OUR RESPONSE TO GODS ABILITY IS the modern church at her best; a true representative of the church of which Paul spoke in his Epistles? Are we walking in the fulness of our privilege? Is the world receiving from us the benefits of the Divine Life that should be theirs? This is a study in What we possess in Christ. It is what really belongs to us, in this Divine Life. There is no doubt but what God planned that the church should be composed of supermen and women. Men and women who conquered sickness and disease, who ruled circumstances, who turned weakness into strength, failure into success and took the weak things of this world and confounded the mighty. Let us look at our inheritance in Christ. Jn. 1:16: Of His fulness have we all received and grace upon grace. What is His fulness? It is completeness. In Him is every thing that humanity needs. He represents all of the Fathers heart desires for humanity. He is the bank upon which the heart of man can draw to completion. Of His fulness have we all received. We have not received part. But everyone of us have received His fulness. There is fulness of love so that we shall rise above selfishness and seek not our own. There is such a complete fulness of love that we cannot fail, because love never fails. There is the love that led Jesus to save us. It is love that gains the mastery until we cry with Paul II Cor. 5:14-15: For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, that they that live, should no longer live unto themselves, but unto Him, who for their sakes died and rose again. There is not only His fulness of love, but there is a fulness of freedom in the Redemptive work of Christ so that no believer need live with the sense of bondage and limitation, as he lives in the fulness of Christs liberty, the fulness of His complete and perfect Redemption. Eph. 1:7: In whom we have our Redemption through His blood, the remission of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace. No one can measure the limitlessness of that Redemption. Redemption is ours, not as a theory or as a great doctrine, about which to argue, but as a living, sweet, beautiful reality for our daily lives. Of His fulness of rest, quietness, of assurance have we received. This is the mother of faith. This is where the Divine Life leads into the very heart of the Son of God and rests in His quietness. Follow the Master from the time of His arrest until He died on the cross. There is no excitement, no restlessness, no impatience. He is the absolute master of the circumstances surrounding the crucifixion. Of His quietness have we all received. Is. 32:17: And the work of Righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of Righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. There is an abundance, an utter fulness of this quietness that grows out of Righteousness. He has become our Righteousness ; and He, out of His Righteousness, His quietness, His supremacy over everything that is antagonistic to our hearts, has brought us quietness. We rest in His rest. Ps. 37:3-7 gives us a picture of restfulness and quietness. Trust in Jehovah, and do good : Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. The heart is no longer feeding upon failure and weakness, but it is delighting itself in Jehovah and finding the desires of its heart. Everything has been committed to Him; everything is trusted into His hands. Now out of that trust there flows the quiet rest. There is no more fretting or irritation. We are resting. His fulness is our fulness. Jesus completeness is our completeness. Eph. 1:22-23: And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all. Every power has been put under His feet. We are His body. We are His feet. Satans dominion has been broken. We are put into the place of mastery. It is not the result of our struggling and praying. We inherited it. His completeness is the fulness of victory. All things are under His feet. He gave Christ to be head over all things. We are seated with Him in the heavenlies. Eph. 2:6: He raised us up with Him, and made us to sit with Him in the heavenlies, in Christ Jesus. We are seated there now in the mind of the Father. All authority, dominion, disease, sickness, and failure are beneath our feet. Eph. 3:16-20: That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inward man ; that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge. That is according to His fulness. You are not to be blessed according to your conception, but according to His riches in glory. You are to be strengthened with His strength in the inward man, that Christ may actually gain the mastery, to the end that you may be rooted and grounded in love. To be rooted and grounded in love is the consummation of life. What more could you ask for? You will be bearing the fruit of love. You will have the fragrance of love. You will have the ability and power of love. You can see that God, being love, means you will be rooted and grounded in Him, when you are rooted and grounded in love. Out from His very heart comes pouring into you and through you the very graciousness, beauty, and riches of the Fathers heart. That ye may be strong to grasp with all the saints what is the breadth, length, height, and depth, and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge. The mind can go no farther than this. Grace reaches down and takes us by the hand and lifts us up into the Spirit realm of His fulness. We are unconscious of ourselves, filled unto all the fulness of God. His very nature is love. We have partaken of that nature. Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. You talk about being weak, about being powerless in the face of such a scripture! Put that modern testimony of uselessness over against this revelation of His fulness. Of His fulness have we all received. The very gates of heaven are open. He is pouring out such a blessing that our hearts cannot receive it, so He has to enlarge our hearts just as the man mentioned in Luke enlarged his barns so he would have a place to store his grains. God has to enlarge our hearts so that we can receive of His fulness and not burst. Eph. 4:12-13: For the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ till we all attain unto unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. He is aiming at perfection in us. It is all His work. It is the Spirit working through His Word. What do we do? We yield to this perfection. We yield to this fulness. We yield to the stream of health that flows from the stripes with healing and grace and strength, until we attain the fulness of faith and fulness of knowledge, until the very fulness of Jesus Himself controls us. There is no place for weakness nor failure there. Phil. 4:13: I can do all things in Him who strengtheneth me. We are no longer limited believers. We are no longer living in the sense of bondage and weakness. We are breathing in His very fulness. No, that is not right. We are breathing out His fulness, for His fulness is in us. Gal. 2:20, Paul said, It is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me. The unfettered, the unhampered Christ is living His big life in us. Col. 1:19. For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in Him should all the fulness dwell. He is not just a shaft of light from the Throne, He is the Light. It was the good pleasure of the Father that everyone of us should partake of this fulness. Col 1 :29, He wants to present every man perfect in Christ. Whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Paul recognized that it was God who was at work within him. Phil 2:13, For it is God who is at work within me, willing and working his own good pleasure. That was a thrilling, beautiful reality. Your heart now reaches out and grasps it in all its sweet simplicity. Col. 2:9-10 is his final challenge on the word, Fullness. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power. He does not try to make you full. He simply made you full. You rest on that ; it is true. You are what He says you are. The problem is: are we going to use this ability that is ours? Here is Gods fulness at our disposal. It is the most thrilling fact this side of heaven. We are united with God in Christ. It is a union of life in life. He poured His life into us, and that life has recreated us so that now we are what He calls us in Eph. 2:10. We are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus. We are created for good works, which He afore prepared that we should walk in them. What are His good works? To open the Word; to lead the weak and fearful into their inheritance. He has prepared that good work for us. Mark 16:17, You will find that wherever the believers went, God went with them confirming the word with the signs that followed. Matthew 28:18-20, All authority has been given unto me in heaven and on earth. To you, I give the right, To use my Name and might, In this long and bitter fight, Till I come. He said, Lo, I am with you always. He is there to bless you, strengthen, to empower, to give wisdom until our whole being swings in rhythm with His will. He has not left us without authority. Luke 24:49, Tarry ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from on high. The word Power here means ability. They did tarry and that ability came. Then they went out and used that ability for the glory of God and the joy of men. He is not asking us to tarry any more. The day of tarrying is ended. Working days are here upon us. Our call is to go empowered with His power, filled with Himself, our lips with His words upon them. Just as Jesus had the Fathers words in His lips and they healed the sick and raised the dead, so He says for us to go out with His words on our lips now and He will work with us and confirm the Word with the closely following signs. John 5:24 said, He that heareth my Word, and believeth Him that sent me, hath eternal life. We have eternal life. John 6:47, He that believeth on me has eternal life. Eternal life is the nature of God, that nature is ours. That nature must not be hindered in us, so that it will produce the same results in us that it wrought in Christ in His earth walk. Beloved now are we the Sons of God. The same mighty Spirit that wrought in Christ, is in you. You are a son now, a daughter. Romans 8:14-16 is absolutely true and real in your life. You are the sons and daughters of God by an actual birth of which Jesus spoke in Jn. 3:3-8. Marvel not that I say unto thee, ye must be born from above. You have been born of the same Spirit that conceived Jesus. You are empowered with the same Spirit that wrought in Christ and finally raised Him from the dead. Rom. 8:11, But if the spirit of Him that raised up Christ from the dead will dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you. That same mighty Spirit is resident in you now. Perhaps you have never given credit to the Word. You have never read it except through doctrinal eyes. What your creed and your doctrines taught, has governed you rather than the Word of God. The challenge is coming for you to be bigger than your doctrines and to use the ability of God now and allow Gods ability to use you. His life and your life are blended into one. You have received His nature. Let that nature dominate you now. Remember one fact, that as He is, so are you in this world. 1 Jn. 4:17 He is the lover ; you are a lover. He is the strong one. You are strong with His strength. He is the conquering one ; you are too. I Jn. 5:5: And who is He that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? You are born of God. You are an overcomer. You are a victor. You are going to use the ability of God to bless humanity. You are not going to talk about your sickness anymore. Ps. 27:1 Jehovah is my light and my salvation ; Whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid? He is your light. He throws light upon your pathway. Thy Word is a lamp unto your feet, and a light unto your pathway. (Ps. 119:105) He is your salvation. That is deliverance. That is Redemption. You are Redeemed. That Redemption is not a theory nor a doctrine, nor an article of your creed. It is one of the facts of the Word of God. You are Redeemed. God is the strength of your life. You do not need physical strength. You do not need mans strength. You have Gods strength. You do not need mans fulness or wisdom or knowledge. You have Gods knowledge. You do not need mans ability. You have Gods ability. This lifts us into the realm of the supernatural, puts us by the side of the Man of Galilee where we belong. Matt. 28:18 For all authority has been given unto me, in heaven and on earth. He sends us out with authority and ability to put things over, and accomplish things for our good and the good of humanity. Let us recapitulate. Let us look at this superman who is in Christ, the man who has taken Jesus place and is acting in His stead. This superman has Gods life, and has the Name of Jesus. Phil. 2:9 Wherefore God highly exalted Him, and gave unto Him the Name which is above every name ; that in the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, of beings in heaven and beings on earth, and beings under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. That Name restores to man the lost authority of Adam. Every child of God has a legal right to its use. That is Gods ability. Every child of God can have God in him if he wishes. All you have to do is to follow Lu. 11:13. How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him? You ask Him for the Holy Spirit. He cannot do much in us until He lives in us. Phil. 2:13 For it is God who is at work within you, willing and working His own good pleasure. 1 Jn. 4:4 Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them:: because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. That puts you on top of things. That makes you a master, an overcomer in this old battle of life. You not only have God in you, but Rom. 8:31 declares that God is for you. If God is for us, who is against us. You have God for you. He is on your side. You are not alone. What He said to Jehosophat in II Chron. 20:16-17, He says to you. You not only have God with you, and God for you, but you are among the very sons of God. You have a right to go in and out of the presence of your Father God. You are by nature heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. You are not servants. You are not hired men. You are the sons of God, beloved in Jesus. You have a legal right in the prayer life. To you, prayer is no longer based upon sufferance nor pity, but it is based upon the Word of God. You are legally sons. You are legally ambassadors. You have been given a legal right to the use of Jesus Name in your prayer life.in. 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you. In. 16:24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name : ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full. He has given you the power of attorney to use His Name. That Name is above every name. You swing free and take your rights in Christ and make the devil afraid of Gods words in your lips. Disease cannot stand in the presence of that Name on your lips. Heaven honors that Name on our lips. Heaven is back of it. Disease and sickness yield their right to it. The laws of nature yield to it on our lips. Circumstances become its servants, demons obey it. Go use that mighty Name. Remember I John 4:4, Ye are of God. Just as Lord Nelson said to his army, You are of England. So the Word is saying to you today, Ye are of God. The In Christ fact is the vital side of the Plan of Redemption ; it is always in the present tense. Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a New Creation. The New Birth is an In Him fact. Righteousness comes to us, In Him. There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ. When we were born again, we came into Christ. That is the vine and the branch life. You are grafted into Christ. You become a part of Christ. His nature flows through you. His ability belongs to you. Just as your blood flows through your body, so does eternal life flow through you. We cannot understand it any more than we can understand the circulation of blood in our own body. It is In whom we have our Redemption. Satans dominion, power and authority are broken over you, In Him. We are blessed with every spiritual blessing in Him. We have come into the New Life of oneness In Him. In Him was life and that life was the light of men. I am In Him. In Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and life, and I am In Him. What Happened From The Cross To The Throne Kindly share this post
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