Indagatio Veri

     There is language that is often times used that unintentionally allows for unbelief to reign in our lives.  There are many ways of thinking that cause people to live on the brink of faith without actually having any (Hebrews 11:1).  There are two 'sayings' used in the church that need to be completely thrown away.  God wants us to have faith, conviction, that leads to freedom.  1) "The blood of Jesus 'covers' our sin."   2) "God 'sees' us as righteous."      These statements are used all of the time, and although they carry some truth they do not fully grasp the fullness of what Jesus paid for on the cross.  Jesus didn't only cover up our sin, he separated us from it as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12).  He actually cleansed us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9).  I don't know about you, but when I wash something, I literally take away the dirt and the grime.  You can keep sp...

    God has forgiven you, he loves you, he does not condemn you. He wants you to accept His forgiveness and reinstate you as His child and friend so that you can be more than a conqueror. This takes humility, humility to give up completely on your own ability to attain.  You must simply accept that he has finished the work He set out to do on the cross. Humility comes from the Latin root Humus, which means grounding.  Humility is not feeling bad about yourself it is knowing where you come from.  If you agree with God that you are from Him, there is never any reason to feel poorly about yourself.  If you think you are a sinner unable to be forgiven then you have become an enemy in your mind against God.  The extreme of this is to blasphemy the spirit, which is the only 'unforgivable sin' (Matthew 12:31).  It really means to come to a place where there is no possibility of redemption for that individual because they have totally bought into the lie...

  So who is 'in Christ'?  Paul, in speaking to citizens of Athens says,  "HE made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of you own poets have said.  'For we also are His children.' Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or sliver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man (Acts 17:26-30)."  Paul here is talking to Pagans! To unbelievers! Yet he is speaking the truth to them,  he is preaching the message of reconciliation! He is preaching the finished work of Christ!  He is viewing them and speaking to them as they are forgiven already, because they are.  He is speaking to their true identity in h...

    This is one of my longest blogs, but I think that it contains very important revelation. God has been teaching me a lot about His grace and its power.  I have tried to compile these things into a cohesive message using mainly scripture passages.  I pray that this helps you gain a new perspective on what Jesus accomplished on the cross, and that the Holy Spirit renews our minds as we carry out the ministry of reconciliation.  Grace is so wonderful!     God does not condemn you or anybody else for sin. Does that sound strange to you, it did to me at first. The law condemns sin in sinful man, but it is only because they do not believe in Jesus. "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.  He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  This is the judgement, tha...

God has recreated you! 'Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, the new things have come (2 Cor. 5:17)." We are commanded in two places, Romans 6 and Colossians 3, to consider ourselves dead to sin.  Why should we reckon ourselves dead to sin? Because we actually are! You are now righteous and Holy because the full righteous requirement of the Law has been met in you (Romans 8:4). Your actions no longer affect this reality, and agreeing with the truth actually sets you free so you no longer have to sin (John 8:32).  The only thing that will set you free from sin is knowing the truth, what is the truth? That you have already been set free! Now I am writing this blog to correct a misconception.  Many believers, as they begin to learn more about the Lord and increase in knowledge, begin to perceive more and more sinful habits or thoughts that they didn't notice before.  Many times we understand that as revealing how ...

The finished work of the cross is the most important thing to understand . . . period.  There are a number of things that are included in the finished work of Christ.  1).  That Jesus not only paid the penalty for our sin but that he actually defeated the power of sin itself.  Because of that we can live outside of sin's control and power; in other words it is possible to not sin. 2). That in Jesus we have actually been made into new creations, holy and righteous.  This is not a righteousness from ourselves from works, but by faith in the finished work of Jesus. I am righteous because Jesus paid for me and made me righteous.  This holy standing with God is not affected by my actions, good or bad, and it is in believing this truth that I can actually begin to manifest a holy lifestyle. 3).  That Jesus sacrifice has given us access into living the way that he lived.  Not only in holiness but also in the supernatural.  His sacrifice purified us ...