He takes the ground that the believer is a possessor of all that was wrought in Christ for the church.
We do not have to believe that we are redeemed and have special faith for our deliverance from the dominion of Satan, for the Word declares “In whom we have our redemption through his blood, the remission of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.” (Ephesians 1:7)
The believer does not try to be redeemed, nor fight for his Redemption. He is redeemed. The believer is a New Creation.
The fact of II Corinthians 5:17 requires no work as far as the believer is concerned.
“Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he a new creature; the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new, and all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ.”
The moment you accept Christ as Savior and confess His lordship, God makes you a New Creation by imparting His life to you.
When He does this, the old things drop off, stop being, stop dominating the life.
The new things take their place. You are a New Creation created in Christ Jesus for good works. It requires no faith on your part to be a New Creation now, you are one.
It required faith to accept Christ as Savior and confess His Lordship, but when you did, all these things became yours instantaneously.
All your sins are remitted. Everything connected with the past life stops being.
You have nothing to do with it. You never will have anything to do with it. You stand before the Father as though you have never been in existence before. You are a New Creation.
All your sins are remitted. The sin nature that was in you has been put away. The nature of God has taken its place.
Healing is yours. It is not a problem of faith, not a problem of believing. It is a problem of knowing that it is yours and of acting upon that Word, taking your place, and enjoying your inheritance.
You have always thought it was a problem of faith, but it is not. To get into the family of God is a problem of faith, but after you come into the family, all these things are yours. These things belong to the believer.
You are a believer. You now with assurance can say, “God is the strength of my life. I can do all things in Him who strengtheneth me.”
Nowhere does He say, “God is the strength of your life if you have faith enough,” or “You can do all things in Christ if you have faith enough.”
He does not say it. We modern preachers have been talking faith, urging Christians to believe, telling them that their healing would come, if they had faith enough -– that they would get their prayers answered, and deliverance from financial conditions if they had faith enough.
The whole thing is unscriptural and wrong. Take the financial problem: “My God shall supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” He does not say “If you have faith.” He makes a declarative statement. In
Matthew 6:32-33 Jesus said, “Your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
It is not a problem of faith. It took faith to get into the thing, now it all belongs to you. Life, light, joy, victory are yours.
Doesn’t He say, “Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?”
If you believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and if He is your Savior, that puts you in the overcoming class. You do not need to struggle to be an overcomer.
I am quite convinced that this entire false teaching has come from our seeing Jesus only on the cross, and thinking that our victory is in a dead Savior instead of being in a living Christ, seated at the right hand of the Father. We have preached a cross-religion. The cross represents failure, defeat, sin’s dominion.
The Resurrection makes overcomers. If He was raised, sin was put away; failure was put away; sickness and disease were put away.
Victory, health, and prosperity take their places. The moment you took Him to be your Saviour, that moment He became your Sufficiency.
Every need of yours is met in Christ. He is your love; He is your forbearance. He is everything that your heart can crave, all you need.
You become a partaker of the divine nature, and at the same time you become a partaker of the fulness of God in Christ.
It is not a problem of faith. It is a problem of knowing what belongs to you and then acting on the Word.
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