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God placed this power in the living resurrected Jesus Christ when He raised him from the dead. The verses I am going to list from Romans and Ephesians, are very clear in telling us that God has appointed the Christ to be the head over all things to the church, who is sitting on the right hand of...

We already have peace with God because our Lord Jesus Christ is the prince of peace, the one who has made it available for us to be God’s habitation, belonging to the household of God, and to be joint heirs with Christ Jesus. It's his gospel, his church, and he is at peace with God, who made it...

Throughout the Old Testament a temporary atonement for sins had been made available by way of the death of animals sacrificed annually by the High Priest. He was the only one allowed to enter into the holiest part of the Temple that symbolized the very heart of God’s presence. The High Priest...

Acts 5:31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. Philippians 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: God highly exalted the living Christ by...

What are these spirit things that are inside of us? Some teach they are little seeds waiting for the return of Christ and others teach they are full grown all over the cells of our bodies. In the Scriptures we see they are referred to as spirit, holy spirit, comforter, and Christ in us. And...

It's also worth noting that it takes far more self-confidence, more wisdom, more love, and more sensitivity to govern what is personal and free, than it does to govern that which one has absolute control of. A God totally in control can run a world of controlled beings. But what is magnificent...

I believe the spirit of Christ is my new nature and therefore I have been able to function in it. To live in it, walk by it, and be in it. When I finally figured this out is when the lights turned on. Most of my life I believed I was in a battle between what I thought was my old man fighting...

Acts 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: Prophets, Priests, and Kings were anointed before they assumed office that signified royal competence. Anointing was a means of investing someone with power, such as the anointment of King Solomon to signify...

Righteousness could have come by the Old Testament Law if there had been a law given that would have given life. But the Bible clearly teaches that everyone was under sin, without God and without hope, until “the promise” that came by the faith of Jesus Christ was made available to us who...

1 Corinthians 1:2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: Jesus Christ stripped off all adverse principalities and powers and was...

Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: It's awesome to realize we are God’s glorious inheritance in the family of God, and we have an inheritance that will allow us to be seated in the heavenlies in God’s household...

Romans 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Redemption is God buying us back, to liberate by releasing us from the blame, and to gain the title by payment that is necessary to convert us into something of value. It's not that we have the...

1 Corinthians 1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; 2 Timothy 2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. We have access to the grace that is in Christ Jesus because God has made grace available...

Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by ["by" is the Greek word "ek" meaning "from out of"] faith, we have peace with God through [through is the Greek word "dia" meaning "proceeding from"] our Lord Jesus Christ: Most of the New Testament deals with the new covenant in this our Grace...

Galatians 5:1-4 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is...

Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by ["by" is the Greek word "ek" meaning "from out of"] faith, we have peace with God through [through is the Greek word "dia" meaning "proceeding from"] our Lord Jesus Christ: Most of the New Testament deals with the new covenant in this our Grace...

Romans 6 How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God...

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. It's not the body, but the spirit that has become a new creature. In other words, it's in the spirit that we have become a brand-new species of being...

It's not how to get Christ to live within our natural realm, because the things of the spirit cannot enter the things of the flesh, and be subject to the obedience of the natural realm. But to let Christ live within, by letting our spiritually renewed mind into his spiritual world, and letting...

Righteousness could have come by the Old Testament Law if there had been a law given that would have given life. But the Bible clearly teaches that everyone was under sin, without God and without hope, until “the promise” that came by the faith of Jesus Christ was made available to us who...