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The Cross, Part 18

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 06:00:00 -0500

Death Brings Life

By Tammy Lacock

“Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.” (2 Corinthians 4:10)

In this final part of The Cross, Warren takes us into the very heart of the Apostle Paul in the hopes that his gospel of grace will take hold in the hearts and minds of those who hear it.

Without Paul’s writings, we would never fully understand what exactly happened at the Cross. Paul was the only one raised up by Christ Himself to explain it.

Paul’s gospel explains the abundant life Christ promised to us by His death on the Cross. As believers in Christ, we are now complete in Him, by the uprooting of the sin-nature passed down through the curse of Adam by Satan, replacing it with Christ’s nature, His Incorruptible Seed.

By His very life within us now, we can now truly live free, free to rest in Him and experience and know His Peace “that passeth all understanding,” even amidst our inevitable sufferings. By Christ in us now, we stand perfect before God as His bona fide sons and daughters. There is nothing we can do to be perfect. Christ is our perfection. Paul’s gospel of grace tells us that even when we fail, God only sees Christ.

In 2 Corinthians 4:10, Paul expresses his intimate love for the Christ within him by acknowledging our need to bear the suffering in our bodies and death to ourselves as the only means by which Christ can be manifested through us as believers. Just as by Christ’s death we have been given new life, so too, by our own suffering and death to our old lives, Christ’s life can now come through us. Life comes through suffering and death. The suffering and death to ourselves manifests His life through us to others. The trials and tribulations in this life are meant to cultivate a deep and unique relationship with Christ, one that becomes a love affair as we continue to live and breathe in Him.

Through Paul, God’s ultimate plan for us is revealed: To know and live Christ as our new life, to live and rest in Him knowing everything is in His hands, and to reciprocate His perfect love for us by making Him our first love each and every day and through every single suffering.

His death ushered in our new and everlasting life. Christ in you and me, the hope of glory!

“Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.” (Colossians 1:26-28)

The Cross, Part 17

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 06:00:00 -0500

It Is Finished

By Tammy Lacock

This week, Warren Litzman dives deep into Christ’s death on the Cross so we might understand exactly who we are now in Christ.

In His last words, “It is finished,” Christ testified that His death was the culmination of God’s plan of salvation for humanity. If not for His death on the Cross, we would not have new life. We would remain dead in this world, never to experience eternal life with Him.

By Christ’s death, Satan’s nature, which was passed down to us by the curse of Adam, can now be uprooted and exchanged with Christ’s nature, joined to our spirits making us one spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17). We are brand-new creations, crucified at the Cross with Christ, and raised to a new life in Him in His resurrection. We are no longer defined by anything outside of us. Our identity is Christ, alive and well in each of us.

The Apostle Paul was the greatest psychologist of all time because not only did Christ reveal to him his new identity, but He revealed to him exactly how the believer in Christ can now live in freedom from sin.

Warren explains, through Paul’s epistles, that the reason we continue to make poor decisions as believers is because we don’t know who we are. Paul’s gospel of grace—that we are saved not by anything we do or don’t do, but by Christ’s perfect sacrifice on the Cross—reveals to us our new identity in Christ, and by Him we are made bona fide sons and daughters of God.

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Col. 1:27)

“The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” (Rom. 8:16-18)

We can be confident of eternity with Christ in heaven when we know Christ is already in us now. Once we start to get a grip on Christ as our new life, the Holy Spirit continues to renew our minds, bringing us into a closer unique relationship with the Christ in us, through our everyday circumstances and situations and especially through our adversities.

God’s plan of salvation is finished. By only believing in Christ as our Savior, we are redeemed, co-heirs with Christ to God’s kingdom. Yet the Apostle Paul tells us this is just the beginning of our new life in Christ. By cultivating a deep relationship with the Christ that lives in us now, through the renewal of our minds, we can begin to experience here and now the abundant, eternal life that Christ’s death promises.

“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10)

The Cross, Part 16

Sat, 24 Feb 2024 06:00:00 -0500

At The Cross: Satan Out, Christ In

By Tammy Lacock

This week, Warren Litzman makes it plain and clear exactly what God did at the Cross. We must look to the Cross to understand God’s boundless and unconditional love for each and every one of us. By Christ’s death and resurrection, the sin-nature (Satan nature) passed down through the generations from Adam’s curse by Satan, is literally uprooted and replaced with the incorruptible seed, Christ. This is what it means to be saved, born again. By just believing in Him, we are made brand-new creations and bona fide sons and daughters of God, to live eternally—now and in His heavenly home.

Jesus was more powerful in His death than when He was alive. By Christ’s death, we are no longer bound by Satan and this world. When Christ died, we died too, to our old lives operated by Satan. We have a new Operator in Christ. In Him, there is no more sin and death for us.

It’s important to understand that God didn’t change our minds when we got saved. Our spirits were saved, being joined to Christ making us one spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17), yet our minds have a lot of catching up to do. The Apostle Paul makes this clear throughout his epistles, helping us understand our new life now in Christ. Now as new creations in Christ, and by the help of the Holy Spirit, we must now allow the Holy Spirit renew our minds, by letting go of the old knowledge of good and evil, sin and death, which we were cursed with by Adam’s sin. We look to the Holy Spirit to replace it with a new knowledge, “the excellency of the knowledge of Christ,” as the Apostle puts it in Philippians 3:8, “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.”

God wants us to come back to life. Our minds have been corrupted and now need a full housecleaning. Christ living in us now brings us back into the awareness of our status as God’s bona fide sons and daughters and therefore, our inheritance of eternal life in Him. Satan’s knowledge of good and evil no longer can take hold, once we decide to give our minds over to Christ and begin living our new life in Him.

The Cross, Part 15

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 06:00:00 -0500

God Is Love

By Tammy Lacock

This week, Warren Litzman takes us deep into the heart of God by the very sacrifice of His Son Jesus.

God is Love. It’s in His nature to act in pure love. He knew, even before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4) that the only way to reconcile us to Him after our continued falling away by the curse of Adam is through a pure act of love.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

God paid the price as ransom so that our cursed and sinful natures would be exchanged by Christ’s nature. Through the perfect sacrifice of His Son at the Cross, God now has the right, according to His nature, to place Christ—God’s very seed and eternal life—in every believer. God paid His highest price for us, to bring us back into reconciliation with Him and to the life He originally intended for us, a life in Christ. God’s perfect plan of love was finished at the Cross and is now manifesting through Christ in the believing sinner.

In Christ, we are now free in a world that wants to keep our minds set in bondage. The Apostle Paul tells us that, by the help of the Holy Spirit, our minds must be renewed to our new life in Christ if we are ever to fully live who God created us to be. As His bona fide sons and daughters, we must now get to know the Christ that lives in us if we are ever to fully understand the boundless, unwavering, and unconditional love of our Heavenly Father.

The Cross, Part 14

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 06:00:00 -0500

No Failure In God’s Plan

By Tammy Lacock

This week, Warren discusses the importance of understanding the Trinity as integral to the heart of God’s perfect plan.

The Trinity of God consists of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, each a distinct personality manifestation of God and each having a significant role in God’s plan.

At the Cross, we see God the Son fulfilling the Father’s plan. We see God in His deepest role as Father. The completion of God’s plan consisted of Christ being the perfect, sinless sacrifice, His death on the Cross as atonement, not only for the original sin passed down to us by the curse of Adam, but for every sin—past, present, and future. When Christ died, we died, too; our sins and our old selves were nailed to the cross and buried with Him. When He arose, conquering death, we arose, too, with Him as our new eternal life. By His death, we are reborn. God the Father’s deepest desire has been fulfilled: to fill His heavenly home with sons and daughters, made righteous by His Son’s sacrifice and His life now literally living in each and every believer. They are now a new creation, a new life, by their own choosing. At the Cross, we see this deep, reciprocal love between Father and Son, as well as their unwavering, boundless, and unconditional love for a fallen world. That’s us!

The only way we could ever know of God’s plan and His unconditional love for us through His Son Jesus is by revelation. Jesus tells us in John chapters 13, 14, and 15 the main role of the Holy Spirit, which is to comfort us and teach us of Christ and how we are to live our brand-new lives in Him now. Only the Holy Spirit can reveal to us this radical new knowledge, what the Apostle Paul calls “the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:8).

God’s plan is perfect. There is not one thing outside the boundary of this plan. He’s got the whole world in His hands. Every person involved in Christ’s death was necessary, all fitting into God’s plan. It had to happen for His plan to be fulfilled.

We may fail in God’s plan, but He doesn’t. He loves us so much, wanting us to live meaningful and purposeful lives in Christ here and ultimately with Him in Heaven, that He won’t allow His plan to fail.

The Cross, Part 13

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 06:00:00 -0500

Let His Mind Be In You

By Tammy Lacock

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5 KJV).

This week, Warren Litzman shows that as brand-new creations in Christ, we now have the same spirit that was in Christ by His death on the cross. And by His Spirit, we have His mind readily available (1 Corinthians 2:16).

Warren takes us into the mind of Christ on the cross as a means of understanding His mind, His deep relationship with the Father and the heart of God’s plan—God’s deepest desire to have sons and daughters in His house—can now be fulfilled.

If we can understand Christ’s mind throughout His ministry and, most importantly at the cross, then we might be able to let go of our old mindsets, along with our old selves nailed at the cross, and allow His mind to come through us. The Apostle Paul was the only man raised up by Christ Himself who understood our new life in Christ and what it takes to actually live it. He knew our minds are still attached to our old selves, the self that died at the cross with Christ. He tells us to be “transformed by the renewing of [our] minds.”

By the help of the Holy Spirit, who comforts and teaches us of our new life in Christ, we can begin to cultivate a unique and personal relationship with the Christ that now lives in us. As our knowledge and relationship with Him deepens, we learn to let go and let His mind come through.

The Cross, Part 12

Sat, 23 Dec 2023 06:00:00 -0500

“Death, Where Is Your Sting!”

By Tammy Lacock

This week, Warren Litzman takes us to the Cross yet once again in the hopes that we can understand who Christ really was, as we live and move in Him now. As we go through Christ’s suffering and death while on the cross, we see a man who still wasn’t thinking about Himself.

Christ was loving and affectionate to His mother and to John, the only disciple at His crucifixion. He made sure His mother would be taken care of by John. He was loving and forgiving to the thief on His one side, assuring him he would be with Him in paradise. And He personified love in His last words when He asked God to forgive those who participated in His suffering and death and said, “They know not what they do.” The only suffering He acknowledged was by saying “I thirst.” Even in His last words on the cross, He didn’t complain. Jesus had no time to think of His pain and betrayal. His death was the epitome of forgiveness. He knew He had to die for our world to be saved, to receive the gift of His eternal life within us. He loved even unto His death.

Through Paul’s epistles, Warren reminds us of the gospel of grace, the only gospel for believers today. He reminds us that by Christ’s death, God poured out His love and grace unto us. We are no longer corrupted by the curse of Satan by Adam. By Christ’s death, our Satan-natures have been uprooted and replaced by His incorruptible seed. By His unconditional and boundless love within us now, death and sin no longer have a hold on us. The Apostle Paul knew this when he said in 1 Corinthians 15:55, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”

Christ’s death accomplished all things: fulfilled the law, conquered sin and death, and ushered in grace and our new life. By God’s grace, Christ is now literally living within us. We now have His eternal Life and His unfailing love to draw from. Now we are free to enjoy a unique and personal relationship with Christ as we live and move and love in Him.

The Cross, Part 11

Sun, 10 Dec 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Deepest Root Of The Cross

By Tammy Lacock

This week, Warren Litzman takes us to the Cross once again in the hopes that we can understand its deep root: God’s love.

Christ’s journey to the Cross started before the foundation of the world, for God’s deep love for us was in His plan before we were even born. God’s Word tells us:

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4)

“But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.” (1 Peter 1:19-20)

God’s deepest expression of His Love is through His Son’s life and death. Warren takes us through this journey, culminating at the Cross. It’s here where the very death of Christ ushers in God’s grace and love poured out unto us. At the Cross, Christ conquered all sin — past, present, and future — and conquered death.

What takes place within each and every believer at the Cross is the uprooting of Satan’s natures, which was passed down by the curse of Adam’s sin and was literally replaced with the Seed of Christ, the Incorruptible Seed of God’s Son. We are no longer bound by Satan and this fallen world. Our new life is Christ. He is now alive and well in each and every one of us. By Him, we now have eternal life. We are joined to Christ’s Spirit making us one spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17). By God’s grace, all we have to do is believe.

God sent a part of Himself to be born into this world to show us who He is and to save us from a fallen world that is spiraling deeper and deeper into the lies of Satan, to die a lonely and horrific death on the Cross as the ultimate sacrifice to redeem us and bring us back to Him, not to mention that all we need to do is believe. If this isn’t deep love, then I don’t know what is!

God is love. God is true love. What happens at the Cross is at the deepest root of who He is.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)

The Cross, Part 10

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Two Deep Roots In Grace

By Tammy Lacock

There are two deep roots that were in God’s plan before the foundation of the world. These are heavenly roots. They have nothing to do with the world and nothing to do with the Devil. They have everything to do with us and God’s love for us through His Son.

These two deep roots sustain the final gospel of Paul, who by revelation from Christ Himself understood the Cross and its ushering in of God’s grace unlike any other writer. The following two verses form the foundation.

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4)

This week, Warren Litzman takes us to the Cross again in the hopes that we can understand the great power of sin and God’s grace and love poured out unto us through His Son as ultimate power. Warren takes us to the cross so that we can see Christ’s pure sacrifice, His suffering and shed blood and by seeing, fall in love with Him.

“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.” (Galatians 6:14)

Here Paul tells us that there is no other glory than the glory of Christ. By His death at the cross, the world has been crucified, and we are no longer bound by it. The world is under subjection to God’s plan. In grace, the world has lost its ultimate power, whether by sin or by law. For Paul, his new life in Christ is all that matters. Christ is his first love.

Our new life in Christ could not have been made possible without the Cross. God’s love and grace is so amazing that He rooted this deep into His plan, before the foundation of the world.

The Cross, Part 9

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 06:00:00 -0500

“I Am Crucified With Christ”

By Tammy Lacock

“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.” (Galatians 2:20)

This week, Warren Litzman dives deep into the heart of the Apostle Paul’s gospel, where there is no separation between new life and the shedding of Christ’s blood. Warren once again details Christ’s journey leading up to His death.

In the Garden of Gethsemane, when Christ accepted His Father’s will and drank of the cup of every single sin ever committed — past, present, and future — we too were in that cup. Our sin-nature, passed down to us from Adam by the curse of Satan, was in that cup. We were poured into His body. And the sin of the entire world was so severe for His body to bear that it began to push out His blood. Through His scourging, His walk to Calvary, His crowning of thorns, and His nailing to the cross, His blood was shed and pushed out so much that it only took six hours for Him to die. His work was then finished. Christ’s death on the cross finished sin and death once and for all. And we, too, were crucified with Him. We were in Him when He died, and we are in Him now. When He went from death to life, we did too. By the Cross, He now lives in us, joined to our spirits making us one spirit in Him, brand-new creations (1 Corinthians 6:17; 2 Corinthians 5:17).

The beginning of knowing Christ is knowing where He is. In Galatians 2:20, Paul tells us exactly where He is: “Christ liveth in me.”

No separation. He tells us it is now time to get to know and fall in love with Christ who now lives in each of us as believers.

We fall in love with Him by now giving ourselves, our lives back to Him. He’s not coming and going. By the cross, He now lives in us. He is our new life. By the help of the Holy Spirit, may we develop and deepen our love for Christ by making Him our first love.

The Cross, Part 8

Sat, 18 Nov 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Life Is In His Blood

By Tammy Lacock

“And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.” (Hebrews 9:22)

In Hebrews 9:22, the Apostle Paul reminds us of Old Testament Jewish law. Without a death and blood sacrifice, one cannot be atoned or freed from their sins. Likewise, by Christ’s innocent blood, we are freed from sin. The difference is by Christ’s Blood, we are freed from all sin once and for all. No longer is a sacrificial animal needed because we are no longer bound by sin and death.

By the shedding of Christ’s blood, all of humanity has been redeemed. He literally washed away all sin — past, present, and future. He washed away death. We are no longer to live in sin and death because we are now freed from it. We, too, have resurrected with Christ, and we now live a brand-new life in Him. A life where our minds begin renewing as a result of our new life in Christ. One with Him, joined to His Spirit, making us one Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17).

This week, Warren Litzman takes us on a journey into the last hours before Christ’s death on the cross. An intimate journey into the literal shedding of His blood and how by His blood, we have new life.

He begins in the Garden of Gethsemane and takes us through Christ’s death on the cross. Throughout the hours before His death, we can see how by receiving the cup and pouring all of our sins into His pure body, His blood is literally pushed out in His flesh. His life is pushed out. His blood is again pushed out by the scourging. And then again throughout His walk to Calvary. And yet again by the nails driven into his hands and feet. And by His death, His blood is finally poured out, pushing out His life once and for all for the remission of all sins.

For Christ said in His last words before His death “It is finished.” Death and sin are finished.

New Life comes only by His blood.

The Cross, Part 7

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 06:00:00 -0500

What’s In The Cup?

By Tammy Lacock

Warren Litzman discusses exactly what was in the cup Jesus drank in the Garden of Gethsemane of the night before His death.

We are in the cup. Each one of us is in that cup. Everything that has to do with our lineage since Adam is in that cup. Everything that makes us a human being is in that cup. The cup consisted of every sin, every transgression — past, present and future — no matter by whom, was in that cup. The sin of Adam is in the cup. The sin of Abraham is in the cup. The sin of Sodom and Gomorrah is in the cup. The sin of Hitler is in the cup. The sin of Saddam Hussein is in the cup. Every sin is in that cup. No exceptions. When Jesus drank of the cup, every single one of our sins and transgressions were poured into His body.

When all of our sin went into His body, it pushed out life. Death went into His body and pushed out life. Christ knew that His time had come to eradicate sin and death once and for all. The end of sin is death, Christ’s death. Life of the flesh is in the blood of Christ. He paid the penalty for our sin, and now we are completely freed from all of it by faith in Christ.

When He died, we died, and all of our sins died, too. Buried and dead. Yet by God’s Grace, when Christ arose from death, as believers we arose, too, to a brand-new life in Him. We have been made anew. By Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection at the Cross, we went from a God-breathed Adamic living soul to a quickened spirit, joined to Christ making us one Spirit in Him. He is our new identity. We are now complete in Him and free to live exactly who God created us to be.

This is why Christ’s death on the cross is the ultimate sacrifice, the gift of all gifts. He paid for every single penalty, and he paid in full.

The Cross, Part 6

Sat, 04 Nov 2023 06:00:00 -0500

One Baptism

By Tammy Lacock

“Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?” (Roman’s 6:3)

This week, Warren Litzman focuses on Romans chapter 6 as the foundational chapter for the Apostle Paul’s gospel of grace.

In verse 3, when Paul says “know ye not,” he’s asking believers if we know exactly what happened to us at the Cross, by Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection? Here he’s telling us something happened to us and asking, ‘don’t you know about it?’ As believers, when Christ died on the cross, we were baptized, fully immersed, into His death. By His death, we died too, to our old lives, cursed by the sin of Adam by Satan. By sacrificing His life, we as believers, have now been made free of the law and sin and blameless and holy before God (Ephesians 1:4). The Holy Spirit baptized each and every believer into Christ, and we are now one body in Him. There’s nothing left of our old selves, our old lives. Christ in us is our new life. The outworking of this is in our different expressions. But the incoming is singular, we are all baptized into one Spirit, that is Christ. One faith, one final baptism. Not by water but by the Holy Spirit.

“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12:13)

We see a glimpse of our baptism into Christ’s death in the Garden of Gethsemane. After three years of coming to Jerusalem on that Passover night, Christ fulfills God’s plan and drinks of the cup of all of our transgressions, pouring into Him our old lives. And as a result, we are fully immersed in Him unto His death. Yet Paul tells us, we share also in His resurrection, arising to a brand-new life in Him (Romans 6:5; 2 Corinthians 5:17).

Warren then takes us into Matthew 26:31, “Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.”

Here Jesus explains that it is going to be hurtful and very hard for His disciples to understand His death. In fact, many will deny Him on the eve of His death because they will not understand. Making the transition from being with them in the flesh to being in spirit will take time and understanding, which only the Holy Spirit can provide.

By the Holy Spirit, Paul’s epistles help us understand our new life in Christ. By God’s Grace through His Son’s death on the cross, no longer are we held bondage to the law and our own sins. This is God’s Grace now being poured out unto us.

May we not be offended by His death but greatly rejoice knowing there is now only one baptism. We have all been baptized into Christ by His death, making us one body, one in Him. He is now our Peace, our Strength, our Joy, the very Life within us. Only the cross makes this possible.

There is no greater gift.

The Cross, Part 5

Sat, 28 Oct 2023 06:00:00 -0500

“Follow Me As I Follow Christ”

By Tammy Lacock

This week, Warren Litzman seeks to help us truly understand who we are as born-again believers, now that we are living in God’s grace.

In John 12:26, we have a Scripture that must be rightly divided. Jesus is preaching the kingdom gospel, a gospel meant for the nation of Israel which was based on outer works and serving Him to please God. Christ could not yet reveal His gospel of grace because He had not yet died on the cross. It wasn’t until after His death, burial, and resurrection that he raised up the Apostle Paul to deliver this new gospel, one that no longer requires works for salvation but tells us we are saved by grace, by Christ’s work on the cross. By God’s grace at the Cross, a radical change took place within us as believers. Because Israel rejected Christ as their Messiah, they had no inner change. They are still holding onto their own outer works for salvation and God’s signs, wonders, and miracles for hope. To the believer, however, the Holy Spirit delivered the incorruptible seed of Christ into our spirits, making us one spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:7). We are brand-new creations in Him (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Warren goes on to explain that the first time we get a glimpse into grace and our new life in Christ is in the garden of Gethsemane. When Christ drinks of the cup, we are poured into Him before His death. Our old lives and all of our sins — past, present and future — were poured into Him. At the cross, when He died, we died and were buried too. Yet when He arose, we arose too, to a brand-new life in Him, literally.

It’s important to understand, as Warren discusses, that the nation of Israel has been set aside since their rejection of Christ as their Messiah. When once God spoke to them directly, He now only speaks to us through His Son in the born-again believer.

Through Christ, God now sees us as His bona fide sons and daughters, joint heirs with Christ. He no longer sees our old identities; He now sees Christ in us as our righteousness.

Paul tells us that to understand the fullness of God’s grace, we are meant to know Him now personally, the Christ that literally lives in us. By getting to know Him and falling in love with Him, we start to see clearly that all outer works and all outer things no longer matter. Paul considered everything else worthless and clearly said in Philippians 3:8, “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.”

In 1 Corinthians 11:1, Paul says “Follow me as I follow Christ.” May we dive into his epistles and allow the Holy Spirit to comfort us and teach us of our new life in grace, our new life in Christ.

The Cross, Part 4

Sat, 21 Oct 2023 06:00:00 -0500

The Cross Ushers In Grace

By Tammy Lacock

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” (John 12:24)

This week, Warren Litzman opens by diving into gospel of John chapter 12 to help us understand that John’s gospel is a bridge from the kingdom gospel preached by Christ and His disciples to Paul’s gospel of grace, a new gospel given to Paul by Christ, Himself.

In John 12:24, Christ foretells His coming death on the cross. His death and burial must happen for His resurrection and new life. In fact, only by His death on the cross, can he now be the very life of every believer and bear fruit through us. This is grace. No longer are we saved by anything we do or don’t do (kingdom gospel). We are saved by God’s grace through His Son. When Christ died, we died too. Our old lives were buried, and we arose to a brand-new life in Christ. By the cross, our old Satan sin-natures were literally uprooted and replaced with the Incorruptible seed, Christ. Here and now, we have His eternal life in us. This is grace.

The Cross made it possible for God to pour out His grace upon us. Warren says, “Grace is God putting Christ in us knowing we may never give Christ our life.” Grace doesn’t require us to understand our new life in Christ. However, the Apostle Paul tells us that God’s grace doesn’t stop at the Cross. If we are to ever truly be complete in Christ, we must break through the hull of our old mindsets and “let the mind of Christ be in [us]” (Philippians 2:5). By getting to know the Christ that now lives in us by God’s grace, we can finally learn to rest in Him while He lives through us. This is why Christ is our Savior. Only by resting in Him can we truly live who God created us to be and experience the fullness of His grace.

The Cross, Part 3

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 06:00:00 -0500

“Whosoever Believeth”

By Tammy Lacock

“For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:11-13)

This week, Warren Litzman digs deeper into exactly what happened at the Cross so that we as believers may really know who we are.

In Ephesians 1:4, the Apostle Paul tells us every single human being was chosen to be in Christ before the world was even created. It was in God’s plan, before the foundation of the world, for us to live a new life, a new life in Christ, holy and blameless by Him.

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4)

Warren goes on to explain that because of Christ’s death on the cross, something happened to us. By His death, burial, and resurrection, we all now have a Savior. The only prerequisite to our personal salvation is to believe in Christ as our Savior (Romans 10:11), the one Who, by His death on the cross, made it possible for our old sin-natures, passed down by the curse of Adam by Satan, to be exchanged with Christ’s nature. As believers, the incorruptible Seed of Christ has been literally joined to our spirits making us one spirit in Him, brand-new creations. (1 Corinthians 6:17; 2 Corinthians 5:17). His Spirit supersedes all. And He is now our new life.

Everything that happens in life hinges on Christ’s death on the cross. God brings every human being through the cross so that we all might die to our old lives. As believers, we went from living an Adamic soul-life to a quickened spirit-life in Christ, but only by the cross.

What did Christ mean when He said, “The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified” (John 12:33)? What’s so glorious about His horrific death on the cross? For the first time, human beings have the opportunity to have a new nature, Christ. Jesus can now be glorified by our new nature. By the help of the Holy Spirit teaching us and comforting us in of our new life in Christ and getting to know the Christ that now lives in us, we can finally understand God’s plan from the beginning and who He created us to be … complete in Christ.

All it takes is believing.

The Cross, Part 2

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 06:00:00 -0500

What Happened At The Cross?

By Tammy Lacock

Warren Litzman poses two questions in this week’s podcast:

Do you have one foot in law and one foot in grace? In order to answer this question, we must then ask ourselves: do we understand what happened at the cross?

If we are still living as if we are in bondage to sin and death under the law, what Warren calls “doer religion,” then we are not living the brand-new life God promised us through Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection; and, we don’t have a complete understanding of what happened at the cross.

The Apostle Paul was the only one raised up by Christ, Himself, to bring to the world a new gospel, one that explains exactly what happened at the cross. Before the cross, Jesus preached the kingdom gospel, salvation by works, meant only for Israel. The apostles also preached the kingdom message because it had not yet been revealed to them what took place at the cross.

Paul tells us Christ revealed to him an entirely new gospel, that we are saved by God’s grace. By Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection; “whosoever believeth” in Him as their Savior is saved (John 3:15-17).

Grace happened at the cross. Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection abolished the law and ushered in grace, making every believer brand-new creations in Christ. Christ now literally lives in every believer, His Spirit joined to us making us one spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17).

“Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.” (Ephesians 2:15)

We are no longer bound by sin and death under the law and its distortions. By the cross, we are now free to live and move in Christ by God’s amazing grace and boundless love for us. In fact, Paul tells us it is now time to rest in Him. As we get to know the Christ that now lives in each of us, we begin to actually understand His peace that “passeth all understanding” (Phil. 4:7) and live life more abundantly. By the cross, we went from a soul life dictated by our outer works to a spirit life in Christ. We died with Christ and arose with Him to a new life. He is our new life, the very breath we breathe. He is our righteousness, and nothing we do will ever change that. God sees only Christ in us now, making us His bona fide sons and daughters.

In Philippians 3:17, Paul tells fellow believers to follow him because Christ is now revealing through him an entirely new gospel, the gospel of God’s amazing grace.

So why are we trying to finish what Christ did on the cross!? Why are we living our lives as if we are justified by our works? Christ did the work on the cross and and we are justified only by His grace.

By the cross, Christ is our new life, our new identity. Our only job now is to live and move freely in Him, guided by His Spirit to do His good works, knowing He is our strength, our peace, our joy, our everything.

The Cross, Part 1

Sat, 16 Sep 2023 06:00:00 -0500

In Between Is the Cross

By Tammy Lacock

“And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." (1 Corinthians 15:45)

Warren’s mission this week is to help us understand the Cross as central to Paul’s gospel of grace.

In 1 Corinthians 15:45, Paul reveals to us a distinction between the soul and spirit. We must rightly divide them if we are ever to understand God’s plan (Hebrews 4:12; 2 Timothy 2:15).

In the Old Testament, God moved through the soul of man, through our minds, wills, and emotions in our obedience to the law. Paul tells us God no longer works salvation through man’s soul. We are now saved only by His Grace. Through the sacrifice of His Son on the cross, we have been saved by Christ’s blood. By just believing in Him, we are now saved in our spirits, joined to Christ’s Spirit making us one Spirit in Him. (1 Corinthians 6:7). In Christ, our spirits have been set free of Satan’s curse through Adam, and now we have been translated into the kingdom of Christ. We went from soul-living to spirit-living, our old lives passing away (2 Corinthians 5:16).

“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.” (Colossians 1:13)

“He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” (1 John 5:12)

As brand-new creations in Christ, we are now bona fide sons and daughters of God, begotten of Him. God no longer looks at works-based salvation through our souls. He sees Christ in us. He looks at our new life in Christ in our spirits. We are no longer bound by our weaknesses because we now know that our weaknesses were built into God’s plan. By ourselves, we’ll never get it right. Only by the Cross are we saved and quickened in Christ. By God’s grace we are finally complete by the Incorruptible Seed of Christ now alive in our spirits. In fact, Paul tells us in Ephesians 1:4 that we were in God’s plan before the foundation of the world, already chosen in Him even before Adam made his appearance, “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.”

As believers in Christ, we have moved from soul to spirit, from law to grace, from death to life. What happened in between was the Cross.

It's Jesus, Just Jesus, Part 8

Sat, 02 Sep 2023 06:00:00 -0500

We Are Three Parts, Made In His Image

By Tammy Lacock

This week, Warren Litzman dives into the depths of the Apostle Paul’s gospel of grace by helping us understand the revelation knowledge that Paul received directly from Christ.

In 1 Thessalonians 5, Paul shares this new knowledge, which consists of an understanding of how God made us as human beings so we can understand our new life in Christ.

In Genesis 1:27, we know God created us in His own image and likeness. And we know our God is a triune God made up of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Paul tells us on several occasions as well as in 1 Thessalonians 5:23 that we, too, are made up of three parts: the body, soul, and spirit. We know we have bodies. Paul tells us in Hebrews 4:12 and 2 Timothy 2:15 that we also have two invisible parts: our souls and spirits. Because of the Cross, God can now change us innately by joining Christ’s Spirit to us, making us one in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17), brand-new creations. Before the Cross, we operated by self, Satan’s nature, passed down by the curse of Satan through Adam’s disobedience, making us ignorant to Christ. Now, as believers, Paul reveals that Christ is our new operator. The Cross and Christ living in us as our new life go hand in hand. There is not one without the other. This is Paul’s gospel of God’s amazing grace, that we are saved by Christ’s very life within us and not by anything we do.

The only change God made within us when we believed in Christ was in our spirits. We were created by God to have Christ complete us; and in our spirits, we are complete, saved, and going to heaven. By His life within our spirits, we are clothed in His righteousness; therefore, we stand before God blameless. This was in God’s plan before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4):

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.”

Yet Paul tells us that our souls are not complete, the part of us where our minds, free will, and emotions reside. We have yet to undergo in our mindsets the same death and new life that took place within our spirits. Our spirits underwent death to our sin-natures as Christ became our new life in us. This is what it means to be rebirthed or born again. The incorruptible Seed of Christ has been literally and permanently planted within our spirits and, Paul tells us, it’s now time to water and nurture His seed within us by undergoing a continual mind-change in our souls. The only way God deals with us now is on the basis of Christ within us. By the help of the Holy Spirit in our minds, Paul’s hope is that we come to know Christ in this way.

Christianity isn’t just a visit with Christ. It is a journey of getting to know Him and knowing Him as our new life, the very breath within us. By getting to know Him in us and reciprocating His love, we can now live out exactly who God created us to be in our entire being, all three parts of us: body, soul, and spirit!

It's Jesus, Just Jesus, Part 7

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Are You A Sunday Christian?

By Tammy Lacock

“My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you.” (Galatians 4:19)

This week, Warren Litzman helps us grasp the heart of the Apostle Paul’s gospel of grace. In Galatians 4:19, Paul says as long as we, as believers, keep the Christ that lives in us from forming in us into all areas of our lives, he will feel great sorrow. As the only person that was raised up by Christ Himself to bring to humanity a new gospel, Paul knew the road ahead would be one full of arrows. Yet he wanted nothing more than to know the Christ that lived in him and to share Him with the world. He wanted us to fully understand that by Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we as believers, are brand-new creations, no longer bound by law, sin, and death. By God’s amazing grace, we are freed from the curse of Satan through Adam, and we are no longer bound by our own sins. As long as we confess in our hearts, God will forgive. He now sees Christ as our new life, the very life within us and by Him we are perfect in God’s eyes. This is Paul’s gospel of grace.

However, church Christianity has been comingling law and grace causing confusion.

Christians are living their new life in Christ on Sundays but have become okay not bringing Christ into other areas of our lives, making decisions without including Him. We are holding on to law so we feel good about ourselves and our actions. With the help of the Holy Spirit renewing our minds to this new life in Christ, we can start to let Him form in us in these other areas. We no longer need to live by laws as they’ve been abolished by Christ. We need to start living our new life in Christ and allowing His grace to come through us, knowing He is our peace.

“Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.” (Ephesians 2:15)

Paul tells us to follow him as he follows Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1) and bring Christ into every area of our lives, making Him our first love. Paul never claims anything as his own. Christ gave him everything he shares with us, and he repeats this so we might understand his gospel. Paul’s gospel is directed toward believers and his mission is that Christ be formed in each of us, in every area of our lives so Christ, the seed in us, will bring forth much fruit through us. We don’t form ourselves in Christ. He forms in us. Christ is joined to us in our spirits, making us one with His Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17). This is our new birth. We are brand-new creations by the planting of the incorruptible Seed of Christ in our spirits. And now, with the help of the Holy Spirit renewing our minds to this new life within us, Christ can start to form in the other parts of us, our minds and hearts. Here is where we begin the love affair with the Christ that now lives in us. Here is where we start to reciprocate His love.

Christ is God’s gift to us, and now it’s time to fully receive Him by getting to know Him and allowing Him to come through us in all areas of our lives.

It's Jesus, Just Jesus, Part 6

Sat, 19 Aug 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Are You Incomplete?

By Tammy Lacock

Warren lays down Paul’s gospel of Christ in the hopes that believers will fully grasp exactly what happens to us in that moment we believe. Only by God’s grace, our sin-natures were literally uprooted and another life, the Spirit of Christ, was planted in our very spirits, making us one spirit (1 Corinthians 6:7). This is what it means to be born again.

In fact, Paul tells us in Ephesians 1:4 that it was already in God’s mind before the foundation of the world for us to be in Christ:

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.”

Christ’s death (“the lamb slain,” 1 Peter 1:19-20) and our rebirth in Christ were both in God’s plan before the foundation of the world. There is not one without the other. Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection ushered in grace, a brand-new gospel revealed only to Paul. This grace is Christ as our new life.

Paul’s gospel of grace is one of completion (Colossians 2:10). Before we were born again in Christ, we were incomplete. Now that God’s plan of Christ literally living in every believer has been finished by the Cross, we are finally free to be exactly who God created us to be. Paul’s letters reveal the battle in his mind of burying his old self and mindset and knowing his new risen life now in Christ. He wanted nothing more than to know Him, the Christ that now breathes his very breath.

Now that we are complete in Christ, the Holy Spirit will comfort and teach us of our new life in Him. We no longer live, Christ is our new life (Galatians 2:20), all of us one body in Him (1 Corinthians 12:12-14). Now is our chance to experience His Peace, resting only in Him as the one who now operates in us. No longer under the power of Satan, sin, and the law, we are completely free knowing who we are now in Christ. We live and move in Christ now. This is the abundant life Jesus spoke about when He said, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).

Paul reveals this to us in the hopes that we, too, seek to intimately know the Christ living in each of us and experience His oneness in our unique expressions of Him.

It's Jesus, Just Jesus, Part 5

Sat, 12 Aug 2023 06:00:00 -0500

He That Hath The Son Hath Life

By Tammy Lacock

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)

Warren Litzman’s goal throughout this study is for listeners to get ahold of the Apostle Paul’s gospel of Christ, the only gospel for us today.

Paul’s gospel is simply this: By Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we as believers, are brand new creatures, a new race of people. By God’s grace, and by nothing we do or don’t do, we are now brand-new creatures by His uprooting of the sin nature, passed down by Adam through the curse of Satan, and His replacing it with Christ. Christ has been joined to our spirits making us one Spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17). Christ is now literally living in us and because of Him our old lives are now dead and buried with Him. Yet when He rose from the dead, we arose with Him to a brand-new life. He, the person of Christ, is our new life. He is our salvation, our eternal life living within us right now.

“He who hath the Son hath life; and he who hath the Son of God hath not life.” (John 5:12)

However, Christianity today has ignored Paul’s gospel of Christ living in every believer. As a result, Christians don’t know who they are. Comingling works salvation and grace salvation, it’s no wonder we are confused. Paul tells us we are saved only by God’s grace. As Warren puts it, God poured out a whole bucket of grace on us, yet Christians have no idea what this grace is all about. By God’s Grace, not only are we saved by just believing, but we now have the very life of Christ in us, the life of the one who conquered death.

What does this mean?

Paul tells us that by God’s grace we now have the opportunity to know this very Christ who now lives in us. There is no separation between us and Christ. He will never leave us nor forsake us. As believers, we can get to know Christ now on a uniquely personal level because He lives within us. Paul wanted nothing more than to know this Christ, so much so that he made Christ his first love. So much so that he boasted in his weaknesses knowing these very weaknesses brought him closer to knowing Christ. In his weakness, Christ was his strength. Paul fell in love with Christ knowing he could do all things in Him.

By the help of the Holy Spirit, Paul says, our minds must be renewed (Ephesians 4:23), burying not only our old selves but also our old mindsets of who we thought we were and having the revelation and understanding of our new life in Christ. In fact, he tells us that we are predestinated with this understanding (Roman 8:29; Ephesians 1:11). God put this knowledge within us, and now our new lives in Christ can reveal it, helping us in our spiritual growth.

Paul realized his battle was not with the world or with Satan but with his own mind.

His struggle was transitioning from a believing mind to a knowing mind, a knowing that his old self no longer lives, and his new life is Christ (Galatians 2:20). All he wanted was to know this Christ and for this Christ to now live through him.

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 2:5)

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12:2)

“For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 2:16)

It's Jesus, Just Jesus, Part 4

Sat, 05 Aug 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Why Paul?

By Tammy Lacock

“Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.” (Philippians 3:8)

The question Warren Litzman begins with this week is, why did God choose Paul to deliver a message to humanity that no other person had ever heard before? In order to answer this question, it’s important to look at Paul’s life before his conversion on the way to Damascus. Paul was born into a wealthy Jewish family, privileged as a Roman citizen and highly educated. Today, his education would equate to two doctorates. In Philippians 3:5-7, Paul boasts of his life before Christ to show us that he had everything going for him in an earthly sense, considering himself to be an avid obeyer of the Jewish law and, in fact, blameless. He even persecuted Christians in his adherence to the law. He was a Pharisee.

Yet, in Philippians 3:8, Paul makes it clear that he now counts his upbringing and scholarly background worthless, nothing but dung. Without any doubt, he gladly loses it, lest any or all of it get in the way of knowing Christ.

Paul was utterly determined to share with the world what Christ, Himself, revealed only to him. Paul’s gospel is by Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we as believers, are rebirthed, given a new life. Christ’s death ushered in God’s amazing Grace being poured out unto us by the Holy Spirit. By His grace, God can now uproot the sin-natures and replace it with the incorruptible seed of Christ (Peter) in our very spirits, making us one spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17). Christ now lives in us, literally, not figuratively. By Christ living in us, we are born again into God’s family, now His bona fide sons and daughters.

We see in Ephesians chapter 1 that Paul was given insight into God’s plan. In verse 4, Paul reveals that Christ living in us was God’s plan before the foundation of the world. It took over 4,000 years for God to reveal His plan, and Paul knew it. Furthermore, Paul knew it was only revealed to him. In chapter one, Paul continues to reiterate that God’s plan has everything to do with Christ. He makes it clear in verse 10:

“That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him.”

Throughout Paul’s writings, we can see that this is a man whose heart and mind has been captured by Christ. He was determined to know Christ. If this meant suffering, then he says bring on the suffering. He was determined to share this revelation of Christ in him to the world because he knew Christianity wouldn’t work without it.

“For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2:2)

God used Paul’s zeal in his new life in Christ. God chose Paul to reveal His Son in him first because He knew Paul’s zealous mind could now be used to reveal this message to us. By the help of the Holy Spirit, Paul was given this radical mind-change of an outer Christ to Christ living in him. He wanted nothing more than to know this Christ and for us to have this radical mind-change, too!

It's Jesus, Just Jesus, Part 3

Sat, 29 Jul 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Why Are We Here?

By Tammy Lacock

“But when it pleases God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood.” (Galatians 1:16)

In this podcast series, it is Warren Litzman’s ultimate goal to help us understand the Apostle Paul’s gospel, the final gospel to the world, so that we might understand who we are and why we are here. Paul, the meanest man on earth at the time by his persecuting Christians, was raised up by Christ Himself to bring us this new gospel.

Only two men in the Bible were raised up by God to bring us a gospel. Moses brought us the law (Old Testament); and Paul brought us grace (New Testament), the gospel of Christ. Paul’s gospel of grace supersedes any other gospel, including the Kingdom gospel preached initially by Peter and the disciples.

In Galatians 1:16, the Apostle Paul tells us something that has never been told before, that the Holy Spirit had revealed to him that Christ is now living in him, literally, not figuratively. Paul taught of Christ living in us and we in Him over and over throughout his letters. This is Paul’s gospel, the final gospel of God’s grace for humanity. That by Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we as believers, have been rebirthed by the very seed of Christ in our spirits (1 Corinthians 6:17). By just believing, God can now uproot Satan’s sin-nature passed down by the curse through Adam and replace it with the incorruptible seed of Christ (1 Peter 1:23). By this, we are made brand-new creations, no longer bound by law, sin, and death. God now sees Christ in us as our righteousness, making us His bona fide sons and daughters. By Christ, we are complete. Only by Christ. Our identity is Christ. In Him, we are now free to live who God created us to be.

Warren Litzman points out the importance of understanding the role of the Holy Spirit, part of which is to teach God’s born-again children about our new identity. Jesus tells us in John’s gospel that the Holy Spirit will come upon us to be our teacher and our comforter, helping us to understand our new life in Christ, our new life in grace. The Holy Spirit’s power is revealing Christ and who He is now living in us.

“At that day (Pentecost) ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” (John 14:20)

The Holy Spirit renews our minds, as Paul says, helping us to understand and cultivate a beautifully unique and reciprocal love affair with Christ, the Christ that now lives in each of us who believe. The Christ that is our strength, our hope, our peace, our very life. This is why we are here, to learn of Him, to know Him, to rest in Him, and to fall in love with Him more and more every day.

It's Jesus, Just Jesus, Part 2

Sat, 22 Jul 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Do You Know The Real Jesus?

By Tammy Lacock

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” (John 12:24)

This week, Warren Litzman asks believers if they know the real Jesus. In fact, he emphasizes unless one has the revelation of the Apostle Paul’s gospel, what Paul calls the revelation of the mystery, we will never truly know Him.

In John 12:24, Christ gives us a glimpse into this mystery when He speaks of His coming death. Here He tells us that unless He (the corn of wheat) dies; there is no other way to bring forth His fruit. Because by dying, He can now literally live in every believer and bring forth His fruit through us. Christ is revealing here the mystery Paul shares with us throughout his epistles, that Christ’s death on the cross included our death too—to our old lives, the old man. And when Christ arose, we arose as well, to a brand-new life—a completely different life and divine nature—now bringing forth His fruit. By His death, burial, and resurrection, our old Satan sin-nature is literally uprooted, and Christ is planted as our very spirit, making us one spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17).

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27)

The fruit Jesus speaks of in John 12:24 is the reciprocal love of believers as they come to know the Christ that lives in them now, the only way to know the real Jesus. We don’t get to know Jesus by what He does. We know Him by His life within us. Jesus’ outer works and miracles will not give us the revelation of who He is in us.

Only by the help of the Holy Spirit, through His work in our souls (where our minds reside), can we truly begin to know Christ and, therefore, freely love Him back. His love saves, not ours. Yet loving Him is how God created us to live, in a reciprocal loving relationship with Him. We now live, move, and have our being in Christ. It is only in this love affair with Christ in us where we can truly live out who God created us to be.

“All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.” (Matthew 11:27)

“At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” (John 14:20)

Christ as our life and identity fully equips us to live our new life and new creation, composing the Body of Christ eternally.

“That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.” (John 17:21-23)

It's Jesus, Just Jesus, Part 1

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Christianity Is A Love Affair

By Tammy Lacock

In this new study, Warren Litzman sets out to make known the true and only gospel for believers today, that is the Apostle Paul’s gospel of grace.

There are two pillars that form the foundation of this gospel, and it’s these pillars that help us to discern it in a world where Christians are commingling gospels.

These pillars are:

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4)

Both pillars make Paul’s gospel clear that this is a gospel God had in mind before the world was created and now God revealed it to Paul (and later Peter) to proclaim to the whole world in this current dispensation of grace.

Paul’s gospel is quite simple: By Christ’s death (lamb slain) burial, and resurrection, we as believers, are saved by Christ now living in us (chosen in Him). This was a gospel like no other. And when Israel rejected it, Christ told Paul to take it to the Gentiles (Acts 28:28).

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27)

However, there are two kinds of Christians in our world today. Those who know they are saved by Christ in them and those who know they are saved yet are searching for Christ outside of themselves, commingling grace and works salvation. Paul tells us the problem with this is that believers who search for Christ outside of themselves will never truly live who God created them to be. They are saved and going to heaven, but they never had the mind-change, or mind-renewal, to the Christ that now lives in them. Moreover, they will never get to really know Him and fall in love with Him. Paul tells us we need to have a radical mind-change, moving from an outer mindset to knowing Christ who now lives in us, joined to our spirits making us one spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17).

Warren reminds us that, in order to understand Paul’s gospel, we must rightly divide the word of truth (Hebrews 4:12; 2 Timothy 2:15). To understand what actually took place within us as believers, we must rightly divide our souls and spirits. We were born again in our spirits, made perfect here by the incorruptible seed of Christ. Yet in our souls, where our minds reside and where the Holy Spirit works, we are perfecting (maturing). This is where the love affair with Christ takes place, in our souls. The Holy Spirit teaches us and comforts us in our new life in Christ. It is here where we truly learn to let go of our old selves, the old man, and begin to truly learn Christ. It is here where we begin to learn reciprocal love. It is here where our minds undergo such a radical change that we choose Christ over everything else, making Him our everything, our first love (Revelation 2:4). We were chosen in Him before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4). Now it’s time to choose Him.

Jesus & Paul, Part 17

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Rightly Divide Truth

By Tammy Lacock

In this final week study of Jesus and Paul, Warren Litzman takes us right to the heart of Paul’s gospel of grace by helping us understand two very important scriptures.

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15)

“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:12)

Paul tells us in these two verses that we need to rightly divide scripture if we are to understand his gospel. Otherwise, then we don’t have the truth.

Warren explains that the Bible is divided between prophecy and mystery. Four-fifths of the Bible reveals law and prophecy and is directed toward Israel. The other one-fifth reveals the mystery of Paul’s gospel of grace and is directed to the born-again believer. Paul tells us we must rightly divide this truth, taking it further by dividing soul and spirit. The Old Testament, directed toward Israel, was based on soul salvation by outer works. Yet Paul tells us we are saved in our spirits. As born-again believers, we are no longer saved by our outer works, but by the miracle of Christ joining us to Him in spirit, making us one with Him. A Christian is one in whom Christ lives. We no longer are to know Him outside of us. No longer is our righteousness gained through obedience (Israel). In the New Testament, under Paul’s gospel of grace for us now, our righteousness is a person, and that person is Christ, His incorruptible seed birthed within us as believers. Now that our outer works are no longer required for salvation, we can finally rest in our new life in Christ.

In fact, in Galatians 2:20, Paul makes it very clear that our old lives are dead, crucified with Christ. We have moved from a soul/law mindset to a spirit/grace mindset. From law to grace, from law to Christ. The more we can see that our old selves, including our old mindsets, are dead, the more we can rest in the fullness of our new life in Christ and finally live who God created us to be.

Jesus & Paul, Part 16

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Do You Know You’re Dead?

By Tammy Lacock

“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.” (Philippians 3:10)

This week, Warren Litzman’s goal is to help us know and understand the Apostle Paul, before and after his conversion, as a means of understanding our own death and new life in Christ. Warren explains, through Paul’s revelation knowledge given by the Holy Spirit, that this understanding comes only by first realizing that our old lives, including our old mindsets, have died with Christ on the cross. Our old lives are dead and buried. This becomes the baseline of our new life in Christ.

In Philippians 3:5-6, Paul talks about how he could boast of his fleshly life before his conversion. He was circumcised on the eighth day, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee, and being blameless in righteousness by the law. Yet he makes a very important point to tell us that his old life, before coming to Christ, is nothing, by likening it to mere dung (Philippians 3:8). In fact, he tells us in Philippians 3 that he wants nothing more than to know Christ. Paul contrasts our previous focus of who we thought we were all of our lives before coming to Christ, in our flesh, and our new focus on our brand-new life in Christ. As believers, we died with Christ on the cross, our old lives buried, and we arose to a new life in Him, making us one in Spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17).

Knowing his old self and old life are dead and buried, Paul can now know exactly what it means to rest in Christ.

Paul’s gospel reveals to us an inner Christ. No longer do we look for Christ outside of us, as did His disciples and those before His death. For the first time, Christ is manifested through a human being, through Paul. And it’s only through revelation knowledge does he learns to let go of his old self, his old mindset, and he begins to truly rest in Christ, his new life. We see Paul becoming a deeply hungry man for Christ, seeking only to know Him and to fall in love with Him more and more every day.

This is the gospel for us today! By God’s amazing grace, we are no longer bound by sin, death, and law. As believers in Christ, our old lives are dead now, along with our old identity, everything that made us who we were. By His death, burial, and resurrection, we died and were buried, too. Yet when Christ arose, we arose with Him, making us brand-new creations in Him. By His very life within us now, we can truly rest in Him, knowing our old lives are dead and buried and Christ is all we need.

Jesus & Paul, Part 15

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 06:00:00 -0500

It’s A Mind Thing!

By Tammy Lacock

“Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” (Romans 6:6)

Warren Litzman continues to explain the importance of understanding the Apostle Paul’s revelation knowledge, which he shares with us throughout his epistles.

In order to understand this revelation knowledge, Paul tells us we must undergo a radical mind-change and a continual mind-renewal. This takes place by the teaching and comfort of the Holy Spirit who reveals to us just what it means to now be in Christ, to live a new life in Him while letting go of our old lives. The Holy Spirit is integral in transitioning us from our sin-natured mindset to knowing Christ.

In Romans chapter 6, Warren dives into the four “knowings” which the Holy Spirit reveals to Paul and he shares with us. These “knowings” are revelations of who we are now in Christ. As brand-new creations, we can know now that our old lives, along with our old mindsets, have been crucified and buried with Christ. By His death, burial, and resurrection, we are no longer bound by law, sin, and death. We can now choose to serve sin or to serve Christ. As believers, our spirits are made perfect by Him. We are now joined to Him, making us one Spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17). He will never leave us nor forsake us, no matter what we do or don’t do. Being one with Him in spirit, however, doesn’t mean we are one with Him in our souls (we are a tripartite being: soul, body, spirit). Our minds reside within the soul part of us. This part of us can still be stuck in the sin-mindset, still making decisions without the knowledge of who we are now in Christ. Christ wants to use our minds now but He can only use a renewed mind.

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 2:5 KJV)

And by revelation knowledge given to us by the Holy Spirit, we can learn to let go of the “old man”, and more importantly, our old mindsets, and hand them over to Christ, who now lives in us and who can now come through us in our renewed minds. This is where our love affair with Him takes place. This is where we truly get to know Him personally and deeply. This is where we choose Him over everything else, even the identities we’ve been holding onto all of our lives. We are no longer the “old man.” Yet we hold on to the old mindset. Paul tells us that our ongoing mind-renewal of who we are now in Christ gives us an understanding that we always have a choice, a choice to serve Christ or a choice to serve sin. A choice to know Him or a choice to ignore Him. Love is a choice. As we get to know Christ as our new life, as the very life within us now, the one who is our strength, our peace, and our joy, we undergo a continual mind-renewal. We begin to realize more and more that the only thing that really matters is choosing Him and loving Him, making it easier and easier to let go of a mindset that keeps us tied to our old lives.

“But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind.” (Ephesians 4:20-23)

“Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.” (Colossians 3:9-10)

Jesus & Paul, Part 14

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Know Christ

By Tammy Lacock

This week, Warren dissects Romans Chapter 6 by breaking down the revelation knowledge given to Paul, and only Paul, by the Holy Spirit.

As believers in Christ, in order for us to understand this revelation knowledge shared through Paul, we must first understand who we are now. By just believing in Christ, a radical change took place within our spirits. The Holy Spirit literally uprooted the Satan nature within us, passed down by the curse of Adam through Satan, and replaced it with Christ. By Him, we are brand new creations, joined to Him making us one spirit. This is what it means to be born again. God no longer sees us; He sees Christ, making us His bona fide sons and daughters.

“But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” (1 Corinthians 6:17).

“For by one Spirit [Holy Spirit] are we all baptized into one body [Christ], whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12:13 KJV)

Paul speaks to us as if we know who we are now in Christ and we understand the radical change that took place within us. And it’s in knowing who we are now that helps bring us from a believing mindset to a knowing mindset that Paul speaks of.

Paul reveals to us four areas of “knowing” in Romans Chapter 6 that can help us transition from a believing mindset to a knowing mindset. He helps us to understand that with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we as believers, share in His death, burial, and resurrection. We died on the cross too; our old lives are completely dead and buried. And now, we have arisen with Christ to a brand-new life in Him. We are dead and by Him; He is now our new life, the very life within us. We are freed from the bondage of law, sin, and death. The greatest superhero of all lives right inside of us now. It is by this revelation knowledge of being now complete in Christ, knowing Him in a unique and personal way, and falling in love with Him in us that we can finally and freely live out our lives true to who God created us to be.

Jesus & Paul, Part 13

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Why Paul?

By Tammy Lacock

This week, Warren Litzman focuses on the very possible reasons why God raised up only Paul to reveal the “mystery” of Christ living in him and to deliver this new gospel to us.

Paul was not a follower of Jesus of Nazareth like the apostles. He was not a member of the early church of the New Testament when God chose him for this mission. He knew about Jesus and believed to be doing God’s will by persecuting His followers, making Paul the meanest man on earth at the time. He was rank-and-file Judaic, as Warren simply puts it. He was extremely learned in the Torah and Moses’s Law.

God needed a special, bold voice to deliver His gospel of grace to a world inundated by fear, sin, and law. Christ knew that, by the help of the Holy Spirit, Paul would be the perfect man to deliver a new gospel, one that had been hidden since the world began, yet now revealed to him.

“Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:25-27)

In John, chapter 14, Christ spoke of the “mystery,” this revelation knowledge, that would be revealed to believers by the Holy Spirit. He spoke of the Holy Spirit’s role as Comforter and Spirit of Truth. He spoke of going from a believing mind to a knowing mind. He tells us, only the Holy Spirit will reveal truth, new knowledge of Him, and He will speak only of Christ, not Himself.

“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.” (John 16:13)

“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.” (John 15:26)

By this revelation knowledge, he tells us, we will be comforted and will know the truth, that is, knowing He lives in us and is now our very life. No separation. Christ sums it up in John 14:20, speaking of the Day of Pentecost, “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.”

We are one by Christ and we are one in Christ (John 17:21-23). He is joined to our spirits making us one spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17). By Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, God’s grace poured out into humanity, and we are now freed from this world, a world of law, sin, and death. Christ made a way for us to live with our Heavenly Father. He made a way for us to come out of an old mindset corrupted by the sin-nature, passed down through Adam by the curse of Satan, and ushered us into a brand-new mindset of grace and love. He made a way, the only way, we could now live who God created us to be. In Christ, we are now complete. We are now free in Him. As our new life, He now comes through us. By Him we can bear His fruit.

“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” (John 15:5)

Christ raised up only Paul to deliver this revelation knowledge to humanity.

Throughout his epistles, Paul “suffered the loss of all things” for Christ. Nothing else mattered to him than to know Christ, the Person of Christ, living in him. He wanted nothing more than to reciprocate the love and grace that his Savior poured out on the cross for him, and now through him.

Jesus & Paul, Part 12

Sat, 03 Jun 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Revelation Knowledge

By Tammy Lacock

“Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began.” (Romans 16:25 )

This week Warren zeros in on the last part of Romans 16:25, “Which was kept secret since the world began.”

The Apostle Paul tells us here that his gospel is new knowledge; it has been kept hidden from us since before the world began. It wasn’t until Christ revealed it to him, that this knowledge was made available to us as well. The mystery has been revealed.

What’s the mystery?

The mystery is that, as believers, we have a brand-new life, one in which the person of Christ now literally lives in us as our new operator. The Holy Spirit uprooted our Satan nature (passed down by the curse of Adam) and planted the incorruptible Seed, Christ, within our spirits, joining us to Him making us one Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17). Thus, we’ve been born again by His Seed.

“But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.” (1 Corinthians 13:10 KJV)

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4 KJV)

Warren explains that this revelation knowledge given to Paul is an exchange of knowledge, removing old knowledge for new knowledge. In effect, we have an opportunity to move from third-dimensional thinking to fourth-dimensional thinking by the help of the Holy Spirit. We can now move from knowledge of good and evil, law thinking, and erroneous living to Christ-knowledge, the new life God planned for us before the foundation of the world. This revelation knowledge allows us now to finally live who God created us to be. Without our completion in Christ and our revelation of this new life, we would never move into fourth dimensional living.

Warren explains that on the Day of Pentecost, the ministry of the Holy Spirit radically changed from outer works to inner work in the minds (souls) of believers. This is what Paul calls a mind-renewal (Romans 12:2). Only the Holy Spirit can take us from focusing on the things outside of us, a law-mindset, to an inner relationship with the Christ Who now lives in us. Only by revelation can we understand our new life in Him.

Jesus said in John 14:20, “At that day [Pentecost] ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.”

The first time Jesus talks about this revelation knowledge, fourth-dimensional thinking, was in his conversation with Nicodemus in John 3:3, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Still, this knowledge was very confusing to Nicodemus and people of that day because their minds weren’t ready for it. They had not yet been filled with the Holy Spirit. And more importantly, Christ had not yet fulfilled God’s plan to suffer and die on the cross. Without His death, God’s plan from “before the foundation of the world” could not be completed.

Most churches today still teach the work of the Holy Spirit as an outer ministry (signs and miracles, tongues and healings), yet on the Day of Pentecost, He moved from an outer ministry to inner ministry within the souls of human beings. As believers, we can ask the Holy Spirit to open up our minds and hearts to the revelation knowledge of Christ, just as He did for Paul, so that we can move into our new life in Christ and finally fulfill God’s plan for us, His plan since before the foundation of the world!

Jesus & Paul, Part 11

Sat, 27 May 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Revelation Of The Mystery

By Tammy Lacock

Warren now focuses on the Apostle Paul’s “preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery” in Romans 16:25, a mystery God had kept hidden since the beginning of the world. Christ revealed this mystery only to Paul, and he is passing it onto us.

From the time of his conversion on the way to Damascus to his experience in the Arabian desert (roughly three years), Paul preached Christ and him crucified as our means of salvation. Yet here in Romans, by revelation of the Holy Spirit, he takes his gospel of Jesus Christ a step further and shares with us the mystery within it. The mystery is this: Christ is now alive and well living in every believer. By Him living in us, the Word of God is fulfilled, and we are complete.

Paul knew that he must preach his gospel and his revelation of the mystery with great boldness because this was a gospel no one had ever heard before, not even the apostles and the early church. He came up against much resistance especially from the early church because they had been preaching the Kingdom message, preached by Jesus, commingled with Judaic law. And here Paul, who was previously persecuting Christians, is now raised up by Christ Himself to preach a new gospel of grace, that we are saved by Christ’s sacrifice on the cross and nothing we do or don’t do. Adherence to the law is no longer required for salvation. And on top of that, Christ now lives in us! This was an extremely difficult truth to grasp back then, and it is still a problem for us today because churches today are commingling law and grace.

In 2 Corinthians 3:11-17, Paul tells us the law has been abolished by his gospel of grace, that Christ fulfills the law.

All we need is Christ, the Christ Who now lives in us. It’s no longer a mystery! May the Holy Spirit renew our minds to this revelation of Christ and our brand-new life in Him.

Jesus & Paul, Part 10

Sat, 20 May 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Paul’s “My Gospel”

By Tammy Lacock

This week, Warren Litzman digs deeper into what the Apostle Paul means by “my gospel” in Romans 2:16, 16:25, and 2 Timothy 2:8.

Paul’s “my gospel” is meant to contrast his unique revelation of Jesus Christ (Galatians 1:11-16) from the other gospel centered in Christ, the Kingdom gospel, which was preached by Peter and the other apostles.

The Kingdom gospel, preached to only the Jews, centered on Christ’s Messiahship by his death and resurrection and an assurance of the kingdom to come. Peter and the apostles also commingled Judaic law within the kingdom gospel.

In contrast, Paul’s gospel of grace has no history of law. Whether Jew or Gentile, by simply believing in Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we are saved, born-again new creations by the very life of Christ now living in us. This is the Body of Christ Paul talks about … a brand-new race of people.

In fact, Paul’s gospel of grace, although new to him and to the world, goes back to the beginning, before history was made. Paul calls his gospel a “mystery” many times because it was in God’s mind before the foundation of the world, yet now revealed to him (Ephesians 1:4; Romans 16:25). Christ entrusted only Paul to deliver this gospel of completion to both Jews and Gentiles alike.

“Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints.” (Colossians 1:25-26 KJV)

It was extremely difficult for Jews to accept Paul’s gospel of grace because of their history and background in law. Gentiles, however, had no godly history, nothing to hold onto, so they were eager to accept and embrace Paul’s gospel of grace.

Churches are still preaching a commingled gospel of law and grace. Paul tells us several times throughout his epistles, “Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1; 4:16; and Philippians 3:17). Similarly, he tells us many times that his gospel is from “me to you” (Ephesians 3:2; Colossians 1:26).

The gospel for today is Paul’s gospel of grace only. Simply put, we are saved by nothing we do or don’t do. By just believing, we are saved by Christ’s work — His death, burial, and resurrection. By Him, we are freed from the bondage of sin, death, and law. By Him, we are born again, making us brand-new creations, now bona fide sons and daughters of God. Our sin-natures have been uprooted, and God’s very seed, Christ, has been planted within us.

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27 KJV)

Jesus & Paul, Part 9

Sat, 13 May 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Learn Christ

By Tammy Lacock

This week, Warren Litzman further explains the Apostle Paul’s message to believers in Romans 16:25.

Paul uses the word “according” in Romans 16:25 to brings us back to the beginning, God’s original plan.

In Ephesians 1:4, Paul, once again, reveals God’s eternal plan to us when he uses the word “according”:

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.”

By Christ’s death and resurrection, God uprooted our sin-nature and planted the incorruptible seed of His Son within our spirits (chosen in Him). By this we are born again and made brand-new creations. This is God’s original plan, the mystery kept hidden since the world began yet revealed to Paul. Paul calls this “my gospel” because it was given only to him. Moreover, the seed of Christ now in him, and in each one of us, comes forth through him and us uniquely and according to our knowledge of Him.

By each of our unique circumstances and situations of life, and moreover through our sufferings, God is establishing us in Christ, pushing us to Him, prompting our love affair with Him and preparing us, as His children, to live in His house. Now that we are established in Christ by His seed, God’s eternal plan, His plan from the beginning, can now be fulfilled. The circumstances and situations of our lives help us break the hull of Christ’s seed in us so that we no longer live by our old natures but allow Christ’s nature to come forth. By the help of the Holy Spirit, we can now learn of Christ and our new life in Him.

As we learn Christ as our new life, our old mindsets break down and our renewed minds now become subject to Him. Thus it is in our souls (where our minds reside) where our love affair with Him can begin. And this is God’s eternal plan for us: to be established in Christ, to know Him, and to fall in love with Him more and more every day.

Jesus & Paul, Part 8

Sat, 06 May 2023 06:00:00 -0500

All Things Are Of God

By Tammy Lacock

This week, Warren Litzman dissects Romans 16:25, a mostly overlooked but loaded verse from the Apostle Paul that is for believers today.

Paul tells us in Romans 16:25 only God has the power to establish us according to his gospel. Only God has the power to reveal to us, help us understand, and to live Paul’s gospel, a gospel God kept secret since the beginning of the world, and now has been revealed only to Paul.

Warren explains that only through our circumstances and situations of life will God’s plan for us—to understand and live Paul’s gospel—become manifest. Paul’s gospel, the mystery kept hidden, is that by Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we are saved from the bondage of sin and law. When Christ died, our old lives died, too. And when He arose, we arose to a new life in Him. By Christ’s death, God poured out His grace upon us by uprooting our sin-nature, the corruptible seed of Satan, and exchanging it with Christ’s nature, the incorruptible seed. To anyone who believes, this is literally what happened within us by the cross. We’re born again and now bona fide children of God by this unconditional act of love. God’s seed, Christ, in us is total and complete. The very situations and circumstances in our lives provide the environment and nourishment we need to now bring forth His fruit.

And now, only God, not religion or churchianity, establishes us in our new life in Christ by these circumstances and situations. He is not separate from these events but very much alive and well, working through these to bring us into closer relationship with Him through His Son now living in us. In Christ, God is now intimately intertwined in our choices so that we can finally live who He created us to be.

Jesus & Paul, Part 7

Sat, 29 Apr 2023 06:00:00 -0500

The Final Gospel From The Beginning

By Tammy Lacock

This week, Warren Litzman focuses on Romans 16:25 to demonstrate the intimate relationship between Jesus and Paul. Where Christ left off, He commissioned Paul to pick up and give us a new gospel, the true and final gospel for believers today. Paul tells us his gospel, although new to us, was actually God’s original gospel kept hidden since the world began. Christ finally revealed this “mystery” gospel to Paul, and Paul shares it with us throughout his epistles.

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4 KJV)

Paul’s gospel is this: Every single human being was chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. As believers, by Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we too have died to our old lives—our sin natures passed down through Adam by the curse of Satan. We have also been buried, and we arose with Christ to a brand-new life in Him. Our new life is Christ now living in every believer, literally. We are joined to Him in our spirits (2 Corinthians 5:17). We are in Him and He in us, never to leave us nor forsake us.

Christ chose Paul to deliver this final gospel because He knew Paul was the only man who had what it takes to step into the religious, law-bound world and preach grace. The problem Paul dealt with during his time, and is still a problem today in the church, is that there was a commingling of gospels. He tells us in 2 Timothy 2:15 (and to Israel in Hebrews 4:12) that we must rightly divide the word of truth.

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15 KJV)

Here, Paul is saying we must rightly divide God’s Word by separating the gospels. The Kingdom gospel—salvation by law and works, preached by Christ while on earth and continued through the preaching of His disciples—is no longer the gospel. The first Pentecostal church received the Holy Spirit but retained Judaic law as its method of worship. They had no understanding of what really happened at the cross.

Christ, Himself, led Paul to go and preach a new gospel, that of salvation by God’s grace through His Son Jesus Christ. There was to be no commingling of grace and law. He makes it very clear that we are no longer saved by our works. We are saved by grace alone. Israel rejected this gospel, and so Christ told Paul to take it to the Gentiles—that is everyone else—where it was widely accepted. By just believing in Christ as our Savior we are saved.

The early church led by Peter and the disciples wrestled with Paul’s gospel because they knew Christ in the flesh, and they knew what He had told them to do, to go forward and preach that anyone who believes in Christ as their Savior is saved. Yet they commingled grace and law by preaching that one must obey the law to remain saved.

The relationship between Jesus and Paul is a glorious love affair, for which Paul gladly suffered unto death. Nothing and no one could stand in the way of his desire to spread the gospel of grace given to him by Christ Himself. He wanted nothing more than for everyone to know Christ and to fall in love with Him too.

Jesus & Paul, Part 6

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 06:00:00 -0500

To Reveal His Son In Me

By Tammy Lacock

“To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood.” (Galatians 1:16 KJV)

This week, Warren Litzman focuses on the very intimate relationship between Jesus and Paul so we can understand this same intimacy in our own relationship with Christ.

In Galatians 1:16, Paul tells us Christ revealed to him something that hasn’t been revealed to anyone before. Christ raised up only Paul to deliver to us a new gospel, the only gospel for us today. Warren singles out Paul’s words “in me” to explain this new gospel. These words “in me,” which Paul uses over and over in his epistles, tell us literally and not figuratively that Christ now lives in us. We are no longer to see Christ outside of us, as Jesus of Nazareth, but we are to see Him now as the resurrected Christ living in us. This is what a Christian is: one in whom Christ lives. The Son that was in the body of Jesus of Nazareth is the same Son that now lives in us as believers. His new body is the body of believers. We are the Body of Christ.

“For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.” (1 Corinthians 12:12 KJV)

“So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.” (Romans 12:5)

Paul was given this revelation and tells us that only by revelation of the Holy Spirit can we also begin to understand our new life in Christ. The Holy Spirit—given to us by God on the Day of Pentecost—is our Comforter and Teacher of our new life. As human beings, it’s extremely difficult for us to accept a new life. The Holy Spirit helps us understand who we are now in Christ, that we don’t have a changed life, but have exchanged the old for a brand-new life. He helps us understand that we weren’t created to live this life on our own. Now that we are complete in Christ, we can begin to live who God created us to be, and that is to bring Him glory.

In Galatians 2:20, Paul tells us we were crucified with Christ on the cross. In order to understand our new life in Him, we must also understand our death with Him. Just as we are no longer to know Christ in the flesh, we are no longer to know our old lives. As we relationship with Christ in our daily lives and fall in love with Him more and more—knowing He is no longer outside of us but the very life we now live—we can die to our old lives and let Him come out of us just the way God intended from the beginning (Ephesians 1:4).

This is Paul’s gospel: by Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we are now married to Him, one flesh with Him—He in us and we in Him (Ephesians 5:31-32; John 4:13).

Jesus & Paul, Part 5

Sat, 15 Apr 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Moving From Outer To Inner

By Tammy Lacock

“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.” (1 Corinthians 2: 9-10)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman dives deeper into the writings of the Apostle Paul to help us understand the true gospel for us today and to show us the intimate relationship between Christ and Paul.

Christ called Paul to bring humanity a new gospel, one that moves us from a law-based mindset, basing our salvation on outer works, to relying on the work of Christ in the inner man as our salvation. The Jews and the early church had a very difficult time accepting Paul’s gospel of grace, his gospel of completion by the very life of Christ within us, because all they knew and understood up until that time were their own outer workings and the outer workings and miracles of God. By Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, a new covenant was made, which Christ revealed to Paul, saying believers are to no longer know the outer Christ, Jesus of Nazareth (2 Corinthians 5:16). We are to know Him now in Spirit, now that we are joined to Him in spirit, making us one (1 Corinthians 6:17). The only way to now know God is through relationship with His Son, God’s incorruptible Seed, Christ, literally placed in each of us who believes. By God’s amazing grace, we are to know Him now as the resurrected Christ who is alive and well in us.

Christ said, “At that day [the Day of Pentecost] ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you” (John 14:20). The Jews and early church had no idea what this meant because they had always focused on the outer works of man. Jesus was saying an inner work took place: on that Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit delivered the Seed, Christ, into the believers, and we have been made brand-new creations by His life in us. For God, what we do or don’t do will no longer cut it. Only by Christ joined to our spirits are we made new (2 Corinthians 5:17); only by Christ in us are we reconciled to God, making us His bona fide children. We were literally born again. Out with the old man and sin nature and in with Christ as our very life.

In 1 Corinthians 2:9-10, Paul tells us our relationship now with Christ cannot be heard, seen, or felt. Here he rules out anything outer in our new life in Christ. It is not an outer relationship, based on sense knowledge, but one that can only be revealed by the Holy Spirit in our soul-mind (where our emotions, intellect, and will reside). On that Day of Pentecost, not only did the Holy Spirit deliver into us the very seed of Christ, making us brand-new creations, but He also came into us as our comforter and teacher of our new life in Christ. We can ask the Holy Spirit for what Paul calls a constant mind-renewal so we can continually understand and grasp our new life in Christ. We are perfect in spirit, now joined to Christ; but our souls are continually perfecting (maturing) as we live in relationship with Christ by the Holy Spirit revealing this new life.

To help us understand the role of the Holy Spirit in our new life in Christ, Jesus tells us in John chapters 14, 15, and 16 exactly what that role is. The Holy Spirit will never speak of Himself but only of Christ. Only by revelation of the Holy Spirit will we ever move from focusing on outer things to an inner relationship with Christ who now lives in us, indeed the deeper things of God (John 14:26).

Jesus & Paul, Part 4

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Before The Foundation of World

By Tammy Lacock

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman’s goal is to make clear that there is only one true gospel to us and for us today, although two gospels are currently circulating in the world.

Only Apostle Paul was raised up by the resurrected Christ to bring us the true gospel for today. Therefore, it’s important to dive into the Apostle Paul’s epistles to understand this gospel. There’s no better place to start than in Ephesians 1:4 where Paul says the gospel for us today was planned by God before the world was created, which also means before He began Israel and before Christ’s earthly ministry.

Paul’s gospel is one of grace. In fact, he coins the phrase “dispensation of grace” as the period of time we are living in now (Ephesians 3:2). Paul’s gospel of grace is simple. Before the foundation of the world, God’s plan was to have children—new creatures in Christ, by His Son’s death, burial, and resurrection. God chose every human to be in Christ. There is nothing we can do to be saved because Christ did the work on the cross. We need only to believe (Acts 16:31). There’s no gospel to Gentiles in the Old Testament or before Paul’s epistles. When Israel rejected Jesus Christ as their Messiah, Christ told Paul to take this new gospel of grace to the Gentiles. However, man has commingled the gospel of law, given to Israel—referenced in four-fifths of the Bible—and Paul’s grace gospel. After Christ’s death and resurrection, Peter and the apostles were still preaching Christ’s kingdom message of salvation by faith and works, which Paul calls the gospel of circumcision. The same Christ Paul speaks of in God’s plan “before the foundation of the world” raised up Paul—and only Paul—to bring humanity a new gospel, that of uncircumcision. This gospel overrides the law gospel in this dispensation of grace.

By God’s grace, we were chosen to be in Christ. Warren Litzman’s purpose and calling has been to explain to believers exactly what the Apostle Paul means by this. The moment we believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, by His death and resurrection, the sin-nature (passed down to us through the curse of Adam by Satan) has been literally uprooted within our spirits and replaced by God’s incorruptible Seed, Christ, making us one spirit in Him. This is what it means to be born again.

“But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” (1 Corinthians 6:17).

Paul calls this the “revelation of the mystery” because until Christ revealed this new gospel to him, it was a mystery (Ephesians 3: 3-7). Yet, he tells us, it was in God’s plan before the foundation of the world. Let us not be confused. Christ literally living in every believer is the only gospel for today. This was the only way God would finally complete His plan to have His bona fide children, with His divine nature, living in His house and loving him back. Not by our works, but by the perfect love of His Son in us.

By His grace, His very life within us, we are saved and reconciled to Him.

“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.” (Romans 5:10-11).

Jesus & Paul, Part 3

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 06:00:00 -0500

God’s Plan From The Beginning

By Tammy Lacock

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4 KJV)

Warren Litzman speak of the intricate relationship between Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Their relationship is more intimate than any other relationship in the Bible as we begin to see, through Paul’s epistles, God’s plan for humanity as we transition from law to grace.

From the beginning of His earthly life, Jesus was royally mistreated. His life was threatened first by King Herod, being told the Messiah and King of Kings would be born, when he ordered the death of all boys under 2 years old. His own family rejected Him. And as an adult, He was not only rejected by His own people, but He was also nailed to and hung on a cross, left to die by them. He faced the peril of His humanity more than anyone. Jesus never had it easy as He came to preach to the Jews the Kingdom gospel, which is heaven on earth. As we have learned, this gospel was postponed by their rejection of Him. In His obedience to God, Christ knew He must fulfill His Father’s ultimate plan for humanity by His death on the cross. We must understand that Christ was and is a person. He felt all the emotions and feelings that humans did—and He still does—not as Jesus of Nazareth now but through us.

When He arose from the dead, He brought the message of peace to His people. And on the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit delivered the incorruptible seed of Christ into every believer. Christ’s life on earth was never beautiful and never peaceful. But His perfect peace now resides in every believer and this is exactly where He wants to be. He went from being in the body of Jesus of Nazareth to being in the body of His church, in every believer. He is alive and well in us! God’s plan from the beginning was finally complete.

In Ephesians 1:4, Apostle Paul tells us about God’s plan from the beginning. The word according in this verse tells us that God’s original plan, before anything, was to place Christ in every believer. In fact, it tells us that this is God’s plan for every single one of us, every single human being. Every one of us has been chosen to live in Christ. We must understand though that not everyone has Christ in them at this point in time. Nonetheless, all made in His image and likeness were chosen by God to have this new life. The only prerequisite is believing in Christ as our Lord and Savior (Acts 16:31).

The Apostle Paul was the only one raised up by Christ Himself to reveal to us that we no longer live by the law. Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection ushered us into a dispensation of grace; and Christ living in every believer is God’s grace being poured out onto humanity. Paul was the first person through whom Christ would manifest His grace and the only person He revealed it to. This is why Paul tells us, “Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1). His gospel of grace is not a corporate gospel but individual to each believer. Christ comes through each of us differently and uniquely, just how God created us to be.

Since most of us have been raised under law-religion, we’ve been programmed to live this way. Therefore, humanity is still struggling to understand Paul’s gospel of grace. Focusing on our works blinds us to Christ living in us as our new life. The Holy Spirit helps with our constant mind renewal so we may live fully in grace now. Paul’s gospel tells us, by grace, being joined to Christ in one spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17), God sees Christ in us as our righteousness.

Paul’s gospel reveals the completion of God’s plan for us. God knew, from the beginning, that He would never have a people that would be able to put ourselves aside and love Him reciprocally on our own. Only by placing His incorruptible seed (Christ) and uprooting our sin-nature from the curse of Adam would we not only be seen as righteous by God but we would now be able to grow in a true and loving relationship with Him as His bona fide sons and daughters. As believers, we are crucified with Christ, and we arose with Him to a new life in Him. This is our completion. Our minds need to catch up to this truth.

We were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. And now, since Christ’s death and resurrection, God’s plan is complete in every believer. Now that we have Christ in us, Paul says, no longer are we under the law. We now live by His grace.

Yet, as believers still living under religion and law, most of us can only say we know all about Christ. Paul says, it’s time to put away our childish ways (1 Corinthians 13:11) and know Him as our very life! Only then can we begin to understand who we are and who God created us to be.

Jesus & Paul, Part 2

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 06:00:00 -0500

We Are Complete In Christ

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast of Jesus and Paul, Part 2, Warren Litzman helps us rightly divide the Scriptures to distinguish and understand the one true gospel for believers today.

First, we must take a look at the gospel of Jesus of Nazareth and define His gospel before we can understand Paul’s gospel. Before His death, burial, and resurrection, Christ preached the Kingdom message, that God’s Kingdom is at hand. For the Jews, this meant heaven on earth. Being under the Judaic law, He preached works as a condition of being pleasing to God. He was obligated by God not to destroy the law but to fulfill the law and prophecy. Jesus wasn’t obligated to bring the message of grace, yet He was grace personified by His unrelenting forgiveness of sins and keeping the company of sinners. He could not yet preach grace because He had not yet died as a sacrifice, as an atonement for our sins and the sin of Adam passed down to us.

When the Jews rejected Christ as their Messiah, the kingdom message was postponed. In obedience to His Father in heaven, Christ’s knew His death was imminent and needed to fulfill God’s plan for humanity.

Paul’s gospel is that of pure grace, of new life, and completion in Christ. Christ’s death and resurrection ushered in grace and now there was nothing we could do or not do (no more works) to be saved. Christ did the work on the cross and by His blood, by His grace, we are saved. Christ raised up only Paul to bring this message of grace and new life to humanity. By just believing, we are saved. Yet Paul doesn’t stop there. He reveals to us a message of completion. He calls it the “revelation of the mystery” which is the literal planting of Christ’s seed, the incorruptible seed, in every believer. This is what it means to be born again, to have new life. We are brand new creations by the completion of Christ in us, literally and not figuratively.

On the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit planted the seed of Christ in the spirit of every believer, making us one Spirit in Christ (1 Corinthians 6:17).

“At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” (John 14:20)

However, it wasn’t until Christ raised up Paul, and only Paul, that we would know exactly what happened on that Day of Pentecost. Paul calls it the mystery hidden from us through the ages yet planned by God before the foundation of the world (1 Corinthians 2:7).

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.” (Ephesians 1:4)

Paul’s gospel of grace and new life fulfills what Jesus said in John 12:24:

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”

Only by Christ’s death and resurrection can we be born again, having a new life and even more so, an abundant life. The abundant life is Christ living in each of us, completing us, and bearing His fruit through us. We no longer live for our own glory but for Christ to be glorified through us. God no longer sees our works as pleasing to Him; He sees Christ. By Christ we are now His bona fide children, born into His family. We are complete by Christ, through Christ, and in Christ.

Paul’s gospel of grace, Christ in us, is a message of the fulfillment of Christ’s death and resurrection, which is our completion in Him.

“Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:26-27)

“And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power." (Colossians 2:10)

Jesus & Paul, Part 1

Sat, 18 Mar 2023 06:00:00 -0500

One Body In Christ

By Tammy Lacock

This week begins a new study which Warren Litzman calls Jesus and Paul. Warren focuses on the Apostle Paul as having an intricate role in God’s plan as the only man raised up by Christ Himself to bring to humanity a new and final gospel, the gospel of grace, which tells us where Christ is now and who we are now in God’s plan.

In Christianity today, we have a church that brings us a confused Christ, putting Him into two different categories but meshing them together. In one category, we try to live like Christ, which only makes us frustrated and ultimately defeated because this isn’t and has never been God’s plan for us. In the other category, Paul tells us that by God’s grace, Christ is our very life. We are not to live like Him but rather our old selves have “been crucified with Christ,” and our new life is Him living within us. We are no longer to know Him as Jesus of Nazareth but now as the one who lives in us and through us, our Lord of glory (Colossians 1:27). Christ is no longer an outer person; He lives within us being joined to our spirits making us one spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17).

The problem is that we commingle these two gospels not realizing that Paul’s gospel is the one true and final gospel for today. That is, Paul’s message of Christ living in every believer through God’s grace. Paul’s gospel of Christ moves us out of salvation by law and into salvation by grace, that is by Christ’s death and resurrection. We are now brand-new creations in Him. God no longer sees us; He sees Christ. This was God’s plan before the foundation of the world.

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love." (Ephesians 1:4 KJV)

In His last words on the cross, Christ said, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit” (Luke 23:46) and “It is finished” (John 19:30). At the cross, Christ’s ministry in the body of Jesus of Nazareth was finished, allowing God’s plan of Christ’s spirit living in every believer to be fulfilled. Finally, Jesus is vibrantly alive the way He wants to be…not in the body manufactured by Mary but as a gift of life to every believer.

Jesus became the utter fulfillment of who He was to be in God’s plan. He went from living in one body, Jesus of Nazareth, to living out His eternal life in another body, the Church, the one Body of Christ. God put the incorruptible seed of Christ in every believer, His spirit joined to ours.

However, we didn’t know what had happened when this radical change took place. The only way we would know is through the Apostle Paul. Paul’s conversion on the way to Damascus was the beginning of Christ raising up only one man to deliver this new gospel. When it was revealed to him that Christ was His very life, living in him (Gal. 1:15-17), Paul shared it with the world. He underwent a radical mind change, and his mind continually renewed in his new life in Christ. Yet it was hard for the world to take hold of this new gospel because Christianity was and still is holding onto the outer Christ in Jesus of Nazareth. This commingling of gospels has gotten us to a place where we don’t know who we are.

Yet Paul tells us who we are. We must follow Paul as he follows Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1) to understand our new life and who we are now in Christ. We are bona fide children of God by the very life of Christ now living within us. We are one body in Christ. This was God’s plan from the beginning. We (humans) were chosen to be in Him, and giving thanks to Paul, this final gospel has been revealed to us!

“For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.” (1 Corinthians 12:12 KJV)

Renewing the Mind, Part 11

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 06:00:00 -0500

One New Man

By Tammy Lacock

“Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.” (Ephesians 2:15 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman continues to explain, through Paul’s epistles, how extremely important having a radical mind-change is to our new life in Christ.

First, we must understand what it means to be in Christ. In Ephesians 2:15, Paul says by Christ’s death on the cross, He abolished salvation by law and ushered in salvation by grace, bringing peace between God and man and Jew and Gentile. By His death and resurrection (His conquering of death), Christ atoned for our sins and the curse passed down to us through Adam by Satan. We are freed from that old life. Even more, we are born again by Christ’s very life within us now. For the first time, through Christ, God did away with the old man and made Jews and Gentiles the same, one new man. By Christ’s work on the cross, and not by our own works, we are all reconciled to God and to each other. By His life within us now, God no longer sees our old identities and what we do or don’t do to be saved. He sees Christ. He is our new life. By God’s grace, we are complete in Christ and now a new race of people.

It’s important to understand that since we are brand-new creations in Christ, we no longer have a past. We are “babes in Christ” now, as Warren puts it. If we are to grow up in Him and live now who God created us to be, our minds must be cleared of our old understanding of who we were. Our minds must understand the radical change that took place within our spirits in that moment we believed in Christ as our Lord and Savior. We underwent a rebirth by Christ’s Spirit now being joined to ours (1 Corinthians 6:17). Yet our minds must undergo this radical change as well. This takes time. The Holy Spirit comforts us and teaches us about our new life in Christ and uses the circumstances and situations of life to help us in this mental transition.

Warren notes that there have been at least four gospels in scripture, all true but each having a significance in its time, place, and purpose. Christ, Himself, raised up only Paul to bring us a new gospel, that of Christ living in every believer. This gospel is for us today. God put the Spirit of His one Son in every believer, speaking to us now through Him (Hebrews 1:2; 1 John 1:5).

Throughout his epistles, Paul tells us how to live our new life in Christ. This is the gospel of Jesus Christ, from law to grace, from outer works to His work within us. We now know Him living in us, no longer knowing Him as Jesus of Nazareth but as our Lord of Glory (Colossians 1:27)!

“And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” (Ephesians 4:24 KJV)

Renewing the Mind, Part 10

Sat, 04 Mar 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Old Things Must Pass Away

By Tammy Lacock

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV)

Throughout Apostle Paul’s epistles, he consistently tells about the importance of renewing our minds as we live our new life in Christ.

Paul proclaimed a new gospel to believers, that by Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, our sin-nature—which passed down by the curse of Satan through Adam—has been literally uprooted and replaced with the incorruptible Seed, Christ, making us now brand-new creations. When Christ died, our old lives died, too. We were freed from the bondage of sin and Satan. When Christ arose, we arose as well, to a brand-new life in Him!

Paul tells us an integral component to renewing our minds to our new life in Christ is to understand that, although our pasts can never go away, by the help of the Holy Spirit, we can learn to let go of our old identities, no matter what they were.

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman boils it down to letting go of anything and everything that made us who we thought we were before coming to Christ, even down to our first birthing. As new creations in Christ, we must understand that we have been rebirthed and are babes in Christ now. We now have no past in our brand-new life. Yet Paul tells us that our minds have been so deeply rooted in our old identities that we need a constant mind renewal to who we are now in Christ, if we are ever to fully live who God created us to be. Our pasts keep our minds from learning and growing in Him. We must learn to let go of our pasts and old mindsets so that we can allow the new knowledge of Christ living in us to take hold.

Paul wanted nothing more than to let go of his old identities (his upbringing, his status, his education etc.); yet he suffered these losses every day as the Holy Spirit renewed his mind to the knowledge of his new life in Christ. He says it plainly yet ever so passionately in Philippians 3:8:

Paul’s gospel of Christ living in us ushered in what Christ is now doing in our inner being, as opposed to the outer works, he performed while he was here on earth.

As brand-new creations in Him, God no longer sees the “old man” and no longer sees what we do or don’t do (our outer works) to be saved. He sees Christ in us. He is our righteousness, our only hope of glory!

May we undergo this radical mind-change by letting go of our pasts and living our new identity in Christ, allowing Him to come through us now.

“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.” (Galatians 6:15 KJV)

Renewing the Mind, Part 9

Sat, 25 Feb 2023 06:00:00 -0500

We Are Predestinated

By Tammy Lacock

“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.” (Romans 8:29 KJV)

Warren Litzman’s study of “Renewing The Mind” continues by dissecting Paul’s epistles. Here in Romans 8:29, Paul tells us we were predestined in God’s plan to be conformed to Christ. As believers, this is important to understand (for mind-renewal) as we live our new life in Him. We were chosen in Him before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4) and therefore chosen to be God’s children.

Warren explains that our process of adoption into God’s family has two parts. The first part is being adopted into God’s family by the literal uprooting of Satan’s seed, the corruptible seed, in us and replacing it with the Seed of Christ, the incorruptible Seed. Now, God sees Christ in us (His righteousness, not ours) making us His bona fide children. The second part of our adoption is the process of fitting into our new family. This is where the circumstances and situations of life push us to Christ, who now lives in us, helping us understand who we are now and who God created us to be.

Everything in the outer world is meant to push us into an inner life with Him so we can understand our new life and our new family. When we understand that everything is created for Christ and in Christ, then we can understand that nothing is contrary to Him and “all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose” (Roman’s 8:28). No matter what we go through here in this life, it is all meant to bring us into a deeper relationship with Christ.

As we begin an inner relationship with Christ, we are no longer dependent on ourselves or anything outside of us to overcome our life’s challenges and trials. Christ is the overcomer. He that is in us is greater than he (Satan) that is in the world. Paul was renewed from the inside out and not the other way around. His relationship with Christ in him was all he really wanted, knowing that Christ will take care of everything outside of him. We can see this through Paul’s own trials of being shipwrecked three times, stoned almost to death and being imprisoned for most of his last days of life. He knew his sufferings brought him into a deeper relationship with Christ. And if this was the case, he welcomed them.

Warren further explains through Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians 11-18, that we must go through a constant death of our old selves, no longer conforming to this world but focusing our minds (mind-renewal) on Christ within us, so He may come through us. It is within our trials and tribulations that we go through this process of death so we can truly fit into our new family, and bring forth life, that is Christ.

The great mystery, predestinated by God and yet has been hidden for ages and for generations, has now been revealed through Paul. That is Christ living in us, our only hope of glory (Col. 1:27)!

“Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself , according to the good pleasure of his will.” (Ephesians 1:5 KJV)

Renewing the Mind, Part 8

Sat, 18 Feb 2023 06:00:00 -0500

All Things in Christ

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s Part 8 of Renewing the Mind, Warren Litzman makes it very clear, through Paul’s epistles, that in order to live who God created us to be here in this world, we as believers, must have a radical mind-change. He notes however, as Paul does, that since our minds have been usurped by Satan for so long before coming to Christ, this radical mind-change takes time. Only by the help of the Holy Spirit working in our minds will we have a constant mind-renewal. To know and fall in love with the Christ that now lives in us is the very reason we are here. We can ask the Holy Spirit to teach us and comfort us as we grow in our new life, in our unique and personal relationship with Christ.

Paul was the only man raised up by Christ Himself to bring us an entirely new gospel, one that requires a radical mind-change in order to understand it. This new gospel, simply put, is that by Christ’s death and resurrection, we as believers, are now brand-new creations (2 Corinthians 5:17), no longer under the bondage of Satan. Christ, the one for whom all things were created, is now the one who literally lives in us. May our minds be renewed to this truth. The sin nature passed down by the curse of Satan has been uprooted and replaced by Christ’s nature, the very Seed of God. He now lives in us, joined to our spirits (1 Corinthians 6:17), yet our minds need to catch up to this new knowledge. Paul understood back in his day that this was extremely difficult for believers to grasp. And the same is true today. Our minds are quite literally the battlefield between what Paul calls our “old man” understanding and our new life in Christ. He says “let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” to help us understand that our new life in Christ is also a daily and continual surrendering to Him (mind-renewal).

In Colossians chapter one, Paul tells us all things were created for Christ. Paul also tells us in Ephesians 1:4, that we were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. These truths are very important to understand (mind-renewal) as we live our new life in Christ.

We were created for Christ and indeed, as believers, we are complete in Him. We are now ready to live who God created us to be.

We went from our old sin-natured operator, Satan, who was contrary to Christ, to the one who holds all things together and who was created for all things, the operator who God intended for us. In Christ, we can do all things, for nothing, not one thing, is impossible with Him. May we undergo this radical mind-change!

“Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” (1 John 4:4 KJV)

Renewing the Mind, Part 7

Sat, 11 Feb 2023 06:00:00 -0500

We Are Complete In Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.” (Colossians 2:9-10 KJV)

In part seven of “Renewing the Mind,” Warren Litzman emphasizes that, as believers, it’s important to understand what it means to be complete in Christ if we are to ever fully live who God created us to be.

By God’s grace, when we believed in Christ as our Savior, a radical change took place within us. Literally, the old sin nature, passed down to us by the curse of Satan, was uprooted and the Seed of Christ was planted in its place. God made us in His image and likeness so there was nothing wrong with us at our creation. Because of our own free will and the deception of Satan, his nature became our operator, unbeknownst to us. With Satan as our operator, we are inclined to do his will. Over time, we begin to know this doesn’t fit our creation, realizing we can’t live this false life on our own anymore, trying to be someone we’re not created to be. Our need for a Savior becomes a real choice. By Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, God’s amazing grace was poured out onto us, and we now have the opportunity for a brand-new life, free from the bondage of Satan. By Christ’s death, we died as well to our sin natures, our old lives, and our old identities. We are no longer identified by anything in this world. By His resurrection, we arose with Christ into a new life in Him. He is our new life.

The Apostle Paul tells us our minds must be renewed to this knowledge of Christ living in us as our new life. In 2 Corinthians 5:17, he says we are brand-new creatures in Christ, living a brand-new life. We must understand that our old lives are no longer who we are. Our new identity is Christ, who is our new operator. There is no separation. We are now complete in Him.

In Ephesians 1:4, Paul tells us we were “chosen in Him before the foundation of the world.” We were chosen to be completed by Christ before God created the world. We are not complete until we make the choice to believe and accept Christ as the one who redeemed us, and now He lives in us.

Warren explains, through Paul’s epistles, that we must have a constant mind-renewal now that we are living a brand-new life. Our minds must have a radical mind-change in order to catch up to the radical change that took place within our spirits. Christ is now joined to us making us one Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17).

As our minds begin to renew and understand our new life, our new identity in Christ, our completion in Him, and our non-separation from Him, and thus our Father in heaven, we also begin to develop and nurture our unique, personal relationship with Him. Complete in Christ, we progress into the person who God created us to be. Only then can we truly live out His purpose for us.

“I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.” (John 17:23 KJV)

Renewing the Mind, Part 6

Sat, 04 Feb 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Who Are We?

By Tammy Lacock

“That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” (Ephesians 4:22-24 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman stresses the importance of having, what the Apostle Paul calls, a constant mind-renewal as we live our new lives in Christ. This constant mind-renewal will help us see who we really are. Certain areas in our thinking must be updated to our new life in Christ.

First, we must acknowledge that being born again means we now have Christ literally living in us. It’s not so much about having a new life moving forward, although this is true. It’s about God’s birthing of another life, Christ’s life, in every believer. His life makes us brand-new creations (2 Corinthians 5:17). His Life, His Seed, birthed within us and joined to our spirits (1 Corinthians 6:17) literally replaces our old sin-nature passed down by the curse of Adam by Satan. A radical change took place within us and most of us don’t know it. So we don’t live that change; instead, we live by our old understanding.

“Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” (1 John 3:9 KJV)

Second, we must understand the three types of sin so that we can break free from sin consciousness and move into being solely conscious of Christ in us now. In the garden of Gethsemane, all three of these sins were poured in the cup of which Jesus drank and all of these sins were crucified with Him.

The first is innate sin, the sin we were born into by the curse of Adam from Satan.

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” (Romans 5:12 KJV)

Christ’s death on the cross outright freed us from the bondage of Adam’s sin. We cannot commit this sin again.

“But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.” (Romans 5:15 KJV)

The second is sin of ignorance, sin of the flesh. This sin is committed without any knowledge of it. First John 1:7-9 tells believers we are cleansed from this type of sin, “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”

The third is sin of knowledge, knowingly committing sin, which is another fleshly sin. These sins require repentance (a mind change) with one another.

Ultimately, Jesus forgives these and all sin. “If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (John 1:8-9 KJV).

Now knowing Christ is in us, we must step away from our former sin-focused, legalistic thinking and focus our thinking on the one who has fulfilled the law, the one who has no sin, who is our righteousness and no longer sees our sin. We must focus on Christ, the one who literally lives in us now. We must understand that our “old man” which Paul describes three times in his epistles is really our old mindset of who we think we are. We must put off the “old man” and allow these old mindset to be crucified with Christ.

And lastly, we must set our minds on the “new man,” Christ, who now lives in us, standing on His promise that He will never leave us nor forsake us. He is with us always. There is no separation between Him and us. The greatest Superhero of all lives right inside us. He is our new life. He is our identity. He is who we are now.

How will you live now with Christ as your life? May we put off the “old man” and allow the “new man,” Christ, to come through us now.

Renewing the Mind, Part 5

Sat, 28 Jan 2023 06:00:00 -0500

The Greatest Power Is In Knowing

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman reinforces our need for a constant mind-renewal as we live our new life in Christ. The Apostle Paul was the only man raised up by Christ, Himself, to bring us the gospel of Christ literally living in us as believers and details throughout his epistles how we are to go about this constant mind-change in our new life in Him.

Paul emphasizes that our understanding of the godhead, the Trinity, is vital to living our new life in Christ. We must rightly divide the godhead and we must rightly divide the three parts of man: body, soul, and spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 4:12). This requires a radical mind-change.

First, our minds must be renewed to the understanding that God is now our Father. Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection allowed God to replace the seed of Satan with His Seed, His Son, in each and every one of us who believes. We are now joined to Him in our spirits, making us one Spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:17) Christ is our new life, our eternal life. By Christ in us, we are brand-new creations, a brand-new race, bona fide sons and daughters of God. By God’s grace, we can now call Him “Father”!

Second, we must understand the role of the Holy Spirit. In John 13, 14, and 15, Christ introduces the Holy Spirit who will come to us as our teacher, comforter, advocate, and revealer. The Holy Spirit’s sole purpose now is to teach us of the Christ who now lives in us in spirit so that we may know Him. No longer are we to know Christ in the flesh.

The Holy Spirit works in our soul part of us, where our minds reside. It is here where our mind-renewal takes place. It is here where the Holy Spirit reveals and teaches us through our circumstances and situations of life so we may grow in our personal relationship with Christ. We must rightly divide between our “old man,” sin-natured knowledge and the knowledge of Christ that now comes from the Holy Spirit.

Warren explains that the greatest power we will ever have as believers is the lessons learned by the Holy Spirit. These are extremely helpful in our mind-renewal because through these we learn Christ. We begin to know Him as Paul knew Him, as the Christ alive and well in us. These lessons help us understand that there is no separation now between us and Christ. He lives within us and is the one who now lives through us. In fact, in Galatians 2:20, Paul tells us we no longer live, and our new life is Christ. In Christ, we are now complete. We can finally live who God created us to be. This was His plan before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4).

In Philippians 3:10, Paul pours out his heart, knowing that through his sufferings he will know Christ more deeply. This is all he wanted. Yet he also understood that through his sufferings he would also know the power of Christ’s resurrection. This is the power of His resurrected life in us and the power in knowing that everything we think, say, and do now belongs to Christ. He is our one and only life now flowing through us, but we must give Him our minds to use. Our minds, and our whole being, become a living sacrifice in return for His. Through our constant mind-renewal, knowing Him and falling in love with Him becomes our daily and ultimate goal.

“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.” (Phil. 3:10)

Renewing the Mind, Part 4

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Have You Learned Christ?

By Tammy Lacock

“But ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” (Ephesians 4:20-24 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman helps believers uncover the gospel of the Apostle Paul, a gospel that hasn’t been preached through the generations and yet is the only true gospel for us today.

Paul was the only one raised up by Christ, Himself, to present to us the gospel of grace. No longer are we subject to any other gospel, such as the law. In this dispensation of grace, any and all laws are removed. Paul tells us in Ephesians 4:20-24 that Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection conquered death along with our old nature and old way of living, which was under the law by the usurper, Satan. Christ’s death and resurrection ushered in grace, our new way of living. Our new life is Christ. Our sin-natures have been uprooted and replaced by the Seed of Christ. Christ now lives literally in every believer. No longer are we saved by anything we do or don’t do. We are saved by Him.

In fact, Paul tells us of our new life in Christ over 186 times in his epistles. We have been born again. We are now joined to Christ in spirit making us one Spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17). We are brand new creations (2 Corinthians 5:17)!

What Paul noticed in his day of preaching this new gospel to believers is that they had no idea this change actually took place. He was given the enormous task of spreading this new gospel. They couldn’t grasp what he calls, the “mystery of the revelation of Jesus Christ” — that Christ now lives in us, and our new life now begins by being complete in Him. Just like today with us, their minds had a lot of catching up to do in their new life. We must have a constant mind renewal, Paul says, to understand and ultimately live our new life in Christ. And the only way is now through a personal relationship with Him. We must now have the mind change of no longer focusing on the outer things for our righteousness and focusing now on Christ within us, who IS our righteousness. God no longer sees anything we do or don’t do as pleasing to Him. He sees Christ in us as our righteousness. This is pure grace.

Once we can start to understand our new life in Christ as the ultimate gift from God, we can begin to understand His amazing grace and His unconditional love. Through this revelation, we can begin to grow in our personal relationship with Christ, focusing on Him more and more in everything we do and through any and all circumstances and situations. Through trials and tribulations, God really begins working in us so that we “may learn Christ.” In fact, on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit was sent to us to help us through these trials and tribulations as we begin our new life in Christ. The Holy Spirit, Paul says, works in our minds now, teaching us of the Christ within and directing us into relationship with Him, rather than focusing on the trials and tribulations. He says, knowing Christ is the only way we will get through them unscathed. We can see through Paul’s own trials of being shipwrecked three times, stoned to almost death and imprisoned until the end of his life, that he had to have a radical mind change if he were to come through these unmoved and bring him into deeper relationship with Christ. He knew that through his sufferings, he would learn Christ. And that’s all he wanted.

Ultimately, God desires for us to reciprocate His love, the love He showed us through the sacrifice of His own Son. The sacrifice which led to our new life, our eternal life in Him. However, He is a God of choice. He gave us free will to choose. And He wants us to choose Him. Paul tells us that our mind renewal, which leads to a more intimate relationship with Christ, will eventually lead us to choosing to Love God.

Love is a choice, not a feeling or an emotion. God keeps working on us to bring us to that choice. If life is a series of choices being lived out, as Warren puts it, then as our minds renew in Christ, the ultimate choice becomes clear. Yet, Paul says, the mind, where choices are made, is the battlefield. He says focus our minds on Christ and nothing else. Again, he says, we are not alone in this task. The Holy Spirit comforts us as we begin and endure this journey.

Now that we know, through Paul’s gospel of grace, that Christ lives in us, to never leave nor forsake us, may we focus on Him and learn Him. And may we choose to love Him more and more every day!

Renewing the Mind, Part 3

Sat, 07 Jan 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Love Is A Choice

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren continues to emphasize, through Paul’s epistles, the importance of now having a radical mind-change as a believer in Christ. Through knowledge, wisdom, understanding, and revelation (words that deal with the spiritual growth of the mind), Paul says we must “be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2). If we are ever to live our new lives completely in Christ, “that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” (Romans 12:2), living who God created us to be, our minds must turn from focusing on outer things, the things of this world, to Christ within us, our new life.

Warren reminds us of the knowledge and understanding Paul gives us in 1 Thessalonians that we are a tripartite being, made in the image and likeness of God. We are soul, body, and spirit.

When we’re saved, we are saved in our spirits. This is where Christ is now joined to us, making us one spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17). We are perfect in our spirits because of Christ, the Son who pleases the Father. His death, burial, and resurrection was a perfect atonement for the curse of Adam by Satan passed down through the generations. In our rebirth, God uprooted our sin-nature and replaced it with His Son’s nature, the Seed of Christ, in our spirits. However, our souls, where our minds reside, have a lot of catching up to do. The radical change that took place in our spirits has yet to happen in our souls, where God is still working in our mind, will, and emotions, the part of us still growing in the revelation of the wisdom and understanding of Christ.

Most Christians have no idea that Christ now lives in us, so their minds are still under subjection to their old life. What good is our life here if we have Christ in us but have no understanding of it? Paul says, now that our new life is Christ, our minds must now undergo a radical mind-change in our understanding of this new life. And he tells us we are not left alone in this task. The Holy Spirit’s sole purpose is to teach us the things of Christ and comfort us in our new life in Christ. The Holy Spirit works in our minds to reveal Christ so that our souls come under subjection to our new life in Him in our spirits.

Mind-renewal — the journey of the believer’s mind which had been usurped by Satan since the curse of Adam — gives the mind over to the Christ now alive within. Paul says, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5).

Ultimately, the constant renewal of our minds will lead us into a deeper and deeper relationship with Christ. This is spiritual growth, the only growth that truly matters. Paul was the greatest psychologist of all time because, by revelation from Christ, he understood that our minds have been held captive for so long, making choices contrary to our creation. If there was any chance for us to know and love Christ and live our new life in Him, we would need a radical mind-change, a mind-change that helps us see that all God really wants from us is a personal relationship and reciprocal love. He wants us to use the free will He gave us to ultimately choose Him. So life is a schoolhouse, where the circumstances and situations, and moreover the crises, are meant to draw us inward to Him. No longer to the outer world, and even the outer Christ of miracles and wonders, but to the resurrected Christ who, by His death, now literally lives eternally in every believer.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16 KJV)

All He wants in return is for us to love Him back. Love is not an emotion; it is a choice. With Christ as our new life, isn’t it time to get to know Him? And isn’t it finally time to give our minds over to Him, to choose Him? Once we dive into Paul’s epistles and ask the Holy Spirit to continually renew our minds to the Christ within us, we will find that the choice to love Him is the greatest choice of all.

Renewing the Mind, Part 2

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Do You Know?

By Tammy Lacock

“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:10)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman again emphasizes the Apostle Paul’s gospel of grace as the only gospel for believers today.

Paul’s gospel of grace is that by Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we are saved. By God’s grace we are joined to Christ in Spirit, reconciled to God by His life literally within us now. We are not saved by anything we do or don’t do. We are saved by the uprooting of our sin-nature and the placing of God’s Seed, His Son, in our very spirits. We are saved by Christ, and He is our new life. We are brand-new creations, bona fide sons and daughters of God by Christ. In fact, our new life in Christ was part of God’s plan before He created the world.

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4)

The question for believers today is, Do you know Christ lives in you now?

Most Christians today don’t know. Preachers aren’t emphasizing Paul’s gospel! We’ve literally been born again by having Christ’s life within us, but many don’t know it. Instead, they are living the same way the early church lived, basing their salvation on their works (and outer signs and miracles) rather than getting to know and love the resurrected Christ who now lives in them.

Christ revealed to Paul in the Arabian desert that Christ lived in him, and yet believers at the time, including the disciples, couldn’t grasp this revelation. Christ Himself raised up only Paul to bring this new gospel to the world. That no longer do we look for Christ outside of us. He literally lives within us now.

“But when it pleases God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son IN (my emphasis) me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood.” (Galatians 1:15-16)

Paul realized believers needed a radical mind-change for this new gospel to take hold.

Warren tells us, through Paul’s epistles, that this mind-renewal is extremely important if we are to live our new life in Christ and live who God created us to be. We must make up our minds whether we will conform to this world or fix our minds now on Christ within us, our new life.

Yes, as believers, we are saved. We are going to Heaven. We are completed by Christ’s life within us. Yet our minds are polluted. If we don’t know that Christ lives in us, then we will never live out who God created us to be. If we don’t get to know Him and love Him now while we’re here, then we will invariably conform to this world. We can ask the Holy Spirit to clear out the clutter and renew our minds to our new life in Christ. The Holy Spirit’s sole purpose is to teach us of the Christ who now lives in us so that we can begin to focus our minds on Him rather than anything outside of us.

May we follow Paul as he follows Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1) and have a radical mind change. He didn’t care whether he lived or died. This world meant nothing to him. The truth that Christ lived in him set him free. All He wanted was to know Him and love Him.

And now, It’s time to make up our minds!

Will you continue to conform to this world?

Or have a radical mind change by focusing on Christ, He who now lives in you?

“And not be conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12:2 KJV)

Renewing the Mind, Part 1

Sat, 24 Dec 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Knowing Christ

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman begins a series on “Renewing the Mind,” based solely on the Apostle Paul’s gospel of grace for us today.

Paul was the only man Christ raised up to deliver the message of grace by Christ alive in every believer. He didn’t just know about Christ; he knew the resurrected Christ who, by His death, was joined to him in Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17). In fact, Paul makes it clear that the only thing he wanted was to know this Christ who lived in him. Everything else was “dung.”

“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.” (Philippians 3:10)

Paul tells believers how to live our new life in Christ; by the help of the Holy Spirit, we must have a constant mind-renewal if we are ever to know Christ and develop our love affair with Him. We must change our mindset of outer works to the Christ living inside each of us. He likened our new life to a marriage, Christ now being our first love, the one we go to for everything and the one that now comes through us.

Warren Litzman explains that in our world today, we are stimulated only by outer things. Christians are being “dumbed down” by Paul’s gospel of Christ living in us not being preached. Christians are focusing on the things of this world rather than looking within ourselves for Christ. Paul tells us over 146 times that Christ lives in us. Yet most preaching today is not based on our our faith and works, not our inner relationship with Christ. Faith is the hardest work a Christian does because we base it on results. We have missed the essence of Paul’s gospel. Our faith must not be based on results but on knowing Christ alive in us now. Paul says it is now the faithfulness of Christ, not our own faith that matters. Our salvation is the person of Christ in us and not anything outside of us.

“And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.” (Philippians 3:9)

In the Old Testament, God dealt with his people by outer works. Righteousness was based on what man did to please God. In turn, God performed many miracles. However, Paul tells us our righteousness is now Christ by His life within us. We are to focus on knowing Christ. Because Christ now lives in us, we can get to know Him personally in a unique relationship with Him. We are no longer the overcomers because we now have the overcomer within us. Stepping into God’s grace means getting to know Him now. By Christ’s life within each of us, we can now say we are all one body in Him. He in us and we in Him, chosen in Him before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4).

Now that we are complete in Christ and we are getting to know Him, we can truly live out God’s purpose for us.

“For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12:13)

Out of Law into Grace, Part 10

Sat, 17 Dec 2022 06:00:00 -0500

The Wisdom of Grace

By Tammy Lacock

“And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 5:23)

In the final episode of Out of Law into Grace, Warren Litzman emphasizes the Apostle Paul’s precise distinction between soul and spirit as a fundamental step into the fullness of God’s grace. In fact, everything Paul writes about is based on the wisdom of God’s grace, by revelation from Christ Himself, that the human being is made up of three parts: body, soul, and spirit.

In the Old Testament, soul and spirit were used interchangeably. However, Apostle Paul tells us now in the New Testament that soul and spirit must be rightly divided (Hebrews 4:12), and we do this by rightly dividing the Word of God.

Warren gives us a few areas in Paul’s epistles that help us rightly divide the scriptures and move out of law by a clear understanding of the wisdom of God’s grace.

He starts off by explaining body, soul, and spirit through 2 Corinthians 1:10, “Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in who we trust that he will yet deliver us.”

Here Paul tells us about our deliverance in three parts: spirit, soul, and body. We are already delivered (saved) in our spirits by Christ’s death and resurrection. We now stand perfect before God because Christ is joined to us by His Spirit, making us one spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17) with Him.

God sees only Christ in us now. The person of Christ joined to us in spirit is our salvation.

He then tells us we are being delivered in our souls, where our minds, wills, emotions, and intellects reside. We are always being delivered in our souls; it is ongoing as we learn Christ and the Holy Spirit turns our hearts toward Christ, away from self. “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Phil. 2:13). Our love affair with Christ takes place in our souls — getting to know and love the Christ who now lives in us.

Lastly, Paul says our bodies will be delivered upon Christ’s return, when we will get new, heavenly bodies.

Coming into grace, we need to understand that our minds and bodies will never be perfected while we are on earth, but through these parts we can allow Christ in us — living in our spirits — to come through. We must rightly divide our understanding of soul and spirit if we are to ever understand our salvation.

His second point is that when we move out of law into grace, our understanding of the Cross becomes clear. There are two foundational truths we need understand about the Cross. The Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world (1 Peter 1:19-20) and, because of His death, God could now birth His own children through and in Him (Ephesians 1:4). Nobody is placed in Christ until the finished work on the Cross. Our old sin-natures could not be uprooted and replaced with Christ’s nature until His death.

This is our spirit salvation. This is why in His last words on the cross, Christ said, “It is finished.” God’s plan is finished by Christ’s death and resurrection and God placing His Son in us. Christ is our new life, making us now bona fide children of God.

Warren’s third point emphasizes our need to understand Hebrews 4:12 or we will never step fully into pure grace:

Here Paul tells us again that we must rightly divide our souls and spirits; on earth, our souls will never match our spirits. Our spirit is Christ, a person, and our souls are what we do, think, and feel, where we make decisions. God will never take our decision-making ability away from us. Our decisions plan our life and cultivate our relationship with Christ, who now lives in us. It’s in our souls where the Holy Spirit works to help us grow in our love affair with Him.

And lastly, Warren highlights our need to rightly divide the Word of God in, “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).

Warren explains that we are not to divide the scriptures according to our own understanding, but that God’s Word speaks for itself. We must study the scriptures to understand that, since the Cross, we have moved out of law and into grace. Paul tells us Old Testament and New Testament, soul and spirit, and law and grace must be rightly divided. By studying God’s Word, the Holy Spirit will help us see these distinctions so we can live accordingly. Moving into pure grace means moving entirely out of law (Old Testament, soulish thinking) and into Christ, living Him now by letting His Spirit come through us.

In Galatians 2:20 (KJV), Paul states our new life in Christ so beautifully, without confusion:

This is the wisdom of God’s grace.

Perfect in Spirit, by Christ, verses:

1 Corinthians 2:6
Philippians 3:15
Colossians 1:28
Colossians 4:12
Hebrews 13:21
2 Timothy 3:17
1 Peter 5:10

Out of Law into Grace, Part 9

Sat, 10 Dec 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Christ Is Our Wisdom

By Tammy Lacock

“But of him ye are in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” (1 Corinthians 1:30 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Part 9 of Out of Law Into Grace, Warren Litzman further explains, through the Apostle Paul’s epistles, what it means to step into the fullness of God’s grace.

Warren emphasizes that Paul’s gospel is that of pure grace, that is grace without any law in it, not one single ounce of it! It’s a new gospel, one that supersedes any other, the only gospel for today. And it begun at the cross.

Paul’s gospel tells us we are no longer to live under any law, that by Christ’s death and resurrection, we are freed from it. Although we are living in pure grace now, most of us are still commingling law and grace, Old Testament and New Testament understanding.

In 1 Corinthians 1:30, Paul tells us that no longer are we made righteous by anything we do or don’t do (the law). In grace, by God’s new covenant to us by Christ’s death and resurrection, we are made righteous by Christ, who now lives in us. We are freed from the bondage of the law and our sin-natures by Christ. His death and resurrection justified God’s uprooting of our sin-nature and replacing it with Christ’s nature, His seed planted in us. By Christ’s death we have new life. We are brand-new creations, joined to Christ making us one spirit in Christ (1 Corinthians 6:17).

Paul’s message to us in 1 Corinthians 1:30 is that Christ is made unto us wisdom. Paul emphasizes here that our wisdom now no longer comes from our own understanding (Old Testament-law mind-set) but from the Christ who now lives in us (New Testament-grace mind-set). By the revelation of Christ, only Paul was raised up to deliver this message to the world. It’s Christ’s wisdom now coming through us, the wisdom of Christ as our new life, that we are saved by His grace and kept saved by His grace. There’s no law, no works of our own involved in our salvation.

Warren notes that it is important to recognize that the law isn’t bad; it brings us to Christ. However, we nullify the cross when we continue in it. Most Christians today are still living in law. Paul says we are saved simply by believing, yet he also reveals that if we are still living in the law (appealing to God by our own works) for salvation, taking the emphasis off of Christ, then we still need that constant mind-renewal to gain the wisdom of Christ as our new life. We haven’t yet given our minds over to Christ. (Philippians 2:5). In fact, according to Paul, we have His mind at our disposal. (1 Corinthians 2:16) The question is are we aware of that?

This is where we must divide soul and spirit (Hebrews 4:12). In our spirits we are made perfect in Christ, joined to Him in one Spirit. In our souls, the part of us where our minds, intellects, and wills reside, we are maturing in our new life in Christ. It’s in this part of us where we need to catch up to what we already are in Spirit. It’s in this part of us where the Holy Spirit works. His sole purpose is to comfort us in this transition and teach us of our new life in Christ.

We have the tendency to go back and forth in law and grace. But yet, until we step into the fullness of God’s grace, we will never live who God created us to be. The Holy Spirit, working in our minds to the awareness of Christ in us and His wisdom coming through us, is the only one who can help us step out of law and fully into God’s grace.

Lastly, Warren urges us to read and reread 1 Corinthians chapter 2 as the key to understanding grace. In grace, he tells us that Christ is our wisdom. Every one of us who believes has His wisdom at our disposal. Taking that step into the fullness of God’s grace in our new life in Christ means giving our minds over to Him so that His understanding and wisdom, not our own, will now come through us.

Out of Law into Grace, Part 8

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Follow Me, Paul

By Tammy Lacock

“Follow me as I follow Christ.” (1 Corinthians 1:11)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman once again deeply examines the Apostle Paul’s key message of stepping out of the bondage of law and into the fullness of God’s grace in Philippians 3: 6-8.

“Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. “But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.” (Philippians 3:6-8 KJV)

In verse 6-8, Warren explains how Paul contrasted his life before his conversion to his new life in Christ. He boasted of his previous life only to show us that he had everything going for him in an earthly sense and considered himself to be an avid obeyer of the Jewish law. In fact, he said he was blameless in the law. He even persecuted followers of Christ in his adherence to the law, and no doubt suffered the rest of his life for this.

He gave up all this from his old life, knowing that in Christ, there is no other life for Him than in God’s grace. By giving up his old life and identity, he is now free to step into the fullness of God’s grace, that is who God created him to be. All he wanted now was to know Christ more and more.

Paul lists 16 I-phrases in Philippians chapters 3 and 4, emphasizing that nobody is going to help us take our first step into grace, nobody but ourselves. This is the love affair that develops as we continue to live our new life in Christ. Only the Holy Spirit can come into our minds and hearts and help us to “suffer the loss of all things” so that we “may win Christ” (Philippians 3:8).

Paul shares throughout his epistles that we are no longer to live in bondage to the law. To live by the law would nullify Christ’s death and resurrection. Christ’s death and resurrection ushered in a new gospel, that of God’s grace. In this dispensation of grace, we are no longer saved by our works and our adherence to the law. We are saved by Christ’s work on the cross. This is God’s Grace. We must leave behind our old lives if we are to ever live fully in God’s grace. In fact, when Christ died, our old lives died too (Galatians 2:20). When He arose to a new life, we arose as well to a new life in Him.

What “things” of our old lives do we need to lose if we are to follow Paul and step into the fullness of God’s grace? Everything Paul gave up made room for him to be a servant of God, so that Christ could reveal Himself and work through him more and more. In fact, Paul suffered the loss of these things so that Christ could, in turn, use these things to further the gospel of His grace. Paul persecuted Christians in his old life and now he wanted nothing to do with that.

If we are to win Christ, we too will suffer the loss of all things. Just as Christ did with Paul, He will use our sufferings to make room for us to be better servants, to further His gospel of grace.

Follow Paul as he follows Christ. Winning Christ means stepping into the fullness of God’s grace so that we, too, can finally live who God created us to be.

Out of Law into Grace, Part 7

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Truth Is A Person, Truth Is Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.” (Philippians 3:2-3 KJV)

In this Part 7 of stepping “Out of Law Into Grace,” Warren Litzman sets it straight by keeping the gospel of grace simple because the Apostle Paul keeps it simple.

He explains, there was no life in the Old Testament because there was no cross, only law. Believers in the Old Testament lived a “soulish” life, basing their righteousness on their adherence to the law. Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection ushered in a new covenant — God’s grace. Because of Him, we are no longer bound by the law. We are brought to life — a new resurrected life — by Him. As believers, Christ is our new life by Him now being joined to us in one Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17). This new life in spirit is grace. We now live in spirit and in truth.

“He that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” (1 John 5:12 KJV)

Truth is a person. Truth is Christ.

Warren focuses this week on Paul’s letter to the Philippians chapter 3, verses 2 through 8. Here Paul is setting us straight that there is to be no commingling of the gospels of law and of grace. In verse 2, Paul speaks of “dogs” as people who intertwine law and grace gospels. When this is done, neither is of any merit. Many churches today are commingling the gospel of law (righteousness by what we do or don’t do) and Paul’s gospel of grace (righteousness by Christ), yet Paul makes it clear that, by the help of the Holy Spirit, we are only to live by God’s grace now. To live by the law would nullify Christ’s death. Christ ushered in God’s grace by His death, burial, and resurrection on the cross, so there is to be no more confidence in our flesh, no more confidence in anything we do, and no more adherence to the law for our salvation. Christ did the work; and by His death, we died with Him to our old lives and arose with Him to a new life, His life within us now (Galatians 2:20). Christ is our new life. We are brand-new creations in Him (2 Corinthians 5:17). No longer does God see our own works as righteousness. He sees only Christ as our righteousness. It’s that simple.

Paul tells us in verses 4-5, that before he met Christ on the road to Damascus, if there was anyone that kept the law most and was righteous by it, it was him. He was an avid scholar of Torah and was making his way up in Hebrew standing. He was the “meanest man alive,” as Warren puts it, because in his strict adherence to law, he killed Christians.

Yet in his instant conversion, Paul knew Christ and addressed Him as Lord. And from that day forward, he was all in. He knew the truth, and the truth set him free free from the entanglement of law and his old mind.

So Paul uses his background as a means of sharing a new gospel, a gospel that only he was raised up by Christ Himself to deliver to the Jews (who rejected it) and to the Gentiles (who accepted it). Paul tells us that all of that law stuff doesn’t apply to God's children who live by the Spirit within; it’s all garbage, compared to this new gospel of grace. It’s all but “dung” compared to Christ. His new life in Christ was all that mattered to him. All he wanted was to know Christ more and to share this new gospel of grace with anyone and everyone who would hear it. He makes this clear in verses 7-8 when he says: “But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.”

Today, with such a commingling of Scriptures on how we should live, Paul reminds us to keep it simple. Only by Christ’s death and resurrection are we able to now live in grace. His death abolished our living by the law and ushered in a new life of grace, living by the Spirit. By the help of the Holy Spirit, whose sole purpose is to teach of Christ and our new life in Him, we can step into grace. From law to grace, from law to truth, from law to Christ. It’s that simple.

Out of Law into Grace, Part 6

Sat, 19 Nov 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Grace is Christ

Christ Is Grace

By Tammy Lacock

“He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.” (John 12: 25 KJV)

In last week’s podcast, Warren Litzman explained what Jesus is saying in John 12:24 that death is a prerequisite for bearing fruit. If He doesn’t die, then He will not finish His Father’s plan and there will be no fruit.

He tells us of the bigger picture. He must give up His earthly ministry, His preaching of the law, and His old self in order to bear fruit, to step into the fullness of God’s grace. These are all outer things of this world and mean nothing compared to His resurrected, eternal life. Only by His death will He be made free. Only by His death will a new covenant be ushered in — the covenant of God’s grace. Only by His death can He step out of this world and its bondage to the law and step into the fullness of God’s grace.

The same goes for us as believers. In verse 25, Jesus is telling us juwe must die to this world, we must fix our minds on the bigger picture, if we too are ever to step into the fullness of God’s grace — eternal life in Christ.

“If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.” (John 12:26 KJV)

And in verse 26, Jesus is telling us that by following Him and dying to this life, we will never be separated from Him. This is the gift of God’s grace, eternal life in Christ. As believers, when he died, we died too. When he arose from the dead, we also arose to a brand-new life in Him. Where He is, we are. And By His new life in us now, God no longer sees our old life, He sees Christ. Because of Him, we are bona fide sons and daughters of God. Only by dying to our old lives can we now bear fruit, Christ’s fruit, and fully step into God’s grace.

Christ Himself raised up the Apostle Paul, and only Paul, to deliver the message of God’s grace to the world. Paul says follow me as I follow Christ (1 Corinthians 1:11), not the earthly Christ but the Christ who lived in Paul — the Christ who, by His death, abolished the law, ushered in grace, and by God’s grace is now joined to our spirits, making us one spirit in Him (1 Corinthians 6:17).

Throughout his epistles, Paul tells us what Jesus was saying in John 12:24-27, that our old lives don’t matter. Our new life is Christ. As believers, we are no longer separated from Him. But Jesus tells us He must die first to bear this fruit. And by His death, we are no longer bound to this world and the law. By Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we have been ushered into a new covenant, God’s grace. There is nothing we can do or not do to be saved. Christ did the work on the cross so He would bear fruit by living in each and every one of us who believe. Only by our new life in Him are we made eternal beings. Only by Him are we complete.

There are many verses where Paul mentions our new life in Christ. The following verses especially align with what Jesus said in John 12:24-28:

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:1-2 KJV)

Out of Law into Grace, Part 5

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 05:00:00 -0500

Christ’s Death Ushers In Grace

By Tammy Lacock

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” (John 12:24 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman discerns what it means to step into the fullness of God’s grace.

In John 12:24, Jesus is telling us here that death is a prerequisite for bearing fruit. If He doesn’t die, then God’s work isn’t finished, and there will be no fruit. He must give up His earthly ministry, His preaching of God’s law, and His old self to step into the fullness of God’s grace. That is God’s ultimate plan for Him. God’s grace is the fruit Jesus talks about here. Christ steps into this fullness when He proclaims in His last breath on the cross “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit. It is finished.” The same is true for us as believers. Our old selves, our old belief systems of who we think we are and what we must do to be saved, must die with Christ (Galatians 2:20) if we are ever to bear His fruit and step into the fullness of God’s grace. That is His ultimate plan for us.

Just as Jesus abolished the law at the cross, we too must die to any and every law that keeps us from fully living our new life in Christ, our new life in grace. This is the only way we can truly live in the fullness of God’s grace. This is the only way we can truly live who God created us to be. Only then will we bear fruit, Christ’s fruit. God no longer looks at our works, as He did by the law in the Old Testament. He NOW sees Christ as our new life in us. This is grace, ushered in by Christ’s death on the cross. His death brings forth much fruit, that is, His resurrected life NOW in each and and every one of us who believes. We have eternal life in us NOW.

The Apostle Paul, the Apostle of Grace, is the only one in the Bible raised up by Christ Himself to reveal to us that God’s grace is NOW. He tells us how to live now that we are living in grace. He tells us that the law has been stripped of its power by Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. Moses ushered in God’s law, and Christ ushered in God’s grace, dissolving the law. His death opened the door for God to be a Father to each and every one of us. As believers, we are NOW His bona fide children, one body in Christ.

Paul says taking our first step into grace means death to our old lives and, more specifically, our old minds if we are ever to bear fruit and live in the fullness of God’s grace. He says, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5 KJV).

May we, once and for all, give our minds over to Christ now and step fully into God’s grace!

“For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17 KJV)

Out of Law into Grace, Part 4

Sat, 05 Nov 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Grace Is NOW.

By Tammy Lacock

Through a dissection of Paul’s epistles, Warren Litzman effectively explains God’s amazing grace, who it’s for, and when it is. He then questions when we, as believers, will be ready to take the biggest step we’ll ever take into His grace.

“But NOW in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace." (Ephesians 2:13-15)

In last week’s podcast, Warren explained that in Ephesians 2:11-12, Paul makes it clear that he is addressing the Gentiles. His gospel of grace is FOR everyone, Jews and Gentiles alike, but directed here to the Gentiles, who previously had been without God in their lives, living lives separated from Him. His gospel of grace breaks down the barriers for everyone, telling us Christ and His work on the cross is our salvation, not our works or lack thereof.

In Ephesians 2:13-15, Paul tells us Christ’s death on the cross, His shed blood, brought about a new covenant for everyone. This new covenant not only abolishes the law (our salvation based on our works), but it abolishes the separation between God and man, and between Jews and Gentiles. It’s Christ’s work on the cross that reconciles us to God, bringing us back to Him, one body in Christ.

By Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we are no longer separated by the bonds of this world, its laws, and even death! We are brand new creations, eternal children of God, joined to Christ in one Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17)!

We are complete NOW in Christ, and we are one body in Him. Paul tells us Christ is our peace NOW. This is God’s amazing grace, His gift to us NOW!

Warren makes an extremely important point that most Christians may not know. That is, being joined to Christ in one spirit, He NOW literally lives in us. Christ lives in us and yet we may still be without Him in our actions.

We must understand that if we accepted Christ in our lives, God didn’t work in us on the basis on what we think or know. He birthed His Son, by placing His Seed (and the uprooting of the sin-nature) in us the moment we believed in Him. Christ completes us, and we are NOW saved only by Him. It is not a progressive salvation. We are saved by Christ, and not by our continual works. Yet, if we don’t know where Christ is, He may never come out of us in our expression. As believers, knowing Christ lives in us is the foundation from which we get to know Him and love Him. We now know where He is. Paul’s epistles make it clear that He lives in is. There is no separation between us. We abide in Him and He in us.

Paul tells us we must now have a radical mind-change if we are to ever live the fullness of God’s grace. In fact, he tells us, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5 KJV).

This radical mind-change is literally giving our minds over to Christ, who now lives in us. If we are to step into the fullness of God’s grace and begin the love affair with Him, then we must be all in — mind, body, and spirit. We are all NOW joined to Christ in one Spirit, one body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:13).

And NOW, Paul says, it’s time to give Him our minds, too!

Out of Law into Grace, Part 3

Sat, 29 Oct 2022 06:00:00 -0500

The Biggest Step We’ll Ever Take

By Tammy Lacock

“Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands.” (Ephesians 2:11 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman continues to follow the Apostle Paul’s gospel of grace as he discusses “the biggest step we’ll ever take” as believers.

In Ephesians 2:11, the Apostle Paul compares uncircumcision and circumcision to the Gentiles and the Jews, respectively.

He explains here that God’s gift of grace is for everyone, Jews and Gentiles alike. Being a Jew himself, Paul tells us his message is for the Jews, who live by God’s law (circumcision), yet also for the Gentiles, everyone who does nothing of themselves to follow God’s law (uncircumcision). Paul focused on spreading his gospel to the Gentiles because the Jews rejected it.

Paul’s epistles clearly reveal that God’s grace is given to us not by anything we do (circumcision) or don’t do (uncircumcision), but by the very gift of His Son’s death, burial, and resurrection as an atonement for the curse of Adam’s sin passed down in us. We all are born into sin. Only Christ cleanses us of this sin. There is no other way to be rid of our sin-natures. The exchange is made by the cross, by just believing. As Warren puts it, God dumps a whole bucket of grace on us. In that very moment we believe, His grace is poured out. In that very moment we believe, our sin-nature is uprooted, and the Seed of Christ is planted. In that very moment, we have been given the gift of eternal life, the gift of Christ in us. He is our new life. God no longer looks at what we do or don’t do to please Him. He sees Christ and by Him, we are saved. By His Seed, we are now partakers of divine nature, bona fide children of God! No longer bound to this world! Out of law and into grace.

Through Paul’s epistles, Warren explains that Paul was the only other man, besides Moses, who was raised up by God to bring us such a great truth. Moses brought us God’s law, taking up four-fifths of the Bible. Here, God dealt with soul salvation, salvation by works. However, the Apostle Paul reveals to us a new covenant, that is God’s amazing grace, in his epistles which take up only one-fourth of the Bible. Paul’s gospel is spirit salvation by God’s grace. Christ joined to us in one spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:17): Christ in us, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27)! There is nothing we can do that will bring us salvation. Christ did the work, and He is our salvation.

Paul’s gospel of grace is for us now. We are no longer bound by law. The Cross ushered us out of God’s law and into His grace. Christ will no longer work in the law, which he abolished by His death. Only by God’s grace, His life within us, will He be glorified.

As the Apostle of grace, Paul is the only man in the Bible who explains how to live as a believer in Christ. He tells us how to live now as brand-new creations in Christ, an entirely new race of people. No more Jew or Gentile, only one body in Christ. He tells us that in order to take our first step into the fullness of God’s grace, we must have a radical mind change. We must rightly divide soul and spirit (Hebrews 4:12). Christ joined to us now in our spirits, making us one spirit in Him, is our new life. Yet our souls, where our minds reside, are still gripped by our sin-nature. Most of us don’t even know Christ lives in us, that He is our new life. Paul tells us that only by revelation, can we come to this new knowledge. Once we have this knowledge, by the help of the Holy Spirit once again, we can then begin to make choices in our minds that free our souls from the grip of sin. This is where Paul tells us that the biggest step we’ll ever take is the one where we know Christ lives in us and now we’re willing to hand over our minds to Him, a gift back to Him. Once we do this, we’ve finally stepped into the fullness of God’s grace because it’s only then when we begin to truly know Him and begin to truly fall in love with Him. It’s here where we begin to love Him more than ourselves. It’s here where we begin to understand why Paul likens our relationship to Christ as a marriage, one flesh, one spirit. It’s here where our continual choices start to align with Him, who now lives in us. And it’s this step which helps us to see clearly the unconditional and boundless love God has for us and always will. It’s a love affair.

Paul tells us we are no longer bound by our old lives. We are brand-new creations in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17). Yet if we are to fully live our new life in God’s grace, we must take the biggest step we’ll ever take. Letting go of our old lives means letting go of our our old minds as well.

Our spirits belong to Christ. Now give Him your mind, too.

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 2:5 KJV)

Out of Law into Grace, Part 2

Sat, 15 Oct 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Grace Is For Everyone

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman continues with Part 2 of moving Out of Law Into Grace by diving into the Apostle Paul’s epistles.

Paul is the Apostle of grace because he has been the only one raised up by Christ, Himself, to deliver to us a final gospel, the gospel of grace. Throughout his letters, he repeats the fact that by Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, by Christ’s work on the cross, we are no longer bound by any laws. We are no longer bound by sin and death. The law has been nullified to the born-again. It is dead to God's children because we are ruled by God's Spirit within; we live by Him in us, not the law (Romans 8). By God’s Grace, we are now offered a new covenant. By just believing, as Warren puts it, God dumps on us a bucket full of grace! Our salvation will never be by our works. Our salvation is only by Christ’s work on the cross. When he was crucified, our old selves and the law attached, were crucified, too (Romans 6:3-7; 7:4; Galatians 2:20). When He arose from the dead, we arose, too, to a new life in Him. This is grace. It’s a gift. We need only to accept it.

Warren emphasizes two verses as foundational pillars that help us understand God’s plan and His amazing grace.

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4 KJV)

We see clearly in both of the above verses God’s amazing grace because His plan for us came before we were born, before we could even do anything to claim our salvation. Before the world was created, God had a plan that involved Christ’s death, by which we were chosen to be in Him and to be the vessel for His new life in us. Our new life in Him comes with no strings, no laws, attached. Nothing we do can be added to our eternal life, our salvation in Him. The gift of His eternal Spirit-life has been given, and He will never leave us nor forsake us. Nothing can be added to Him, and He can’t be taken away by anything we do or don’t do! We’re locked in for eternity!

Then why is it so hard for believers to step out of the law and come to the fullness of God’s grace? Just as it was for Paul, the law is deeply rooted in us. We go to churches that preach the law. We’re around friends who live by the law. Almost every book has a law attached to it. Law is everywhere. One of the hardest laws for Christians to break out of is the deep-rooted mentality that God will not bless us if we aren’t doing something good, that blessings require works. When in fact, by His grace, He has bestowed upon us the greatest blessing of all, Christ now living in every believer. Christ is grace, and grace is Christ. The Apostle Paul said he doesn’t care whether he lives or dies because his life is now Christ’s. By God’s grace, Christ lived in him and that’s all that mattered.

“For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.” (Romans 14:8 KJV)

Warren explains further that we will never completely live out our birthright if we are still entangled in law. So what’s our birthright? Our birthright is who God created us to be.

We see in Ephesians 1:4 that before the foundation of the world, we were created to be in Christ. As believers, Christ is joined to us. We live now by His faithfulness and righteousness, not by our own. This is that bucket full of grace, poured out on everyone who believes.

It’s time now for us to move out of law, sin, and death and into God’s grace so we can finally live who God created us to be!

In next week’s podcast, Warren begins to explain the steps involved in making this transition, once and for all.

“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” (2 Corinthians 12:9 KJV)

A few of Paul’s epistles to study which explain moving from law to grace:

Galatians
Romans 5, 6, 7, 8
1 Corinthians 2
2 Corinthians 4, 5

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not onto thine own understanding.” (Proverbs 3:5 KJV)

Out of Law into Grace, Part 1

Sat, 08 Oct 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Moving From Law To Grace, From Law To Christ

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman helps us understand through Paul’s final gospel of grace, how to move from living by a deep-rooted law to the grace of God as believers.

First, he acknowledges that only believers are predestined for grace. Only believers are predestined to come to the fullness of God. By “following Paul as he follows Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1), we can begin to understand this fullness.

“In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.” (Ephesians 1:11 KJV)

With Christ as our new life, we are complete. We are now bona fide children of God and, therefore, joint-heirs with Christ to His inheritance. We can now live out His will for us, who He created us to be. Without Christ now living in us, there’s no other way to live out our fullness, our true purpose. This is God’s Grace among believers. Grace comes from the cross. As believers, we are no longer bound by law. We have moved into grace by Christ’s death and resurrection and by Him now living in us.

Warren also acknowledges that about 90 percent of believers are still living under some sort of law and most don’t even know it. Churches still preach law and most believe Christianity can’t work without it. By law, Warren refers to Moses’ Law, of which every other law is under. By law, he means that we are identified by our works, by what we do or don’t do. Paul’s final gospel of grace tells us there’s nothing we can do to be saved. This is what grace is all about. Christ did the work on the cross; and by His Grace, we are redeemed. Christ is our new identity.

The Apostle Paul was the only man raised up by God to reveal to the world this gospel of grace, the final gospel to believers. It makes sense that Paul was chosen because he was deeply rooted in the law. In Philippians 3:5, Paul acknowledges his former identity as being deeply seeded in the Hebrew law. He goes so far as to brag about keeping the law to show us how even he has now moved into grace by his new life in Christ.

“Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee.” (Philippians 3:5)

Paul is very clear throughout his epistles when he describes grace and what it means to us as believers. Grace is all about a new birth. A birthing by God. We were IN Christ when He died, so we died, too. And when He arose from death, we were resurrected as well to a new life in Him. Our old man, bound by rules and laws, needed to be killed out with Him. With His death, we too are dead to the law. We now live only by grace, by Christ and in Christ. Our new life is Christ. No longer are we bound by the law for our righteousness. We are born again, and Christ is our righteousness now (Romans 7:6).

God sees only Christ in us now, never again our works.

Warren tells us that if we replace the word grace with Christ, every time the meaning is kept intact. This is because Christ is grace and grace is Christ. He has everything to do with God’s plan, which is that we live in His fullness. In Christ, we are complete.

We won’t be able to truly understand Him, however; until we move from living by the law into living by grace, that is living in Christ.

Dive into Paul’s epistles where he reveals, from Christ directly, how we live now in grace. He tells us over 146 times that we are in Christ now. From law to grace, from law to Christ. Life is now about a loving, personal relationship with Him. Nothing more and nothing less.

The Gospel of Deliverance, Part 8

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 06:00:00 -0500

It’s A Love Affair

By Tammy Lacock

“How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.” (Ephesians 3:3-5 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman dives into Paul’s epistles once again. Continuing in Galatians chapter 3, he explains the “mystery” Paul speaks of in verses 3-5.

What is the “mystery” he mentions, which he has written of before in previous letters? Throughout Paul’s epistles, he tells us the great “mystery” is Christ literally living in every believer. By His sacrifice and grace, God has the power and the right to replace our old sin-nature (passed down from the curse of Adam by Satan), our old way of doing things, with the Seed of Christ in our very spirits. Here we are joined together with Him in one Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17); we are brand-new creations in Him (2 Corinthians 5:17). However, Paul says Christ living in us is a mystery only the Holy Spirit can reveal.

It was revealed to him, and he’s passing this knowledge onto us. The role of the Holy Spirit is to work in our minds to reveal knowledge of who we are now in Christ. We could sit in countless church sermons and never hear Christ as the very life of the believer. So Paul tells us in verse 4 to read what he’s been writing about, follow him as he follows Christ (1 Corinthians 1:11), and the Holy Spirit will reveal this to us as well.

Warren continues by explaining how Paul tells us to live once we’ve had the “revelation of the mystery” of Christ living in us. Although we our saved in our spirits, we have yet to be saved in our sinning minds. Only by the continual work of the Holy Spirit in our minds, by revelation, do we begin to understand our new life in Christ.

Paul goes further to say, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5 KJV). We aren’t saved from our sinning minds because, as Warren explains, it’s in our minds where we develop and nurture our love affair with Christ. By the help of the Holy Spirit, our minds go through a process of renewal as we grow closer to Him and love Him. When we realize once and for all that our salvation isn’t contingent on what we do but on Christ’s finished work at the Cross and our new life in Him, then we are breaking through our subconscious mind to our conscious mind, knowing we now have a direct pipeline to Him. God loved us so much that His only begotten Son died as the sacrificial Lamb so this would be possible, so we would return to Him. Life is all about a personal love affair with Him through Christ. Paul likens this to a marriage in which we are the bride and Christ the bridegroom together as one in spirit; yet our minds are continually growing up in this knowledge.

Although we are complete in Christ, by His very life in us, it’s in our minds where we are maturing. By the help of the Holy Spirit, we begin to see that Christ is the real you and Christ is the real me. He lives in us because He loves us. The issue is love, and it’s in our minds where our choice to know Him and love Him becomes alive.

The Gospel of Deliverance, Part 7

Sat, 24 Sep 2022 06:00:00 -0500

By His Grace

By Tammy Lacock

“If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward.” (Ephesians 3:2 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman continues to explain that Paul’s gospel, the gospel of grace, is for everyone, Jews and Gentiles. By God’s grace, every believer has been birthed, or born again, by the seed of Christ living in us now. Our sin-nature has been replaced by Christ’s nature. Christ is our new life! That’s amazing grace!

By His seed, our old lives were crucified at the Cross; and we are now brand-new creations, resurrected with Christ. By His seed we are now bona-fide children of our heavenly Father. No longer are we bound by the law, which leads to sin. We are now free in Christ by God’s grace. In fact, Paul tells us that we are now living in a dispensation of grace, in which God’s new covenant with us has nothing to do with laws and nothing to do with our own works and deeds. His new covenant of salvation is based on Christ’s work at the Cross and us being born again with Christ as our new life.

By revelation, Christ raised up only Paul to deliver this new gospel of salvation to the world. May we follow Paul now as he followed Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1) and reveal to the world his amazing gospel of God’s grace, that is Christ living in every believer!

The Gospel of Deliverance, Part 6

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Paul, The Apostle To The Gentiles

By Tammy Lacock

“For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)." (Ephesians 3:1-4 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman focuses on the Apostle Paul’s mission, that of sharing his “knowledge in the mystery of Christ” to us, the Gentiles.

The “mystery of Christ” revealed to Paul, and now to us, is Christ literally living in every believer. Paul was raised up by Christ, Himself, to deliver this knowledge to the world. He “suffered the loss” of all he was before his conversion and “counted it but dung” (Philippians 3:8) compared to this knowledge of Christ. He knew he was a “brand-new creation” in Christ, born again into a new life with Him. His gospel tells us how to live now with Christ as our new life.

Paul took this gospel to his fellow Jews, and they rejected it. Therefore, Christ told him to share it with the Gentiles, with whom it was well-received. The Jews rejected Paul’s message because by believing they would be giving up their old identities, their traditions, and laws that ruled their lives. Paul’s message was of God’s grace, that being saved has nothing to do with law and works and everything to do with Christ alive in us and through us. This is how the Church, the one Body of Christ, began. Christ living in us makes us Christ-persons, or Christians, the term first used in Acts 11:26.

Warren explains the history of Israel, that God set aside a group of people through Abraham that would live in a close relationship with Him. God wasn’t dealing with anyone else on earth through the generations up until Christ. His purpose for them was to test their love for Him, that they would love Him more than they loved themselves. He empowered them and performed countless miracles for them; yet, they consistently rebelled and doubted Him. God knew there was no hope for them, so He promised them He would send a Redeemer.

When Jesus came to earth and dwelt among them, He told them the Kingdom of God was at hand and a new kingdom will be established on earth. He cast out devils and performed countless miracles. He was the Redeemer they longed for; yet they still rebelled, doubted, and “received Him not.”

“He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:11-13 KJV)

Christ’s death and resurrection ushered in a new covenant with God, that anyone who believes will be saved from the bondage of sin and this world. What takes place when we believe is the great mystery revealed to Paul from Christ directly. The sin-nature passed down through Adam by the curse of Satan is replaced by Christ’s nature. By God’s grace, we are made complete by His birthing of Christ’s seed in us. This is what it means to be born again. Christ is our new life; and because of Him, we are now bona-fide children of God. It’s Christ’s righteousness in us that God sees now.

In this new life, Paul explains how to go about living with Christ as our new identity.

He tells us that by the help of the Holy Spirit, our minds constantly need renewing so that we will know this Christ, that is now living in us, joined to us in one spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17). With this continual mind-change, we can now make choices that reflect our knowledge and love of Him, our new life.

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Roman’s 12:2 KJV)

Paul tells us in Ephesians 3:1 that he is the Apostle to the Gentiles. By God’s grace, we became officially a part of His plan and for the first time God dealt with us and in us. But Paul also tells us in 1 Corinthians 12:13 and Galatians 3:28, that no matter whether we are Jews or Gentiles, all who believe in Christ are saved and are of one family in Him, bona-fide children of God!

“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12:13 KJV)

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28 KJV)

The Gospel of Deliverance, Part 5

Sat, 10 Sep 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Who Are You Now?

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman, once again, emphasizes the importance of the Apostle Paul’s gospel as the final gospel, the gospel for us today. Paul was the only man raised up by Christ Himself to deliver this gospel, that of Christ literally living in every believer, and he tells us over 146 times in his epistles. He also tells us how we must go about living our new life in Him.

In Philippians 3:8, the Apostle Paul tells of his identity crisis after coming to the revelation of Christ as his new life. He considers his old life — all that he thought he was — garbage compared to knowing Christ as his new life. His old life died with Christ on the cross (Galatians 2:20). He’s not a changed man now, but an entirely new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). He’s born again! (1 Peter 1:23; John 3:3).

As believers, sooner or later we have the same identity crisis. Once the mystery is revealed to us, of Christ living in us, Paul tells us that the problem we now face is in our minds. What God did in our spirits, joining us to Christ in one spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17), we now have to catch up in our souls, where our minds reside. Our minds hold on to the identity of who we were. We will now need a radical mind-change if we are to start living our new life in Christ.

The problem with religion is that it is dedicated to correcting our old lives. By Christ’s death on the cross, Paul says, our old lives died, too. We no longer need to correct our old lives because we are now brand-new creations in Christ. We arose with Him to an entirely new life. He is our new life, and our identity is now Christ. God’s plan all along was not to make us better but to put another life in us, Christ’s life.

Now as we live our new lives in Christ, Paul says, our minds must be continually renewed in our daily walk so that we may express Him. Even more, he tells us many times, to give our minds over to Christ (Philippians 2:5; 1 Corinthians 2:16; Ephesians 4:23). By the help of the Holy Spirit, whose purpose now is to teach us of Christ in us and comfort us as we grow up in Him, we can start to live who God created us to be. He created us to be complete in Christ. He doesn’t see us at all by who we think we are. He sees Christ, who now lives in us. We are made righteous by Him. He is our strength, our peace, our joy, our wisdom, our very life now. Our new identity is Christ.

Paul wanted nothing more than to know Christ. His old identity died with Christ on the cross, and all He wanted was to know Him as his new resurrected life.

Warren tells us, through Paul’s epistles, that the key to Christianity is not going out and being a better person but knowing now God’s plan of putting Christ in us and giving our minds over to Him. He is our life now. He is our identity. May we get to know Him as our life, more and more every day!

The Gospel of Deliverance, Part 4

Sat, 03 Sep 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Follow Paul

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman continues to express the importance of diving into the Apostle Paul’s epistles where he reveals the mystery, the final gospel, and tells us how we can live now. Christ revealed it only to Him, and Paul passes it on to us. May we follow Paul.

In Romans 16:25, Paul says now that we know the mystery, the final gospel, of Christ living in us as believers, our only hope of glory, God now has the power to “stablish” or train us up in this new knowledge. Now that our old lives have been “crucified with Christ” and we’ve had the revelation of Christ as our new life, our only life, it is time for us to grow up in Him. It is time to get to know Him as our new life.

By the help of the Holy Spirit, this is where we begin to have a mind-change, a renewal of our minds as Paul puts it. We are now born again of the “incorruptible seed” (1 Peter 1:23), and it’s time to know who we really are now with Christ as our new life. We are bona fide children of God. He is our Father, our only Father now.

Through our circumstances and situations of life, God teaches us who we are now in Christ. We begin to see that we no longer need to carry the weight of our trials and tribulations. Christ in us, our only life, can handle anything that comes our way. As we grow up in Him and get to know Him and love Him more and more throughout these times, we learn to let go, giving Him our burdens, and letting Him take over. We are perfect in our spirit, joined to Him in one spirit, but in our souls — where our minds reside — we are still maturing. The old life has been defeated but our minds are still holding onto it. Maturing means giving our minds over to Christ so our desires and choices begin to align with His. It means choosing to go to Him first and choosing to love Him above all other people and things.

Paul tells us in Galatians 1:9, “If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”

And in Romans 16:25, he calls it “my gospel” because his relationship to Christ is personal, and he wants us to see our relationship with Christ as personal and unique to each of us as well. His gospel is simple. God placed the incorruptible seed of Christ in each of us. Our old lives, the corruptible seed, passed away with Christ, and we arose with Him to an entirely new life in Him. He lives in us and is our new life. Now it’s time to get to know Him!

May we follow Paul and receive the revelation of His final gospel, the mystery of Christ living in us. And through the schoolhouse of life, may we have the radical mind-change Paul had, so that we, too, will continue to grow up in Him, knowing Him and loving Him more and more every day.

“Follow me as I follow Christ.” (1 Corinthians 1:11)

“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.” (Ephesians 1:17)

The Gospel of Deliverance, Part 3

Sat, 27 Aug 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Christ Liveth In Me

By Tammy Lacock

“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.” (Galatians 2:20 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman begins with the Apostle Paul’s declaration in Galatians 2:20 of who we are now in Christ.

But first, Warren emphasizes Paul’s focus on the mind throughout his epistles. Yes, by God’s grace, all we must do to be saved is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 16:31). Yet Paul tells us, our mind-change doesn’t stop there in our understanding of who we are now. In Hebrews 4:12, Paul makes it clear that the Word of God divides soul and spirit. For us to have any understanding of what took place when we believed, we must first understand this division.

When we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, we were literally translated into the Kingdom of God. By just believing, our Satan-natures were replaced by Christ’s nature in our spirits. Christ is joined to us in one spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17). We are one with Him in spirit. Christ joined to us is our salvation. Because of this, we are brand new creations (2 Corinthians 5:17). Our old selves, our sin-natures, are “crucified with Christ” and our new nature is Christ.

However, our souls — where our minds reside — have yet to catch up with what God did in our spirits. This is where Paul tells us throughout his epistles, that we must have an ongoing mind change as we grow up in our new life in Christ. We must “suffer the loss” of who we think we are and come to an entirely new understanding with Christ as our new life. (Philippians 3:8). We must continue to believe and ultimately come to a knowing of who we are now in Christ if we are to live out who God created us to be.

In Galatians 2:20, Paul tells us who we are now. Our old selves died with Christ. Yet we live by Christ’s life now because He lives in us, joined to us in one spirit. From now on, He is the one we go to when we need to make choices and decisions. He is the one we give our mind to now. It’s in our minds where we begin our love affair with Him. Love is a choice we must continually make if we are to grow up in Christ. All of our choices now stem from this love. Christian life is about a loving relationship with Christ, who now lives in us. It’s personal.

Warren shares, “Life is nothing but a series of choices being lived out.” In Galatians 2:20, Paul is making a choice to fix his mind on his new life in Christ. Christ is his life now. His old self is cancelled out and his mind is now fixed on Christ and His faithfulness, not his own.

The Apostle Paul centers his gospel on the mind. If we are to now live our new life in Christ, our minds must be continually renewed. We now have new choices to make. Let’s give our minds over to Christ so that we “may know Him” (Philippians 3:10) and now make choices centered on our love affair with Him.

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 2:5 KJV)

“For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 2:16 KJV)

“And be renewed in the spirit of your mind.” (Ephesians 4:23 KJV)

The Gospel of Deliverance, Part 2

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Joined to the Lord in One Spirit

By Tammy Lacock

“But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” (1 Corinthians 6:17)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman helps us understand what it means to be joined to Christ in one Spirit and how this union takes place and delivers us.

We first see this union in Mary’s encounter with the angel telling her that God will place His very own seed inside her, and she will give birth to a new life, the life of God’s Son, our Savior. Here she was joined to Christ’s Spirit.

Warren also reminds us of Jesus’s conversation with Nicodemus in John 3:3: “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

There must be a new birth, a birth in spirit. Nicodemus didn’t understand at the time what this meant. Not until Christ raised up the Apostle Paul would we have any understanding of what it means to be born again.

Paul didn’t know Christ in the flesh before He died on the cross. He knew Him only in Spirit, the way we, too, are to know Him now. Christ revealed to Paul what it means to be born again, or to be joined to Christ in one Spirit. He calls it the “mystery”:

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27)
“How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery (as I wrote afore in few words." (Ephesians 3:3)

The “mystery” revealed to Paul is this: Christ literally lives in every believer.

Paul understood, more than anybody, what this meant and how it happens. When Jesus drank the cup in Gethsemane, He was “drinking” into His body all of our sins, past, present, and future. When He died on the cross, we died too. When He was buried, our old lives were buried. When He rose from the dead, we arose, too. We went through the entire process with Christ and arose to an entirely new life with Him. Our new life, our rebirth, is Christ living in us, our only hope of glory. The Satan-nature, passed down in us by the curse of Adam and Eve, has been replaced by Christ’s divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). Paul tells us over 146 times that Christ’s life, His Spirit (he uses interchangeably), now lives in us, and we in Him. By Christ’s death, we now have a new life in Him! We are born again by being joined to His Spirit. Without God’s Seed, Christ, in us, we would have no salvation.

This is what Christ meant when he said on the cross in His last three words, “It is finished.” God’s intention for us, who He created us to be, is finished. We are complete now with Christ in us as our new life.

Without Christ in us, without being joined to Him in one Spirit, we could not function the way God created us to. Paul goes on to explain throughout his epistles, however, that although we are perfect in spirit at salvation, our souls — where our minds, wills, and emotions reside — are not yet transformed to our new life. Our minds, Paul says, must be continually renewed, by the help of the Holy Spirit, if we are to grow up and learn of Christ and our new life in Him. Our souls are being perfected (matured) as we get to know Him and love Him as our new life.

Are you an actor or a true Christian?

Without knowing their true identity in Christ, Christians today are actors, trying to be somebody they are not. Christianity is a union, a love affair, a marriage to Christ, in operation. It is a personal relationship with Him. It is not what we do or don’t do, what religion says, that brings us closer to God. It is Christ in us.

A mature Christian knows their true identity, who he/she is in Christ. They’ve had the revelation of the mystery, that there is no separation now. They see Christ as their only life and, therefore, cultivating a relationship with Him is first and foremost.

As born-again believers, Christ is in you as you, joined in one Spirit. A Christian is a Christ-person, complete and “finished” in Him!

Now, let’s get to know Him!

The Gospel of Deliverance, Part 1

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 06:00:00 -0500

From Christ, To Paul, To Us!

Tammy Lacock

“Follow me as I follow Christ.” (Romans 5:10)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman sets out to explain the gospel that is meant for us today, a gospel that after years of preaching, was finally revealed to him by the prompting of the Holy Spirit. He shares with us a gospel that has been plainly written in all of the Apostle Paul’s 14 epistles, and yet is not being preached much at all in today’s churches. The Apostle Paul tells us that Christ revealed this gospel to him personally and he, in turn, reveals it to us!

Warren first reminds us that the Apostle Paul never knew Jesus in the flesh. Although he and Christ may have been in the same circles before Christ’s death, he was not a follower of Jesus. In fact, Paul was determined to destroy Christ’s followers and did so many times. Paul came to know Christ, only in Spirit, when he was knocked off his horse and blinded on the way to Damascus to persecute Christians. It was then that he began a spiritual relationship with Christ. His entire life was radically changed. He moved into an entirely new existence. He was a chosen vessel by Jesus Christ, Himself. Christ revealed to Paul a gospel that was not given to any other writer in the Bible.

Paul’s gospel is this:

Something happened to us, on a personal level, when we accepted Christ as our Savior. Throughout Paul’s epistles, we see that Paul knew Christ differently than any other writer. He knew Him at a personal level, yet in spirit. He received the grace of God through Christ and revealed this to us in his epistles. Paul’s gospel is the gospel of Christ and His grace poured out onto humanity.

He explains it this way:

We were all born into sin by the curse of Adam in the garden by Satan. The only remedy for this sin-nature is Christ. By His death, burial, and resurrection, we are set free from death and this sin-nature, the bondage of this world, and brought to a new life in Him. When we accept Christ as our Savior, at a personal level, we become brand-new creations because of Christ’s life in us now. His nature literally replaces the sin-nature. Only by this exchange of nature, can we truly know who we are now and who God created us to be, God’s bona fide children, reconciled to Him!

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4)

Ephesians 1:4, Paul tells us that we were chosen as a new creation in Christ, as God’s children, even before the world was created. It was in God’s plan, before we were even created, that our sin nature would be replaced by Christ’s nature, His seed. And it was in God’s plan before the foundation of the world that the Lamb, Christ, be slain for this to take place.

In fact, Paul was the only person in the Bible who could explain how this worked, calling it “the revelation of the mystery.” He was the only one who knew how God made human beings. Paul knew, revealed to him by Christ, that we were created before the foundation of the world to possess the life of Christ. Our sin-nature is contrary to our creation and, therefore, we are not complete until this sin-nature is replaced by Christ’s nature.

Paul explains that we were created a tripartite being: body, soul and spirit. Our new life in Christ is a spiritual matter and in our spirits is where He lives.

“But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.” (1 Corinthians 6:17)

At salvation, we are transformed in spirit. However, our bodies and souls remain unchanged. The only way we can live who we were created to be in our bodies and souls, is by our completion in Christ in our spirits. Paul knew, by his personal relationship with Christ now living in Him, that although our spirits are now complete, perfect in Christ, our souls have yet to be complete and perfect. By the help of the Holy Spirit, our souls (where our minds reside) must be constantly renewed in our daily walk. The more we get to know Christ on a personal level, the more our minds and bodies are reconciled to Him.

Paul’s gospel is Christ. It’s a gospel of God’s amazing grace. It’s a gospel of hope in a sin-filled world. And it’s a gospel that finally tells us who we are and who we were created to be, a Christ-person and a child of God, no more separation from God. He passes this gospel on to us throughout his epistles. It’s clearly made known here in Colossians 1:27:

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

Christ in you and me, before the foundation of the world! Dive into Paul’s epistles for yourself, and may this mystery be revealed unto you!

Foundation Set 2: The Seed: Christ’s Life, Nature, Spirit, Part 2

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 06:00:00 -0500

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.

Foundation Set 2: The Seed: Christ’s Life, Nature, Spirit, Part 1

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0500

The Seed: Christ’s Life, Nature, Spirit, Part 1

By Tammy Lacock

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” (John 12:24, KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman explains that the most important theme in the New Testament is the subject of the seed. Scripture (and more specifically in Peter’s, Paul’s, and John’s epistles) speaks of the seed in three distinctive ways: It has Christ’s life; it has God’s nature; and it has Christ’s Spirit. The seed is the very heart of God’s plan; and every time it is mentioned, it points to Christ.

The deepest things of God can be found in John 12:24. This verse tells of God’s unconditional, relentless, and boundless love for us. In this verse, Christ reveals what our Heavenly Father did through the gift of His Son, Christ, His seed. By His death on the cross, we too died with Him, our old lives buried and done. Yet as believers, Christ, God’s seed, replaces the sin-nature passed down in us by the curse of Adam. By His death, we are brought to a new life in Him by His seed planted in us by God.

We are no longer bound by sin and death, the bondage of the world. We have a brand-new nature, a new life! And this new life only comes by His death. We are now free in Him.

“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3, KJV)

“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” (1 Peter 1:23, KJV)

Jesus said to Nicodemus in John 3:3, you must be born again to enter into the things of God. Being born again means a brand-new life. We are born again as a brand-new creation in Christ, by His seed now in us. Built into the heart of God’s plan was fact that He must die for us to live, to live a new life as a brand-new creation. Christ, the Word of God, is our Salvation. No one is saved from the corruptible seed of Satan except by Christ’s death, allowing His incorruptible seed to be planted in us.

By our new life in Christ, we are born again, now in God’s family. We are partakers of His divine nature. We are God’s bona fide offspring! We must know who we are now if we are to allow our new nature, Christ’s Spirit, to come through us and finally live who God created us to be. We are complete in Him. We are no longer bound by the law, what we do, to be saved. Being a Christian means being a Christ-person. We are sons and daughters of God now! As bona fide children of God, it is Christ’s nature, His seed, His Spirit, that we must now nurture for Him to break through the hull and spring forth through us. We must get to know and learn of Christ who now lives in us. The seed of Christ will lie dormant like an “old man in a rocking chair” if we don’t acknowledge Him and get to know Him. We are one in spirit with Him now. (1 Corinthians 6:17). By the help of the Holy Spirit, in our day-to-day circumstances and situations, we must allow our minds to be constantly renewed as we give in to Christ, learn of Him, and let Him be our new life.

New life comes only by death.

In order to live fully in Christ now, living who God created us to be, we must acknowledge our death in Christ, reckon ourselves dead to our old lives, and grow up in Him in our new life more and more every day.

Foundation Set 2: Seven Freedoms of the Christ-life-Part 2

Sat, 23 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Completely Free In Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” (Romans 10:4, KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman continues to explain our seven freedoms we come to learn in our new life in Christ. Through diving into Paul’s epistles, we can begin to understand to let go of the bondage of law (in all of its forms and subtleties) that hold us back from living our complete freedom in Him.

In last week’s podcast, Warren discussed the first four freedoms in Christ: The Freedoms from Self, Sin, Satan, and Body). This week he finishes with the last three freedoms.

5) Freedom to Love

Christ within us is the lover. It’s His love, not ours, coming through us now. His love ends the law that separates us.

We are free, by Him, to love each other, our neighbors, even if those neighbors are our enemies. We draw no line between our friends and our enemies. Jesus told us that our enemies can even be our family, as was His own brother. Paul tells us we “see no man after the flesh” (2 Corinthians 5:16), which means we love them no matter what they do or don’t do. We are free to love everyone.

6) Freedom to be a Son.

There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. We are born again now as His sons and daughters, partakers of His divine nature. We are free to be a child of God, to rest in Him. We are free to learn as we grow up in our new life in Christ. We continue to learn obedience to Him. As a son, we learn to no longer lie, cheat, steal, or contradict who we are now. And even though we still inevitably sin as we grow up in Him, there is no condemnation. Our sin is a sin to us, not to God. Our sin hurts us, not God.

He forgives and loves us no matter what.

7) Freedom to be who we are in Christ.

We are free to be our real self, and our real self is Christ as me and Christ as you. Our manifestations of Christ are unique to each of us. We are free to fail and free to suffer. The status of our minds given to Him will determine our actions. The Apostle Paul tells us that by the help of the Holy Spirit, our minds are continually renewed in our knowledge of Christ, who now lives in us. We realize through our personal relationship with Him that He is our freedom. We are not free by anything we do or don’t do.

We are now free to live who God created us to be, complete in Him!

Freedom is a person; freedom is Christ.

He is our only life.

We are now completely free in Him!

Foundation Set 2: Seven Freedoms of the Christ-life-Part 1

Sat, 16 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Freedom Is A Person, Freedom Is Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.” (Galatians 5:1-4 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman explains, primarily through Galatians 5:1-4, that our freedom has absolutely nothing to do with self-effort and everything to do with the person of Christ. Christ did the work on the cross and we are free because of Him, whether we accept it or not. Our believing doesn’t make us free. Whether we believe or don’t believe doesn’t change what Christ did at the cross. The Apostle Paul drives this point in the above four verses: If anyone still lives by the law (what we do or don’t do to be saved or even to be closer to God) then Christ is of no profit to them. In fact, they have fallen from God’s grace. Religion, through Satan’s deception, has most Christians striving to be closer to God by their works. And yet, Paul tells us to completely let go of living by the law and stand free in Christ. He is our freedom.

He is our new life! Old things have passed away now.

Warren details through Paul’s and John’s epistles, that there are seven freedoms in Christ. He discusses the first four of them in this podcast.

1) Freedom over Self

In Galatians 2:20, Paul tells us that our selves are crucified with Christ, yet we live. Christ is our new life; we are one with Him in Spirit. And He now comes through us, our bodies and souls-minds.

“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 2:5 KJV)

Our selves are subject to Him now.

2) Freedom over Sin

There’s no other way religion can operate without the guilt of sin. Religion doesn’t tell us the truth about sin. Yet in 1 John 3, he tells us four times that he who is born of God does not commit sin against Him. God forgives us over and over when we go to Him. However, if any man commits sin, one that he wills to commit, he sins against himself, not God. Our sin only hurts ourselves, not God.

In Christ, we are no longer bound by sin.

We no longer sin to God, only to ourselves.

3) Freedom over Satan

We are no longer bound by Satan’s nature. By Christ in us, we now have His discernment at our disposal. Therefore, we are able to discern spirits, and therefore able to know if we need to face Satan or see our adverse situations from God as a way of helping us know Him. No longer do we need to make excuses for Satan in our lives. Christ already overcame him at the cross. We don’t even need to rebuke Satan. We are God’s children…we go to Him!

4) Freedom over our Bodies

We have freedom from the pulls of our bodies. No longer do we need to give a mind to these pulls. We are free from these pulls when we give our minds over to Christ, who now lives in our spirits. We can now bring our bodies under subjection to Him. His wisdom will discern what our bodies need and don’t need.

Freedom is a Person. Freedom is Christ, now living in us. May we let go of the bondage of what we must do or not do to be closer to Him. As Paul says, stand firmly and confidently in Him, knowing not what we do, but knowing Him.

Foundation Set 2: Deep Root of the Law-Part 2

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 05:00:00 -0500

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)

Foundation Set 2: Deep Root of the Law-Part 1

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 05:00:00 -0500

Rooted In Love, Rooted In Christ

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman sets out to make a very fine distinction between being rooted in the law and being rooted in Christ. He accomplishes this by diving into Chapter 3 of Galatians where the Apostle Paul tells us that by Christ’s death and resurrection, the law was nullified. By God’s grace, we now live not by our own faith, but by His faithfulness. He says even God’s promise to Abraham was based on God’s faithfulness to him and not by anything he did. God promised Abraham the inheritance of eternal life through his seed, the seed of Christ. By His faithfulness, we recognize that there is nothing we can do, or not do, to be saved. Christ did the work on the cross. He is our salvation!

Warren emphasizes the importance of understanding what Paul means by the “law.” It was set into place when Adam made the choice to believe what Satan told him in the garden. Satan said if you eat of this tree, you will be as gods. Satan set into motion the idea that we need to do something in order to be gods, or to be closer to God. With this, He nullified faith. And yet Paul tells us, we now live by faith, not our faith, but the faithfulness of the Son of God. The law robs us of faith; therefore, to be under the law, what we do or don’t do, is sin.

God’s promise to us now as believers is a new life in Christ, a life free of sin, and yet we are still deeply rooted in our idea of redemption by obedience to the law. By His death and resurrection, we are freed from the law, the curse of Adam by Satan. Christ fulfilled the law by overcoming sin and death. We are no longer made righteous by anything we do or don’t do. We are made righteous by Christ, He who now lives in us by God’s grace. He is our life. Religion has robbed us from this by keeping Christ outside of us when actually the only Christ that now lives is the Christ in you and me.

Warren explains God built into creation the ability for human beings to choose. Further, God’s plan hinges on choice because without it, He could never experience true reciprocated love from us. Adam chose the law, the knowledge of good and evil, over faith, the knowledge of Christ, who is life. As a result, he fell from abundant life in the garden and died. He chose sin and death over life.

The great news is, by God’s grace, we can choose life, the life that now lives in us, Christ. It’s a personal choice because it doesn’t get more personal than Him living in us. We can choose to live by Him and allow Him to come through us. We can choose to know Him and love Him more and more each day, each moment.

Paul says our ability to choose is a mind-thing. The mind is the true battlefield, where we can choose to live by the law or by Christ, who now lives in us. With the help of the Holy Spirit, whose sole purpose is to teach us of Christ in us, our minds can radically change. At some point, we begin to move from what we do to please ourselves and God to what He did on the cross. We move from what we do or don’t do to who He is and who He is now in us.

By being rooted in Christ, we begin to reciprocate God’s love, His ultimate desire and plan, by the faithfulness of Him who now lives in us and is our new Life.

Christ is Love, Christ is Life!

Foundation Set 2: Experiencing Galatians 2:20, Part 2: “Nevertheless I Live”

Sat, 25 Jun 2022 05:00:00 -0500

“Nevertheless I Live”

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman explains the Apostle Paul’s Galatians 2:20 experience and how this knowledge is foundational to our understanding of what it means to be a born-again believer in Christ.

In Galatians 2:20, Paul tells us we are “crucified with Christ.” This means everything that has made us who we are before coming to Christ has died. Our old selves, our pasts, have died with Christ. We are no longer Jew or Gentile, male or female, black or white. No more labels telling us who we are.

Yet, Paul tells us we still live. By Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we arose, too, to a new life in Christ. Our old sin natures are exchanged by Christ’s nature, His seed planted in us by believing and by God’s Amazing Grace. This is what it means to be born again. We live now by the “faith of the Son of God.” Warren explains that faith is God’s knowledge in action. Therefore, we live now by the knowledge of Christ, who now “liveth in me.” Our old selves have been cancelled out, and Christ is our new life, literally living in us! The life we now live is Christ.

The problem lies in our minds. We must have a radical mind change, by the help of the Holy Spirit, in order for us to understand our new life in Christ. Our minds must get to a place where we can allow Him to break through into our souls and our outward expression. We must make up our minds to stop trying to be like Christ but rather focus on Him and who we are now with Him as our new life. It’s time to get to know Him!

Warren shares four very important things that make up Christ, who now lives in us. When we set our minds on these things, we will get to know Him more; and therefore, express Him the way God intended.

Christ was born to die. His death brought us new life. By Him living in us now, we too have it in us to die and be born again. This is the heart of Paul’s message in Galatians 2:20. We have the ability to die to our old lives and to anything that doesn’t align with Christ and God’s plan.
Christ in us lives without hang-ups. Again, it’s in our minds where we have our own hang-ups. The more we set our minds on Him, the more we will let go of the things that hold us back from knowing Him and expressing Him.
Christ in us is industrious. He’s not lazy. He works and earns his pay properly, fitting into His environment. He did this while on earth. And now He longs to work and be productive through us and through who God created us to be, one Spirit in Him.
Christ in us loves people. He’s a people-person. He wants to love people through us.

Throughout Paul’s epistles, He tells us Christ lives in us as believers. Galatians 2:20 lies at the heart of his gospel. By His death, we died too. We are dead to sin and our old selves, our old lives. Yet, he tells us, we live!

Christ is our new life, and by God’s grace, we now live by Him, through Him, and in Him.

Foundation Set 2: Experiencing Galatians 2:20, Part 1

Sat, 18 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0500

The Word Is Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“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.” (Galatians 2:20 KJV)

“For the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:12 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman helps us, once again, understand the true gospel, the word of God, that needs to be preached today.

The Bible is a compilation of scriptures put together to form the word of God. However, when the scriptures use the phrase “word of God,” it narrows down the main subject and object of the Bible to Christ, the person. Christ is the word of God mentioned in Hebrews 4:12.

When the word of God, that is Christ, is properly preached, He will sharply divide the soul and spirit of the human being. With this knowledge, we can start to truly understand what God is doing in our lives.

We are made in the image and likeness of God in that we are tripartite beings also made up of 3 parts: the body, the soul, and the spirit.

It’s important to realize that when we are “born again” (John 1:1), something spectacular happens in our spirits, whether we feel it or not. The sin nature passed down by the curse of Adam by him believing Satan, is exchanged with Christ’s nature, the Son (seed) of God by just believing in Him as our Savior. This is what it means to be born again.

The Word divides soul and spirit according to Hebrews 4:12 to help us understand that our new birth, our new Life in Christ, took place in our spirits. We are perfect in spirit by Him. God no longer sees what we do or don’t do to be saved; He sees Christ. It is no longer our experience that saves us. Our salvation is a person, Christ within us!

The apostle Paul tells us the problem is in the soul part of us, where our minds reside. Our souls haven’t had the exchange of nature. It’s only by the renewal of our minds where the truth of Christ as our new Life in spirit grips us and pours over into our souls. This renewal comes from a personal relationship with Him and by the help of the Holy Spirit, whose sole job is to teach us of Him and who we are now with Him as our new Life. By the help of the Holy Spirit and getting to know Christ within him, Paul shares of his mind change and personal relationship with Christ throughout his epistles. We are to follow Paul!

“Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.” (1 Corinthian 11:1, KJV)

In Galatians 2:20, Paul tells us that we too are crucified with Christ. We’ve had the exchange of nature in our spirits. We are dead to sin and dead to our old selves ruled by the sin nature. Yet by Christ’s resurrection, we are born again and live by Him. We are brand new creations in Christ by the joining of His Spirit to ours. We are now one spirit in Him. We are no longer Jew or Gentile, male or female, black or white. We are one body in Christ by the giving of His Life for us and who now lives in us.

Once we go through this mind renewal of who we are now in Christ, our experiences no longer motivate us, Christ does. If we are to grow up in Him and allow Him to manifest through us from our spirits to our soul expression, Paul tells us we must have a radical mind change. Yet it takes time. He tells us we must keep our focus on Christ, the Word of God, in all circumstances and situations. He must be our First Love.

Foundation Set 1: Dispensations, Part 2: Saved from the Inside

Sat, 11 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Saved from the Inside

By Tammy Lacock

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27, KJV)

“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood.” (Galatians 1:1–16, KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman explains how Paul, the Apostle of Grace, is the only writer in the Bible who reveals God’s final gospel to humanity. This final gospel, what Paul calls the “mystery” is revealed to us throughout his epistles. His gospel is grace, God’s grace. Paul tells us we are currently living in the Dispensation of Grace.

“If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ).” (Ephesians 3:2-4, KJV)

And by His grace, we need only to believe in Jesus Christ to be recipients of this great mystery. The mystery is revealed to us over 146 times throughout Paul’s and John’s writings. The mystery is this: Christ literally living in believers. We are no longer subject to our satanic sin-nature passed down by the curse of Adam. We are no longer bound by this world and the law. Paul tells us it’s time to move from law to grace. By Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we moved into grace. When Christ died, we died too. When He arose, we too arose to a new life in Him. Our old lives died. We are born again by Christ’s seed now planted in every believer. We are brand-new creations by His unrelenting, amazing Grace.

“Jesus answered and said unto him (Nicodemus), verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3, KJV)

Paul tells us we are literally saved from the inside. He knew Christ lived in him, and he knew Christ in Spirit more than anyone else in the Bible. He tells us that by the Cross, there’s no longer a need for us to be saved by our outer works. Christ did the work on the cross and by His death, burial, and resurrection, we now have His very life in us. This is the mystery. This is what it means to be born again. No other writer — except John in his later years and after 30 years of getting ahold of Paul’s writings — tells us of the great mystery of being born again in Christ. The law was so strong in the disciples and other writers that they never preached the cross and God’s grace given to us by the cross. In fact, in the 2,000+ years since, the churches haven’t caught on to Paul’s gospel of grace.

We need to understand, by the Holy Spirit renewing our minds, that God no longer accepts us by what we do or don’t do. He sees Christ in us, our new life.

Paul was the only one raised up by Christ, Himself, to reveal to us the mystery of Christ now living IN us. And he tells us, “Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 11:1). NOW is the time to spread this final gospel of God’s grace to humanity.

Simply put, it’s an inside job!

Foundation Set 1: Dispensations, Part 1: Paul, The Apostle of Grace

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Paul, The Apostle of Grace

By Tammy Lacock

“For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you gentiles, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward.” (Ephesians 3:1-2 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman makes it clear that the Apostle Paul is the apostle of grace because he tells us throughout his epistles that we are now living in the dispensation of grace.

Christ raised up only Paul to preach God’s grace. He knew, by revelation, that in this new dispensation, which started at the cross, we are no longer bound by the law (the previous dispensation), but we are saved by God’s grace through the planting of Christ in anyone who believes in Him. There is nothing we can do or not do to be pleasing to God. He is pleased by our being born again to a new life in His Son.

By His Grace, we need only to believe!

Our old life was crucified with Christ, and we arose with Him to a new life in Him. We are brand new creations in Christ. In fact, Paul tells us many times in his epistles that we are now in Christ, our old lives have passed away.

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV)

Warren lists the five previous dispensations as:

Innocence (Adam and Eve),
Consciousness (Cain and Able),
Human Government (Noah),
Promise (Abraham), and
Law (Israel).

Each time, God gave man a new chance at relationship with Him; and each time man failed, ending each time with judgement. In this current dispensation of grace, we are seemingly also failing because the churches aren’t preaching grace. Rather, they are commingling law and grace. Even the disciples and New Testament writers like Peter, James, and John were preaching the law of the previous dispensation, and at times commingling law and grace. They hadn’t moved fully into the dispensation of grace Paul tells us we are in now. Paul was the only apostle who preached God’s grace. He tells us in Ephesians 3:1-2 that Christ revealed to him that this dispensation of grace, God’s next attempt for human beings to be who He wanted them to be, is upon us and he is sharing it with us.

So why aren’t churches preaching grace? Why aren’t they preaching that we are only saved by God’s grace and not by anything we do or don’t do in an attempt to be pleasing in His eyes? Why aren’t they following Paul’s lead?

“Follow me as I follow Christ.” (1 Corinthians 1:11)

It’s taken us over 2,000 years for us to finally begin to know and understand Paul’s gospel of grace. We have been living by the law, rather than by God’s grace. Paul tells us that no longer is God depending on us to be redeemed. By His grace, we need only to believe in Christ to be saved and born again. We are saved only by His life, the seed of Christ now living in us.

The more we dive into Paul’s epistles and allow the Holy Spirit to continually renew our old minds from the law to the amazing grace of God and His Son who literally now lives in us, the more we will know and understand who we are and what God is doing today. Paul’s gospel tells us that the seed of Christ is now in us, and we are brand new creations. By God’s grace, we are His bona fide children! We are now complete in Christ and free to be who God created us to be.

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV)

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27 KJV)

Foundation Set 1: The Seed-Complete in Christ, Pt 2: “Let This Mind Be In You”

Sat, 28 May 2022 06:00:00 -0500

“Let This Mind Be In You”

By Tammy Lacock

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Phil. 2:5 KJV)

“For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.” (1 Cor. 2:16 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman explains the practical characteristics to live by that are in the seed of Christ that now lives in each one of us who believes on Him. These are the things that will give rise to our thoughts and will renew our minds. He emphasizes that we must give our minds over to Him, by the help of the Holy Spirit, if we are to ever truly understand who we are now by His seed. The problem is we still have the mind of the incorruptible seed governing us. Now that we are born again of the the incorruptible seed (Christ), we must let Christ take over our minds.

“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” (1 Pet. 1:23 KJV)

The battle is between our minds and our flesh as we grow up in Christ. We must allow the Holy Spirit to constantly renew our minds so that we are able truly know the Christ who now resides within us by His seed. We must be rooted in His seed if we are to bear His fruit.

Warren tells us of 7 things in the seed of Christ by which we can live and put our minds to as we grow up in Him:

1) The seed is offended by our sin and, therefore, brings a deep hurt to our entire being. Christ in us is offended by sin and anything that is contrary to who we are now in Him.

Two rampant and accepted examples in our society today are abortion and homosexuality because they are contrary to life and Christ is life.

2) The seed is always striving against the flesh. The voice of the Spirit of Christ is constantly warring with our flesh and wanting to break through, come out through us and live freely. It’s so important that our minds give way to Him, that we hunger and thirst for Him and nothing outside of us, so He can come through.

3) The seed draws us constantly to the Grace of God. The seed itself is within us by the Grace of God. God has the power to turn a bad person into a good person, but He didn’t do that. He kept us the same person and by His grace, put the seed of His Son in us. It turns out God is not pleased by how good we are. He is pleased by His Son who now lives in us. We are a brand-new creation because of Him. We no longer live. He is our new life. We are saved by His Grace. Now we can grow up in Him.

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Eph. 2:8-9 KJV)

4) The seed within us loves believers. The hardest ones to love are our own brethren. Our enemies are within our own body of believers. Christ’s enemies were his own brothers, His own family! We love them because Jesus, His seed, now living in us loves them.

5) Constant Godly communion is within the seed. The apostle Paul said to pray without ceasing (1 Thess. 5:16-18). He meant that by the seed of Christ, in our daily walk, we are one with Him and therefore, one with the Father. There is no separation between us. There is a constant intimacy available to us in every moment, no matter what we may be doing. Give thanks and rejoice in Him throughout our days, in all circumstances.

6) The seed within us is constantly looking for the coming of the Lord. In fact, the Apostle Paul thought the Lord was coming in his day. By His seed, his coming is also in our thoughts so that we may ready for Him.

7) The seed causes me to persevere in this life until the end. Every day in our walk we come to a greater knowledge of Christ and who we are now in Him. He is our hope. He is our strength. He is our very Life, here and for eternity.

Only by giving our minds over to Him can we truly know Him and love Him and grow up in Him.

At his dying moment, even the Apostle Paul, who knew Christ more than anyone said:

“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.” (Phil. 3:10 KJV)

It’s a mind thing!

Foundation Set 1: The Seed-Complete in Christ, Pt 1: Our Completion Is in The Seed

Sat, 21 May 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Our Completion Is in The Seed

By Tammy Lacock

We must first understand what took place in us as believers before we can understand what’s in the seed. And yet, we must understand what’s in the seed in order for us to understand what God is doing in our lives and who we are now.

By just believing in Christ as our Savior, we are born again. When Christ died, we died too. Our old Satan-nature (passed down by the curse of Adam) was replaced by Christ’s nature. The gospel tells us that He came into us as a seed.

“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” (1 Peter 1:23 KJV)

In Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we died, were buried, and arose to a new life with Him and in Him by His seed. God literally, not figuratively, planted the incorruptible seed of His Son in our spirits giving us a completely new life.

Christ tells us in John 12:24 that there must be a death for life to come forth. This is the deepest truth of God. Just as Christ’s death brought life to many, we too must go through a death to ourselves, in our souls-minds, our flesh, so that the seed of Christ can break through our hard shell and bear much fruit through us.

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” (John 12:24 KJV)

The problem is the gospel for today isn’t being preached. Most believers don’t know what took place in them. They don’t know that Christ is now their new life by His seed. They don’t know that they are now complete by His seed. They don’t know who they are. We continue to identify by what we do rather than who we are now: born-again children of God! Christ is our life now. In Him, we are complete.

“Ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.” (Colossians 2:10 KJV)

It’s by the revelation of the Holy Spirit through our circumstances and situations that we come to this knowledge of Christ now in us. And it’s through the sufferings in these circumstances and situations where we begin to grow up in Him, acknowledging Him in all things and through all things. This is where the fullness of who God created us to be comes to life, the seed of Christ breaking through our old identities and mind sets. This is where we begin to truly understand what the Apostle Paul says in Ephesians 1:4 (KJV):

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.”

By Christ’s Seed in us, God’s work is finished…we are complete! Now go on and live like it!

Foundation Set 1: What's in the Seed, Pt 2: If It’s In The Seed, It’s In You!

Sat, 14 May 2022 06:00:00 -0500

If It’s in the Seed, It’s in You!

By Tammy Lacock

“Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.” (Hebrews 5:8 KJV)

In Part 2 of “What’s in The Seed?”, Warren Litzman keeps us focused on God’s Seed, Christ, planted in our spirits as believers. To understand what God is doing in our lives, we must first understand what’s in this seed.

In Part 1, Warren showed that new life is in the seed, Christ. By Christ’s seed, we are born again. At salvation, Christ’s nature and traits replace the sin-nature passed down by the curse of Adam. Christ is our new life; we are partakers of His divine nature.

Warren explains with Hebrews 5:8 that we begin to truly learn and experience our new life in Christ through our hurts and suffering just as Christ learned obedience through His suffering and death. He knew that new Life only comes by His suffering and death. When He drank of the cup in Gethsemane, all of our sins and transgressions went into His body so that when He died, we died, too! He loved us so much that He suffered and died so we would be free from the sin and bonds of this world. When He arose to a new life, we arose to a new life in Him, by placing His seed in our spirits.

“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:10 KJV)

It’s by the sufferings in our circumstances and situations where we begin to develop a personal relationship with the Christ that now lives in us. In it’s our sufferings where we break through the hull of Christ’s Seed so He can flow through. There’s no other way to grow closer to Him. We must first know, however, who we are now!

We need to understand and know now that we are birthed children of God! Our old lives died, and we are born again into His family.

We are here to get to know our new family!

God’s intention for us is completed by the Seed of Christ in our spirits. We are spiritually complete in Him, while our souls are presently being transformed as the Holy Spirit works in our minds to help us understand who we are now.

Now in God’s family, His fruit of His Seed begins to come through us now. It’s His love, His joy, His peace, His goodness, His kindness, His gentleness, His self-control, His patience coming through us.

By our sufferings in our circumstances, we begin to see and know Christ in every situation.

Over 100 times, the New Testament tells us we are “in Christ,” we are one with Him.

Put your confidence in Him. Give yourself over to Him. All that we need is in Him, His seed that is planted in us now. Let Him take over and come through you in your sufferings.

He doesn’t give us strength; He IS our strength!

“I can do all things through Christ which strengthen the me.” (Philippians 4:13 KJV)

Foundation Set 1: What's in the Seed, Pt 1: Life Is in the Seed

Sat, 07 May 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Life is in the Seed

By Tammy Lacock

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” (John 12:24 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman begins by emphasizing that if we don’t know what’s in the seed, then we may never fully understand who we are in Christ.

In John 12:24, Christ reveals what our Heavenly Father did through the gift of His Son, the Seed of Christ. By His death, we too died with Him, our old lives buried. In the moment we believe, the Seed of Christ replaces the sin nature passed down by the curse of Adam. By His death, God’s plan of placing Christ’s seed in humanity is finished. Simply by believing we are saved by His seed.

We are complete by His seed. Once planted, Paul tells us throughout his epistles, we are bona fide children of God! We have Christ in us. He is our new Life. By His Life, we are freed from the bonds of sin and this world.

However, the Seed of Christ will lie dormant like an “old man in a rocking chair” as Warren puts it, if we don’t give Him our minds. Here’s where we can nurture the Seed of Christ by getting to know Him. Make it personal. Just like the seed needs the right soil as well as the stresses of heat, cold, rain, and wind to break through its hull and bring forth life, we too need the right soil, toiled by the stresses of our circumstances and situations to break through the hull of the seed of life (Christ) in us so He can come forth. Through our sufferings, we begin to let go as we develop our trust in Him. Our sufferings are the means by which we grow to depend on Christ in us, give Him our minds, and allow Him to live through us. By His seed we have everything we need, we have the answer to every question right here, right now inside of us. He is our strength, our joy, our peace, our very life.

Life is in the Seed, the Seed of Christ now in us!

Foundation Set 1: Dividing Soul and Spirit, Pt 2: Perfect In Spirit, Perfecting in Soul

Sat, 30 Apr 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Perfect In Spirit, Perfecting in Soul

By Tammy Lacock

Warren emphasizes two scriptures this week for the very purpose of understanding what God is doing in our lives now.

“Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us.” (2 Corinthians 1:10 KJV)

Warren explains that the writer of Hebrews is presenting a new gospel, one that must divide our understanding of soul and spirit if we are to understand what God is doing. The Word of God, who is Christ, is so quick and sharp and powerful that He even distinctly divides soul and spirit.

As we explored in last week’s podcast, soul and spirit was used interchangeably in the Old Testament. Now, by Christ’s death and resurrection, we are to divide soul and spirit to understand Him and who we are now as believers.

By just believing in Christ, we had an exchange of nature: Satan’s sin nature is put out, and Christ’s divine nature is put in. This is what it means to be born again. This exchange of nature takes place solely in our spirits. As a tripartite being (three parts: spirit, soul, body), only our spirits are now perfect by Christ’s nature in His seed planted in us by God. However, our souls (where our minds, wills, and intellects reside) are maturing in the knowledge of Christ now. It’s an ongoing process as we get to know our new Christ-nature and, by the help of the Holy Spirit, let go of our old sin-nature minds. The Apostle Paul calls this the renewing of our minds. In fact, Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 1:10, that our spirits are delivered by Christ, our souls are being delivered (presently in our lives) and our bodies will be delivered on the resurrection morning. These are three distinct deliverances.

We must understand this separation of soul and spirit so that being born again (in spirit), we realize God’s complete work in our spirit and His ongoing work in our souls (minds). We are delivered and perfected by God’s work and not by something we do or don’t do to please God. Christ did the work on the cross. He is our salvation. We are perfect in God’s sight by Christ joined to our spirit, by our new birthing. We cannot sin in our spirits. Our souls, however, are perfecting (maturing) as we grow up in what Paul calls “the excellency of the knowledge of Christ,” who now lives in us. This takes place in our minds, the soul part of us. While we may sin in our souls, by our new birthing of Christ in our spirit, we are spiritually secure. We are continually forgiven by the righteousness of Christ in us.

With the separation of soul and spirit, Paul tells us that by Christ in us in spirit, we stand perfect before God now. This exchange of our old sin nature to Christ’s nature in our spirits is where we stand as perfect, eternal children of God. It’s in our souls where we grow up in Him. This is where we get to know Him and develop our love affair in Him. By this growing love affair, Christ flows out of our spirits where we are perfect and grips our souls where we are becoming perfect.

Foundation Set 1: Dividing Soul and Spirit, Pt 1: Salvation of Our Souls

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Salvation of Our Souls

By Tammy Lacock

Warren Litzman starts off this week’s podcast by explaining that the true gospel isn’t being preached today. Today there is a commingling of gospels in the Church. One that says we must live by the law (what we do or don’t do) to be saved, and one that says that, as believers, we are saved by God’s grace through Christ. Because of this, there is not much distinction between the law and Christ today.

In fact, there is much confusion!

The Apostle Paul (believed to be the author of Hebrews) set out to make this most important distinction in the powerful verse of Hebrews 4:12, where he highlights God’s Word as dividing soul and spirit. As believers, we must understand what takes place in our souls and what takes place in our spirits as we grow up in Christ.

By the Word of God, Who is Christ, our souls and spirits are now divided. In the Old Testament, there was never a distinction between soul and spirit. They were used interchangeably. But now, after the pivotal work of Christ on the cross, soul and spirit are separated.

This division officially took place on the Day of Pentecost. It was then that after His death, burial, and resurrection, Christ returned to the Father and a new body was formed called Christ. By Christ sending the Holy Spirit, those who now believed in Him would instantly be saved in their spirits. There was an exchange of nature that took place in our spirits. Just as through one man, Adam, all of humanity was cursed by him believing Satan, so too are we saved from this curse (death) by believing in one man, Jesus Christ. As believers, our sin (Satan) nature is replaced by Christ’s nature in our spirits. There is never a dual nature in man; either Satan is operating, or Christ is operating. God created us for this void to be filled by the simple simple act of believing.

“For by one Spirit [the Holy Spirit] are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit [Christ].” (1 Corinthians 12:13)

However, we must understand that there are three tenses of deliverance. In 2 Corinthians 1:9-10, Paul speaks of the tripartite (meaning three parts) man, which is made up of body, soul, and spirit. Although not separate, we are very much distinctive, and each is delivered at different times.

“But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death [in our spirits], and doth deliver [in our souls]: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us [in our bodies].” (2 Corinthians 1:9-10)

Paul says we are saved (from death by the curse of Satan through Adam) instantly in our spirits by God placing in us His holy seed, Christ (our new life; our rebirth), yet our souls are continually being saved presently through the work of the Holy Spirit in our minds, wills, and intellect, and our bodies will be saved on the resurrection morning of Christ’s return.

Paul tells us through his epistles that our souls (man’s mind, will, and emotions) need God’s ongoing work transforming and maturing us for deliverance from old knowledge and old identity. Yes, we are saved, born-again, by the birthing of Christ in our spirits. By Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we too died and arose to a new life in Him here, now, and for eternity. We’re going to Heaven! We’re bona fide children of God now!

Yet the deliverance of our souls (mind renewal) is an ever-present journey in our lives. Through the circumstances and situations of life and by the help of the Holy Spirit, we will have our minds renewed if we give ourselves over to Christ. We will get to know Him more and more. And as we do, we will inevitably love Him more and more.

And knowing and loving Him is what life is all about!

Foundation Set 1: Distinction Between Christ and Holy Spirit, Pt 2: Christ, Our Only Life

Sat, 16 Apr 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Christ, Our Only Life

By Tammy Lacock

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28, KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman’s objective is for us to see that not only is Christ life, but He is our only life.

He explains that, as believers, being born again means that we are a brand-new creation, a new creation race. Our old lives, our old identities, no longer matter. Only Christ matters. And as we move on in Christ, we come to realize He is the only life we now live.

As believers, we may see Christ as life, but the Holy Spirit revealed to the Apostle Paul that Christ is our only life!

The role of the Holy Spirit is to continually reveal to us, as we allow Him, the things of Christ (John 14:26). Although, the Word of God and our understanding of it is endless, the Holy Spirit has revealed to us, through the Apostle Paul, that Christ now lives in us in spirit. He is our new life, the only life we now live. There is no separation. Christ briefly revealed this to the woman at the well that there will come a time, and even that time is now, that we need not worship Him in a building, but in truth and in spirit (John 4:24). We can worship Him where we are and as we are because He lives in us. We are just now understanding what Jesus meant by this.

Yet the Apostle Paul wrote about this “mystery” revealed to him throughout all of his epistles. John, outliving Paul at least 30 years, grasped this understanding as well.

In fact, his gospel is very different from the synoptic gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. While theirs recounted the historical account of Christ, John’s message of Christ speaks of Him in a spiritual context.

He wrote very little about Christ historically. He realized the true gospel, that if we wanted to know God and what he’s doing today, we need to go back to the beginning, starting at the Father level.

“In the beginning was the Word [Christ] and the Word [Christ] was with God, and the Word [Christ] was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; without him was not any thing made that was made.” (John 1:1-3)

John spoke of Christ as spirit. We no longer are to know Him in the flesh. We are to know Him as life, our only life.

“He that hath the Son hath life; and He that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” (1 John 5:12 KJV)

“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” (John 5:15 KJV)

And Paul said it precisely in 2 Corinthians 5: 16-17 (KJV):

“Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

As believers, we are born again into a new life in Christ.

May we continue to grow in Him and our understanding of Him by the help of the Holy Spirit in our minds.

May we see Christ as life, our only life., for “all things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made” (John 1:3).

Foundation Set 1: Distinction Between Christ and Holy Spirit, Pt 1: Divided But Not Separate

Sat, 09 Apr 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Divided But Not Separate

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman emphasizes the keen distinction between the ministry of Christ and the ministry of the Holy Spirit to help us understand the “Mystery of Godliness.”

In Hebrews 4:12, the Word of God clearly makes a distinction also between our souls and our spirits, the areas in which the ministry of the Holy Spirit (in our souls) and the ministry of the Christ (in our spirits) are divided!

Warren explains that in John chapters 14 through 16, Christ defines the role of the Holy Spirit. Specifically in John 14:26, He tells us, “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”

Christ is clear that the Holy Spirit’s role is to teach us of Christ, to renew our minds of Him. The Holy Spirit works in our souls, our minds, wills, and emotions. He not only gives us knowledge of Christ, but He also helps us understand that knowledge so we grow closer to Him.

Christ tells us here that if he doesn’t go to the Father (seated at His right hand) now, the Holy Spirit will not come. And he must come so that we will not know Him in the flesh any longer.

We must know Him in Spirit.

The Holy Spirit teaches us all things about Christ. It is only by revelation of the Holy Spirit that we come to an understanding of where Christ is and who He is.

Paul explains this revelation throughout his epistles, that Christ now lives in him, in his spirit. He makes it clear that we no longer live, Christ is our new life, our only Life. One of many examples is in Galatians 2:20 (KJV), “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.”

For us to know Christ in Spirit now, to know Him as our new life, our only life, we must allow the Holy Spirit to teach us this new knowledge (as he did with Paul) and allow Him to give us understanding of this knowledge. This is where we begin to understand in our own lives the “Mystery of Godliness” as Warren puts it.

The “Mystery of Godliness” is revealed to us at our level of understanding. The understanding by the Holy Spirit, that Christ now abides in us and we in Him (John 15:4), produces a spontaneous living in our lives. We begin to understand that Christ‘s ministry of salvation is to abide in our spirits, joined to Him in one Spirit. And yet Christ is also seated at the Right Hand of the Father, a mystery that we may never comprehend while we are here in our bodies.

Warren helps us understand that although we must see the distinction of Christ’s work and the work of the Holy Spirit, they are not separate. They are always in agreement and work hand in hand because they are both parts of the Godhead. The Holy Spirit reveals to us Christ and all things Christ. As we grow in our understanding of who He is now in us in Spirit, we begin to live lives where Christ comes through us spontaneously.

As believers, we are not separated now from Christ. We are one in Him. In fact, Christ in us is who God sees now. He no longer sees us by what we do or don’t do in our bodies. He no longer sees our lives, He sees Christ. From the moment we believe, by God’s Grace, we stand righteous before Him because our new life is Christ. Our old lives have been “crucified with Christ, and we no longer live.” Christ is our only life.

As we grow up in Him, the Holy Spirit will reveal more of Him to us in our minds (our soul area), giving us even more of an understanding of who we are now: bona fide children of God!

Joined to Christ in one Spirit!

Foundation Set 1: Christ, The Seed, Pt 2: Rest In Who We Are

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Rest in Who We Are

By Tammy Lacock

“There is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” (Romans 8:1 KJV)

In this week’s podcast of “Christ, the Seed,” Warren Litzman dives into Paul’s epistles to help us understand who we are now as believers in Christ: brand new creations, having absolutely nothing to do with who we were before. We are growing up in Christ now, learning about Him and our new life in Him, learning to not know humans by their flesh, not even Christ. We are to know no man by what they do in their bodies. We are not to know even Christ in His flesh, only by His Spirit, which now lives in us. Through Him, we can now be free to love others unconditionally in spirit, rather than by their good or bad behaviors. We can now see others as one Body of Christ because it’s with Christ’s eyes that we see. Paul states this clearly in Romans 8:1, “There is no condemnation for those which are in Christ Jesus.”

As believers, we have Christ, God’s seed, placed in us by our Heavenly Father. God replaced our sin nature with His nature through Christ in us, making us bona fide sons and daughters of Him by His seed. We now have a place in His heavenly home.

The Apostle Paul explains our new status throughout his epistles and tells us that it is only by the Son that we have become sons and daughters of God. And as His sons, there’s nothing we can do or not do that will take back Christ’s seed in us. There’s nothing that will separate us from Him. He lives in us, and He is our new life!

Taking Paul’s message further, Warren explains that getting to know Christ in our spirits now is all that matters. We no longer need to know Christ in the flesh, only in spirit. Now that He lives in us and is our new life, we can rest, and be free to live Him through us. We are free to let go and let Him be our new life. We are free now to be who God created us to be: Complete in Christ.

Warren urges, only by learning Him in us, getting to know Him and love Him, will we truly be able to rest in the knowledge of who we are now. By Him, we are joint-heirs, bona fide children of God!

Foundation Set 1: Christ, The Seed, Pt 1: Life Is in The Seed

Sat, 26 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Life Is in The Seed

By Tammy Lacock

“Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.” (Galatians 3:16, KJV)

“Being born again, not of the corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.” (1 Peter 1:23, KJV)

“Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” (1 John 3:9, KJV)

In this new study of “Christ, the Seed,” Warren Litzman explains the importance of believers knowing what actually happened to them when they believed and what it means to be born again.

When we believe in Christ as our Savior, by His death, burial, and resurrection, our Heavenly Father, in an act of love, literally (not figuratively) places in us Christ, God’s seed. The old sin, Satan nature, the corruptible seed, is replaced by the incorruptible seed of Christ. Jesus shares this truth with Nicodemus, a Pharisee and ruler of the Jews, when he says, “Ye must be born again. (John 3:3, 7). We become an entirely new creation, partakers of the divine nature, Christ, the seed, birthed in us (1 Peter 2:4).

The seed has to do with who we are now. When we understand just what took place when we believed in Christ, we can get a better understanding of who we are and ultimately a better understanding of Christ, who is our new life. Before the foundation of the world, we were chosen in Him (Ephesians 1:4). We were in God’s plan before he created anything. He knew that the only way we could live a new and eternal life was by the giving of His Son’s life. He loved us so much and wanted us to return to Him that He took a part of Himself, called Him His Son, and died so that we too would die to this life. And in dying to this life, awaken and arise again with Him to an entirely new life in Him. Out with the old life and in with our new life in Christ. By God’s grace, our slates are wiped clean and we our brand-new creations.

The problem is that because we had been living with that corruptible seed of Satan for so long, allowing him to rule and reign in our souls, our minds (our thinking) have become a battlefield between letting go of our old selves and allowing the seed of Christ, our new life, to bear fruit. We bear fruit as we grow in our understanding of Him and who we are now in Him. We grow as we allow the Holy Spirit to help us understand that we are total and complete in Christ. We are no longer subject to the law, what we must do or not do to be sanctified. We begin to realize that the battle is not between Satan and God, as we know God always wins, but a battle in our thinking.

We must know now that we are saved and going to heaven, our Father’s heavenly home. However, Warren explains, through Paul’s epistles, that it’s of utmost importance to know who we are now. When God birthed His Son in us, we had power beyond description. His seed gave us new life! Yet we didn’t know it. He likens it to a natural birth, where the seed of a father is placed in a woman and yet she’s unaware that any change took place in that act of love, and only aware of her outward feelings and emotions. It’s not until sometimes eight weeks or more later when she knows she has a new life, the seed planted in her. It’s the same with the seed of Christ. Once we know and understand what took place when we believed, we can really start to grow up in Him. Our new life is in the seed of Christ! We can finally begin the love affair He desires with us.

In 1 John 5:12 (KJV), John tells us, “He that hath the Son hath life; and he who hath not the Son of God hath not life.” By the help of the Holy Spirit in our minds, we can now understand our new birthing. We can now understand that our new life comes only by the seed of Christ placed in us, and which can never be taken away.

In order to grow in our knowledge of Christ and therefore, alleviate the battle in our minds, Paul tells us we must “let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 2:5 KJV)

We must give our minds over to Christ so that His seed in us will begin to bear fruit through us and we can truly live our new life in Him.

Life is in the seed. Life is Christ.

Foundation Set 1: The Birthing, Pt 2: The Liberating Secret

Fri, 18 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0500

The Liberating Secret

By Tammy Lacock

“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.” (1 Peter 1:23)

“Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakes of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” (1 Peter 2:4)

In Part 2 of this new study of the Birthing, Warren Litzman explains what he calls “the Liberating Secret.” He explains that in a natural, human birth, the father’s seed is what brings forth a birth, a new person, a new life. A mother cannot produce the seed, she can only bear it. And yet, it takes time before a woman knows she’s pregnant. She can go months before she discovers she’s pregnant. The father planting his seed in the woman is one simple act.

The same goes for our new spiritual birthing in Christ. Our Heavenly Father places the holy, incorruptible seed (1 Peter 1:23) of His Son, Jesus Christ, in everyone who believes in Him. It’s that simple. We need only to believe for our new birthing to take place. By God’s grace, we become brand-new creations, born again into a new, eternal life in Christ. Our old lives no longer matter. We don’t produce this new seed, and there is nothing we can do to produce it. It has to come from a father, our Heavenly Father. When this happens, we are miraculously made a brand-new creation, a new race of people. This is what it means to be born again. This is what it means to be saved. We no longer are subject to the confines of this world, to the sin nature. By Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we were brought to life, and out of this corrupt life, by the sacrifice of His life.

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV)

The liberating secret is that simply by believing, by the grace of God, we are saved. The person of Christ, God’s seed, is placed in us making bona fide children of God, joint-heirs with Christ.

Warren goes on to explain that religion has been dancing around this ultimate truth for thousands of years. As a result, most Christians have no idea who they really are. Christians have come to believe that they are sanctified by what they do or don’t do, while they are already complete in Christ by our Father birthing His Son in us. It’s an act of love, a gift, and cannot be aborted. The Life is in the seed of Christ, the person of Christ, and we now have His Life in us!

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believers in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16 KJV)

The liberating secret, the mystery revealed, is that the incorruptible seed of Christ has been placed in believers. Christ now lives in us! We are partakes of His divine nature now and throughout eternity. We are born again into a new life, the eternal life of Christ.

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27 KJV)

Foundation Set 1: The Birthing, Pt 1: “Before the Foundation of The World”

Sat, 12 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0500

“Before the Foundation of The World”

By Tammy Lacock

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be Holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4, KJV)

In this new study, Foundation Set 1, Warren Litzman uses Apostle Paul’s writings to lay the foundation for us to understand what Paul calls "the mystery.”

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27, KJV)

For over 4,000 years before Christ, God withheld the mystery from man, until the Holy Spirit revealed it to Paul. God chose Paul to bring this liberating secret to the world. Paul tells us this liberating secret is “Christ in you, the hope of glory,” and this secret was in God’s mind before the foundation of the world! It was then God decided to take a part of Himself, His Son, and place Him in every born-again human. When we believe in Christ as our Savior, we go through a new birthing, when the incorruptible seed, Christ, is placed in us, making us brand new creations, not just a better version of ourselves.

Jesus introduced this mystery with Nicodemus, the leader of the Pharisees and Jews during that time in John 3:3 when he said “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Being born again means a brand-new creation. We are no longer of this world; we are a heavenly people. And this can only be by Christ being our new life. By Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, we died in Him and arose with Him to a new life in Him.

“Before the foundation of the world,” God chose us humans to be placed in Christ. God’s plan of our redemption and reconciliation back to Him in Christ is no longer a mystery according to Paul.

John also wrote of this mystery in John 14:20, years after Paul’s death, when he shared Jesus’s words, “At that day, ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.”

Mystery revealed!

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 22: A Radical Mind Change

Sat, 05 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0500

A Radical Mind Change

By Tammy Lacock

“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 2:5 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman really emphasizes again the radical mind change that the Apostle Paul had and had to have when coming into the “excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:8). By revelation of the Holy Spirit, Paul was not just a believer in Christ as his Savior, he was a knower.

It was revealed to Paul that, by God’s Amazing Grace, we are saved by just believing in Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. By just believing, we are made “new creations,” and our old lives no longer matter. As believers, we too died with Christ at the cross and arose to a new life in Him.

Christ now resides in our spirits making us one Spirit with Him. We are perfect in Spirit.

However, Paul knew there must be a radical change in our soulish area—where our minds, wills, and emotions reside—if we are to come to “excellency of the knowledge” of Christ in us as well.

Through Paul’s epistles, Warren goes on to list four points that take place in our minds as we draw closer to Christ in us and deepen our relationship with Him. He emphasizes that only by the work of the Holy Spirit can this radical mind change take place.

The four truths are these:

1) Accept yourself as one forgiven by God of past, present, and future sins. We can’t afford to carry that load any longer. We must accept that our old lives of sin are no longer who we are.

2) We will learn to do without the approval of others when we know God approves of us.

3) Knowing of who we are now in Christ will manifest in our feelings towards others. We feel towards others as Christ does. We are no longer a product of our upbringing or who somebody else taught us to be or think we are. We know who we are now. We are bona fide children of God by Christ’s dwelling in our spirits.

4) We are never to see ourselves as one wearing rags. Warren uses the story of the prodigal son who approached his father in rags and said, ‘I’m not worthy.’ Because his father’s seed was in him, just as our Father’s seed of Christ is in us now, he welcomed his son home and prepared him a feast. Our Father continually forgives us and loves us unconditionally.

As we grow in Christ and deepen our relationship in Him, may we continue to have a radical mind change of who we are now in Christ. May we heed Paul’s “excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus” and his prayer for us to “let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.”

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 21: Perfect is Christ

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Perfect is Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away” (1 Corinthians 13:10, KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman further explains what the Apostle Paul means when he says in Philippians 3:8, “The excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ.” He explains that knowing Christ was Paul’s ultimate goal, the ultimate prize.

Through 1 Corinthians chapter 13, Warren shares that Paul had a radical mind-change here. He is telling us that everything before coming to Christ doesn’t matter, it falls away as we grow in Christ. Perfect is Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection as an atonement for our sins and perfect is Christ who now lives in each and every one of us who believes. Perfect is Christ as our new Life. That’s the “excellency of the knowledge” of Christ that Paul speaks of in all of his epistles. He knew Christ now lives in every believer, not figuratively but literally.

Paul was raised up by Christ Himself to bring this final gospel to the world. His commitment to Christ kept deepening and he wanted nothing more than to know Him and love Him more. In his radical mind change, the Holy Spirit revealed to Him that all gifts and ministries are not that of the believer’s but Christ’s gifts and ministries coming through the believer. Paul knew he was nothing without Christ. He wanted nothing more than to dwell in His love and deepen his love affair with Him.

The purpose of Paul’s gospel is to tell us Christ in us presents us perfect before God. Paul knew the only way was to reveal to us the great mystery, that Christ literally lives in every believer. That we are made perfect by Him. That we are now complete in Him. That we are now the sons and daughters of our Father in heaven.

Paul knew “that which is perfect is come.”

Are we ready for our old lives to be buried with Christ? Are we ready to arise to a new life in Him and be presented perfect before God? Then let us follow Paul and press on to the goal of knowing Christ, the perfect Christ living in each and every one of us who believes.

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 20: Forget The Past

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Forget The Past

By Tammy Lacock

“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things that are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 3:13-14)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman continues to explain Paul’s deepening commitment to Christ. Paul’s commitment was a work in progress. In Philippians 3:13-14, Paul tells us to forget the past. He urges us to forget our old identities, the ones before coming to Christ. Paul was born into a wealthy family, a Pharisee, a Hebrew of Hebrews, and a Roman citizen. He counted all of this as “dung” so that he may “win Christ.” Christ was all that mattered to him anymore. Christ was his prize, the ultimate prize. All he wanted, moving forward, was to know Him and love Him more and more.

Warren reminds us that Paul was able to forget his past by the continual renewing of his mind by the Holy Spirit. Warren explains that the mind is the connection between our old lives and our new lives now in Christ. It is a constant process of renewing our minds so that we, too, may let go of our old identities in order to deepen our relationship, our love affair with Christ, who now lives in us. By allowing the Holy Spirit to renew our minds, we can let go of our past and not be doomed to repeat it. Through this renewal process, we are now able to live our new lives in Christ. By giving our minds over to Christ, He can now live through us. Our love affair with Him supersedes everything, including our pasts.

And lastly, but certainly not least, Paul tells us in Philippians 3:17, to follow him. This is one of eight verses where he tells us to follow him as he follows Christ.

But why should we follow him?

We follow Paul because he was the only man Christ raised up to preach our salvation by His death, burial, and resurrection. He was the only one who knew who we are now as believers in Christ. We are Christ-persons.

Christ now literally lives in us. Christ told Paul so Paul would tell us! We are brand-new creations at salvation. A whole new race of people. We are born again, bona fide sons and daughters of God in Christ. Our new life in Christ calls us to forget the past, bury the “old man” and commit to Him, just as Paul did.

For he knew the ultimate prize is found in us, right here and right now: Christ alive in us.

SPECIAL: Celebrating Episode #100 - Interview with Robbie Litzman

Sat, 12 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Episode #100 Celebration - Robbie Litzman Interview

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, we step away from Warren’s teaching to celebrate our 100th podcast with a chat with Robbie Litzman, wife of the late Warren Litzman, who founded the Christ-Life Fellowship! Robbie shares a little about Warren’s background, his passion for the simple message from Paul’s epistles, and Christ-life’s current work since Warren’s Home-going. Warren and Robbie have published the in-Christ message to the world for over 50 years, and this glorious message is meat to thousands of hungry souls worldwide. Robbie shares two of her favorite foundational verses for living in Christ and understanding who we are in Christ are: Galatians 2:20 and Hebrews 4:12.

“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” (Galatians 2:20, KJV).

“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12, KJV).

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 19: Love Is a Choice

Sat, 05 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Love Is a Choice

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman continues detailing Paul’s deepening commitment to Christ and the “excellency of the knowledge” of Christ who now lives in him. He explains that Paul’s commitment was at a level of kenosis, the emptying of himself for Christ. If by “suffering the loss of all things” he will win Christ, then by all means, whoever he thought he was before coming to Christ means nothing. He counted it but dung. Nothing else mattered but knowing Christ, the Christ who lived in him. It’s in this personal relationship with Christ where Paul deepened his commitment, his love affair with Him. Paul tells us throughout these few verses in Philippians 3: 7-13 just what he did in this commitment. By the help of the Holy Spirit, he had a radical mind change, and then the mind of Christ was at his disposal. It is here, in the mind, he says, where we make a choice to “suffer the loss of all things to win Christ,” to know him and the power of His resurrection, to fellowship in His suffering, to die with Him, and to love Him. It’s a choice and he’s made up his mind to love Him and do whatever He needs to do to deepen his love affair with Him. In fact, in verses 12 and 13, Paul tells us that although he’s already perfect in his spirit, where Christ resides, he continues to be made perfect in his soul, in his mind and heart. It’s here where he’s continually growing and deepening his love affair with Christ.

In a world where humanity is now focused on what God can do for us, Paul reminds us to focus on what God is doing within us. He reminds us that we must empty ourselves completely (kenosis), letting go of who we think we are, our old identities, so that we can deeply commit to Christ who now lives in us. Let Christ be our new identity, our new life.

Paul knew that all it takes for salvation is believing in Christ as his Savior. He didn’t have to do anything more. Yet, in his revelation of Christ living in him, he couldn’t help but want to know Him more. He couldn’t help but to commit to Him. He couldn’t help but to love Him. He chose to keep his mind and his heart open to the Holy Spirit whose sole mission is to reveal Christ in us.

Committing to Christ is a choice.

Loving Christ is a choice.

God initiated the love affair by giving His only Son to us … now it’s our turn to accept His gift and to choose to love Him in return.

How far will we go to know Him and to Love Him more?

Will we “suffer the loss of all things”?

Will we fellowship in His sufferings?

Will we empty ourselves?

Will we die and be buried with Him so that we will know Him and the power of His resurrection, His very Life within us?

Will you make that choice?

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 18: Fellowship In Suffering

Sat, 29 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Fellowship In Suffering

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren really dissects the Apostle Paul’s words in Philippians 3:10 (KJV):

“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his suffering, being made comformable unto his death.”

Warren reminds us here that Paul has had a radical mind change; and this is a mind change that we all need if we are to live as true Christians, Christ-persons. Paul, in his epistles, prays that we, too, will have this mind change, which can only be revealed by the Holy Spirit.

It was revealed to Paul that Christ is alive and well, alive and well in him and through him. The real Jesus now lives in us. Paul’s only desire was to know this Christ who lived in him. In fact, Paul welcomed suffering if it meant knowing Christ in that suffering. He knew it was only through Christ’s suffering and death that he was made alive. That he was made new. He knew that God works out of death.

Warren explains it simply: The Devil takes what is alive and destroys it, yet God takes what is dead and brings it to life. Through Christ’s death, we died too. And in His resurrection, we were brought to life, a new life in Him. We died to our old lives and arose to a completely brand-new life in Christ. Nothing else but his new life in Christ mattered to Paul. His mind was changed, and it was made up!

“Being made conformable into His death," Paul was ready to become nothing so that Christ would be his all, his only life. He “suffered the loss of all things” to win Christ. He wanted to suffer as Christ suffered, and he wanted to die as Christ died, in absolute obedience to God, so that in his suffering and death, he would know and love Christ more.

Paul was ready to die, but he wanted death only to come when he had done all he could in his love affair with Christ. His only desire was to know and love Christ, and he knew that meant he would need to give up his own life, his own identity, his own goals and ideas. He’d need to die to his life, make himself "a living sacrifice" (Rom. 12:1) to give himself to Christ within to live through him.

Paul’s epistles help us understand who we are now in Christ. We are one with Him. We are married to Him. It’s a love affair. Paul challenges us to a deeper relationship with Christ, a fellowship with Him that blossoms out of our sufferings and an intimacy, a new life, that can only come when we suffer the loss of all things and give ourselves completely over to Him.

He states this clearly in Galatians 2:20 (KJV), “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.”

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 17: “That I May Know Him”

Sat, 22 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0500

“That I May Know Him”

By Tammy Lacock

“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.” (Philippians 3:10)

Warren Litzman digs deeper into Apostle Paul’s words, “the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord” (in Philippians 3:8). Paul makes it clear Christ is very literally his life now. His old life doesn’t matter anymore. In fact, he counted his old life but “dung,” worthless, compared to knowing Christ. All he wants now is to be found in Him, not having his own life anymore, but living by the life of the One who is Life.

Paul says many times in his 14 letters that he no longer lives by his own righteousness or even by his own faith (Romans 3:22; Galatians 2:16, 20; Galatians 3:21, to name a few). It’s the righteousness and faith of Christ that lives in and through him.

There’s nothing we can do or not do to make us more pleasing to God. Christ did the work on the cross and Christ is our redemption. He is our new life and knowing Him in this way was all that Paul wanted.

Paul goes on even deeper to say in Philippians 3:10 that he wants to know Christ in all ways, in His sufferings, His death, and His resurrection. For he knew that when Christ died, we died too, our old lives buried with Him. In His resurrection, we arose with Him to our new life in Him. He wanted to know all about this, and Paul knew the only way was by getting to know Christ, the very life that now lives in him.

He knew that this knowledge of Christ in Him would require a radical mind change. Indeed, Christ revealed this to Paul first and Paul turned around and revealed it to us. He was the first human to know the inward life of Christ. No doubt, Paul’s in-Christ teaching in Antioch lead to the first time believers were called Christians (Christ-persons). In his epistles, Paul emphasizes knowing and living Christ. This most excellent knowledge is given by the power of the Holy Spirit; our minds can be renewed as we continue to understand and know Christ, the Christ that now occupies our very spirits.

“But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” (1 Corinthians 5:16 KJV)

Warren reminds us, through Paul’s epistles, that we will never really know who we are until we know Christ. If we don’t know the One who now lives in us, then we will never know ourselves. Christ came to complete us. We were chosen in him before the foundation of the world.

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4 KJV)

In 1 Corinthians 11:1, Paul urges Christians, “Follow me as I follow Christ.”

So that we, too, may know Christ as Paul did, here and now.

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 16: Are You All In?

Sat, 15 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Are You All In?

By Tammy Lacock

“Yeah doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.” (Philippians 3:8 KJV)

He’s my Strength.

He’s my Power.

He’s my Righteousness

He’s my Faith.

He’s my Life.

He’s my Everything.

Warren Litzman really dives into the heart of the Apostle Paul’s words in Philippians 3:8 saying Paul was deeply committed to Christ and to the knowledge of Christ. Nothing else mattered. Nothing about his old life mattered once he knew Christ. Paul knew that by believing in Christ as his Savior, that he was a brand-new creation. The moment he believed was the moment Christ was placed in him, to be his new life, born again. He suffered the loss of all that he knew himself to be and counted it all dung (aka poop!) so that he would win his new life in Christ. He was all in.

The person who wins Christ is the person who puts Christ first in his life and commits to his new life in Him.

But how do we do that?

Paul tells us that we must make a decision. We must have a mind change. We must make up our minds and, moreover, give our minds over to the knowledge of Christ in us. We are now not to know anything but Christ. As our new life, Christ is everything, our strength, our righteousness, our faith, and this is how God sees us. God sees the Christ that now lives in us. Paul explains this further in Philippians 3 verse 9 when he writes:

“And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.”

Warren goes on to explain, through Paul’s epistles, that the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus is not of the historical Christ. In 2 Corinthians 5:16, Paul says we are not to know Christ in the flesh any longer. We are to know Him now as our new life, living in us. When He drank the cup in Gethsemane, we were put in Him. When He died, we died, too, to our old lives. And with His resurrection, we were resurrected, too, to a brand-new life in Him. He is alive and well in each and every one of us who believes.

Christ is now joined to us in spirit, making us one Spirit. We are perfect in spirit. We are saved! It’s in our souls (our minds, wills, and emotions) where we are still being delivered, as our minds continue to grasp the excellency of the knowledge of Christ, who now lives in us.

God will not force us to change our minds. He’s already finished His work by saving us through giving us His Son. He knew he couldn’t depend on us (our faith, our righteousness) and would need to place His Son in us to be reconciled to Him. Yet he knows it’s in our minds where our love affair with Christ begins and evolves. This is where our commitment to Him deepens. As we give our minds over to Christ, the Holy Spirit teaches us of Him and brings us closer to Him. By God’s Grace we are saved, and by His grace we need only to depend on Christ now…for everything.

This is when we really win Christ. When our mind change allows our old lives to fade away, to be counted as “dung,” nothing else matters but our new life in Him. When all we desire is to be found in Him, in all situations and circumstances. We win Christ when our minds grasp that He who is in us is greater than anything outside of us.

How deep is your commitment to Him?

What does it mean to you to have Christ in you?

Is your mind still holding onto your old life?

Or are you all in?

Paul explains his own deep commitment to Christ quite perfectly in Galatians 2:20 (KJV):

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 15: We Win Christ

Sat, 08 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0500

We Win Christ

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman continues to discuss our commitment to Christ by following the apostle Paul through his epistles. Warren focuses this week on verses 3-7 of Philippians 3. These verses explain in more detail what Paul means by “the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord” in verse 8.

Warren prefaces this podcast by emphasizing Paul’s own commitment to Christ. Before Paul’s conversion on his way to Damascus, he was deeply committed to the law and the outer things of this world, what he calls things of the flesh. After His conversion and revelation of Christ as his new life, Paul was committed to Christ and knowing only Him. Now that the Holy Spirit revealed to him that Christ lives in him, all he could think about was Christ. This was the greatest, most amazing revelation God had ever told anyone and Paul knew it! In fact, Paul and John refer to Christ living in us and us in Him more than 146 times!

In verses 3-7, Paul shares with us the depth of his own commitment to Christ. He says in verse 3, that he no longer lives for outer things, he now lives and rejoices in Christ Jesus, his new life. He now worships in spirit, no more by the law and by works. In verses 4 through 6, he boasts of his old life saying that if anyone was committed to the law and outer things (i.e. his education, his desire in becoming a member of the Sanhedrin, killing Christians in the name of righteousness), it was him more than anybody. He was the Hebrew of the Hebrews, a Pharisee, extremely learned and blameless in the Jewish law. He had everything going for him. Yet, he says, all of that means nothing. He no longer lives that life and rejoices now in Christ Jesus! His new life is Christ and nothing else matters.

“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.” (Galatians 2:20 KJV)

When Christ died on the cross, we died, too, to our old lives. When Christ arose, we arose as well, to a new life IN Him. We no longer live, Christ lives in us as our new life. We are born again. This is the heart of Paul’s writings. He says “follow me as I follow Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1) so that we too will know and understand our new life in Christ. So that we too will know and love Christ and commit ourselves to Him. By His life in us, we are complete in our creation. God’s intention for us before the foundation of the world has been fulfilled (Ephesians 1:4).

Paul wants us to know Christ now and it is only through his writings where we can understand how to live our new life.

We must be committed. Where does commitment take place? Paul tells us that it’s in our minds where we must allow the Holy Spirit to teach us of Christ and comfort us as we move into a deeper commitment in Him.

The Holy Spirit will help us to focus on Christ, knowing Him and not law, as our righteousness, our wisdom, our salvation, our very life. The Holy Spirit will help us to separate the outer (flesh) things from our spirit, now joined to Christ. He will help us to let go of our attachments to our old life. As our commitment deepens, Christ in us takes hold. Paul says this is when we realize that nothing else matters, not even our own lives.

He rejoices in no longer living his old life for the excellency of his new life in Christ:

God’s work was finished at the cross. By His commitment to us through His son’s death and resurrection, we win Christ as our new life. May we now commit to Him and love Him more and more every step of the way.

That’s all He really wants.

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 14: Are You Committed?

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0500

Are You Committed?

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren continues to explain the two important commitments in which God’s plan operates.

The first is Christ’s deep commitment to us. In His death, He committed His life so that in His death, we too would die to our old lives, and in his resurrection, we would also rise to live a new life in Him. He who knew no sin bore all of our sins and transgressions so that we would be freed from Adam’s curse of sin and the law. By only believing, we are saved from this world and Christ becomes our new life. We are born again. We are now complete in Him, finally allowing us to be who God created us to be. Nothing else fits us but Christ. In His commitment to us, God gave us His Son as our hope, our only hope of glory.

The second is our commitment to Christ who now lives in us. Warren emphasizes that only through Paul’s writings are we able to understand how to live now with Christ as our new life. Are we committed to Him? Or are we still living our old lives?

Paul was the only man raised up by Christ, Himself, to bring us the message of Christ alive in us. It was revealed to him in the Arabian Desert, and he brought it first to the believers in Antioch, where they were first called Christians, or Christ-persons. Paul began to explain our new life in Christ and how we are to live with this knowledge. His message changed the course of history, yet it has yet to really take hold. Most Christians don’t know who they are in Christ. At least three times, Paul says this knowledge was given to him to give to us (Ephesians 3:2). He also says, “Follow me as I follow Christ” (1 Cor. 11).

And in Philippians 3:8, he says, “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.”

Paul explains that we must change our thinking. In order to live here and now, he says, we must commit ourselves to the Christ within us. When we come to know and love Him more and more, we grow to understand His deep commitment to us, a commitment made before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4).

We grow to understand that we, too, are now sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father. We grow to learn of His unconditional love and His relentless grace.

We grow to understand the price He paid so He can be our new life. And according to Paul, it’s not so much about getting into Heaven. Although we are saved by just believing, it’s about our love affair with, and commitment to, Christ now.

And so I ask again, are you committed to Christ? Or are you still living your old life?

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 13: Complete In Christ

Sun, 26 Dec 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Complete In Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.” (Colossians 2:10, KJV)

Warren Litzman begins by reminding us that God’s work is finished. It was finished at the cross. All we need to do is believe. Our problem now is not in God’s doing, it’s in our receiving. In it’s our lack of learning and knowledge of who we are in Christ where we remain stuck. In Warren’s words, God has dumped a big bucket of Grace on us, and yet we don’t even know it to receive it.

In this Part 13 of The Excellency of the Knowledge of Christ, Warren shares, through Paul’s epistles, what it means to be complete in Christ and what happens in our completion. Our completion comes from two important commitments in which God’s plan operates.

One commitment is made by God and is far reaching and deep beyond our comprehension. His commitment is full of grace and love. His commitment runs the universe. Warren explains that God is love and, therefore, in His deep commitment to us, He desires love in return.

The other commitment is made by us, and yet about 90 percent of Christians are not committed to Christ. This happens through our lack of knowledge of who we are in Christ as believers. We have yet to present ourselves to God. Through Paul’s epistles, we learn of that commitment and through that commitment, we ultimately learn of God’s commitment to us, His amazing Grace and Mercy in our completion, and our new Life in Christ.

In order to understand our commitment and our return of love to God, we must first try to understand, at least in part, God’s commitment to us.

In Ephesians 1:4, Paul tells us we were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. God committed to complete us by union with Christ, in Christ, even before the world was created!

In John 3:16, John shares, “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” God loves us so much, that He gave His Son to die, to conquer sin and death, so that we could live forever in Him! Christ is a gift to us to complete us.

God knew, and proved throughout history, that no man could love God in return; man would continually fall short of His glory. Not even obedience to the law would work. God knew in the beginning that the only way we could ever return His love would be to place a part of Himself, His Son with His own God-nature, in us to be our new Life. This would be the only way we would come back to Him. In Christ, we are now His bona fide children. Through God’s relentless grace, all we need to do is believe in Christ. Yet He is committed to us in that He wants us now to know and love Christ in our commitment to Him.

Through Paul’s epistles, the Holy Spirit comforts us in our new life in Christ. He teaches us how we are to live now that we are complete in Christ. Paul’s epistles remind us of our marriage to Christ. To know and love Christ is to know and love our Heavenly Father.

God doesn’t need our love in return but because of His Son’s death on the cross, He desires it. For His Son did not die in vain but to give us new life and life more abundantly. In Him, we are complete.

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 12: Nothing Else Matters

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Nothing Else Matters

By Tammy Lacock

“Yeah doubtless, I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ: my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung so that I may win Christ.” (Philippians 3:8)

Warren Litzman begins this week’s podcast with One Baptism, one of several main points Apostle Paul reveals in his “excellency of the Knowledge of Jesus Christ.”

Warren explains that there is only one baptism for the believer. That is, being fully immersed in Christ by the Holy Spirit. Completely immersed as one body of believers in Him. Paul goes on to say that we were made for just this, for all believers to be baptized, fully immersed, into Christ. We are brought back to Him through this baptism, no longer of water but of the Holy Spirit. The baptism of the Holy Spirit into Christ supersedes any water baptism. This is the only baptism we need. And we need only to believe.

“For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12:13, KJV)

What a glorious gift! By just believing, we are now one in Him. He becomes and is our new life, even as we walk our daily lives. To the ongoing believer, this is where our love affair with Him grows. This is where we begin to truly understand Him as Savior. This is where our minds begin to renew as we learn more of Him and our new life in Him. Paul tells us that once we believe, we are an entirely new creation. Our old lives, our histories, are dead. Christ IS our new life and it’s now time to get to know Him. It becomes a personal relationship now that we understand there is no separation between us and Him. He’s our life!

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 11: Do You Know Who You Are?

Sat, 11 Dec 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Do You Know Who You Are?

By Tammy Lacock

Warren Litzman makes it clear, once again, that his mission is to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the writings of the Apostle Paul.

In this week’s podcast, he goes on to explain the first use of the term “Christian” and what it means to be a Christian. It is only through Paul’s epistles where we can begin to know who we are as Christians.

The Apostle Paul was raised up by Christ, Himself, as the only writer in the Bible to deliver what he calls the “revelation of the mystery”.

“Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began.” (Romans 16:25)

“How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words)." (Ephesians 3:3)

So what is this mystery Paul speaks of?

It is made clear throughout his epistles that the great mystery is Christ literally living in every believer. This is where the term “Christian” originates. We are Christ-persons, Christians. Paul first used this term in Antioch to define believers in whom Christ lives.

“Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: and when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.” (Acts 11:25-26)

Paul shares his revelation of the mystery not only to the believers during his time but also to us NOW. His message is alive and well for us NOW! Christ NOW lives in us. When He died on the cross, we died too, to our old lives. And when He arose from the dead, we arose too, to a new life in Him.

Warren goes on to explain what it means to be a completed Christian.

A mature, completed Christian knows their true identity, who he/she is in Christ. They’ve had the revelation of the mystery. They see Christ as their only life and will rightly divide the Scriptures between those who don’t know Christ as their life and those who are born again and know Christ as their life. The law no longer functions for those who know Christ in them. It’s no longer needed for those born again. Christ is their new life. Those who do not know Christ need the law in order to function.

Christians are supercharged by another life they now live, Christ in them. They know that God sees Jesus in them now. He doesn’t see a Baptist, or a Methodist, or a Charismatic, or a Catholic, etc. Christians know that because God sees Jesus as their new life, we are His bona fide children, joint-heirs with Christ to His heavenly Kingdom. We are no longer earthly beings but are translated into His Kingdom. We are on our way to living in our Father’s heavenly house. As ambassadors of Christ, we are here on earth now to represent His government and reconcile others to Him (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Warren emphasizes God’s heartfelt love for those who believe in Christ, His Son, as their Savior. When He saw Jesus pay that price for our sins to reconcile us back to Him, His Grace and Mercy poured out unto us, and is pouring out unto us every day.

Do you know who you are?

Dive into Paul’s epistles and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you the great mystery Paul writes about over and over in his epistles. The mystery of who you are! The mystery of Christ living in you! You are a Christ person, a Christian!

And in the eyes of God, you are His bona fide child!

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 10: Know Him

Sat, 04 Dec 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Know Him

By Tammy Lacock

Warren Litzman begins this week’s podcast reminding us of the two pillars of the gospel of Jesus Christ: Christ’s death on the cross and the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began.

What’s the mystery? "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27). The mystery is Christ in us, Christ in all who believe in Him as their Savior.

This is the birthing. The moment we believe, we are born again. Dead to this world with Christ at the cross and born again to a new life in Him. We are literally brand new creations with Christ as our new life.

“And that day ye shall know that I am in the Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” (John 14:20)

Christ, Himself, revealed the mystery to the Apostle Paul; and through Paul’s epistles, He is revealing it to us. In fact, all of Paul epistles are directed to the born-again believer in hopes that the Holy Spirit will reveal Christ in us as well. He’s speaking as a man who has Christ in him and wants all of us to know Christ lives in us, too. Paul wants us to truly know Christ, to begin a love affair with Him.

This was God’s plan since before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4), and He’s completing His plan with the birthing of Christ in every believer. We are now His bona fide children, joint heirs to His kingdom with Christ. It’s all ours. He gave us everything of His through His Son by His grace.

Paul tells us the Holy Spirit has one great mission: To reveal Christ in the believer. The Holy Spirit’s ministry is to dwell in our souls (minds) and teach us about Christ. Jesus said the Holy Spirit will never speak of Himself, only Christ. The revelation of the mystery of Christ in us is the very heart of our being. It’s the very heart of God’s plan.

Our new birth was accomplished by God alone. It wasn’t a church thing, a preacher thing, a Bible thing, or a human thing. When we were saved, we had nothing to do with it aside from the measure of faith which He gave to us by His Grace; and, likewise, it’s by His Grace that we come to know Him.

Paul was determined to share his revelation of Christ in us. In all the Bible, he’s the only one to whom it was revealed, three years after his conversion on the way to Damascus. Later, it was revealed to Peter and John in their writings. Paul’s epistles make up only one-fifth of the Bible, and yet he makes it very clear that all we need to know is Christ. His very life in us is our completion. We are now fully equipped to live who God created us to be. If we are to understand and know the gospel of Christ, we must dive into Paul’s epistles and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal Him to us. In 1 Corinthians 2:2, Paul is adamant, “For I am determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”

May we follow Paul as he follows Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1) and know Him, too, as our only life.

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 9: Do You Know?

Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Do You Know?

By Tammy Lacock

Warren Litzman continues to explain, through Paul’s epistles, our new birthing as Christians. When we are born again, the incorruptible seed of God’s Son, Christ Jesus, has been placed in us, joined to our Spirit, making us one spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17 KJV). This birthing completes our creation; and we now have the right, for the first time, as God’s bona fide children, to fulfill who He created us to be. Christ in us completes our creation. Yet, is is only through Paul epistles by revelation where we can know this. Paul shares his revelation in his letter to the Colossians chapter 2, verse 10, “And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.”

Warren emphasizes how our new birth in Christ has been part of God’s plan since before the foundation of the world. In fact, there are two pillars established before the foundation of the world that hold up the gospel of Jesus Christ: the death and resurrection of Christ on the cross and consequently, the birthing of Christ in every believer (Ephesians 1:4). Christ couldn’t bring this message of living in us while he was here in the flesh. Man wasn’t ready. He did mention to Nicodemus that we “must be born again” (John 3:3, 7), but He knew this revelation must wait. He knew He must die for people to believe. God raised up Paul to bring us this message of our death in Christ’s death and His eternal life now living in every believer. By diving into Paul’s epistles, this great mystery can be revealed to us by the Holy Spirit.

We must know that Christ lives in us to live out our completion. Paul states clearly in Romans 16:25 that there is no other gospel than his gospel now, that Christ lives in every believer. And only by revelation can we know this. This great mystery was God’s plan from the beginning, before He laid the foundation of the world. And only those who now know this gospel have authority to preach it.

“Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began.” (Romans 16:25, KJV)

It took Peter some time for this revelation to take hold. He didn’t know. In fact, he and Paul preached

A Christian is born again. A Christian is one in whom Christ now lives, not figuratively, but actually. We are complete in our new birthing. Christ is our new life. Yet the only way we can live who God created us to be is to know this. Dive into Paul’s epistles and let the Holy Spirit reveal it to you.

“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.” (Galatians 2:20, KJV)

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 8: It’s a God-Thing

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 06:00:00 -0500

It’s a God-Thing

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman continues to explain what it means to be born again and how our new birthing in Christ is God’s ultimate plan for us, even before the foundation of the world.

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4, KJV)

He emphasizes that our new birthing is a God-thing. The moment we believe in Christ Jesus as our Savior is the very same moment our new birthing takes place. Christ’s death and resurrection conquered the curse of our old lives ruled by sin, the sin-nature. God then placed His very seed, His Son, the incorruptible seed of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1:23) in each and every one of us who believes. This seed of Christ is eternal, joined to our spirits, making us one spirit in Him. There’s nothing we can do or not do to change our new birthing. Once the seed is planted in us, God doesn’t take it back. Warren likens this to the seed placed in a woman by a man. In this case, the seed can be aborted, the life can be taken away. However, God is not an abortionist. God didn’t put His seed in us with conditions. By His grace and mercy, this seed will never leave us nor forsake us. God put His Son’s seed in us because He loves us. We are now His bona fide children!

Life comes out of death. In Christ’s obedience to the Father, He knew He must die. He knew the only way for this innate change in human beings, the only way they could live, is by His death. No matter how many miracles He performed, human beings would not believe. And He knew He would not succumb to an earthly ministry. He knew the only way for a love affair between us and His Father would be through His death and resurrection. The only way we could be saved from eternal death and the grip of this world would be through giving His Life so He, God’s very seed, could now be placed in us.

In fact, Jesus uses the word “world” 18 times to express that He is not happy with the world, He’s not happy in it, and He’s not happy that His followers are in it. He knew the only way that we could even have a chance to love God back would be through His death. The only chance at life for us would be by His death.

And now, as believers, we have His eternal Life, Christ Jesus, God’s seed, in us. We are no longer subject to this world. Christ is now bringing us forth as the sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father. So, our love affair in Him begins.

Our new life is Christ (1 John 5:11-12). This is God’s completed plan for us since “before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4).

Yep, it’s a total God-thing.

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 7: I Live By His Faith

Sat, 13 Nov 2021 06:00:00 -0500

I Live By His Faith

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman really wants us to understand God’s plan for us, to learn it through Paul’s epistles, where the final gospel can be found. The final gospel is for us today.

That final gospel is the birthing of God’s incorruptible, perfect seed—His Son—in each of us who believes in Christ as our Savior. The final gospel in this current dispensation of grace is Christ living in every believer. The moment we believe in Christ as our Savior, we are born again. This is the new birthing. Our old lives died in Christ at the Cross, and we arose with Him to a new life in Him. This is the “great mystery” Paul talks about that was God’s plan for us “before the foundation of the world.”

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4 KJV)

Warren wants us to understand that the birthing is not progressive. It is sudden, and it is total and complete. God’s plan is finished with the birthing. In our spirits, where the birthing (salvation) takes place, we are locked in with Christ. This birthing is a God-thing, and the human being can’t add to it or make it any better. This seed of Christ has everything in it for Life. Nothing is missing.

It’s in our souls and our bodies where we are progressively growing up in Christ, maturing to the full stature of Christ (Ephesians 4:13). It’s here where our love affair with Him grows until our souls and bodies are renewed to our new nature in our spirits.

Warren reminds us that through Paul’s epistles, we learn to grow up in Christ by a continual renewal of our minds by the Holy Spirit. In this mind change, we begin to see and live our complete life change by the birthing of Christ’s seed in our spirits. We move from living from our soul-mind to living from our spirit, God’s Spirit within. We move from focusing on our own lives to His Life. It’s in this mind change where we give our bodies and souls over to Him, so He comes through.

Paul clearly explains this in Galatians 2:20 (KJV):

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless less 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.”

This mind change leads us to begin to live our new birth, to understand who we really are: bona fide children of our Heavenly Father. With this mind change, we no longer live our lives by our faith; we live His life by His Faith. It’s His Life we now live.

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 6: “You Must Be Born Again”

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 06:00:00 -0500

“You Must Be Born Again”

By Tammy Lacock

“Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again.” (John 3:7, KJV)

“Jesus answered and said unto him [Nicodemus], Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3, KJV)

Warren prefaces this week’s podcast by asking, ‘Just where is our love affair with the Lord?’

God is personified Love. He is not prosperity. He is not health. He is not anything else but Love. All He wants is for us to love him back because He is Love.

In last week’s podcast, we learned our souls and spirits are distinct from each other (Hebrews 4:12 KJV). When we are saved, by just believing on Christ as our Savior, our spirits are made perfect by Christ’s Spirit being joined to our spirit, making us one spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:17 KJV). This is where the birthing takes place, in our spirits, where we are born again, new creations in Christ. It is in our spirits where our old sin-nature—passed down by the curse of Adam by Satan—is replaced by Christ’s nature. Adam is no longer our father. We are freed from the curse. With Christ as our new life, we are now bona fide sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father. We must be born again to enter God’s Kingdom. We are saved because God now sees Christ as our new life. As believers, our old lives died in Christ at the cross, and we arose with Christ as our new life. Paul states this clearly in Galatians 2:20 (KJV):

“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.”

However, it’s in our soul—where our minds, emotions, and free wills reside—that we are growing up in Christ, maturing in Him, still being made perfect in Him. Our love affair with Him grows and takes place here. Paul reiterates throughout his epistles that we must have a mind change if we are to understand this new knowledge. We must separate what takes place in our spirits (the birthing) and what is taking place in our souls (growing love affair with Christ) if we are to understand the things of God and to finally be who God created us to be. And until Christ as our new Life is revealed to us, our souls will go on living as if we’ve never been born again, never knowing who we really are. Although our sin, Satan, nature is no longer in us, do we even know there’s been a radical change? Do we even know Christ now lives in us?

When the new birthing takes place in our spirits, we have no feeling that it took place. It is not a human experience; it is a God experience. Unless we search and understand Paul’s epistles, we may never know what took place. When God placed His seed (the Incorruptible Seed of His Son) in our spirits, we were completed. But we must know this to live it. We are continually growing up in Him. We must have this mind change.

He that is in me is greater than anything against me (John 4:4). We are saved by this new birthing in our spirits. Having this mind change in our souls begins the love affair with Him. And this unique love affair is precisely where we begin to understand the boundless Love of God.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave Is only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:17 KJV)

As believers, our old lives died with Christ. As believers, we arose with Christ, joined to Him in Spirit, where we are born again into an everlasting new life in Him.

As the Apostle Paul reiterates over and over in his epistles, we must have a mind change if we are to understand our new birthing. And we must have a mind change if we are to have a true love affair in Him.

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 5: Soul And Spirit

Sat, 30 Oct 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Soul And Spirit

By Tammy Lacock

“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:12, KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren explains how the scriptures divide soul and spirit distinctly and Paul's explanation of salvation accordingly.

Each of us are made up of mind, body, and spirit. When we accepted Christ as our Savior, He was joined to our spirits, making us one spirit in Him.

“But he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 6:17, KJV)

It is here in Spirit where we are made perfect by God placing His Son, the Incorruptible Seed (1 Peter 1:23), in each and every one of us who believes on Christ as Savior. Here in spirit is where our salvation resides; that is Christ. It is here where He is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

In contrast, our souls—where our minds, our free wills, and our emotions reside—are distinct from our spirits. It is here where we are being transformed, where we are still being delivered (2 Corinthians 1:10). It is the “excellency of the knowledge of Christ” that Apostle Paul refers to when the Holy Spirit reveals to us that Christ is now our new Life, and He is all that matters (Philippians 3:8). The Holy Spirit continually reveals this knowledge in our minds, which restores our souls. Christ’s wisdom begins to flow into our souls, our minds. Once our minds become fixed on Christ now living in us, we can then start to live life the way God intended. We are free to live how God created us to live, in Christ.

“According as he hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4, KJV)

As a Christian, do you know who you really are?

Warren explains that through Paul’s epistles, and later in John’s writings, that we can know and understand who we are by the birthing. By God’s placing His seed, Christ, in us, we are born-again, entirely new creations, partakers of God.

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 4: Paul, One Man, One Final Gospel

Sat, 23 Oct 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Paul, One Man, One Final Gospel

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman emphasizes the urgent need for Christians to know what Paul has plainly written throughout all his 14 epistles. And yet, most Christians are ignorant of his message, his final gospel for the born-again believer.

In fact, about 90 percent of born-again preachers today don’t know what it means to be born again. As Christians, we can live a lifetime and never know what’s going on, unless we dive into Paul’s epistles and the Holy Spirit reveals to us the answer to the ultimate question “What is Life?”

Paul knew he was the only man God raised up to deliver the answer to this question and how to live once knowing the answer. God’s entire plan, His entire hope, His entire scheme was placed in Paul.

How did Paul handle it?

He knew nothing else. His old life was dead, and Christ was his new life.

Throughout Paul’s epistles, he tells us over and over that Christ is life. He doesn’t just give us life; He is our life. Our old lives died at the Cross, and we are an entirely brand-new creation in Christ (Galatians 2:20).

The problem is, we don’t know it and, therefore, haven’t given our minds over to this new knowledge. Our minds are still fixed on the old person, the only life we’ve known. Paul said, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5). We must allow the Holy Spirit to do His job and now fix our minds on the Christ that lives in us. Once we can do that, we will be shown and guided on how to live in our new status as God’s bona fide children. We are now complete in Christ, free to be who God uniquely created us to be “before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4).

We have been born again into a new life in Christ, bred by God by the placing of His Son, the “Incorruptible Seed,” in each of us (1 Peter 1:23). Our salvation is Christ, not by any self-effort. God no longer accepts our self-effort as He previously did for 4,000 years before Christ’s death. He only accepts Christ, the Christ that now lives in each and every one who believes.

Paul was the only man who brought this final gospel to the world. Nothing, not even jail, kept him from getting his gospel out. Will you follow Paul as he follows Christ? (1 Corinthians 11:1). Drop the structures we’ve built up around us and truly live from Christ within as Christians, Christ-persons?

Christ is our strength, our joy, our peace, our righteousness.

He IS Life!

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 3: What A Christian Is

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 06:00:00 -0500

What A Christian Is

By Tammy Lacock

A Christian is one in whom Christ lives.

As believers, our spirits are fixed in Christ. His Spirit is joined to our spirit making us one spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17). We stand perfect before God in Spirit because Christ is our new life; our old selves no longer live (Galatians 2:20).

The Apostle Paul was the only man in the Bible who was raised up by Christ, Himself, to bring this knowledge to humanity. One man brought this knowledge to the world.

Peter wouldn’t be able to handle it. He knew Christ in the flesh and couldn’t grasp the idea of Christ now living in him. John couldn’t get a grasp on it until 30 years after Paul’s death in his writings.

After Paul’s conversion on the way to Damascus, he spent at least three years proclaiming Christ; however, it wasn’t until his revelation in the Arabian Desert that God “reveal(ed) His Son in me” (Galatians 1:16). From that point forward, Paul knew nothing else. In fact, he states in Philippians 3:8: “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.”

Christ IN Him. A Christ-person. A Christian.

From the Day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came to the believers, Christ was living in them and yet not one of them knew it. It wasn’t until God revealed it to Paul that this message started spreading to the churches through his epistles. In fact, most of his writings on Christ living in believers was done while he was in a Roman jail cell.

As Christians, Christ occupies our Spirit. He’s fixed there by God birthing His Son, the incorruptible seed, in us. We must be born again with Christ as our new life, our eternal life, to be a Christian. As Warren puts it, we are the temples, the tabernacles, the clay pots “chosen in Him before the foundation of the world.” (Ephesians 1:4). Even though our clay pots are filthy and corrupted by sin, He so loved us that He came to live in us (John 3:16).

The Holy Spirit, however, came to occupy our souls, where our ever-changing minds, hearts, and emotions reside. While we are perfect before God in Spirit, who we are to ourselves and to others comes out of our soul area. This is where the Holy Spirit works. Jesus said the “Spirit of Truth” will not speak of Himself but reveal what he has heard and what is to come (John 16:13).

The Holy Spirit’s greatest mission is to reveal the Christ who lives in each and every one of us who believes. He speaks to our minds and hearts. He is our teacher, our guide, our comforter. With His help in our souls, we express the Christ who now lives in us; we emanate His love, His strength, His peace, His righteousness, His very Life. He is life, the vine, where we as branches are joined to Him in Spirit and express Him. This is where Paul consistently reminds us that our minds must be renewed. We must suffer the death of our old selves so that we, too, can know the “excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord.” Getting to know Christ is all we need.

Churches don’t make Christians by anything we do or don’t do. A Christian is a Christ-person, one in whom Christ lives. As believers, when He died, we died, too. When He arose, we arose, too, to a new life in Him. With the help of the Holy Spirit inhabiting our souls (minds, wills, and emotions), our life in Christ is a love affair in operation. Knowing Him and loving Him now is all we need.

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 2: Are You An Actor?

Sat, 09 Oct 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Are You An Actor?

By Tammy Lacock

Warren Litzman is a follower of the Apostle Paul as Paul is a follower of Christ (1 Corinthian 1:11). The Apostle Paul was the only man God ever dealt with in the Bible regarding the Gospel of Christ to the born-again believer. God raised him up to bring us the final gospel, that is, Christ living in every believer. Throughout his epistles, the questions Paul answers for believers are, who am I, and how am I to live?

Warren explains that Paul was the greatest psychologist of our time. He understood the mind of human beings because, he, himself was growing up in Christ and finally understanding, through the help of the Holy Spirit, who God created him to be in Christ.

Warren explains that if we don’t know who we are, our true identity, then we’re going around as an actor in this world and Christianity will never work.

Through Paul’s epistles, Warren helps us understand that our true identity is Christ. We are Christians because we are Christ-persons. We are not the church building we go to. We are not the things we do or even the titles and labels we give ourselves. We are not sinners trying to act Christ-like.

As born-again Christians, we are entirely new creations. As Warren explains, humans are tripartite beings made up of three distinct parts: a spirit, a soul, and a body. When we believed on Jesus Christ as our Savior, our spirits were saved by being joined to the Lord’s Spirit. His Spirit overwhelms our spirit, and we become one Spirit “He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit” (1 Corinthians 6:17).

In God’s eyes, we are now perfect in spirit because He sees Christ as our righteousness, our new life. There is nothing we can do or not do to be saved because Christ did the work on the cross and by God’s Grace we are saved.

Yet our souls—our minds, will, and emotions—are not yet transformed to our new life. Our minds, as Paul says, must be continually renewed if we are to grow up and learn of our new life in Him. Our souls are being perfected (matured) as we get to know Him and love Him as our new life. Christianity is union, a love affair, a marriage to Christ, in operation.

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4)

So the question remains:

Who are you?

Are you an actor or a true Christian?

As a born-again believer, the real you is Christ. As you grow up in the knowledge of Him as your new life, may you drop the pain and suffering that comes with acting and let Him, your true identity, shine through.

Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, Part 1: Perfect Is Come

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Perfect Is Come

By Tammy Lacock

New Format: Loving the Christ-life! now hosts 30-minute clips of Warren Litzman’s in-depth conference teachings around the world with live audiences. Warren taught this series, Excellency of Knowledge of Christ, at the 2005 Christ-life Fellowship Conference at Pine Lodge, South Africa.

Warren Litzman’s message—in this podcast and in every one of his podcasts, videos, and audios—is simply that Christ lives in every believer. He follows the Apostle Paul as Paul follows Christ. We are called now to do the same (1 Corinthians 11:1).

Throughout Paul’s 14 epistles, he shares over 146 times that Christ lives in us now as believers. This is the “excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord” that he speaks of in Philippians 3:8.

Nothing else mattered to Paul since he knew Christ was his life. His life before coming to this knowledge no longer meant anything to him. He had a radical mind-change, a revelation. It took Paul three years after his conversion on the road to Damascus before the Holy Spirit revealed Christ in him, as his new life. From there, bringing this new gospel to the world, he was met with much resistance. Why? Because unless people had a mind-change, a revelation given only by the Holy Spirit, they could not grasp this new and different kind of knowledge. Paul prayed that we, too, would have this revelation. He wanted believers to know that Christ is joined to us in spirit and He is our new life. We are new creations in Christ. Our old lives are dead (Galatians 2:20).

With Christ as our life now, we are perfect in the eyes of God because Christ is perfect. There is nothing we can do or not do to please God. We are His sons and daughters now by the Christ who lives in us.

As Warren shares, Paul knew that He that is in us is bigger than anyone against us or anything outside of us. Nothing else but Christ matters.

We stand perfect before God because Christ gave His life to BE our new life, our eternal life. He knew no sin. He was the Passover Lamb. By His death and resurrection, He brought us out of slavery, out of this world and into God’s kingdom.

The perfect is come, perfect is Christ, our righteousness, our wisdom, our strength, our salvation, our very life.

Romans 7, Part 11: Follow Paul as He Follows Christ

Sat, 25 Sep 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Follow Paul as He Follows Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in the newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.” (Romans 7:5-6 KJV)

Warren Litzman continues teaching on Apostle Paul’s message of the born-again believer. Before we were saved, the only way to please God in our flesh was by keeping the law. But now, by God’s Grace, ushered in by Christ’s death at the Cross, His burial, and resurrection, we are no longer bound by the law. Christ—who now lives in each and every believer—is what pleases God. We died at the Cross with Christ (Galatians 2:20) and arose with Him as our new life. We are born again, rebirthed by God placing His only begotten Son in us. We are joined to Him in Spirit, now one Spirit. Christ is our new life. He sees Christ in us, and He is our redemption.

Nobody else but Paul knew how to live in this dispensation of Grace, from the Cross until the Rapture. Only Paul was raised up by Christ, Himself, to deliver an entirely new gospel, telling every believer they now have Christ in them. He urges us throughout his epistles to know the Christ who now lives in us. To know Christ in us is to know God. He explains how to live this new life, this Christ-life. And he urges us to follow him as he follows Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1).

Why should be follow Paul?

Has Paul become God? No

Is he greater than Christ? No

Is he greater than the Old Testament Saints? No

We follow Paul because he says so.

And I don’t know about you, but I’m taking God’s Word for it!

Romans 7, Part 10: Be Married To Christ

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Be Married To Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.” (Rom. 7:4)

Warren Litzman’s podcast on Romans 7:4 further explains the Apostle Paul’s gospel that, as believers, we are joined to the Lord in one Spirit. Our new life is a marriage to Christ. Our old lives died with Him on the cross, and we arose to a new life, now married to Him. God’s ultimate intention from the beginning (Ephesians 1:4) was for Christ to complete every believer so that we would “bring forth fruit” and be free to be who He created us to be.

Warren explains the Apostle Paul was the only one who was raised up by Christ, Himself, to bring forth to the world this message of Christ living in every believer. This final gospel is for each and every one of us now, today.

Most Christians haven’t heard this final gospel. Yes, we believe in Christ as our Savior, but do we know what happened when we believed? Most Christians don’t know their very life is now Christ. No longer are they bound by the sin-nature. Christ came in and saved us from the death of sin and literally became our new life by His death. Paul is the only apostle who preached the details of the effects of the Cross and how Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection changed everything. It changed our relationship to God from an outward relationship to a personal relationship through His Son. A relationship where Christ is very much alive in us.

The question is: Now that you are joined in one Spirit, married to Christ, will you acknowledge that your old life was crucified with Him (Galatians 2:20) and let His Life come though you now? Will you cultivate this new love affair so that you can finally be free to be who our Heavenly Father created you to be?

Romans 7, Part 9: Let’s Get Passed The Past

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Let’s Get Passed The Past

By Tammy Lacock

In this podcast, Warren Litzman explains that Apostle Paul wanted believers to know that when Christ died on the cross, we died too. Our past lives, the old person died. Our sins and our past lives are dead and buried. We are no longer bound by the law and the Devil. Christ’s resurrection is also our resurrection into a new life in Christ. Every believer is baptized into Christ. By God’s grace, we have been literally placed into Christ, and He is our new life.

So how do we get rid of our past?

According to Paul in verse 4, by being married to Christ. He completes us. Nothing and no one else could ever complete us. In Christ, we go from being unsaved, driven by Satan and sin, to being saved, redeemed, and completed by Christ and free to be who God created us to be.

Out with the past ... and in with our new life in Christ! He is indeed alive in us NOW!

Romans 7, Part 8: Who Are You?

Sat, 04 Sep 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Who Are You?

By Tammy Lacock

“So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from the law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.” (Romans 7:3, KJV)

Warren Litzman explains the Apostle Paul’s message here in Romans 7:3 as an analogy to our new life in Christ as believers. When Christ died on the cross, our old lives died, too. By His death, we are no longer bound by sin and the law of our old life. We are now joined in one spirit with Christ. We are new creations, now married to Him. As born-again Christians, our new life is Christ.

We are saved from our old lives by His death, and we are saved by His Life that now resides in each and every believer.

Do you know who you are?

As believers in Christ, we are born-again, birthed by God to a new life in Christ. Christ is our new life, making us bona fide children of God, our Heavenly Father.

Knowing who you are now, one with Christ, will you give Him your mind, your body, your very life?

Romans 7, Part 7: There Must Be A Death!

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 06:00:00 -0500

There Must Be A Death!

By Tammy Lacock

With death comes Life! This is Warren Litzman’s discernment of Paul’s message to the Romans here in chapter 7 verse 3. He explains that this is at the heart of Paul’s analogy to marriage, where there must be a death to our old lives if we are to live our new life fully in Christ.

As believers in Christ’s death and resurrection on the cross, the very foundation of Christianity, our old sin-life is nailed to the cross with Christ. Our “old man” is crucified with Christ, and we arise to a new Life in Him.

However, most Christians don’t know this rebirth took place at all. As Christians, although saved, we are adulterers when we still carry on with our old lives.

We can only know this from Paul’s gospel. Only Paul was raised up by Christ himself to bring forth this message to the world.

By Christ’s death, we are left with a clean slate, an entirely new Life! As believers, we are freed from the law of sin and death and baptized into Christ. Christ lives in us and we in Him, joined together in one Spirit. “He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:17).

Growing up in our new Life in Christ, by His Grace, the Holy Spirit teaches us of Christ and our new Life in Him. Although death to our old lives happened with Christ’s death on the cross, we still must allow the Holy Spirit to renew our minds to this knowledge so that we live the new Life, Christ.

Romans 7, Part 6: “The Life I Now Live”

Sat, 21 Aug 2021 06:00:00 -0500

“The Life I Now Live”

By Tammy Lacock

“For the woman which hath a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law.” (Romans 7:2, KJV)

Warren Litzman’s mission in today’s podcast is to explain Apostle Paul’s deeper meaning of Romans 7:2. On the surface, this verse says that a woman is bound to her husband until he dies. Then she is no longer his wife under the law, and she may start a new life. While this is true, Paul’s message goes deeper.

Warren explains there must be a death—death to our old life—to have a new life as the new creature God intended we become. Paul’s deeper message says by Christ’ death on the cross, as believers in Him, we died with Him, in Him. We died to our old lives, our sin-life, and to the law; and when He rose from death, we rose with Him, too, to His new life, in Him.

We are born again the moment we believe on Jesus Christ as our Savior. He saved us from our old lives when he bore all of humanity’s sins in His body. When He died, in Him our sins died and we died. In that moment, we are born again, and our new life is Christ.

A true Christian is dead to his old life; there must be a death to die to sin and law. The life he now lives is Christ, controlled by Christ, not law. Christ is alive in every believer!

Once the old creature is dead and living a new life, God's ongoing work is transforming his new son's old consciousness, his heart-mind-soul, to his new life to raise him to maturity, to the full stature of Christ, God's Son.

What will you do with this knowledge of Christ in you?

The heart of Paul’s message of Christ as our new life is also plainly conveyed by him in Galatians 2:20 (KJV) when he says, “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.”

Romans 7, Part 5: From Law To Christ

Sat, 14 Aug 2021 06:00:00 -0500

From Law To Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?” (Romans 7:1, KJV)

Warren Litzman reiterates the Apostle Paul’s gospel is Romans 7:1, that those who are still living a Satan life have no life of their own and are bound by the law. However, those that believe that Christ suffered, died, was buried, and rose from the dead are no longer bound by the law. They are new creations who are now living in Christ. The Satan nature was replaced by Christ’s perfect nature. Their old Satan lives died, too, with Christ and arose to a whole new life in Him. The law has no life. There is no other life other than Christ. Christ fulfilled the law at the cross. As believers, we are finally freed from the law and our Satan lives.

There is nothing we can do to be saved. We are saved by what Christ did on the cross. As born again believers in Christ, we went from being bound by the law to a new life in Him. By Christ’s death and resurrection, we are now bona fide children of God!

The Apostle Paul is the Father of Christianity.

Warren’s mission here is to share Paul’s message of Christianity and the true meaning of a being a Christian. A Christian is a spiritual being, a Christ person, one who now has Christ living in them as their new life.

As Christians, we are born again. We have died to the law and are rebirthed in Christ.

The Father of Christianity states this message of Christ in us so wonderfully in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

With the trials and tribulations of this world, and especially in an increasingly blatantly evil world, only born-again Christians with Christ as their new Life will survive it. Indeed, in the end, we will be taken up out of this world to live in our Heavenly Father’s house.

May the Holy Spirit open the minds and hearts of those who do not believe so that they, too, can overcome this world with Christ as their new Life and enter God’s Heavenly Kingdom.

Romans 7, Part 4: Who Are Our Brethren?

Sat, 07 Aug 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Who Are Our Brethren?

By Tammy Lacock

In today’s podcast, Warren Litzman explains a bit further what Paul means by “brethren” in Romans 7:1 (KJV). Brethren are those in the Body of Christ, Christians (Christ-persons) whose life is now Christ’s Life.

Warren reminds us of Jesus of Nazareth’s golden rule about loving one another, loving our brethren. But, he says, it is not our love that comes through; it is the love of the living Christ coming through us. Indeed, we are not capable of loving our brethren unless we love Christ, the one who is our new Life. As believers, the Holy Spirit overwhelms our hearts with God’s love and His love shines through each of us.

At this point in time, with evil and corruption plaguing the world more and more, we must remember Paul’s gospel, the Final Gospel of Christ living in every believer. It is only through and in Him that we can overcome.

In the midst of life’s tribulations, may we let Christ’s unconditional love come through us and touch the hearts of all our brethren.

Romans 7, Part 3: “It Is Finished”

Sat, 31 Jul 2021 06:00:00 -0500

“It Is Finished”

By Tammy Lacock

“Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?” (Romans 7:1, KJV)

Warren Litzman elaborates on Romans 7:1 by explaining Paul’s emphasis on the detrimental effect of believers holding onto what they knew before coming to Christ. Paul tells us that as brothers and sisters in Christ, we are to let go of our old selves of adhering to law, a “doer” mentality. The law given to Moses by God is no longer needed. Even Jesus of Nazareth preached the law, but when He died on the cross, we were freed from it.

Paul tells us that the law will only keep us from fully knowing Christ as our new life. God ended the law by the death of Christ by bearing all of our sins in His body. When He died, our sins died, too. Christ did the work. There is nothing we can do to be saved. By His death and resurrection, we now live in grace and are bona fide children of God.

The law, and those bound by it, killed Christ. When on the cross, just before His death, Christ said “It is finished.” He meant we are no longer bound by the law and what we do to be saved. As believers, the finished work at the Cross ushered us out of sin and death and into grace, a new life in Him.

“For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2:2 KJV)

Romans 7, Part 2: Out With The Law In With Christ

Sat, 24 Jul 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Out With The Law In With Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?” (Romans 7:1 KJV)

Warren Litzman explains Romans 7:1 a bit further. Paul is telling his brethren, his brothers and sisters in Christ, to forget the law in their new life in Christ. As believers, we are not to know the law anymore. The law will not save us. Christ fulfilled the law. Only Christ is our salvation. He says to lay aside and die to our past lives and arise and live fully in our new life in Christ. There’s nothing we can do to be saved. Christ did the work by his death and resurrection. By the Cross, we are saved from the law and brought into God’s Grace. As believers, our old lives, driven by the law, died too. And by His resurrection, we arose with Him.

As believers, Christ’s Spirit is now joined to our spirit, making us one Spirit and, therefore, bona fide children of God. Let the Holy Spirit comfort us now in this new understanding and reveal more to us about our new life in Christ each day.

Out with our sin-nature, bound by the law. IN with Christ, free in Him by God’s relentless grace.

Romans 7, Part 1: Know Nothing Else

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Know Nothing Else

By Tammy Lacock

Warren Litzman begins a new study with Romans Chapter 7. In verse 1, he explains the Apostle Paul is addressing his brethren—his brothers and sisters in Christ—who know and live by the law. Paul tells them they are no longer under the law by Christ’s death and resurrection. He goes even further to say “Know ye not,” or know nothing else other than Christ. The law will always take over as long as we live in sin. However, when Christ died on the cross, our old lives of sin died, too. When Christ arose, we arose to a new life in Him, no longer subject to the law.

Christ fulfilled the law and there is nothing else we need to know other than Him.

2 Timothy 2-Part 4: Eternal Life Now!

Sat, 10 Jul 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Eternal Life Now!

By Tammy Lacock

“Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Jesus Christ with eternal glory” (2 Timothy 2:10 KJV)

Warren Litzman explains verse 10 here in Part 4 of the 2 Timothy 2 series. But first he reminds us of the significant words Paul chose in the previous verses to help us grasp his message. In verse 8, Paul calls his revelation of Christ “my gospel.” In verse 9, he says the word of God cannot be bound, even as he is seen as an evil doer in the world, chained up in jail for spreading his gospel. In these verses Paul explains that his gospel is a personal gospel. It was given to him directly from Jesus Christ Himself and he’ll do whatever it takes for it to endure. In fact, in verse 10, he says, he will “endure all things” so that the “elect” will receive the same revelation of Christ. The elect is us!

We were “chosen in Him before the foundation of the world.” (Ephesians 1:4 KJV). Paul’s mission is to share with believers the revelation that Christ now literally lives in each and every one of us. No separation.

Christ is everything to Paul. He wants the whole world to know that by believing on Christ’s death and resurrection we can have the eternal glory, the eternal life of Christ in us now!

2 Timothy 2-Part 3: “My Gospel”

Sun, 04 Jul 2021 06:00:00 -0500

“My Gospel”

By Tammy Lacock

Warren Litzman continues to explores what the Apostle Paul means in 2 Timothy 2 verse 8 when he says “my gospel,” which he states many times throughout his epistles. Paul’s gospel is a new gospel, the final gospel for this dispensation of grace which is from the Cross until now. Paul’s gospel is to us now.

Paul’s gospel is this: At the Cross, Christ’s death and resurrection changed God’s way of dealing with human beings from outer works to an inner relationship with Him through His Son Jesus Christ. As believers in Him, Christ resides IN us; there’s no separation. Our old lives died with Him at the Cross and we too arose to a new life in Him. Our relationship with Christ is unique to each of us because we are growing up in Him now in a personal way. This is why Paul called it “my gospel” because Christ revealed it personally to him.

Paul says in Romans 5:10 to “Follow me as I follow Christ”; and in Ephesians 3:2, he says, “If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God given me to you-ward.” Throughout his epistles, Paul is sharing with us his personal revelation from Christ through the Holy Spirit and asks us to listen, to follow him and we, too, will receive this revelation. A personal relationship with Christ here and now.

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth 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.” (Galatians 2:20 KJV)

Paul is the only writer in the Bible whose gospel talks about the Cross and what took place at the Cross for believers. We know longer know Christ in the flesh. We know Him in Spirit as we are now joined to Him in one Spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:17 KJV). Again, Paul’s gospel is a personal gospel.

In verse 9, Paul says his gospel, the Word of God he received directly from Christ, cannot be bound. Even though he is chained up in jail and considered an evil doer by his opponents, he continues to spread the revelation of Christ in him to Timothy and to all the churches.

Christ is his Life now and Christ is all that matters to him.

May we follow Paul and let Christ be our only Life, our final gospel, too.

2 Timothy 2-Part 2: Paul’s Gospel Is Christ In Us

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Paul’s Gospel Is Christ In Us

By Tammy Lacock

“Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel.” (2 Timothy 2:8 KJV)

Warren emphasizes this verse from Paul to Timothy for several reasons. First, Paul wants us to remember that everything starts with Christ. He then reminds us that Jesus Christ came from the seed of David. Christ was a natural man who was born of Mary who, in turn, was a descendant from the line of King David. Christ was born into humanity. He felt pain just like anyone else. He felt every human emotion. However, He was different!

Paul then reminds us that, after His crucifixion and death on the cross, God raised Christ from the dead. Now we know Christ in Spirit. He is no longer in the flesh. By the revelation of Christ in Spirit, Paul tells us that we died, too. Our old lives of sin and death died with Christ, and we arose with Him into a new life in Him. As believers, Christ saved us from our old lives and brought us into our new life in Him, joined with Christ in one Spirit, making us now bona fide children of God!

This is the gospel that Paul states here in verse 8 when he says this is “my gospel.” He calls it his gospel because Christ gave it to him directly and it is personal to him. Throughout his epistles, Paul wants us to understand that we can only know and experience Christ living in us by having that revelation ourselves.

With the help of the Holy Spirit, we too can have this personal relationship with Christ who lives in us now. It is only by this personal relationship that we may call it our gospel, as Paul rightly called it his gospel.

2 Timothy 2-Part 1: Truth Is A Person, Truth Is Christ

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Truth Is A Person, Truth Is Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.” (2 Timothy 2:5-7, KJV)

“If you don’t start right, you won’t end up right” is a phrase Warren Litzman shares to explain verse 5 in 2 Timothy 2.

He says, when we search the Scriptures, when we are seeking to learn more about God and His plan, we need to take the words in Scriptures as they are, rather than trying to change the words around to make sense of them or waiting on an interpretation from others. Paul says in this verse that if we don’t search the Scriptures lawfully, or in the right way, then we won’t be “crowned” with understanding. We need to allow the Holy Spirit to teach us the truth in the Scriptures. If we don’t get understanding, then we are not ready, therefore, we’ll need to lay it aside for a time until the Holy Spirit equips us.

In verse 6, Warren explains that the husbandman, the one that shares the truth of the Scriptures, must experience this truth before he can preach it. He must experience the fruits of the gospel before he can share it. Paul tells us throughout his epistles, the final gospel given to him by Christ, Himself, that truth is a person; Truth is Christ.

If we don’t see Christ in the Scriptures and experience the fruits of Christ, then we are not fit to share it. If not experienced, the Scriptures are just words, just phrases with no life.

In verse 7, Paul prays and assures us that Christ will give us the understanding of the Scriptures, and specifically Paul’s gospel of Christ in us, if we search them truthfully and rightfully. He assures us that if we search them wholeheartedly and ask the Holy Spirit to renew our minds, then truth will be revealed. Truth will set us free. We will assuredly experience the fruits of Christ.

Just as it was revealed to Paul, may the Holy Spirit reveal it to us as we search the Scriptures: Truth is a Person; Truth is Christ.

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6 KJV)

Philippians 3, Part 4

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Christ Alive In Us!

By Tammy Lacock

“Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.” (Phil. 3:6-7)

A Christian is Christ Alive!

Warren explains what a Christian is through the Apostle Paul’s message continuing here in Philippians verses 6 and 7. Paul is basically saying here, out with the old and in with the new.

With the help of the Holy Spirit, Paul’s understanding and perspective of who he is had gloriously and radically changed as a born-again believer in Christ. He says that who he was before, an educated Hebrew dedicated to and blameless before the law, is no longer who he is. His past no longer matters now that he knows Christ.

Everything else besides Christ doesn’t mean a thing! He is dead to his old life and alive now IN Christ.

Paul’s message is meant for us believers today! As Christians, Paul tells us that we must let go of our old lives and let Christ fully take over. Christ now lives in every believer. Let us be true Christians today and spread Paul’s message of Christ alive IN us!

Out with our old lives and into our new life IN Christ!

Philippians 3, Part 3

Sun, 06 Jun 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Let Christ Be Your New Life

By Tammy Lacock

“Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; Concerning zeal, persecuting the church ; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.” (Philippians 3:5-6)

Warren Litzman continues to explain the meaning of the Apostle Paul’s words in Philippians Chapter 3. In verses 5 and 6, Paul goes on to further share how his upbringing and past proved that he was righteous and blameless according to Hebrew law. He did everything he needed to do to uphold that law even if it meant persecuting Christians.

As he shares in the following verses however, he counts all of that meaningless for the sake of now knowing Christ IN Him.

Warren asks the question that reaches to the heart of the Christ-Life. What would you give up to have Christ live IN you? The beauty of God’s Grace is that we don’t have to give up anything. Christ did the work and died on the cross to save us from sin and death and God put Christ in every believer that is saved. We are New Creations IN Him.

So the question is not what will we give up? But will we let go of our old lives of sin and slavery to the law and let Christ now take over?

Now joined together in Spirit with Him, will we get out of the way and let Christ be our New Life?

Philippians 3, Part 2

Sat, 29 May 2021 06:00:00 -0500

New Creations In Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee.” (Philippians 3:4-5 KJV)

In Part 2 of Philippians chapter 3, Warren Litzman explains the importance in verse 4 and 5 of the Apostle Paul dividing the spirit and the flesh, or outer things. Paul further explains here that he, more than any other man he knows, lived his life by circumcision, by the law. He did everything according to the law and based his confidence on the things of the flesh or outer things. He relied on his upbringing, his education, and his status within his religious circle for his validation.

Paul explains that the true circumcision is now worshipping and confidence in spirit, Christ’s Spirit within us. Laws are no longer valid.

Christ raised up Paul to bring this most important new message of Christ’s Spirit living in every believer. Christ is our new life now. In Christ, we are no longer Jews or Gentiles or any other outer label. We are born-again believers in Christ. Those born of God are righteous and blameless before God not because of anything we do, where we are from, where we have been or what we know. We are saved by Christ’s work on the cross. As believers, we are joined in one spirit with Him. Death to our old law-driven lives, rising to life as New Creations IN Christ.

Philippians 3, Part 1

Sat, 22 May 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Rejoice In Spirit

By Tammy Lacock

“Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. Beware of the dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.” (Philippians 3:1-3)

Warren Litzman begins a new study of the Apostle Paul’s message of Christ with Philippians 3:1-3. In Paul’s letter to the Philippians, he reminds the Church to rejoice and delight in the Lord as he writes again and again of our new life in Christ, now joined in one spirit with Him. By reiterating this message throughout his letters, he says we are kept safe by this knowledge.

Many will try to explain away our new life in Christ Jesus. Yet, Paul says we are kept safe from those who try to pervert the true message of Christ, that of being born again. When we believe in Christ as our Savior, our old lives have died with Him and we receive HIS life; we are risen with Him, born again into HIS new life. Being born again, we enter the spirit realm, and are circumcised to the flesh, born of God’s Spirit, one with the Spirit of Christ. We are the true circumcision. We worship God in spirit and place no confidence in the flesh. This means we have moved from being slaves to sin and law (that circumcision is necessary for salvation) to living in grace to serve righteousness from our hearts. We aren’t saved by anything we do or don’t do. Christ did the work on the Cross. By his death and resurrection, we are saved, reborn in spirit, one spirit with Him.

Rejoice in Him!

Romans 5, Part 18

Sat, 15 May 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Grace Reigns Over Sin

Tammy Lacock

“Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 5:20-21 KJV)

Warren Litzman closes out this study with the last verses in Romans chapter 5. The Apostle Paul plainly tells us here that sin only reigns under the law. The law tells us that what we do or don’t do determines our salvation. However, Paul also tells us that God’s abundant grace reigns over sin and, therefore, supersedes the law.

The Apostle Paul tells us that we are NOW living in the Dispensation of God’s Grace which began at the cross. By Christ’s death and resurrection, we are saved. He is our salvation. There is nothing we can do or not do to be saved. Grace reigns over sin.

As believers, Christ is our new life. When He died, we died, and our old lives of sin died, too. When He arose, we arose to a new life in Him.

The end of our sin is death to our old life. Yes, we may sin again as we come to know who we are now in Christ. Yet it is by God’s Grace that we are forgiven time and time again.

We must only believe.

From that moment on, Grace reigns over sin and brings death to our old lives. And this is where our new life in Christ begins!

Romans 5, Part 17

Sat, 08 May 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Christ Is Our Righteousness, Our New Life

By Tammy Lacock

“For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” (Romans 5:19 KJV)

Warren Litzman continues to explain Paul’s message that he made clear in 12 verses of Romans Chapter 5. God raised up only Paul to preach our rebirth, the gospel of Christ in every believer.

What does it mean to be born again?

In these 12 verses, Paul tells us one man, Adam, got us into trouble and only one man, Christ, got us out of it. By believing in Christ as our Savior, by His death and resurrection, we are born again into a new life in Him. When he died, we and our sins died too. When he rose from death, we rose from death, too, with Christ as our new life. God placed Christ in every believer making us New Creations, His born-again, bona fide children.

Adam’s sin through Satan ruled this earth until Christ died on the cross and defeated sin and death. By God’s Grace, we are saved by just believing.

Salvation is one man, Christ.

In Him, we now stand righteous before God.

He is our new life, our only life we now live.

Romans 5, Part 16

Sat, 01 May 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Christian Defined

By Tammy Lacock

“Therefore, as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.” (Romans 5:18)

Warren Litzman’s mission for this broadcast is to explain just what a Christian is.

A Christian is Christ living in the believer. A Christian; therefore, is a Christ-person. A Christian is a believer who is bound by, led by, and made whole by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. A Christian is brought to life by Christ’s death and resurrection.

In Romans 5:18, the Apostle Paul delivers to us the message of this liberation to humanity. He shares God’s plan revolving around two men. One man, Adam, by his offence in the Garden of Eden, humanity bore that sin and became a slave to death and sin. However, by only one man, Christ, through His death brought our death to Adam’s sin. And by His resurrection, we are brought to life, a new life in Him.

As believers, we are born again by God placing Christ in us. This is the free gift given to us by His abundant grace.

Jesus didn’t say ‘I will give you the way, the truth, and the life.’ He said “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” Truth is a person. The only Way, the only Truth, and the only Life is Christ. He is the Christ who now lives in us as believers. He is our only Life.

By His Life, we are Christ-persons.

By His Life, we are Christians.

Romans 5, Part 15

Sat, 24 Apr 2021 06:00:00 -0500

By One Man, Jesus Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of Grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.” (Romans 5:17, KJB)

Warren Litzman discusses in more detail Romans 5:17, reminding us that the Apostle Paul is the Apostle of Grace because his writings ushered in the Dispensation of Grace in which we are living NOW.

In Roman 5:17, Paul states it is by this Grace of God that we are saved. Through God’s abundant Grace, He sent one man, Jesus Christ, to redeem us from the sin of one man, Adam. Paul’s writings help believers understand the final gospel of Jesus Christ that by His death, burial, and resurrection, we too die to this life of sin and rise up with Christ to a new life IN Him. Christ is our righteousness. He is our All. As believers alive IN Him, God our Father in Heaven now sees us blameless and holy. We are His bona fide children!

There is only one man who can bring anybody out of this life of sin and death into a new life, eternal life in Him. There is only one man that can bring us back to God. His mighty and beautiful name is Jesus Christ.

Romans 5, Part 14

Sat, 17 Apr 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Our New Life Is Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:17, KJV)

Warren teaches from Romans 5, verse 17 to further explain the Apostle Paul’s revelation of Jesus Christ as his only Life.

When we came into this world, we came already needing a Savior because of the sin-curse of one man, Adam. Yet by God’s amazing and abundant gift of grace, we are brought out of this life of sin by the death and resurrection of one man, His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Through Him, we are justified and brought out of death to a new life with Him, a life of righteousness IN Him. As believers, we died when He died. When he arose, we arose too, and He became our new life, our only life.

God’s intention from the beginning is that every human being can have a new life in them (Ephesians 1:4). Through Christ’s death and resurrection, our old lives are finished. Christ’s last words on the cross, “It is Finished,” speaks to the end of sin and death, the end of one man’s curse. And by one’s man’s death and sacrifice, we are all given the chance to live a new life, an eternal life IN Him as bona fide children of God.

As believers, our new life is Christ.

“I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou has sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.” (John 17:23, KJV)

Romans 5, Part 13

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Christ, The Free Gift

By Tammy Lacock

“And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.” (Romans 5:16)

Warren Litzman goes on to clarify the Apostle Paul’s further explanation of the free gift of Christ in Romans 5:16.

Christ IN every believer is a free gift from God, justified by His death, burial, and resurrection. Just as one man, Adam, condemned all of humanity by his one sin, more so, one man, Christ, redeems every believer from all sin. Christ alone is justified to give us a new life, a new life IN Him. Our old lives are crucified with Him, and we arise with Him to a new Life (Galatians 2:20).

Warren explains that today, the world is trying to get rid of Christ. With all of its distractions, from incredible technology to turmoil in relationships, our minds can be disconnected from Him. But Warren reminds us that everything is created to push us towards Him, to know Him and our Heavenly Father. John says it perfectly in John 1:3, “All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.”

The Apostle Paul also shares his wonderful words in his 1 Corinthians 2:2, “I am determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”

Paul accepted Christ as his Savior. He embraced and preached the gift of Christ as his only Life. He boasts that he is nothing without Christ.

How marvelously ironic it is that the greatest, most amazing gift of all is free!

Romans 5, Part 12

Sat, 03 Apr 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Have You Heard?

By Tammy Lacock

Warren Litzman explains the Apostle Paul’s gospel as the final gospel, the gospel for now.

In Romans 5:15, Paul expresses the same theme that we see throughout all of his 14 epistles: God’s gift of Grace to the sinner.

“Much more the Grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many” (Romans 5:15, KJV).

· We are saved from the trap of sin and death.

· We no longer live in darkness, cursed by the sin of Adam.

· Through Christ’s death and resurrection, our old lives of sin are crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20), and we arise with Christ to new life IN Him.

· We are one with Christ, and therefore, one with our Father in heaven.

· We are no longer children of Satan, but children of God. The gift of all gifts.

The apostle Paul was raised up by Christ, Himself, to bring this final gospel to the world so that many people will believe and receive the revelation of Christ as their new life.

Have you heard of the Paul’s final gospel?

Follow Paul as He follows Christ, and you will hear it loud and clear. It’s not what we believe; it’s in Whom we believe.

Christ, our only hope of glory!

Romans 5, Part 11

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Christ Hath Abounded Onto Many

By Tammy Lacock

Warren Litzman brings us the Scriptures as they are written, not interpretation. He passes on to us the Apostle Paul’s message of Christ just as Paul wrote it, so there is no room for interpretation.

In Romans 5:15, Paul explains that the failure of humanity over the course of 4,000 years, from creation to the cross, started with one man, Adam. Since then, his sin passed on to humanity. But by one man, Jesus Christ, through His death, burial, and resurrection at the Cross, we are saved from sin and death and begin our new life as believers in Him.

When He died, we too died to our old lives of sin. When He arose, we too arose to a new life in Him. 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 I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

In fact, only the Apostle Paul was raised up by Christ, Himself, to bring this final Gospel of Grace. By God’s gift of Grace, we are saved by just believing in Christ as our Savior. We are saved from the trap of sin and death that was passed down from Adam through the generations.

Warren explains that all Scriptures are for us but not all are to us.

Paul’s epistles are to us, for now. He tells us we are now living in a God-allotted time he calls the dispensation of Grace. During this time of Grace, the Holy Spirit is being poured out into the world, and many are coming to Christ.

Christ died so that we might live. He fulfilled the law that humanity had failed before His death and resurrection. When He died, we died, too. When He arose, we arose with Him to a new life in Him. We are no longer subject to the law. Christ sets us free.

This is Paul’s Gospel of Grace, the final Gospel.

For Christ said at the Cross, “It is finished.”

May we be followers of Paul as He followed Christ and pass on his message of Christ in us to all of humanity!

Romans 5, Part 10

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Only Christ Sets Us Free

By Tammy Lacock

In Romans 5:15, Paul explains to us that Adam was the one man who passed sin onto the world and by only one man, Jesus Christ, we are set free from that sin. But the free gift of God is not like the trespass. If many died by one man’s trespass, much more abundantly did God’s Grace and the gift that comes by the Grace of one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to benefit many.

So how does that work?

God, at the Cross, took the liberty in the death and resurrection of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, of placing His Son in every believing sinner. By God’s amazing Grace, when Christ died, our sins died with Him. When Christ rose to a new life, we rose to a new life with Him. Christ became our new life. This is what Jesus meant when He said, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10 KJV).

Throughout Paul’s epistles to the churches, he speaks of this mystery, Christ IN every believer. This mystery he received only by the revelation of Jesus Christ. In fact, no man before him had this mystery revealed. And every man after, needs to have this revelation. Every sinner that believes in Christ as their Savior receives this great mystery, the free gift of Christ in us, our salvation. He is our Eternal Life.

As believers in Christ, we are saved and on our way to our Father’s house in heaven.

But do we know Christ lives in us now? How will we live our lives now knowing this Truth?

Christ said, “I am the Way, The Truth, and The Life” (John 14:6 KJV). He is the the Way to God, the Father. He is the Truth in the world. And He is the Eternal Life within each of us who believes. “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32 KJV).

Romans 5, Part 9

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Only By God’s Grace

By Tammy Lacock

“But not as the offense, so also is the free gift: for if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.” (Romans 5:15)

Paul explains here in Romans 5:15 that it was through one man’s sin that every man since has also come into the world with sin. However, he says, through one man, by God’s Grace, we are saved.

The Apostle Paul was the only man in the Bible who was raised up to explain God’s Grace. In fact, he calls the present time, from the time of his epistles to now, the dispensation of grace. In this dispensation, Paul tells us over and over in his epistles, that by God pouring out His Grace, we are saved and finally free of Adam’s sin by believing in one man, and his name is Jesus Christ. By His death, burial, and resurrection, Christ conquered sin and death, and we are saved by just believing.

That’s God’s Grace.

Today, people are still falling for the oldest trick in the book that we too can be like gods. We fall for the belief that we can do everything on our own. Yet, we will always fail and continue to fall, just as Adam did, if we continue to buy into the Devil’s schemes.

The only way we can truly be set free is not by anything we do or don’t do. Christ did the work. When he died on the cross, He died so that our sins and our old lives would die with Him. By just believing in Christ as our Savior we have a new life in Him; we are completely new creatures ready to start over now as bona fide sons and daughters of our Father God in Heaven.

Only by God’s Amazing Grace are we saved.

Romans 5, Part 8

Sat, 06 Mar 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Christ Reigns In Us

By Tammy Lacock

“For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.” (Romans 5:13-14, KJV)

Death reigned from Adam to Moses even to those who had not sinned after Adam’s disobedience. Death passed on to all men. Christ’s death on the cross and His resurrection, however, put an end to death for those who believe. When He died, our sins and our old lives died. Our new life with Christ is eternal. When we die in this body, we rise again with Christ to a new life with our Father in heaven. The great news is we can live that new life right now!

God is a Lover. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son to die for us so that we would live, and live more abundantly.

He gave His Son so that He would die and in that death rise again to a new life in each one of us that believes.

Sin and death no longer reign in us.

Christ now reigns! And He reigns in each and every one of us who believes.

Romans 5, Part 7

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Only Christ Saves

By Tammy Lacock

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there in no law.” (Romans 5:12-13, KJV)

In Romans 5:12-13, Paul explains that sin entered the world through one man, Adam. And ever since, by that sin, death has been passed down to all of us. Death reigned until God gave Israel His law. We must understand, however, that death by sin began by Adam’s choice to disobey God’s law which forbid him to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Therefore, from Adam to the giving of God’s law through Moses, death reigned. Until there was written law, human beings didn’t even know they were sinful. The Ten Commandments gave us a moral compass from which to live. Even Jesus said, “If you love me, keep my commandments.

We are all sinners no matter how much we try to keep His commandments. Only by one man, Christ, by His death and resurrection, are we made whole again. He bore all our sins in His body and when He died, our sins died. In fact, our old lives died, too. By believing in Him as our Redeemer from the slavery of sin, He becomes our New Life.

His righteousness is our righteousness.

We are now blameless before God, ready to enter His heavenly Kingdom.

Romans 5, Part 6

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Death by Sin

By Tammy Lacock

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passes upon all men, for all that have sinned.” (Rom. 5:12 KJV)

Paul explains in Romans 5:12 that sin entered the world by one man, and by that one man’s sin, death passed upon all men and all men are now sinners. All men. From Adam on down.

Death by sin is separation from God, cast out of the garden. So too are we, down through the generations, separated from God by sin.

The great news is Christ conquered sin and death by His death and resurrection on the cross. By God’s Grace, Christ is the one man by whom we are saved from death by sin, no longer to be separated from our Heavenly Father. Christ bore all of our sin (past, present and future) in His body and when He died, our sins died. In fact, our old lives died too. Death by sin. As believers in Christ as our Savior from death, however, we are no longer slaves to sin and we arise to a new life, an eternal life, with Christ.

Christ is in forever.

This is God’s plan from the beginning (Eph 1:4). Christ in every believer, joined together in one Spirit.

With Christ as our new life, we now stand righteous before God. No longer do we have to live a life of sin. We now know that we are children of the most high God, being called back into His Heavenly Kingdom.

Romans 5, Part 5

Sat, 30 Jan 2021 06:00:00 -0500

One Man

By Tammy Lacock

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Rom. 5:12 KJV)

In Paul’s epistles to the Romans, we can begin to understand God’s dealings with man, from the time of Adam to our new life in Christ.

In chapter 5 verse 12, He speaks of the one man through which sin entered the world and was passed down through the generations of men. Through Adam’s sin, we all became sinners. A sinner is a dying person. It isn’t until we die to our old lives of sin that, as believers, we have a new life in Christ. It took one man who bore all of our sin so that when He died, our sin died with Him. He died so that we might have a new life, a more abundant life.

That one man is Christ.

Did God know that Adam would sin? Of course.

So why did God carry on? He did so to carry out His plan from the beginning (Eph. 1:4). He knew man could not do anything on his own. He knew the only way we would come back to Him would be for His only begotten Son to die for us and our sins. This way, our old lives of sin would die with Christ and we would rise again to our new life in Him. With Christ as our new and only life, we are now blameless before God and, in fact, joint heirs, bona fide sons and daughters of Him, now ready to enter His heavenly home.

It took one man to bring sin into the whole world, and it took one man to overcome it.

Will you be a follower of the Apostle Paul and share this everlasting Gospel of Christ to hungry hearts around the world?

Romans 5, Part 4

Sun, 24 Jan 2021 06:00:00 -0500

God Commendeth His Love

By Tammy Lacock

“But God Commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8, KJV)

God raised up the Apostle Paul to deliver the message of God’s love to all human beings.

In Romans 5 verse 8, he explains that Christ’s death was an act of God’s unconditional love, a love that is not forced on us but a love He willingly gives and entrusts to us, even as sinners. A love He gives without the promise of reciprocation.

When Christ died, He didn’t die for Himself. He drank the cup of all of our sins and died with those sins. Our old lives of sin died, too; and when He rose, we rose to a new life IN Him.

In Galatians 2:20, Paul says it plainly and clearly,

By simply believing in Christ as our Savior, the one who died to give us new life, we become bona fide sons and daughters of God. He loved us so much that He sent His only begotten Son to die for us … so that we too are now blameless before Him, perfect in His eyes.

That’s God’s Love.

Romans 5, Part 3

Sat, 16 Jan 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Christ Died For EVERY Person, For ALL Sin

By Tammy Lacock

“For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth His love towards us, in that, while we were just sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:7-8 KJV)

Before the foundation of the world, God had a plan, a perfect plan (Ephesians 1:4 KJV). For He so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. His Son died for every single one of us. When He died, we died too, along with ALL of our sins. By believing on Christ as our Savior, we confess our need for Him. It is then that our sin nature is literally replaced by Christ’s nature. God’s plan was to put Christ’s Spirit in every one of us who believes. Such is our New Life IN Christ. Our New Life IS Christ.

In Romans 5:7-8, Paul tells us just how much God loves us. But first he tells us that it’s understandable that one might die for a righteous person and even for a good person. Through God’s Unconditional Love for us, He sent His only begotten Son to die for every sinner and for every sin, no matter how bad.

We died with Him and we arose with Christ to a New Life IN Him.

By God’s Love and Grace we are saved just by believing in Christ as our Savior. That’s for every single one of us. That’s for every sin. The sin passed down by Adam and every single one of our sins is overcome. Our slates are wiped clean by Christ’s sacrificial Love and we are blameless before God.

When Christ was taken away from us through His death on the cross, God entrusted His Spirit to us.

Who is us? Every single one of us who believes.

Christ is now our Life and we are called to be witnesses of Him.

Romans 5, Part 2

Sat, 09 Jan 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Christ Is Our Strength

By Tammy Lacock

“For when we were without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” (Romans 5:6 KJV)

Paul knew this was God’s plan from the beginning. He knew that on God’s time, we will be made ready for the cross, to die with Christ and to rise IN Him.

“According as he hath chosen us IN him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4 KJV)

In Romans 5:6, Paul lets us know that God saw human beings without hope, without strength and not knowing which way to go. He would send His only begotten Son to wipe our sin-stained slates clean. When He died, our old lives died. When He rose, we rose into a new life IN Christ. Christ now lives in every believer. We are New Creations, holy and blameless before God.

Christ is now our strength.

He is our only Hope of Glory.

Romans 5, Part 1

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 06:00:00 -0500

Glory in Tribulations

By Teresa Ferraro

"But we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience." (Rom. 5:3)

God’s Church, the Body of Christ, will go through tribulations in earthly life. This is tribulations, plural, with a small t, not the Great Tribulation.

Tribulations serve a purpose in us: they work patience and hope where we think there is no hope. It forces Christ-people to refocus our minds; it changes our priorities from the earthly to the eternal, to depend on and learn Christ in us as our hope of glory.

He is our anchor, our strength, our provider, our very life and our only hope of glory. We are new, whole, and complete in Him; and He works all things in us for good. God bless you this day as you look forward to a new year.

Christmas 2020-2

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Christmas Is All About A Birthing

By Tammy Lacock

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” (Eph. 1:4, KJV)

In this episode, Warren explains that the virgin birth of Christ though Mary is mostly criticized and not believed in a lot of segments of the religion, including Christianity. The birthing of Christ through Mary signals God’s plan for us: The seed of Christ that God placed in Mary is the same seed God places in us when we believe on Christ as God’s Son and our personal Savior. Our sin nature is replaced by Christ’s nature in our new birthing. We become an entirely new creation. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor. 5:17, KJV).

In all of Paul’s epistles, he reveals the great “mystery” of Christ living in us. In Ephesians 1:4, he says before the foundation of the world, God chose us IN Christ. Repeatedly, Paul describes our salvation as a union with Christ, with Christ in the believer and the believer in Christ.

Even as Mary was a chosen vessel for the living Savior, so too are believers chosen to be vessels with Christ living IN us, even before the foundation of the world.

During this Christmas time, see through everything to Christ. See the simplicity of God’s plan in the manger. See Santa Claus as God the Giver of His Son. See through the presents to Christ’s gift of His Life for our salvation. See through Mary to Christ alive IN you as your hope of glory (Col. 1:27).

Every born-again believer can now celebrate a continuous Christmas knowing that Christ lives in him or her every day, now into eternity. Christ is Life. Our hope of glory!

“He who hath the Son hath life and he who has not the Son hath not life.” (John 5:12 KJV)

Christmas 2020

Sun, 20 Dec 2020 06:00:00 -0500

The Lord Is With Thee

By Tammy Lacock

“And the angel came unto her, and said, Hail, thou art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.” (Luke 1:28 KJV)

Warren Litzman encourages us to be “see-throughers,” seeing Christ through all the elements of Christmas. The tree represents the Life of Christ; lights represent the star lighting up the sky and leading the wise men to Christ; and presents and Santa Claus represents God the Giver of His Son. Christmas represents the spirit of giving, Christ becoming one of us only to give His life for us. As believers, we must see through everything in life to Christ, not just at Christmas but every day. Christ isn’t just the reason for the season, but the reason for everything.

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28 KJV)

Warren goes on to show how the miracle of Mary as a vessel bearing Jesus in her is a foreshadow of the miracle of God placing Christ IN us when we believe on Him as Savior. Just as God finds favor with Mary, God finds favor with us, and specifically to believers that follow the apostle Paul’s revelation that Christ lives IN us now.

How hard must it have been for Mary to know that the Savior of the world would be born through her?

What a miracle! And yet, who could she tell? How would she tell Joseph who she was not yet married to? How did a poor 14-year-old girl, with no education, go through 9 months keeping this secret? By coming to the knowledge that she was favored by God, she found comfort. Likewise, Warren says, how hard it can be for us to reveal to others Christ living IN us. We, too, find ourselves keeping it a secret even if we don’t want to. Christ living IN the believer was revealed to the Apostle Paul, yet it didn’t catch on in the early church, and it still has yet to catch on in our churches today. For those of us that do know, we can find comfort in knowing God’s favor didn’t stop with Mary. He chose us and revealed to us that the Lord is with us, too. Christ alive IN us! Our hope of glory! (Col. 1:27)

1 Corinthians 2, Part 11

Sat, 12 Dec 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Christ Our Life, Him IN Us

By Tammy Lacock

“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Cor. 2:14, KJV)

Do you know that Christ lives IN you if you have believed in Christ as Savior?

Warren Litzman asks this question and continues to focus on the importance of this revelation knowledge that every believer now has Christ IN them. As believers, we are saved in spirit, joined together as one spirit IN Christ, but do we know that He lives IN us? Do we understand that we are born again into a new life, our old lives are passed away? Do we understand that we are new creations, with Christ as our new life? Warren urges us to dig into the Scriptures, and more specifically into Paul’s epistles, to receive this revelation. Paul reveals to us being IN Christ 146 times!

Christ, Himself, revealed only to Paul this final gospel of Grace. And now Paul passes it on to us. Paul started the Christian church because his message of Christ IN us meant we, as believers, are now Christ-persons. Our new life is Christ. Our new life is Christ as us. He understood that God’s ultimate purpose and intention from the beginning of the world was for Christ to live in every human being (Eph. 1:4). It took Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection for our old lives to die with Him and for Christ to arise IN us, for Him to be our new life, our new identity. With Christ as our new life, we stand before God as His children, joint-heirs with Christ. We are now ready to enter into our Father’s house in heaven.

In 1 Corinthians 2:14, Warren explains that the natural man Paul speaks of can be a born-again believer who doesn’t know Christ lives IN them. Their mind will remain natural if they don’t receive this revelation. They won’t gain a spiritual understanding of Christ as their new life if they’re wasting their minds on worldly things. We must stick with Paul’s epistles if we are to receive this revelation knowledge and live fully and completely as Christ-persons. This revelation is necessary if we are to move from a natural mind to a spiritual mind, that of Christ’s mind.

“Let this mind be IN you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Phil. 2:5, KJV)

Christ lives IN born-again believers!! What a glorious gift of Grace!

Will you let your mind go there?

Let Paul’s epistles, along with the Holy Spirit, help you.

1 Corinthians 2, Part 10

Sat, 05 Dec 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Our Message Is Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” (1 Corinthians 2:13 KJV)

Warren reiterates the importance of going to the Word of God to gain spiritual knowledge, detailed specifically in Paul’s epistles. The message of Christ comes from the Holy Spirit through Paul’s epistles. His letters consistently speak of how we must have a Revelation of Christ IN us, His Spirit joined to ours, from the Holy Spirit only. No man can reveal this to us.

He also says in 1 Corinthians 11:1 (KJV) “Be followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.”

Are you following Paul?

Live in his letters and Christ IN you will be revealed unto you as well!

1 Corinthians 2, Part 9

Sat, 28 Nov 2020 06:00:00 -0500

God Speaks To Us NOW!

By Tammy Lacock

“Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual." (1 Cor. 2:13, KJV)

Warren Litzman starts off here by explaining that there have been five dispensations in the plan of God. This 5th dispensation that we are currently living in is the Dispensation of Grace. This time of grace has been going on since Christ's death, burial, and resurrection and will continue right up to the rapture where we’ll meet Christ in the air.

In this Dispensation of Grace, God raised up ONLY Paul to reveal His plan to us, that of placing Christ in every believer. In 1 Corinthians 2:13 , Paul tells us that the words he speaks are not from any man, but revealed to him and to us through the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit reveals to us Christ. By Christ living IN us, “He has been made unto us wisdom” (1 Cor. 1:30 KJV). He is our wisdom.

No man is our wisdom.

Paul is the apostle of NOW. Christ spoke to him directly and Paul is telling us through his epistles that, as believers, the Holy Spirit of God is speaking to us, too. NOW!

He’s revealing Christ IN us, and as we stick to Paul’s epistles, the Holy Spirit will continue to reveal to us “the things that are freely given to us by God” (1 Cor. 2:12, KJV).

In this Dispensation of Grace, God wants us to know!

1 Corinthians 2, Part 8

Sat, 21 Nov 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Paul Is The Apostle of Grace

The Apostle of NOW!

By Tammy Lacock

“NOW [emphasis added] we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” (1 Cor. 2:12, KJV)

Warren Litzman continues to emphasize the word NOW, which Paul uses throughout his writings. Now is a grace word because it fits every believer from the Cross to now. Paul tells us that the law was dead at the Cross. We then stepped into the Dispensation of Grace, and we are still living in it NOW. From the moment we believe on Christ as our Savior, by grace, we receive the Spirit which is of God, that is Christ IN us. And by revelation, the Holy Spirit prepares us NOW for our new life IN Christ with the knowledge and understanding of Him. Christ IN us and the knowledge of Him are gifts of grace ordained by God before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:4, KJV).

This is Paul’s gospel, given by Christ and superseding ALL other gospels.

It is the Gospel of Grace!

It is the Gospel of NOW!

1 Corinthians 2, Part 7

Sat, 14 Nov 2020 06:00:00 -0500

What Does God Want Us to Know?

By Tammy Lacock

“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” (1 Cor. 2:12, KJV)

Warren Litzman makes it clear that the average believer doesn’t know the things of God that are already given to us. He reiterates that we need only to read Paul’s epistles to know that, as believers IN Christ, we have received “the Spirit which is of God.” Yet, how are we to know the “things of God” if we don’t even know that we are NOW one spirit IN Christ. Paul’s message is the Cross. Through Christ’s death on the cross, we too died to our old lives and rose to a new life IN Christ (Gal. 2:20, KJV). There’s nothing in existence that can replace what God did at the Cross. Only through Christ’s shed blood are we baptized IN Him, not with water but in Spirit. Our old ways are washed away. Our eternal new life is Christ. Christ becomes our all in all. As believers, our lives are a love affair with Christ.

These are the things God wants us to know!

Wouldn’t it be awful to live a lifetime only to get to heaven and find out the liberating secret that Christ was IN us all along? Waiting for us to acknowledge Him? Waiting for us to know these things of God that are already given to us?

We must allow the Holy Spirit to unclog our minds that have been misused by Satan for too long so that Christ may live freely and fully IN us.

Yes, heaven awaits, but why not know and live Christ NOW?!

1 Corinthians 2, Part 6

Sat, 07 Nov 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Paul’s Gospel Is NOW

By Tammy Lacock

“NOW [emphasis added] we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” (1 Cor. 2:12, KJV)

Warren Litzman continues to emphasize the word NOW in 1 Corinthians 2:12, stating that the apostle Paul’s use of the word NOW refers to a present message. It was a present message at the time of Paul’s writings and continues to be a present message for us. The message is clear, that when we believe in Christ Jesus as our Savior, in that moment we receive “the Spirit which is of God,” that we “might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” NOW we are sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father. Christ is available to us NOW because he is our new life. The knowledge of Him is also available to us NOW through the work of the Holy Spirit.

In the Old Testament, God was speaking to the people of that day. NOW, through Paul’s epistles, God is speaking to us. God raised up only Paul to deliver the new gospel of Christ, in this new dispensation of grace that is NOW. We need only to take the time to read Paul’s epistles and we too will come to the revelation that, as believers, Christ NOW lives in us. We are joined together as one spirit, “the Spirit which is of God.”

This dispensation of grace we are NOW living in is the last dispensation before the rapture. Paul is the last preacher. Let us NOW be followers of Paul, as he is of Christ, and pass this message of Christ IN us to all four corners of the earth.

1 Corinthians 2, Part 5

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 06:00:00 -0500

God’s Grace is right NOW

By Tammy Lacock

“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” (1 Cor. 2:12, KJV)

Warren Litzman goes on a bit further in 1 Corinthians 2 verse 12 emphasizing that it was only by revelation that Paul received the gospel of grace. He took nothing from the scriptures when he speaks about this new grace gospel which is based only on the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.

So then what is Revelation? Warren explains that it is God speaking to us about His plan. It is present knowledge of His plan. Paul had the revelation of Christ as our new life, and urges us many times throughout his writings to follow him as he is a follower of Christ. We, too, can receive the revelation of Christ as our new life through God’s grace which is being poured out into hungry minds right NOW.

As believers in Christ, we no longer have the “spirit of the world but the Spirit which is of God.” That Spirit is Christ. Christ alive in us. And, through the work of the Holy Spirit, this is being revealed to believers today, right now. With the revelation of Christ IN us, we are carrying out God’s plan of being prepared now as we get ready to enter into our Father’s house in Heaven.

1 Corinthians 2, Part 4

Sat, 24 Oct 2020 06:00:00 -0500

The Love Affair Starts At The Cross

By Tammy Lacock

“Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen , nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” (1 Cor. 2:8-9, KJV)

Christ had to die. It is with the finished work of Christ at the Cross that God’s grace can be poured out into the world. God’s grace reveals the “mystery of Christ,” that Christ is our new life, to each and every believer.

As Warren Litzman continues his explanation of the apostle Paul’s writings of “the mystery” revealed in 1 Corinthians 2:8, he goes on to say that the knowledge of this “mystery” was not revealed to anyone other than Paul. If those before Paul had known, Christ would have not been crucified (1 Cor 2:8).

Christ had to die, for this was God’s plan before the foundation of the world. It is only now, through Paul’s epistles, that the mystery of Christ IN us is being revealed. It is only now that believers are beginning to understand what God has prepared for us. It is only now that believers are entering into a love affair with Christ.

So how do we go about loving Him?

The love affair starts by coming to the Cross and seeing ourselves “crucified with Christ,” the reality of our salvation. When we truly realize His grace, our spiritual death, and Christ's ultimate sacrifice, we can fall in love with God, loving Him more than we love ourselves.

Paul explains in Romans 6:6 that “our old man is crucified with him,” putting off our old lives and putting on our new man, that is Christ. He becomes our first love, our only life.

In Galatians 2:20, Paul says it yet again, “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.”

Now that our eyes have seen, our ears have heard, and the “mystery of Christ” has been revealed in our hearts, will you live Christ as your only life?

Will you love Him more than yourself?

1 Corinthians 2, Part 3

Sat, 17 Oct 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Till The Whole World Knows

By Tammy Lacock

“Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” (1 Cor. 2:8, KJV)

Warren Litzman explains that the mystery of Christ, God’s plan before the creation of the world, was not known to the “princes of the world” before Christ’s death on the cross. The “princes” were the leaders, preachers, and prophets of old such as Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, and Elijah, to name a few. The first time the Bible refers to the mystery of Christ, that of being born again to a new life with Christ as our life, was when Jesus spoke to Nicodemus. You may recall, Nicodemus was more confused when he left his meeting with Jesus then when he came. God wasn’t ready to reveal His plan.

God raised up ONLY Paul to deliver this new gospel, the gospel of grace, to anyone and everyone. At the cross, as Paul repeats in all of his writings, Christ fulfilled the law by his death and resurrection. By God’s grace, our old lives died with Christ, and we rise with Him as our new life. He gave his life for us so that we may have life IN him. As believers, we are no longer subject to what we do to be saved. We are saved by grace. Christ is made unto us righteousness; therefore, we are now bona fide sons and daughters of God. Our new life is eternal. We are on our way to our Father’s house in heaven. Through Christ, God is preparing us for entering into His kingdom.

Paul was the first born-again believer. He was the first Christian or Christ-person. He was the first to know God’s plan of putting Christ in every believer. Christ revealed this to Paul and now Paul urges us, through every one of his epistles, to believe on Christ so that we too will be born again IN Christ and continue to grow in our relationship with him while we are here. He knew that this was God’s plan for each and every one of us before the foundation of the world.

Before Christ’s return, this new grace gospel must reach all corners of the earth...till the whole world knows.

How blessed are we to now know God’s plan, the great mystery of Christ as our Life, that was hidden through all the ages?!

Like Paul, will you pass it on?

1 Corinthians 2, Part 2

Sat, 10 Oct 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Christ IS The Answer!

By Tammy Lacock

“But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.” (1 Cor. 2:7, KJV)

Warren Litzman further explains the “wisdom of God in a mystery” that Paul speaks of here. What is the wisdom? And what is the mystery? Well, these go hand in hand. We cannot know the mystery without the wisdom of God.

So how do we obtain this wisdom? It is only through the work of the Holy Spirit in the renewal of our minds that the mystery is revealed to us. The sole purpose of the Holy Spirit is to teach and reveal to us Christ living in us, the mystery God had ordained before the world was created. The mystery that through Christ’s death and resurrection, believers are born again, and Christ becomes their new life. We are new creations! God now sees Christ as our life and we too are His bona fide sons and daughters. We can now enter into His heavenly kingdom and share in His inheritance of eternal life with Him. This was His plan “unto our glory.”

Christ doesn’t give us the answer. Christ IS the answer. He is our wisdom, and He is the mystery.

He is our new life, our eternal life.

1 Corinthians 2, Part 1

Sat, 03 Oct 2020 06:00:00 -0500

The Glorious Life In The Son

By Tammy Lacock

“But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden mystery which God ordained before the world unto our glory.” (1 Cor. 2:7, KJV)

In the Christ-life, Warren Litzman explains over and over that the mystery of Christ, which Paul talks about throughout his epistles, is the truth that as believers united with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, our old lives fall away and our new life is Christ. Christ lives in us and we in Him. We are anchored to Christ. This truth has been hidden by God for 4,000 years. He opened the floodgates of His Love (“For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten son.”) at the death of Christ and revealed this mystery only to the apostle Paul. Before Paul, the mystery was never fully revealed. In 1 Corinthians 2:7, Paul explains that God ordained Christ’s death and resurrection BEFORE the world was created. And He ordained only Paul to reveal this mystery to the world through his epistles. God never planned for us to be good Christians. He planned for Christ to be the new life of the believer.

Do you know that Christ literally lives in you if you believed in Him as Savior?

He planned this for our glory, so we would understand and experience the glorious life in the Son, and so we will be ready to enter into our Father’s Kingdom as His bona fide sons and daughters.

His Glorious plan has been revealed and is being revealed to the whole world today! Will you pass it on?

Ephesians 4, Part 4

Sun, 27 Sep 2020 06:00:00 -0500

It’s A Love Affair!

By Tammy Lacock

“Be renewed in the spirit of your mind and put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and holiness.” (Eph. 4:23-24, KJV)

Warren Litzman further explains how we “have not yet learned Christ” (Eph 4:20 KJV) through Ephesians versus 23 and 24. When we believed in Christ as our Savior, we were saved in spirit but not in our minds and hearts. The incorruptible seed of Christ now lives in us, but He now needs our minds to be renewed so we can grow up in Him and He can come out of us. This is where the Love Affair with Christ begins and grows. We need to learn Him, know who He is now as our new life and “put on the new man”; that is Christ. We need to be one with Him, not just in spirit which is where we are saved by God’s grace, but in our minds as well. Through renewal of our minds, our Love Affair with Christ becomes our everything.

Warren reveals three ways in which our minds can be renewed.

1. We must search the Scriptures and specifically Paul’s epistles. God chose Paul to bring this new gospel of Christ living in us to Jews and Gentiles alike in this dispensation of grace we are currently living in. Paul is the only one who knew about this new life in Christ, not Moses, not Daniel, not Isaiah, not David; nobody in the Bible was given this truth except Paul. We must ask the Holy Spirit for clarity and revelation of Christ in us as we go through his epistles.

2. We listen to the Holy Spirit directly to clear out the filters of our minds from all of the pollution we’ve accumulated in our lives and keep our minds open to his teachings and revelations of Christ who now lives in us. The Holy Spirit is a dove...he comes and goes but is always ready and willing to come when we’re ready for him. Make us ready!

3. We can turn to other godly Christians who know Christ in them. They can give us some direction in our thinking and help us give our mind over to Christ through the work of the Holy Spirit.

Christ is the answer. He’s the only way to our Father in Heaven. Through Christ, God is preparing us for our home in heaven with Him. He wants us to know Him before we arrive.

Yes, as believers, we are saved, but have we “put on the new man” in our minds? Are we living Christ as our new life now? Are you so in love with Christ, that you want the whole world to know?

Let the Holy Spirit renew the spirit of your mind and make Christ the Love Affair of your life!

Ephesians 4, Part 3

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 06:00:00 -0500

We Are Crucified WITH Christ!

By Tammy Lacock

“That ye put off concerning the conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts.” (Eph. 4:22, KJV)

Warren Litzman continues his journey through Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians with chapter 4 verse 22.

He explains that, as believers, we must “put off” our old ways and that, in fact, our old lives are “crucified WITH Christ.” He makes the distinction that we are not crucified BY Christ, we are crucified WITH Christ. When Christ drank of the cup in the Garden of Gethsemane, our sins and transgressions of our old lives were literally poured into His body. When He died, those died too. We now live with Christ as our new life, and until we accept in our minds that our old lives died too, our Christian life will be lacking. This is a very tough truth for most believers to grasp. Most of us who are saved step back into the world with our same old habits and old ways of thinking, liked we’ve never been saved. Christ IN us helps us to let go along with the Holy Spirit constantly renewing our minds to our new life IN Christ.

Once we accept that our old lives have been crucified WITH Christ, it is then that we can truly live our new life IN Christ and begin our love affair with Him.

“Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” (Romans 6:6, KJV)

Ephesians 4, Part 2

Sat, 12 Sep 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Have You Crucified Your Old Life?

By Tammy Lacock

“But ye have not so learned Christ.” (Ephesians 4:20 KJV)

In Ephesians 4, Part 2, Warren Litzman delves deeper into Paul’s message in Ephesians 4:20 that learning Christ means living Christ as our new life. Christ now lives in us and wants to be our very life but do we even know that? Once we come to the revelation of Christ as our life, the Holy Spirit comes in and renews and changes our minds. In our minds, we are holding on to an old life that is no longer necessary as Christians, or Christ persons. It doesn’t mean we give up our professions or studies but we crucify our old ways of thinking, our old minds, and allow the Holy Spirit to do his most important work of teaching us Christ, the Christ that is now in us. We must give our minds over to Christ so he can now come through us.

Through Paul’s epistles and the work of the Holy Spirit we begin to stop participating and living with the Satan nature that began with Adam and Eve’s disobedience in the Garden of Eden. We are free of this sinful nature by the blood of Jesus Christ. As believers, this Satan nature is exchanged with Christ’s nature and we become “new creations” in Christ.

As we grow up in Christ and learn Him, we begin to understand what Paul states so explicitly in Galatians 2:20 (KJV) “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.”

And in Romans 6:6 (KJV), “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.”

Out with the old and in with the New! That’s the Christ Life!

Ephesians 4, Part 1

Sat, 05 Sep 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Have You Learned Christ?

By Tammy Lacock

“But ye have not so learned Christ.” (Eph. 4:20)

Warren Litzman’s teachings come directly from the apostle Paul’s teachings which are laid out in his 14 epistles in the New Testament. It’s important to remind the listeners (and readers) that Warren is a follower of Paul, just as Paul is a follower of Christ (1 Corinth 11:1, KJV).

In this podcast, Warren begins with Ephesians 4:20 in his journey through Paul’s epistles to further emphasize the importance of the Christ Life and revealing this final gospel to the whole world.

What is the Christ Life? It is knowing and living Christ as our new life. That when we believe in Christ as our Savior by his death, burial and resurrection, Our Heavenly Father literally places his only Son, the incorruptible seed, in us, making us “New Creations.” Our old Adamic life was crucified with Christ and we are rebirthed with Christ as our new life. “Therefore if any man be IN Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinth 5:17 KJV). And with Christ as our new life, He is our righteousness. We then stand before God as joint-heirs with Christ, as His bona fide sons and daughters!

In his letter to the church of Ephesus chapter 4, verse 20, Paul isn’t saying “but ye have not learned ABOUT Christ. No, he is saying “but ye have not so learned Christ.” As he speaks of so many times throughout his epistles, Paul is not talking about Jesus of Nazareth and His earthly ministry, for we are no longer under earthly law but now in God’s grace. Paul is talking about the risen Christ now living in each believer. Yet most Christians, or Christ persons, have no idea that Christ lives in them. They haven’t learned Christ. They’ve made a place for Christ in their works, duties, and service but they haven’t made a place for Him, in them, as their only life. Paul calls this the “mystery of Christ” (Ephesians 3:4), because it is only by revelation that believers come to this knowledge. As we learn of Christ, we then allow Him to come through us, as us. We step out of the way. Just knowing that Christ now lives in us changes our entire understanding of who we are.

Are we learning Christ yet?

Paul clearly and boldly emphasizes his own understanding and learning of Christ in his letter to the Galatians 2:20 (KJV), “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

Ephesians 3, Part 12

Sat, 29 Aug 2020 06:00:00 -0500

The Mystery of Christ Is Being Revealed NOW

By Tammy Lacock

”How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words; Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ,) 5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.” (Eph. 3:3-5, KJV)

In Ephesians 3, Part 12, Warren Litzman emphasizes verse 5 by noting that the “mystery of Christ” IN the believer has not been revealed in any other time and to any other person in the Bible other than Paul in this current dispensation of grace. The time is NOW! The closest this mystery came to be revealed is when Christ, Himself, said to Nicodemus that one must be “born-again” to know the things of the Kingdom of Heaven. However, Nicodemus was confused and didn’t understand. After His death, burial and resurrection, Christ raised up only Paul to bring forth this truth that anyone who believes, by grace, is saved and Christ NOW lives IN them. They are born-again. Their old sin nature is replaced with the God-seed of Christ, leaving no separation between the believer and Christ. With Christ as our new life, we stand before God as his adopted children. That’s salvation! The mystery is revealed!

The purpose of Paul’s epistles is that we may learn and come to an understanding of his knowledge NOW, that we too might have the revelation of the “mystery of Christ” IN us.

Paul was not just an ordinary guy! He was an extremely learned and respected Jewish Rabbi who was struck blind on his way to Damascus to persecute believers. Christ spoke to him directly and Paul was changed forever. He made it clear that we are not saved by obedience to law, as he so vehemently enforced in his old life, but that in this very day we are saved by God’s grace. He makes it very clear in all of his epistles, that by God’s grace, we need only believe in Christ as our Saviour to be born again, “new creations” with Christ as our new life.

He states is ever so perfectly 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.”

Right here, right NOW! If you believe, Christ lives in you! It’s time to grow up in Him and spread this Final Gospel to the whole world!

Ephesians 3, Part 11

Sat, 22 Aug 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Christianity Is Who We Are, Not What We Do

By Tammy Lacock

“How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery (as I wrote afore in a few words;).” (Eph. 3:3, KJV)

Warren Litzman digs deeper into the message of Paul in his letter to the Ephesians chapter 3, verse 3.

What is the mystery revealed to Paul by Christ, Himself? The mystery is that the old, Adamic life of the believer has been “crucified with Christ” and their new life IS Christ. Christ’s seed is birthed in us; therefore, we are born again IN Christ.

When Christ died, our old lives died too. We do not live a new life of our own. We now live a new life IN Christ. Being a Christian is not living like Christ. Christianity is not defined by what we do but by WHO WE ARE. And that IS Christ! We are no longer separated from Him. What a glorious gift!

Paul, in his letter to the Colossians 1:26-27 states it clearly when he writes, “Even the mystery which hath been hid from the ages and from generations, but NOW is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

The mystery has been revealed to you through Paul. Yet, believers can’t live the Christian life until they understand and live the mystery of Christ IN them. Let us be followers of Paul, as he is of Christ, and pass this revelation on to others so it can be made known to the whole world!

Ephesians 3, Part 10

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Only Paul

By Tammy Lacock

“How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery.” (Ephesians 3:3 KJV)

What gospel is God giving us for this day?

For this time we live in NOW?

It’s not the gospel of Abraham, or David, or Isaiah or anyone else in the Old Testament. It wasn’t revealed to Peter, Matthew, Mark, Luke or John or anyone else in the New Testament, except for Paul.

The gospel for today, the mystery of Christ, God revealed to Paul and to only Paul. Paul knew this so he turned around and made sure he passed the mystery onto us. That by just believing on Christ’s death on the cross, his burial and resurrection, we as Christians are also crucified with Christ and born again. Our new life is Christ. Christ NOW lives IN us and we live IN Him. We are “new creations”, bona fide sons and daughters of God through Christ.

Warren Litzman again emphasizes that just as this new gospel, this mystery of Christ, was revealed to Paul, we too must come to this knowledge by revelation. We’re not going to get it in our churches today. The average preacher isn’t teaching the death, burial and resurrection of Christ as the source of our salvation. They aren’t preaching “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” (Gal 2:20 KJV). They aren’t preaching this new and final gospel of grace. Most are preaching a commingling of law and grace. This breeds confusion for us as believers and so we continue to wrestle with our old lives.

Are you wrestling with your old life? Through grace, Paul tells us that our old life has passed away and our new life is Christ.

If we are to come to this revelation for ourselves, we must study Paul’s 14 epistles. He is the only man who teaches us how to live in today’s dispensation of grace. He is the only one who teaches us a new and final gospel that fits this dispensation.

In Ephesians 1:17 (KJV), Paul prays “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.”

From Christ to Paul, from Paul to us....let the mystery be revealed unto all men!

Ephesians 3, Part 9

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 06:00:00 -0500

What is a Christian?

By Tammy Lacock

“Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ.” (Eph. 3:4, KJV)

A Christian is a person who lives in Christ and Christ lives in him or her. This is it, the “mystery of Christ” that Paul emphasizes here in Ephesians 3:4 and in all 14 of his Epistles.

So why is it that most Christians don’t know that Christ lives in them? Well, because this great mystery isn’t being preached in our churches! And yet for over 2000 years, it’s been right here in Paul’s writings all along. He received this revelation directly from Christ and he’s passing it on to us. We need only to yield to the Holy Spirit for this knowledge to be revealed in us believers as well.

As a Christian, we become a “new creation” and we take on a new identity. Christ IS our new life. He is our identity. There is no separation from Christ any longer. We NOW stand before God as His children, joint heirs with Christ because He sees Christ and his righteousness IN us.

Will you reveal this mystery of Christ to a fellow believer today?

Ephesians 3, Part 8

Sat, 01 Aug 2020 06:00:00 -0500

What is the Mystery?

By Tammy Lacock

“How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery, (as I wrote afore in few words; Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ” - Ephesians 3:3-4 (KJV)

Warren Litzman continues with Ephesians 3 verses 3-4 noting Paul’s emphasis on the mystery that was by revelation “made known unto me.” What is this mystery Paul received? Well, first we must again note that the mystery was revealed to him by Christ, Himself. And he clearly mentions that he wrote about this mystery before in his epistles.

We need only to look at all of Paul’s epistles to unveil the mystery. Time and time again, Paul, and only Paul, uses the terms “Christ In me,” “Christ In you,” “In Christ,” “In Him” to refer to this “mystery of Christ” that he ends with here in verse 4.

To name just a few places:

“But ye are not in the flesh, But in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.” (Romans 8:9-10)

“To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood.” (Galations 1:16)

“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.” (Galatians 2:20)

“Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ (by grace ye are saved; and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” (Ephesians 2:5-6)

The great mystery revealed to Paul from Christ, Himself is this: Every single saved human being has Christ in them.

We must all, however, come to this knowledge by revelation and by grace. It is being revealed NOW in this “dispensation of the grace of God” more than ever because the rapture is near. We must be matured into the understanding of the family, 'house-broken', before we enter into our Heavenly Father’s house. And the only way is through the revelation of the mystery of Christ.

May we help Paul and pass on the mystery of Christ In us to all the world!!!

Ephesians 3, Part 7

Sat, 25 Jul 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Paul’s “Revelation of the Mystery”

By Tammy Lacock

“How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words; Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ.” (Eph. 3:3-4, KJV)

Warren Litzman continues to clarify Ephesians 3 verses 3-4 with Paul’s use of the phrase “revelation of the mystery.” What is revelation? And what is the mystery?

Paul received this revelation directly from Christ. In fact, this is the first time in history that God spoke to a human being about an essential part of His plan. That is revelation, a God-truth revealed. The heart of this revelation is that God, in grace, afforded to every human being what he planned before the world was created.

So, what is the mystery of this revelation? Stated in over 146 verses in mostly Paul’s epistles, God’s truth, that no human being is complete without Christ IN them, is the great mystery.

Yet, this revelation of the mystery has been in plain sight in the New Testament for over 2,000 years! No religion or denomination has gotten the message, and no great preachers have gotten the message!

God is revealing this message TODAY more than ever is this dispensation of grace.

Are we living what the scriptures say?

Every believer must come to this same revelation, by the Holy Spirit, that was made known to Paul and has been passed on in every one of his epistles. The revelation of the mystery is that, by God’s grace, we are saved by Christ IN us. Christ does not give us salvation...He IS our salvation!

Paul states this clearly in Galatians 2:20 (KJV):

“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.”

Ephesians 3, Part 6

Sun, 19 Jul 2020 06:00:00 -0500

The Dispensation of God’s Grace

By Tammy Lacock

“If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words).” (Eph. 3:2-3, KJV)

Warren Litzman emphasizes again in Ephesians 3:2 that the “dispensation of the grace of God” which started with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the dispensation we are living in right now. This grace gospel was entrusted to Paul by Christ, Himself, and he turns around and gives it to us. For us right now!

In verse 3, Paul clearly acknowledges that by revelation, Christ revealed to him the mystery, this new gospel, that by the grace of God we are saved, and we need only to believe in Christ as our Savior to be saved. By believing, we are no longer separated from Him. Christ is birthed in us, and we become joint-heirs as children of God. With Christ as our new life, we are blameless before God, our Heavenly Father.

If this gospel is not preached or revealed to us in this current and final dispensation, then we will not be equipped to handle it. We must be followers of Paul, turn to his epistles, and pass on this new grace gospel to all corners of the earth!

Ephesians 3, Part 5

Sat, 11 Jul 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Are You Following Moses or Paul?

By Tammy Lacock

“For the cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words; Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ.)” (Eph. 3:1-3)

In Part 5 of Ephesians 3, Warren Litzman continues to emphasize verse 2 by asking, ‘Have you heard of this dispensation of the grace of God that Paul clearly reveals that we are in NOW?’ He explains that a dispensation is a God-allotted time for Him to accomplish some part of His eternal plan. God’s dispensation of grace started with Christ’s death on the cross and ends at the rapture, when believers are taken up with Christ in the air to be with our Heavenly Father.

Most Christians today have missed what Paul is revealing here and are still living under the dispensation of the law of Moses, which says that we must do something or not do something to be pleasing to God. In this dispensation of grace, all who just believe in Christ as their Savior become new creatures, born again, with Christ as their new life. Christ IS our righteousness before God. We don’t stand before Him separate from Christ. That’s Amazing Grace!

Warren explains that in verse 3, Paul is saying he received this message from Christ by revelation. And we all must receive this revelation as well. Paul calls it the revelation of the mystery of Christ. He passes on the mystery to us so that we, too, will pass it on in this current dispensation of grace. We are no longer under the law but under God’s grace. This dispensation of grace supersedes any previous dispensation. By grace we are saved, not by anything we do (Eph. 2:5, KJV) “Even when we were dead in sins, (God) hath quickened us together with Christ (by grace ye are saved).”

Are you still living under the dispensation of the law delivered by Moses or are you living under the grace of God delivered by Paul, which was revealed to him by Christ, Himself?

Paul says “Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ” (1 Cor. 11:1, KJV). And Warren Litzman says, “I wouldn’t trade an ounce of grace for a bucket of law!” Would you?

Ephesians 3, Part 4

Sun, 05 Jul 2020 06:00:00 -0500

From Me to You

By Tammy Lacock

“For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward.” (Eph. 3:1-2, KJV)

In Part 4 of Ephesians 3:1-2, Warren focuses in on the last part of verse 2 written by apostle Paul “which is given me to you-ward.” Again, this new grace gospel that was given to Paul by Christ, Himself, was not given to anyone else. Christ didn’t raise up Peter, or James, or any great preacher of the time to deliver this new gospel. He chose only Paul.

Paul was relentlessly pursuing and persecuting Christians everywhere he went. Why did God choose Paul, the meanest man on earth at the time? God chose Paul to show that He can and will save anyone regardless of their past, regardless of their sins.

This new grace gospel was given to Paul to give to us Gentiles. Paul was saved by grace, and he wanted everyone to know they, too, can be saved by grace, not by law, religion, church, or anything that we do. By Christ’s death and resurrection, we need only to believe to be saved, and by believing, Christ becomes our new life and we become sons and daughters of God through Him. That’s God’s Amazing Grace that we are living in right NOW!

Paul received revelation after revelation from the Holy Spirit, and he wrote them down throughout his 14 epistles. He calls it the “revelation of the mystery,” that “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.” (Gal. 2:20, KJV).

Are you receiving this new gospel in the church you attend? Have you heard about the dispensation of grace that we are NOW living in and will end at the rapture of Christ’s Church? Somehow over the past 2,000 years, this grace gospel wasn’t passed on the way Paul passed it to the Gentiles of the time. Search the scriptures and Paul’s epistles for this truth given to him to give to us. And pass it on...the whole world needs to know!

Ephesians 3, Part 3

Sat, 27 Jun 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Have You Heard?

By Tammy Lacock

“For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, (2) If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward.” (Eph. 3:1-2, KJV)

In Part 3 of Ephesians 3:1-2, Warren stresses again that Paul was the apostle Christ sent to the Gentiles with the message Christ gave Paul after the Cross. For we know the Jews had rejected Christ and the gospel of faith. In the Bible, there had never been a gospel for the Gentiles, and they were not included in God’s plan throughout the Old Testament. Until after the Cross. Paul received this final gospel of grace from Christ, who instructed Paul to pass it on to the Gentiles.

There has always been different messages to different groups of people throughout the scriptures. This thrilling, new, and fresh gospel has no ties to any other gospel or any other dispensation in the Bible. It is not a dispensation of law, of Adam and Eve’s innocence, or of human governments, etc.

Now, this dispensation of grace is given to born-again believers after the Cross, including the Gentiles who had previously been excluded, so that ALL people might come to accept Christ as their Savior and come into the knowledge of Christ as their new life. After the Cross, in the God’s new administration (dispensation) of grace, believers are now in Christ, where there is no more distinction between Jew and Gentile; all are made new creatures and God’s children by faith alone in this new dispensation of grace.

Grace of God, in this dispensation, is the key, the most important factor. Warren defines the grace of God as the “unlimited power of God, given to us human beings, that we might come to be birthed children of God” by just believing on Christ as our Savior.

“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” (John 1:12)

This is the “mystery of Christ” Paul reveals time and time again throughout his epistles.

Paul then asks in verse 2, Have you heard of the dispensation of the grace of God?

Warren notes that the average believer doesn’t know what a dispensation is, nor what grace is, let alone the dispensation of the grace of God. He goes on to estimate that about 90% of born-again believers don’t know or understand that they are living in this dispensation of grace right NOW, and they may never step into truly living this grace that God has been offering us since Christ died on the cross.

This grace gospel revealed to Paul by Christ, Himself, is the gospel of Christ living in the born-again believer. That by God’s grace, and not by anything we do, we are saved. With Christ as our life, joined in spirit, we are birthed sons and daughters of God, blameless before Him, and therefore, joint heirs with Christ.

Have you heard of this dispensation we are in right now? Let us come together to reach those believers who are still trying to live the dispensation of law so that they may step in to this new dispensation of the grace of God and come to the knowledge of Christ In them.

Ephesians 3, Part 2

Sat, 20 Jun 2020 06:00:00 -0500

The Dispensation of the Grace of God

By Tammy Lacock

“For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward.” (Eph. 3:1-2, KJV)

In Part 3 of Ephesians verses 1-2, Warren Litzman elaborates on Paul’s use of the word “prisoner” in verse 1 and the “dispensation of the grace of God” in verse 2.

He notes that Paul, as “the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles” is holding so tightly to this new gospel of Christ IN the believer, that he can do nothing else, he’s locked in. He’s a prisoner of Christ because there is nothing else for him to do, nothing more important, then to reveal this message from Christ Himself to the Gentiles.

He goes on to explain the “dispensation of the grace of God.” Let’s first take a look at the definition or meaning of dispensation. It’s the ordering of the affairs of God, an arrangement, or favor as by God. A divinely appointed order or age, a new gospel, defined period or age to which God has allocated distinctive administrative principles.

We can then say that the dispensation of the grace of God refers to a certain time or period. Warren explains that this “dispensation of the grace of God” that Paul emphasizes is a specific time, in which we are NOW living, when there is an exchange of the law of God for the Grace of God. Paul is revealing, for the first time, this new gospel of grace to the Gentiles. This gospel declares that Christ lives IN the born-again believer. He is our life now. We are no longer subject to the law anymore as we grow up IN CHRIST.

In this dispensation, Warren notes that there are now only three races in the world: the Jews, the Gentiles and the New Creation Race. The spirit of every born-again believer in the New Creation race is joined to Christ and is one spirit. With Christ IN us, we are bona fide, direct offspring of our Heavenly Father.

Praise be to God for this dispensation that we now live in! Let us come together to pass on Paul’s new gospel of grace, that of Christ IN the believer, to every Gentile and Jew alike!

Ephesians 3, Part 1

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 06:00:00 -0500

I Paul, Prisoner of Jesus Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward.” (Eph. 3:1-2, KJV)

The Gospel of Paul is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, given to him directly from Christ Himself. This new Gospel of Grace was given to Paul and only to Paul. It wasn’t given to any other mortal man.

When Paul begins his letter to the Ephesians in chapter 3 verse 1, he signs on with “I Paul,” his own signature emphasizing that what he’s about to tell us is from him, nobody else, not from Moses or any of his Old or New Testament predecessors, not from any prophet or any great man. It is from him alone, reflecting his authority. Paul goes on to remind us that he is “the prisoner of Jesus Christ”; for indeed, at the time, he was being held captive in a Roman jail, where he was sentenced to death (and where he spent most of his time writing his letters). In verse 1, he also tells us that being a prisoner of Jesus Christ reflects of this new gospel given him directly from Christ Himself.

So, what is the Gospel of Paul, this Gospel of Jesus Christ?

Paul goes on to say that the gospel he was given by Christ Himself is the ushering in of a new era, the dispensation of the grace of God. In this Dispensation of Grace, God is pouring out His grace upon us, all of us. By just believing in Christ Jesus as our Savior, we are saved, and we are born-again into a new life IN CHRIST. We, too, become sons and daughters of God. Paul tells of this revelation knowledge throughout all his epistles. In over 146 verses in the New Testament, Paul (and John after) speak of Christ in the believer, no longer are we separated. Christ is our righteousness, and we are blameless before God.

It is very important to note that, although Paul loved Israel and wanted to see his people be saved, his new gospel of Christ in us was meant for the Gentiles. However, throughout his writings, he reiterates that Israel, too, can be saved by just believing.

Indeed, ALL can be reconciled to God IN CHRIST!

Ephesians 2, Part 4

Sat, 06 Jun 2020 06:00:00 -0500

It’s a Love Affair

By Tammy Lacock

“For through Him we both have access by one spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and the household of God.” (Eph. 2:18-19, KJV)

In Part 4 of Ephesians 2, Warren Litzman discusses further, in verses 18 and 19, that the moment we believe in Christ Jesus as our Lord and Savior, a very real rebirthing takes place, whether we realize it or not. We are born again, not by the flesh, but by the joining of Christ’s Spirit with our spirit into one spirit. Because we are joined in one spirit, because Christ IN us is our new life, we NOW have access to our Heavenly Father! Christ IN us is everything we need to please God. Our Heavenly Father doesn’t need anything, not one thing, from us. Through Christ, we have eternal life, indeed the Kingdom of God in each and every one of us who believes. Through Christ, we are NOW sons and daughters of God, no longer far removed from Him but joint-heirs with Christ to His inheritance.

Paul’s epistles are the “constitution and by-laws” which say there is only one law, the law of Love, the love affair that is growing in our relationship to Christ IN us. He says we are no longer to know Christ in the flesh but in the spirit. And we can only learn Christ by the Holy Spirit, who has been sent to comfort and teach us, by renewing our minds and hearts in the knowledge of Him.

Ephesians 2, Part 3

Sat, 30 May 2020 06:00:00 -0500

The Final Gospel For The First Time

By Tammy Lacock

What does it mean when Warren Litzman says people are hearing the Final Gospel for the first time?

Well, first we must define what is the Final Gospel. It can be found in over 146 verses throughout the New Testament but most consistently in Paul’s epistles because it was revealed to him directly by Christ Himself. The Final Gospel is synonymous with the Grace Gospel because it is by the death and resurrection of Christ that we were led into what we now live in, the Dispensation of Grace. We are no longer under the law of the Old Testament, which states that we must do something to please God. In Grace, by faith in Christ alone as our Savior, we are blameless before God. The moment we believe, we are born again, a new creation, with Christ as our new life. No longer are we identified by our past (our former sin-nature); our new life is Christ. There is no separation between us and Christ. We are joined in one Spirit with Christ and, therefore, children of our Heavenly Father. It is the Final Gospel because in this Dispensation of Grace which we now live in, believers are on our way to the rapture and on our way to our Heavenly Father’s house. We must be born again to enter in!

This Final Gospel was revealed to Warren for the first time after many years of ministry. In 1960, when he was staying at the Peachtree hotel In Atlanta, his Bible opened up to Paul’s epistles and “like neon letters,” he saw verse after verse with the “In Christ,” “In Him,” “In you,” and "In whom” position. The Holy Spirit dropped into his soul this revelation knowledge. It opened up a whole new world to him, and he’s been sharing this truth to anyone and everyone who will listen ever since....to the ends of the earth!

“And that he might reconcile both onto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you who were afar off, and to them that were nigh” (Eph. 2:16-17, KJV)

Warren Litzman focuses on Ephesians 2:16-17. What does it mean to be “reconciled both unto God in one body by the cross?”

Paul declared that ALL, both Israel (the Jews) and Gentiles, are under this Dispensation of Grace, and both can be saved by just believing in Jesus as Savior. By the cross, all might be saved. When Jesus came to this earth, He came as the Messiah to save Israel. They rejected Him. However, when He went back to Heaven, He gave the Final Grace Gospel to the Apostle Paul which included both Jews and Gentiles, that ALL by believing would be born again and become children of God.

“Having slain the enmity” in verse 16 speaks of the reconciliation of Jews and Gentiles into one body, the Body of Christ. Paul said “in Christ,” there are no Jews, no Gentiles, no Greeks, no females, no males, no other identity other than Christ. Christ is all and is in all! We are not separate from Christ, and we are not separate from each other. As believers, we are born again and are children of God!

The Holy Spirit is revealing this Final Gospel to many for the first time. People are hearing it and passing it onto others in this final hour. It is happening and it must reach every last person before Christ returns!

Ephesians 2, Part 2

Sat, 23 May 2020 06:00:00 -0500

The Life Is In the Son

By Tammy Lacock

In this podcast, Warren Litzman continues to remind us of the most explosive and wonderful truth in the universe, that of Paul’s revelation in Ephesians 2:14, that we are not separated from Christ. At the cross, God tore down all of His restrictions He had placed on human beings in the Old Testament, and instead, He gave His people a whole new life, one that is joined together with Christ. One spirit with Christ, no more walls of partition, nothing to separate us.

Without this Final Gospel, the Grace Gospel, there would be no Christianity. To be a Christian means exactly what Paul reiterates 146 times in his epistles, that we are born again, joined in one spirit with Christ, our old life sheds and Christ is our new life.

Every believer that is born again is a manifestation of Christ. Paul’s revelation knowledge of Christ In us was revealed to him directly by Jesus Himself. Therefore, we first need to study his epistles. Everything else from scriptures, although each gospel important in its own right, pales in comparison to this truth, the Final Gospel of Christ as our life.

John goes on to remind us of Paul’s revelation knowledge in John 5:12 (KJV) when he says:

“He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son hath not life.”

Ephesians 2, Part 1

Sat, 16 May 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Christ IN us, Our Hope of Glory!

By Tammy Lacock

A Christian is one who is joined to Christ in one spirit.

Paul maintains this truth throughout his epistles—that the instant we believe, in the moment we are saved, Christ is birthed in us and becomes our life (Gal. 2:20, KJV). In fact, he repeatedly stated that Christ In us, as our new life, is our only hope of glory, and that hope is necessary as we grow into the knowledge of Christ in us by the Holy Spirit.

Most of us are still trying to work out God’s plan in our lives. Most of us have never had a clear calling from God because we are still working on us and the details of our old lives rather than fixing our minds on our new life in Christ. It is not our old lives being made new; it is Christ as our new life working in us, until we no longer claim that old life. Christ permeates our old lives and dwells in us and through us as doctors, plumbers, teachers, mothers, fathers, etc., not to make us better people and not to give us peace and hope, but to BE our peace, our hope.

In Ephesians 2:14, Paul speaks of this plainly when he says, “For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us.” With Christ in us, as our new life, there are no longer any barriers between Him and us, no separation. Out with the old law of Moses that we must do something within ourselves to please God; and in with God’s new law of love and grace, Christ IN us as our new life, blameless before God. As Christians, we surrender our old lives to Him knowing that He will never leave us nor forsake us and will work out His will in us.

Christ as our life is our only hope of glory!! Let us rejoice in Him!

Following Paul, Part 4

Sat, 09 May 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Following Paul Together

By Tammy Lacock

“Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an example” (Phil. 3:17, KJV)

Paul emphasizes in 11 verses in his epistles to be followers of him, as he is also a follower of Christ. In the above verse, he adds the word “together” urging fellow believers to get together in lifting Christ up, the Christ that now lives IN us. He urges us to come together to spread this revelation, which was directly given to him, and only him, by Christ Himself. It is this message that has been missed by so many believers since the birth of Christianity, and yet our new life IN Christ has been revealed to us by Paul in over 146 verses in his epistles and also John’s writings (which came after Paul).

Under the jurisdiction of Christ, Paul started true Christianity, revealing to us that Christianity means only one thing: Christ is IN the believer, being joined to our Lord, we are but one spirit. And he goes on to teach us how we are to live with Christ in us as our new life.

Let us come together, be followers of Paul, and spread this Final Gospel to all the world!!

Following Paul, Part 3

Sat, 02 May 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Paul Delivers the Grace Gospel, the Final Gospel, to Every Church

By Tammy Lacock

“Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.” (1 Cor. 11:1-2, KJV)

The apostle Paul was the only person to whom Christ revealed His Final Gospel, that the moment we believe in Him as our Savior, we are saved by Christ becoming our new life, and we are joined with Him in Spirit as one, blameless before God our Father.

As the only person entrusted with this new ordinance, this Grace Gospel, Paul emphasizes that when we follow him and accept this by-law, we are following Christ as he is also following Christ.

He urges us as Christians, to bring this Grace Gospel to every church, as he did, as it is indeed the Final Gospel that must reach every last person before Christ’s return (1 Cor. 4:17, KJV).

Following Paul, Part 2

Sat, 25 Apr 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Paul, Worthy of Our Followship

By Tammy Lacock

“Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.” (1 Cor. 4:16, KJV)

There are only two men God said for us to follow: Moses and the Apostle Paul.

Moses occupies 4,300 years of Old Testament time through Jesus’ earthly ministry, and Paul covers the time of Jesus’ death on the cross until the coming rapture of His people.

These are two very distinct biblical times, one governed by the old (the law) and one governed by the new (the final gospel).

God gave Moses the Ten Commandments. The people followed Moses and lived by the law, having to DO something in order to be acceptable to God.

Even before His death, Christ said to his disciples to pick up your cross and follow me, again having to do something in order to be who they were (Matthew 16:24, KJV).

However, through Christ’s death on the cross and His resurrection, God changed all that! The moment we believe, we are born again; the seed of His Son is birthed in us, never to be separated from Him again! Christ Himself gave Paul this Final Gospel of Christ in every believer. Christ raised up ONLY Paul to relay this message of grace alone to born-again believers.

By following Paul and hearing this Final Gospel, we understand that we are no longer who we are by what we do; we are who we are by Christ in us, continually growing up in Christ and doing only what the Holy Spirit tells us concerning Him.

Indeed, as followers of Paul’s Final Gospel, we are constantly pointed to Christ, to learn Christ and depend only on Christ, being matured into the full stature of God’s Son ready to live in our Father’s House. Paul assures us that there’s no need to worry or fear in the coming days because we have Christ in us NOW.

Following Paul, Part 1

Sat, 18 Apr 2020 06:00:00 -0500

Paul, Our Father of Grace on Earth

By Tammy Lacock

“Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.” (1 Cor. 11:1, KJV)

Why does Paul state a variation of the above verse 11 times in his epistles? He knew the importance of the Final Gospel that was entrusted solely to Him by Christ, Himself. This final gospel, the great mystery of Christ in the believer, was then given to us by Paul in his letters. He knew that by following him and hearing this message, we would be led into grace and to our Father’s house in Heaven; and with the teaching of the Holy Spirit, we would be brought to know Christ as our life.

Indeed, it is only through Paul’s epistles that we are led to know the Fatherhood of God and our identity as His children. The one who has made us who we are in Christ is our Heavenly Father by putting the seed of His Son in us the moment we believe.

Introducing the Holy Spirit, Part 4

Sat, 11 Apr 2020 06:00:00 -0500

The Holy Spirit and Paul

By Tammy Lacock

“I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.” (John 16:12-13, KJV)

In the above two verses, what were the many things that Jesus spoke about that He wanted to reveal to His disciples, yet they weren’t quite ready for?

After His death and resurrection, Jesus chose the apostle Paul, an extremely learned and devout Jew who was on his way to Damascus to persecute and torture Christians, to spread at least some of these yet untold truths to the world, to both Jews and Gentiles alike. Paul’s life was transformed by his encounter with Christ, and his epistles unwaveringly tell of his love and devotion to Him.

So, what are these truths?

Well, Paul had many messages of truth in his letters, but there is one truth that he repeatedly writes about; it is in more than 140 verses in the New Testament. It is the final gospel that needs to reach the last person before Jesus returns in the air. Although this truth has been right in front of us in all these verses, today’s Christians are only beginning to understand what Paul laid out for us thousands of years ago. It’s the liberating secret that the moment we believe in Christ as our Savior, He becomes our life. We are “born again,” a “new creation,” joined to the Lord as one spirit with Christ. In fact, we are no longer defined by our past; our new identity is Christ. We are not LIKE Christ. Indeed, He is in us, as us.

In his letter to the Galatians 2:20 (KJV), Paul states plainly and clearly, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but CHRIST LIVETH IN ME.”

In his first letter to the Corinthians 6:17, he adds “But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” (KJV)

In his second letter to the Corinthians 5:17, he proclaims “Therefore if any man be IN CHRIST, he is a new creature: old things passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

And, in Ephesians 1:4 (KJV), he writes, “According as he hath chosen us IN HIM before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.”

These are only a few of the many verses that reveal Christ in the believer and the believer in Christ. No separation!

So, why are we now starting to “see” and live this liberating secret? God sent the Holy Spirit to work on our soulish area, which is our minds, wills, and emotions. Through our individual life circumstances and situations, the Holy Spirit reveals to us in our due time what it is we need to know about Jesus. Now is that time! Believers all over are beginning to understand and live Christ in them!

During this time of grace, there is and will be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit prompting this final gospel of Paul’s to reach the very last person. By Christ’s Cross, God’s re-birthed children stand blameless in His eyes. Christ IS our righteousness. In time, we will be called up to heaven to live with Him. For that has been God’s intention since before the foundation of the world, to bring us back to Him by the sacrifice of his only begotten Son and by Him birthing His Son’s Spirit in us. Christ IN US is our salvation, our hope of glory (Col. 1:27)!!

Introducing the Holy Spirit, Part 3

Sat, 04 Apr 2020 06:00:00 -0500

In part 3 of his series on the Holy Spirit, Warren distinguishes the importance of the Holy Spirit's work in our lives and how it differs from the work of Christ in us.

The Holy Spirit and the Final Gospel

By Tammy Lacock

“And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me.” (John 16:8-9, KJV)

The above verse is Jesus talking about the Holy Spirit coming to teach us the true meaning of righteousness, judgment, and sin in the world.

He points out that not believing on Him is the ultimate sin. He tells us that the Holy Spirit will comfort us in this truth and in the truth that when we believe, we are instantly born again (John 3:3) Therefore, our past no longer defines who we are. Jesus is birthed in us, becoming our only life and our new identity. Paul plainly states this new identity in Galatians 2:20, which says I am crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live but Christ liveth in me.

This is the final gospel which has been solely entrusted to the Apostle Paul in the Bible. He was given this message of our in-Christ position by Christ to teach it to the Church. It is in over 140 verses in the New Testament. It is the work of the Holy Spirit to open and renew our minds with this liberating truth, the purest message of Jesus. For Christ in us makes us know what salvation is, which is Eternal Life. And it all begins the moment we believe.

Introducing the Holy Spirit, Part 2

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 06:00:00 -0500

The Holy Spirit and Righteousness

By Tammy Lacock

“And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness, and of judgment.” (John 16:8, KJV)

In the Old Testament, righteousness to the Israelites was doing what God told them to do. In the New Testament, in Paul’s grace gospel, Christ has been made onto us righteousness.

“But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” (1 Cor. 1:30)

Therefore, Christ must live in us in order to BE our righteousness. We don’t and can’t work for it; we need only to believe in Christ, and we become one spirit with Christ, Christ as our life, Christ as our righteousness before God. The Holy Spirit teaches this to the born-again believer, and He comforts us in this knowledge.

So, what does this mean for our sins, our works, our daily living? Well, we’re not off the hook completely.

The Holy Spirit works in our minds, wills, and emotions through our circumstances and situations (Warren Litzman calls it the ‘C & S gang’) in our lives. The Holy Spirit steps in when we are to make decisions and choices. He guides and teaches us more and more of Christ, revealing the mind of Christ in these moments of highs and lows in our lives. Although we may still make poor choices, we are not judged or condemned, but constantly growing in the knowledge of Christ in us and our relationship with Him. We have the Holy Spirit, our Advocate, to thank as we grow up in Christ and His righteousness begins to shine through.

Introducing the Holy Spirit, Part 1

Sat, 21 Mar 2020 09:00:00 -0500

The Holy Spirit, The Person

By Tammy Lacock

“But these things I have told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning because I was with you.” (John 16:4, KJV)

In this eye-opening series on the Holy Spirit, Warren begins with Christ's introduction of the Holy Spirit and the role He would serve after the Cross, from the Gospel of John.

He’s never been seen or even really known to be a person, but the Holy Spirit is indeed a person. He is the third person of the Holy Trinity and so his job is of utmost importance in carrying out God’s plan. He was sent by the Father to teach us ONLY about Jesus, opening our minds and hearts to the revelation that Christ lives in us and to know who He is in us.

John talks about our “soulish” area in the above verse when he speaks of remembering. Just as Christ lives in our spirits, the Holy Spirit lives in our “soulish” area, our minds, wills and emotions, constantly renewing our minds and helping us to remember who we are in Christ and what we are to learn from Scriptures. John saw that God saved us by grace, by no effort of our own, only by believing on Jesus. Our spirits are locked in and saved. But John knew that we also need to be transformed in our “soulish” area. This is the work of the Holy Spirit, to empower us to do the will of God which is to serve and glorify Him in our daily lives by teaching us how to grow in our love affair with Christ in us.

What Is the Christ-life?

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 09:00:00 -0500

Warren Litzman describes the liberty of God's born-again children living with revelation knowledge of Christ as their life.

Introducing the Christ-life

Tue, 03 Mar 2020 09:00:00 -0500

Introducing the Christ-Life

Paul states in Galatians 2:20 (KJV) that “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”.

There are over 140 verses in the Bible that state this In-Christ position, the truth that the moment we believe in Christ as our Savior, we no longer live. Christ becomes our life. He is birthed in us. We are “born again” in Christ. This means that, as believers, we live and rest in the truth that we are not separate from Christ. The Bible declares clearly that we become “New Creations” out with the old (our life and our identity before believing, our sin-nature) and in with the new (our new life in Christ). We become images and reflections of Him as we relationship with Him and understand through the work of the Holy Spirit that He is our new nature, indeed our life.

What great news!!!!!