Many people believe that no one can live holy on this Earth; however, Jesus, very God, came as very man and lived holy. He lived the life of the new man, a life He made the way for us to live. Created in righteousness and holiness, Jesus taught that all born outside Eden must be born again.

Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness (Ephesians 4:24). As the new man, learn what’s expected of you so there can be no doubt, no excuse for not knowing that all the power Jesus used when He walked the earth belongs to you. By giving His power to the disciples, Jesus proved man could use it. After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name (Luke 10:1,17).

The disciples didn’t think they could live like Jesus, but they did live like Him—after He was crucified, after He was resurrected, and after they were baptized in the Holy Ghost. Without one doubt they, at last, came into the knowledge that Jesus was very God with power over death, hell and the grave.

You, too, must recognize Jesus as very God who had come to Earth. Recognize Him in His role of divinity, and then recognize Him in His humanity. The Pauline epistles separate, in a most beautiful way, the divinity of Christ from Christ as man.

Christ Humbled Himself

The new man is to live holy, to be consecrated, dedicated like Jesus, and to have power to be free from all sin. For sin shall not have dominion over you (Romans 6:14). Taking on the new man means taking on the mind of Christ. Jesus, divinity, had a human mind, and everything that made up His mind belongs to you. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God (Philippians 2:5,6). Jesus in the form of God, took on all the weaknesses of the flesh to show us how we could overcome those weaknesses in ourselves.

Although John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb, Jesus wasn’t. Why? Because Jesus is our example, and having the Holy Ghost from birth wasn’t to be the pattern. John was an exception; for he was the forerunner of Jesus, that special voice in the wilderness calling for repentance. In God’s plan of redemption it was an unique occurrence.

John was told that upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost (John 1:33). God gave John the sign of the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove descending on Jesus when He was baptized.

We have no record of Jesus fasting before He received the Holy Ghost at the beginning of His ministry. And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness. And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him (Mark 1:9-13). Into the wilderness Jesus went, fasting forty days and nights as very man. As very God, however, Jesus did not need to fast.

Jesus made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant (Philippians 2:7). When you’re really like Jesus, you know you are to serve. You feel the anointing, the longing to serve people God’s love, God’s peace. In every way and any way you can, you seek to serve the greatness of the Lord to others.

Jesus being found in fashion as a man… (Philippians 2:8). Into the midst of the darkness of audacious hearts, to an earth cursed and abounding with sin came Jesus. His very birth proves He was human; Jesus was divinity in the fashion of a man. He had to learn to walk, to talk; He learned to work in the carpenter’s shop. At twelve years of age, He had wisdom and knowledge that amazed learned men.

Jesus humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross (Philippians 2:8). Jesus was humble, enduring many deaths. His hardest death, I’m sure, wasn’t the death on the cross; that death was soon over with. Jesus died many deaths while here on Earth: He was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief (Isaiah 53:3). At Lazarus’ sepulchre He wept; He was human, He was human.

The Creator in the Form of Flesh

Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:9-11).

Some deny the fact that Jesus was God come down from Heaven, but we read in John that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him (John 1:1-3). The Trinity—God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost—are one in the Godhead. You can talk about Jesus, you can talk about the Father, you can talk about the Holy Ghost; but never is there a complete separation between the three; it’s impossible.

Without him was not any thing made that was made (John 1:3). This is the Creator come to Earth, the Creator who took on the form of a man, who became very man, very human. From the throne of God, Jesus came to this Earth.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not (John 1:4,5,10). The world didn’t know Jesus. Although the world was made by Him, He laid aside His heavenly role and took on the role of a mortal man.

Jesus didn’t live in an Eden while He was on Earth. He didn’t even have a bed to call His own. The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head (Matthew 8:20). Jesus’ sacrifice for us went far beyond what we could ever sacrifice for Him, far beyond.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God (John 1:12,13). Jesus gave power to believers to become the Sons of God. He was all man; yet He was more than a man, and only through the Holy Spirit can you distinguish between the two.

Thinking through the flesh mind, not the Spirit, is the reason so many people doubt the virgin birth of Christ. The flesh mind thinks the virgin birth was impossible, but the spiritual mind knows that with God all things are possible.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (John 1:14). When Jesus came, He acted like the Father. The way Jesus was when He was here on Earth is the way you are to be. God gives His born-again sons and daughters the power to walk like Jesus, talk like Him, work like Him; but they must yield to that power, embrace it and use it. Adam and Eve acted like the Father until they fell. They walked like Him, talked like Him, heard like Him, saw like Him; they had the same love speech He had; they spoke the same language.

Living in the Spirit

Only the love of God will keep you in His blood-love; and only the love of God will keep you in His blood-faith, His blood-power and His blood-greatness. Only the love of God can reveal to you the power in His blood. Few Christians have ever seen more than a tiny part of the power in the blood for them. Those who claim that people can’t live above sin have never been truly blood-washed, have never received a born-again experience, have never been made completely new.

To learn more about the life of the Spirit, turn to the book of Romans. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit (Romans 8:1). To walk after the flesh brings condemnation. Although He was in the flesh, Jesus walked after the Spirit, lived in the Spirit, showing us how we, too, could live.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh… (Romans 8:2,3). The Law dealt with the flesh; its punishments were of the flesh. In Old Testament times, fresh blood of animals was used to make atonement for sin, but animal blood wouldn’t suffice. Nothing will cleanse your soul of sin but divine blood, nothing, nothing.

God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh… (Romans 8:3). Notice, Jesus came in the likeness of sinful flesh; He looked like other men but He was different because He had divinity inside. All who are born-again have Jesus, divinity, on the inside; they are different from the world because of the inner change. The glory of the Lord shows in facial expressions, in the way they move, the way they act.

God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh (Romans 8:3). All sin is condemned. The Word of God is saying, You don’t need to sin: Jesus has come to bring you life, to give you power so that sin no longer has dominion over you, to give you holiness and righteousness from Heaven. Jesus has come with keeping power for you, but you will have to live in the righteousness of your God. God condemned sin so that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh (Romans 8:4). Don’t walk after the flesh; walk after the Spirit. The majority of Christians walk after the flesh; they’re flesh Christians, not spiritual.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh (Romans 8:5). It’s hard to get people to work for God when they’re living in the flesh. Oh, they go to church, but they won’t live right all the time, won’t talk right, won’t wear the love bridle. Deceiving their own heart, they gossip, use their tongue the wrong way because they are living in the flesh. The Bible speaks against it all, lets us know that if we do those things we have no part in God’s Kingdom.

Power over the Flesh

Jesus came to give you power over all the works of the devil. Paul enumerated seventeen of those works—and that isn’t all of them: Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God (Galatians 5:19-21).

So-called Christians, full of the flesh and not the Spirit, commit sin and still imagine they’re going to Heaven. They’re deceived, deceived. Many people who think they are going to Heaven will die without God unless they stop some of the things they’re doing. If you cause confusion, gossip, hinder the work of the Lord, you are in deep trouble.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit (Romans 8:5). The kind of tongue you use, the kind of mind you think with, the kind of walk you take with the Lord tell me whether you are after the flesh or after the Spirit, the greatness of God and all His will. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace (Romans 8:6). Because the carnal mind is death, it’s essential that you take on the mind of Christ.

Many Christians think everybody sins a little bit. No, everybody doesn’t sin a little bit. Jesus didn’t sin at all. Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth (I Peter 2:22). No guile, no sin was found in Jesus. Not only did He live a sinless life here on Earth, as very man He climbed every mountain, walked every path, endured every valley that we must experience. He showed us that in Him is everything needed for the new man, the new woman, the new boy, the new girl.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law [or the love] of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God (Romans 8:7,8). Is it impossible to please God? One man in the Old Testament pleased God so much that the Lord took him to Heaven alive. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God (Hebrews 11:5).

If you’re living in the flesh, you’re not pleasing God. Flesh living is the reason so much fighting and fussing is present in homes, the reason so many couples cannot get along. The person you’re married to may be unsaved; but keep in mind, a one-sided fuss doesn’t last very long. You never win in a fuss. Fussing puts you beyond the blessings that God was about to serve you. Psychiatrists, psychologists may tell you it’s healthy to fuss—it’s hell’s health. If you want that kind of health you can have it, but the Bible says: By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another (John 13:35). Love doesn’t fuss.

Jesus Came to Keep People Sin-Free

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his (Romans 8:9). If you live after the flesh, you don’t have the Spirit of Christ. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness (Romans 8:10). When you are born again, that old Adamic nature is dead, killed through the blood of the Son of God.

The Bible tells us in Ephesians 4:24, to put on the new man, which…is created in righteousness and true holiness. Put on the new man. The new man will represent and live in the righteousness, holiness of Jesus Christ who lived in the righteousness and holiness of God all the time He was here. Jesus came down to fallen man, stood him to his feet and made a new creature out of him, a brand new person.

Jesus told Nicodemus, “You must be born again.” Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born (John 3:3,4)? Like Nicodemus, few people have godly knowledge today, godly wisdom. Therefore, they don’t understand how God works, don’t understand the born-again experience, don’t recognize the plan of God for their souls. What must you do to receive salvation? Repent of all your sins, be sorry for all that you’ve sinned against God, as sorry as He is sorry that you did it. Ask Jesus into your soul; through faith receive the divine blood of Jesus into your heart, divine salvation; and He will wash you, cleanse you, make your soul just as clean as Adam’s soul when God first breathed the breath of life into him.

When Adam sinned, he could not see spiritually as he once had been able to see, could not look upon God from that time on. God didn’t intend to be out of sight of man; it took the second Adam, Jesus, to make it possible to look upon God; for without holiness no man will see Him. Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14).

Why would Jesus have come from Heaven, suffered as He did if His sacrifice wouldn’t have freed humanity of all sin? To keep Heaven sin-free, God cast out Lucifer along with the many, many angels who followed him.

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you (Romans 8:11). To quicken means to give life, overcoming strength. Eternal life dwells in Jesus’ love-blood; eternal life dwells in His love-peace, divine life. His divine blood flows in you when you are born again; it quickens divine life in you, makes you strong so that you don’t have to give in to the flesh, don’t have to yield to temptation and sin.

Jesus Did Not Yield to Temptation

Had Jesus not been subject to temptation, the devil wouldn’t have tried to tempt Him. For we have not an high priest [Jesus] which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin (Hebrews 4:15). The devil came after the very-man part of Jesus, for he couldn’t reach the very-God part. Knowing that since Jesus had become very man, the devil also knew Jesus would be killed if He cast Himself down from the pinnacle of the temple. The devil even quoted scripture to Jesus: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone (Matthew 4:6). See how the devil tries to confuse people? Jesus wasn’t fooled; He knew the devil had misused scripture, and Jesus used it correctly: It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God (Matthew 4:7).

Jesus had come to Earth as the new man, born not after the flesh but after the Spirit. Walking after the Spirit and in the Spirit, Jesus showed us how we are to walk, how we are to use the Word of God to resist the devil.

Joint Heirs with Christ

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 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 (Romans 8:11,16,17). We are joint-heirs with Christ, very man, very woman with the same advantages from Heaven that He had. We can act like He acted, love like He loved, talk like He talked.

Do you plan to go to God’s Heaven? Yes? Then you, too, must take on the new, sinless man. Some people plan to get right with God at the last minute of their life. Maybe they will and maybe they won’t; it’s a dangerous plan.

As joint-heirs with Christ, we one day will have a glorified body. We look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself (Philippians 3:20,21). In our souls, God has made an Eden. One day our glorified bodies will be in Heaven’s Eden, but then we will not be in the flesh. Flesh can’t get into Heaven, only that which is holy. That soul of yours has to be made holy, kept holy, to get into God’s Heaven. You ask, “Well preacher, will anybody make it to Heaven?” Jesus said, Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it (Matthew 7:14). Jesus made that gate for you to enter onto the narrow road, the love road; but few will choose to go through that gate, comparatively speaking. Will you be among the few?

The Lord wants to use the Bride of Christ in the deepness of His Spirit the way He used faithful members of the Early Church, only on a greater scale. Many more people inhabit the earth today, and we must serve the whole Jesus Gospel in abundance to all who will hear as the Lord rains down His Spirit.

Divine Intercessors

The Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God (Romans 8:26,27). The Holy Spirit makes intercession for us only according to the will of God; His intercession is heard and answered, although there may be a waiting period. However, the Holy Spirit doesn’t make intercession for people who will not yield to the divine will of God. Lack of yielding is the reason the Holy Spirit has never been able to do His perfect work through people in our day the way He was able to do in the beginning of the Church for about thirty-three years. Even in the lives of most people who have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, He has not been able to do His perfect work.

Not only does the Holy Spirit intercede for us, but Christ intercedes, as well. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us (Romans 8:34). Two personalities in the Godhead make intercession for us. In Heaven at the right hand of the Father, Jesus makes intercession; and on Earth the Holy Spirit makes intercession for us.

Let Christ Be Formed in You

The reason people haven’t gotten more prayers through is that they didn’t understand the way to walk in the Spirit and live in the Spirit. People look more to flesh than to the Holy Spirit.

In most churches today, flesh is the “in thing”; but it’s the “out thing” when it comes to God. Although man has been made in the image of God, that image has been marred, destroyed on the inside. Something had to take place before the image of God could be restored within man, and the only way it could be done was through this great plan of God of the mighty Christ being formed in us: My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you (Galatians 4:19).

Paul is saying that Christ is formed in us; He lives in us. Christ liveth on the inside of each born-again Christian. How does He get in there? He is formed there with love, peace and all the wonderful things He brought and shared. He is formed with all the fruits of the Spirit, all the power in the gifts of the Spirit. All His power, all His greatness forms Christ in our lives as we yield to Him.

The first Adam walked in the holiness and righteousness of God in Eden; but after the fall, it was a different story. The first Adam was formed outside the womb. The second Adam, Jesus, was conceived within the womb, made inside the womb, a perfect baby because the Holy Ghost, divinity, was the Father. There was no human blood in Jesus’ veins, no Adamic nature, no sin.

Had Jesus been formed a grown man as Adam was, we couldn’t identify with Him; but, like us, Jesus had an Earth mother. He was carried in the womb like the rest of us, born like the rest of us. Follow the life of Jesus, identifying with His humanity. Jesus has never been human to most, but as you go into the greatness of God, Jesus must be human because you have His work to do. To do this work, He has provided you with the same power, the same love, the same grace, the same everything that He had and used.

Paul was so conscious of Jesus living on the inside that he said, “It is not I that liveth, but Christ.” I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me (Galatians 2:20). How wonderful it is when Christ is formed, the whole Christ, on the inside of you! In Him is no lack. In Him you have everything needed to overcome the devil, all the strength to face any battle the devil may bring your way. All the love, all the humility, all the grace, all the determination, all the courage—everything good is available to you in Christ Jesus. Christ is formed daily on the inside as you yield to the combination of all His characteristics, traits, and teachings.

People see us as men and women of flesh; but God looks on we who are born again as His spiritual children, clean and pure like Adam and Eve in the beginning; we belong to Him. Sceptics say, “It can’t be; it can’t be,” and yet it is.

Put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him (Colossians 3:10). You’re renewed in the knowledge of God’s love every time you study the Bible. As you yield totally to Him, you’re renewed in the things that form Christ within and keep Him there in His complete form. When Christ is formed in you, you act like Jesus, talk like Him and take His place. In other words, when you speak, it’s the same as Jesus speaking; and when Jesus speaks, it’s the same as the Father speaking; when the Father speaks, it’s done.

Hebrews 1:3, Jesus, who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person. Jesus came to Earth as the express image of God, and we are to be the express image of Jesus Christ. We are responsible to be like Him, responsible to pattern our lives after Him, to love God the Father just like Jesus loved Him. He taught the disciples to say, “Our Father which art in Heaven.” Remember that when you receive a true born-again salvation, you have been made a joint-heir with Jesus, a son or daughter in the family of God.

A Conversation Fit for Heaven

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ (Philippians 3:20). What is in your conversation? Do you have a conversation fit for Heaven? With salvation comes a clean heart, and with that clean heart comes a clean mouth.

Some people say, “Well, I just can’t help but say the wrong things.” The wrong things are in their heart or they wouldn’t come out. Before I was saved, it seemed impossible to talk “straight” all the time. It took a blood-bought, born-again salvation to clean up my speech and make it acceptable to the Lord. If your conversation is not suitable for God’s ears, it’s not suitable for a tongue and mind that are supposed to belong to the Lord.

Talk about the things God wants to hear; talk God talk, not serpent talk, not flesh talk. Talk faith, love, goodness; talk mercy, forgiveness.

You talk about what you use. If you use the love of God, you talk the love of God. If you use the compassion of the Lord, you talk the compassion of the Lord. If you use the deliverance of the Lord daily, you talk deliverance. If you live a life of prayer, you talk about prayer. If you live a life of fasting, you talk about fasting. In other words, when you’re in love with God and yielded to Him, you talk about the things of God; your conversation is in Heaven connected with God; God is a part of it.

Some don’t want God to listen to their conversation unless they’re asking Him for something. When they don’t feel the need of Him, it’s Lord, I’d just like to push a button and close you out. Many do push that button in their minds, close Him out, imagine He’s not hearing them. If they really thought He was listening, they wouldn’t talk the way they do.

Having zeal without knowledge, some people don’t know when to talk and when not to talk, when to open their mouth and when they’ve said enough. There’s a time to talk, and a time not to talk. Don’t overpower others with your ideas—that’s not wisdom.

Sometimes when people first receive salvation, they are so full of zeal they think everybody else will be as excited about the Lord as they are. After bumping their heads against a brick wall enough times, they finally realize not everyone wants to hear about the great delivering power of the Lord. Then it’s time for them to get up, brush themselves off and let the Lord do the directing. He will make witnesses, but He must be able to direct them.

Study the way Jesus won souls. Just by talking to one Samaritan woman, He started a revival. Isaiah tells us this about His character: He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench (Isaiah 42:2,3).

As you learn to walk as Jesus walked, you can be just like Him. Adam and Eve had the walk of God; but when they lost it, their walk became all flesh and the devil: flesh and the devil talk, flesh and the devil sight, flesh and the devil hearing. They sold out to the devil, how pathetic! But thank God that Jesus came, paid the price to buy back all that was lost in the fall of man. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10).

Jesus made it possible for all who follow Him, all who are born again to walk, talk, see, hear and feel like God. He gives us the power to be happy, to rejoice like God with the same gladness of heart, to have strength to do whatever He wants, and to communicate with Him. When Jesus the Son of God took on the form of flesh, He showed us how to be perfect men, perfect women, perfect through Him.

Fellowship with Divinity

The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry (Psalm 34:15). Jesus said, Father you always hear me; and we can say the same thing in this hour. Many have never been able to accept the fact that God has heard their prayers, but we’re coming into that reality now. Christ will live through your life if you yield to Him. With His love, His divine blood, He will dwell on the inside of you—Christ who walked the shores of Galilee! You will be able to see as He sees, hear the things of Heaven as He hears; you will know the will of God just like He knew the will of God. This is your hour of greatness, your hour of visitation.

For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. I am the bread of life (John 6:33,35). I am the Bread of Life; I am divinity, the Savior, the Redeemer! Jesus is saying. We are to serve that Bread of Life; we are to serve Jesus to the world, the Bread come down from Heaven.

John 8:12: I am the light of the world. We see Jesus’ divinity as the light that came into the world for all in darkness to see, divine light. His light belongs to us because of the divine blood inside our souls. Without His divine blood you can’t be saved, can’t have eternal life.

Jesus talked about the Father the way you would talk about a loving father if you have one. John 9:4, I must work the works of him that sent me, I must work the works of my Father. How wonderful to have such fellowship with Him!

John 8:19, Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also (John 8:19). If you don’t know Jesus, you don’t know His Father; but when you are a part of the family of God you know the Father.

Jesus said, He that hath seen me hath seen the Father (John 14:9). When you see members of the Bride, you see Jesus; it’s the plan of God. You see Jesus when you read and study about the disciples who did His work in the beginning of the Church. Although Paul and the other apostles looked like divinity to a lot of people, they were no more divine than we are; they had no more divinity in their souls than we have, no more divine blood. They simply had yielded all to the cause of Christ, to spreading the Gospel of the Lord, and His divinity shone out through them.

Delivered through the Blood of Christ

Multitudes who saw the miracles of Jesus were amazed. Matthew 9:8, They marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men. Notice, it was said that the power was given unto men. Jesus looked like any other man the people had ever seen: He had two eyes, and two ears. They knew He was a man, and they marvelled at the miracles He performed. What set Him apart was divine blood; Jesus used divine blood. All who are born-again have that same divine blood.

Only one drop of blood is powerful enough to cleanse the whole world of sin, to make everybody new who wants the Lord. If you’ve been born again, born new, you have divine blood in you.

Demons have to listen, to take note when they hear a blood voice. If you don’t have that blood voice, there’s no need to try to run the devil off. That blood must be in your voice. Jesus said; These signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils… they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:17,18). In my blood name, they shall cast out devils; in my blood name they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall get well.

In Mark’s Gospel we read that Jesus spoke—He spoke with a blood voice—and many devils went out of a man. And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done. And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind (Mark 5:1-15).

In Zimbabwe I spoke in the name of Jesus through the blood, and many devils went out of three witch doctors—5,000 from one, 7,000 from another, 10,000 from the third. Ahead of time, the Lord had brought them before me, numbered the devils that possessed each one and told me where they would be standing in the audience.

In a great way, God is manifesting Himself, in a way He has never manifested Himself before to this servant of God. This is reality. Never have there been so many visions, so many manifestations day and night. We’re coming to the end; this is the last hour, a glory hour for the Spirit-filled children of God as daily we put the devil to flight through the power of the Holy Ghost and the blood of Christ. Overcomers in the name of Jesus, we are strong in Him. In tribulation and persecution we praise God for the promise: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him (II Timothy 2:12). We’re on our way to reigning with our Lord and Savior.

Do the Works of Jesus

Go into action. Act out the Word of God. Live your life through the Word and not man’s thoughts or opinions. Take the Word into your spirit daily; abide by what thus saith the Lord: God said it, I believe it, and that settles it!

John 4:34, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. To do the Lord’s work, to finish it is our main food. On this we will dine daily. To serve, to finish what He has called us to do will be our life because it is the will of God for us.

John 5:17, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. In other words, Jesus is saying, I work with my Father; I work just like Him. When the Jews heard Jesus say that, they were sure He spoke blasphemy. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God (John 5:18). It was not blasphemy; it was truth.

We know how the Father works because He worked through His Son, His only begotten Son. Now that we have become sons and daughters of God, He will work through us the way He worked through Jesus as we yield completely to Him.

The members of the Early Church became like Jesus. People brought the sick on couches to Peter, laid them out so that his shadow might fall on them and they would be healed. We don’t hear of that happening in Christ’s day, but we know that when people touched His garment they were made whole. It’s the same thing: Divine deliverance through the power of God. In this final hour, we will have great deliverance manifestations of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit preparing people for the Rapture.

Jesus came as the divine one to tear down the walls that separated man from his God. Not as very man did Jesus tear down the walls; He tore them down as very God. The veil in the temple was rent from top to bottom representing the destruction of the veil between man and his God. The revelation of God, the revelation of man is all found in Jesus.

We can’t identify with divinity for ourselves, but although we’re human and not divine, we can live in divinity; we can be in His likeness. We can use divinity’s Spirit, divinity’s blood, divinity’s peace, divinity’s everything. We can be connected with divinity, hand in hand with no separation.

In His divinity, Jesus is the revelation of God. In His humanity, He is the revelation of the new man, the revelation of what we can be when we are born again. Learn to know Him in His fullness, for He is your very life, and He is life to all who will receive Him as we take Jesus to the world in this last and final hour.