Confession of The Believer's Privileges in Christ - Kenneth E. Hagin
Confession of The Believer's Privileges in Christ - Kenneth E. Hagin
Confession of The Believer's Privileges in Christ - Kenneth E. Hagin
We briefly touched on confessions five parts in our last lesson, but we will go
into more detail on these in our study for today as we endeavor to learn more
about just what we are to confess. Our confession centers around these five
things:
2. What God, through the Word and the Holy Spirit, has wrought for us in the
new birth and the infilling of the Holy Ghost.
4. What Jesus is doing for us now at the right hand of the Father, where He
ever lives to make intercession for us.
5. What God can do through us, or what His Word can do through our lips.
To discover what we are in Christ, we must look to the Word of God. Go to the
New Testament, primarily the epistles written to the church, and underline with
a red pencil every scripture that has the expression in Him, in Christ, and
in whom. Better yet, take several sheets of paper and write down all of these
scriptures. (You will find about 133 of these scriptures.)
The moment you find them, begin to confess that this is who you are and what
you have in Christ. If you will do this, I will guarantee that before many days,
life will be different for you.
While neither time nor space here permit us to go into all these scriptures, let
us look at just a few.
I was active in soul winning preaching in jail services, on the streets, and
working in the church. While I was standing on the street corner one day, a
boy who I knew came up to me and asked me to do him a favor. I wouldnt
ask you to do this, he explained, but Im running late now and I promised my
girl friend that I would bring a date for her cousin who is visiting her from out of
town. Would you come along and help me out of this jam? Ill always be
grateful and Ill promise that we wont stay over thirty or forty minutes, and that
we wont have any smoking, drinking, or dancing while youre there.
Reluctantly I went along to help him out.
When we got to his girl friends house, she introduced me to her cousin. We
had barely gotten seated when they put a record on the phonograph and
started dancing. When the girls cousin asked me to dance, I said, No, thank
you, I dont dance.
She looked at me as if I had just come from Mars and said, You dont dance?
Why?
From what and from whom are we redeemed? When asked this question
many people say, I am redeemed from sin. And that is part of the answer, but
not nearly all of it. Galatians 3:13 says, Christ hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every
one that hangeth on a tree. We are redeemed from the curse of the law.
To find out just what the curse of the law is, we must go back to the first five
books of the Bible. There we see that the curse or the punishment for
breaking Gods law is threefold: poverty, sickness, and the second death. God
has redeemed us from the curse of poverty, from the curse of sickness, and
from the curse of death spiritual death now and physical death when Jesus
comes again. We need have no fear of the second death. (In one of the
lessons to follow we will look in more detail at our rights in Christs redemption
from the curse of poverty.)
Acts 17:28
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he
that is in you, than he that is in the world (I John 4:4). The Old Testament
counterpart to this scripture is found in Isaiah 41:10: Fear thou not; for I am
with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will
help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Then in the New Testament we find, What shall we then say to these things?
If God be for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31). We can take this as
a personal message for ourselves. Because we are under the new covenant,
we can say, Thank God, for He is in us. This is the best reason I can think of
for not being afraid.
People have come to me and said, I have read all those scriptures you said
to read, but it doesnt seem real to me.
Have you confessed it is so? I ask them.
God says it is so, you say it isnt. Therefore, either you or God is lying about
it. If you were to stand before your mother and call her a liar, you would feel
badly, wouldnt you? Then how can you expect to feel right when you stand
before God and say, Your Word is not true, it isnt so. Youre a liar. To remedy
this situation you must start confessing that it is so whether you feel like it is
so in your life or not. Then it will become a reality.
We must get our thinking in line with Gods Word and then our believing will
be right. When our believing is right we can confess say, affirm, witness,
testify to what Gods Word says about us. Then we will succeed. Then life
will be different for us!