When Jesus died on the cross, He didn’t take the place of “Christians,” but the place of sinners. He came as a man’s substitute. The whole world has been saved from the punishment of sin, but God’s interest wasn’t just to save man from the punishment of sin, but to save man from the life and nature of sin.
The death of Jesus Christ settled the charges against us, but it didn’t make us one with God or reconcile us to God! It didn’t bring us into friendship or a relationship with God. It didn’t give us eternal life until we took the very next step, as revealed in Romans 10:9-10. It says anyone who confesses the Lordship of Jesus and believes that God raised Him from the dead shall be saved.
Our individual confession of His Lordship and belief in His resurrection, “activated” our salvation; it gave us eternal life and brought us into oneness with God. We were awakened to the fatherhood of God, to the recreation of our spirit, to the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, and the efficacy of the Word of God.
Now, Jesus Christ isn’t only the Lord of your life, but also One in whom you’ve found rich and deep fellowship: “That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ” (1 John 1:3). This is what God always wanted with man: fellowship! Jesus made it a reality. Now, we’ve been made associates of the Godkind; we’ve become God’s dwelling place. All these were made possible, not by His death, but by His resurrection
Ephesians chapter 2:10 (AMP) For we are God’s handiwork, recreated, not renovated, recreated, I’m a brand-new man, that’s why the bible says in 2cor5:17 recreated in Christ Jesus. This is the new Superman, I know who I am, and in common somebody shout Hallelujah!
I am God’s own Handiwork; He didn’t say we meant to be, he didn’t say if we pray very hard, we will become; this is a supreme declaration of the Almighty God. A statement like this is spiritual law. This means in the mind of divine justice, it is what it is, it is the knowledge of the spirit, you are God’s workmanship; he has declared it, what else could you be looking for?
Expect to think in line with him, and when you start thinking like that, others who are around you who don’t will start saying you are braggadocious, they will say why are you taking so much upon yourself? Because they are religiously minded, they don’t understand that there is a difference between truth and religion.
Religion is struggling to please an unknown God; truth is a reality, you have arrived, it’s called absolute knowledge. It is the epignosis of him, absolute knowledge, divine revelation; you just know something has been imparted to your spirit, you come into a knowledge of him, it is not scientific knowledge, it is not left in the reasoning faculty, it is imparted to your spirit.
Just like you, I was not there when Jesus was born, but I believe, and I know, and I’m assured, he was born of a virgin. I know in my spirit because I believed it, and that truth became resident in my spirit, I know that I know that God raised him from the dead. You ask me if Jesus is the son of God, and I answer and say I dare you to believe it is the truth of certainty.
He is the son of God! I’m not trying to think so, John 3:36, because when I believed everlasting life impacted my spirit and I awakened to the fact of the fatherhood of God, I moved from being a believer to a knower!
Christianity is not an assumption; Christianity is not a speculation. It is far removed from the assumption arena; there is nothing speculative about Christianity. You know you are brought into knowledge, a divine knowledge, a divine revelation, that’s why he prayed for the Ephesians church in Ephesians 1:17-18, the spirit of wisdom and revelation into the knowledge of him.
I want your spiritual eyes to be open to understanding what has been given to us in Christ Jesus. We are not ordinary men; something has happened, something has actually transpired; there has been a translation, a transfer from the domain and arena of darkness into the kingdom of God’s love son, that is where we now live. And wants you to have your spiritual eyes open to see that you are not where you used to be.
John 19:34, But one of the soldiers, at this point, this was when Jesus, was on the cross been crucified, he was not the first person to be crucified in those days, but something happens here that is significant, and you going to take notice of it, John 19:34, Jesus was already dead on the cross and just to find out whether or not he was dead, the soldier comes with a spear, and pierces him, through his side and the Bible says forthwith came there out blood and water.
John 19:35 means there is something about this water and blood that came out of Jesus that was so important to the writer that he made him say it was a sign. And on this occasion, he lets us know a sign has just taken place, blood and water just came out of the body of Jesus, and he says the one who saw it bore record.
We know that his record is true, and he has written it so that you meant to believe. What does he want you to believe? Turn to John 2:19-21. John said Jesus was talking about the temple of his body. John understood he was talking about his body. Jesus Christ was the Passover lamb on that great day. That night, that lamb was killed, and John already alluded to that; he already said it.
Jesus was our Passover lamb. When Jesus died, he died when that Passover lamb was supposed to be slaughtered.
So, who is Jesus? He is our lamb sacrificed, the new temple, the new and living way. When he died, he tore the old temple in two, opening the new and living way. That old temple is gone; the new and living temple is here. Jesus Christ is our temple. The lamb was slain once, and he was slain once and for all. Glory to God
-GSW-