MEDITATIONS ON THE TRUE CHRISTIAN LIFE

...."This book of the law [the Word of God] shall not depart from [always be in] your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful [take heed] to do according to all that is written in it; for THEN you will make your way prosperous, and THEN you will have success".... Joshua 1:8 NASB

March 19th

THE INTEGRITY OF THE WORD

[part 13 of 18]

*	Colossians 1:13-14: "Who delivered us out of the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; in whom we have our redemption, the remission of our sins."

That is a declarative statement in regard to our place, our standing and liberty in Christ.

We have been delivered out of darkness. We have been translated into the kingdom of the Son of His love.

We are Redeemed; our sins have been wiped out. Then we haven't anything to do with bondage nor with our past life, for when we were recreated it tells us in 2 Cor. 5:17-18: "Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. But all these things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation."

We know that we are recreated and that Satan has no dominion over the New Creation.

We know that we are reconciled to the Father. That means a perfect fellowship.

We know that if we are reconciled we can come into His presence without condemnation.

We know that with that reconciliation has come Righteousness, the ability to stand in the Father's presence without condemnation or inferiority.

Jesus had no more than that.

Jesus had no sin-consciousness. We have no sense of sin.

Jesus had no sense of unrighteousness. We have no sense of unrighteousness, because we have been declared Righteous with His own Righteousness by the very living Word of God.

Jesus had no better Righteousness than we have, because God is our Righteousness.

Jesus had no better fellowship than we have, because our fellowship has been wrought by God, Himself.

Jesus had no better right in prayer or any more power in dealing with demons than we have.

All authority was given to Jesus, and He gave us a legal right to the use of His Name.

If the Word means what it says, we have a standing with the Father, we have rights and privileges which we have never taken advantage of.

There is no sense of reality, no sense of God in the modern church.