Is Your Nature The Same As Jesus’ Nature

When Jesus was walking on this earth proclaiming the kingdom is at hand, He also proclaimed that He and the Father were one. He could say this because the Father and Jesus were of one Spirit. He indicated that His Father in heaven and He had the same nature, so if you saw one of them, you saw both of them.

John 14:9-10 - Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?

In other scripture Jesus said He could only do His Father’s will because His Father’s nature and His own were the same. He could only do His Father’s will because Jesus could not go against His own nature since it was the same as His Father’s.

Now where does our nature fit into this? If we are a believer that has been born of God, we will have the same nature as Jesus.

John 14:12 - I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

Rom 2:14-15 - Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts

2 Peter 1:4 - Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

When we are truly born again, we will have received Jesus’ Holy Spirit. When we are filled with His Spirit, we will be imparted with Jesus’ very nature. Since we are imparted with Jesus’ nature when born again, we can then say to others – “If you have seen me, you have seen Jesus”. We can say this because Jesus is in us and we are in Jesus.

John 15:4 - Remain in me, and I will remain in you.

Rev 3:20-22 - Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.

In the following scripture, Peter stood up at the time of Pentecost and preached that what had just happened was what was prophesied – that God’s Spirit would be poured out to His people.

Acts 2:17 - In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.

When we are born again all of our old nature is gone and we are imparted with Jesus’ nature. As long as we stay in Christ’s nature, we can only do Jesus’ will since we have the same nature as Jesus. We no longer have any desires to sin and since all desires to sin are gone from us, we don’t willfully sin. We can’t willfully sin because it now goes against our very nature which is the same as Jesus’ nature. The only way a born again believer can willfully sin is if that believer rejects Jesus’ nature, but how could anyone born again want to go back to the sinful nature after they have experienced the very loving nature of Jesus.

When we are born again and Jesus’ nature has become our own nature we will be “Christ like”.

2 Cor 3:18 - And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

We are truly brothers with Christ and a son of our heavenly Father because we are of one in Spirit.

If your soul cannot attest to the above words in this message, then I want to encourage you to truly come to the Lord and give your whole heart, soul, and mind to the Lord as a living sacrifice, only then can God impart His Son’s Holy Spirit (His nature) into you. This is the mystery of the gospel, all things become new and understood when Jesus Christ is in you.

2 Cor 3:14-16 - But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away. Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

God Bless,
Michael Reid

Does Salvation Really Cost Me Everything?

Anyone can become a believer of Jesus Christ by just having a little belief in Jesus, but the cost of being born again into Jesus’ kingdom will cost a person everything, but after being born again they realize what they gave up was worth nothing anyway.

When we believe in Jesus with 10% faith, that 10% faith will help us grow in faith to a 20% belief, and 20% faith grows to 30% and so on. But there is a point where we have to let God bring us to 100% faith in Jesus Christ, where we commit all of our self as a living sacrifice for God’s work and glory. If we never reach this 100% faith in Jesus Christ, we will not be reborn into His kingdom. See the scripture below to see what happens to a person that won’t give 100% of his life to Jesus Christ.

Matt 19:17-24 - Why do you ask me about what is good?" Jesus replied. "There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, obey the commandments." "Which ones?" the man inquired. Jesus replied, "'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,' and 'love your neighbor as yourself.'" "All these I have kept," the young man said. "What do I still lack?" Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth. Then Jesus said to his disciples, "I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

This rich man was not willing to give 100% of everything he was or had. This man could not give it all up for Jesus, because he relied on his possessions to sustain him, he would not give it up to have 100% reliance on God. Anyone who is like this rich man of this parable will not be born again and cannot enter the kingdom of God.

So how can anybody believe and give 100% in faith to Jesus Christ? It is through the workings of God’s Spirit that is in us to bring us to the point of 100% faith. It is impossible for us, but with us letting God’s Spirit have control of our lives, He will make it happen. Nothing is impossible with God, we just have to humble ourselves and let him change us.

Coming to the point of being born again into God’s kingdom is really a revelation that God gives us through His Word and Spirit to see how priceless and righteous His kingdom is. When we realize that His kingdom is more valuable than anything we can keep for ourselves here on earth, we will give everything for the gift of salvation into His kingdom.

Matt 13:44 - "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.

Matt 13:45-46 - "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.

Is this how you see God’s kingdom? Are there any earthly things you have worth more than God’s kingdom? Are you willing to give your whole self as a living sacrifice to God in order to be in God’s kingdom?

In the kingdom by His Grace
Michael Reid