About My Father’s Business

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman continues explaining what is in Christ, as God’s seed in us. By God’s power of the cross, through faith, Christ now lives in us. How are we ever to know Him if we are ignorant to what is in Christ?

There are four components of the seed of Christ which Warren shares with us through four different scriptures so we may continue to renew our minds, grow up in Him, and know and love Him more every day.

He starts off with the story of Jesus lost in the church in Luke 2:49, “And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?”

Here, Jesus, at the age of 12, introduces to Mary and Joseph a new Father. Jesus let Joseph know that he wasn’t His father and that Jesus was focused on His heavenly Father’s business. Jesus introduced the powerful truth that the same Christ in us is focused on our Father’s business. Being born again by Christ in us, we are now God’s offspring; and we, too, are about our Father's business! So what is that?

Ultimately, it is sharing the gospel of Christ, Christ in us, to the world.

“Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.” (John 4:34)

In John 4:34, Warren explains that just as Christ was here to do the will of His Father and finish His work, by Christ in us, we too are here to finish God’s will for each of us. This, too, is our meat, what sustains us.

The will of God for each of us is in what we do every day: in our jobs, in our home life, wherever God plants us. The world doesn’t need more evangelists or charismatics. Our pulpits are in our everyday situations. This is where people will see Jesus coming through each of us. This is real Christianity. Now being joined to the Lord in one Spirit, everything we do is for the Lord.

“I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” (John 17:4)

In John 17:4, Jesus is talking to His Father about finishing His work, His will for Him.

Warren explains that we, too, are here to glorify God by being who we were created to be and finishing His work for us. In Ephesians 1:4, Paul tells us God “hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world.” In order for us to glorify God and finish His will for us, we must know who we are now. With Christ in us, joined to us in spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17), we are God’s bona fide children! We glorify God by allowing Christ now to live out through us, not by anything we do on our own. God’s first choice for us, before the foundation of the world, is to glorify Him by being who He created us to be. We glorify Him by knowing Christ and allowing Christ to operate through us.

By knowing Christ in us more and more every day, we can step into what Paul says in Galatians 2:20, “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.”

Christ is our life now!

“When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.” (John 19:30)

In John 19:30, Christ’s words, “It is finished,” tells not of His dying to His body and earthly life but His finishing the will of His Father. God’s intention for Him is finished. God’s intention for Christ was that through His human birth, sinless life, and sacrificial death, every human being who believes would be redeemed. Even more, His intention was that every human being have an opportunity to be what God intended by God placing His seed — Christ’s Spirit and life — in them. He intended for us to have a new life in Christ. Through Christ’s death, we are reconciled to God, our heavenly Father.

For us to live the life God intended for us, we need to understand what’s in this seed in us and renew our minds to this understanding, getting to know Him!

Warren ends with Philippians 2:5, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.”

At some point in our walk with Christ, we need to “finish” our old ways of thinking and let only the mind of Christ be our guide. Paul tells us to search the Scriptures until our minds are renewed in Him, until we are about our Father’s business and finishing His will for us every day.