Why The Church Has Failed

II Corinthians 5:17, “Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. But all these things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ.”

A man cannot be in Christ and have the Devil’s nature in him. He is either in the family of God or in the family of Satan.

I John 3:10, “In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil.”

There can be no real development of faith, no strong, victorious Christian life with this mixed conception.

We are either New Creations or we are not.

We have either passed out of death into life, or we have not. When he says, “Sin shall not lord it over you” — he means exactly what he says.

If you live a life of weakness and defeat, it is because you do not know what you are in Christ.

The supreme need of the church at this hour is to know what we are in Christ, how the Father looks upon us, and what He considers us to be.

Read with great care Ephesians 1:3, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ.”

Colossians 1:21-22, “Being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreprovable before him.”

This has already been done in Christ. You stand before Him complete in Christ.

Ephesians 5:27, “That he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”

In the mind of most people this is after death. But that is not true. We are presented without spot or without wrinkle now.

Do you think that any believer filled with sin (as that term is used) could be in Christ and stand before Him without spot or wrinkle?

If He cannot take the sin nature out of us when we are Born Again, if the merits of the blood do not reach this and wipe it out, then when can we ever be made right?

Not when we die, for Satan is the author of death.

I declare before the angels in heaven, before the demons and all the hosts of hell, that the Redemptive work of God needs no help from Satan to make us complete in God’s presence.