Walk It Out!

Christ is not an add on or a hobby--He is our life. Once we accept Him we die and He comes to life (Colossians 3:3). He has now transformed us into His likeness. He has now restored us back to our original design. As Adam and Eve were before the fall-perfect. We now live by faith. Faith in Christ that He makes us everything we can not (Colossians 2:10). Faith in the fact that He's healed, delivered, restored and set us free. When He died He said, "It is finished." How can something be "finished" if someone is needed to keep coming back to do more work. We mess up and say "Lord, forgive me," (over and over and over again) but He did that over 2,000 years ago...scratch that, He did that before the foundation of the world (1 Peter 1:19-20). If it was done before we ever sinned, before we were ever created how can we lay hold to it or claim it for ourselves? The Bible says we have to simply accept it. "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Romans 10:13) Once we've accepted our gift of salvation it is ours and has covered ALL. We simply have to now live it by faith in the knowledge that Christ has already done it. We just need to walk it out. "For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes." Romans 10:2-4

Living Christ

I was lying in bed wondering why it is that Christians, those who claim to love and follow Christ (which is what a Christian means - to believe in and exemplify Jesus Christ), can't "stay saved" as we like to say? Why is it that they can be the most Holy Ghost sanctified person on Sunday, but come Monday they're life screams Holy who?! Filled with what?! And it came to me. It's because in today's culture (really church culture) Jesus can really only be found at church. They tell you to come to "The house of God" (which is funny because the Bible says, "This is what the Lord says:'Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things,and so they came into being?'" Isaiah 66:1) and that's where you can meet Jesus. That's where you'll get your deliverance, freedom, healing...etc. The devil is a liar! If I now have Jesus living inside of me and The Bible says, "...the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world" (1 John 4:4) then why do I need to go anywhere or do anything to get deliverance... outside of being obedient to the one on the inside, the one in whom I now have life? This is why Christians can't "stay saved." Few are telling us that our deliverance doesn't lie in what we do, but in what He already did over 2,000 years ago. We need to now be teaching each other to live in the faith of what Jesus did for us and that is where true victory lies.