What is one of the most important revelations for the Christian today?
That we are One Spirit with the Lord, filled up to all the fulness of God, strengthened with all power according to His glorious might.
That we have actually died—crucified with Christ, raised up with Him and seated in Him in heavenly places. That Christ is living in these earthen vessels, right now—that the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit dwell within.
That we're not alone, not waiting for God to move. That He has promised NEVER to leave or forsake us.
That He told us to speak to the natural world and it will obey us.
Why? Because He's in us, performing His Word! Because 'Now unto Him Who is able to do FAR MORE ABUNDANTLY beyond ALL THAT WE ASK OR THINK, according to THE POWER THAT WORKS WITHIN US, to Him be the GLORY IN THE CHURCH and in CHRIST JESUS forever and ever. AMEN [so be it]!!
The Father within, He does the works! [John 14:10]
That's why all things belong to us...because we belong to Him and are One with Him, and He belongs to God! [1 Corinthians 3:21,22]
Jesus was the Word, we are the Word, multiplied! [Acts 6:7; Acts 12:24; Acts 13:49; Acts 19:20]
He is the heir of the world [Hebrews 1:2] and we are His joint heirs. Think of a joint account, or more specifically, when siblings all receive the entire share of their parents' will!
He is the LORD OF GLORY and we are one with Him!!!
What's More...
We are in covenant with God the Father in the Blood of Jesus!
True covenant means what ever belongs to one party belongs to the other...strength, debts, wealth, favor, enemies, etc. They are covenanted together, forever.
Marriage used to be an example of this, until we had quickie divorces, keeping-their-own-name feminists and his-n-her bank accounts.
A true covenant between two parties means that whatever belongs to one party belongs to the second party, whether good or ill. Parties used to covenant together to strengthen their weaknesses...in fact, royalty used covenant marriage to cement relations between kingdoms.
And we are in Covenant with God! We are born of Him [1 John 5:1,4], born of His seed, which is the living and enduring Word of God. [1 Peter 1:23]
One with Jesus, born of God, filled with His Spirit. The Body of Christ!
He is with us always [Matthew 28:20], even to the end of the age. He will never desert or forsake us [Hebrews 13:5]. How could He forsake Himself?
Abraham, Moses, Joshua, David
We study the great patriarchs of old, men of great faith who performed marvelous exploits by the power of God.
'You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders, and with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with great terror; and gave them this land, which you swore to their forefathers to give them, a land flowing with mill and honey.' [Jeremiah 32:21,22]
God was with them, and His anointing was on them...but He was not in them. They were not one Spirit with Him and they were not filled with all of His fulness! He and His mighty power were with and on them but not in them...can you see the difference?
As wonderful as they were, they were spiritually dead. Their power came from a covenant with God, and their faith was credited to them as righteousness.
But we were crucified with Christ, buried with Him in baptism, raised up with Him and seated together with Him in heavenly places! One Spirit with the Lord!
That's why there is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus [Romans 8:1]...because we are One with Him. The one who deserved condemnation was crucified with Him, slain with Him before the foundation of the world!
Hallelujah!
What Would Jesus Do?
So ask yourself, your born-again, one-Spirit-with-the-Lord self, what would Jesus do in any situation that faces you?
What's more, what would God the Father do? The Holy Spirit?
In John 14-17, Jesus makes some pretty wild claims. That He and the Father would live in us along with the Comforter—the Holy Spirit. That's the Trinity, people...all of it, not just a teaspoon or two!
Is God divisible? Does each Christian only have a dropperful of God?
Jesus said repeatedly that He and the Father were One...do the math! If we're one with Him, and He is One with the Father, then we are One with the Father!
He's no longer just with us, He has placed Himself and all that He is IN US! In fact, the truth of the new birth is that He has replaced the one who was crucified with Him! Paul plainly taught that we are crucified with Christ, buried with Him in baptism, raised up together with Him and SEATED WITH HIM IN HEAVENLY PLACES! That Christ now lives in and though us!
No, it's not blasphemy, it's the Word of God!
No wonder He told us to speak to trees and mountains and they would obey!
What would Jesus do? What would the Father do? What would the Holy Spirit do?
They wouldn't put up with sickness or poverty or distress of any kind, I can tell you that!
Think about this...God told Joshua that no man would be able to stand before him all the days of his life, just as He was with Moses, He would be with him. [Joshua 1:5]
If no man could stand before Joshua, who can stand before us who are filled up to all the fulness of God? Jesus Himself said that the least in the Kingdom of God would be greater than the greatest prophet of the Old Covenant! Why? Because we are One with Him!
Why haven't we walked in this? Why haven't we fulfilled Romans 5:21, reigning in life through the ONE, Jesus Christ?
Why haven't we fulfilled Colossians 2:9,10 or Ephesians 1:22,23?
'For in Him ALL THE FULNESS OF DIETY dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete...'
'And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His BODY, the FULNESS of Him Who fills all in all.'
Don't just skim over these passages because you've read them 100 times. Meditate on them...what can they possibly mean?
Could it be that we've been lied to, indoctrinated out of our power and true calling?
Hmmm...
Think about all of the wonderful things that Jesus did when He walked the earth, and then think about one of the last things He said:
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father." [John 14:12]
I can't speak for you, but I'm not doing greater works than Jesus did. I can't even find a church in my area that will lay hands on the sick, at least not with any faith that it will actually work! Mostly we're told how to cope with fill-in-the-tragedy, or worse, that God is doing it to us...
To Himself? If we're one with Him, is He making Himself sick/poor/bound? Huh?
We're told, over and over, how weak we are, how sinful we are, how we shouldn't expect too much, how we shouldn't want too much, maybe the answer is no, maybe the tragedy is God's will, blah blah woof woof.
Now I wonder where those lies comes from...
Think about it.
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