08/10/2024
Chapter 11 Raised With Him
The resurrection of the Lord Jesus is proof of satan’s defeat, of man’s Redemption, and of God’s legal right to make the Believer a New Creation. Ephesians 1:7 stands out with peculiar suggestiveness and comfort “I whom we have our Redemption through His blood, the remission of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace.” We have our Redemption. It is not something we have to pray or ask for. The moment we are Born Again, that moment Redemption is ours. Satan’s dominion over us ends. Our life of servitude and fear has come to an end. That Redemption is according to the riches of His grace. We are free. In these previous chapters we have had an opportunity to see the wealth and riches of the Father’s grace in His substitutionary work in Christ. Ephesians 2:6 “And He raised us up with Him, and He made us to sit with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus.” We were crucified with Him, died with Him, were buried with Him, suffered with Him, were justified with Him, were made alive with Him, conquered satan with Him, and were raised together with Him. The resurrection of Jesus is proof of our victory over the adversary. It is proof that cannot be denied. Every person who takes Christ as Saviour, in the mind of God is a victor over the adversary. So few of the Father’s children have seen this mighty truth; that our victory was in the victory of Christ. When Jesus broke the bars of death, having conquered death, satan, and sin it was our victory. Colossians 3:1 “If then ye were raised together with Christ,” and we were raised together with Christ, in the mind of the Father it was our translation out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of the Son of His love. It was our Redemption. We had broken satan’s dominion over our body, soul and spirit in Christ. But perhaps the greatest message of our perfect victory over the adversary is found in Ephesians 1:19-22: “And what the exceeding greatness of His ability towards us who believe, according to that working of the strength of His might which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and made Him to sit at His right Hand in the heavenlies far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come. And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all.’’ The same ability that was wrought in the dead body of Jesus to re-animate it and fill it with immortality is today in the Believer. We are today more than conquerors because of the life of God that was imparted to us in our New Creation. It is the ability of God unveiled in that resurrection that so shook the foundations of hell, so that today, when the Believers know that they were raised together with Christ, they know they are victors in every field and over every circumstance and they may go from triumph to triumph. God has lifted the Believer above all rule and authority and power and dominion, not only in this age, but in that which is to come. He put all things in subjection under the Believer’s feet. He gave Christ who is the head of the body to be master over all forces of the universe. Jesus gave to the Believers a legal right to the use of His Name. He actually gave Him the power of attorney so that in the name of Jesus every demon and every power should obey that name in the lips of the Believer. There isn’t anything too hard for God. God’s ability is the ability that He gives to us, so His resurrection is the proof of our right to reign over satan and demons. He was raised because He had conquered satan in our stead, so that we should not live in darkness.
All Things Are Ready
By E W Kenyon
God has done all that He could do in our Redemption. He gave His only begotten Son a Substitute for our sins.
His finished work meets every need of man. When He planned our redemption it covered every need.
He knew what was required.
He furnished a Redemption that utterly met the need of every man.
He perfectly satisfied the claims of the Supreme Court of the Universe against outlawed man.
Since the Son has done that work for Him, He now stands ready to make good every promise in order to meet our faith for every need.
He has provided a perfect Redemption for Spirit, Soul and Body.
He has provided a perfect Redemption for us, so that we may stand in His Presence as though Adam had never sinned.
He not only justified His own right to create man in the face of the fact that He knew man would fall, but He has gone beyond that in making it possible for every disease to be healed, every weakness turned to strength, all power of Satan nullified and to stand in His presence a righteous perfect being, an absolute New creation created in Christ Jesus.
He became Incarnate, took upon Himself our limitations as a man, lived among us, and then permitted Himself,, who knew no sin, to be made sin for us.
He became sick with our sicknesses; He became weak with our weaknesses.
He was an outcast and became a part of all we were, becoming Identified with all our weaknesses, sicknesses and diseases.
Then He bore our sins and diseases away and suffered until every need of man was fully met.
Then God justified Him, because He had met the demands of the human race in His sufferings.
After being Justified He was made alive in the Spirit. Then He met the Adversary, conquered him, stripped him of his authority and dominion and arose from the dead..
Then He carried His blood into the heavenly Holy of Holies, poured it out before the Father on the mercy seat, and made an Eternal Redemption for us.
All that Jesus did, He did for us.
His work is absolutely perfect.
ON the ground of that work any man can stand right with God; any man can be healed of all his diseases.
Satan’s dominion over the new creation is utterly broken.
To Jesus was given the authority that the first Adam forfeited, and with that restoration of authority there was given Him added dominion and power, because of what He had done for the salvation of the human race, that authority and dominion has been given to us in the legal use of His name.
We do not know what that part was in redemption except as we see a glimpse here and there.
We know that it was the Holy Spirit who gave Jesus strength and courage to offer Himself upon the cross.
We know it was the Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead.
We know that the Spirit has done all that was expected of Him to do, and that He stands ready now to make good in every one of our lives all that God wrought for us in Christ, to pour the very life and nature of the Father God into our mortal bodies and actually swallow them up in life.
‘For it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for His good pleasure.’ Phil 2:13.
‘Greater is He that is in you than He that is in the world.’ 1Jn 4:4
Jesus has done His part; the Holy Spirit has done part.
All three are ready to meet now to meet every demand of yours.
They stand ready to meet your faith, whatever that faith may take.
Now, then, they stand helpless and the work they have done for us is utterly of no avail unless we take what belongs to us.
has offered you. Believing is taking.
First, your salvation, eternal life, new birth, and union with God, next it is taking the great mighty Holy Spirit as your indweller, your guide and teacher, your healer and your overcomer, then, it is taking your perfect deliverance out of the enemy for your Spirit, Soul and Body.
It is taking a perfect healing for your spirit, healing of the old wounds and diseases of unbelief, doubts and fears.
Now you believe yourself perfectly healed in your spirit.
You believe that all that God has done for you becomes available, actually effecting a perfect healing and restoration.
You take an absolute deliverance and healing of your mind, and it becomes effective now.
You take perfect healing of your body.
That all was wrought for you; that all belongs to you.
Now you move up and as you believe you possess your perfect emancipation from disease, sickness and pain.
It matters not whether it be tuberculosis, cancer, arthritis, ulcers or tumors.
Regardless of its nature, that disease was fastened in your spirit, in your mind,
and finally is showing its deadly power in your physical body.
You know that Jesus bore it.
You know that Jesus put it away.
You know that it no more belongs on your body, spirit, and soul that it does upon the spirit, soul and body of Jesus Christ.
You are a member of His body, and now you know that it has no place there.
You know that Jesus put it away, and you believe that Jesus put it away, and you believe that it’s put away now.
Your believing His gracious Word drives it out of your system and you stand clean, healthy, and complete in Him.
Believing takes possession, enters in and becomes a possessor of the healing
A contrast of Believing and suggestion might not be out of place.
Suggestion is purely a human thing.
You say mentally a thing is true, or I say it true.
This is not Christianity, that is Psychology.
That is not faith in Christ.
That is faith in yourself; that is faith in your own mind.
You believe that your mind has in it a God element that can drive disease out and drive success and health in.
But your faith is in yourself, because there is no God to the man that believes in suggestion.
He has destroyed God utterly out of the firmament, and mentally he has taken God’s place.
He uses all the terms that we use, but he gives new meanings to them.
When he says ‘God” he means his higher self.
When I say “God” I mean the Creator of the universe; there is no self mixed in it.
When I believe I act upon the word of God.
When he believes he acts upon Suggestion, upon a concept and upon something to which his own mind has given birth.
I act upon the word of the living God who raised Jesus from the dead and put disease and sickness away.
Spiritual weakness in the believer comes from the sense of his guilt, sin or unworthiness that continually confronts him.
Whenever he attempts to pray his unworthiness leaps into being and stands between Him and the Father.
Faith loses its power, and the faculty through which believing functions becomes paralyzed.
He can do nothing but stand passive and helpless in the presence of his sin-consciousness.
Now we know that God has put sin away.
We know that we are new creations, created in Christ Jesus.
We know that God is the author of that New Creation, that what God had made clean we have no right to call unclean, and what God has justified we have no right to condemn.
We know another fact, that we have been redeemed out of the hand of the enemy, translated out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of the Son of His love, and that as redeemed men and women “There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.”
We stand before the Father redeemed, absolutely Justified, or declared righteous.
That declaration has come from the vary throne of God.
If God has Justified us and declared us righteous, who has a right to condemn us?
Surely Jesus will not do it, because it was Jesus that died for us and now lives for us.
The only being that can lay a charge against us is the Devil, and God will not listen to him.
We listen to the Devil’s lie and believe it.
Then we become impotent, and all that God has done in Christ is utterly of no avail as far as we are concerned.
If on the other hand we believe the Word in that we are justified, that we are righteous Now, sin, loses its dominion and Satan loses his dominion over us.
Someone asked me yesterday. ‘Are we poor, weak, sinful creatures now, we who have been born again, we who are new creations,?”
I answered, ‘No, never:
Every time you think of yourself in that capacity you annul everything that God has done for you, and you declare that the finished work of Christ is a failure.
What God hath cleansed, make not thou common (unclean) Acts 10:15
If God has declared you righteous, no one can condemn you.
Everything belonging to your sin-life stopped being the moment you were born again. Everything that was offensive to the Father was destroyed, never to come back again.
You are just like a newborn babe without a single thing that condemns, utterly justified, and utterly declared righteous by God.
And that is just what you are now.
As you stand before the Father, you are complete in Him who is the head of all principality and powers
I wander if you have grasped the significance of that scripture in Col 2: 9, 10 that you are complete in Him who is the head of all principality and power.”
God put beneath His feet all authority, all power, all dominion, and all orders of Satanic power.
You in Christ stand there absolutely complete, head over all, in fellowship with the father.
As He is so are you now, because you and He are utterly one, perfectly identified.
As He was redeemed out of Satan’s dominion, you have been redeemed out of Satan’s dominion, you have been redeemed out of Satan’s dominion/
As He is in perfect fellowship with the Father, you are this moment.
As He was declared righteous by the ‘Supreme Court of the universe, you have been declared righteous.
For you think you are weak, unworthy, unclean, and unfit is to slap the Lord in the face, and say, “God my feelings, my own mind, and the theology of my church are truer, better than Your word.”
All that Jesus is He is for you.
It is He who vouches for you.
It is He who is your surety before throne.
When you took Him as your Savior, you passed out of the realm of darkness, death, sin, and Satan’s dominion into the realm of light and life as a member of the body of Christ.:
Jesus is the vine, and you are a branch.
You are a part of His very self; you could not be nearer the Father if you were Jesus Himself.
You are a member of His body; you are utterly identified with Him in the mind of the Father.
As Jesus was healed of all of our disease which he bore for us when He arose from the dead, so the moment that you were born into the family of God and became a new creation disease and sickness lost their dominion over you.
Disease and sickness have no more right to reign in your body than they have a right to reign in the body of Jesus at the right hand of the Father, who as your Substitute once was made sick with your diseases, but now is healed and justified.
In the mind of the Father, you were cleansed of all disease and sickness through your substitute.
Now, what do you do in face of this fact?
You accept that as an absolute fact.
You say, “Yes that is absolutely true, I will.”
That would be faith’s acting; that would be believing your way into the vary heart of the thing.
What do you do?
You believe what God says is true, and when you believe it is true it becomes a reality to you.
Now you grasp this; He was what you were.
When He went on that Cross He took you over, took y our sin, and became as you were.
You were weak; He became weak.
You were sin; He became sin.
You were under judgment; He went under judgment.
You were sick. He took your sickness over.
He bore them away; you and your sickness He carried with Him down into the dark regions.
Then He put it off from Himself.
The Word says, ‘Having put off from Himself the principalities and the powers. He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Col 2:15
When He put off the principalities and powers He put off your sicknesses and diseases and sins.
He took them and you upon Himself when He hung upon the cross.
Now He puts them off and puts them all away.
All that He is you are right now.
As He was made righteous when He put sin away, you were made righteous in Him.
‘Him who knew no sin He made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.’ 11 Cor 5:21.
Now as He stands complete before the Father you stand complete in Him before the Father.
There is therefore now no condemnation for you, because you are in Christ Jesus.
The old law of sin and disease in your body has been condemned.
The Supreme Court has passed upon it.
It has no standing now.
Don’t you recognize it?
Don’t you permit it to lord itself over you.
You refuse to be lorded over by disease and sickness.
Remember now that sin shall not lord itself over you any longer, for you
have been set free in Christ Jesus.
Disease shall not lord it over you.
Disease shall not say, “I am master of your body, stomach, bowels, heart, lungs, or bronchial tubes.”
You refuse to allow any disease to hold any dominion over your body in any place.
You are free, made free by Christ Jesus who is the Lord of disease and sickness.
Fear shall no linger lord it over you.
You are a free woman, a free man.
You have been delivered from the bo***ge of fear.
Satan, the author of fear, has been defeated and conquered, and you reign in Christ over him.
Satan shall no longer lord it over you, for you have learned in whatsoever state you are, therein to be independent of circumstances.”
You can do all things in Christ, who gives you the ability to put them through.
People shall no longer dominate and rule
you.
You stand absolutely free in Christ.
He is your Lord, and He is the only one to whom you owe allegiance
Jesus alone is your Lord, and they shall not have dominion over you any longer.
You are free.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherein Christ has made you free, and rejoice in your emancipation from sin, sickness, and disease through Jesus Christ your LORD!!!
