By Just Believing

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman explains just how deeply rooted we are in the law. Religion has rooted in our minds that we must be good, do this, don’t do that to be saved.

The law was set into motion in God’s plan with Adam in the Garden of Eden when He commanded, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Yet when Adam and Eve encountered Satan in the garden, Satan appealed to Adam’s most basic emotions and senses (that of his body … a down motivation) by displaying the beauty of the fruit and distorting God’s word saying, “Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 2:17; 3:4-5, KJV)

Warren explains that God built into humanity our ability to freely choose, but the foundation for choice came with Adam and Satan’s first interaction. Satan used third-dimensional knowledge (that of the senses) to appeal to Adam. So here Adam had a choice between God’s knowledge (which runs the world) and Satan’s knowledge (distortion of God’s knowledge) and chose to believe Satan. In that moment, by just believing, Satan’s nature became Adam’s nature. This is where the fall of man begins. And of course, without the fall, there would be no need for a Savior.

To this day, especially by means of religion, the minds of human beings are deeply rooted in the law, third-dimensional knowledge. By the curse of Adam by Satan, we are born into sin with Satan as our nature.

Therefore, we must be “born again” to have an exchange of nature from Satan’s to that of Christ’s (John 3:3).

How are we born again?

By just believing in Christ as our Savior, we are rebirthed with Christ’s nature, His seed. By Christ’s death, burial and resurrection, our old lives are “crucified with Christ” and we arose to a new life in Him (Galatians 2:20). By our rebirth, we take on Christ’s nature and are now bona fide children of God, no longer children of Satan (children of the “evil one,” of the “liar,” of “disobedience,” of “wrath”). God doesn’t correct our sin nature, he gives us an entirely new nature, that of Christ.

No longer do we need to live by the law, doing this and that to be saved, to be closer to God. We must be born again!

By God’s Grace, the Apostle Paul tells us that by just believing we are made brand new creations. Christ is now our new life. Christ living within us as our new nature is the gospel for us now. By the help of the comforter, our teacher, the Holy Spirit, we can now have this radical mind change and move from law to grace in our daily walk.

By just believing, our lives are no longer ruled by Satan and his distortion of God’s law. We now step into grace, the Christ Life, and live by Truth, by Him!

“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” (John 4:23-24 KJV)