew 5:14) of the imperishable Word of God into your purified soul by believing Jesus (1 Peter 1:22-23). Jesus’ Words are new Life and Spirit (John 6:63), but those who do not believe His Words and Spirit are led astray (6:66).

Two become one new Body and Spirit, two become one flesh in Christ and Christ in you; the “church” is His Body — the fullness of Him who is able to fill all in His one Body with His one Spirit (Ephesians 1:22-23); having Risen Christ’s Spirit means you belong to Christ (Romans 8:9) who is able to subject your body to His one Body and change your lowly body to be LIKE Him (Philippians 3:21) by His Powerful Spirit and fire. “In Christ, you also” (Ephesians 1:13, 2:13); “a NEW creation” (Galatians 6:15) “those who glory in the Cross of Jesus — the world is crucified to you and  and you to the world” Galatians 6:14.

“I have been crucified WITH Christ; it is no longer I who live but CHRIST who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loves me and gave Himself for me” Galatians 2:20

As many as are baptized into Christ, have put on Christ…sons of God…heirs with Christ…knowing God and known by God…becoming as Paul became after seeing the brilliant True Light of Risen Christ Jesus’ Glory and hearing His Voice…in travail until Christ be formed in you (Galatians 3:27-4:19; Acts 26:12-18).

NOW that faith has come, in Risen Christ Jesus you are sons of God through faith (Galatians 3:25-26) led by the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:14).

IN CHRIST, you also must consider yourselves to be dead to sin and alive to God (Romans 6:11).

IF any one is IN CHRIST you are a new creation, the old is gone, behold, the NEW has come (2 Corinthians 5:17). The NEW creation in Christ comes through the revelation of Risen Christ Jesus as He is now, by the Holy Spirit given to you (Revelation 1:1-18) so as Jesus is NOW so are you in this world (1 John 4:17). Therefore, conquer unbelief and have the Victory in Christ through Jesus and His Cross (1 Corinthians 15:56-57); be always led in Triumph in Christ (2 Corinthians 2:14) for Jesus has already overcome the world (John 16:33) and we overcome by the Blood of the Lamb, the Risen Christ on the Throne — Lord of lords and King of kings AND the word of our testimony that AGREES with the Testimony of Jesus abiding in you (1 John 5:10; Revelation 19:10) and letting go of your OLD life to receive the NEW life in Christ and Christ in you (Revelation 12:10-11) soaring on the two wings of Holy Spirit and fire of Risen Christ Jesus’ Presence through the time, times, and half time of troubles of this world (Revelation 12:14) holding true and fast to what you have attained in Christ (Philippians 3:13-16) NOT giving your mind, power, and authority to the beast of the present, dark, mystery babylon (Revelation 17:13, 18:1-24) NOT deceived like all the nations deceived by sorcery (18:23) not agreeing with stealing and killing and destroying by agreeing with the Destroyer, the ancient serpent, the great dragon, the accuser of the brethren,  the Deceiver called satan and the devil with his angels, whose only power now is deception.

“Rejoice O heaven and you that dwell [in Christ]! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows his time is short!…But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle that she might fly from the serpent…nourished for a time, times, and half time…The dragon is angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus” Revelation 12:12-17

Jesus says, “Abide in Me, and I in you” seven powerful Words in John 15:4

In Christ you are kept from the corruption in this present dark world, partaking of His divine nature (2 Peter 1:3-4); those who keep Jesus’ Words and do not deny His Name ABOVE every name that can be named in heaven and on earth (Revelation 3:8,10), are kept from the hour of trial coming upon the whole world to try those still on the earth (Revelation 3:10)

In Christ and Christ in you, NOW you are the Body of Christ and individual members of it (1 Corinthians 12:27).

The Spirit of the Living God writes the NEW covenant on tablets of human hearts…to have confidence through Christ to God…making us competent to be ministers of the NEW covenant, not in written code but IN THE SPIRIT; for the written code kills but the Spirit gives new life…give greater splendor, glory fire light and power with the dispensation of the Spirit (2 Corinthians 3:3-2-8); the dispensation of the righteousness (3:9) of Christ in God by our faith in Jesus FAR EXCEEDS the former glory; the glory of Christ in your earthen vessels (2 Corinthians 4:6-7) by Holy Spirit given to you, forming Christ in you (Galatians 4:19); the veil removed by Jesus is lifted and taken from you by Holy Spirit who is now Lord, who is able to change you into Christ likeness from one degree of glory to another (2 Corinthians 3:12-18).

All power and authority was given to Risen Jesus (Matthew 28:18) and Jesus gives you all power and authority to tread on satan, who is crushed under your feet by the God of Peace Himself, given the authority over ALL the power of the enemy, nothing shall hurt you (Luke 10:19) unless you give your mind, power, and authority to the beast (Revelation 17:13).

O taste and see the Word of God is Good for those born again of God, but bitter for those who reject Jesus, refuse His Words, and deny His Name. O taste and see the Power of His Spirit!

Living and Abiding

“Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren, love one another earnestly from the heart. ²³ You have been born anew, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living AND abiding word of God” 1 Peter 1:22-23

“Without having seen Him, you love Him; though you do not [even] now see Him, you believe in Him and exult and thrill with inexpressible and glorious (triumphant, heavenly) joy.

⁹ [At the same time] you receive the result (outcome, consummation) of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

¹⁰ The prophets, who prophesied of the grace (divine blessing) which was intended for you, searched and inquired earnestly about this salvation.

¹¹ They sought [to find out] to whom or when this was to come which the Spirit of Christ working within them was indicating when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that should follow [them].

¹² It was then disclosed to them that the services they were rendering were not meant for themselves and their period of time, but for you. [It is these very] things which have now already been made known plainly to you by those who preached the good news (the Gospel) to you by the [same] Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Into these things [the very] angels long to look!

¹³ So brace up your minds; be sober (circumspect, morally alert); set your hope wholly and unchangeably on the grace (divine favor) that is coming to you when Jesus Christ (the Messiah) is revealed.

¹⁴ [Live] as children of obedience [to God]; do not conform yourselves to the evil desires [that governed you] in your former ignorance [when you did not know the requirements of the Gospel].

¹⁵ But as the One Who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all your conduct and manner of living.

¹⁶ For it is written, You shall be holy, for I am holy.

¹⁷ And if you call upon Him as [your] Father Who judges each one impartially according to what he does, [then] you should conduct yourselves with true reverence throughout the time of your temporary residence [on the earth, whether long or short].

¹⁸ You must know (recognize) that you were redeemed (ransomed) from the useless (fruitless) way of living inherited by tradition from [your] forefathers, not with corruptible things [such as] silver and gold,

¹⁹ But [you were purchased] with the precious blood of Christ (the Messiah), like that of a [sacrificial] lamb without blemish or spot.

²⁰ It is true that He was chosen and foreordained (destined and foreknown for it) before the foundation of the world, but He was brought out to public view (made manifest) in these last days (at the end of the times) for the sake of you.

²¹ Through Him you believe in (adhere to, rely on) God, Who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him honor and glory, so that your faith and hope are [centered and rest] in God.

²² Since by your obedience to the Truth through the [Holy] Spirit you have purified your hearts for the sincere affection of the brethren, [see that you] love one another fervently from a pure heart.

²³ You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from one that is immortal by the ever living and lasting Word of God.

²⁴ For all flesh (mankind) is like grass, and all its glory (honor) like [the] flower of grass. The grass withers and the flower drops off,

²⁵ But the Word of the Lord (divine instruction, the Gospel) endures forever. And this Word is the good news which was preached to you” 1 Peter 1:8-25 AMP C

Peter writes: “To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: ² May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. ³ His Divine Power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us to His own glory and excellence, ⁴ by which He has granted to us His precious and very great Promises, that through these you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of passion, and become partakers of the divine nature” 2 Peter 1:2-4

“And we have the Prophetic Word made more sure. You will do well to pay attention to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts” 2 Peter 1:19

You KNOW when Christ dwells in your heart, when the risen morning star has risen in your heart (Revelation 2:28), when the Son of Righteousness rises in you with His Healing Wings (Malachi 4:1-3); you know when you have come awake and arisen from the dead and received the True Light of Glory of Risen Christ (Ephesians 5:14; 2 Corinthians 4:6-7; John 17:22-23); you know when you are given a new pure heart (Ezekiel 36:26; Matthew 5:8) as a new creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17) for the thoughts of your heart change, your emotions change, your feelings about things change, your desires change, and your choices change. With Christ dwelling in your heart by faith (Ephesians 3:17) you have the power to comprehend the length, breadth, height and depth, to know the Love of Christ beyond knowledge, and be filled with the fullness of God; the Power of God at work in you greater than you can ask or think, to give glory to God!

“Beholding the Glory of Risen Christ unveiled, you change into His likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is now the Spirit” 2 Corinthians 3:18

“That your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the Power of God.

⁶ Yet among the mature we do impart Wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. ⁷ But we impart a secret and hidden Wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification. ⁸ None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. ⁹ But, as it is written,

“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man conceived,
what God has prepared for those who love Him,”

¹⁰ God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. ¹¹ For what person knows a man’s thoughts except the spirit of the man which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. ¹³ And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit.

¹⁴ The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ The spiritual man judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. ¹⁶ “For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ” 1 Corinthians 2:5-16

“So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any incentive of love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, ² complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind…work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; ¹³ for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

¹⁴ Do all things without grumbling or questioning, ¹⁵ that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, ¹⁶ holding fast the Word of Life” Philippians 2:1-16

“Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. ¹⁷ Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. ¹⁸ Of His Own Will He brought us forth by the Word of Truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of His creatures” James 1:16-18

“From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once regarded Christ from a human point of view, we regard Him thus no longer. ¹⁷ Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a NEW creation; the old has passed away, behold, the NEW has come. ¹⁸ All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to Himself” 2 Corinthians 5:16-18

IF you are reconciled to God through Jesus and His Cross, death, resurrection, ascension, glorification on the Throne, and given the Name ABOVE every name that can be named in heaven and on earth, you know it, for you are different than before you were born again, you are transformed and transfigured by beholding Risen Christ Jesus with the unveiled faces of the pure betrothed bride to her One Husband (2 Corinthians 11:2b), the ekklesia, the called out ones, the true “churches” who listen and hear what the Holy Spirit says, and see when the Spirit moves you so can move with Him, as His River of Water of Life flows from you (John 4:10,24, 7:37-39; Luke 5:37-39; Revelation 21:6, 22:17) to do what Jesus said to do as you abide in Him and He in you; there is no greater place to be than in Christ, in Spirit and in Truth, giving all the glory to God!