Who We Are in Jesus Part 4

I have been told a lot about who I am that was not true. Unfortunately, I believe so many of those things and it caused me to live in ways that were not true and that were not of God.

I want to continue to remind us who are in Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:21

For our sake, He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

We are the righteousness of God.

The word righteousness means to be who we ought to be, to be in a condition that is acceptable to God.

In our natural condition, we are not as we should be; we are sinners. Sin is never acceptable to God and, if we are living in a state of sin, we are not acceptable to God.

Jesus never sinned. He was perfect, and on the cross, He took our sinfulness and gave us His sinless perfection, His righteousness.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is knowing we have been made righteous by God through Jesus and living based on that truth.

Galatians 3:25-28

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew or Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male or female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

We are children of God and are one in Jesus.

Not only are we children of God, we are also one with Jesus.

We are in unity with our Father because we have surrendered our lives to Jesus and now have His life in us.

I am one with Jesus because I literally share His life.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is living Jesus’ life in unity with Him.

Galatians 4:6

And because you are a son, God has sent His Son into your hearts, crying “Abba! Father!”

We are children of God, and we have an intimate love relationship with Him.

We all have our special names for our fathers. These names show the intimate connection that we have with our fathers.

We are children of God who have the privilege to call God “Abba”, which is an intimate name for father. It equates to dad or daddy or pop or papa.

We have been given a gift to experience God, not just as our father but as our dad. He is the one we share a very intimate relationship with.

Galatians 4:7

So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

We are not only children of God but we are heirs of God.

An heir is one who obtains his allotted possession by right of sonship.

We as children of God have been given an eternal possession through Jesus.

Our eternal inheritance is beyond anything that we can imagine.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is living knowing I have an awesome eternal inheritance.

Ephesians 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus.

We are saints.

Saint is the noun form of the word holy. We are saints, holy ones.

We have made the word saint to be some super Christian. The truth is that every true follower is a saint. We are the holy people of God, made that way by Jesus’ death and resurrection.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is living as the holy ones of God.

Ephesians 4-6

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you have been saved – and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

We are alive and seated with Jesus, able to experience His authority in our lives and through our lives.

We are living, not just existing, not just surviving. We have the abundant life of Jesus.

We are seated with Jesus in a place of authority. We have, through Jesus, the authority to say no to sin and have victory over our enemy the devil. I am not a weak victim; I am a victorious conqueror of sin through Jesus’ death and resurrection.

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is living in the authority of Jesus and having victory over sin.

We are who God says we are, not who the world says we are.

In the Truth of Who I Am Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls

                                                 Joe