What Kind of Access Do We Have?

Dearly beloved of God, the Lord Jesus Christ provided us with boldness and access to the Father with confidence by his accomplished believing. It is a shame that so few believe this wonderful truth.

Jesus Christ made this tremendous reality available to us by accomplishing the mission God gave him to accomplish. As he hung on the tree dying, he said, “It is finished,” then he died.

Jesus Christ is the only one to begin and to finish the job of believing God. He came to fulfill the law, and he fulfilled the law for righteousness by believing God at His Word. He came to be the Passover Lamb, and by believing what God said he gave his life as the Lamb of God. He came to justify us, and by believing he did justify us. He came to redeem us, and by believing he did redeem us. He came to save us, and by believing he did save us. He not only began believing God, he finished believing God to fulfill His Word and Will. Jesus was the author and finisher of “the faith.”

What proof do we have that Jesus Christ was the author and finisher of the faith? God raised him from the dead, and forty days later he ascended up to heaven in sight of chosen witnesses, and God seated him at His right hand in the heavenly realm.

John 3:13, reveals that Jesus Christ is the only man that has ascended up to heaven. If he is the only man there, where are all the other people who have died?

Everyone else that has died is corrupting in the grave, but when Christ returns, those who are in Christ have the hope to be raised to everlasting life and have incorruptible new bodies. I Corinthians 15:50 reveals that corruption does not automatically inherit incorruption upon death.

Christ was the first fruits to rise from the dead, then, at his coming all who are Christ’s will rise from the dead at his command. The dead will be raised incorruptible, and the mortal will be changed and put on immortality. Then shall be brought to pass the saying, “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

Thanks be to God Who gives us the victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ!

Thank God that Jesus Christ started and finished believing God to fulfill His plan of redemption and salvation.

But, dearly beloved, there is more. Through Jesus Christ we have access by one spirit unto the Father. Access; but not just access, we have privileged access to the Father with boldness and confidence because of Jesus Christ’s accomplished believing.

So many have underestimated what the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished for us so they approach the Father with fear, anxiety, and uncertainty. They doubt the access they have to the Father and hesitate to go to Him thinking that they are not good enough. They do not believe that they have access through the Lord Jesus Christ by his accomplished believing. It is finished; he accomplished it for us; he made it available.

Jesus Christ not only provided us with access to eternal life, he provided us with access to the Father today so that we can walk with Him. We are exhorted to have boldness and confidence as we utilize our access because of Jesus Christ’s accomplished believing. He made the access a reality.

We can pray and minister and expect the results that God promises us because we have access to Him through Jesus Christ’s accomplished believing, and we are exhorted to use it with boldness and confidence, not with temerity and uncertainty.

Think of how privileged we are as sons of God; we have privileged access to God as our Father. We can utilize all that this access affords us. None of us in the body of Christ has any more or any less access than any other member of the body; the Father is no respecter of persons.

In Christ we received every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm! We have been freely given all things with Christ. We have the measure of Jesus Christ’s accomplished believing. If that doesn’t make you more than a conqueror I don’t know what will.

Dearly beloved, Jesus Christ identified with us as a human being so we could identify with him as sons of God. We received everything he accomplished the moment we were born again. By the grace of God we all received all of it.

One of the things we were freely given with Christ is access. We have access to the Father the same as Jesus Christ did, and we have it by his accomplished believing, not by our works.

Being justified by believing, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we also have access by believing into this grace wherein we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Use your access to the Father boldly with confidence, dearly beloved; it is the will of God. The only begotten Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ gave his life so we could have privileged access to the Father.

What kind of access do you have to God? You approach Him as a son, one that is in Christ, as a saint who is holy and without blame before Him. You approach His throne of grace as one that is dearly beloved by the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. I'd call that privileged access.