THE WORD LIVING IN US

ONE COMES into the family of God by confessing the Lordship of Jesus over his life.
Romans 10:9-10, “Because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved: for with the heart man believeth unto Righteousness: and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” And then in the eleventh verse He climaxes it by saying, “Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be put to shame.”
You see, the recognition of the Lordship of Jesus is the condition on which we receive Eternal Life. Faith is not a creation of the intellect but of the human spirit; and when He says, “Believe in thy heart,” He means that our spirits act upon the Word. So with the heart man believes that Jesus is his Righteousness, and then he makes a confession of his salvation, of the Lordship of Jesus over his life. “Lordship” really means “the bread provider,” the one who sustains, protects, and cares for us. So in the very beginning of the Divine Life, Jesus assumes the responsibility of our caretaker. We have Matthew 6:25-34. Jesus gives us a bird’s-eye view of the Father’s attitude toward His own children.
This was written for the New Creation. The Jews could not understand it. Notice this: “Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.” He illustrates it by the Father’s care for the birds, and says, “Are not ye of much more value than they?” And then we show lack of wisdom in worrying over our finances, “Why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.” Then the thirtieth verse, “But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, 0 ye of little faith? Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat,' or,What shall we drink’: or, `Wherewithal shall we be clothed?’ For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.”
And then we have the climax in the thirty-third verse, “But seek ye first His kingdom and His Righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” We are in His kingdom. Colossians 1:13, “Who delivered us out of the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.” We have found His Righteousness. 2 Corinthians 5:21, “Him Who knew no sin He made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the Righteousness of God in Him.” Then we are in the family. (Romans 8:14-16.)
And in 1 John 3:1, we read, “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God: Beloved, now are we children of God.” And not only are we sons, but we are heirs of God and joints heirs with Jesus Christ. God is our actual Father. John 16:27, “For the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved me.” If we are His children and if He is our Father, then He is responsible for us. If we take our place as sons, He is bound to take His place as a Father.
John 14:23, “If a man love me, he will keep my Word; and my Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” “If a man love me he will keep my Word.” That means that we are taking our place as sons. We will take the responsibility of sons. We will bear the burden of it, and we will enjoy the privileges of it. If we do that, then He will assume His place as a Father and will make His home with us, take care of us and enable us to meet our obligations, enable us to walk in love and in wisdom, and to walk in the fullness of His fellowship.
Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things in Him that strengtheneth me.” Here is the ability of God that becomes ours the moment that we come into the family. And Philippians 4:19 reads, “My God shall supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” That will be the end of worry, the end of fear. That will mean that God, our Father, has assumed the responsibility that came to Him when He gave us Eternal Life. Study this section very carefully. Proverbs 3:5, 6, “Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart and lean not upon thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct thy paths