As He Is part 2
As He is, so are we in this world. Jesus said it like this, "I am my Father are one" (John 10:30). There is no difference and no separation. Jesus lives in us, and He lives through us, and He lives as us. It's not "Jesus AND me." It's "Jesus AS me." I can't live His life, only He can do that. But He IS my life. In Him I live and move and have my being. In me He lives and moves and has His being. This is such an important concept to understand. Because everything that Jesus revealed about Himself--everything He revealed about the Father--He was actually revealing it about US. When He came to show us who the Father is, He came in the same kind of body that we have. He came to show us that WE are the visible address of the invisible, omnipresent God. He came to show us that if we want to see God, all we have to do is look in the mirror. Because as He is, so are we in this world. Jesus said it in another way like this, "At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you" (John 14:20). What day shall we know that? At the cross! When God poured His Spirit out on all flesh. The Holy Spirit--our love receptor--is what lets us see clearly. And that's so important because what you see is what you be. John the Revelator put is like this, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" (1 John 3:2). As He is, so are we in this world. When we SEE Him as He is, we shall be like Him. See, the truth will set you free (and make you free), but only if you KNOW the truth. Remember when Paul scolded the church at Corinth and said he spoke to their shame because some people didn't have the knowledge of God but they did? It's not my job to scold anybody, but I am here to say: We know this stuff! And as my pastor always says, "When you know it... throw it." We know how He is. And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we have this all figured out. I'm not saying we understand everything we know. But I AM sayiing we have an unction from the Holy Spirit and we know all things. We know that Jesus is seated at the right hand--the power seat--of the Father, and that He comes in the clouds. We know that Jesus is living in us and through us and as us. We know that we are kings and priests with the power and authority to rule and reign on this earth. Guys... Jesus did it all so we could get it all. And now we have it all because we have Him. Because we know and believe the love of Christ. He gave His life FOR us, and He gave His life TO us. We don't need to get anything, we simply need to receive what we've already been given. And when we do that, we'll have no fear in the day of judgment. We'll be able to EXECUTE the judgment that God passed down 2,000 years ago on the cross! But we'll get into that tomorrow. For today, we need to understand that who He is is who WE are. We are One. When we see it... we be it.