Our Current Possessions Series

Jesus coming back is talked about almost everywhere you turn these days, He has and still is speaking through His people of His imminent return and we Are at the very precipice of the last days. Exciting as this is, Jesus has said He is coming back for a Bride without spot or wrinkle, for a glorious Bride that is, a church manifesting His glory. He expects to find us living in the glory He died to give us when He returns. Jesus before He died said "it is finished", ascended into Heaven, and is now sitted at the right Hand of The Father, so He has done His part and we as His Bride must do ours and lay a hold of what He died to give us, living a life that shows gratitude for all He accomplished before and after The Cross, not with empty words but with a life that glorifies Him. We are expected to live a holy, blameless life because like Paul said "all things" pertaining to godliness have been given to us in The Person of Jesus our hope of glory, and because all things are ours, we have no excuse when we stand before Him and have to give an account.

"The coming of the day of The Lord" when Jesus returns to judge the world is mentioned quite often in the Bible and Paul and Peter say we should be found blameless and without spot or wrinkle at His coming. As believers we will not be judged in God's wrath because Jesus bore that for us, but we will be judged according to "the works of our hands", according to our works of obedience from which we will be rewarded, with some getting little or much reward. Because He is a holy God and will reward us according to our works of obedience, Paul and Peter tell us to be found blameless, and without spot or wrinkle at His coming. 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 says, "And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: [13]To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints." This Scripture tells us Jesus expects to find His church unblameable and holy not just inwardly which we already are, but living genuinely holy lives that manifest His glory. This is how Jesus expects to find His church. The reason He expects this can be found in Ephesians 1:1 which says The Father has (past tense) blessed (past tense) us with All spiritual blessings in Heavenly places in Christ, so already in us is every spiritual blessing that we need to live holy, blameless lives, which blessings are accessed by faith. Ephesians 1:2 continues and says He chose us in Himself before the foundation of the world that we SHOULD BE holy, saints and without blame before Him in love. Paul is saying because we have been given and therefore already possess every spiritual blessing, then we SHOULD BE holy, saints and without blame. The words "should be" show us that we really are without excuse and holy, blameless lives is what we should be living and nothing that is less or is contrary to that because we already possess every spiritual blessing. Spiritual blessings are His glory in us, His very Nature and the life of the new creature who has been recreated in His very Image, so it is things like Love, peace, Joy, kindness, forgiveness etc. We already possess all these spiritual blessings but how much of these we actually walk in depends on how much we have submitted to Him so He can manifest His glory that's already in us.

Someone described it this way... I can't live your life and you can't live mine but if you were in me, you could live your life through me, only you can authentically live your life and that's the way it is with Jesus in us, He is in us to authentically live His Life in and through us. In His Life is every spiritual blessing so because He indwells us we have every spiritual blessing through Him, that is accessed by faith. For every self interest, for every area our lives we haven't surrendered and are still our own kings and lords in that area, that is a denied opportunity for His glory to be manifested. It is not enough to acknowledge we have the spiritual blessing we have to walk in that blessing as well like Colossians 2:6 says, [6]As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:" This Scripture shows its not enough that we have received Jesus, we are expected to walk in Him as well. And the same applies to spiritual blessings, we have received all spiritual blessings but now we walk in them too. Its like someone gives you a very expensive very valuable item expecting you to use it and it's already yours and in your possession, but you take it home and hang it on a shelf instead and never use it. That's how it is with us if we don't by faith access the spiritual blessings He has given us. We are without excuse because we have it within us and He has shown us how to access it which is by faith. He expects us to stand before Him, a glorious Bride whom He has given every spiritual blessing and because of that we "should be" holy and blameless, Luke 1:6 describes being blameless, "And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." Being blameless is walking in God's commands, walking in His Will, shunning the flesh and it's desires, not walking in unholiness or unrighteousness, and denying access to the old man who was crucified with Christ. Sin will give us spots and wrinkles, but if we confess and repent He forgives us and the Blood of Jesus washes away those spots and wrinkles, putting us back on the path of holiness.