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The Greater One Lives in Us

Thank God, God indwells us as believers, through the Person of the Holy Spirit, today too. Because of the indwelling Presence of the Holy Spirit, it should be a common practice in the Church today for believers to say in every crisis of life, “I am more than a conqueror.” However, the truth is, making positive confessions based on our rights and privileges in Christ is almost an unknown practice in the church world today. The Christian’s continual confession should be, “I am a victor. The Creator dwells in me; the Greater One lives in me. The Person and power of the Holy Ghost dwells in me. Praise God, He can put me over. He can make me a success. I cannot fail because of Him.” Amen

Take That with You Today
Blessings Bud

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Know the Reality of the Indwelling Presence Of the Holy Spirit

The fifth step in this series of lessons is to know the reality of the indwelling Presence of the Holy Spirit.
First John 4:4
says, “. . . greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
The mighty truth connected with redemption, this is the apex: God Himself, after He recreated us and made us new creatures and made us His own, is actually making our bodies His home!
When you are born again, it is more than an experience. The Holy Ghost, the Third Person of the Godhead, a divine Personality, comes to live in you. In fact, the Bible even goes so far as to say that God Himself is living in you.

2 CORINTHIANS 6:16 16 . . . for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell IN them, and walk IN them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. God no longer dwells in the man-made Holy of Holies. Through the new birth, our bodies have become His temple.
1 CORINTHIANS 6:19,20 19
What? know ye not that YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE of the Holy Ghost which is IN you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
We need to become “God-inside minded.” In other words, we need to just simply take God at His Word. We need to believe and act like the Bible is true when it says, “. . . greater is he that is IN you, than he that is in the world”
(1 John 4:4)!
Amen

Blessings
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The Blood of Jesus

The Word said that under the New Covenant we have a better covenant established upon better promises
(Heb. 8:6).
The blood of Jesus Christ doesn’t cover our sins; it cleanses us from our sins.
The last part of Rev. 1:5 says, “. . . Unto him that loved us, and WASHED us from our sins in his own blood.”

First John 1:9, which says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to CLEANSE us from all unrighteousness.”
The Bible isn’t talking to sinners here, it is talking to believers. We become the righteousness of God in Christ when we are born again. If we sin since becoming a new creature in Christ, and we do, we simply confess our sins, and God would forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And when we are cleansed from unrighteousness, then we are in fellowship with God again.
We have a standing at the throne of God, and it is just as good a standing as Jesus Himself, for Jesus is my right standing. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM. Amen

Blessings
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The Seed of Abraham
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God Is Our Righteousness

God Himself has become our righteousness. God the Father became our righteousness when He imparted to us His nature—eternal life—when we were born again in the new birth. Jesus became our righteousness the moment we took Him as our Savior and confessed Him as our Lord. He then became our Sponsor, our Lord, our Head, and our very Life.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:17-21 17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that WE MIGHT BE MADE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM.
God did not make any unrighteous or unworthy creatures. That would be an insult to Him. No, Jesus who knew no sin was made to be sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. 5:21).

In Christ believers are the righteousness of God. Amen

Blessings
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Know the Reality of Our Righteousness in Christ

The fourth step necessary to attain the highest kind of faith is to know the reality of our righteousness in Christ.

ROMANS 3:23-26

23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his RIGHTEOUSNESS: that he might be JUST, and THE JUSTIFIER of him which believeth in Jesus.

This is not theory but a Bible fact. God’s Righteousness Is a Gift Most people have thought that righteousness is some kind of a state they had to attain to by right living, but that isn’t true at all.
Of course believers are to live right. But, actually, “righteousness” means rightness or right standing. And righteousness is a gift. If you can’t see that, read Romans 5:17 again and let it sink in. Righteousness as a gift is something that is received now. Righteousness as a stage of spiritual development is a fruit of the born-again recreated human spirit and it takes time to grow. Amen

Blessings
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Believers are Called ‘Righteousness’ and ‘Light’

In Second Corinthians chapter 6 that God is saying to us. First, He talks about believers and unbelievers. Then He says, “. . . for what fellowship hath RIGHTEOUSNESS with UNRIGHTEOUSNESS . . .” (2 Cor. 6:14).
The believer is called righteousness and the unbeliever is called unrighteousness. Did you ever think of yourself as being righteous?
If you are a believer, the Bible says you are!
That is the reason many of God’s people haven’t enjoyed the blessings of God in life and are not reigning in life by Christ Jesus. Instead of believing the Bible, so many times they take sides against the Bible. But you have to side in with the Bible if you are going to enjoy the blessings and benefits of it.
As a Christian I am a believer; because I am in Christ, the Bible says I am righteousness; and I am light. And if you are a Christian, you are a believer; you are righteousness; and you are light too!

Blessings Have a great weekend.
jlnministries

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Separation From the World, Not Segregation

Many people read that passage of Scripture and think it is talking about what they call separation from the world. This passage is talking about separation from the world, but not segregation from the world. However, some people read this passage and begin practicing segregation from the world, and they think that is separation from the world and its ways. (There is a vast difference between separation and segregation.)
These people read Second Corinthians 6:14-17, and then they think that they can’t have anything to do with the world or with anyone in the world.
Believers are in the world, but Jesus said they are not of the world (John 17:16). Believers are not to segregate themselves from the world, or how could they be the salt of the earth and the light of the world? However, on the other hand, they are to be separate from the world and not adopt the world’s standards (2 Cor. 6:17); they are to be like Jesus or they couldn’t be the salt of the earth, nor the light of the world either.
We are in the world, but not of the world (John 17:12-16). Some people try to segregate themselves from the world, but we are not to do that because that is unscriptural. Believers are Called ‘Righteousness’ and ‘Light’.

Blessings
jlnministries

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Don’t Pass Judgment on God’s Creation

We didn’t make ourselves who we are and what we are—God did. You had better be careful about passing judgment on God’s creation. You know, folks have thought they were being humble by saying, “I am so unworthy.” But God didn’t make any unworthy new creation. If you say you are unworthy, you are not looking at things the way God does and you are not living in line with the epistles which were written to you as a member of the Body of Christ. Many folks look at others from the physical or natural standpoint. But I’m not unworthy, because I am in Christ, and you are not unworthy either! Amen

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