© 24 Colin Melbourne
The All or Nothing God
Wholeheartedness is a hallmark of the divine.
To begin knowing Almighty God, first He wants; your sin, guilt, shame, anxieties and fears through believing on The LORD Jesus Christ, who died in your place bearing your sin, guilt, and punishment.
Discovering the Word of God is true, alive, and has come to dwell in your innermost being, is the greatest experience of all, but your Creator will not be satisfied until He also has your heart, your love, your trust, your life, your time, your desires, emotions, and thoughts.
His Best For Your Best
In short He wants your all… without reluctance or reserve., and set the example we are to follow. Romans 8:32 KJV;
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Like Father: Like Son & Daughter
Father expects the same of His children, Mtt. 10:7-8 KJV;
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
God has given His best to the world, how much more are believers expected to yield everything to Father God?
A Poor Widow’s Investment
We are to follow the example of this precious widow, who is still rejoicing in Glory because she trusted God with her all, Lk. 21:1-4 KJV;
And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
Father God is not short of money, what He needs is more whole-hearted labourers like Hattie and Willie.
My Most Precious Possession
Pioneering Pentecostal missionary couple, Willie and Hattie Burton, were on furlough from the Belgian Congo (aka. Democratic Republic of Congo, Zaire).
On hearing the humble couple were accustomed to dining from two chipped enamel plates, a hospitable Christian lady offered them the pick of her glorious porcelain collection.
Hattie pointed to a set of Wedgwood, but was mortified when their host said that she’d alighted on her most precious items.
Wedgwood Florentine dinner set. Image courtesy Potteries Auctions
Embarrassed, the godly visitor chose an alternative, but the hostess replied firmly, “No, you shall have my favourite set, because I want to show you how much I love and appreciate you and your ministry!”
Believers Want For Nothing
The second you received Christ as LORD, everything He has was credited to your heavenly account; His Righteousness, His Peace, Holiness, Wisdom, His standing with Father God. All that was granted to you as a believer.
They are obtained freely by faith in Him.
Nobody has greater access to Father God than you the instant you repent and believe on Christ as LORD.
Oh that couldn’t possibly be true! Religion and unbelief protest.
You Have Come Into Your Inheritance
But Father has written it down to make it legal, read His Last Will and Testament, sealed in God’s Precious Blood. Rom. 8:16-17 KJV;
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
When do heirs come into their inheritance?
Yes, when the Testator dies, the Will is ratified and beneficiaries are notified that they are now legal owners of their allotted inheritance.
The Living Word of God, God Incarnate, died on The Cross to seal Father’s Will with His Own Precious Blood.
Ever Liveth
Christ died for sinners and arose victorious to die no more, Hebrews 7:22-25 KJV;
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
How to Be Perfectly Righteousness
The answer was written in your Bible all the time, but tradition blinded you to the fact, Rom. 3:19-24 KJV;
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Question: Are you still a sinner, coming short of the glory of God, or have you received the redemption, justification, and righteousness that God died to offer you by faith in His Word?
Are you still sinning and falling short of His glory, or have you believed, and now glorify your LORD and Saviour by your faith and life?
Make up your mind, settle it now, repent and believe the Gospel of Grace.
Grace means you play no part other than simply trusting and accepting; believe, receive, and walk in what Father has provided freely for all.
I Did It My Way
Our flesh wants to justify this position of grace and mercy by doing something to earn them; praying for a long time, fasting, digging up and confessing sins. But you cannot experience God’s blessings that way.
It is really unbelief that Christ did enough to redeem and justify you before the Throne of Heaven.
Quit trying to improve Christ’s perfect eternal redemption for every one who believes in spirit and truth: Only believe!
Your Salvation is His Plan: Not Yours
It wasn’t your idea.
It will help you to see it better when you understand that you were redeemed long before you were conceived and born: Christ redeemed the world at Calvary, proven by His resurrection on the Third Day, Halleluia!
You were created for divine life, peace, and righteousness and every sinner receives them the instant they repent and believe on Christ as LORD.
We no longer live under the sentence of spiritual death for our sins because Christ the LORD dealt with our sin problem once and for all. Halleluia! 2 Cor. 5:21 KJV;
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Jesus Fixed The Sin Problem
Recall when you were still in your sins reaping the wages of sin, and knowing the just penalty of violating God’s word, Ezekiel 18:20a KJV; The soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Were the brief pleasures of sin worth the cost? Never!
But oh the mercy of God in Christ, who became your righteousness when you turned from the sin of unbelief and received Him into your heart. You came to know on the inside God credited the perfect righteousness of His Only Begotten Son to your account.
Total Healing
Not only that, you now have His eternal life, and divine nature because you’ve believed that Christ died on the cross to pay the full penalty for all of your sins, 1 Pe. 2:24 KJV;
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Satan Defeated By God’s Blood
The believer no longer need be guilty or troubled by past transgressions, Isaiah 1:18 Col. 1:13-14 KJV;
… though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Justified by God’s Life
The believer no longer fears God’s Judgment, 2 Cor. 5:10, Rom. 5:18-19, 1 Jn. 4:17 KJV;
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
Christ Was Chastised for Our Peace
As a believer you’ve now understood God’s promises to be your peace made through the Prophet Isaiah 53:4-5,8,10-12 KJV
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. …for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Sharing God’s Nature
So great is your Creator’s Mercy and Justice that He gave His most Precious possession so you can now share all He has by trusting in Christ as LORD and walking in His steps.
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2 Peter 1:3-4 KJV
Fulness In Christ
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For all things are yours;
Col. 1:19, Jn. 1:16, 1 Cor. 3:21b KJV
Believe, Receive, and Use What You Have in Christ
© 24 Colin Melbourne
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