Just “Do It”

Most Christians understand that at the new birth, Jesus comes to live in their heart, and consequently they have eternal life.

However, to understand the true depth of what was done at the new birth, is not something that most Christians fully grasp. Jesus not only lives in us,  God’s Spirit dwells in us and Jesus has given us His name and His authority to use as we will . And therefore all principalities and powers are subjugated to us. We are His body and He, the head. We are one as He is one in the Father.

Jesus reclaimed dominion over the earth and gave it back to believers along with the authority to subjugate the devil, and He promised to send us the power of the Holy Spirit to help us. “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” (Ac 1:8).

The power of the Holy Spirit is miraculous power. “Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation” (2 Cor 5:18).

This means that the same ministry of reconciling all things unto God has been given to us. Along with the authority, the power and the name of Jesus to do it with. But the key words are to DO IT. It’s not enough to know about it, or to hear about it.

 This is why Jesus kept insisting on being DOERS of His Word and not hearers only, thus deceiving ourselves. Jesus made a very clear distinction between HEARING and DOING. He said, “Therefore, whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and DOES them, I will liken him to a WISE MAN who built his house on the ROCK:  and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did NOT fall, for it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and DOES NOT do them, will be like a FOOLISH MAN who built his house on the SAND  and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And GREAT was its fall.” (Mat 7:24-27).

In other words, the DOING is the most important part of the Christian life. How much like the devil to blind Christians into believing that if only they hear the Word, it’ll be sufficient. But not so!  We were predestined by God, before the foundation of the world, to rule here on this earth, to take care of the works of His hands, to replenish the earth with His image (make disciples of all nations), to subdue the earth (by destroying the works of the devil) and have dominion over all things.

This is what Jesus paid a mighty price for. To bring not only man, but the earth back into full reconciliation to God. This is why Paul was so adamant in teaching. “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,  the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; (opened), that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,  and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power  which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and  might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.” (Eph 1:17-23)

So for all who desire to be disciples of Jesus, let this be the ruling principle before reading His Word. We must understand who we are in Christ and the power that He has given to us through the redemption of the cross. We have been given the keys of the kingdom, which is to bind and to lose on earth and to know that heaven will back us up accordingly. We have the full power and authority in us through His name, IF we will DO IT.