The true knowledge of who and what we are in Christ Jesus Brendan Mc Crossan
The true knowledge of who and what we are in Christ Jesus
Brendan Mc Crossan
12-2-2011 One The facts
Colossians -3-1-Put On the New Self 3-1Therefore if you have beenraised up with Christ, keep seeking the “things above,” where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.2”Set your mind on the “things above,” not on the things that are on earth.3For “you have died” and your real life is hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ who is our real life is revealed then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
You must understand that Christ is your real life and the one you’re living now on earth is only temporary, this life in these flesh and blood bodies are just for a while, so many years and that’s it, they won’t last forever unlike our real lives that we live in the spirit it will last throughout eternity in Jesus.
Colossians-3-9-since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, 1 0and have put on the new self who is being renewed {transformed} to a “true” “knowledge” according to the image of the One who created him {American standard bible}
Scripture tells us that we have to lay aside the old self which is corrupt and put on the new self. And that it is up to us to do that, God isn’t going to do it for you, you have to do it yourself, it’s a do it yourself kit. You must come to an awareness of who you really are and what that means for you as a spirit being. You must seek knowledge like you never sought anything before.
Knowledge means
Information, data, acquaintance, familiarity, awareness, and understanding, and most important facts!
My people perish through lack of “knowledge,” says the lord; Lack of facts, awareness, and understanding, and information.
What is knowledge? Knowledge is power, to have the knowledge to know who you really are. Knowledge is awareness, information, facts. And the “fact” is our real life is in heaven with Jesus that is fact; {knowledge} and knowing were in him as one person that is a fact, {knowledge}
Knowledge is an awareness of your true identity, that you and Jesus are one person in spirit, that you are seated with him in the heavenly places that is fact, knowing that God is your real father that is fact that is knowledge. Believing it is a decision no matter when your mind tells you the opposite. The fact is you are all these things. The mind must be renewed by the word of God.
The facts as scripture declares
God is my Father, fact Genesis-1-27
I am made in his divine image, fact Genesis-1-26 / 27
I partake {share} in the divine nature, fact
2-Peter -1-4-
I am joined together as one person with Jesus, fact 1-Corinthians-6-17
As he is so am I in this world, fact
1-John-4-17
I am forever righteous, fact Romans -4-6
I am forever holy, fact Ephesians 1-4
I am without a single fault, fact Ephesians 1-4
I am forever perfect in God’s sight, fact
Hebrews -10-14
I am like God’s son, equal to, identical, fact Romans 8-39
In him I live and move, and have my being, fact Acts 17-28
My sins are forever, forgiven, forgotten, fact Hebrews-10-18
My sins are not remembered any more, fact Hebrews -10-17
I have been given the very life of Christ himself, fact Ephesians-2-5
I am raised up together with him now in heaven, fact Ephesians -2-6
I do not walk according to the flesh-fact
Romans-8-4 But according to the spirit, fact Romans-8-4-
I am Cleansed by the blood of the lamb, fact Hebrews-13-12-
I am redeemed fact Galatians -3-13-
I am a new creation, fact 2-corinthians -5-17
I am reconciled to God through Jesus, fact 2-corinthians-5-18
I am Christ’s ambassador, fact 2-corinthians-5-20
I am the righteousness of God, fact 2-corinthians-5-21
I stand in the place of highest privilege, fact Romans-5-2
I am living a brand new kind of life, fact Colossians-3-10
I am a king of life, fact Revelations -1-6
I am a royal priesthood, fact 1-Peter-2-9
I am healed in his sight, fact 1-Peter-2-24
I am filled with the Godhead, father son, & spirit, fact Colossians-2-10 Life and death are my servants, fact 1-Corinthians-3-22
Overwhelming victory is mine, fact Romans-8-37
I am clothed in garments of salvation, fact Isaiah-61-10
I am a light of the world, fact Mathew-5-14
God shares his own glory and goodness with me, fact 2-Peter-1-3
I have been chosen by God, fact Colossians -3-12
I share Christ’s new life, fact Colossians-2-13
My real life is in heaven with Christ and God, fact Colossians-3-3
It is not I who live but Christ who lives in me says Paul, he knew what I am sharing with you now!
Those are spiritual facts as laid out by God in his word, those facts are God facts not my facts, and that’s a fact.
Hosea 14-2- Take with you words and return to the Lord; Say to Him, Take away all our iniquity; accept what is good and receive us graciously; so will we render [our thanks] as bullocks [to be sacrificed] and pay the confession of our lips. Say {thank you} for choosing me to share in Jesus life; remember the words you speak have life or death in them. God says take with you words and the words he is telling you to take with you and confess is his words the facts you just read, you must say to him, thank you for making me holy, thank you for sharing your own glory with me, thank you for making me in your own image, and so on.
God did all this nothing to do with you or I, It was all ordained from before time. Ephesians-1-4
I am not a sinner, Fact; I am righteous, fact, I am not unworthy, fact
Unworthy means, worthless, not good enough, contemptible, pitiful, shameful, undeserving, rubbish, of no value, useless, and insignificant. Fact
Sinner means, criminal, offender, reprobate, outlaw, malefactor, villain, scoundrel. fact
Take with you words to God and say I’m unworthy, I don’t think so!
What makes these facts, facts? The word of almighty God; he said it, we are it, fact, God is not a liar, fact, and if he says it then it has to be true, fact.
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John-9-31-We know that God does not listen to sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and a worshiper of Him and does His will, He listens to him. ****
You believe that you’re a sinner, the fact is then that God doesn’t listen to you, not according to his word that is a fact, its right there in front of you in black and white, read your own bible and see for yourself, then stop believing that you’re a sinner
We are more sin conscious than holy conscious
When confronting Satan knowledge is power against him, fact Knowing he is defeated, that knowledge {fact} gives you true power, not imagined or surreal, fact,
Philippians -2-5 let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal to God but humbled him-self taking the guise of a slave.
Let the mind of Christ be in you! Who’s going to let it be in you, nobody but your little old self that’s who?
Proverbs-1-7-The fear of the LORD is the beginning of “knowledge,” but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
2-Peter-1-5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;
2-Peter-1-8-For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Everything is up to you to do, you have to work hard to do these things to become more Christ like in your “flesh,” but your spirit is already joined to him.
James-1-5-If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.
A doubtful mind is
An uncertain mind
A hesitant mind
An unsure mind
A disbelieving mind
An unconvinced mind
An unreliable mind
You must believe and not doubt,
John -6-63-The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.
Amen