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At The Cross: Satan Out, Christ In By Tammy Lacock This week, Warren Litzman makes it plain and clear exactly what God did at the Cross. We must look to the Cross to understand God’s boundless and unconditional love for each and every one of us. By Christ’s death and resurrection, the sin-nature (Satan nature) passed down through the generations from Adam’s curse by Satan, is literally uprooted and replaced with the incorruptible seed, Christ. This is what it means to be saved, born again. By just believing in Him, we are made brand-new creations and bona fide sons and daughters of God, to live eternally—now and in His heavenly home. Jesus was more powerful in His death than when He was alive. By Christ’s death, we are no longer bound by Satan and this world. When Christ died, we died too, to our old lives operated by Satan. We have a new Operator in Christ. In Him, there is no more sin and death for us. It’s important to understand that God didn’t change our minds when we got saved. Our spirits were saved, being joined to Christ making us one spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17), yet our minds have a lot of catching up to do. The Apostle Paul makes this clear throughout his epistles, helping us understand our new life now in Christ. Now as new creations in Christ, and by the help of the Holy Spirit, we must now allow the Holy Spirit renew our minds, by letting go of the old knowledge of good and evil, sin and death, which we were cursed with by Adam’s sin. We look to the Holy Spirit to replace it with a new knowledge, “the excellency of the knowledge of Christ,” as the Apostle puts it in Philippians 3:8, “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.” God wants us to come back to life. Our minds have been corrupted and now need a full housecleaning. Christ living in us now brings us back into the awareness of our status as God’s bona fide sons and daughters and therefore, our inheritance of eternal life in Him. Satan’s knowledge of good and evil no longer can take hold, once we decide to give our minds over to Christ and begin living our new life in Him.

God Is Love By Tammy Lacock This week, Warren Litzman takes us deep into the heart of God by the very sacrifice of His Son Jesus. God is Love. It’s in His nature to act in pure love. He knew, even before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4) that the only way to reconcile us to Him after our continued falling away by the curse of Adam is through a pure act of love. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) God paid the price as ransom so that our cursed and sinful natures would be exchanged by Christ’s nature. Through the perfect sacrifice of His Son at the Cross, God now has the right, according to His nature, to place Christ—God’s very seed and eternal life—in every believer. God paid His highest price for us, to bring us back into reconciliation with Him and to the life He originally intended for us, a life in Christ. God’s perfect plan of love was finished at the Cross and is now manifesting through Christ in the believing sinner. In Christ, we are now free in a world that wants to keep our minds set in bondage. The Apostle Paul tells us that, by the help of the Holy Spirit, our minds must be renewed to our new life in Christ if we are ever to fully live who God created us to be. As His bona fide sons and daughters, we must now get to know the Christ that lives in us if we are ever to fully understand the boundless, unwavering, and unconditional love of our Heavenly Father.

No Failure In God’s Plan By Tammy Lacock This week, Warren discusses the importance of understanding the Trinity as integral to the heart of God’s perfect plan. The Trinity of God consists of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, each a distinct personality manifestation of God and each having a significant role in God’s plan. At the Cross, we see God the Son fulfilling the Father’s plan. We see God in His deepest role as Father. The completion of God’s plan consisted of Christ being the perfect, sinless sacrifice, His death on the Cross as atonement, not only for the original sin passed down to us by the curse of Adam, but for every sin—past, present, and future. When Christ died, we died, too; our sins and our old selves were nailed to the cross and buried with Him. When He arose, conquering death, we arose, too, with Him as our new eternal life. By His death, we are reborn. God the Father’s deepest desire has been fulfilled: to fill His heavenly home with sons and daughters, made righteous by His Son’s sacrifice and His life now literally living in each and every believer. They are now a new creation, a new life, by their own choosing. At the Cross, we see this deep, reciprocal love between Father and Son, as well as their unwavering, boundless, and unconditional love for a fallen world. That’s us! The only way we could ever know of God’s plan and His unconditional love for us through His Son Jesus is by revelation. Jesus tells us in John chapters 13, 14, and 15 the main role of the Holy Spirit, which is to comfort us and teach us of Christ and how we are to live our brand-new lives in Him now. Only the Holy Spirit can reveal to us this radical new knowledge, what the Apostle Paul calls “the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:8). God’s plan is perfect. There is not one thing outside the boundary of this plan. He’s got the whole world in His hands. Every person involved in Christ’s death was necessary, all fitting into God’s plan. It had to happen for His plan to be fulfilled. We may fail in God’s plan, but He doesn’t. He loves us so much, wanting us to live meaningful and purposeful lives in Christ here and ultimately with Him in Heaven, that He won’t allow His plan to fail.

Let His Mind Be In YouBy Tammy Lacock “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5 KJV). This week, Warren Litzman shows that as brand-new creations in Christ, we now have the same spirit that was in Christ by His death on the cross. And by His Spirit, we have His mind readily available (1 Corinthians 2:16). Warren takes us into the mind of Christ on the cross as a means of understanding His mind, His deep relationship with the Father and the heart of God’s plan—God’s deepest desire to have sons and daughters in His house—can now be fulfilled. If we can understand Christ’s mind throughout His ministry and, most importantly at the cross, then we might be able to let go of our old mindsets, along with our old selves nailed at the cross, and allow His mind to come through us. The Apostle Paul was the only man raised up by Christ Himself who understood our new life in Christ and what it takes to actually live it. He knew our minds are still attached to our old selves, the self that died at the cross with Christ. He tells us to be “transformed by the renewing of [our] minds.” By the help of the Holy Spirit, who comforts and teaches us of our new life in Christ, we can begin to cultivate a unique and personal relationship with the Christ that now lives in us. As our knowledge and relationship with Him deepens, we learn to let go and let His mind come through.

“Death, Where Is Your Sting!”By Tammy Lacock This week, Warren Litzman takes us to the Cross yet once again in the hopes that we can understand who Christ really was, as we live and move in Him now. As we go through Christ’s suffering and death while on the cross, we see a man who still wasn’t thinking about Himself. Christ was loving and affectionate to His mother and to John, the only disciple at His crucifixion. He made sure His mother would be taken care of by John. He was loving and forgiving to the thief on His one side, assuring him he would be with Him in paradise. And He personified love in His last words when He asked God to forgive those who participated in His suffering and death and said, “They know not what they do.” The only suffering He acknowledged was by saying “I thirst.” Even in His last words on the cross, He didn’t complain. Jesus had no time to think of His pain and betrayal. His death was the epitome of forgiveness. He knew He had to die for our world to be saved, to receive the gift of His eternal life within us. He loved even unto His death. Through Paul’s epistles, Warren reminds us of the gospel of grace, the only gospel for believers today. He reminds us that by Christ’s death, God poured out His love and grace unto us. We are no longer corrupted by the curse of Satan by Adam. By Christ’s death, our Satan-natures have been uprooted and replaced by His incorruptible seed. By His unconditional and boundless love within us now, death and sin no longer have a hold on us. The Apostle Paul knew this when he said in 1 Corinthians 15:55, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” Christ’s death accomplished all things: fulfilled the law, conquered sin and death, and ushered in grace and our new life. By God’s grace, Christ is now literally living within us. We now have His eternal Life and His unfailing love to draw from. Now we are free to enjoy a unique and personal relationship with Christ as we live and move and love in Him.

Deepest Root Of The Cross By Tammy Lacock This week, Warren Litzman takes us to the Cross once again in the hopes that we can understand its deep root: God’s love. Christ’s journey to the Cross started before the foundation of the world, for God’s deep love for us was in His plan before we were even born. God’s Word tells us: “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4) “But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.” (1 Peter 1:19-20) God’s deepest expression of His Love is through His Son’s life and death. Warren takes us through this journey, culminating at the Cross. It’s here where the very death of Christ ushers in God’s grace and love poured out unto us. At the Cross, Christ conquered all sin — past, present, and future — and conquered death. What takes place within each and every believer at the Cross is the uprooting of Satan’s natures, which was passed down by the curse of Adam’s sin and was literally replaced with the Seed of Christ, the Incorruptible Seed of God’s Son. We are no longer bound by Satan and this fallen world. Our new life is Christ. He is now alive and well in each and every one of us. By Him, we now have eternal life. We are joined to Christ’s Spirit making us one spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17). By God’s grace, all we have to do is believe. God sent a part of Himself to be born into this world to show us who He is and to save us from a fallen world that is spiraling deeper and deeper into the lies of Satan, to die a lonely and horrific death on the Cross as the ultimate sacrifice to redeem us and bring us back to Him, not to mention that all we need to do is believe. If this isn’t deep love, then I don’t know what is! God is love. God is true love. What happens at the Cross is at the deepest root of who He is. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)

Two Deep Roots In Grace By Tammy Lacock There are two deep roots that were in God’s plan before the foundation of the world. These are heavenly roots. They have nothing to do with the world and nothing to do with the Devil. They have everything to do with us and God’s love for us through His Son. These two deep roots sustain the final gospel of Paul, who by revelation from Christ Himself understood the Cross and its ushering in of God’s grace unlike any other writer. The following two verses form the foundation. “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4) “But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.” (1 Peter 1:19-20) This week, Warren Litzman takes us to the Cross again in the hopes that we can understand the great power of sin and God’s grace and love poured out unto us through His Son as ultimate power. Warren takes us to the cross so that we can see Christ’s pure sacrifice, His suffering and shed blood and by seeing, fall in love with Him. “But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.” (Galatians 6:14) Here Paul tells us that there is no other glory than the glory of Christ. By His death at the cross, the world has been crucified, and we are no longer bound by it. The world is under subjection to God’s plan. In grace, the world has lost its ultimate power, whether by sin or by law. For Paul, his new life in Christ is all that matters. Christ is his first love. Our new life in Christ could not have been made possible without the Cross. God’s love and grace is so amazing that He rooted this deep into His plan, before the foundation of the world.

“I Am Crucified With Christ”By Tammy Lacock “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20) This week, Warren Litzman dives deep into the heart of the Apostle Paul’s gospel, where there is no separation between new life and the shedding of Christ’s blood. Warren once again details Christ’s journey leading up to His death. In the Garden of Gethsemane, when Christ accepted His Father’s will and drank of the cup of every single sin ever committed — past, present, and future — we too were in that cup. Our sin-nature, passed down to us from Adam by the curse of Satan, was in that cup. We were poured into His body. And the sin of the entire world was so severe for His body to bear that it began to push out His blood. Through His scourging, His walk to Calvary, His crowning of thorns, and His nailing to the cross, His blood was shed and pushed out so much that it only took six hours for Him to die. His work was then finished. Christ’s death on the cross finished sin and death once and for all. And we, too, were crucified with Him. We were in Him when He died, and we are in Him now. When He went from death to life, we did too. By the Cross, He now lives in us, joined to our spirits making us one spirit in Him, brand-new creations (1 Corinthians 6:17; 2 Corinthians 5:17). The beginning of knowing Christ is knowing where He is. In Galatians 2:20, Paul tells us exactly where He is: “Christ liveth in me.” No separation. He tells us it is now time to get to know and fall in love with Christ who now lives in each of us as believers. We fall in love with Him by now giving ourselves, our lives back to Him. He’s not coming and going. By the cross, He now lives in us. He is our new life. By the help of the Holy Spirit, may we develop and deepen our love for Christ by making Him our first love.

Life Is In His BloodBy Tammy Lacock “And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.” (Hebrews 9:22) In Hebrews 9:22, the Apostle Paul reminds us of Old Testament Jewish law. Without a death and blood sacrifice, one cannot be atoned or freed from their sins. Likewise, by Christ’s innocent blood, we are freed from sin. The difference is by Christ’s Blood, we are freed from all sin once and for all. No longer is a sacrificial animal needed because we are no longer bound by sin and death. By the shedding of Christ’s blood, all of humanity has been redeemed. He literally washed away all sin — past, present, and future. He washed away death. We are no longer to live in sin and death because we are now freed from it. We, too, have resurrected with Christ, and we now live a brand-new life in Him. A life where our minds begin renewing as a result of our new life in Christ. One with Him, joined to His Spirit, making us one Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17). This week, Warren Litzman takes us on a journey into the last hours before Christ’s death on the cross. An intimate journey into the literal shedding of His blood and how by His blood, we have new life. He begins in the Garden of Gethsemane and takes us through Christ’s death on the cross. Throughout the hours before His death, we can see how by receiving the cup and pouring all of our sins into His pure body, His blood is literally pushed out in His flesh. His life is pushed out. His blood is again pushed out by the scourging. And then again throughout His walk to Calvary. And yet again by the nails driven into his hands and feet. And by His death, His blood is finally poured out, pushing out His life once and for all for the remission of all sins. For Christ said in His last words before His death “It is finished.” Death and sin are finished. New Life comes only by His blood.

What’s In The Cup?By Tammy Lacock Warren Litzman discusses exactly what was in the cup Jesus drank in the Garden of Gethsemane of the night before His death. We are in the cup. Each one of us is in that cup. Everything that has to do with our lineage since Adam is in that cup. Everything that makes us a human being is in that cup. The cup consisted of every sin, every transgression — past, present and future — no matter by whom, was in that cup. The sin of Adam is in the cup. The sin of Abraham is in the cup. The sin of Sodom and Gomorrah is in the cup. The sin of Hitler is in the cup. The sin of Saddam Hussein is in the cup. Every sin is in that cup. No exceptions. When Jesus drank of the cup, every single one of our sins and transgressions were poured into His body. When all of our sin went into His body, it pushed out life. Death went into His body and pushed out life. Christ knew that His time had come to eradicate sin and death once and for all. The end of sin is death, Christ’s death. Life of the flesh is in the blood of Christ. He paid the penalty for our sin, and now we are completely freed from all of it by faith in Christ. When He died, we died, and all of our sins died, too. Buried and dead. Yet by God’s Grace, when Christ arose from death, as believers we arose, too, to a brand-new life in Him. We have been made anew. By Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection at the Cross, we went from a God-breathed Adamic living soul to a quickened spirit, joined to Christ making us one Spirit in Him. He is our new identity. We are now complete in Him and free to live exactly who God created us to be. This is why Christ’s death on the cross is the ultimate sacrifice, the gift of all gifts. He paid for every single penalty, and he paid in full.

One BaptismBy Tammy Lacock “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?” (Roman’s 6:3) This week, Warren Litzman focuses on Romans chapter 6 as the foundational chapter for the Apostle Paul’s gospel of grace. In verse 3, when Paul says “know ye not,” he’s asking believers if we know exactly what happened to us at the Cross, by Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection? Here he’s telling us something happened to us and asking, ‘don’t you know about it?’ As believers, when Christ died on the cross, we were baptized, fully immersed, into His death. By His death, we died too, to our old lives, cursed by the sin of Adam by Satan. By sacrificing His life, we as believers, have now been made free of the law and sin and blameless and holy before God (Ephesians 1:4). The Holy Spirit baptized each and every believer into Christ, and we are now one body in Him. There’s nothing left of our old selves, our old lives. Christ in us is our new life. The outworking of this is in our different expressions. But the incoming is singular, we are all baptized into one Spirit, that is Christ. One faith, one final baptism. Not by water but by the Holy Spirit. “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12:13) We see a glimpse of our baptism into Christ’s death in the Garden of Gethsemane. After three years of coming to Jerusalem on that Passover night, Christ fulfills God’s plan and drinks of the cup of all of our transgressions, pouring into Him our old lives. And as a result, we are fully immersed in Him unto His death. Yet Paul tells us, we share also in His resurrection, arising to a brand-new life in Him (Romans 6:5; 2 Corinthians 5:17). Warren then takes us into Matthew 26:31, “Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.” Here Jesus explains that it is going to be hurtful and very hard for His disciples to understand His death. In fact, many will deny Him on the eve of His death because they will not understand. Making the transition from being with them in the flesh to being in spirit will take time and understanding, which only the Holy Spirit can provide. By the Holy Spirit, Paul’s epistles help us understand our new life in Christ. By God’s Grace through His Son’s death on the cross, no longer are we held bondage to the law and our own sins. This is God’s Grace now being poured out unto us. May we not be offended by His death but greatly rejoice knowing there is now only one baptism. We have all been baptized into Christ by His death, making us one body, one in Him. He is now our Peace, our Strength, our Joy, the very Life within us. Only the cross makes this possible. There is no greater gift.

“Follow Me As I Follow Christ”By Tammy Lacock This week, Warren Litzman seeks to help us truly understand who we are as born-again believers, now that we are living in God’s grace. In John 12:26, we have a Scripture that must be rightly divided. Jesus is preaching the kingdom gospel, a gospel meant for the nation of Israel which was based on outer works and serving Him to please God. Christ could not yet reveal His gospel of grace because He had not yet died on the cross. It wasn’t until after His death, burial, and resurrection that he raised up the Apostle Paul to deliver this new gospel, one that no longer requires works for salvation but tells us we are saved by grace, by Christ’s work on the cross. By God’s grace at the Cross, a radical change took place within us as believers. Because Israel rejected Christ as their Messiah, they had no inner change. They are still holding onto their own outer works for salvation and God’s signs, wonders, and miracles for hope. To the believer, however, the Holy Spirit delivered the incorruptible seed of Christ into our spirits, making us one spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:7). We are brand-new creations in Him (2 Corinthians 5:17). Warren goes on to explain that the first time we get a glimpse into grace and our new life in Christ is in the garden of Gethsemane. When Christ drinks of the cup, we are poured into Him before His death. Our old lives and all of our sins — past, present and future — were poured into Him. At the cross, when He died, we died and were buried too. Yet when He arose, we arose too, to a brand-new life in Him, literally. It’s important to understand, as Warren discusses, that the nation of Israel has been set aside since their rejection of Christ as their Messiah. When once God spoke to them directly, He now only speaks to us through His Son in the born-again believer. Through Christ, God now sees us as His bona fide sons and daughters, joint heirs with Christ. He no longer sees our old identities; He now sees Christ in us as our righteousness. Paul tells us that to understand the fullness of God’s grace, we are meant to know Him now personally, the Christ that literally lives in us. By getting to know Him and falling in love with Him, we start to see clearly that all outer works and all outer things no longer matter. Paul considered everything else worthless and clearly said in Philippians 3:8, “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.” In 1 Corinthians 11:1, Paul says “Follow me as I follow Christ.” May we dive into his epistles and allow the Holy Spirit to comfort us and teach us of our new life in grace, our new life in Christ.