Who Knows What?

Dearly beloved of God, the Lord Jesus Christ knew that he died for our sins so that we could be forgiven and that he was made sick with our sicknesses so that we might be healed. He knew that he must die so that we could have everlasting life. Knowing these things, he endured torture, and endured the shame of being crucified in our stead. He knew what he was doing and what it meant and he remembers it to this day.

What Jesus did for one, he did for all. There was no respect of persons involved with what he accomplished; his
accomplishments are the same for every one of us. He knows what he accomplished. He fulfilled the Father’s will and accomplished what none of us could achieve, not individually or collectively.

What he had to do was written down. What it accomplished was written down. God expressed His will in writing so that we could know the certainty of it. God knows what Jesus Christ accomplished and He remembers what it means to us.

The so-called god of this world uses sin as his base of operation. He oppresses people and afflicts them with sickness and death, but God planned for Jesus Christ to deliver us from the authority of the devil by his work. He knows that Jesus Christ's work overcame his authority over us.

So, beloved, God knows what Jesus Christ accomplished, the Lord Jesus Christ knows what he accomplished, and the devil knows what the Lord accomplished. All three know the accomplished reality. None of them have forgotten any part of it.

We all received the same accomplishments from Jesus Christ’s work, the same measure of God’s Word to believe, and the same deliverance from the authority of the so-called god of this world. If we are to live this reality, we must know what they know, and believe it as they do. Believing is the only way to receive the spiritual reality in manifestation in our lives.

Believing is to have trust and confidence in what God says. The object of our believing is the Word of God. We trust the information He gives us. We have full confidence in what He reveals to us in His Word. Our expectation is to receive what He promises us. His Word holds the authority of a court order; it is binding. We are fully persuaded of the force of the Word of God in our lives; it cannot be broken.

We put our trust in the truth of divine revelation and His fidelity to it instead of in our flesh or our senses. We subordinate our will to God’s will. Believing leads us to an entire reliance on the truth of His testimony; that He is not only able, but willing to perform what He promises.

What will we confess? Will we still confess the adversary’s authority over us, or will we say what God and His Son say? Will we fall for Satan’s temptations to doubt and worry, or will we trust in the Living God and the work of His Son? Our vote counts.

Satan is going to attack us even though we are no longer under his authority. If we are to overcome when attacked, we must believe God at His Word. We must confess what the Lord confessed when tempted by the devil: “It stands written!” This confession has power because God is the power that stands behind the words.

It does not matter whether we face tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness or peril, or even the sword; nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

Be strong in the Lord and in his exerted strength for you. He knows what he accomplished for you and who you are in him, so does the devil; know it, confess it, and believe it for yourself, dearly beloved.