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0:00Your breakthrough is not lost. It is
0:02being held. Filed under an accusation
0:05you never answered. There is a way to
0:08walk into that office and pull your file
0:10yourself. I want you to hear me
0:12carefully because I am not speaking
0:15about some literal office in the unseen
0:17world. Nor am I teaching you to fear a
0:20mysterious demon with a cabinet full of
0:22papers. I am giving you a picture of a
0:25spiritual reality. Scripture makes plain
0:28accusation, seeks to keep the believer
0:30conscious of guilt, conscious of
0:33failure,
0:34conscious of unworthiness
0:37until he forgets what the blood of Jesus
0:39has already declared concerning him. I
0:41am a W Kenyon and I have watched
0:46believers pray for years about things
0:48that Christ has already made theirs.
0:50They plead where they should believe.
0:53They wait where they should stand. They
0:55asked God to do again what he
0:56accomplished in the death, burial,
1:00resurrection,
1:02and enthronement of Jesus Christ. The
1:05tragedy is not that God has forgotten
1:07his children. The tragedy is that his
1:10children often do not know the terms of
1:12the covenant. Revelation 12 calls Satan
1:15the accuser of the brethren. Accusation
1:17is one of his oldest weapons. If he
1:20cannot separate you from Christ, he will
1:23attempt to separate you from the
1:25consciousness of what you are in Christ.
1:27If he cannot change your legal standing
1:30before God, he will attack your
1:32confidence in that standing. And a
1:35believer who does not know his standing
1:36can live like a prisoner while
1:38possessing the rights of a son. If you
1:40receive this today, write this
1:43declaration below. The blood has
1:45answered. Do not write it as
1:47superstition. Write it as your
1:50confession of faith. The blood has
1:51answered. Now listen closely. The first
1:55thing you must understand is that delay
1:57is not always denial. And difficulty is
2:00not automatically evidence that some
2:02evil spirit has successfully blocked
2:04God. We must be scriptural here.
2:07Sometimes God develops patience in us.
2:10Sometimes circumstances involve other
2:12people and their decisions. Sometimes
2:15wisdom requires preparation.
2:18Sometimes we ourselves have made poor
2:20choices whose consequences require time
2:22to correct and sometimes we simply do
2:25not know why an answer seems delayed.
2:28Faith does not require us to invent
2:30explanations where scripture has given
2:32none. But there is another kind of delay
2:34that occurs in the believer's
2:36experience.
2:37It happens when condemnation,
2:40fear,
2:42inurance
2:43and unbelief keep a man from taking hold
2:46of what belongs to him in Christ. That
2:49is the filing system I am talking about.
2:52The enemy takes an accusation and
2:54attempts to file your confidence
2:55underneath it. You failed yesterday. You
2:59sinned too badly. You have not prayed
3:02enough. You are not spiritual enough.
3:05Your family has always struggled.
3:07You waited too long, God helps other
3:10people. But perhaps he will not help
3:13you. And if you accept those accusations
3:15as the final verdict, you begin
3:18approaching the father as though you
3:19were standing outside the covenant
3:21begging to be admitted. That is where
3:23religion has robbed multitudes.
3:26Religion has taught men to knock at a
3:28door that Christ has already opened.
3:30Religion has taught sons to speak like
3:33strangers. Religion has taught heirs to
3:36beg like servants. But Hebrews 10:19
3:39tells us that we have boldness to enter
3:41the holiest by the blood of Jesus.
3:43Notice the language, boldness, not
3:47terror, not uncertainty,
3:50not crawling, boldness.
3:53And the basis of that boldness is not
3:55your perfect behavior. It is the blood
3:58of Jesus. Your conduct matters. Sin
4:02matters. Obedience matters. Fellowship
4:06with the Father matters. But none of
4:08these things can become a substitute for
4:10the finished work of Christ. If your
4:12confidence before God rests upon how
4:14perfectly you performed yesterday, you
4:17will never possess stable faith. One day
4:20you will feel worthy. The next day you
4:23will feel condemned. One morning you
4:25will pray confidently because you
4:27behaved well. That evening you will hide
4:30from God because you failed. You have
4:33made your own performance the mediator
4:35between yourself and the father. But
4:37there is one mediator.
4:40His name is Jesus Christ. First John 2:1
4:44says that if anyone sins, we have an
4:47advocate with the father, Jesus Christ
4:50the righteous. Do you see the courtroom
4:52language? An advocate, an accusation,
4:57a righteous standing, a finished
4:59sacrifice.
5:01This is why the believer must know his
5:03legal position in Christ. The enemy's
5:06accusation says, "Look at what you did."
5:10The gospel says, "Look at what Christ
5:13did." The accusation says, "You have no
5:17right to come." The blood says, "Come
5:21boldly." The accusation says, "Your past
5:25defines your standing." The new creation
5:28says, "If any man is in Christ, he is a
5:33new creature." The accusation keeps
5:35presenting evidence from the old life.
5:38God keeps pointing you to the sun, and
5:41you must decide which testimony governs
5:43your consciousness.
5:45There are believers listening to me who
5:47have spent years answering accusations
5:49with emotions. That will never work. You
5:53feel condemned.
5:54So you attempt to feel righteous. You
5:57feel afraid.
5:59So you attempt to feel courageous.
6:02You feel unworthy.
6:04So you try to manufacture a sense of
6:06worthiness.
6:08No, faith is not built upon feelings.
6:12Faith is built upon the integrity of the
6:14word. When God says in 2 Corinthians
6:175:21 that Christ was made sin for us so
6:20that we might become the righteousness
6:22of God in him, he has revealed the basis
6:25of our standing. Righteousness is not a
6:27spiritual mood. Righteousness is the
6:30ability to stand in the father's
6:31presence without the sense of guilt,
6:34condemnation
6:36or inferiority because of what Christ
6:38has accomplished. My dear brother, my
6:42dear sister, this changes everything.
6:46You may have failed. Come home. You may
6:49have wandered. Come home. You may have
6:53allowed fear to dominate your thinking
6:54for months or even years. Come home. The
6:58father is not asking you to manufacture
7:00another cross. He is asking you to
7:02believe in the one cross that already
7:04stood on Calvary. You do not have to
7:07persuade Jesus to become victorious.
7:10He is victorious. You do not have to
7:12persuade the father to accept the
7:14sacrifice. He accepted it. You do not
7:18have to persuade the resurrection to
7:19happen again. Christ has been raised.
7:23And according to Ephesians 2, you have
7:26been made alive together with him.
7:29Raised together with him and seated
7:32together with him in the heavenly places
7:34in Christ Jesus. Look at the language of
7:36identification
7:38with him. With him with him.
7:43Christianity is not merely Christ doing
7:45something near you. It is God placing
7:48you in Christ. His death becomes the
7:51answer to your old nature. His
7:53resurrection becomes the basis of your
7:55new life. His righteousness becomes your
7:58standing. His name becomes your
8:00authority. His victory becomes the
8:03ground upon which faith stands. This is
8:06why I have often emphasized a truth that
8:08the church must recover. We have prayed
8:10for what we already possess. We have
8:13prayed, "Lord,
8:16give me access." He says, "You have
8:20access." We have prayed, "Lord,
8:24make me acceptable." He points us to the
8:27beloved. We have prayed
8:30Lord give me authority over darkness.
8:34Jesus says in Luke 10 that authority has
8:37been given over the power of the enemy.
8:40We have prayed
8:42Lord help me come boldly. Hebrews says
8:47come boldly. There comes a moment when
8:50prayer must cease being an attempt to
8:52persuade God and become fellowship with
8:54God concerning what he has already
8:56accomplished. That is mature faith. But
9:00here is where many believers make a
9:02terrible mistake. They hear teaching
9:04about confession and begin treating
9:06words like magic. That is not faith. You
9:10cannot manipulate God by repeating
9:12sentences.
9:14You cannot force reality to obey your
9:16vocabulary merely because you spoke
9:17loudly. Biblical confession means
9:19agreeing with God. The Greek idea behind
9:22confession carries the sense of saying
9:24the same thing. God says something. I
9:28discover it. I believe it. I identify
9:32myself with it. Then I say what God has
9:34said. My confession does not make God's
9:37word true. God's word makes my
9:40confession true. That distinction is
9:43enormous. You are not creating your
9:45redemption by speaking. You are
9:48confessing the redemption Christ
9:49created. You are not creating
9:52righteousness. You are acknowledging the
9:54righteousness God gave you in Christ.
9:57You are not defeating Jesus enemies
9:59again. You are standing upon Christ's
10:02victory over them. That is why
10:04confession is powerful. Confession
10:07builds the road over which faith carries
10:08its mighty cargo. But the road is built
10:11from the word. Not imagination,
10:15not greed, not spiritual fantasy. The
10:19word. Suppose an accusation comes
10:22against you tonight. You are not worthy.
10:26What do you answer? Do not answer.
10:30Yes, I am worthy because I have been a
10:33good Christian. That is a weak answer.
10:36Tomorrow you may stumble and your entire
10:39argument collapses. Answer instead.
10:43My confidence is not in my performance.
10:46My confidence is in Christ. I have been
10:49made the righteousness of God in him.
10:52Suppose the accusation says
10:55God will not hear you. You answer with
10:58one John 5:14.
11:01This is the confidence we have toward
11:02him that if we ask anything according to
11:05his will. He hears us. Suppose
11:08condemnation says you cannot approach
11:11the father. You answer Hebrews 4:16.
11:15I come boldly to the throne of grace to
11:18obtain mercy and find grace to help in
11:20time of need. Suppose your past says you
11:24will always be what you were. You answer
11:272 Corinthians 5:17. If anyone is in
11:30Christ, he is a new creation. Old things
11:34have passed away. Behold,
11:37new things have come. Do you understand
11:39what you are doing? You are answering
11:41the file. You are refusing to let
11:43accusation have the final word. You are
11:46placing God's testimony above Satan's
11:49testimony,
11:50above your feelings,
11:53above your past, and even above the
11:56accusations of your own conscience. But
11:58listen carefully. There are times when
12:01your conscience is not falsely accusing
12:03you. There are times when you actually
12:06need to repent. Faith never eliminates
12:09repentance.
12:10Righteousness, consciousness is not
12:13permission to live carelessly. First
12:16John 1:9 says that if we confess our
12:18sins, he is faithful and just to forgive
12:22us and cleanse us from all
12:23unrighteousness.
12:25Notice what the mature believer does. He
12:28does not deny sin. He does not excuse
12:31sin. He does not rename sin. He does not
12:35spend six months condemning himself for
12:37sin. He confesses it. He receives
12:41cleansing. He restores fellowship. Then
12:45he rise. Some of you have confessed the
12:47same forgiven failure 500 times. Why?
12:51Because you think your sorrow is more
12:53powerful than his blood. You would never
12:56say that consciously, but your behavior
12:59says it. You confessed it Monday. You
13:02wept Tuesday. You confessed it
13:05Wednesday. You punished yourself
13:07Thursday.
13:08You refused joy. Friday you told God
13:12again. Saturday that you were unworthy.
13:14Then on Sunday you sang about the blood
13:16that washes whiter than snow. Do you see
13:19the contradiction? Either the blood
13:21cleanses or it does not. Either Jesus is
13:25advocate or he is not. Either God is
13:29faithful and just to forgive or he is
13:32not. At some point faith must accept the
13:36verdict. And here I become stern because
13:38I love the church too deeply to flatter
13:40her ignorance. Stop making unbelief
13:43sound humble. I am nothing. I have
13:47nothing. I can do nothing. God could
13:50never use me. That may sound pious.
13:54But if God has said something different
13:56concerning the man in Christ, your
13:59humility has become disagreement with
14:01God. True humility does not speak poorly
14:03of what God has created. True humility
14:06agrees with God. Paul could say, "By the
14:10grace of God, I am what I am." There is
14:13humility. He knew the source. He knew
14:17the grace. He knew that everything he
14:19possessed came from God. But he did not
14:22deny what grace had produced. There is a
14:25false humility that continually looks at
14:27itself. There is a gospel humility that
14:30continually looks at Christ. One says,
14:34"Look how weak I am." The other says,
14:38"His strength is made perfect in
14:40weakness." One says, "Look how badly I
14:44failed." The other says, "Where I
14:48failed, I repent,
14:51receive cleansing,
14:53learn obedience,
14:55and return to fellowship." One says, "I
14:59have no right." The other says, "I have
15:03no right in myself, but I have covenant
15:06rights in Christ." That is the language
15:09of redemption. Now, we come to something
15:12deeper. Why does accusation create the
15:15experience of delay? Because accusation
15:18attacks confidence. And Hebrews 103:5
15:21says, "Cast not away, therefore, your
15:24confidence, which hath great recompense
15:27of reward. Notice that you can cast away
15:32confidence.
15:33God does not have to take it away. The
15:36devil does not have to steal your
15:37salvation. He merely needs to persuade
15:40you to throw away your confidence. Then
15:43you hesitate. You withdraw.
15:46You pray uncertainly.
15:48You stop expecting. You begin
15:50interpreting every circumstance as
15:52evidence against the promise. You ask
15:54today and cancel your confidence
15:56tomorrow. You speak faith Sunday and
15:59speak fear Monday. You confess God's
16:02faithfulness in church and rehearse
16:04impossibility all week. James describes
16:07the double-minded man is unstable. This
16:10is not because God is reluctant. It is
16:13because faith cannot rest while the mind
16:15continually changes its verdict. That is
16:18why Romans 12 speaks about the renewing
16:20of the mind. Your spirit may have
16:22received eternal life, but your mind
16:25must learn to think in harmony with
16:27redemption. The old mind asks, "What do
16:31I see?" The renewed mind asks, "What has
16:34God said?" The old mind asks, "How do I
16:38feel?" The renewed mind asks, "What is
16:41written?" The old mind measures God by
16:44circumstances.
16:46The renewed mind measures circumstances
16:48by the character of God. This does not
16:51mean pretending circumstances do not
16:53exist. Abraham knew exactly how old his
16:56body was. Romans 4 does not portray him
16:58as ignorant of natural facts. It says he
17:02refused to allow those facts to
17:04overthrow the promise of God. Faith does
17:07not deny facts. Faith denies facts the
17:10right to become God. That distinction
17:13will deliver you from foolishness on one
17:15side and unbelief on the other. You can
17:18say this situation is difficult. Then
17:22add but difficulty does not change God's
17:25faithfulness.
17:27You can say
17:29I do not yet see the answer. Then add
17:33but what I see does not determine
17:34whether God's word is true. You can say
17:39I do not understand the delay. Then add
17:43but I will not fill the silence with
17:45condemnation.
17:46That last statement is for someone
17:48listening to me right now. You have
17:50filled God's silence with accusations.
17:54Because the answer did not come when you
17:55expected. You concluded God was
17:58displeased
18:00because the door did not open. You
18:03concluded you were rejected because
18:05healing did not manifest according to
18:07your timetable.
18:09You concluded that your faith was
18:11worthless because finances remained
18:14difficult. You concluded that God had
18:16abandoned you because the relationship
18:19did not change. You concluded your
18:22prayers had failed. Beloved,
18:25do not manufacture a verdict from a
18:27circumstance.
18:29You may not know why something has taken
18:31time. Neither do I. And faith does not
18:35require pretending to know. Faith rests
18:38in what is known. God is faithful.
18:41Christ has finished his redemptive work.
18:44You belong to him. You have access to
18:47the father. The holy spirit dwells in
18:50you. The word is yours. The name of
18:53Jesus belongs to the church. And nothing
18:56about today's circumstances can rewrite
18:59yesterday's cross. This is where rest
19:02begins. Not passivity.
19:05Rest. There is a difference. Passivity
19:09says whatever happens
19:12happens.
19:14Faith says I have settled God's
19:16integrity in my heart and therefore I
19:19will obey him without panic. Passivity
19:22does nothing because it has no
19:24conviction. Faith acts from conviction
19:27without anxiety. Jesus slept in the boat
19:30during the storm. That was not pacivity.
19:33That was dominion expressed through
19:35rest. Then when action was required, he
19:39arose and spoke. Some believers reverse
19:42the order. They panic first and speak
19:45later. They spend 3 days imagining
19:48disaster and 3 minutes confessing
19:49scripture. Then they wonder why their
19:52inner life remains dominated by fear.
19:54Feed your spirit on the word. Meditate
19:57upon who you are in Christ. Learn the
20:00great in him, in whom, and in Christ
20:04scriptures. Write them down. Read them.
20:08Think upon them. Speak them. Not as
20:12incantation
20:14as identification.
20:16Ephesians says you are blessed with
20:18every spiritual blessing in heavenly
20:20places in Christ. Romans says there is
20:23no condemnation to those who are in
20:25Christ Jesus. Corinthians says you are a
20:28new creation in Christ. Colossians says
20:32you have been delivered from the
20:33authority of darkness. and translated
20:35into the kingdom of the son of his love.
20:38These are not theological ornaments.
20:40They are identification facts. Imagine
20:44receiving legal documents declaring that
20:46an inheritance belong to you, placing
20:48them in a drawer, and then spending 20
20:51years begging the executive for
20:53permission to possess what the documents
20:55already assigned to you. You would call
20:57that ignorance. Yet spiritually, we have
21:00done precisely that. We possess the
21:03document. We sing about the document. We
21:06frame verses from the document. We
21:09debate translations of the document. And
21:11then we beg for what the document says
21:13belongs to us. Read your covenant. Know
21:16your redemption. Know your
21:18righteousness. Know your authority. Know
21:20your access. Know the indwelling spirit.
21:22Know the power of the name. Know what
21:23the resurrection means. The church does
21:26not primarily need more emotional
21:28excitement. She needs revelation
21:30knowledge. Hosea said God's people were
21:33destroyed for lack of knowledge. Jesus
21:36said we would know the truth and the
21:38truth would make us free. Truth known.
21:42Truth believed, truth acted upon. There
21:46is your road out of bondage. Now let me
21:49speak tenderly to the person who is
21:51tired. Perhaps you have been standing
21:53for something for a long time. Perhaps
21:55you have heard sermons that made you
21:57feel that every unanswered prayer was
21:59proof of your failure. I will not add
22:01another burden to your shoulders. Faith
22:04is not self- torture. God is not
22:07standing over you with a measuring
22:08instrument, saying
22:10harder. Jesus said that faith like a
22:13mustard seed could move mountains. Your
22:16father knows you. He loves you. He is
22:19not confused by your tears. He is not
22:22intimidated by your questions. And when
22:25you do not understand,
22:27you may still come boldly to the throne
22:30of grace. Sometimes the boldest
22:32confession is simply this. Father, I do
22:36not understand this. But I trust your
22:38character. There is no shame in that.
22:42Faith is not knowing everything. Faith
22:45is knowing the one who does. So stop
22:48measuring your relationship with God by
22:50the speed of an answer. Do not allow
22:52delay to rename you. You are not the one
22:56God forgot. You are not the one whose
22:59prayers never work. You are not the
23:01family that can never escape this. Those
23:04are identities built from experiences.
23:07Your identity must be built from Christ.
23:10Now, I want to show you how to empty the
23:12filing system. First,
23:15identify the accusation.
23:18Do not fight fog. Name it. What sentence
23:22keeps returning to your mind? God will
23:24not help me. I ruined my opportunity. I
23:28am being punished. I am not righteous
23:31enough. I do not have enough faith. My
23:34past has disqualified me. My family
23:38history determines my future. Bring the
23:41accusation into the light. Then ask a
23:44simple question. What does the word say
23:46not? What does my fear say? Not. What
23:51does tradition say? Not. What did
23:54someone tell me 20 years ago? What does
23:57the word say? Then distinguish between
23:59conviction and condemnation.
24:02If the Holy Spirit reveals actual sin,
24:05repent. Correct what needs correction.
24:09Make restitution where appropriate.
24:11Forgive where you need to forgive. Obey
24:14what God has shown you. Faith is not
24:16rebellion dressed in biblical
24:18vocabulary,
24:20but after repentance,
24:22refuse condemnation.
24:24Do not keep paying a debt Christ has
24:26forgiven. Then locate yourself in
24:29Christ. Sigh, I am in him. That phrase
24:34may appear small, but heaven has placed
24:37eternity inside it. in him. Not in Adam,
24:42not in yesterday,
24:44not in your family history, not in your
24:47failures. In him, then confess the word.
24:52Your mouth has spent enough years
24:53agreeing with fear. Give it something
24:56better to say. Romans 10 connects the
24:59heart and the mouth. Faith believes and
25:02faith speaks. Jesus taught that words
25:05flowing from believing hearts matter.
25:08Therefore, train your confession. When
25:11fear says, "You are alone."
25:16Say, "He will never leave me nor forsake
25:19me." When condemnation says, "Stay
25:23away." Say, "I come boldly." When
25:28weakness says, "You cannot continue."
25:32Say, "His grace is sufficient for me."
25:35When accusation says you are still the
25:39old man, say I am a new creation in
25:43Christ. Again,
25:46your words are not magic. They are the
25:49voice of agreement. An agreement with
25:52God changes the posture of your inner
25:54man. Then act. Faith without
25:57corresponding action is dead. If you
25:59believe God has given you wisdom, use
26:02wisdom. If you are believing for work,
26:06apply. If you are believing for restored
26:10finances,
26:11practice stewardship. If you are
26:13believing for reconciliation,
26:16obey God concerning forgiveness and
26:18truth. If you are praying for healing,
26:22receive appropriate care without
26:23treating medical help as an enemy of
26:25faith. Faith is not recklessness.
26:28Faith is confidence in God expressed
26:30through obedient action. And finally,
26:34rest. You have answered the accusation.
26:38You have placed the blood against
26:40condemnation.
26:41You have placed the word against fear.
26:43You have placed your identification in
26:46Christ against the old identity. Now
26:48rest. Do not reopen the file every hour.
26:52Some of you close the case in prayer at
26:547:00 and appeal against your own victory
26:57at 8. At seven, you say, "Father,
27:01I trust you." At 8, you say, "But what
27:05if nothing happens?" At 9, you say,
27:09"Your word is true." At 10, you say,
27:13"Maybe God has forgotten me." At 11:00,
27:16you ask someone else to pray because
27:18perhaps their prayer has more power. At
27:20midnight, you reopen every accusation
27:22you answered that morning. Stop trying
27:25the same case every day. When the
27:28accusation returns,
27:30point to the verdict. This is the
27:32emotional climax of faith. Not shouting
27:34louder, but becoming settled. When Jesus
27:38sat down, the work was finished. When
27:42you take your place in him, you rest in
27:45that finished work. He sat down. Hebrews
27:49repeatedly emphasizes this. The priests
27:52of the old covenant stood continually
27:54because their sacrifices could never
27:55complete the work. But Christ offered
27:58one sacrifice for sins and sat down. He
28:02sat down because redemption's foundation
28:04was complete. And Ephesians says, "You
28:07are seated with him." Do you see it?
28:09Christ seated. The believer seated in
28:13Christ. Yet much of the church is
28:15running through the quarters of religion
28:17begging for somebody to finish a work.
28:19Jesus sat down after completing. Sit
28:22down in your spirit. Rest in the
28:24integrity of the word. Stand against the
28:27adversary from the position of rest. You
28:30are not fighting toward victory. You are
28:33enforcing faith from Christ's victory.
28:36The blood speaks. Let your mouth agree.
28:40The word speaks. Let your heart agree.
28:44The resurrection speaks. Let your
28:47identity agree. The throne speaks. Let
28:51your confidence agree. The new creation
28:53speaks. Let your life agree. And when
28:57accusation brings yesterday's record,
29:00answer with the finished work of Jesus
29:02Christ. When it says guilty and you have
29:08confessed your sin,
29:10answer
29:12cleansed. When it says
29:15rejected,
29:17answer
29:18accepted in Christ. When it says
29:22powerless,
29:24answer the greater one dwells in me.
29:28When it says abandoned,
29:32answer
29:33will never leave me. When it says there
29:37is no future,
29:39answer
29:40my life is hidden with Christ in God.
29:43This is not arrogance. It is agreement.
29:47This is not boasting in yourself. It is
29:49boasting in Christ. This is not
29:52pretending you never fail. It is
29:55declaring that your failure is not
29:56greater than his redemption. I wish I
29:59could sit beside some of you and look
30:01you directly in the eyes. You have been
30:03fighting too long under a name God did
30:05not give you. Failure,
30:08rejected,
30:10unworthy,
30:12forgotten,
30:13damaged, too late. Those words may
30:17describe moments in your experience.
30:19They do not describe your standing in
30:22Christ. You are his workmanship.
30:24You are his child. You have been
30:27redeemed. You have been brought near by
30:30the blood. You have been given access.
30:33You have been made alive with Christ.
30:36You have the Holy Spirit dwelling within
30:38you. Rise into the consciousness of what
30:41grace has made you. Not proudly,
30:44gratefully,
30:46not arrogantly,
30:48humbly, not independently of Christ,
30:51entirely dependent upon Christ, but
30:54rise. The world has seen enough
30:57Christians who sing about victory and
30:58live dominated by condemnation. It has
31:02seen enough heirs living like beggars.
31:04It has seen enough sons speaking like
31:07slaves. Let this generation discover
31:09what it means to be a new creation. Let
31:12us recover the Pauline revelation. Let
31:15us recover righteousness consciousness.
31:18Let us recover the authority of the
31:20name. Let us recover the integrity of
31:23the word. Let us recover the reality of
31:26our union with Christ. And when we pray,
31:30let us pray as sons and daughters who
31:32know the father. The prayer of faith is
31:34not the begging of an inferior. It is
31:36the claiming of the rights of a son. Yet
31:39even there, remember, covenant rights
31:42never make us masters over God. Faith
31:46does not command the father. Faith
31:48trusts the father. Authority is
31:51exercised under Christ.
31:53never independently of him. The mature
31:56believer is simultaneously bold and
31:58surrendered. Bold because of the blood.
32:02Surrendered because Jesus is Lord. Bold
32:05concerning God's promises. Surrendered
32:08concerning God's wisdom. Bold against
32:11condemnation.
32:13Surrendered to correction,
32:15bold against the enemy, tender before
32:18the father. That balance produces strong
32:21Christians. So when you wake tomorrow
32:24morning, do not begin by checking the
32:27filing cabinet of yesterday. Begin with
32:30Christ before your failure speaks. Let
32:34the word speak before anxiety presents
32:37its evidence. Present God's promise
32:41before your emotions announce the day's
32:43verdict. Remember the eternal verdict
32:46established in Jesus. Say, "I am in
32:49Christ. I am a new creation. I have been
32:53redeemed by his blood. I have access to
32:56my father. I refuse condemnation.
33:00I receive correction without accepting
33:02rejection. I will not call myself what
33:05God has not called me. I will not make
33:08my circumstances the Lord of my
33:10confession. Jesus is Lord. His word has
33:14final authority in my life. I will walk
33:18in love. I will walk in obedience. I
33:21will walk by faith. I will rest in the
33:24finished work of Christ. And when the
33:26accusation returns and it may return, do
33:29not be frightened by its return. A
33:31repeated accusation is not a reversed
33:33verdict. Hear that again. A repeated
33:37accusation is not a reversed verdict.
33:40The enemy may knock on the same door.
33:42You do not have to reopen the case.
33:45Answer with the word. Answer with the
33:48blood. Answer with the name. Answer from
33:51your position in Christ. Then continue
33:54walking. Your confession is the mother
33:56of your faith. It is the soil in which
33:59your faith grows. So cultivate that soil
34:03carefully. Do not plant the word in the
34:06morning and dig it up with fear at
34:07night. Do not confess Christ's
34:09sufficiency and then spend the afternoon
34:12confessing your own hopelessness. Guard
34:14your heart. Renew your mind. Watch your
34:18words. Stay in fellowship. Walk in love.
34:23Forgive quickly. Repent quickly. Believe
34:27boldly. Rest deeply. And remember this
34:31above everything I have told you. Your
34:33breakthrough is not purchased by perfect
34:35believing. Jesus purchased your
34:37redemption. Your faith receives. It does
34:41not pay. Your confession agrees. It does
34:44not earn. Your obedience follows grace.
34:47It does not replace grace. Your
34:50authority comes from union with Christ.
34:52It does not originate in yourself.
34:55Everything begins in him. Everything
34:58stands in him. Everything finds its
35:00meaning in him. So empty the file. Not
35:04by pretending the past never happened.
35:06Not by denying reality. Not by blaming
35:10every difficulty on a demon. Empty it by
35:13refusing to allow any accusation to
35:15outrank the testimony of Jesus Christ.
35:18The blood has answered. The cross has
35:21answered. The empty tomb has answered.
35:25The seated Christ has answered. The word
35:28has answered. Now let your heart answer.
35:32Let your mouth answer. Let your life
35:35answer. And when fear asks you, "What if
35:39God has forgotten you?" answer. He has
35:41not forgotten me. When condemnation
35:44asks, who do you think you are? Answer,
35:48I am who God says I am in Christ. When
35:51the past asks, what gives you the right
35:54to rise again? Answer, the blood of
35:56Jesus. And when delay whispers,
36:01nothing is happening. Answer, without
36:04panic, I will not interpret God's
36:06faithfulness through today's
36:07circumstances.
36:09I will stand upon his word, obey his
36:12wisdom and trust his timing. That is not
36:16denial. That is faith. That is sunship.
36:21That is rest. And that is where I leave
36:23you today. Not standing outside the
36:25father's house begging to enter. But
36:28conscious that through Christ you have
36:30been brought near. Walk in that
36:32consciousness.
36:34Pray from that consciousness.
36:36Speak from that consciousness.
36:39Face tomorrow from that consciousness.
36:42Christ has not merely given you a better
36:44religion. He has given you his life. You
36:47are in him. And when that truth becomes
36:50more real to you than the accusations
36:52that have followed you, the filing
36:54system loses its power. The file may
36:57still bear your old name, but you no
37:00longer live there. You are in Christ.

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