Fear No Fear

(All scripture from the NET, netbible.org, all rights reserved)

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit.
Galatians 5:24-25 (emphasis added)

Past tense. Something that has ALREADY happened. We ALREADY crucified out flesh. That happened at salvation. We placed our old man (person: male or female, depending on which you are) under the cross. Jesus nailed that old man to His cross. You DIED on that cross with Jesus. When the Father resurrected Jesus to life again, Jesus brought us with Him. Not the dead man, but the NEW YOU. Every breath you have taken since then has been in Messiah Jesus. Every moment, living in Ruach HaKodesh enjoying the life Jesus enabled by His sacrifice. That old person is rotting in the grave.

Since we are NEW, we are not old. “So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away—look, what is new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17). We no longer have an evil intent. We no longer have something inside of us trying to steer us to the selfish. To the flesh. Something that is obstinate when it comes to the things of Adonai. It is dead and gone. With that evil desire dead, we are free from the draw to worldly corruption. “I can pray this because his divine power has bestowed on us everything necessary for life and godliness through the rich knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence. Through these things he has bestowed on us his precious and most magnificent promises, so that by means of what was promised you may become partakers of the divine nature, after escaping the worldly corruption that is produced by evil desire” (2 Peter 1:3-4). We have been given by Grace and in His Mercy EVERYTHING that we need for life and godliness in Jesus. We no longer need to look to this world for what we need. We no longer are drawn to it because of something inside us. We have been renewed. We have been restored. We have been set free.

What are we going to do with our freedom? Are we going to keep doing what we were? Are we going to walk according to the world? Leave ourselves stuck in the mire of the world? Or are we going to walk according to our NEW selves? Are we going to take advantage of what we have available to us? Will we ACT like the old is dead? Living according to the Spirit is automatic. We LIVE in the Spirit every day of our saved lives. But WALKING in the Spirit is by choice. Today’s verse is challenging us to WALK the TALK of our confession. Confession of our decision to follow Jesus (Romans 10:9) is only the BEGINNING of our life in Messiah Jesus. Baptism as the physical proclamation and the example to your flesh that you have been born again is the FIRST STEP of our life in Messiah Jesus. The question is whether you are going to LIVE or LIVE WHILE WALKING in the Spirit for the rest of it.

“We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.) Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him. For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God. So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus” (Romans 6:6-11). In order to walk in the Spirit, we need to renew our minds to the idea of it. We can’t do that without the Word. Adonai renews our minds through the Word so that we can see what His point of view is. So that we can get our minds in tune with the Word of Elohim. We need to conduct our lives according to the Word. Ruach HaKodesh inspired the written Word, which was the Word written down – Ruach HaKodesh only says what Jesus tells Him (John 14:26). Jesus is the Word who became flesh in order to be our sacrifice. If we love Him, we will obey Him. “For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down, because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world” (1 John 5:3-4). That obedience, that conducting ourselves according to the Word – accepting the correction of Ruach HaKodesh, and maintaining our proper position of humble submission to what we find in the Word – is walking in the Spirit. It is done by choice. It should be done with consistency. This is us utilising the freedom that Jesus bought us. Our walking in the Spirit is HOW we are released from sin and its influence. It does not come from OUR efforts. It is a benefit that comes from the SPIRIT when we walk in Him.

Jesus became sin so that we could become Righteous. Jesus became sin through no effort of His own (He did not sin Himself) and we have become Righteous from no effort of our own. When we got saved, we went from one state to the other through Ruach HaKodesh. If we STAY in Jesus. If we CHOOSE obedience. If we live according to the principles, morals, and standards (given as commands) of Adonai Elohim. If we do these things we will be walking in the Spirit, walking in the Blessing, and staying in the state of wholeness in Jesus that is the right of ANYONE and EVERYONE who abides in Messiah Jesus. We were placed in this state by Grace in His Mercy. We were given the trust of Elohim so that we can trust in Jesus. If we believe it, we will be able to live it, because it will be Jesus living it in us (Galatians 2:20). Which means if we will put our trust in Jesus and believe these verses as they are written, we will be able to engage Jesus all the time. The things of Jesus will be able to be OUR things.

You know what Jesus has? Perfect health. You know what we have the moment we are saved? Perfect health in Him. We know this because His anointing included the taking away of our sicknesses (Matthew 8:16-17). We know this because every bruise, every stripe left on Him by the scourge, and every wound He took as He was slapped, hit with a staff, punched, pierced with thorns, had His beard ripped out, and flogged until He was almost dead; were the mechanism by which Jesus released healing for all of time for all of creation for all things, conditions, minds, hearts, and relationships. In other words, the minute we became Jesus through salvation, we became whole and healed. That became our base condition – if we would trust Him and believe it. Therefore, we are NOT sick and trying to get healing. We are not trying to get Him to release anything. We are ALREADY healed, ALREADY whole, ALREADY victorious, ALREADY free, and we are simply needing to realise and accept it. Once we do, getting sickness and disease off us is as easy as taking of an old coat.

It is all about what you are willing to accept in your mind and think about long enough that it drops into your heart. Our hearts are where the majority of our memories are. Our hearts are where our morals are sitting. Our hearts inform and reset our minds throughout the day. If we can get something into our hearts and keep it fed, there is nothing that will be able to come at us and take us away from that thing. It will be firm and foundation for our lives. If we can let the Word show us how we are WHOLE, HEALED, and HEALTHY we would not be able to get sick. Every time our bodies tried, they would be shouted down with the Word that is in our hearts. No more sniffles. No more sickness. No more coughs or sneezes born from infection. No more swollen sinuses. No more flu. No more any of that.

If you think it is impossible, it is because you don’t believe. Of you haven’t read, studied, and meditated on what the Word tells us is possible with Elohim. Remember, He isn’t restricted by fallen creation. He has set us on the path to return to being what we should be: true human beings.

Daily Affirmation Jesus IS Messiah: Jeremiah 31:5

“The Lord says: “A sound is heard in Ramah, a sound of crying in bitter grief. It is the sound of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are gone.”” Messiah would be born and a massacre of infants would follow. This is further proof that Messiah would be a prophet like Moses (Deuteronomy 18:15). When Moses was born, there was a massacre of infants. When Messiah would be born there would be a massacre of infants. In both instances, using a royal ruler’s jealousy and worry over being overthrown to try and kill an anointed prophet of Elohim. The devil has been trying to kill the prophesied son of man who would strike his head (Genesis 3:15). “When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men to kill all the children in Bethlehem and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men. Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud wailing, Rachel weeping for her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because they were gone” (Matthew 2: 16-18). King Herod was a brutal man who killed his father-in-law, several of his ten wives, and two of his sons. He was so concerned that no one would mourn when he died that he gave orders that numbers of people he imprisoned should be killed when he died, so that the sound of tears would fill the city. However, once he was actually dead, no one carried it out and the prisoners were set free. This cruel man slaughtered a town full of children on the chance Messiah was there. Jesus WAS born in that town, but Adonai removed Him before the slaughter. Herod and the devil shot — but missed. Jesus was the child who got away like Moses was the child who got away. Jesus’ birth was marked by Joy, but also by a massacre of children. Jesus IS Messiah!

Your Daily Confession of Jesus/Yeshua’s Identity:

Yeshua is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Matthew 16:16b