Understanding Identification with Christ
Understanding Identification with Christ
Identification
E. W. Kenyon
Identification
George Craig Smith
Londrina/PR – 1987
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1. Introduction
We are dealing with the almost unknown fact of our identification with Christ.
Soon you'll ask: What does 'Identification' mean?
It means our complete union with Christ in His substitute sacrifice.
For example, this term is used: "I WAS CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST".
This is our identification with Christ in His Crucifixion.
I died WITH CHRIST.
I was buried WITH CHRIST.
I suffered WITH CHRIST.
Now I am sitting WITH HIM.
This small preposition 'with' is the key that unlocks a long-held truth.
hidden time that is of vital importance to us.
The first two or three chapters of this booklet will guide you to the Antechamber of the greatest
Revelation of God related to the New Creation.
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Chapter One
The vital side of our Redemption is what the Holy Spirit, through the Word, is
doing in us now.
Several times Paulo uses the preposition 'with' in relation to his teaching.
substitutive.
Then he tells us that he "died WITH CHRIST", that he was "buried WITH
CHRIST.
This gives us the key that unlocks the great teaching of Identification.
And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus." - Ephesians 2:6
When Paul said, 'I have been crucified with Christ,' he meant that he had been
judged, cast out, stripped bare, and nailed to the cross.
The mere thought of crucifixion for a Jew, especially for a Pharisee,
brought a feeling of shame and horror.
When Saul of Tarsus identified himself with the man, Jesus, accepting Him as his
Salvador, confessing Him as his Lord, at that moment he became a
man crucified for the Jewish people.
He became an outcast.
It is therefore not surprising what he said in Galatians 6:14 that "the world had been
crucified for him and he for the world.
The world had been stripped bare for Saul.
There were no more illusions about the world.
He could no longer be fooled.
He knew of her cruelty.
He had felt his lashes on his back.
He remembered that everywhere he went he faced anger, bitterness, and envy.
of the men.
He had been exposed to the world.
There was nothing in him that the world could desire.
This little Jew with his powerful message, and his tremendous power in
prayer, had been crucified for the world.
We understand what the crucifixion really means.
Paul saw his identification with Christ in his crucifixion.
We understand that crucifixion means death.
It means union with Christ in His disgrace and suffering.
Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body
that sin may be undone, so that we may no longer serve sin as slaves
Romans 6:6
The crucifixion points the way to death.
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In the great argument of the Spirit of our Identification with Christ, He said that the
our old man, this hidden man of the heart, our spirit, the man
true that was filled with spiritual death, with the Satanic nature, was
nailed to the cross in Christ.
Christ went there, not for Himself, not as a martyr, but as the Substitute.
We were crucified with Christ.
We were crucified with Him.
The goal of the crucifixion in the minds of the crowd was to get rid of this Man who
they hated.
In the mind of Justice, this means His identification with humanity in its
sin and suffering, and our Identification with Him in His crucifixion.
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Chapter Three
In the great drama of our Redemption, as soon as Christ was nailed to the cross, with His
crown of thorns, and with that shouting mob surrounding Him, Justice began to
to do your frightening work behind the scenes.
Men and women, with the knowledge of the senses, who surrounded the cross could
only see the man Jesus, hanging there.
God could see His spirit.
Angels could see His spirit.
The demons could see the true man, hidden in that body.
Then came the terrible hour when it was fulfilled:
He who knew no sin, made sin for us; so that in him we might become.
"he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us" - II Corinthians 5:21
But he was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities;
the punishment that brings us peace was upon him, and by his stripes, we were healed.
We all wandered off like sheep; each one turned aside by his own
path, but the Lord laid upon him the iniquity of us all.
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On that dreadful cross, He not only became sin, but He also became
a curse, because Galatians 3:13 informs us:
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us; for it is written...
Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree" (the word "we" here
it refers to the Jews.
He came as a Jew under the First Covenant to redeem all those who
they were under that Covenant of the curse of the Law.
When He was hanging on that cross, He was not only sin, but He was
a curse.
It is not surprising that God turned His back on Him
It is no wonder that He cried out in His agony: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
"Did you abandon me?" – Mark 15:24
He had taken the place of the sinner in the judgment.
All the forces of darkness crushed Him.
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He was our Substitute for sin.
The sin was not charged to him. The sin was not debited to his account. He became-
there is sin
The next step in this terrible drama is found in Isaiah 53:3-5 ([Link].):
He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief.
with the disease and like one from whom men hid their faces, it was
despised; and we did not take any notice of him. Truly he took upon himself
he took our illnesses and our pains upon himself, and we considered him afflicted,
wounded by God, and oppressed.
It was not what the Roman soldiers or the angry crowd did. It was what God
fez.
This shakes us when we realize that He was afflicted and wounded by God with our
pains and with our sin.
He bore the diseases and afflictions of the human race.
Isaiah 53:10 - "Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he has put him to grief."
He was not made only sin and separated from His Father, until His broken heart
he cried out: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" but the diseases of the race
humans fell upon Him.
Isaiah 52:14 (Margin, Cross Reference Bible):
As many were astonished at his sight, and princes trembled because of Him,
they were astonished and shocked and scared, because His appearance was so
disfigured, more than anything else, so deformed was his appearance
that no longer resembled a man.
This was spiritual suffering.
This was when the hidden man of the heart became not only sin, but
illness.
This was the spiritual side of the agony of the cross.
This was when our sin and diseases were laid upon His spirit.
Your spirit was made sin.
Your spirit has been weakened.
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If our heart could only observe this fact that He was made sin and
that we were identified with Him on the cross, so we could understand the
reality of Your substitute work.
This truth has been a doctrine rather than a reality for most of us.
God not only placed our sin upon Him, but He also placed us.
about Him.
The whole man was involved in this sacrifice: his spirit, soul, and body.
We were nailed to the cross with Him and in Him.
It is the word that reveals what we really are in Christ: New Creatures
It is the word, then, that brings healing to our sick spirits.
The illness is a spiritual condition manifested in the physical body.
If He was made sin, if He took away our sin, we no longer need to be.
dominated by sin.
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If He was afflicted with our infirmities, and if He took our diseases,
we no longer need to be dominated by disease.
We, with our diseases and infirmities, were nailed to the cross with Christ.
When we recognize this, we will no longer need to strive to obtain faith or the
justice and holiness, because we will know that we were nailed to the cross and died with
We were buried with Him, we suffered with Him, we were revived with Him, we were
justified with Him, we were revitalized with Him, we were justified with Him,
we conquered Satan with Him, we were raised with Him, and finally, we were
settled with Him.
The entire program of that substitute sacrifice is made real in us by the Spirit
through the Word. All these things are ours now.
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Chapter Five
Yet, it pleased the Lord (Jehovah) to crush him, making him sick;
when His soul shall offer itself for sin, He shall see His seed,
He will prolong the days, and the good pleasure of the Lord (Jehovah) will prosper in His hand.
He will see the work of His soul and will be satisfied; with His knowledge, the
my servant, the righteous, shall justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities
Yes. For I will give him a portion of many, and with the mighty he shall divide the spoil.
spoil; because we poured out His soul unto death, and He was counted with the
transgressors; but He took upon Himself the sin of many, and for the transgressors
interceded
Isaiah 53:10-12
This looks very much like the Pauline Revelation, doesn’t it?
The Pauline Revelation is an unveiling of what happened from the moment when
Jesus was made sin on the cross until He sat at the right hand of God.
Nowhere else can we find such knowledge.
This is replacement.
This is absolute identification.
This is part of the great substitutive truth in prophecy.
He poured out His life unto death.
Through that death, we were made alive.
It was our sin that killed Him.
It is Your justice that gives us life.
He drank the cup of death so that we could drink the cup of life.
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In that powerful ministry before He had risen from the dead, He destroyed
the lord of death.
When death killed Him, it killed itself.
He conquered sin when He allowed sin to dominate Him.
He defeated Satan when He allowed Satan to dominate Him.
He overcame the disease when He allowed the disease to possess Him.
He became one with Satan in spiritual death, to make us one with God in
spiritual life.
To him who knew no sin, he made sin for us; so that we might be in him.
the righteousness of God” - II Corinthians 5:21
He became one with us in weakness, in sickness, and in spiritual death, so that He
made us one with You in Justice, in perfect health and communion with the Father.
He became a prisoner of death in order to free us.
In the mind of justice, we die to sin and its dominion when we die.
with Christ.
for he who has died has been justified from sin
He is free from the dominion of spiritual death.
At the crucifixion, there was in God's mind a perfect unity of Christ with us, and in the
Resurrection and in the New Birth a perfect unity of ours with Christ. Thus
as Jesus conquered death by submitting to it, we conquer Satan in the
New Creation, submitting ourselves to the Lordship of Jesus.
We and our infirmities were laid upon Him and became part of Him.
when He became sin with our sin.
We are healed by being partakers of His divine nature.
Disease and illness do not belong to the New Creation.
It is an abnormal thing in the mind of the Father for a son or daughter of God to be ill.
We died with Him.
We die to the dominion of sin.
We die to the dominion of disease.
We die to the dominance of circumstances and habits.
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1 Peter 2:24 becomes reality - 'He himself bore our sins in his body
sins upon the wood, so that dead to sins, we could live
for justice; and by his wounds you were healed
This is Identification, our complete unity with Him in sin and in judgment in
cross.
"For the dead to sin." Your death and our death are identical, This
it is not your physical death.
This is spiritual.
He died twice there.
He participated in our spiritual death. We were completely one with Him at that
judgment.
This work was carried out by the great Master Builder, CHRIST, before He appeared.
of the dead.
The Father sees us now in all our beauty and perfection in Christ.
This beauty is all yours. He created us to please His own heart.
We died to sin once and for all in Christ.
We die to the dominion of Satan.
We die to the old habits that kept us in slavery.
We don't need to die again.
The theory that we die daily with Christ comes from the ancient version: "I am
crucified. And incorrect.
The passage in 1 Corinthians 15:31 speaks of Paul living in the presence of physical death, of the
expectation of being thrown to the lions in the arena.
We have seen how He became sin with our sin. He became our
Substitute, carrying our illnesses.
We have seen Him under the dominion and absolute power of the adversary on the cross.
We saw Him leave the cross taking our diseases and sins as He went.
taken to the confinement site.
We can see the gratification of Satan.
We can see that great celebration in Hell when Satan brought Jesus,
captive, to prison.
Read Acts 2:24, 27, 31 and 32
But God raised him, releasing the pangs of death, because it was not possible that
might have been held by her..
for you will not abandon my soul to death, nor will you allow your Holy One to see decay
corruption...
In this prediction about the resurrection of Christ, it was said that his asthma was not left in the
death, neither did your flesh see corruption. God raised this Jesus, of whom
we are all witnesses
Do you remember how the Philistines rejoiced over Samson, and with what joy
they blinded him and tied him up in complete helplessness.
What a gala day it must have been in Hell when He who had raised Lazarus
of the dead, who had destroyed the power of death and disease, who had dominated
the winds and the waves, which had fed the hungry, cast out demons, and
defeated Satan in open combat, was conquered and made one with the devil.
He was hospitalized.
They could see in Him all the diseases of the ages.
What a moment that must have been.
When the disciples took His body down from the cross, they embalmed it and placed it in the
tomb of Joseph, how little they appreciated what He was undergoing and
suffering.
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How little the world appreciated where Jesus was and what He was doing.
They placed His body in the tomb, and the Roman government sealed it and put guards.
to guard him to prevent the body of Jesus from being stolen. They had heard Him
cry out: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" God had
helpless - to whom they loved.
They had lost all hope. They had thought that it was He who would redeem.
Israel.
For three days and three nights, the Lamb of God was our Substitute in Hell.
He was there for us. He took our pains and diseases and iniquities.
He was there waiting until the demands of the Justice were met.
There has never been such an hour, and there will never be again.
There had to be an appropriate meeting of the penalty for the transgressions of the race
human, and He went to meet her.
He became one with Satan when He became sin, just as we do now.
we become one with Him when we are RECREATED.
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Seventh Chapter
HE SUFFERED
He endured everything that humanity should suffer. It was God suffering for the
humanity.
Psalm 88:6,7 in the margin of the 'Cross-Reference Bible' says:
You have placed me in the deepest of the abyss, in darkness and in the depths.
"Your wrath weighs upon me; you have brought me down with all your waves." "Before you
I have cried out day and night, My God, and you have not listened to me.
Because my soul is full of anguish, and my life is drawing near to
grave. I am already counting on those who go down to the pit; I am like a man without
forces (without God)
They saw Jesus who was made sin with our sin, made as righteous as He.
It was before He was made sin.
Upon seeing him made just, Satan witnessed the fact that justice was made possible.
for the human person in the New Creation.
Christ was vivified right there in the kingdom of death.
He was called 'The firstborn from the dead.' God said to Him: 'You are My
Son, today I have given birth to you.
As the hosts of hell saw Him born from death. They witnessed the triumph of
God, and the unmatched glory of Christ.
It was not a kindness of Him to have given us this graphic figure not only of His death and
suffering, but also of His triumph and His glory?
Through Eternity, in the archives of the Supreme Court of the Universe, there will be records
from the visit of the Son to hell, from the defeat of Satan, and from the legal Redemption of man.
They saw Him freeing Himself from principalities and powers.
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And when you were dead in your sins, and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, you
made alive together with Him" - Colossians 2:13
"While we were still sinners, He made us alive together with Christ"
Ephesians 2:5
This is the heart of Redemption.
For if we have been planted (united) with him in the likeness of his fate, so also
we will be in the likeness of his resurrection" - Romans 6:5
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You noticed in the last chapter that He was made alive, and that we were made alive.
with Him in the mind of Justice.
That life was the nature of the Father, and when He received that nature, He was
tornado just again.
Ele tinha sido feito pecado.
At the moment He was made alive, God justified Him.
He was declared Righteous because He met the demands of Justice. He had
satisfied with every demand that existed in the Supreme Court of the Universe against the race
humana.
He was made righteous with the life of God just as we are made righteous in the
New Creation.
He became so just that there was no trace left of sin and diseases that
they had become part of Him in that horrific trial.
He was made so righteous that He could enter the presence of the Father without feeling of
some sin, guilt or inferiority.
When He was made sin, He cried out: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
Have you forsaken me?
When He was brought to life, God said of Him: 'You are my son, today I have begotten you' - Hebrews
5:5).
He stood before the angelic hosts as just, so pure, as if He had never.
it would have been a sin.
At the moment He was made Righteous, Elo became the Absolute Monarch of
Universe.
He was the Lord of the underworld. He was the Lord of Satan.
While He was spiritually dead, overflowing with our sins,
Satan ruled over Him.
But when He was made Just, then all of us who accept Him as our
Salvador, whom we confess as our Lord and receive Eternal Life, we are
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automatically fair tornadoes at that moment, and we can dominate the forces of
Inferno in Your Name.
It is all by grace and not by works. We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus.
And you put on the new man, which is created according to God in true righteousness and
holiness - Ephesians 4:24
The same Eternal Life or nature of God that made Jesus Christ righteous has been given to us.
granted in the New Birth.
It is not surprising that the Holy Spirit said through John:
As He is, so are we in this world" - 1 John 4:7
Now we can understand II Corinthians 5:21
He who knew no sin, made sin for us; so that in him we might be.
God's justice deeds.
“Para que Ele próprio seja Justo, e a justiça daquele que tem fé em Jesus” - Romanos
3:26 (lateral translation)
God became the righteousness of Jesus, and at the moment we accept Christ as
Salvador, confessing Him as our Lord, believing that God raised Him from
the dead, He becomes our Justice.
Just as He became the Life of Jesus, He becomes the life of the New Creature.
This revolutionary truth will transform the Church when it takes hold of it.
And raised us up together with him and made us sit in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus - Ephesians 2:6
This could never have been part of the Revelation unless you were so just
how much He was.
Don't you realize now what absolute fearlessness this gives you in the presence of all the
species of diseases and of Satan himself?
Don't you realize how bold it makes you feel when you enter His presence? The sense
of unity with Him is real. How was His sense of unity with us when He
sin and sickness were made
Let's rise up and take our place as winners, as conquerors.
Vamos sair e executar a obra que Jesus começou a fazer quando Ele estava aqui.
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Tenth Chapter
HE DEFEATED SATAN
We are your children: all things are ours. "All is yours" - 1 Corinthians 3:21
We do not need to have faith for the things that are already ours.
Let's thank Him and go out and enjoy the fullness of this wonderful redemption.
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Eleventh Chapter
God has elevated the believer above all rule and authority and power and dominion, not only
in this era, but in the one to come. He put all things in subjection under his feet
of the believer.
He gave Christ, who is the head of the body, as Lord over all the powers of the universe.
Jesus gave the believer the legal right to use His Name.
He actually gave the believer a power of attorney so that in the Name of Jesus every demon
and each power obeyed this Name on the lips of the believer.
There is nothing too difficult for God.
God's ability is the ability that He gives us, thus His resurrection is the proof of
our right to reign over Satan and the demons.
He was raised because He defeated Satan in our place, so that we would not live.
but in fear of the invisible forces of darkness.
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Twelfth Chapter
In Matthew 28:5-6, the angel said to the women who had come to finish the
embalming of Jesus on that Lord's morning
... you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen.
As I had said. Come see the place where the Lord lay.
He died a lamb. He resurrected the Lord High Priest of the New Creation.
Do you remember John 20 that says that Mary saw Him? When she found out who He was
then, she fell at his feet.
He said: '... do not stop (touch), for I have not yet ascended to my Father, but go
to my brothers and tell them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, my God and your God.
God" (John 20:17).
What did He mean?
He meant what we read in Hebrews 9:11-12
.. But Christ, the High Priest of good things to come, having passed through the greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made by hands, that is, not of this creation, nor by the blood of goats
and calves, but by his own blood he entered once (for all) into the sanctuary
(Most Holy Place), having made eternal redemption.
As High Priest. He took his own blood and carried it up there to the
holy heavenly place and there presented him to God.
He was accepted, and that red seal is upon the document of our redemption.
The blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is the eternal witness of His work.
finished by us, of our legal right to Life and tenderness, and filiation with all its
privileges.
Based on that blood, we are more than conquerors.
Satan has no dominion over us. His dominion is completely broken. The
The proofs of that victory are continually before the Father.
"So much better is Jesus made the surety" - Hebrews 7:22
If you are in great danger, or if Satan is putting pressure on
you, draw the Father's attention to your rights that are guaranteed in the foundation
of that blood.
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And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death.
You have a legal right to the Name of Jesus that casts out demons and breaks the
power of Satan.
...whatever you ask of my Father in My Name, he will give it to you.
All things are possible to you, because you are part of the family. You have perfection.
protection that the blood provides.
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Chapter Thirteen
CHRIST SAT DOWN
After He was made sin, after He had paid the penalty for our
relationship with Satan, after He had suffered all that justice required of
we, then Christ, together with us, rose from the dead.
We were raised with Him.
He declared that we were seated together with Christ.
And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus - Ephesians 3:6
This was the greatest honor that God had ever bestowed upon man.
The Son became man, identified with the human race, freed the human race
from the authority of Satan, and brought His blood into the Holy of Holies to
to effect the eternal Redemption.
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You can see now, as you read this, that you have within you, if you
For Your Son, the life and nature of God.
In II Peter 1:4 it tells us that we become partakers of the divine nature.
Through which He has given us very great and precious promises, so that by
they become participants in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that
by the lust that is in the world
Jesus emphasizes this with his illustration: "I am the vine, you are the branches" - John 15:5
The purpose of Your coming was so that we would have life, and abundant life.
... I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly
You have received Eternal Life.
That Eternal Life is the nature of the Father just as it was revealed in Christ.
Like a branch of the vine, the same life that is manifested in the vine is flowing.
through you and producing fruit.
It is the life of the vine in you that produces the fruit of love, faith, and joy.
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"Who was delivered up for our sins, and rose again for our justification."
Which was delivered for our sins, and
he was resurrected when we were declared righteous" - Rom. 4:25
They say there is enough power in an atom to propel a ship through the
ocean.
If the power that is invested in the life of God that is in you is the power that is
invested in the Word of God, that Word that He spoke and the universe was created. If
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this power will be unleashed within you, things will begin to happen, isn't it
true?
The purpose of this message is to let you know that God desires to be freed in
you.
Jesus promised the disciples that the Holy Spirit, who was with him, would be
in them.
On the day of Pentecost, after He created them anew (regenerated them, made them born of...
new), He entered their bodies.
What a miracle it is to have God in us.
It is wonderful to have Your Word dwelling in us, when we realize that the universe
was created by His Word and we have that same creative power within us. Now we have the
God Himself within us, along with His word.
It is no wonder that He said in 1 John 4:4
Little children, you are of God, and you have already overcome them; because greater is He who is in you.
than that which is in the world.
The God who is in us is the same God who spoke and the universe was created. The God
What is in us is the same God who walked on the sea of Galilee.
The same God who is in us is the same who rose from the dead.
"For it is God who works in you..." - Philippians 2:13
We have not taken advantage of the riches of grace that belong to us.
How few of us have released God within us!
I can feel you Struggling to take Your place and possess Your rights, in us
individual members of the Body of Christ.
As He longs to heal the sick and break the power of Satan over the lives of
men through our intermediary.
Let’s free him in us.
Practicing justice is doing the works that Jesus did, for we are taking His place.
Jesus.
Justice gives us the ability to stand in the presence of God at any time.
time and stand in the presence of Satan, as absolute winners.
How little this has been understood. How little we have graduated from this!
Now God is waiting for us to bring this truth forward. He wants us to
let's start living Justice, practicing Justice, breaking the dominion of Satan, and
speak with authority just as Jesus spoke.
If you possess God's skill, God's wisdom, and you unleash them, what power
incalculable there will be for your ministry (and in your life).
This is not a matter of education, but of releasing the ability of God that is in
your interior.
Locked in the most intimate part of your being is today the ability of God.
Jesus was made wisdom for you: "But you are of Him, in Jesus Christ, who for
we were made by God wisdom…” - 1 Corinthians 1:30
Tiago told the children in Christ that if they lacked wisdom,
I asked God.
And if anyone is lacking in wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all
from open hands, and without reproach; and it will be given to him. But let him ask with
faith, without doubting, because the one who doubts is like the wave of the sea, which is driven
by the wind and thrown like foam. Let not that man think that he will receive from the Lord
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something. The person of such a kind has a double heart, indecisive in every step
that he gives" - James 1:5-8 (Weymouth)
You are an adult now. You have passed the childhood period and now you know that Jesus
it is your wisdom.
Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge,
You have the knowledge of God's life that is within you. You have the
knowledge of the power of the authority of the word,
You have the knowledge of your legal right to use the Name of Jesus in your
combat against spiritual forces.
You have the knowledge that God is actually in your body.
Now you will use these powerful facts to bless humanity.
Liberating God in us
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Jesus said: "Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness..."
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
This means that we have the ability to expel demons, to break the power of
Satan, of healing the sick and raising the dead.
Justice gives us liberation from the fear of Satan and his works. It gives us a new
sense of filiation. The consciousness of being a child generates a heroic faith.
It takes away the sense of spiritual inferiority and completely destroys consciousness.
of sin within us.
We can walk before men just as Jesus walked, because we know that
We are New Creatures. The old life has been completely destroyed.
We know that every sin we commit has been forgiven.
We know that the sins we commit since being born again, out of ignorance
ou de outra forma, foram perdoados; e ficamos em pé na presença de Deus
exactly like Jesus when He walked the Earth.
Do we dare to take our stand by making this statement boldly?
Satan tries to keep himself in a state of consciousness of sin and to rob us of
children's awareness.
Enquanto ele puder nos manter na consciência de pecado estaremos derrotados.
Almost all teaching nowadays aims to keep the people under condemnation.
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The ministry never came to realize that its job is to free man from
consciousness of sin and make him aware of God, aware of being a victorious one,
aware of faith, aware of love.
When we realize that we were born out of love and that we possess the nature of love.
From God within us, we will begin to exhale the fragrance of heaven.
Chapter Sixteen
KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR WILL
This is a problem that concerns most of God's people: How to know the
will of the Father?
The will of the Father is revealed in the Word.
Jesus said: “For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but to...
the will of him who sent me" - John 6:38
Jesus knew what the Father's will was.
He said: "I always do what pleases Him" - John 8:29
Paul said, 'What is pleasing to the Father was his concern' - II Cor.
If Jesus could please the Father and do His will, if Paul could please the Father,
to know Your will and to do it, then it is also possible for us to do this.
What are the foundations for our security?
First of all, we have His mind and His will in His Word.
If we diligently seek His Word, allowing the Holy Spirit to guide us.
there, we will achieve spiritual growth and development through
constant meditations in the Word, so that His will becomes one
unconscious consciousness in us (become natural).
Paul said: 'Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, admonishing'
you, building yourselves up" - Col. 3:16
Complete redemption that meets every need of the human being and
respond to each challenge of divine fullness.
If this is true, I don’t know why we cannot have perfect knowledge.
I want you to note in John 3:3-36 that we are 'born from above'.
The New Birth is not a work of psychology or human skill.
We are "born not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible seed, of the
the word of God that lives and remains forever” - 1 Peter 1:23
Tiago tells us in 1:18 - "According to His will, He brought us forth by the word of
truth...
Who were not born of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of
but of God” - John 1:13
The new creation is the work of the Holy Spirit through the Word. It is a perfect work.
Regeneration makes us complete in Him.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus...
Romans 8:1
If you who are reading this accept the Word, you will begin to bloom and produce
fruits of joy and peace that you have never known.
For many years we have heard sermons saying that we are poor and miserable.
creatures. That we are unworthy and that the scriptures that were written for the Jews
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when they were in apostasy... until the Church was left with a complex of
inferiority concerning sin.
She has lived for years in the consciousness of sin, and in the consciousness of unworthiness for
so much time that the Word has little effect on her.
We want to bring this to you today: The Word is a perfect message and you will be able to
to have a perfect knowledge of the will of the Father.
This is not the knowledge of the senses, but it is a knowledge of Him and the Spirit will go
guide your heart in this.
until we all reach unity in the faith, the knowledge of the Son of God,
the stature of the perfect man, to the measure of the fullness of Christ” - Ephesians 4:18.
We possess the skill. It is a gift from God. We have the Holy Spirit.
whom Jesus said should guide us to all truth.
He is our Teacher, our Guide, our Instructor who resides within us.
I cannot see where there is any basis for us to live in weakness and failure and
in the ignorance of the will of the Father, and of our place and our position in Christ and of
our rights and privileges.
We no longer have the right to dishonor the Father and dishonor Jesus Christ than Jesus.
had when He was here on Earth.
We are children of God. We are heirs of God and co-heirs with Jesus.
Christ.
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We have privileges and rights in the family, the first right is to make happy the
heart of the Father.
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Think about having faith in your own faith! Think about the joy of having your own prayers.
answered!
A mother rushed to me after the service and said: 'Mr. Kenyon, God heard the
my prayer last night healed my baby.
She had been a Christian for years, never receiving answers to her
prayers.
A little grandmother wrote to me: 'You will never know the joy that I just'
experiment. My granddaughter was very ill, and in a dangerous state. So I
I remembered the Name of Jesus and my rights in Christ. I went into the room of
I knelt beside the child in the hospital, hugged her, and commanded in the Name of Jesus that she
disease would go away and that baby would be cured. The mother was standing next to the
bed, with tears rolling down her face. The child opened her eyes, looked at her mother.
and smiled. God had heard my prayer.
I turned and placed my hands on my daughter who had been sick since the
The child was born. She was healed.
Can you imagine what this means to me? It's the first time in my life.
that I have seen my prayers answered in this way.
This should be the normal experience for all of you.
When we realize that the vast majority of Christians never have a prayer.
answered, you will be able to understand what I want to say to have faith in your own
faith.
Most Christians are relying on someone else's faith. They may pray, but
they want someone else to be believing.
In reality, they are not praying. They are just repeating words, as prayer
In the sense of the New Testament, it is born of faith and is always answered.
The Father planned for everyone to have faith.
Have you seen that passage in the Scriptures in Mark 16:17-18?
And these signs will follow those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons,
they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly
it will not harm them at all, and they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover.
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Now, therefore, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace; to Him who is
powerful to vivify you and give inheritance among all the sanctified.
"To revitalize you" means to build you up in faith, love, and the ability to help.
humanity.
Your faith can be developed until it becomes a powerful force. This was the
Father's dream for you.
The Word will build your sense of Justice. I do not know of anything that is
but more necessary than this.
When we become aware that we are Just, we will not think about the
our weaknesses and failures.
The effect of justice will be peace, and the operation of justice will be rest and faith (trust)
forever" - Isaiah 32:17
This verse does not belong to Israel. It is a prophecy for the Church.
The work of justice that God has done in you has brought peace to your heart.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus...
Romans 8:1
You live in perfect calm and rest.
The effect of Justice in your heart is a calmness and a new kind of faith.
You enjoy the effect of your confidence in the finished work of Christ.
John 16:23-24 says: "And in that day you will ask me nothing. Truly, truly
I tell you that whatever you ask of my Father, in My Name, He will give it to you.
The word 'pedir' means 'to demand'.
It is not used here in the sense of ordering you to give, but in the sense when you go to
a bank and demands payment of your check. In the same way that your faith
seize your rights, your portion.
Finalmente você sabe o que Tiago 1:22-24 significa:
And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,
false discourses. Because, if someone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, they are
similar to the man who looks at his natural face in a mirror. Because if
he contemplated himself, and he was gone, and soon forgot that such was the case.
You have become a "doer of the Word". You are not just a hearer. You do not
You deceive yourself with false hopes.
You are in Christ.
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You are a heir of God and a co-heir with Jesus Christ.
You know that His Word dwells inside you and produces results.
You are a producer.
You are no longer marking time.
You now know "what kind of man you are."
You know that you are a NEW CREATION, strengthened by God.
The other day when I examined one of the new cars, the salesman said:
There is a 160 horsepower engine under this hood.
I said, 'This could go up hills!'
The seller said: 'He mocks mountains.'
I was standing next to a believer and thought:
This man possesses the ability of God.
He smiles at all the ramps.
He sings a song of triumph as he climbs to first place.
He is not a servant or a slave.
He moved from the class of a servant to the class of a master.
He remembers in the morning what kind of man he is.
He faces life with a song of victory.
The Word of Christ "dwells richly in him in all wisdom and prudence"
Colossians 3:16
The Word became in him a part of God, a part of the living Christ.
Day by day the great and powerful Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead builds that
word in the consciousness of your spirit.
Christ is being formed in him.
One of these days, Christ in all His fullness will dominate him until he can
...alive, no longer I, but Christ lives in me
2:20.
As you therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, just as you were
taught, abounding in thanksgiving" - Colossians 2:6-7
The Bible is real to him.
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Have you noticed Ephesians 4:7?
But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.
We are now moving on to great things.
The tour guide said: In a few minutes we will enter the Sequoia sector.
woods), and you will see the giants of the plant world.
I said gently as I entered a prayer meeting:
We are entering the spiritual Sequoias. Let's see the spiritual giants, super-
men. They have God dwelling within them. The word of God is rich in
your lips. The love that relentlessly took Jesus to the cross took possession of them.
They do not walk like natural men. They belong to the class of love and the class of
miracle.
They are in Jesus' class.
They graduated from the upper classes.
They are the men and women who have attained the unity of faith and the knowledge of
Son of God, the perfect man, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.
They have their own faith. They are established in the truth. The Word is real.
for them.
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We have seen that the New Creation is entirely one with Christ.
We have seen that the New Creation is one with Love, one with Him and love is one with the
New Creation.
The New Creation is the body of Christ.
This living organism, dominated by God, filled with God, is here among men.
showing love, acting in His place, taking possession of His Work.
In the first chapter of Acts, Luke says by the Spirit: "The things that Jesus began to
to do and to teach - Acts 1:1
We start where He left off.
We continue the work that He established.
He was the bearer of Burden, The Beloved.
He is acting in us, through us, and with us.
Bale Loaders
We have lost the old landmarks of knowledge of the senses since we learned to
walk on the New Path.
He said, "I am the way" - John 14:6
It is not a road, it is a person.
It is not a theory, it is a reality.
It is not a doctrine, it is a life.
Dogmas e Doutrinas perderam seus significados.
They are the mere shells of the past days.
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They kept us in slavery for years.
Now we have been included in Him.
But we who are strong should bear (carry) the weaknesses (infirmities)
of the weak, and not to please ourselves" - Romans 15:1
What a life it is to bear the burdens of the weak, to carry the loads that others should have had.
the strength to carry, to have faith for those who do not have faith, courage for those who
they are defeated, wisdom for those who have long walked in darkness.
We are men and women of Jesus, from a new era.
As the Father loved me, so have I loved you; remain in my love.
if you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; in the same way I
I have kept my Father's commandments, and I abide in His love" - John 15:9-10
We must love just as He loved, pouring out our lives as He poured out His.
Paul noticed the essential point and gave it to us in II Corinthians 5:13-14
For if we are out of our mind, it is for God; and if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For
the love of God constrains us, judging us thus, that if one died for all, then
everyone died.
Paul believed in love to the point that people thought he had gone mad. Paul's response
for: "The love of Christ has dominated my heart. I realize that the death of Christ was the
death of each man.
The same love that caused Christ to die for man compelled the heart of
Paul was making Him live for them.
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The attitude of love is this: "I love you as if I had died for you." Paul is still
stronger in your description of the identification of love in Romans 9:3 (Moffat)
I suffer infinite anguish of heart. I could consider myself cursed and banished.
of Christ out of love for my brothers.
When we read this, we feel that we can hardly reach that point. But, it's not difficult.
because He made us Love. He made us like Himself.
What He was in His earthly walk, we are now in our earthly walk.
Love Transmitters
When these truths truly take precedence in us, they will make us
spiritual super-men, lords over demons and diseases.
This is the unveiling of who we are in Christ, as the Father sees us in the Son.
This will be the end of weakness and failure. There will be no more struggle for faith, for all the
things are ours. There will be no more prayer for power, for He is in us. There will be no more
but the dreadful slavery of the consciousness of sin, for we are the righteousness of God in
Christ.
We know what we are in Christ.
We know that He dwells in us.
We know the authority of Your Name.
We possess Your ability.
We possess Your wisdom.
We possess Your love.
We are Your justice.
He lives in us.
Your landlord is a reality.
Your Word is present time for our hearts.
We have a permanent invitation to Your throne room.
We are invited to enter His presence.
We are seated with Him in Heaven.
He is with us on Earth.
In the presence of such tremendous facts and reality, we rise and take the
our place. We go out and live like supermen for God.