REVELATION CHANGES YOU

 Stop Confessing Defeat & Renew Your Mind NOW

  Beloved, the greatest tragedy in the church today is not that men have rejected Christ, but that multitudes have received HIM and yet have never known what really took place when they were born again. They have eternal life in their spirits, but they are living as though redemption were still a hope instead of a finished reality. 

 They have been made new creations in Christ Jesus. 

 And yet they still think, speak, and act as though they were the old men whom God crucified with Christ. 

 This ignorance has robbed the church of its power, its authority, and its joy. 

The believer's failure is not moral weakness. It is mental darkness. 

His spirit has been recreated, but his mind has never been renewed. He has been born from above, but he still judges himself by the testimony of his senses. 

 He sees weakness. He feels failure. He hears defeat. And he accepts these things as facts, not knowing that the Word of God has declared another reality. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. The old things are passed away. Behold, they are become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17. 

   God did not say they are passing away. He said they have passed away. Yet the unrenewed believer still talks as though the old things were alive and ruling him. When the church lost sight of revelation-knowledge, it substituted effort for faith and discipline for identity. 

 Men began trying to be what God had already made them. They prayed for righteousness when God had already declared them righteous. 

  They begged for power when the Holy Spirit already dwelt in them. They asked God to do something about sin and weakness, not knowing that God had settled the sin problem and recreated the human spirit in Christ. 

  The tragedy is that they are trying to obtain by prayer what belongs to them by birth. The scripture tells us plainly that my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Hosea 4:6.  It does not say they are destroyed for lack of sincerity or lack of prayer or lack of consecration. 

  They are destroyed because they do not know. Knowledge here is not sense-knowledge. It is revelation-knowledge. 

   It is the knowledge of what God has done in Christ. The believer who does not know his place in Christ lives under condemnation, fear, and weakness. Not because God wills it, but because he has never seen what redemption has accomplished. Many believers honestly suppose that humility consists in confessing weakness and unworthiness. 

 They say, "I am only a poor sinner saved by grace." Not knowing that such a confession denies the very purpose of redemption. 

 God never calls the believer a sinner. He calls believer a new creation. He calls believer righteous. He calls believer His child. 

 For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear. But ye received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, "'Abba, Father." Romans 8:15. 

 Yet the unrenewed believer still approaches God as a servant trembling before a master instead of as a son standing in the presence of his Father. 

 This divided life, redeemed in spirit, defeated in experience, is the fruit of ignorance. The believer has life, but he does not know he has it. He has authority, but he does not dare to exercise it. He has been made complete in Christ, but he still seeks completeness in feelings, experiences, and human approval. Apostle Paul declared, "Ye are complete in HIM." Colossians 2:10. 

Not someday, not after growth, but now. 

 Yet many believers live their entire lives trying to become what God says they already are. The mind of the believer has been trained for years by the five senses. 

 It has learned to reason from appearances. It says, "l am sick because I feel pain. I am weak because I fail. I am defeated because circumstances oppose me. But the Word of God reasons from redemption." It says, "By His stripes you were healed." 1 Peter 2:24.  It says, "Greater is HE that is in you than he that is in the world." 1 John 4:4. It says, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus." Romans 8:1. Until the believer learns to accept the word as the final authority, he will remain a spiritual child tossed about by every sense testimony. God never intended the Christian life to be a struggle for victory. 

Victory was obtained in Christ.  God never intended the believer to live conscious of sin and failure. He intended him to live conscious of righteousness and sonship.  If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 1 John 2:1. 

 The advocacy of Christ was not given to keep us sin conscious, but to keep us fellowship conscious. Yet the unrenewed believer magnifies his failures and minimizes Christ's work. This ignorance has filled the church with prayers that God cannot answer because they deny what He has already done.  

Men pray for faith when faith comes by hearing the Word. 

They pray for power when the Spirit already indwells them. They pray for healing while confessing disease. They pray for victory while confessing defeat. 

The Father is not withholding. 

He is waiting for His children to know who they are and to take their place. If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever you will and it shall be done unto you. John 15:7.

 The tragedy is that His words have never been permitted to abide in the believer's consciousness. Beloved, Christianity without revelation becomes  religion, and religion always produces bondage. But revelation produces rest. 

 When a man sees that he is a new creation, that his old life was crucified with Christ, that he has received God's nature, and that he stands before the Father as a son, fear loses its hold, condemnation is broken, and faith rises naturally. 

 Identity is the foundation of faith.  Until you know who you are in Christ, you will never know what you can do in His name. This message is not to condemn you. It is to awaken you. God is not disappointed in you. He is waiting for you. 

 The tragedy can end the moment light comes. When you see what and who you are in Christ, you will stop struggling to live the Christian life and begin living it. 

 The word was given to put you over, not to keep you hoping. Truth is not given to admire. It is given to act upon. And when the believer's mind is brought into harmony with his recreated spirit, the new creation life becomes a living reality. 

Beloved, there are two kinds of knowledge contending for the mastery of the believer's life. And upon which one rules him depends the quality of his faith, his joy and his victory. 

One kind of knowledge comes to us through the senses.  It is gained by seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling. The five senses. It is the knowledge taught in our schools and universities. It is useful within its sphere, but it is utterly helpless when it comes to the things of God. 

It cannot discover the human spirit. 

It cannot explain the new birth.  

It cannot know what happened when God recreated a man in Christ. 

Since sense-knowledge judges everything by appearance, it says, "If I can see it, feel it, or reason it out, then it is real." 

But God declares realities that cannot be discovered by the senses. For we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7. 

Faith is not blind. It simply rests on a higher kind of evidence. 

Revelation-knowledge is God's knowledge unveiled to man through the Word. It tells us what God has done, what man is, and what belongs to him in Christ. 

The tragedy is that sense-knowledge has gained supremacy in the church. The church was never meant to be governed by the senses. It is a spiritual body to be ruled by the Word and led by the Spirit. 

When sense-knowledge rules the believer, miracles seem unreasonable. 

Righteousness seems unattainable and victory appears to belong only to a favoured few. 

   Sense-knowledge always asks, "How can this be?" Revelation-knowledge answers, "God has said it." 

Jesus rebuked sense-led thinking again and again. When Peter looked at the wind and the waves, he sank. When he looked at the Word of Jesus, he walked on the water. 

The waves were real to the senses, but the Word was real to faith. The senses never crucified Christ, never put away sin, never conquered Satan. All the great acts of redemption were accomplished in the unseen realm and they can only be known by revelation. 

  Apostle Paul tells us that the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him and he cannot know them because they are spiritually judged. 1 Corinthians 2:14. 

 The natural man is the sense man. He may be educated, cultured, and religious,  utterly ignorant of his place in Christ.

 Until the believer learns to refuse the testimony of the five senses where it contradicts the Word, he will remain a  spiritual babe. 

Sense-knowledge will always magnify the problem. It magnifies sin, weakness, sickness, and failure. 

 Revelation-knowledge magnifies Christ and His finished work. 

Sense-knowledge says, "I am trying to overcome." Revelation-knowledge says, "l am more than a conqueror through HIM that loved me." Romans 8:37. 

 Sense-knowledge says, "I hope God will do something." 

Revelation-knowledge says, "He hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ." Ephesians1:3.

 Here is the battleground of identity. 

  If you judge yourself by what you feel, you will always come short. If you judge yourself by what God says, you will rise to your place. The Word declares, "As he is, even so are we in this world." First John 4:17. 

 Sense-knowledge says, "That cannot be true. Look at yourself." 

Revelation-knowledge says God cannot lie. 

One will make you a beggar, the other will make you a son. 

Beloved, God never intended revelation-knowledge to be theoretical. It is to dominate the believer's thinking. It is to become the final authority in his life. 

1When revelation-knowledge takes the throne in the heart, faith ceases to be an effort. Confession becomes natural. The Word becomes a living thing.  

The words that I have spoken unto you are spirit and our life. John 6:63. 

 The believer begins to see himself as God sees him. And that vision transforms conduct without strain. The church has sent forth philosophers searching for reality. But reality is not found in human reasoning. 

  Reality is found in Christ. 

Jesus said, " I am the way and the truth and the life " 1 John 1:46.  He did not say he would show the truth. He said he is the truth. When a man knows Christ, he has arrived at reality. When he knows what Christ has made him, confusion ends and  faith begins to act. This is why the renewing of the mind is essential. 

The spirit has been recreated, but the mind must be re-educated. 

 It must be trained to think God's thoughts after him. It must learn to reject sense evidence when it contradicts the Word. As long as sense-knowledge rules, the believer will live beneath his privileges. 

 When revelation-knowledge rules, he will live in the liberty of a son. 

Beloved, this battle for identity will be settled by one question. Which word will you accept as final? God's word or your senses? The word reveals what you are in Christ. The senses reveal what you were. 

 You cannot live in both realms at once. 

When you choose revelation-knowledge, you choose life, authority, and rest. 

 When you choose sense-knowledge, you choose struggle, doubt, and delay. 

 God has spoken. The issue is not whether the word is true, but whether you wil believe it and act upon it. 

Beloved, if you are ever to live the victorious life that God planned for you, you must know with certainty what took place when you were born again. The new birth is not a reformation of the old life. It is the creation of a new life. It is not God forgiving a sinner and leaving him as he was. It is God imparting His own nature to the human spirit. 

Of His own will begat He us with the Word of truth. James 1:18. That Word begat means birth. 

Christianity begins with a miracle. The miracle of a recreated spirit. The church has too often treated the new birth as though it were merely a change of conduct or a decision to live better. 

 But God never improves the old man. He crucifies him. Knowing this that our old man was crucified with HIM. Romans 6:6. 

Not will be crucified, not should be crucified, but was crucified. God did not attempt to salvage the old creation. He ended it in Christ. 

When Christ died, you died. 

When he was buried, you were buried. 

When he was made alive, you were made alive together with HIM. 

Paul declares, "Even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ." Ephesians 2:5. 

 This was not forgiveness alone. This was resurrection. The sinner was spiritually dead, separated from God, without His nature. 

 At the new birth, God recreated the human spirit by imparting eternal life.

16:42 Eternal life is not merely life that never ends. It is the very life and nature of God. He that hath the Son hath the life. 1 John 5:12. 

The believer has the Son, therefore he has the life. This is where the church has missed it. Men have been taught that eternal life begins when they die. The Word teaches that eternal life begins when they are born again. The believer is not waiting for life. He possesses it. The new creation is not weak, sinful, or defeated. It is righteous because it has  God's nature. For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one, much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, even Jesus Christ. Romans 5:17. 

 Righteousness is a gift, not a reward. 

 When you were born again, God did not give you a portion of his nature. He gave you his nature. 

 He did not give you a fragment of righteousness. He made you righteous. 

17:58 Him who knew no sin, he made to be sin on our behalf that we might become the 

18:05 righteousness of God in him. 2 Corinthians 5:21. 

18:10 This is not a legal fiction. It is a spiritual reality. The believer does not have righteousness. He is righteous in Christ. The new creation is more than forgiven. He is justified.  Justification means that God declares the man righteous and treats him as though sin had never existed. 

 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1.  Peace with God is not emotional calm. It is the end of enmity.  The believer no longer stands before God as a criminal seeking mercy, but as a son enjoying fellowship. Beloved, the moment you were born again, the Holy Spirit took up his residence in your body.