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What are ‘DEAD WORKS’? Anything that you’re NOT specifically called, purposed, or created to do… is a dead work. You are created uniquely and with a specific purpose. If you are not designed to do something in this life, but you’re doing it anyways, either because it’s the right thing to do, or it’s something that needs to get done… that’s a dead work! Don’t be condemned… and don’t let your conscience condemn you, if this is something you’ve been doing all this while. Jesus always steps in at the right time. We all come to a place of revelation in different areas of life and from there change our course by that revelation. Let the Spirit do it for you.
Jesus died, was buried, He rose to life, ascended to Heaven and is now seated at the right hand of the Father! Even when we were dead in sins, He raised us back to life together with Christ, (by grace you are saved;) And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus – Ephesians 2:5,6. Everything Jesus went through… we went through! He became us in all that He suffered, and also in His resurrection and ascension. We were IN Him when He went to the cross. He in us and we in Him. This is our reality today. We are seated with Him at the Father’s right hand.
The Armour of God is the state of existence in which the New Man dwells. It is a conscious state of being in which we are called to ‘stand’ and rest. Put on the new man, which is created according to God in righteousness and true holiness. – Ephesians 4:24. It’s not something we take off and put on again… it’s the way we are created. – We have come to the knowledge of the truth by which we have been set free. (John 14:6)
The Cross of Jesus was so powerful, it destroyed sin at the root. The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! – John 1:29. Before He died, Jesus said, ‘it is finished!’ He destroyed the one thing that separated us from the Father. And when the Spirit comes, He will convict the world of sin and righteousness and judgment; of sin, that they do not believe Me. – John 16:8-9. The one sin that separated us from God – the only sin He is concerned about – is that people don’t believe Him.
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? – Hebrews 9:14. The life of all flesh is in the blood. The wages of sin is death! The shedding of blood in the old covenant represented the death of the sacrifice in the place of the sinner. His conscience of every sin committed during the course of the previous year was cleansed of guilt. This was a temporary sacrifice made annually until he died.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. – 1 Peter 1:3. Hope for the New Man is not of uncertainty. It’s an assurance of the promises of a loving Father. Sons don’t hope for something that has no definite outcome. Our hope is founded on the finished work of Jesus on the cross.