09/07/2019
From the desk of Beth Ann Dalton... 🦋🦋🦋🦋
🦋🦋 THE PREACHING OF THE
CROSS‼️
1COR 1:17 .. For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not ~ wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect‼️
➖THE LORD NION BETWEEN HUMANITY & DIETY CAN NEVER BE BROKEN‼️
Paul used the word “cross” In
1 COR 1:17, not because he was simply talking about the crucifixion. He IDENTIFIED ~ the cross because THAT is where GOD IDENTIFIED ~ HIM!
The first step of God’s identification ~ sinful man began ~ the incarnation when God became a man & Jesus came to earth.
The second step of God’s identification ~ fallen man was when Jesus told John to baptize Him. When Jesus got in the line ~ sinners, He said, “Baptize me ~ those who are confessing their sin.” John the Baptist did not understand what was happening so he said, “I am not baptizing You.” However, the union between humanity & deity IN JESUS can never be broken. Not just for one human generation, but through all eternity. JESUS IS STILL A MAN RIGHT NIW @ THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD !
🦋SAY THIS: 🦋GAL 2:20 THE DISTILLED BIBLE .. I consider myself as having died and now enjoying a second existence, which is simply Jesus using my body‼️
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🦋THE LANGUAGE OF🦋
REDEMPTION‼️
🦋1 COR 1:8 .. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God‼️
➖LEARN THE LANGUAGE OF REDEMPTION! = ““CHRIST HATH { PAST TENSE } REDEAMED US””‼️
When Jesus went to the cross, He was made to be sin for us. He took our condition, & a surgical procedure was performed. God cut Himself open & U in Christ. Three days later the process was complete, & the redemption story is still being told around the world.
Paul speaks of the preaching of the cross or the language of the cross in 1 COR 1:18. The Greek word for “preaching” is the word logos. Logos means “the written word.” U’R REDEMPTION & UR IDENTIFICATION have a certain language. U would do well to learn this language of identification, let’s GET OUT TENSES & VERBS RIGHT because when Christ was crucified;
U WERE CRUCIFIED ~ HIM!
U DIED ~ HIM!
U WERE SEATED ~ HIM!
Let’s start speaking THAT language. It is the key to God’s economy.
🦋SAY THIS: Christ has redeemed me. I was crucified with Him. I died with Him. I am now seated with Him‼️
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🦋🦋BRAGGING ON
REDEMPTION‼️
🦋PHILEMON 6 .. That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus‼️
➖IN ALL U’R TEACHING & PREACHING, U MUST ALWAYS LEAVE PEOPLE ~ THE CONCIOUSNESS OF THE TRIUMPH OF CHRIST—— JOHN G. LAKE❗️
People think it makes God happy for them to talk about everything they are not. Would it make u happy if your kids came in every day & told u everything they are not? E. W. Kenyon said, “The reason that the majority of Christians are weak, though they are earnest, yet they are weak, is because they have never dared to make a confession of what they are in Christ !!!!!!
Some people get upset ~ this truth; they “reason ~ their human minds” such scripture clearly tells us it is IMPOSSIBLE to comprehend God ~ near human reasonings, still they think they are being humble or worse yet—-think they are telling the truth when they continually run themselves down. When a believer assumes this attitude, he is not only being ignorant, he is opening the door to the devil. U need to acknowledge ...
WHO U ARE IN CHRIST
&
THE GOOD THINGS THAT ARE IN U because U ARE IN HIM! We know that in ourselves we can do nothing. We have already proven that! In other words, u are not really bragging on yourself; u are bragging on redemption!
🦋SAY THIS: I am triumphant in Christ! In Him I am redeemed. I am not trying to be, hoping to be, or going to be–in Him I am righteous now‼️
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🦋🦋A BRAND NEW PERSON‼️
🦋1COR 5:17 .. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature‼️
➖U ARE NOT ONLY A FORGIVEN SINNER; U ARE “A BRAND NEW PERSON”❗️
“Therefore if any man” means this WILL WORK FOR ANYONE! Let’s NOTICE what Paul wrote: “Therefore if any man be in Christ.” —- It does not say, “if any man be in church.” U can be IN CHURCH & be the same old “stinkin’ thingy” u’ve always been, BUT when u get “IN CHRISTED”, u cannot stay the same because U ARE CHANGERD !
So, When Paul wrote, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is,” Paul was NOT talking about males only; he was talking about a species ( some of which have a womb & some which have other equipment😉) = mankind-man or woman. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he [or she] is a new creature.” One translation says it this way, “a new species of being that never existed before.” I LIKE THAT don’t u? So, when u get born again, U ARE NOT ... JUST A forgiven sinner, U HAVE BEEN RE-CREATED BY GOD HIMSELF!!!
In the Old Testament, sins were only covered & forgiven. But because of the death & resurrection of Christ, u have not simply been forgiven; U HAVE
BECOME A WHOLE NEW NEW PERSON—A WHOLE NEW CREATION!!! U are not just a forgiven sinner. U are a brand new person. GOD HAS RE-CREATED U!!!! U ARE COMPLETE “IN HIM” U HAVE BEEN FOREVER “IN CHRISTED” & therefore, U ARE COMPLETE “IN HIM”
🦋Col 2:1 .. And you are complete {{ that is, literally to cram (a net full ~ absolutely no space left, to level up a whole or hollow, or figuratively to furnish or defuse totally diffuse, absolutely satisfy, totally finish a task, verify (or coincide with a prediction), to fill up to overflowing, to be, made full, to be perfect }}in him, which is the head of all principality and power‼️ .... So, I ask u, can U MAKE U’rself any completer than COMPLETE❓❓❓❓
🦋SAY THIS: I am in Christ therefore I am a brand new person. I am not simply forgiven; I AM A WHOLE NEW CREATION “IN CHRIST”‼️
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🦋🦋PRESENT TENSE‼️
🦋2COR 5:17 .. Therefore if any man be in Christ…....‼️
➖WHATEVER IS TRUE OF ANYONE WHO IS IN CHRIST IS TRUE ABOUT U❗️
I LIKE the fact that 2 COR 5:17 is written in the PRESENT TENSE! When u are born again, u “BE IN CHRIST !” Whatever is true of anyone else who is IN CHRIST is true about u. If U BE IN CHRIST, then what “BE IN CHRIST” “BE IN U !!! HEB 11:1 is also IN the present tense. It says, “NOW FAITH IS.” In other words;
➖f it is going to be, it is not faith.
➖If it used to be, it is not faith. U see, God introduced Himself to Moses by saying, “I AM that I AM.”
🤔Hummm, so what is God’s last name? 💡I AM is God’s last name! That IS PRESENT TENSE !!! When u get “IN CHRIST”, U AM “IN HIM”! ➖Whatever AM “IN HIM”,...AM “IN U” right now!!!
➖Whatever BE “IN HI in Him,...BE “IN U” right now!!!
U ARE NOT;
➖TRYING TO BE,
➖HOPING TO BE,
OR
➖GOING TO BE.....
💡RIGHT NOW U “BE” IN HIM❗️
“NOW FAITH IS”❗️
The moment u DECLARE “WHO” u are IN HIM, u’r faith WILL WORK ! Otherwise, u will always try to be, hope to be, & want to be. Let’s FORGET who we are naturally & get up every morning seeing who we REALLY ARE “IN HIM”, rather we look like it, feel like it or act like it. WE ARE COMPLETE “IN HIM”❗️
🦋SAY THIS: In Christ I have been made righteous. In Him I have peace ~ God. I AM IN HIM & the “I AM” IS IN ME‼️
