SALVATION is the vehicle by which comers to the Gospel of Christ receive eternal life.
Please follow the discourse carefully. To become saved one needs birth.
Salvation, entering heaven or becoming part of the family of God the Father needs birth.
Jesus had to simplify this issue which troubled Nicodemus, a teacher of the Jews.
We read John 3:4-7, [4] Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? [5] Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. [6] That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. [7] Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.”
We see that life is spiritual and whether we know it or not, the spiritual laws still operate. We can choose to know them and believe them to our advantage.
However if we disregard them, their effect cannot give us the advantages of life.
By way of example, if we choose to disregard the law/principle of gravity, we cannot escape its effects if we jump off from a skyscraper.
- Rightly dividing the Word of Truth
- Dead to the law
- We grow in grace by more knowledge
- The Gospel of Christ and the Kingdom of God (2)
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In His earthly ministry, Jesus could not say much as He would have wanted. He says in John 16:12, The Passion Translation, “There is so much more I would like to say to you, but it’s more than you can grasp at this moment.”
We have the advantage of the Holy Spirit in us to handle these things now.
I have lived to see people attacking me on certain of my teachings and seen the same people come around years later to admit their untimely criticism.
As a believer myself, I have read the Bible several times to grasp certain things over years so I don’t quickly attack nor swallow line hook and sinker if something doesn’t immediately resonates with my spirit. I simply go to the Bible and read and read and read.
There’s therefore spiritual growth for believers that come by patience through Bible study or teaching.
To enjoy better and more of the life of a born again believer, we need to go a step further and see new creation.
We read 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature [creation]: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
To fully reap the benefits of redemption, we need to look at ourselves as new creation.
There’s nothing wrong about being born again. There’s a higher level to look at this born again believer.
She/he is a new specie that never existed before.
Understanding this, automatically deals a blow to “deliverance” and breaking of generational curses.
One becomes more empowered to deal with diseases that are called hereditary like diabetes and many others.
We therefore see Jesus not from incarnation view point but from His exalted place.
Apostle Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:16, Amplified, “So from now on we regard no one from a human point of view [according to worldly standards and values]. Though we have known Christ from a human point of view, now we no longer know Him in this way.”
This means so much that it needs its own space.
However I want you to look at it in this way; two people can be dealing with a similar situation but one who operates on higher platform when calling the name of Jesus, one has the advantage of seeing Him far above principalities and powers and therefore won’t pray for victory but from victory.
She/he enforces rather than trying ignorantly to fight satan and his demons.
Operating at higher level of revelation, makes seizing our stuff more easily. Isn’t it liberating to know that we’re God’s offspring.
1 Peter 1:23, Amplified says, “for you have been born again [that is, reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose] not of seed which is perishable but [from that which is] imperishable and immortal, that is, through the living and everlasting word of God.” We reign in this life.
Our fabric or the ingredients that made us are supernatural and far above this world. We’re new beings that is new creation according to Ephesians 2:15, “by abolishing in His [own crucified] flesh the hostility caused by the Law with its commandments contained in ordinances [which He satisfied]; so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thereby establishing peace.”
No one race or gender or any divide advantages and disenfranchises others.
Galatians 3:28, establishes, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. Grace and peace be multiplied to you through knowledge.
