Dear One,

We are getting you ready for Pentecost, for the glory manifested in Ephesians. Please read this article, enjoy it and pass it to your friends. Rejoice!

Love you! KRP

ON TO THE THRONE – PART ONE: ROMANS

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom 8:38-39 NKJV

You don’t see it in the Gospels, the fullness of the believers perfect standing in Christ. You don’t see it in Acts; even though there were great examples to follow, the vast majority of the believers were still zealous for the law (Acts 21:20). So, where do you find out who we are in Christ? Where do we find out the truth about the mystery that has been kept secret from ages and from generations which, had the adversary known, he would not have crucified the Lord of Glory? Where do we see the believers hope, and their perfect standing of being seated at the right of the Almighty? We see it in the Church Epistles.

“There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.” Rom 3:10-12 NKJV

The Church Epistles begin with Romans. Romans was the subject that the monk named Luther was teaching when he understood the reality that the just shall live by faith and proceeded to nail his ’95 Theses’ to the door of the church in Wittenburg, Germany. Romans crushes the great lie that is the bedrock of all religion, that man can justify himself by good works before a righteous and holy God. Man cannot justify himself; therefore, he needed a perfect Substitute that only God could supply – Jesus!

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. Rom 3:19-20 NKJV

The great lie of all religion is that man by his good works can get to Heaven. Romans crushes that lie! You might want to tell this to your friends and neighbors when you are witnessing to them. ‘Somebody lied to you, buddy, but here…look at Romans!’

We want to hit some of the great highlights of Romans and the Cross as a foundation before we move on to Ephesians and the Throne. Sometimes you must think about and appreciate the foundation, the rock on which an edifice is built to fully appreciate the structure above it. We have to walk in Romans righteousness before we can fully access Ephesians glory!

Romans teaches man is hopeless and helpless (the character John Newton, in the film AMAZING GRACE, says, “One thing I know – I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior!”) But God sends a great rescuer in Jesus Christ!

But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith…Rom 3:21-25 NKJV

I get so excited about this truth because I know what healing and deliverance it brings to everyone’s hearts! This word pierces right through the facades of men’s lives and brings life to their innermost beings. It brings true healing to the broken hearts of men, which then prepares them for miracles!

Romans Five should be on everyone’s daily reading assignment until you are completely immersed in its great revelation. Your heart can change in an instant but the paradigms of your soul have to be recalibrated to recognize a new YOU. Romans Five contrasts Adam’s sin with God’s redemption. Here is a nugget that is pure gold!

For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. Rom 5:17 NKJV

What we have learned in ministering healing is that a person’s sense of guilt and unworthiness can keep them from receiving their healing. We’ve also learned that if they are taught to receive an abundance of grace, and to receive the gift of righteousness, they can overcome their bitterness and guilt and receive their healing, their miracle, their breakthrough.

The context in Romans Five ends and jumps immediately to Romans Eight. Romans Six and Seven are a parenthetical insertion that answer four great questions. Look at what we see in the end of Romans Five and the beginning of Romans Eight!

Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. 19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom 5:18-21 NKJV

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. Rom 8:1-3 NKJV

He made me free from the law of sin and death, not through my worthless works but through His perfect work on my behalf. Do you see WHY there is no condemnation for the believer? Because Jesus reversed all the effects of Adam’s sin and restored mans original nature of holiness and righteousness before the Father. Adam’s nature results in sin, sickness, poverty and death, but Jesus completely annihilated the Adamic nature in the believer and replaced it with the sinless nature of God Himself – Christ in you the hope of glory!

When you and I finally stop condemning ourselves, finally stop trying to attain righteousness, whether that means acceptance in a group, or ‘success’ in our worldly lives, or achievements that ‘leave a legacy;’ when we finally leave all those old, sad trappings behind and step up to who we are in Him, then we are ready to go to the Throne. Oh how my heart leaps and is thrilled at these great truths! I see in them all the possibilities of a brand-new life for every man, for every woman, for every child, no matter how hopeless their lives may seem, no matter how broken and worthless their circumstances may have become. Romans Eight ends the doctrinal section in Romans, which then picks up in Ephesians, with these great statements:

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” 

37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom 8:31-39 NKJV

More than conquerors! Nothing can separate us! If God be for us, who can be against us? How shall He not freely give us all things? How my heart is thrilled as I think of YOU believing these words, of me believing them, and us walking together, knowing that nothing is impossible to those who believe. We haven’t even gotten to Ephesians yet!

Before we leave Romans, we have to look at one great section in Romans six that is the first great command to the believers in the Church epistles. Jesus said, If you love Me, keep My commandments. This is Jesus’ first great command as Head of the Body, commanding His Body to align with Him. When Jesus died, we died with Him. When He arose, we arose with Him. This is Romans!

For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 

Here Is the command. LOGIZOMAI means to reckon as in a ledger, all of our indebtedness on one side, Jesus’ full propitiation on the other side, and we conclude that ALL of our debts are paid through Him. Sin and death have no more claim on us! We are alive unto God.

11 Likewise you also, reckon (Grk. LOGIZOMAI) yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

THEREFORE always introduces a practical application of the aforementioned truth.

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. Rom 6:5-14 NKJV

Present yourselves to God! How? When? First thing in the morning, every day. How? Pray like this,  “ABBA Father, I am Yours. Teach me, guide me, correct me, forgive me, cleanse me from all unrighteousness. Prepare me to walk in the authority and power of Heaven. Thank You ABBA!” Pray and listen with your full attention, and ABBA will speak!

John G Lake loved his fine suits of clothes. Every day he would stand in front of a mirror and declare, “God dwells in that suit of clothes, and wherever that suit of clothes goes, God goes with it!”

…and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, Eph 2:6-7 NKJV

Our spiritual journey is from sin and death unto the throne of God, from Romans One to Ephesians Three, from the lowest to the Highest, eternal death to eternal life. When we know who we are as sons and daughters of His, as princes and princesses in the royal family of God, then the authority of a judge backed by Heaven will flow out of us. I don’t care how low you feel now, how bad your circumstances seem, when you begin to truly believe what we are seeing here in the Word, your life will rise up in glory and power and blessing. The fire of God will consume every negative thing and leave you filled with glory at the right hand of the Lord almighty. Pray in the Spirit and let your heart be so filled with His Word that you freely, joyfully present yourself to Him daily…and He will raise you up so that the glory in your life is so great that you can hardly even remember the times of the past when you suffered in ignominy. We are going on to the Throne of God. Amen? Praise Jesus! Love you, dear one…

Remember dear ones, we must be about our Father’s business…