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Qualified
By Curry R. Blake
General Overseer John G. Lake Ministries and
Dominion Life
International Apostolic Church
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QUALIFIED
By Curry R. Blake
The title of the message today is: “Qualified.” You need to
know if you’re qualified.
We’re going to go through Psalm 103, and then we’re
going into 2 Corinthians.
First of all, I preach the benefits of the Gospel, but that’s
not all I preach. I preach all the counsel of God (Acts 20:27).
Psalm 103:1-6,
1. Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within
me, bless his holy name.
He said, “Bless the LORD,” and then he said, “Bless His
holy Name.”
2. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his
benefits:
Today we would say, “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and
don’t forget ANY of His benefits.” It means the same thing.
God does not want us to forget any of His benefits. Then, He
gave us a list of His benefits.
3. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all
thy diseases;
Those are benefits of the Gospel.
4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who
crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender
mercies;
5. Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that
thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
“Who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you
with loving kindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy
mouth with good things.” These are all benefits.
“So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.” Now, there
is a promise.
6. The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment
for all that are oppressed.
In other words, “For all of you who are oppressed, God is
executing judgment in your behalf.” God is not against you.
God is for you. God hates oppression.
Many times I hear preachers talk about the benefits of the
Gospel. They make it sound like everyone is eligible for the
benefits of the Gospel. They talk as if everybody they’re talking
to is already qualified.
We have to remember that there are two different families
on this earth. There’s the family of God, and then there are
those who are called the children of the devil, the children of
disobedience.
There are people who are born again, and there are people
who are not born again. If you are not born again, then there are
very few benefits of the Gospel that you can actually walk in, or
expect, or even claim in faith.
Healing is not something you can claim for yourself if
you’re not born again. If you are not a believer, you can receive
the benefit of healing through the hands of a believer, but you
don’t have a right to get it for yourself. A believer can get
healing for you, because he does have a promise that who he
lays hands on will recover.
However, I would never want to put God into a locked box.
God in His mercy may heal an unbeliever in some way. If He
does heal an unbeliever, it is to show them His goodness, and
this is to draw them to repentance so that they will serve Him. It
doesn’t mean that just because God heals an unbeliever that the
unbeliever has a right to all of the other benefits of the Gospel.
Those other benefits are for those who are in Christ.
If we don’t make sure that the people we are talking to are
qualified, then we are guilty of giving them false hope. When I
stand up here and preach healing, I’m preaching it from a point
of view that I’m preaching to believers.
An unbeliever in the midst might hear me say, “God will
heal you, and Jesus has already died to provide it, and all you
have to do is decide to believe, right now.
You have to decide that it was paid for, and you can be
healed.” They are going to think that I’m talking to them, even
though, technically, I’m not talking to them. The Bible tells us
to examine ourselves, to make sure whether we are in the faith
(2 Corinthians 13:5). There has to be a benefit of being in the
faith.
Many times if we treat people like they are saved, even if
they’re not, they will get saved. However, treating them like
they’re saved, and talking to them like they’re saved are two
different things.
If you talk to an unbeliever like they’re saved and tell them
the benefits, and if you never mention repentance and getting
right with God, then they’re going to automatically think,
“Well, this is just a free gift. It’s like I’m showing up in the
government cheese line.”
All you have to do in a government cheese line is show up
and just stand there, and they just hand it out. That’s not what
God is doing. God would love to do that, but the problem is that
we would be doing it for citizens of another nation, and they
don’t belong to Him.
It is sad to give someone false hope; that’s worse than no
hope at all. If you’ve got no hope, you can at some point turn
and look for hope, but if you get false hope, you’ll never know
if you’re right or wrong. You will assume that you’re right, and
if you assume you’re right, you’ll never examine to find out that
maybe you’re not right.
We always have to be very deliberate in how we talk to
people, and let them know that the benefit of healing is for the
saved. Now, if you are not saved then you can get saved, and
you should, and then you can get healing for yourself without
having it done by another believer.
If you’re going to get it for yourself and walk in divine
health, then you have to be connected. You have to be part of
the branch that’s connected to the Vine for that divine life to
flow through you. It’s like going to a job fair. You go in and
they tell you about the benefits of that company. You say,
“Wow! I really like this company,” and they say, “Well, we
would love to have you on board.”
Then you go home, sit down, and think: “Wow! I can’t
wait until that check gets here.” They didn’t hire you, right?
You could wait a long time and never get a check and then start
thinking, “Well, this just doesn’t work.” Well it works if you
work for the company.
If you’re part of the company, you get the benefits, but just
because you walk past a building doesn’t mean you get the
benefits. We have to make sure that we’re part of the company
before we can ever really hope to claim the benefits. We need to
know that we are qualified to receive the benefits of the
company, so to speak.
2 Corinthians 13:5,
5. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith;
prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves,
how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be
reprobates?
Here Paul was talking to the carnal Corinthians. He was
telling them, “Examine yourselves, and make sure you’re in the
faith.” You are to examine yourself and know who you are. You
are to look at yourself and ask, “Am I walking worthy of the
Lord?” We are told to walk worthy of God.
I know this message is not going to go over well in some
camps, but those camps need to move into the camp of God. It’s
that simple.
In 1 Corinthians chapter 11, it is talking about Communion
and the Lord’s Table.
I Corinthians 11:28,
6. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat
of that bread, and drink of that cup.
We are to examine ourselves as we start to partake in
Communion.
Paul has said for us to examine ourselves twice in these
verses, and in the mouth of two or three witnesses let a thing be
established. We have two different accounts, two witnesses, in
different books of the New Testament, written by Paul, telling
us to examine ourselves.
In Hebrews chapter 2, there is another exhortation. Paul
starts the exhortation by saying, “Therefore,” because of what
was in chapter 1. If you go back and read chapter 1, Paul talks
about how Jesus sat down at the right hand of God, being made
so much better than the angels. Then it goes on to tell about
how the angels were sent forth to minister for them who shall be
heirs of salvation.
Hebrews 2:1,
1. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed
to the things which we have heard, lest at any time
we should let them slip.
Something that’s been coming up in me lately is:
“Remember how you started. Go back to where you started and
look at that.”
When you get to a place, where maybe everything is good,
it is easy to get into a cruise mode. However, you don’t want to
get to where you just take the place you got to for granted. You
don’t want to let anything slip. You were doing some things that
got you to that place, but that does not mean that now you don’t
have to do those things.
When I talk to someone about confessing the Word of God,
it is usually at the point of a need. After I tell them what they
have to do, they’ll ask, “Well, how long do I have to do this?” I
tell them, “For the rest of your life. This is life, and this is how
you live. This is not something you do as a remedy. If you do it
as a remedy, you’re going to need to do it again at a future date,
because you’re going to need the remedy again.
However, if you do this on a regular basis, then you’re
living in this life. You probably won’t need it for a remedy
again, because everything will be good, but you still have to be
doing it to make sure that everything stays good.”
Hebrews 2:2-3,
2. For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and
every transgression and disobedience received a just
recompence of reward;
3. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great
salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by
the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that
heard him;
Again, Paul was talking about the message of Jesus. He
said, “We can’t let these words that we’ve heard slip. We’ve got
to go back and remember them.” That’s why I tell people all the
time: it’s the basics that win. We are always going back over the
basics. We have to constantly live in the basics and not get
fancy with them. We are not to go off into some tangent or some
trend. We are to live the basic life all the time, and that way we
stay ready.
I want you to realize that all of this is talking about you
being qualified. So far, this is not one of those jump up and
down and wave your handkerchief messages, but it gets good;
there is Good News. Why? That’s because it’s called the Gospel
which is the Good News. Amen.
Colossians 1:12,
12. Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made
us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the
saints in light:
Here it starts out by saying, “Giving thanks unto the
Father...” Now watch: “Giving thanks unto the Father, which
hath,” past tense, “made us meet,” or made us able, “to be
partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.” Right there is
a good place to shout. Why? That’s because it is God who has
made us able to be a partaker; you didn’t do it. You didn’t make
yourself able—God made you able.
Now understand, you don’t get born again and walk with
God and then God, at some point, says, “Okay, you’re off
probation. Now you get the inheritance.” That’s not the way it
works. The minute you got born again God made you able to be
a partaker. That’s the Good News, right there. That means that
you don’t have to work for it. That means that you don’t have to
reach a certain level.
One of the easiest ways to talk and describe faith is to talk
about quantum physics. I know it sounds crazy in itself, because
you think that talking about quantum physics couldn’t be easy.
Actually it is, because it basically says that you have the
atoms, the protons, the neutrons, and the electrons all going
around. They don’t know where those are at any given time, but
wherever they look for them, that is where they are. That’s a
perfect illustration of faith in the sense that where you look for
it is where you find it.
The thing about faith is that the minute you switch on and
decide to believe, it works. That’s an amazing thing, right there.
That is so basic that most of the time we miss it. Most people go
into religion and try to work their way to it and figure out a path
to get there rather than just saying, “You mean all I have to do is
just switch on, and believe, and it starts working?” Yes! That’s
the way it works. It starts the minute you believe.
I’m still studying a lot of the Mind Renewal material. The
amazing thing about it is that every morning you have new
neurons in your brain. These are the ones that are created
overnight. It is amazing, because as you know that and think
about that, you can actually see an increase of the neurons that
are being created. Simply because you know the truth and know
that it happens, it causes it to happen faster.
Beforehand, you didn’t know it was going on, and it was
going at a normal rate. However, the minute you knew that it
was working, you said, “Oh, that’s what’s going on,” and
immediately it became turbo-charged and more neurons were
produced. More neurons were produced just by you knowing
that it was working. Now, think about that.
That is a perfect illustration of faith. The minute you found
out that faith works, faith started working. The minute you
decided to believe that by His stripes you were healed, faith
started working. Faith is wherever you look for it.
If you want to find faith in the area of deliverance, the
minute you look for it in deliverance, it starts working. The
minute you look for it in healing, it starts working. The minute
you look for it in finances, it starts working.
Whatever need you have, the minute you put God there
and look at that need, through God, it works. That’s the best
way I’ve been able to describe it to myself. Look at that need
through God, and the minute you do, it starts working.
It’s not a matter of you obtaining. Remember, we are
talking about being qualified. We just read in Colossians chapter
1 verse 12, “Giving thanks unto the Father, which has made us
able to be a partaker.” What has He done? “Thanks be unto God
which has qualified us.”
That’s the point I’m getting to. God has qualified you.
There’s no qualification, other than that, which is necessary.
There’s no spiritual degree of obtainment that you have to
reach.
Anything that God has promised or provided in the Bible
became yours the second you got born again; they became
yours in a split second. You might not have known how to use
them or access them, but not understanding how to access them
doesn’t mean that they weren’t yours before you accessed them.
An acquaintance of mine came here from another country
when he was 9 or 10, and his family was very wealthy. When he
was very young, they bought him a new Mercedes. They parked
it in a garage, kept it clean and tuned up, until he turned 16, and
then gave it to him. It was his car from the minute they bought
it. Why? They bought it for him, even though he didn’t know
how to drive it and couldn’t legally have driven it according to
American laws.
It was his, because he was in the family. They provided it
for him, even though he didn’t know how to use it. By the time
he turned 16, he had a car that was almost a classic and in
perfect condition. The car was worth more than it was worth
when they bought it.
I want you to understand this: God provided something for
you before you ever showed up. He provided an inheritance in
the saints for you. Religion says that you’ve got to do
something to obtain it and deserve it. Christianity says that
Jesus did something for you to deserve it. We always hear and
think, “I don’t deserve this,” but we have to realize that Jesus
deserves it. We can’t separate what He has joined together—we
are one with Him. We deserve it, because He provided it. We
don’t deserve it on our own accord. We don’t deserve it for
anything that we have done, but we do deserve it because He
died to give it to us.
In that sense, we have a right to our inheritance. If you
have a right to it, you deserve it. You don’t deserve it because
you earned it; that’s the big difference. That’s the beauty of it,
right there. If I stopped right now, that would be enough for you
to realize that God has qualified you. You don’t have to obtain
spirituality; you don’t have to get to a certain place. God has
qualified you.
I got a notice in the mail the other day which said, “You’ve
been pre-qualified for a line of credit.” That notice is what gets
you in, and then they tell you all of the other things you have to
do to qualify. However, with God, you were pre-qualified
before you got here. Jesus came 2,000 years ago, so when He
died, He qualified you. Now all you have to do is get into the
family to be made partakers, able partakers.
Colossians, 1:13,
13. Who hath delivered us from the power of
darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of
his dear Son:
In verse 12, he said, “Which hath made us,” past tense,
“able to be,” the right to be, “partakers of the inheritance of the
saints in light.” Verse 13 said, “Who hath delivered us from the
power of darkness.” Notice: that’s part of your inheritance.
Remember Psalm 103:2. It said, “Forget not all His benefits.” A
part of having His benefits is that you have been delivered from
the power of darkness.
Darkness has no right, no place in you; it has no authority
in you. It has absolutely no right to dwell in your life, in your
family, in your house, or wherever you are. It has no right to be
in your animals or in your property; it has no right, no authority
to be there. You have been delivered from the power of
darkness and from the authority of darkness.
You have been translated into the Kingdom of His dear
Son, so when He moved you in, He moved everything that
belongs to you in as well. It’s all in the Kingdom, so it should
all work right; it should be good, and you should be strong and
healthy.
You shouldn’t be just barely getting along. Physically, such
as in sickness or disease, you shouldn’t even have that going on
in your life. That should be so far removed from you that you
don’t even have to think about it.
Until they made the liability law for cars, I didn’t have any.
Why? I didn’t plan to have a wreck. I understand that it’s for the
other guy, but I have never wrecked anybody else’s car. I’ve
wrecked several of my own, going off into ditches and things
like that, but I figured if I wrecked it, I would pay for it. I never
looked at insurance.
To me, that was like gambling against myself. It’s like
saying, “I’m really not that good of a driver, so I’ll probably
have some things happen.” I didn’t really count very much on
the other guy.
Do you realize that Jesus never thought about having faith?
He never thought, “I wonder if I have enough faith? I wonder if
My faith in God is strong?” He never thought that way. Why?
That’s because He had a relationship with God.
You need to realize that same thing. You don’t need to even
think in terms of, “Do I have enough faith to stay well? Do I
have enough faith to get healed?” It should just be, “I walk with
God and because we’re together, sickness and disease are far
from me; it will not come near my dwelling. I don’t have to
worry about the plague, the pestilences, or anything else that is
going on.”
In Him is life, and I have that life. I have abundant life, so
it’s just keeping everything else at bay. It’s keeping everything
away from me, and I shouldn’t even have to think in terms of
sickness or disease. That’s called living free where our mind
doesn’t have to go there.
Colossians 1:14,
14. In whom we have redemption through his blood,
even the forgiveness of sins:
This is the qualification: “In whom.” For you to qualify for
these other things, you’ve got to be in Christ. If you’re in
Christ, you are qualified. If you're outside of Christ, you’ve
been pre-qualified, but you still have to qualify. In other words,
you’ve already been cleared so that you can apply to come into
Christ, but you don’t get the benefits until you actually come in.
“In whom we have redemption.”
In Christ you are redeemed; you are brought back and
away from the power of darkness and placed into the Kingdom
of God’s Son. You have this redemption; you’ve been redeemed
and removed from one thing into this other so that the power of
darkness, or the authority of darkness, has no right in your life
—but you have to settle that. The beauty of it is that once you
decide to settle it, it starts working.
You may have been hearing some of this for the first time,
and said, “Yes, that’s the way it is!” Right when you did that, it
started working. Why? It’s because of the quantum physics
aspect that we just talked about.
Since I’m just reading Scripture, the minute you decide to
believe that it is true to you, it starts working. You may not see
it right that second, but it’s already working and it’s already
creating new connections in your neurons. As this is being
renewed into your mind, your mind is being renewed to the
mind of Christ, and it is working in you mightily.
Ephesians 2:10,
10. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus unto good works, which God hath before
ordained that we should walk in them.
“We are His workmanship.” Now, think about that.
Did you ever notice that in the art world, they are very
meticulous at making sure that something is authentic? They
want to know if it is a real Rembrandt or if it is a real
Michelangelo. They want to authenticate it and make sure that it
is really their work.
Why? You could have an exact replica, a perfect copy, and
it would look just as good, but there is value added when you
know that it is authentic. It was actually created at the hand of
this person who, in the art world, they would call a master.
There is value added to something just because it was created
by the master.
Here it says in Ephesians 2:10, “For we are His
workmanship.” You were created by Him in Christ; you were
formed in Him. We are His workmanship. It says that we are
complete in Him. When you are born again, in Christ, you are
born complete. In other words, you’re not missing anything;
you are born complete. Then you have to be trained and
equipped.
The purpose of the Five-Fold Ministry is to grow you up so
that you know how to use everything you were born with. The
key is in knowing Who made you and Whose workmanship you
are. You are God’s workmanship. What does that mean? That
means that God made you.
I know this is super simple, but what that means is this: if
God made you, He did it right. It says, “We are fearfully and
wonderfully made.” Why? That is because He made us. Do you
realize that you, in Christ, are the workmanship and the
handiwork of God? God, Himself, saw to it that you were
created in Christ’s image and that you were created by the hand
of God. He formed you and created you exactly perfect.
Because you were created by Him and because you are His
workmanship, you are automatically qualified, because He
made you complete and perfect! Now, your mind has to be
renewed, and that’s our job. That’s part of what the Five-Fold
Ministry does. It equips you to renew your mind. All the Five-
Fold Ministry does is reveal to you what you already have. It
doesn’t bring something to you or add something that you don’t
already have access to. It just teaches you how to access what
you already have. You are complete in Him. You are His
workmanship.
The main thing to remember is that you’re not the only
one. You need to remember that other people are also God’s
workmanship, and you need to treat other people like they are
God’s workmanship, which adds value to them. You may not
see the value in a person, but God does. You have to see them
with the same value that God sees them with.
He says, “For we are His workmanship created in Christ
Jesus, unto good works.” You were created unto good works.
“Which God hath before ordained that we should walk in
them.” God already has good works ordained out there. He is
waiting for you to walk in them. Most of them are walking
around, waiting for you to get to them, and they are the good
works that He has ordained.
Often we’re not looking at it from God’s vantage point. We
look at it and ask, “God, do you want me to pray for that
person?” or “God, show me which one you want me to pray
for.” We act as though we aren’t sure. We’re hesitant about this
person or that person. “I just want to get it right.” God says,
“I’ve already ordained this. This is already done. All you’ve got
to do is show up and do your part.” Honestly, we ought to just
run around and hit them all. Just bam, bam, bam! If you get
them all, you’ll definitely get the ones you’re ordained to get.
Ephesians 2:11-12,
11. Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past
Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision
by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh
made by hands;
12. That at that time ye were without Christ, being
aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and
strangers from the covenants of promise, having no
hope, and without God in the world:
“That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens
from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the
covenants of promise.” There was a time when you were aliens
and strangers from the covenants of promise. That means that
you had no promises, and you had no guarantees.
It says, “Having no hope, and without God in the world.”
Remember: there are two families (the family of God, and those
who are called the children of the devil), and he was detailing
these two families. He said, “But you were without God in the
world.”
Ephesians 2:13,
13. But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were
far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
When it says, “But now,” we ought to throw our hats up in
the air and cheer! “But now in Christ Jesus, you who sometimes
were far off are made near by the blood of Christ.” We’re not
aliens; we’re not strangers anymore. That means that we’re not
without God. It means that we’re not without hope. We have
hope, and we are not strangers to the covenants of promise; we
have the covenants of promise.
Ephesians 2:14,
14. For he is our peace, who hath made both one,
and hath broken down the middle wall of partition
between us;
Now, we’re getting into the real heart of what I wanted to
get to. I want you to realize what we have and what a done deal
it is, because we are qualified by God. You’ve got to get that
you are already qualified if you’re born again. You are in Christ,
and He is in you. You are qualified for anything that God has
promised. There is not one thing that God has that you do not
have access to or are not qualified to participate in.
2 Corinthians 3:1-18,
1. Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need
we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you,
or letters of commendation from you?
2. Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known
and read of all men:
Notice: people are epistles. People read your life, and you
need to be an epistle of Christ. When they read your life, both
now while you’re living and after you’re gone, they ought to be
able to write a book about you, and it ought to be an epistle of
Christ.
3. Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the
epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with
ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in
tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4. And such trust have we through Christ to God-
ward:
5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any
thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
Your sufficiency is of God. He can qualify you, because He
is working in you both to do His will and to do of His good
pleasure. That’s what He tells us, and we have to realize that
we’re qualified and that God is working in us.
It is not because of our own sufficiency. We didn’t obtain
it; we’re not smart enough or talented enough. God in us
qualifies us, and He is our sufficiency.
Somebody said, “Well, you know I just don’t know if I
have enough faith.” No, no, no. He is our sufficiency. He makes
up the difference. Your faith is in Him, not in your faith.
Remember that.
6. Who also hath made us able ministers of the new
testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the
letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Here it is talking about God. “Who also hath,” past tense
“made us able ministers of the New Testament.” God, Himself,
has made us able ministers of the New Testament. He made us
ministers who are able, good, and equipped ministers of the
New Testament. “Not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter
kills, but the Spirit gives life.”
7. But if the ministration of death, written and
engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children
of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of
Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory
was to be done away:
“But if the ministration of death,” is talking about the Old
Testament, the Old Covenant, “written and engraven in stones,
was glorious,” so glorious we would even say, “so that the
children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses
for the glory of his countenance.”
Hear what he was saying: the ministry of the Old
Testament, the ministry of the Old Covenant, was so glorious
that it caused a glow to be on Moses’ face so that the children of
Israel couldn’t even look at him because of this light coming off
of him. Then it said, “…which glory was to be done away.”
In other words, here was a glory that the children of Israel
could see. It shone so brightly that they couldn’t even look at
Moses. They caused him to put a veil over his face so that the
glory couldn’t be seen through that veil.
The amazing thing is that the glory they saw was done
away with. That glory wasn’t even a glory that was going to
stick around. That was a pre-gloriousness, and yet as glorious as
that was, it was meant to be done away with. You don’t replace
something that good with something less. You replace it with
something better.
8. How shall not the ministration of the spirit be
rather glorious?
9. For if the ministration of condemnation be glory,
much more doth the ministration of righteousness
exceed in glory.
10. For even that which was made glorious had no
glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that
excelleth.
11. For if that which is done away was glorious,
much more that which remaineth is glorious.
12. Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great
plainness of speech:
13. And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face,
that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look
to the end of that which is abolished:
In other words, Moses put the veil over his face, yet that
glory was being abolished and being pushed away.
14. But their minds were blinded: for until this day
remaineth the same vail untaken away in the
reading of the old testament; which vail is done away
in Christ.
It was saying that they were still looking at that veil. They
were made blind, because they were still looking at the old
glory that is now gone.
They live in the glory of what it used to be, rather than
looking at the glory that it is now, which is a greater glory that
replaced the old glory that faded away. Even after a while, the
glory on Moses’ face faded so that he didn’t have to wear the
veil. This new glory never fades. This is the glory you have.
“For until this day remains the same veil untaken away in
the reading of the Old Testament; which veil is done away in
Christ.” That veil was done away with in Christ.
15. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the
vail is upon their heart.
16. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the
vail shall be taken away.
“Nevertheless when it,” their heart, “shall turn to the Lord,
the veil shall be taken away.”
17. Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit
of the Lord is, there is liberty.
This reference to having liberty is talking about having
liberty in this new glory, in this New Covenant, not in the
Covenant that passed away.
If you go to James 1:22-25, it talks about how we look into
the perfect law of liberty and as we look into the perfect law of
liberty, then we see it, and we find out who we are.
If you’re a hearer and not a doer, as you read it you look
into this glory, but you walk off and forget what kind of person
you are. Then, when you look into the mirror, you see yourself.
18. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass
the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of
the Lord.
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a mirror the
glory of the Lord…” Notice what it says we are doing: we are
looking into a mirror.
What do we see when we look into this mirror? We see
glory. We see the glory of the Lord, and “We are changed into
the same image.” What image? We are changed into the image
of the glory of the Lord.
You are being changed into the image of the glory of the
Lord, and you’re being changed into Jesus’ image from the
inside out as you find out who you are in the Word of God and
start to walk that out. Isn’t this simple?
The more you walk in who you are, the more the glory of
God is revealed! He says, “We’re changed into the same image
from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” He is not
talking about levels of glory.
You hear it in church all the time: “Well, we’re going from
glory, to glory, to glory, to glory,” and they’re talking about
ascending these steps of glory. No. There are only two glories:
there’s the glory of the Old Testament and the glory of the New
Testament.
You have passed from the glory of the Old, the glory that
fades away, and you have moved into the new glory which
never fades. If it never fades, you don’t have to go from level,
to level, to level. Religion has to give you levels to keep you
coming back for more; it always has to do with the next level of
glory. No, you went from one level to another. You are complete
in Him.
If you walked out and never came back, you would be in
Christ as long as you kept walking with Christ. He’ll keep
living through you, but you don’t have to be connected here to
be walking in that glory. You have to be connected to Him to be
walking in that glory.
I believe that Paul wrote the Book of Hebrews, but
whoever wrote it said this:
Hebrews 8:1-13,
1. Now of the things which we have spoken this is the
sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the
right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the
heavens;
“Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum.”
We could start at Hebrews chapter 1 and read all the way
through to chapter 8, but I’m not going to do that. I don’t have
to go back and read all of that; I’m going to sum it up. I’m
going to give you the cliff notes for Hebrews 1-7.
2. A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true
tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
This wasn’t talking about the tabernacle of Moses, the
temple, and all of that. It was talking about what Moses saw in
heaven that he patterned everything after on earth.
3. For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and
sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man
have somewhat also to offer.
4. For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest,
seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according
to the law:
5. Who serve unto the example and shadow of
heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God
when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See,
saith he, that thou make all things according to the
pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
“Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly
things.” It is saying that the priests and those who were doing
this on earth were giving you the shadow of what’s going on in
heaven.
It says, “As Moses was admonished of God when he was
about to make the tabernacle,” then it quotes and says, “‘See,’
saith He, ‘that thou make all things according to the pattern
showed to thee in the mount.’” By reading this passage, we
know that Moses saw into heaven, saw the right tabernacle, and
then God told him to make the earthly tabernacle just like that
heavenly one.
6. But now hath he obtained a more excellent
ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a
better covenant, which was established upon better
promises.
Jesus has obtained a better Covenant. This New Covenant
with the greater glory is a better Covenant with better promises.
What does that mean? That means we can forget the Old
Covenant, because we have a better Covenant with better
promises.
7. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then
should no place have been sought for the second.
In other words, the first Covenant had faults, and it could
not make men righteous. It could not give life; all it could do is
point men to Christ.
8. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the
days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel and with the house
of Judah:
9. Not according to the covenant that I made with
their fathers in the day when I took them by the
hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because
they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded
them not, saith the Lord.
“‘Not according to the Covenant that I made with their
fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them
out of the land of Egypt.’” It was telling us that this New
Covenant is not going to be like that Old Covenant, “‘…
because they continued not in My Covenant, and I regarded
them not,’ saith the Lord.”
10. For this is the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will
put my laws into their mind, and write them in their
hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall
be to me a people:
“‘For this is the Covenant that I will make with the house
of Israel after those days,’ saith the Lord.” What is this New
Covenant going to be like? He gives us some clues: “‘I will put
My Laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I
will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.’”
11. And they shall not teach every man his
neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know
the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the
greatest.
What this was saying was that they were not going to have
to go and teach the people to know God if they were in the New
Covenant. If you’re born again in this New Covenant, you know
Him. You can always get to know somebody better, and you do
that by spending time with them and walking with them.
You have to understand the teaching aspect of the Five-
Fold Ministry. It is not telling you to know God; it is saying that
you already know God. It’s revealing to you the things that you
already have.
When I was reading and going through this, the benefits
that we have became so clear. That’s really what I wanted to get
to. It says, “I will put my laws into their mind, and write them
in their heart, and I’ll be their God. Every man will not teach his
neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord:
for all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest.” If you’re
in the Covenant, you’re going to know Him. If you don’t know
Him, you’re not in the Covenant, so one of the clues to being in
the Covenant is that you know God.
12. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,
and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no
more.
13. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made
the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth
old is ready to vanish away.
If there’s a New Covenant then that means the Old
Covenant was pushed out of the way, and they were walking in
the new one.
Hebrews 9:1-15,
1. Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances
of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
2. For there was a tabernacle made; the first,
wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the
shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
Here he was just talking about the physical tabernacle that
was made.
3. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is
called the Holiest of all;
He was talking about the Holy of Holies and about how it
was built.
4. Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the
covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein
was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod
that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
When it said, “The tabernacle which is called the Holiest
of all, which had the golden censer and the Ark of the
Covenant,” it was referring to what was in the tabernacle. Then
it gave the description of the Ark of the Covenant: “The Ark of
the Covenant overlaid round about with gold.” It goes on to say,
“…wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod
that budded, and the tables of the Covenant.” He was saying
that in the Holy of Holies was this Ark of the Covenant, and all
of these things were in it.
5. And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the
mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak
particularly.
Notice: “And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the
Mercy Seat.” Over the Ark was the Mercy Seat. The Ark was
representative of the Law, but the Mercy Seat was
representative of the grace of Christ. Therefore, because of that,
grace trumped Law. Then it said, “Of which we cannot now
speak particularly.”
6. Now when these things were thus ordained, the
priests went always into the first tabernacle,
accomplishing the service of God.
The priests always went into the initial tabernacle first, not
into the Holy of Holies, “Accomplishing the service of God.”
7. But into the second went the high priest alone
once every year, not without blood, which he offered
for himself, and for the errors of the people:
Once every year, the High Priest went into the second
tabernacle alone. He couldn’t go in without blood. “He offered
for himself and for the errors of the people.”
8. The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into
the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as
the first tabernacle was yet standing:
What was the Holy Ghost trying to show us here? “The
way into the Holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as
the first tabernacle was yet standing.” In other words, as long as
that was still going on, the way into the Holy of Holies was not
yet provided, but now it has been provided.
Now, we’re not outside God; we’re in Him and connected
to Him. The Old Covenant was that outer tabernacle; the New
Covenant is that inner tabernacle, that Holy of Holies. That’s
the place that you were moved into.
9. Which was a figure for the time then present, in
which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that
could not make him that did the service perfect, as
pertaining to the conscience;
10. Which stood only in meats and drinks, and
divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on
them until the time of reformation.
Notice that the Old Covenant could not fix the conscience.
People were always conscious of their guilt. What that tells us is
that the New Covenant does something to purge your
conscience. You should have no sense of guilt if you are right
with God, yet everywhere you go, it seems as if they are still
talking about your past sins.
It’s very easy to get right; you do that by getting in Christ.
Now, there is a purging of the flesh and other things that you
can do, and you should walk therein. If you mess up, you can
immediately be cleansed by the blood of Christ. You should not
have any sense of shame, guilt, condemnation, or anything like
that if you are in Christ.
Key aspects of this New Covenant are that we have
freedom and that we have righteousness. We don’t walk in
shame, guilt, or any type of condemnation; we walk free. We’re
like children, once again, who don’t even think about the
difference of good and evil. We’re just free with God and
walking with God. I’m not saying that there’s not sin. I’m
saying that our consciences have been purged of the idea that
we were sinners.
Was I a sinner that was saved by grace? Yes. Am I a sinner
saved by grace? No. Right now, I’m not a sinner who just had
grace applied to me. I am the righteousness of God, in Christ,
and because of that, I have no sense of shame, guilt, or
condemnation.
11. But Christ being come an high priest of good
things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not
of this building;
12. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by
his own blood he entered in once into the holy place,
having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the
ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth
to the purifying of the flesh:
14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who
through the eternal Spirit offered himself without
spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works
to serve the living God?
“How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through
the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge
your conscience…?” There is that word conscience again.
“How much more shall the blood of Christ purge your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”
The blood of Christ purges you from dead works to serve
God. What are those dead works? Those are the things that you
think make you right with God. There are all of these rituals and
different things that religion tries to tell you that you have to do.
I’m not right with God because I feed the hungry or clothe
the naked. I feed the hungry and clothe the naked because I’m
right with God. If I tried to use those to get somewhere with
God, those would be dead works. It wouldn’t do any good, and
as a matter of fact, it would take me away from God rather than
toward Him.
15. And for this cause he is the mediator of the new
testament, that by means of death, for the
redemption of the transgressions that were under the
first testament, they which are called might receive
the promise of eternal inheritance.
“And for this cause He is the mediator of the New
Testament.” Notice: before, they kept using the word Covenant,
and then they started using the word Testament. If you look the
words up in the Greek, both words are identical. The same
words are used, but there’s a difference in emphasis.
Let me show you why: “That by means of death, for the
redemption of the transgressions that were under the First
Testament, they which are called might receive the promise of
eternal inheritance.” He was talking about an inheritance. He
went from talking about an Old Covenant to a New Testament,
and when he started talking about a New Testament he started
talking about inheritance. Why? That’s because a Last Will and
Testament has an inheritance attached.
We really shouldn’t have Bibles that say, “Old Testament
and New Testament.” We should have Bibles that say,
“Containing the Old Covenant and the New Testament.” That’s
what it should be, because the New Covenant was an agreement
made between God and Jesus.
Colossians 1:12,
12. Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made
us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the
saints in light:
The New Testament is the Last Will and Testament of Jesus
that we get as an inheritance of the saints in light, because Jesus
kept the agreement, and now we get the inheritance. He kept the
Covenant; it’s our Testament.
If you get this picture, everything will change. Now, when
you see the New Testament, you will know that it is Jesus’ will
that He provided. When you read it you will find out what He
left for you. It will cause you to read it a little differently.
Hebrews 9:16-28,
16. For where a testament is, there must also of
necessity be the death of the testator.
“For where a Testament (a last will) is, there must also of
necessity be the death of the testator.” If you’re going to have a
Last Will and Testament and if it’s going to be enforced, there
has to be a death. If there’s not a death, it is not yet a testament.
In other words, it’s there, but you don’t get it. You don’t get an
inheritance or the benefits of a will when you die; you get the
benefits of a will when somebody else dies. The key is that
Jesus died, and we have the benefits of His will now, not when
we get to heaven.
17. For a testament is of force after men are dead:
otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator
liveth.
A testament, meaning a will, is of no use as long as the
testator lives.
18. Whereupon neither the first testament was
dedicated without blood.
The First Testament was dedicated with blood, also.
19. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all
the people according to the law, he took the blood of
calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and
hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the
people,
Why did he sprinkle the book and the people? He
connected them together. You are connected to the Book. Why?
That’s because it is your DNA.
20. Saying, This is the blood of the testament which
God hath enjoined unto you.
Notice what Moses said: “This is the blood of the
Testament.” What did Jesus say in 1 Corinthians 11:25 at the
Last Supper? “This cup is the New Testament in My blood.”
Jesus was linking that directly to what Moses said. Then it says,
“Which God hath enjoined unto you.”
21. Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the
tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
22. And almost all things are by the law purged with
blood; and without shedding of blood is no
remission.
23. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of
things in the heavens should be purified with these;
but the heavenly things themselves with better
sacrifices than these.
In other words, what they did on the earth was a type and
shadow. That means that what they did here on the earth was
also done by Jesus. Instead of doing it on earth, Jesus took His
blood and sprinkled it on the Mercy Seat and all of the heavenly
utensils. What does that mean? It means that you were joined to
Him; you were also sprinkled with that blood. You are
connected to Him.
24. For Christ is not entered into the holy places
made with hands, which are the figures of the true;
but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence
of God for us:
Why is Jesus in heaven? He isn’t there to appear for
Himself. He’s there to appear for us. That’s why He said,
“Whatever you ask in My Name, that will I do.” Why? We’re
going to ask in His Name. He’s going to go to the Father and
say, “You need to rubberstamp this.” Why? It’s done. He’s
going to represent us; He’s our advocate. He is our attorney, and
He takes all of our transgressions to the lawful Judge of the
universe and gets redemption for us.
25. Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the
high priest entereth into the holy place every year
with blood of others;
26. For then must he often have suffered since the
foundation of the world: but now once in the end of
the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself.
27. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but
after this the judgment:
You don’t want to wait until after you die to decide which
judgment you want. You get to decide the judgment now.
28. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of
many; and unto them that look for him shall he
appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
“So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many.”
Now watch: “And unto them that look for Him shall He appear
the second time without sin unto salvation.” You’ve got to be
looking for Him. “Unto them that look for Him shall He
appear.”
2 Corinthians 1:20-22,
20. For all the promises of God in him are yea, and
in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
“For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him
Amen (so be it), unto the glory of God by us.” Why are all the
promises of God yes and so be it? It is because they bring glory
to God. When God answers your prayers, it brings Him glory.
That’s what Jesus said.
Sometimes we say, “Well, I don’t want to be selfish. I don’t
want to be covetous and ask for things.” When you ask as a
believer, receive, and it is manifested, then it brings God glory,
because it is showing that He is a God who keeps His word.
God enjoys when you ask and receive. Don’t always make
it about yourself. If you’re worried that you’re being a little too
covetous about things, then just stop asking for yourself. Start
asking for other people. Let God bless you so you can bless
them.
21. Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ,
and hath anointed us, is God;
22. Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of
the Spirit in our hearts.
What did he say about these promises? He said, “If it’s in
the will, it’s yours.” Why? He has made you right; He has made
you able to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints. What is
that inheritance? It’s everything that’s in the Last Will and
Testament. It’s everything in the New Testament which is the
last Testament that we will ever need.
God has provided everything that we need in it. We have
moved into the “Promise Land.” God is more than enough.
Anything we need, He becomes for us, because He is our God,
and we are His people! Amen.
This is what you’ve got to get: if it’s in the will, it’s yours.
It’s not a matter of: “Well, I’ve got to pray and see if God wants
me to have this,” or “Let me see if this Scripture is what God
wants me to use.” No, if it’s in the will, it’s yours. Why? It’s the
Last Will and Testament of Jesus Christ. Not only did He die,
but He came back alive to make sure it was carried out the way
He wanted it to be carried out!
Have you ever seen lawyers twist the wills of parents, and
the kids fight over them? They will argue and fight. None of
that is happening with Jesus. He died and came back alive to
make sure that everybody got their part of the will.
We are joint heirs with Him. What does that mean?
Everything He had, we all get. I don’t get some of the will that
you don’t get. We all have the same will. We all get the same
thing. We all get the Spirit of God, and everything else that
Jesus has comes through the Spirit. We get healing, deliverance,
life, and health.
Jesus doesn’t really have healing; He has health. He gives
out of His health, and that life heals. If you’re going to walk in
what Christ has and be a joint heir with Him, then you’re going
to live in life. You’re going to have divine health.
You’re even going to walk in divine prosperity so that you
will have enough in order to be able to give to others that are in
need. It’s not enough for you to just have enough for you. You
ought to have enough for others.
If you’re worried about it, then just set a limit and say, “My
lifestyle will not rise above this, and everything that’s beyond
that, I’m giving away.” Fine, do that. That’s what Dr. Sumrall
did, and that’s what you’re going to have to do if you really
want to walk in the blessings of God; you cannot heap it upon
yourself.
You have to set yourself to decide: “I will not live above
this amount; everything over that goes out. If you do that, by the
time you’re ready to check out of here, I guarantee you will
have given millions to the Kingdom. God will say, “I will just
pour it through them, because they are pouring it right out.” You
won’t even notice a lack. Why? You are going to be living in the
overflow.
2 Corinthians 7:1,
1. Having therefore dearly beloved, these promises,
let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh
and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
“Having therefore these promises…” What promises? “All
the promises of God in Him that are yea, and in Him Amen (so
be it), unto the glory of God by us.” “Dearly beloved, let us
cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” We’ve got these great
precious promises whereby we become what? We become
partakers of God’s divine nature.
We have all of these promises, so we should cleanse
ourselves. We should “cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of
the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”
That’s the part where the Church is going off onto one side,
right now. We have to make sure that we’re not going off into a
tangent. We don’t want to go from one ditch to the other; we
want to stay in the road.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
24. Know ye not that they which run in a race run
all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may
obtain.
“Know ye not that they which run in a race run all,” or
they all run, “but one receives the prize? So run, that you may
obtain.” If you’re going to run the race, run it to win it.
25. And every man that striveth for the mastery is
temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a
corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
How much more moderate should we be, and how much
more temperate should we be in our own lives?
26. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so
fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
In other words, “I’m not throwing out shots and missing.
I’m not shadow boxing.” You can watch fights, and they will
have one person throwing a certain amount of kicks and just so
many punches. They may have thrown a 120 in one round and
yet the percentage rate of hits that they are actually landing is
like 2 percent. That’s not good; that means they have thrown a
lot of punches and kicks but weren’t hitting their target. He was
saying that we cannot be those kinds of people.
You don’t get credit for the punches you throw; you get
credit for the punches that land, so don’t run the race like it
doesn’t matter. You might say, “Well, the idea is that I’m
running, and that’s what counts.” No, it’s not. What counts is
not that you run it; it’s that you run it the right way. You run it
accurately, you finish your course, and you cross the finish line
so that you will be able to run through with your hands up.
Have you ever seen the winners come across the finish
line? They always run with their hands up. They hardly ever run
through with their arms down. We ought to come through our
finish line with our hands up. We should be worshipping God,
because we finished our race.
27. But I keep under my body, and bring it into
subjection: lest that by any means, when I have
preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Notice how he made sure that he was not wasting his time.
He was keeping his body under, and bringing it into subjection.
“Lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I
myself should be a castaway.” He was saying, “It’s not going to
do me any good to win others to Christ if my own life does not
line up with the message I’m preaching. It doesn’t do any good
to save the world if I lose my own soul.”
In other words, “I keep my body under. I’m disciplined,
and I live a life as a runner, as a fighter, and as one who is
trying to win. I’m not just in the race.” There are 50,000 people
who run in the Boston Marathon, or the New York Marathon, or
any of those big marathons. Most of those in the race are good
runners, but nobody knows their names. The name that is
remembered is that one who comes across the finish line first
and wins. That’s who we have to be and not just one who also
ran. We know that in the Christian life, we win by crossing the
finish line. We not only have to run the race—we have to win
the race.
You have to realize that we have a Last Will and
Testament. Everything in it is yours. This is your inheritance.
This is not something you have to obtain. It’s not something you
have to go and get. What you need to do, right now, is make a
mental decision. I say mental because it’s your mind that holds
you back.
You have to decide: “I believe that everything in this Word
is mine. It belongs to me and it’s mine right now. I’m going to
find out what it says. I’m not going to stop until I have my
inheritance.” According to quantum physics, the minute you
make that decision and say, “It’s all mine,” it all starts working.
However, as you start finding out specifics, you find out that it
works in specific areas. It’s whatever you look at. Right now, if
you looked at the whole Bible, you’d think, “Life is good. Life
is with God, and all of the inheritance of life is mine.”
When you look at specific things like healing, finances,
deliverance, and peace, those are the things that show up right
then, because that’s what you’re looking for. You can also look
at the whole Bible and know that is all yours. Your life will
immediately turn around and you will make a change.
Let us pray,
“Father, Your Word is true. It is so clear that we have a
Last Will and Testament that was provided by Your Son
Jesus Christ, and that we are joint heirs created in Him.
We are in Him and because of that, we have access to
everything that He has. Father, we thank You that this is
our inheritance.
We thank You that You have made us partakers of the
inheritance of the saints in light. We praise You for it.
Father, right now, I say for myself, and I believe I speak
for this congregation, those present and those at a
distance, that we say this inheritance is ours. You gave
it to us, and we’re not going to allow the enemy to keep
us from having it. He will not steal it from us, or
convince us that somehow You didn’t mean what You
said.
You said that all of these promises are ours in Christ.
They are ours, and we accept them, right now. Every
promise we find, we’re going to walk in. We’re not
going to allow the enemy to keep us with barely
enough, but we’re going to walk in more than enough in
every area of our lives.
Father, I thank You, and I bless these people. Right now,
in the name of Jesus, we dispel fear, and we dispel
anguish and anxieties. We say, ‘Peace be still, even
now.’ Just as Jesus spoke to the wind and the sea and
calmed them down, I speak to your minds. I say, ‘Peace
in Jesus’ name.
If you are right with Christ and if you belong to Him, you
have been made in Him, created in Him. I can tell you right
now that you have no shame, no guilt, and no condemnation at
all, because you walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. The
Spirit of Christ dwells in you, and therefore you’re in the Spirit
and He’s in you, and you walk worthy of the vocation that you
were called to in Christ Jesus. So be it. Amen. Amen. Amen.”