A Better Way to Live

And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. —Deuteronomy 32:20

In the Old Testament, God had to deal with a people who had no faith. They were not born again, not regenerated in spirit; they were still living with an old sin nature. These people were living by fear rather than by faith. God could not have a face-to-face relationship with them. He could not be intimate and close to them. He would have to sit back and watch them get into a mess; then, when they called out to Him, He would be able to come and rescue them. Many Christians live the same way today. They go along, doing their own thing, until they get in trouble; then they call out to God, and He rescues them. But there is a better way to live in this day—a way to avoid messes entirely. You can now live by faith and be led by the Word and the Spirit of God. Faith will put you on top, and faith will keep you on top. Faith will remove fear from your life; it will replace the spirit of fear with the spirit of faith. You will no longer wonder where you are headed—you will know, and believe, what your outcome will be. We are no longer a people who have no faith. We are a faith people, a just people who can now live daily God’s way! Faith came to us when the Word came. Jesus brought faith to mankind so we could live a daily, overcoming lifestyle!

Pastor Tom Kehres

A New Way to Live 

Now the just shall live by faith. —Hebrews 10:38

On the day you received Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you were justified by His blood (Romans 5:9). You were made righteous and just before God. Sin is no longer separating you from an intimate relationship with God. You have been made just, or innocent, in His sight. The born-again person, or the just person, should now live in a different way. The just shall live, or have his life sustained, by faith. Faith is simply putting God and His Word in first place in your life. Believing what God has said about you, others, and the circumstances will take you to a place of living beyond the natural, beyond the ordinary. So if we are to live by faith and not just try it out, we need to study about faith and learn about it every day of our lives. The just can live in many ways, but in order to live on top, to live in victory, to live pleasing to God—the just shall live by faith. Begin to study about faith; learn to live God’s way. The old way of life will no longer work for you. God has made a new way of life available to the believer—His way, the higher way, the best way. The just shall live by faith!

Pastor Tom Kehres

Live the High Life

Even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. —Romans 6:4–5

This new person who has been raised and seated has been made in the likeness of Jesus. Not the Jesus who walked the earth before the cross, but the resurrected Lord and Savior. You were created after God in righteousness and true holiness (Ephesians 4:24), you have become one spirit with God (1 Corinthians 6:17), and “as he is, so are [you] in this world” (1 John 4:17). You are as He is right here in this world. You are not only like Him in spiritual makeup or nature, but you are like Him in spiritual position. The same authority He has is the authority you have. The same power He has is the same power you have. The same position He has—“far above”—is the same position you have. You have been raised by the glory of the Father, in the likeness of Christ, to live in a fresh, new life! Here is where weakness is a thing of the past. Inability is no longer a problem. Little problems and circumstances that held you back before must now bow to your rights and authority in God. If you don’t like your life—change it. Don’t like your marriage? Change it! Don’t like your health or finances? Change them! Get a heavenly perspective on who you are and where you are seated. Look at things from a position of a “far above” new creation! Don’t come down and participate in small thinking and small talking! Sit down once and for all at the right hand of the Father and act like a far-above, resurrected, likeness-of-Christ person. Your new walk is on top of everything that used to hold you back! You are far above!

Pastor Tom Kehres

Dare to Be the New You

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. —Romans 6:4

Your old man was buried with Christ; he is dead and gone. You have been raised with Christ by the glory of the Father. When Jesus was raised from the dead, the same glory that hit His lifeless body hit you when you were raised with Him. The same God-power that infused Jesus infused you at the new birth. Not only were you given the power of God and the glory of God, but you were also raised and seated far above! With all this freely given to you, Paul declares that you should live and walk in newness of life. This new life is a life of power, a life of authority, a life of victory, a life no longer subject to this world and sin and sickness and evil forces. The only place now for the curse is under your feet—you have been raised and seated to walk (daily) in a newness of life. As long as you keep the old, weak, sinful Adam-man in the grave, you will live in a newness of life. Thoughts will come to attack your mind to get you to see yourself as not raised, not seated, and with no authority: “I’m unworthy” thoughts, “poor me” thoughts, “why doesn’t God help me” thoughts, “I can’t” thoughts will try to pull you out of your heavenly seat. Cast them down! Do not think on them for a second! You are raised! You are seated! You are far above! Whether you feel like it or not does not matter! Dare to believe the Word; dare to take your seat; dare to rule and reign. Dare to walk and live in a new life. Dare to be a new creation.

Pastor Tom Kehres