Jesus -- You Are Our Hiding Place - Part 656

Jesus performed so many miracles and healings during His time on earth that John was inspired to write that if every sign and wonder that our Lord did -- "the which if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written." (John 21:25)

But there is more to Jesus than just the miracles He performed when He walked the earth with His disciples. His promises are for us today. Never failing. Never changing. His promises -- even to those who are afar off.

In fact, it is because of Jesus that there is therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made us free from the law of sin and death. Our Lord God and Saviour who is rich in mercy -- for His great love wherewith He loved us -- even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ (by grace are ye saved) and hath raised us up together and made us sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 2:4-6)

Need I say that again. Free. We are free in Jesus. When we ask Jesus into our life, and willingly desire to do His will, we are no longer under the spirit of bondage. No longer confined to a series of laws and commandments that Jesus Himself said that we could never live up to. Instead, we receive the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba Father. As a consequence, the Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, confirming that we are the children of Almighty God.  Therefore, celebrate in your new found salvation. God's grace. His abundance. His peace that passes all human understanding.

Celebrate that because of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, we have an opportunity to become the sons and daughters of the most high King. "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." (Romans 8:14)

Moreover, as believers we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. The scriptures state that if we suffer with Him, we will also be glorified together. (Romans 8:17) Therefore, glory in the liberty that can only be found in Jesus. Our inheritance that was bought and paid for by the precious holy blood that Jesus shed for us on the cross of Calvary.

For what the law could not do -- in that it was weak through the flesh, God becoming as one of us -- in a human body as a Son -- in the likeness of sinful flesh -- and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh -- that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us -- who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.

As Paul wrote in Romans, "if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness" -- His righteousness. Similarly, if the Spirit of Him that raised up Christ from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwells in you.

Take hold of these promises today -- God's promises for His people. And behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us -- that we should be called the sons of God ... and beloved, now that we are the sons of God, it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, as He is. (I John 3:1-3)

If God be for us, then who can be against us? (Romans 8:31) Stand in the offering plate.

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