The Result of Father God’s Resurrection Power Applied to Me Through Identification with Jesus

Dear heavenly Father, every good and perfect gift is from You, the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.[i] You loved the world so much, You gave Your best Gift, Jesus Christ, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.[ii] I know that You have plans to prosper the new me, for You have given me a hope and a future by putting me into Jesus Christ to live for the praise of Your Glory.[iii]

Thank you, Father God, for Your free gift of grace that saved me through faith[iv] (believing, trusting, relying, resting) in the working of Your mighty power.[v] You began this miracle of re-generation[vi] when my former self was crucified with Christ[vii] and buried with Jesus through baptism into His death. Then, by Your Glory and resurrection power, You raised me up from the dead with Him,[viii] who was the Firstborn from the dead,[ix] as a totally new creation,[x] Your adopted son,[xi] regenerated of incorruptible seed through faith in Your living and enduring Word, the whole Gospel of Christ Jesus.[xii]

The old me passed away! Behold, all things have become new (spiritually).[xiii]*

By doing all this through Your beloved Son, You delivered me from the authority of Darkness and transferred the new me into the everlasting Kingdom of Jesus, the Christ. Thanks to You, my Justifier,[xiv] I now have redemption through His blood and remission of all my sins[xv] – past, present and future.[xvi]**

You did all this, Father-God, according to the riches of Your glory by Your power, to reconcile me to Yourself[xvii] and to make me, the new inner man, acceptable to You and mighty through Your Spirit.[xviii] All this happened because You, who are both just[xix] yet full of tender mercy,[xx] chose me in Jesus before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before You in love.[xxi]

You, who predestined me, also called me, justified me, and glorified me[xxii] with a totally new nature and, therefore, a new identity and image[xxiii] causing the new me to be a king and priest.[xxiv] Consequently, I am no longer a sinner or even of this world.[xxv]*** Instead, I am now a justified[xxvi] and sanctified saint in Christ Jesus,[xxvii] a citizen of heaven,[xxviii] holy and dearly loved as one of Your chosen children[xxix] and a vessel of honor.[xxx]

Moreover, Your divine power has given me all things pertaining to life and godliness through the full knowledge of You, calling me through glory and virtue. In doing so, You have given to me very great and precious promises of a new and better Covenant[xxxi] in Jesus’ Blood so that I now partake of Your divine nature.[xxxii] Consequently, by believing in Your Son, Jesus, I share in Your everlasting life[xxxiii] and I walk in newness of Your divine life each day.[xxxiv]

Even more amazingly, through identification by faith with Jesus’ crucifixion, death, burial, resurrection and ascension, You have seated my new spirit-self in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, my glorified Redeemer, who is far above all principality, power, might and dominion. You placed me here to show now and in the ages to come the exceedingly great riches of Your grace expressed in Your kindness to the new me and to all Your other saints in Christ Jesus.[xxxv] Therefore, I am no longer legally subject to Satan’s accusations, condemnation[xxxvi] or the law of sin and spiritual death.[xxxvii] I can now freely submit to You and resist the Devil and his horde and they must flee from me.[xxxviii] All evil spirits, be gone in Jesus’ Name!

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[i] James 1:17 “…every good giving (gift) and every perfect gift is from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation of shadow of turning.”

 [ii] John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten (son – Jesus Christ) that everyone believing into Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

 [iii] Jeremiah 29:11 and Ephesians 1:12 “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ says the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.”’ “…for us to be the praise of His glory, the ones having first trusted in Christ.”

 [iv] Ephesians 2:8  “For by grace you are saved, through faith, and this not of yourselves; (it is) the gift of God.…”

 [v] Ephesians 1:19-20  “…and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us, the ones believing according to the working of His mighty strength which He worked in Christ (in) raising Him from (the) dead; and He seated (Him) at the right of Him in the heavenlies.”

 [vi] Titus 3:5 “…not by works in righteousness which we had done, but according to His mercy, He saved us through (the) washing of regeneration and renewal of (the) Holy Spirit.”

 [vii] Romans 6:6 and Galatians 2:20 “…knowing this, that our old man was crucified with (Him), that the body of sin (the former in Adam self) might be done away, so that we no longer serve sin.” “I have been crucified with Christ, and I live, (yet) no longer I, but Christ lives in me….”

 [viii] Romans 6:4 and Colossians 2:12 “Therefore, we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that as Christ was raised up from (the) dead by the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life.” “… being buried with Him in baptism, in whom also you were raised through the faith of the working of God, raising Him (Jesus) from the dead.” Also see Ephesians 2:6.

 [ix] Colossians 1:18 “And He (Jesus) is Head of the body, the church; who is the Beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that He be preeminent in all things….”

 [x] 2 Corinthians 5:17 “So if anyone (is) in Christ, (that one) is a new creation; the original things have passed away; behold, all things have become new!”

 [xi] Galatians 4:5-6  “…that he (Jesus) might redeem the ones under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father.’” Also see Ephesians 1:5, Hebrews 2:10 and 1 John 3:1.

 [xii] 1 Peter 1:23 “…having been regenerated, not by corruptible seed but by incorruptible seed, through (the) living word of God, and remaining to the age.” Also see Romans 1:17.

 [xiii] 2 Corinthians 5:17 “So if anyone (is) in Christ, (that one) is a new creation; the original things (who I was – my former self) have passed away; behold, all things have become new!”

*Note: The “all things” that have “become new” refer to the new me, i.e., my inner man or spirit being – the real me. My outer man – soul and body – are still in process, being sanctified progressively. Also see 1 Thessalonians 5:23 and the “Note” in Chapter 7 under the reference to John 17:17.

 [xiv] Romans 3:26b  “…for (God) being just and justifying the (one that is) of (the) faith of Jesus.”

 [xv] Colossians 1:13 -14 “Who delivered us out of the authority of darkness, and transferred (us) into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins.” Also see Colossians 2:13.

 [xvi] Hebrews 8:12 and 2 Corinthians 5:19 “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and I will not at all still remember their sins and their lawlessness” See Jeremiah.31:31-34. “… as that God was in Christ reconciling (the) world to Himself, not charging their trespasses to them, and having put the word of reconciliation in us.” Also see Colossians 13b.

**Note: Under the Old Covenant, the blood of animals merely atoned for (covered) sin. It was only a temporary solution to “permit” an all-holy God to relate justly to an unholy, sin-natured people in Adam. Through the cross of the New Covenant, Jesus legally paid for, forgave, and remitted (wiped away) all the sins of all mankind. At that point in history, all of my sins were in the future, yet all were forgiven. Now, it is a matter of receiving, by faith in Jesus Christ finished work of the Cross, that forgiveness is already mine rather than begging for what He has already granted. Otherwise, a believer keeps him/herself from the benefits of His forgiveness through ignorance or doubt in the power of Jesus Christ’s finished work. Also see Revelation 1:5.

[xvii] 2 Corinthians 5:17 “So that if anyone (is) in Christ, (he is) a new creation; the original (former me) passed away; behold, all things have become new and are from God, Who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ….”

[xviii] Ephesians 3:16 and Ephesians 1:6  “…that He (God) may give you, according to the riches of His glory, by (His) power to become mighty in the inward man through His Spirit,” “…to the praise of the glory of His grace through which He made us acceptable in the Beloved (Jesus).”

[xix] Zephaniah 3:5 “The just Lord is in our midst. He will not do iniquity. Every morning He brings His judgment to light,He fails not; but the unjust knows no shame.”

[xx] Psalm 69:16 “Hear me, O Lord, for thy loving kindness (is) good; turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.”

[xxi] Ephesians. 1: 4 “… even as He chose us in Him (Jesus) before (the) foundation of (the) world, for us to be holy and faultless (blameless) before Him in love.”  Also see 1

Corinthians 1:8 and Footnote #118” in Chapter 3 for more explanation on the “inner man.”

[xxii] Romans 8:30 “…and whom He predestinated, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; but whom He justified, these He also glorified. ” Also see Romans 5:9, 1 Corinthians 1:2 (below) and Philippians 3:14.

 [xxiii] Colossians 3:10 and 1 Corinthians 15:4  “… and having put on the new, having been renewed in full knowledge according to (the) image of the (One) creating him.” “And as we bore the image of the earthly man (Adam) we shall also bear the image of the heavenly man (Jesus Christ).”

 [xxiv] Revelation 1:5 “…To Him loving us and having washed us from our sins by His blood and made us kings and priests to God … .” Also see Romans 5:17.

[xxv] John 17:16  “They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.”

***Note: According to Romans 5:19, a sinner is one who is in Adam who became a sinner in the Garden through his disobedience. Anyone who is reborn in Christ Jesus is not a sinner (despite his behavior) because of Jesus’ obedience in becoming sin and providing justification, which is not dependant on one’s performance but on faith in Jesus’ perfect performance.

 [xxvi] Romans 5:9 “Much more then, having been justified now by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him … .” Also see Romans 3:24-25 and Galatians 2:16.

[xxvii] 1 Corinthians 1:2 “…to the church of God existing in Corinth, those having been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called-out saints, with all those calling on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place….” Also see Philippians 1:1.

 [xxviii] Philippians 3:20  “For our citizenship is in heaven from where we also wait for a Savior, (the) Lord Jesus Christ.”

 [xxix] Colossians 3:12  “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, gentleness and patience.”

 [xxx] 2 Timothy 2:21  “Then if anyone purifies himself from these, he will be a vessel of honor having been sanctified and made useful to the Master, having been prepared for every good work.”

 [xxxi] Hebrews 8:6  “But now He has gotten a more excellent ministry, also by so much as He is a mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.”

 [xxxii] 2 Peter 1:3-4 “As His divine power has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness through the full knowledge of the (one) calling us through glory and virtue, by which means He has given to us the very great and precious promises, so that through these, you might be partakers of (the) divine nature, escaping from the corruption in (the) world by lust.”

 [xxxiii] John 3:36 “The (one) believing into the Son has everlasting life….”

 [xxxiv] Romans 6:4 “Therefore, we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that as Christ was raised up from (the) dead by the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life.”

 [xxxv] Ephesians 2:5-6 and 1:21 and 2:7  “… even we being dead in sins, (He) made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are being saved – and raised (us) up together and seated (us) together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus …. (Who is) far above all rule, and authority, and power, and lordship, and every name having been named, not only in this age, but also in the coming (age);”  “…that He might show in the coming ages the exceeding great riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus….” Also see Romans 5:17.

 [xxxvi] Romans 8:1 “(There is) therefore now no condemnation to the (ones) in Christ Jesus..”

 [xxxvii] Romans 8:2 “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus set me free from the law of sin and death.” Also see Romans 6:9-11.

[xxxviii] James 4:7 “ … submit to God, resist the Devil and he will flee from you.”

Coming Next Week: Chapter 6 – Declaration of My Total Dependence on God, My Everything