WHEN YOU ARE A BELIEVER IN CHRIST!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2023.

SUBJECT: WHEN YOU ARE A BELIEVER IN CHRIST!

Memory verse:  "Therefore, If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." (Second Corinthians 5 vs 17.) 

READ: John 1 vs 12; 6 vs 37 & 44:

John 1:12: But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.

6:37: All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me zig will by no means cast out.

6:44: No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws Him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

INTIMATION:

If you are a believer, you have been given the right of adoption as a child of God. Here are few things that every believer should know. 

First, our memory verse bared open that we are actually New Creations, created in Christ Jesus. Notice the facts, "If anyone be in Christ." One is in Christ ones for all. He doesn't enter Christ and then leave Him, because the power of entering and leaving doesn't rest with him. How do I know? Jesus said that no one can come to Him unless the Father who sent Him draws the person. He confirmed the fact in John 6 vs 65; "...Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father."

Jesus assured us that for the ones the Father gave Him, His duty is to ensure that they are retained with Him, and nothing will make Him cast out any. And He confirmed that fact in John 6 vs 39 when He said; "This is the Will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day."

Jesus said He came to do the Will of the Father Who sent Him. He is in union with the Father. Christ will not let His people be overcome by Satan and lose their salvation (see also John 17 vs 12; Philippians 1 vs 6), because this is Will of the Father. Consequently, Jesus made known to the Father that, according to His Will, all the ones He gave Him during His earth work, He has lost none except “the son of perdition”—Judas, not by any fault of Judas, but by Jesus' choice of him to do what he did so that the Scriptures would be fulfilled (John 13 vs 18). 

The second fact is, "He is a New Creation," a new specie. He has received into his spirit the life and nature of God. The old things have passed away. These old things are spiritual death, his union with Satan, and his old sins—the sins committed while he was spiritually dead, and in union with the Adversary. It doesn't matter the kind of sins, they are all remitted. 

The new creation is the product of God. It is created in Christ Jesus; it is born from above. And the new thing stands uncondemned and reconciled before the Father. It is born of the Holy Spirit, through the Word: “It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they shall be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me” (John 6 vs 45). 

The moment that we become new creations, we become the righteousness of God (Second Corinthians 5 vs 21). The righteousness of God means the ability to stand in the Father's presence without sense of guilt, condemnation or inferiority. We are at that moment sons and daughters of God. 

Sin has been preached to us so long and we have been told so often that we are unworthy and unfit, and this has kept us with a sense of inferiority which has been destructive to our faith life. It is noteworthy that no man can work with God as long as he is under condemnation, and in realization of that fact God has given us His own righteousness in Christ Jesus so that we can fellowship with Him. 

It would be abnormal if He should recreate us, impart us with His own nature, and leave us under the blighting curse of condemnation, unable to stand in His presence because of guilt and inferiority. Consequently, we now know that we have the ability to stand in God's presence free from all sense of unworthiness.

We know  for a fact that we have a legal right in the Father's presence because we are legally born into His family, and He has legally adopted us and accepted us as sons: "The Holy Spirit Himself has born witness with our spirits that we are the children of God”(Romans 8 vs 16).

Thirdly, we know another fact, that we have a legal right to the use of Jesus' Name and whatsoever we ask of the Father in that name He'll grant us. (John 15 vs 16; 16 vs 23 & 24). This has cleared up every issue in regard to our ability to stand before Him in the throne room without condemnation.

It is now obvious that fellowshipping with God in prayers is based on legal grounds, based on statement of facts, and not based on promises. It isn't a problem then of faith with the believer, for all things belong to him. It is only a problem of our taking our place, and enjoying our rights.

The Scriptures made this clear in Ephesians 1 vs 3 which says, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ." He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing. Then everything that was wrought in the finished work of Christ belongs to us. It is our property this moment. Now therefore, we must simply take our place and enjoy our rights.

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You for all You wrought for Me in Christ. I am complete in Him, and filled with Your fullness. Endue me with the the knowledge and wisdom of my redemptive rights in Christ that I may live worthy of Your calling, according to the power that works in me, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!