Believing in His Substitution

BELIEVING IN HIS SUBSTITUTION

WHEN we use the fact of His Substitution as we use a bridge or an elevator, then the Word becomes a Reality. We never think of faith when we take an elevator or
train. We simply use them. If we were New Creation-conscious, as conscious of the fact that we are a New Creation and have the Nature and Life of the Father in us, as we are of the things of the senses, then we would walk in the realm of victory. You cannot be God-inside-conscious without being a victor. Then I John 4:4 becomes a reality. Notice it now: “Ye are of God, my little children.” Let that soak into your spirit consciousness.

Say over and over again, “I am of God; I am born from above; I am born of God; I am a New Creation created in Christ Jesus. I am a master of everything connected with the old creation. “Satan has no dominion over the New Creation. He has no dominion over me.
“That hidden man of the heart, my spirit, the real me, is a New Creation. The old things have passed away.” The old man with its weaknesses, its failings, its doubts, its fears, its sense of servitude to circumstances, is all gone, and the new spirit, the New Man in Christ, is now a Master where the other was a slave.

This New Creation is redeemed out of the hands of its enemies. I can hear Paul whisper, “In whom I have my redemption.” You see, that truth is becoming a Reality. Now I can understand the next sentence in I John 4:4, “For greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.” I have the Life and Nature of God in me. That makes me a New Creation. I have invited the One who raised Jesus from the dead, to make His home in me, and He is there. When I start to study the Word, I always call His attention to it. When I am to dictate or to preach, I say, “Holy Spirit, here is your opportunity. Now speak through me; think through me; live big in me. Unveil Jesus through these lips.”

You see, that great Substitution is ours. He is ours. His Ability is ours. All that He did is ours, just as our hands and feet are ours. We look at ourselves now as a New Creation.
We have been taken out of the realm of death as really as Jesus was when He was raised from the dead. His body was taken out of the realm of physical death; our spirits
have been taken out of the realm of spiritual death. In the mind of justice, we were raised together with Him. In reality, when we became New Creations, we passed out of
death into Life. We left the realm of spiritual death. We left the dominion of death, the family of Satan.

John 5:24 has become a reality. “He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life.”
You see, we were born out of spiritual death into the realm of Spiritual Life. We passed out from Satan’s authority and dominion, and have been translated into the kingdom of the Son of His Love, in whom we have our Redemption, the remission of our trespasses.
It is a Redemption that is according to the riches of His Grace.

His Love, His Ability. We have actually passed into the very Family of God, God is now our Father. We are His very children. When that thing happened, we were looked upon as the Sons of God in liberty. For Christ had made us free. Jesus had become our Righteousness. By the New Birth, we became partakers of the Divine Nature;
we became the Righteousness of God in Christ. That means that we can stand in the Father’s presence with the same liberty and freedom that Jesus had.

Before that time, we had a sin-consciousness developed in us by spiritual death. Now we have Eternal Life-consciousness. We are the Sons and Daughters of God. We have been growing in righteousness-consciousness and we are beginning to take our place and act the part of Sons and Daughters. As we act on the Word, we have experience in Righteousness. How vitally necessary it is that we become experienced in the Word which has taught us about Righteousness and taking our place in Righteousness.

I wonder if you understand what I mean. You see, when Jesus began His public ministry, He was really the Righteousness of God unveiled. Jesus had no sense of sin, no sense of inferiority. He was a super-man. He was a Master of demons. He was a Master of disease and sickness. He was a Master of want and of hunger. Well, when you and I came into Christ, He became our Righteousness, and then by the New Creation, we became the Righteousness of God in Him. We were not taught about our Righteousness.
We were not taught about our freedom in Christ. We didn’t know we were the masters of demons in the Name of Jesus.

We didn’t know we had authority over all the authority of the enemy. We didn’t know that we could stand in the Father’s presence just as freely as Jesus did, with no sense of inferiority, no sense of unworthiness, that we were the very Sons and Daughters of God.
Jesus wasn’t afraid of the adversary. That is one of the things that startled me in those early days of my study.

Jesus could walk into the presence of the devil without any fear. He wasn’t afraid when He stood beside the tomb of the dead Lazarus, but you know, I was frightened for Him. In my imagination, I stood there. It was such a vivid scene, and I watched the Master as the crowd gathered, and I heard Him say with a loud voice, “Roll the stone away!” Then my heart whispered softly, “Master, you had better go slow now; he has been in the tomb four days; he has been dead nearly a week. Martha has told you that his body decayeth.”-but He interrupted my thinking and cried again, “Lazarus! Come forth.”

Martha tried to intercept but it was too late. Jesus said, “Loose him and let him go,” and out of the sepulchre came the man whose body was decaying. Why was Jesus so fearless? Because He was the Righteousness of God. That is all. He had no sense of sin. He had no sense of condemnation. If the believer knew that he was the Righteousness of God as Jesus knew He was, he would use the Name of Jesus with a fearlessness that would startle hell and bless humanity. Jesus said after He arose from the dead, “All authority has been given unto me in heaven and in earth; I am the head of the Church.

“Now I give you the legal right to use my Name, and all this authority is in that Name. In my Name, ye shall cast out demons. “You see, I have given you authority over Satan. “I have given you dominion over all the work that he has done. “I came,” said the Master, “to destroy the works of the devil. “I am leaving it in your hands now.” If a believer becomes Righteousness-conscious, Son-conscious, Satan will be afraid of him. Satan knows that as soon as the Church becomes conscious of the Reality of Redemption, that moment his reign over the earth is interrupted.

Jesus would never have given us the invitation in Heb. 4:16, to come boldly to the throne of grace, unless He had expected us to take our place and to act the part that belonged to us. You see, we are what He says we are. We should learn to use that Name as we use our own. To use prayer as we use an automobile. As soon as we think through on these great problems they will become ours. The trouble is, they have been taught us as doctrines. They have been a part of a creed that we have believed, and most of us have joined a creedal church. That creed has locked Jesus up so that He is helpless, and has locked us into a world of conformity that makes us useless.

The thing He is trying to do these days is to make us free, to loose us from the bondage that has held us these years. The Pauline Revelation is not a set of doctrines. It is just the Father speaking to us through Paul, unveiling what belongs to us in Christ.