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 BECAUSE JESUS IN THE MESSIAH

Because Jesus is the Messiah, because He is the Word of God made flesh, fully human while remaining Who He has always been, fully God, we can expect (and expectation is not demanding something; it is embracing the truth of who Jesus is) Him to always do what He always does.

We can have this expectation that what the Lord did in His ministry on earth as the Incarnate Word He will continue to do because He is the same yesterday, today and forever. He has chosen to do these things, to manifest the power and victory of the Kingdom of God through His present-day disciples, His followers, sons and daughters of God, the Father's own heirs, fellow Christians.

Jesus clearly stated that the things He was doing His church would continue to do because He was going to the Father and the Holy Spirit would be poured out on all His people, saturating, anointing, soaking and indelibly dying us with the color of Heaven's glory. He even said that greater things would be done through His followers. The Holy Spirit would become Life and Salvation in everyone who believed in who Jesus is and what He has finished.

The church was never intended by God to operate on the basis of human initiative, on the limits of human wisdom, or on human ability. The purpose of God is either done by the Power of God, or it is not done at all. Being born again into a new Life given by God and empowered by God are the only means of carrying on Jesus' ministry here and now.

Heal the sick, cleanse lepers, raise the dead and cast out demons, all these are manifestations of the Kingdom of God dismantling the kingdom of darkness. Satan was defeated by Jesus Christ on the cross as the sin of the whole world was paid for and the rule of death and the grave overthrown. The church, you folks who follow Jesus, has been called and empowered to enforce that victory, setting spiritual, emotional, mental and willful prisoners free.

The work of the Kingdom of God in us and through us is NOT striving for a possible victory but living FROM a victory already won by Jesus the Messiah. Everywhere the apostles proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Word of God spoken through them was always confirmed by demonstration of the Holy Spirit and Power. Jesus' signs and wonders continued to be manifest in the ministry of the Gospel.

It is not by the virtue grand oratory, by the strength of human personality, nor by intellectual prowess that people's lives are changed and rescued, but by the power of God. Our faith is not grounded in the wisdom of man, but in the Power of God. The Holy Spirit takes the Word of God written and makes it a living and life transforming reality in the lives of God's people. He makes the proclamation of His Word the conduit of His grace and mercy through the death and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah.

Because Jesus IS the Messiah, the people of God are meant to display the power of God by the work and sole initiative of the Holy Spirit exercising the will of God. It should NOT be the exception to see signs and wonders done in the Name of Jesus Christ by His servants. Our expectation has to be grounded in who Jesus is, not in what we have known thus far or think possible from a human point of view.

Proclaiming the Gospel and exercising the authority of the Gospel is what the church is called and anointed to do.

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