God has given us some light on using God’s word and the Name of Jesus. The Name of Jesus is His essence. He has come and is coming to His body in this hour to be manifested in His body. When we do something in Jesus’ name, we aren’t merely repeating magic words: “in Jesus’ name, amen.” The Bible commands us to do everything in Jesus’ name. Everything. That doesn’t mean we keep repeating a mantra. It means we so identify with Christ that He is doing every act and saying every word through us. Our submission to His essence is complete. We are aware of His leading throughout the day, and we are cooperating with His Spirit by yielding the members of our bodies to His righteousness.
When the Bible uses the term “Scripture,” the original language makes it clear that it’s referring to the Bible. When the Bible uses the term “word of God,” the original language makes it clear that it’s referring to God speaking to us. When God speaks, He leads, teaches, or corrects us through the Bible and every means of divine revelation in the Bible. It might be a prophecy. We have prophecy every week in our church services, and every member prophesies in almost every service. The same is true of songs in the Spirit, which are prophecies in song that are given spontaneously. He speaks through a word of wisdom. He speaks through a word of knowledge. He speaks through a still small voice, dreams, visions, and many other ways. In fact, no one can say so much as “Jesus is Lord” but by the Holy Spirit.
Why is it so important and powerful when we listen to His word as He reveals reality to us? Why is it so important and powerful for us to always speak as the oracles of God. We are to only speak His words. That is, we are to yield the members of our body (including tongue and mouth) to His righteousness. We are never to speak our own words. He designed us to speak His words.
Jesus Christ is the Word of God. Some people wonder how Jesus gets into our hearts. Jesus gets into our hearts by the Father speaking to us. That’s the Parable of the Sower. It goes on all day long every day. This is the planting of the seed. God’s purpose: Christ fully formed in you and the deceitful fleshly nature destroyed by the light of His coming (Parousia or abiding presence) in you from glory to glory.
I don’t want to get too deep, but God has a way of doing everything. God’s method is by grace, which is through faith. “By grace through faith” has been repeated so often that most Christians don’t even understand it. It’s very simple. Where does faith come from? Faith comes by hearing the Father speak. The Father leads us, we hear and receive what He says, and His faith comes into us.
Where does grace come from? Grace comes through faith. Faith gives us access into God’s grace.
Faith without works is dead. It never completes what God gave it to do. Where do works come from? God’s grace does the works in us. Works are what God is doing through you in the moment. That’s what righteousness is: God doing His works through you in the moment. This righteousness is by grace, which it through faith, which comes by the utterance of God. That utterance is the Living Word, Jesus Christ Himself. God is planting a seed, but the seen must find good ground. If it finds good ground, God will say His words and do His acts through you.
Why are works important? That has to do with holiness. Holiness isn’t a lot of righteousness. Holiness is a change in what you are. It’s permanent. Righteousness is in the moment. Righteousness is God doing His works through you. And Scripture tells us that righteousness leads to holiness. Why? Because of the planting of the Seed, Jesus Christ. This is what edification is. Christ is built up in you. The most important work God is doing in this hour is to build up Christ in a remnant company of saints who are willing to lay down their fleshly life and take up His life by listening to Him and yielding to His Spirit in every moment and detail of their lives. We all have theological and emotional and intellectual strongholds that have to go. We have to trust Jesus to tear these down and replace them with Truth. Jesus Christ is the Truth. Christ is fully formed in us as we listen to the voice of the Father.
That’s a lot of what God has shown us, and it’s probably enough for right now. There’s more to this.
