Embracing who we are in Christ
Posted by Sam Rhodes on Thursday, February 10, 2011
In our Upper Room meeting we discovered that one of the issues the hold us back in our Christian walk in not believing what God says about us. We dont embrace who we are in Christ, we reject the Word of God concerning ourselves and instead embrace guilt, condemnation and self-loathing. This self-loathing keeps the Holy Spirit from overflowing our lives and setting us free from patterns of behavior and sin that traps us and thus we never grow.
We see this with Moses in Exodus 3 and 4 when he repeatedly said, "who am I". This lead Moses to reject God's call on his life in Exodus 4:13, Moses focus was on himself and his inabilities and not on the Lord and His abilities. The Bible tells us the Moses was the humble man on earth, but not here in theses chapters for he was filled with self-loathing and trapped in himself unable to see the Lord and embace His Word concerning his life. True humility embrace who Christ and who we are in Christ! The Bible says we are the children of God, the bride of Christ in which we are discribed as spotless dressed in white. To believe anything else is unbelief and rejection of God's Word, yes we struggle with sin, yes we are unworthy in and of ourselves. But God looks at what we will be when the work of the Cross is finished and not at what is, that the blood of Jesus covers us.
Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." also in verse 21 it says, "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." Paul says we are new creatures and the righteousness of Christ, thats what the Bible says and its what we must believe to be free. Once we begin to believe in faith, even a mustard seed size faith, then the Holy Spirit is released to overflow us to break off things that keep us in bondage and to give us meaning to our lives and to fulfill our purpose and call of God. Believe and be free, amen.
Love you all, Pastor Sam.
We see this with Moses in Exodus 3 and 4 when he repeatedly said, "who am I". This lead Moses to reject God's call on his life in Exodus 4:13, Moses focus was on himself and his inabilities and not on the Lord and His abilities. The Bible tells us the Moses was the humble man on earth, but not here in theses chapters for he was filled with self-loathing and trapped in himself unable to see the Lord and embace His Word concerning his life. True humility embrace who Christ and who we are in Christ! The Bible says we are the children of God, the bride of Christ in which we are discribed as spotless dressed in white. To believe anything else is unbelief and rejection of God's Word, yes we struggle with sin, yes we are unworthy in and of ourselves. But God looks at what we will be when the work of the Cross is finished and not at what is, that the blood of Jesus covers us.
Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." also in verse 21 it says, "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." Paul says we are new creatures and the righteousness of Christ, thats what the Bible says and its what we must believe to be free. Once we begin to believe in faith, even a mustard seed size faith, then the Holy Spirit is released to overflow us to break off things that keep us in bondage and to give us meaning to our lives and to fulfill our purpose and call of God. Believe and be free, amen.
Love you all, Pastor Sam.
