Living Grace

New Life – By responding yes to grace, we have become partakers of the Divine Nature, and our past has stopped being, our past is actually dead, as it died and was buried with Christ. We are New Creation people. In the first creation, in the Garden of Eden, it took six days to make the first creation. It took three days and three nights to perfect the New Creation. Everything in that first creation was the work of God. Everything in this New Creation is of God, man had no part in it . . . only that he accepts, receives, and lives in it.

We have been born of God by the Spirit. We have been born into the Family of God. We have received remission of everything that we ever did in our past lives. We have been made New Creations, created in Christ Jesus.

It is our spirit, our real self, the heart of our true self, that has been recreated. We have become a New Spirit, a New Self, a New Creation. This is far beyond forgiveness of sins. This is the complete death of our Old Man inherited from Adam and a New Life of Christ birthed into us from the incorruptible seed of Christ. The Bible declares, “Wherefore if any man is in Christ, there is a New Creation, the old things have passed away, Behold, they have become new.” Did you notice that strange word, “Behold”? That is an exclamation of surprise and wonder. New life has happened in us.

God’s Riches at Christ’s Expense means that Jesus through his perfect finished work of grace has given to us all things. Everything we need for life and godliness is in Christ and Christ is in us. We have now become partakers of the divine nature.

Grace gives us – new life, new birth, joy, fullness, union, adoption, A new heart, A new spirit, presence, A new nature, righteousness, love, faith, A sound mind, strength, holiness, blessings, power, authority, inheritance, worth, transformation, qualifications, anointing, belonging, acceptance, freedom, peace, security, gratitude, protection, relationship, light, intimacy, healing, wholeness, satisfaction, access, confidence, courage, redemption, boldness, liberty, hope, expectancy, kindness, delight, desire, remission, forgiveness and every promise of God.

Christ came to give us all He is. Not just all He was, but all He now is! Not in the world to come, not in the sweet by-and-by somewhere in the sky but right here, right now.

You are connected into Christ and he has promised to never leave you or forsake you, and he is faithful to his promise to you.

Jesus is holiness and you are now in Him. He is 100% holy and you now are 100% in Christ. You are holy because Christ is holy. You are holy because you are in Him – You are connected into Christ and he has promised to never leave you or forsake you, and he is faithful to his promise to you.

Holiness is not about what you do or what you have to change. It is not a standard that measures the amount of sin you do or don’t do. It is not behavior modification.

Religion has made sin the focus for holiness. Holiness has nothing to do with sinning or not sinning. Sin is not unholiness, it is a BYPRODUCT of unholiness. Sin is our unbelief in all Christ has won for us.

The finished work of the cross is the cause of your holiness. Not your works, not your effort or performance. Jesus’s finished work was complete and because he was holy, you to are now made holy in Christ.

^“throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.” – Ephesians 4 : 22-24. You have been made a new creation in Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit has united you into God, and he has made Christ complete in you. You are connected into heaven and you have been made righteous and holy in Christ. You did not do this, the Holy Spirit did it in you. You died to your old sin nature and you were raised into a new creation in Christ. The old died, you are new. As Christ is so now are you.