New Creation 2
Saving faith is of the Father, for He has given to every man a measure of faith so that when he hears the gospel he will have the ability to believe. Then after the new birth, the believer grows in the Lord out of his own independence to the Christ-life. As this takes place, all of the personality traits of the Christ within begin to surface. The act, on the believer’s part, that makes this possible is love.
The love of God working in and through the believer places more and more responsibility on the Christ within until finally everything that the believer does is Christ. The great asset of faith eventually is seen by the believer to be the faith of Christ.
This, of course, is almost an opposite to religion’s idea of faith.
This is because Satan, who operates religion, wants to keep the believer mentally separated from the Christ within.
There is no area where Satan accomplishes this more greatly than with faith. The believer who is always seeking faith, always going to some faith building meeting, always trusting some “man of faith,” always believing that his faith is weak, is a tool for Satan’s work of separatism.
Not only does this place the believer in a vulnerable place to be defeated, but it denies him the rest which resides in knowing that the only life he has is Christ. So many believers are trapped by an erroneous gospel that says we can be something or we can believe for something aside from the Christ within.
This is where the growth of the believer reaches Galatians 2:20.
Finally, when the believer sees that he is “crucified with Christ,” his independence killed out at Calvary, he is ready to enter into the sonship the Father intended by the birthing. He is ready to now say,
“The life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God.”
What a glorious position to be in, no longer just depending upon self, no longer groping outside of one’s Christ-life for an answer, no longer going to and fro for help, but living by the “faith of the Son of God.”
It is a very natural thing now for the Christ within to do all the loving, the hoping, the working and, most of all, the believing.
It is not our faith now, nor has it ever been our faith. We, the “crucified with Christ,” have given our selves to Him to use as Himself, so as we have no life of our own, no faith of our own, but we have the total faith of the Son of God.
Saving faith is of the Father, for He has given to every man a measure of faith so that when he hears the gospel he will have the ability to believe. Then after the new birth, the believer grows in the Lord out of his own independence to the Christ-life. As this takes place, all of the personality traits of the Christ within begin to surface. The act, on the believer’s part, that makes this possible is love.
The love of God working in and through the believer places more and more responsibility on the Christ within until finally everything that the believer does is Christ. The great asset of faith eventually is seen by the believer to be the faith of Christ.
This, of course, is almost an opposite to religion’s idea of faith.
This is because Satan, who operates religion, wants to keep the believer mentally separated from the Christ within.
There is no area where Satan accomplishes this more greatly than with faith. The believer who is always seeking faith, always going to some faith building meeting, always trusting some “man of faith,” always believing that his faith is weak, is a tool for Satan’s work of separatism.
Not only does this place the believer in a vulnerable place to be defeated, but it denies him the rest which resides in knowing that the only life he has is Christ. So many believers are trapped by an erroneous gospel that says we can be something or we can believe for something aside from the Christ within.
This is where the growth of the believer reaches Galatians 2:20.
Finally, when the believer sees that he is “crucified with Christ,” his independence killed out at Calvary, he is ready to enter into the sonship the Father intended by the birthing. He is ready to now say,
“The life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God.”
What a glorious position to be in, no longer just depending upon self, no longer groping outside of one’s Christ-life for an answer, no longer going to and fro for help, but living by the “faith of the Son of God.”
It is a very natural thing now for the Christ within to do all the loving, the hoping, the working and, most of all, the believing.
It is not our faith now, nor has it ever been our faith. We, the “crucified with Christ,” have given our selves to Him to use as Himself, so as we have no life of our own, no faith of our own, but we have the total faith of the Son of God.
