Life in Christ Jesus Podcast

John 3:2 “Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.”  This shows the authority and power of God.  Jesus could not do these miracles except God had given the authority and power to Him.  This was even true with Moses.  Moses could not lead the children of Israel out of Egypt unless God had authorized Him.  That wo...

Jesus calls Himself the light in John's Gospel.  What does He mean?  I would have to search the scripture and understand by the Spirit to see.  In simplistic terms, we do not see ourselves in relationship to the sin of the old man, or even in relationship to the world.  We see ourselves in relationship to Jesus Christ.  He is the Light we see by.  Simply put, we see by Him.   We are called the rig...

This is a study we are in concerning the Authority of the Kingdom of God.  What is the authority?  How does it work?  In this sharing we look at the Word Jesus Christ brought into the earth.  This is the Word of authority.  All other words must bow to Him and His Word.  No other Word should stand or prevail in our hearts.  Let us give our hearts to Christ Jeus and His Word.  Let us submit all thin...

We that are many are one loaf; the Apostle Paul writes in the first book to the Corinthians in Chapter 10.  We all eat of the same bread who is Christ, to become this loaf of bread in the earth.  Our purpose is to be filled with this bread.  Our mission is to share this bread.  We are made partakers of Him!  Glory to God!

Most have heard the statement we are what we eat.  Jesus makes it clear in the Gospels that eating will affect us.  He says to eat His flesh and drink His blood to be filled with Him.  However, in the Gospels He tells His disciples to beware the bread (the word) of the Pharisees.  This word did not bring life. We must be careful with what the word is doing which we are eating.   Is it bringing lif...

In Matthew 16 it is recorded that Jesus asked who do men say He is?  Peter answered that He is the Christ.  In John's Gospel Jesus declares who He is.  We know this declaration as the I AM's of Jesus.  Glory to God.

Colossians 3:1 "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory."  Colossians 1:25 "Whereof I am made a minister, acc...

In the resurrection, we live by Him that lives in us. We have no life but Him. We are raised up and seated together with Him, Paul writes in Ephesians 2. Here in this work of Christ we are made One with Him. It is not Jesus being made one with us in who we are. It is us being made one with Him in who He is. We are coming to know Him, and His Life. Glory to God!

Jesus doesn't just give us life. He is our life! Christ lives in you if you have received Him. This is the hope of the Gospel, the plan of salvation. God's very life living in creation! Glory to God!!

Jesus not only declared Himself to be The Resurrection, but He declared Himself to be The Resurrection and The Life. Simply put, when He raises us from the dead, we come to The Life. His Life becomes our life. He says in John we live because He lives. This is tremendous in understanding our relationship with the Lord. We are in His Life. This Life is made to us what He is. Now that we have been ra...

When we think of Resurrection, we must consider the dead.  Is the dead simply dead physical bodies in the mind of God?  I don't believe so.  I would say to be dead would be absence  of life.  The same would apply to darkness.  Darkness would be the absence of light.  Paul writes in I Corinthians 15 that all died in Adam, and all shall be made alive in Christ. 1Corinthians 15:22 "For as in Adam all...

Jesus put off HIs clothes in the tomb.  They found His linen clothing in the tomb.  Why did He do it?  He put off His grave clothes.  Lazarus, when he came out of the tomb also put off his grave clothes.  Jesus said, "loose him and let him go."  This is speaking of us in Christ.  We put off through His resurrection the clothing of the dead.  We were clothed with that in Adam and put it off, and ar...

John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.  The dead shall hear and they that hear shall liv...

Rom 8:1  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the f...

In the Book of Romans one of the most important statements is made for the believer, when we are able to comprehend it.  "Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that i...

The Apostle Paul tells us that the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. The ultimate purpose of the law was that we would come to Him. He is the fulfillment of all things written in the law. He spoke of Him. When we in frustration try to perform the law for our righteousness we come to dismay as the only one who could ever perform it was he whom it was written of who is Christ.

How do we enter God's presence?  Is it an individual occurrence where you or I come into the presence of God.  In my early Christian walk I would have probably said yes to this question.  As a clearer picture is made known, my answer is only through and in Jesus Christ.  He is our High Priest that Ministers the way into the presence of God, and that way is in Him.  In Him all fullness dwells.  We...

Through Aaron and the Levitical Priesthood, the children of Israel could not enter that within the veil.  They could not enter LIFE.  The very words Jesus spoke when He came was, I have come THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE.  The definition of the word may or might according to the translation is to have or to hold.  Jesus came that we would have and hold life.  Considering ourselves to be containers, man...