CONFESSION -- THE KEY TO FAITH !

CONFESSION -- THE KEY TO FAITH: Fifth, what God is able to do through us, or what His Word will do as we speak it you can't confess about things of which you have no knowledge. If you are a witness in a courtroom, it's what you have seen and heard yourself that stands as evidence; your opinion isn't accepted as evidence. Likewise it's what you personally know about the Lord Jesus Christ and what you are in Him and who you are in Him that counts. Many people know the Lord as their personal savior, but they don't know their privileges in Him. When people know, Ginosko; is the Greek word for a intimate knowing, when we know who they are in Christ and take advantage of that fact, they cannot fail in the Christian life. In studying the Bible, go through the New Testament -- primarily the epistles Written to the Church -- which is the body of Christ -- and underlined in red all the Scriptures containing the expression "In Him," "In Christ," and "in whom That." The moment you find them, begin to confess, "This is who I am and what I have." If you'll do that, I'll guarantee that before many days, life will be different for you. We are not trying to get redemption; we have it now (Ephesians 1:7-8). We are not going to have it sometimes or when we get to heaven; we have it now ! From what are we redeemed ? People use the say, "Well, I'm redeemed from sin." That's part of it, but not nearly all of it. (Galatians 3:13). "CHRITH HATH REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW, being made a curse for us: for it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. We are redeemed from the curse of the law. In the New Testament, "the law, invariably refers to the first five books of the Bible, or the books of Moses. The curse or punishment for breaking God's law is threefold: poverty, sickness, and the second death. But Christ has redeemed us from the curse of poverty; he has redeemed us from the curse of sickness; he has redeemed us from the curse of spiritual death. Some people say that material you are financial blessings were only promise to the Hebrew Israelites. But (Galatians 3:13-14) says, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree: that the blessings of Abraham might come on the GENTILES through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." Abraham's blessing is threefold in nature. First, it is a material, financial blessing. Second, it is a physical blessing. Third, it is a spiritual blessing. In the New Testament, (3 John 2 agrees that God wants us to have material, financial, physical, and spiritual prosperity: "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." Your mind must be renewed to the fact of what God has said: if your mind which is your soul, will, and intellect is not renewed to think right you cannot do right. When I discovered this, I was so thrilled I couldn't sleep ! Other Scriptures begin to come to me, and the Holy Spirit said, "didn't God put everything here that's here ? Don't the psalmis says that the world and the fullness thereof is God's ? Doesn't the Bible say that the gold and silver and the cattle on a thousand hills are the Lord's ? For whom did God make all those things ? The Bible says that God made the world and the fullness thereof. Then he made Adam and said, "Adam, I give you dominion over all of it" -- over the cattle on a thousand hills, over the silver and gold, the world and the fullness thereof. Why do the devil and his crowd have it, then ? Because Adam committed high treason. He sold out to the Satan, and Satan became the god of this world. He is referred to as "the god of this world" in the New Testament (2 Corinthians 4:4). But Jesus, the "last Adam "(1 Corinthians 15:45), came to redeem us from the hand of Satan !