Walking With Our Father

Dearly beloved of God, we are God’s masterpieces created in Christ Jesus on the basis of his good works, not ours. We must get to the place that we believe what God says about us if we are to walk with Him. We walk in Christ's accomplishments, not our own.

Too often we look at our flesh and our shortcomings, and then try to improve on them to become spiritual men and women. That is not the correct formula if we are going to please Him.

If we are to walk with the Living God as our Father and have confidence toward Him we must walk by believing, believing what He says instead of believing information from any other source, such as our conscience, what other’s may say about us, what we may think about ourselves, how we feel about ourselves, etc.

There is nothing good in our flesh, so stop seeking its approval. We are not under any obligation to the flesh to live according to the flesh.

Comparing your flesh to anyone else's flesh is just foolish. There is no good thing in our flesh – nothing - not in ours and not in anyone else's!

We have to know what God thinks of us, and He tells us what He thinks about us in His Word. Once we know what He thinks, it is ours to believe it. We walk by believing, not by sight.

Our Father says that Christ paid the price to redeem us, so we are redeemed. We are justified because he did the work to accomplish it. We are sanctified because he sent the promise of the Father and gave us the gift of holy spirit. All we did was believe what he accomplished.

We are holy and without blame before the Father in Christ, not because of anything in our flesh, not because of our good works or our goodness, not because of our service, but in Christ.

We walk by believing, believing who God says we are in Christ, and by the way, whatsoever is not of believing is sin. One of the worst sins of broken fellowship is not to believe who we are in Christ.

We should be son-conscious, not sin-conscious. Dr. once said, “The secret to a holy life is to get your eyes off your own inadequacies and onto the Father and His glory.” Amen!

Our Heavenly Father is pleased with His work in Christ. He is blessed that He blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm in Christ.

He is tickled with His work; we ought to be as pleased as He is with that new creation. It ought to fill our thoughts and our hearts. We are who God says we are. We can do what God says we can do.

Get your eyes off of your flesh and your shortcomings and on to that new creation. Believe who God says you are in Christ. If we will be more occupied with our standing in Christ our walk will take care of itself.

The more we see that He made us worthy, the more worthy we will walk before Him. This is what our Father wants us to believe, and how He wants us to walk before Him. As you have received Christ Jesus the lord, so walk in him!

You are never going to improve your flesh. It’s dead, it stinks, and there is no good thing in it! You don’t owe it anything, and there is no good reason to listen to it. It will only remind you how unworthy you truly are of all we have by the grace of God.

Who shall deliver me from this dead body? I thank God that Jesus Christ our Lord delivered us! Be conscious of the new man, the one that God created in Christ Jesus: that is His masterpiece. Occupy yourself with the new things we are in Christ.

We stand before God in Christ. Believe it. If it is good enough for our Heavenly Father, it ought to be good enough for us to believe it. Whatsoever is not of believing is sin, so believe who you are in Christ, dearly beloved.

Be son-conscious, not sin-conscious. Jesus Christ paid for your sins once and for all. He paid for the big ones and the small ones, the public ones and the private ones; all of them, dearly beloved!

"By one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified." Believe it, dearly beloved.

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. He that died with Christ is justified from sin, both from its guilt, and its condemnation. When Christ returns and gives us glorious new bodies like his glorious body we will be delivered from the presence of sin. Until then we have to believe the reality of who God made us in Christ and reckon it to be so. Once we know who we are in Christ we can believe it.

"So if we have become identified with him in the likeness of his death, then we shall also certainly be in the likeness of his resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him [Christ] so that the body of the sin [the sin of Adam which brought us under the reign of sin and death] might be made inactive to the end that we are no longer servants to the sin [the sin of Adam which brought us under the reign of sin and death.] In fact, he who has died has been justified from the sin [the sin of Adam that brought us under the reign of sin and death.] Now since we died with Christ, then we believe that we shall also live with him, knowing that Christ having been raised from the dead dies no more. Death is no longer lord over him, for in that he died, he died to the sin once and for all, but in that he lives, he lives to God. So you too, consider yourselves first of all dead to the sin and secondly being alive to God in Christ Jesus." Romans 6:5-11 Working Translation (I added the brackets. Every time it says "the sin" it is referring to the sin of Adam that brought us under the reign of sin and the condemnation of death spoken of in Romans 5:12.)

Dearly beloved, live as dead men raised to life!

Let us draw near to the Father with a true heart in the absolute certainty of believing, having our hearts sprinkled from a consciousness of evil, sprinkled with Jesus Christ’s shed blood, and our bodies washed with pure water, cleansed by the washing of water of the Word. Christ shed his blood for us once, but its cleansing power is ever present!

You are who God says you are, dearly beloved. Believe it; we walk by believing who God says we are in Christ, not by sight.

In Christ, you stand in the presence of God without any sense of sin, guilt, or condemnation. Believe it. In Christ, you are the righteousness of God. In Christ, you are justified. In Christ, you have the remission of sins that are past. In Christ, you are redeemed by his shed blood. In Christ, you are sanctified by His spirit.

In Christ you are dearly beloved and a highly favored child of God. Believing it is the key to walking with Him.

We walk with Him by believing who we are in Christ, dearly beloved. It is no longer I who lives, it is Christ living in me. Believe it.

Walk in the light as he is, in the light we have fellowship with Him, dearly beloved. Walk with Him in the grace He has shown us in Christ Jesus our Lord.