You've Already Got It! - Week 2, Day 2 - The Gospel Truth

[Music] welcome to gospel truth with Andrew Wommack a teaching ministry that focuses on God's unconditional love and grace you have that raising from the dead power the greatest display of God's power that has ever existed in the history of the world that same power is in you that is the gospel in one sentence right there you've already got it and now here's the injury welcome to our Tuesday's broadcast of the gospel truth today I'm into my second week of teaching on a subject that I've entitled you've already got it I've written a book about this nearly twenty years ago it might have been 17 years ago but a long time ago and I tell you this is powerful this is one of the greatest applications of what I've taught under the series that I call spirit soul and body is talking about who you are in Christ and once you understand that in the spirit you are already complete that your spirit is as completely saved as it will ever be it is identical to Jesus first John chapter 4 verse 17 and once you understand that then you understand that you aren't trying to get more of God you've already got the fullness of the Godhead the rest of the Christian life is a releasing it's a renewing of the mind to what you already have and then learning how to release what you already have that's what I've been talking about and we've been dealing with this now for this is my seventh program I started this series a week ago yesterday so I've basically covered Ephesians chapter 1 if you've missed any of this teaching please go back and get it you can go to our website we have all of our programs located on there and you can watch Monday's broadcast you can go back through the entire previous week and you need to have the context of all of this but in chapter 1 it was all written not about what God might do could do would do in the future but it's all about what has already been done you're already blessed with all spiritual blessings you have already been chosen in him you are already accepted in the beloved you already have wisdom you already have been sealed and on and on it goes and then he prays a prayer in verses 15 through the end of the chapter verse 23 this is Ephesians chapter 1 and he prays that your eyes would just be opened to what you already have the greatness of the power that has been directed towards you the same power that was used to raise Jesus from the dead those are the things we've already covered man if you've missed any of that please please get it it would change your life so let's continue into chapter 2 and remember that the Bible was not written in chapter and verses these were added later to help us identify things and they're very useful I'm not criticizing it but I'm saying that chapter 2 is not a new thought it's not like it's a new chapter and it's somehow another is not Unruh it's not related this is just a continuation of the exact same things that we've been studying all the way through chapter 1 so in chapter 2 it says you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins notice it didn't say you can he quicken if you will pray he will quicken in the future this is obtainable it's possible no he's saying you have already been quickened the word quicken means made alive when you got born again you were raised from the dead and some people think well man it's still the same body that I've got no but the spirit man was dead in trespasses and sins and you've been raised from the dead you've been quickened you've been made alive and in the spirit you are a brand new person second Corinthians 5:17 a new species that never existed before your spirit is perfect and that's what it's done man notice it's all in the past tense that when you get born again this is not something that you are moving towards that will be finalised and complete when you go to heaven no your spirit is is saved right this moment as it will ever be it's not going to be cleaned dust it off infused with more power you have the same spirit on the inside of you right this moment that you will have throughout all eternity man that is powerful I've already taught on that in verse 2 it says wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world according to the Prince of the power of the air the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience among whom also we all had our conversation in time past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of Wrath even as others again the same terminology now it's talking about who you were before you got born again and all of that is in the past tense you were by nature of children of Wrath but you are not by nature a child of the devil anymore again there's confusion in the body of Christ over this the average Christian I would say the majority of Christians believe that you have a new nature and a sin nature that's not what the Bible teaches I'm not going to teach on this right now but your sin nature is gone and all you have is a new nature and it's not in a baby form it is absolutely complete full but the problem is that we don't know what we have we've got to renew our mind the growth in the Christian life is not your spirit growing it's your mind growing in understanding and how to release it and then your actions growing in obedience to what God is showing you but in the same way that we are already all of these things in Christ you are now no longer all of these things you were children of Wrath even as others in verse 4 it says but God who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved us or that is a powerful purse you can read this in some translations that I'm doing it by memory now but it says something similar to that God for his great love and in order to satisfy his great love commended his love toward us in other words God didn't love us because we were lovely he loves us because he is loved first John chapter 4 verse 8 in verse 5 even when we were dead in sins hath quickened us together again this is something that's already a reality it's not something that we are in sins and if we will praise God that someday he will quicken us know we were in sins before we got born again and now we have already been quickened made alive together with Christ for by grace ye are saved and hath raised us up together notice the terminology he hath done it it's already happened some of you don't feel raised from the dead that's because you live in your physical body and in your emotions more than you live in who you are in Christ but if you could understand and receive this and change your identity - this is not who I am you know if you're in prison right now maybe you've done something wrong and you are everyday being confronted with your sin and you're being incarcerated and separated from the world because of the danger you were to people you're being punished somebody it would be easy for you just to think but I am a kind I am a crook I have murdered or whatever it is but you know when you get born again you become a new person in Christ second Corinthians 5:17 and even though you may still have physical consequences you may still be in that jail cell you are not that same person anymore you have been quickened together with Christ you have been raised from the dead the spirit man on the inside of you is clean and pure and doesn't have any impurity in it at all and if you could see that and totally embrace it and start living out of your spirit you could be free even though you're behind bars even if you aren't in prison you could be free from the pain in your body even though you still have that pain there but you could have it in your hearts you could know it's done and it's just a matter of time until the body gets in line your whole life flows from your spirit this is why when people aren't born again that their life you can do all of the self-help things that you want to you can go through all the behavior modification courses that you can go to and you can change your existence to a degree but your spirit is dead and separated from God and as it says right here in this verse 3 that you are by nature a child of the devil even as others and if you don't get that spirit changed you can change the outside all you want to go get plastic surgery go get all this reconstruction done you can make it look good on the outside but inside you're still going to be dead but on the other hand when you make Jesus your Lord you get born again and even though you could still be in a jail cell even though you could still have physical problems financial problems in your spirit you have been raised from the dead and you can learn to start letting the spirit man control your life and it's just a matter of time until what's in your spirit will flow out your whole life flows from your spirit and it will flow out through you and it will produce deliverance in your emotions from depression discouragement defeat anger bitterness hurt unforgiveness it will produce physical healing in your body but you've got to walk in the spirit and you can't do that if you don't know what's happened to you on the inside you've got to believe that it's already done you don't need God to raise you from the dead you are raised from the dead is what this is saying he hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of His grace in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus and then in verse 8 it says for by grace ye are saved you aren't going to be saved now there is a truth that your physical body is going to be changed your mind is going to be renewed when we get to heaven but in the spirit realm you are already changed second Corinthians 5:17 If any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things are passed away all things are become new in your spirit you are already changed so it's not something that's going to happen it'll be completed spirit soul and body when we go to heaven but right now in this life if you are born again your spirit is as changed as it will ever be first John chapter 4 verse 17 says herein as our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of judgment because as he is speaking of Jesus so are we in this world not in the world to come but in this world that's not true of your physical body it's not true of your mind but in your spirit you are identical to Jesus right now if you've been born again if you've made Jesus your Lord man that is radical that's what I spent a month teaching on what I call spirit soul and body your identity in Christ and now in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 8 how did all of this happen for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is a gift of God not of works lest any man should boast this is saying you're saved by grace through faith you aren't saved by grace or you aren't saved by faith you were saved by the combination of the two now let me just go back up to Ephesians chapter 2 verse 5 in a parenthetical phrase it says here in the end of the verse by grace ye are saved so I don't think it's totally wrong to say you're saved by grace I don't think it's totally wrong to say you're saved by faith my friend since if a person was telling me hey God has to save me because I'm such a good person I mean I'm better than this person over I live so holy I believe God owes it to me then I'd say no you're saved by grace not by what you do that would be a true statement but it's not full it's not complete because you aren't saved by grace alone you are saved by grace through faith and let me just break this down and share this with you in a way that you can understand this but grace is what God does for you independent of you actually before you ever existed it says in John chapter 1 that we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth Jesus was Grace he was God's grace manifest to this world it also says that the grace and truth came by Jesus Christ so grace is something that came through Jesus 2,000 years ago it was independent of you it was before you existed it's before I existed it doesn't have anything to do with us you know you can define grace in many different ways but most people would accept that the simplest definition is that grace is unearned unmerited undeserved favor the favor of God grace is not based on your performance if your performance has to enter into it well then it's not grace because it's got to be unearned undeserved unmerited favor so it has nothing to do with you grace is God's part and it is independent of you and me so by grace you're saved God did things 2,000 years ago through Jesus Romans chapter 5 verse a but God commendeth his love toward us and that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us John 3:16 says for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life that's Grace Jesus didn't come to give us what we deserve we deserve death the Bible says in Romans 3:23 that all of sinned and come short of the glory guide all of us people will sometimes grave sins and say oh that's a sinner over there whereas I'm not no the Bible says all of us have sinned there's just varying degrees of being lost varying degrees of sinner but all have sinned and what is the payment for sin well it's not that those who just do a little bit of sin only get a little bit of punishment no it says in Romans chapter 6 verse 23 the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life eternal life is a gift it is not a wage you don't earn eternal life none of us deserve to be saved nobody you know relative to other people I've lived a really holy life I'm over 70 years old now I've never said a word of profanity have never used a cuss word I've never taken a drink of liquor I never smoked a cigarette I mean I've never even tasted coffee and people people will hear and as they are you saying that coffee is sin know you got scripture that says you can drink any deadly thing and it shall not harm you I'm just saying that I've lived a holy life relative to other people but who wants to be the best center that ever went to hell I've sinned I've come short of the glory of God and the wages of sin is death there isn't death number two in death number three if you fall short of heaven by an inch you miss it by a mile I needed a Savior and Jesus came and died for me but he did it 2,000 years ago God's grace was extended 2,000 years ago before I lived before I had sinned before my need of salvation even existed God had already paid for my sins he had already forgiven my sins now that doesn't mean that I'm automatically saved because it says here that you're saved by grace through faith grace is God's part God did it for us independent of us prior to our need before we even existed that's grace but not everybody's saved because you have to respond to God's grace that's what faith is faith is just a positive response to God's grace man what I'm saying here is powerful this took me probably 20 or 30 years to say the same things saying the things that I'm saying to you right now and I know some of you think we'll boy you but you're a slow learner well that may be but also I think that many of you don't fully understand the profoundness of what I'm saying that grace is God's part and that is done independent of us prior to our need it has nothing to do with us and therefore you can't claim that somehow or another you deserve salvation no it's by grace but that grace has to be accessed matter of fact it says in Romans chapter 5 verse 2 it says let me just turn over and read this in Romans chapter 5 and in verse 2 it says by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God you have to access faith grace grace is done for you independent of you before you ever had done anything good or bad that's grace but you have to access it and this word access is the exact word that we get admission from the English word admission in other words if you go to a movie you have to buy a ticket to gain admission to that will you have to have a ticket in a sense to get the grace of God to work for you what is that ticket it's faith and let me say some things right here first of all let me define what faith is not I would say that most Christians have heard this phrase about faith moves God faith is what moves God faith is something you do in order to get God to move in response to you that God is responding to your faith you may not put it in those exact words but that's the concept that's not what the Bible teaches faith is not something you do in order to gain a response from God if you believe that that's the reason that you're frustrated that's the reason you get weary and tired and give up and say God what do I have to do because you are looking at you've got to do something to make God respond to you in grace no grace is independent of you it has nothing to do with you you don't get God to respond to you in grace faith is your response to God's grace faith is not something you do to move God but here's what faith is faith is just your positive response to God's grace to what God has already done it now if God has already done it then that takes all of the work out of it faith isn't a work faith isn't something that's hard and that you have to just you know struggle to operate in faith faith is just trust it's just relying upon God it is being supernaturally at rest in the fact that God I believe by grace you've already done that so faith is just your positive response to God or here's another definition and this has really impacted me and helped me faith is just your appropriation of what God has already provided by grace if God hasn't already provided it by grace then you can't make it happen by faith that's huge what I just said and again I don't think that most people understand how important it is only appropriates what God has already provided by grace if God's grace hasn't provided it your faith can't make him do it God doesn't respond to your faith your faith is your response to him by grace God has already anticipated every need that you and I will ever have whether it's physical healing whether it's finances whether it's emotional whether it's relational whether it's wisdom whatever it is anything that you will ever need God by grace has already anticipated your every need he has put on the inside of every born-again believer everything that you will ever need throughout this life and even into the eternity there is no lack with God by grace it's already there but it doesn't automatically come to pass because not everybody responds positively to what God has done that's faith not everybody appropriates what God is already provided by grace that's faith not everybody is in faith and so faith doesn't make God respond to us faith is our positive response to him I tell you if you understand then that changes everything that takes all of the work and the struggle out of it matter of fact I'll be dealing with but Hebrews chapter 4 talks about faith as actually being a rest where you're resting you aren't laboring anymore that means more explanation and I will get to it man I encourage you to get this teaching you've already got it this is a game changer this would transform your life I've not only got this in English but I've got it in Spanish we've got a study guide that is the same material reformatted so you can teach other people I've got that in English in Spanish and then I also have CDs and DVDs that were taken from our television program listen to our announcers he gives you this information and please call or write today welcome to the aw minute a small glimpse on how the friends and partners of Andrew Wommack ministries and Karis Bible College are making a 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Published: Tue Dec 24 2019