They have cultivated in us a sense of unworthiness that has robbed us of spiritual initiative and kept us in a state of bondage to fear and ignorance and sin. We did not know the sin problem had been settled.
The object of this knowledge is “to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work.”
Jesus said: “I am the vine, and ye are the branches.”
We are branches of Christ. We are a part of Christ. We are a shoot out of Christ, and Christ’s fruit is to be borne by us. He cannot bear fruit now. We are the branches, so we are to bear fruit in every good work.
Meanwhile “we are increasing in this exact knowledge of the Father.” We are to be “strengthened with all of his ability according to the might of his glory unto all steadfastness and all longsuffering with joy.”
That is climactic! That is lifting us above circumstances, above the dominion and power of Satan, and making us absolute masters where we have tremblingly served as slaves.
We have the solution to this in the 12th verse: “Giving thanks unto the Father who has given us the ability to enjoy our share of the inheritance of the saints in light.” (Literal translation.)
We are Redeemed
“Who delivered us out of the authority of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the son of his love; in whom we have our redemption, the remission of our sins.” Col 1-13,14.
We have been delivered out of the authority of Satan. Satan no longer has a right to rule over us.
The Church has never acknowledged it, has never known it. Here and there an individual has entered into his inheritance, but the rank and file of the Church have lived under the bondage of fear and doubt and Satanic supremacy.
We are not only delivered out of Satan’s dominion but we are “translated into the kingdom of the son of his love.”
This is the New Creation. This is where the sons of God actually “reign as kings in the realm of life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 5:17 (Weymouth) .
It is in Christ that we have our redemption, the remission of all that we have ever done.
We have been redeemed out of the hand of the enemy. We have been recreated. We have received the nature and Life of Deity. We have come into the family of God, and as sons and daughters are enjoying the fellowship of our Father.
We are exercising our rights and privileges in the Name of Jesus. Disease and sickness have lost their dominion. We are masters over them. Poverty and want no longer challenge us. We know our Father.
The Church has been dominated by Sense Knowledge, which has given it the sense of unworthiness.
How many times we have said, “If I could live a holy life, a pure life; if I could live a Jesus life, I would have the same ability that Jesus had.” How men everywhere have hunted for holy men who could do their praying for them! The sick are continually searching for someone who can pray the prayer of faith while they live in the realm of unbelief.
They do not know that as sure as they were Born Again, they became New Creations and received the very Nature of the Father That Nature has made their spirits whole. That Nature has made them New Creations.
The sin problem has been settled for them. They are the Righteousness of God in Christ, now. They can stand in the Father’s presence just as Jesus did, but they do not know it. They can have their prayers answered as Jesus did, but they do not understand it.
They have lived in ignorance of spiritual things. They have much Sense Knowledge. They have all that our schools and colleges and universities can impart and yet that Sense Knowledge has not unveiled to them what they are in Christ.
They do not know that they have as much a right in the Father’s presence as Jesus has, so that with all boldness they may stand before that Throne of Grace unabashed, without sin-consciousness.
If they knew these things, fear would no longer dominate them. They would be masters. They would no longer submit to the rule of the senses.
Lordship of the Word
They would joyfully admit the Lordship of the Word.
If this knowledge could only be given to them, they pass over into the Love Realm. They would begin to live the Love Life. Now they are afraid of it.
They do not know that Jesus brought a new kind of Love that was a part of God, Himself. God is Love, and this new kind of Love has been given to us.
This is the genius of Christianity. This new kind of Life, and this new kind of Love beget a new kind of Righteousness — a righteousness that cannot be obtained by works, by sacrifice, by prayer, or by anything else a man can do.
It is a gift which comes with the New Creation. Every child of God has it.
Until a man knows that he is the righteousness of God, he will never take advantage of his privileges. He will always live in bondage to the enemy.
But the instant he knows it, he will come boldly into the presence of the Father. He will feel at home in the Throne Room.
I want you to note John 1:16: “Of his fullness have we all received, and grace upon grace.” This New Creation is the fullness of God as we are taught in Ephesians 1:23: “Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.” “Fullness” means completeness.
Christ’s Nature and Life have been poured into our spirits. Where we were empty and had only a vague longing in life, we now have found reality.
Equipped of God
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