Who We Are In Christ!

Hello To All Our Freinds,

I hope this newsletter finds you well and prosper.

Deb and I are well and are excited about what the Lord has done and doing the last 20 years and excited in what we will be doing next and where we'll be doing it. The last 5 years our eyes were opened to the revelation knowledge of who we are in Christ and who He is in us. We have always had a theological view of who we are but not a revelation, all knowing of who we are in Christ and that understanding, moves mountains. We understand what freedom is all about in Him and what He did on the cross (EVERYTHING) and to understand what that really means to us and what everything really means makes everyday a day of purpose and victory.

I thank God for Bob Prettyman and his ministry, Word of Truth & Light Ministries, please check out his website at www.graceandtruthinjesus.com and Grace Bible Training Center at www.gracebibletrainingcenter.com and we are presently ordained under In Christ Ministerial Association at www.inchristministerialassoc.com !

(2 Cor;5:17) )says; We were made a 'NEW" creation! Our old nature is no longer alive, it died with Christ on the cross, buried with Him for three days and rose with Him and now we sit with Him in heavenly places. We no longer live but He lives in us. We can honestly say we don't even excist anymore.

Colossians 2:9&10 says that Jesus, is the fullness of the Godhead, (the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit) and we are complete in Him,( He sees the new creation) there is no works to be complete, no having to be a leader to be complete, no bible school needed to be complete, no having to join this church or that church to be complete, no you have to live this way or that way to be complete, we just need to catch up (our flesh, minds) to what he already did, it might take us a lifetime but it doesn't have to. That's not what the Gospel of Jesus Christ says or is. This is why He went to the cross, to make us complete, once and for all. Its all about what He did on the cross not what I need to do or what someone says I need to do to get there, its all ready been done for me. If you can understand the true gospel message and know what he really did for you you'll stop focusing on your stuff and focus on Him and you won't want to sin even though He became sin. And when you have that understanding you will also know that He (Jesus Christ in you) has the authority over all principality and powers and so don't you.

The bible says that; For He (God) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (2Cor.5:21) The word might in this verse means "no human effort", so if you understand it with that revelation, you didn't do anything with sin he did! He became it for you and me! You didn't do anything with righteousness, He did! He is righteousness and He lives in you! Again, I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me (you) and the life which I now live in the flesh (still man outside) I live by faith (knowing what He has made me in my spirit, complete) in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. (Gal 2:20)

What happened in the fall of man (garden) has been restored completely by what Jesus did on the cross. Can you think of what Adam & Eve had in the garden before they fell? That's what we can have and more because He did it all before time even came and completed it after time even started! We need to take God out of our religious box and see He is in the beginning and already at the end. The Alpha and Omega! The first and last!

He never changes, He's the same yesterday, today and forever more.(Heb.13:8) Do we have storms in our lives, I think the answer is YES, but we can always have victory because He's already at the end of it! Can you believe? He's (Jesus) the author and the finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God, (Heb.12:2) where you and I are.

God bless and lots of Jesus love.
John & Deborah Sotirkys
His Church Ministries
www.hischurchministries.com