Portal of Power | Mac Hammond
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The kingdom of God is based upon the Word of God. In fact, the kingdom of God is a manifestation of the Word of God and His purposes on the earth.
The celebration of Easter is a centerpiece of all that He’s done to enable humanity to rise to the level only possible in Him.
In our celebration of Easter, we need to understand what it is that we celebrate. It’s not a religious observance. It is a celebration of things that God wants you to have a full appreciation of.
Look at Colossians 2:12 in the Passion, “For we’ve been buried with Him into His death. Our baptism into death also means we were raised with Him when we believed in God’s resurrection power, the power that raised Him from death’s realm.”
This verse talks about a “realm of death.” This realm of death describes our former state, when we were held in sin’s grasp. But we’ve been resurrected out of that realm of death—never to return! We are forever alive and forgiven of all our sin through Jesus’ death and resurrection. Hallelujah!
Redemption isn’t only about what we’ve been redeemed from… it’s also about what we’ve been redeemed unto!
We’ve been redeemed from the “realm of death.”
Look at Romans 5:17: “For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)”
This verse helps us to more fully understand what we’ve been redeemed unto. People who have been born again “shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ.” Shall reign in life!
The word “reign” means to exercise kingly authority. We don’t reign over other people, but rather powers, principalities, and rulers of darkness of this world that dominate the realm of death. We have been raised above that.
As born again believers, we get to reign in life, exercise kingly authority over every dead circumstance we will ever encounter! Wow!
Death in the realm of death necessitates a discussion of what death is and the ways it touches our lives. Basically, death means separation. It’s not annihilation. It is not ceasing to exist. The Bible term for death is separation from God.
If someone is dead spiritually or dies spiritually, it means they’ve been separated from God—who is the source of and the author of life. Death is separation from Him.
The “real” you is a spirit. Your spirit will exist for eternity. If you die physically, it is a separation of the real you—your spirit man. In order to navigate this temporal, physical world, we were given a body of flesh. When we die, our spirit leaves our body of flesh and it returns to dust. But your spirit man goes on to live forever.
So understanding that death is separation, a touch of death can be carried into many examples of the human experience. Death has many faces. A relationship dies when people separate. Death can touch a business. Death comes to our physical bodies through any number of sicknesses or infirmities.
Death touches every aspect of human life in existence. Some of the most destabilizing touches of death are simply in our souls. When oppression or depression comes upon an individual, it is a form of death.
No matter what kind of death touches your life, you need to understand you have been redeemed from them all. You’ve been raised out of the death realm and into the life of God through Jesus Christ.
It’s God’s will that you reign in life. It’s His will that you exercise kingly authority by rising above the realm of death in this natural life.
That is the celebration of Easter!
For many, they ask the question, “Then why do I still wrestle with the death realm? It doesn’t seem like I have any kingly authority with which to exercise over death’s ability to touch my life.”
Is this all just a religious hoax? A bunch of baloney?
Why do Christians experience to experience a continuing touch of death? The sad part is they don’t. But they do because they can’t do anything about it in their own effort. They are trying to live their lives without the Lord. They’re doing the “religious” thing. When you do life through your own self-effort, you limit your life to your natural ability, skills, and/or intelligence. If that is the case with your life, then what that means is—you’re doomed!
If you are to achieve the promise of the resurrection, you have to experience empowerment by God. The source of the power is what we’re celebrating—the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The Lord doesn’t plop it on you, and all of a sudden, you get saved and float along on a little puffy cloud and all your needs are met and death never is able to approach your doorstep.
It doesn’t work that way.
You are a free, moral agent. But there are responsibilities we have to assume to make the kinds of decisions that will produce life and blessing as opposed to death and cursing.
The Lord said if you want to move into the life- and-blessing arena and leave the death- and-cursing arena, it depends on the decisions you make.
He said, “I’ve placed before you this day, life and blessing, death and cursing. It’s My will that you choose life, but the choice is yours.” So we must choose to align our lives with the power of the resurrection.
There are three portals for that power that we see in the Word of God. And we have to take steps to appropriate the power in the way that God says we must. It’s through these access points that we tap into the power of God.
Read About It
Colossians 2:12 Passion, “For we’ve been buried with Him into His death. Our baptism into death also means we were raised with Him when we believed in God’s resurrection power, the power that raised Him from death’s realm.”
Romans 5:17, KJV “For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)”