The Place of Faith in the Use of The Name

THE PLACE OF FAITH IN THE USE OF THE NAME

THE prayerful student of the Word is confronted with this fact that nowhere does Jesus mention Faith or Belief when He is talking about using His Name except in the Future Tense.

Take Mark 16:17, 18 as an illustration “And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in My Name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.”

A literal rendering of that is “the believing ones” shall in My Name do these things.
It is taken for granted that only believers have a Right to the use of the Name of Jesus the Right to use His Name is a conferred blessing to the Church:-it is a Right that belongs to every child of God.

We have a four-fold right to use the Name. First, we are born into the family of God and the Name belongs to the family. Second, we are baptized into the Name, and being baptized into the Name, we are baptized into Christ Himself.

Third, it was conferred upon us by Jesus Who gave us the Power of Attorney. Fourth, we are commissioned as Ambassadors to go and herald this Name among the nations. Then if this authority is conferred upon us we act as representatives for Christ.

We do this first, on the ground of our birthright; second, on the ground of having been baptized into this Name; and third, that the legal right to use this Name has been conferred upon us.
Last, on the ground that we have been sent out as ambassadors to herald this Name among the nations.

I cannot see where we need to have any special Faith to use the Name of Jesus, because it is legally ours. If I had a thousand dollars in the bank, it would not require any conscious act of Faith on my part to write a check for one hundred, but if I wanted to draw eleven hundred dollars where I only had one thousand on deposit, that might require Faith.

Some of us have had the unhappy experience of having overdrawn our bank account on earth, but the Finished Work of Jesus Christ has made a deposit for us in the Bank up there that cannot be overdrawn. It is ours-blessedly, eternally ours. Thank God!

If you are a child, then you are an heir of God, a joint heir with Christ-you have a Right to the use of the Name of Jesus, and if you have this Right, it is because of your place in the family.
I believe the hour will come when large companies of believers will live this simple life of Faith; live it unconsciously, live it daily they will live in this upper realm where they will see in the Name of Jesus the fullness of the authority and power that was in Christ when He walked on the earth.

We are now in the babyhood stage: we are trying to have faith; we are trying to believe: and we meet together in our services, each one urging the other to do, what he does not do himself.
It would seem in many cases that we are practicing a game of bluff.

Are we using Scriptural expressions and high-sounding phrases that have no meaning to our inner consciousness? Thank God, there are some who are coming to see this new light, which will only come by intensive study and actually thinking through this problem.

Too many of us are listening to preachers, always listening and never digesting or doing any original thinking we are what Jesus called “hearers of the Word and not doers.”
The instant a man or woman thinks through this problem, that moment he rises into a new realm of Life in Christ He actually begins to reign in the realm of Life.

Then he is able to meet demons and diseases on their own plane, and conquer them; able to enjoy the fruits of the Finished work of Christ and enter into the riches of His inheritance.