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by Pastor Kevin Badgley

HOLY REPLACEMENT

Avenue of Faith #2

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HOLY REPLACEMENT

Avenue of Faith #2

Preface

(be like Jesus, get the Holy Ghost)

There is a holy replacement going on in your life. Galatians 5:16 tells us to, “. . . Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.” God wants us to overcome all of the power of the enemy. We have to change our way of living in order to enter into this position and condition of faith.

You can’t do one thing without Jesus. In John 15:5 Jesus said, “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.”

This is the process. We are to be replaced. We get filled with the Holy Ghost, and He will take out everything that is not like Jesus and replace it with that which is of Jesus. He does not leave a vacuum.

2 Corinthians 3:6 says, “Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament. . . .” Jesus gave us the keys to the kingdom of God. When you got born again you agreed to die, to be sacrificed on the altar of consecration. God isn’t going to leave you there. He is going to walk in you, you shall be His, and He shall be your God. God has called us to this.

HOLY REPLACEMENT

Avenue of Faith #2

by Pastor Kevin Badgley

“Full gospel” people have chosen to believe the whole Bible. That means every jot and tittle and all the promises. I believe in the miraculous because I have experienced miracles that confirm what the Word of God says.

The first church was full gospel, and that is the way the Lord intends for us to walk! Signs followed them and there were miracles, and the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. I believe God will do that with the last day church.

To operate in “full gospel” there are conditions to meet. Jesus said in Luke 12:48, “. . . unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required. . . .”

The miraculous is not supposed to be an occasional occurrence, but an act of the will of the believer. Miracles of God are ordained for you, but they must be enacted. Job was talking about praying and acquainting yourself with God, and then in Job 22:28 he said, “Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.”

We should be in a proactive, Holy Ghost filled ministry in whatever capacity. God has placed each of us in the body as He wills, and we are reliant on miracles. In the Bible, you can look at how battles were won, how people escaped injury, and how when things were headed in another direction, a turning point was made, and a miracle took place. You can read how God intervened, sustained, and saved people.

It is not something we pray and just hope it happens. Jesus said in John 14:12, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”

Miracles are not supposed to be happenstance events. We are supposed to pray and believe for them. Jesus said in Matthew 21:22, “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” There are conditions that must be met, and these conditions separate full gospel faith and living from part gospel faith and worldly living!

Psalm 66:18 says, “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:” James 4:8 says, “Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.”

God wants us out of the defensive mode. He wants us to be living epistles, able to perform the miraculous, meeting every need, including telling somebody WHY they aren’t getting a miracle. That would be from the gift of knowledge or discerning of spirits.

God wants us to obey Galatians 5:16 - “. . . Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.” He wants us to overcome all of the power of the enemy. We have to change our way of living in order to enter into this position and condition of faith.

One of the avenues of faith is this: there has to be a holy replacement in your life. You can’t do one thing without Jesus. In John 15:5 Jesus said, “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.”

Jesus also said in John 5:19, “. . . The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do. . . .” Jesus said He would give us a Comforter, and that Spirit of truth will guide us into all truth. (See John 14:16 and John 16:13.) Acts 1:4-5 tells us that it is the promise of the Father. That is God’s Spirit. The spirit of Christ is in you for salvation and keeping power. The Spirit of the Father is for power to anoint Jesus King, and to give you and me power over all of the power of the enemy.

Acts 1:8 says, “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”

You receive power AFTER the Holy Ghost comes upon you. Until that time, miracles will be happenstance. If you don’t stay prayed up, and fast, and continue to obey God after you receive the Holy Ghost, you can’t do a whole lot more than before. God doesn’t want confusion in the church. People wonder why “full gospel” people talk it but can’t produce it.

We are going into a place where we can enter into the faith that God ordained for the church so that the church will have the needs met. Hebrews 9:15 says (talking about Jesus), “And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.” There’s some good to be dished out.

Hebrews 9:17 is a pivot point for the rest of the message: “For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.” A last will and testament has no power whatsoever until the testator dies. Then it comes into power. In the New Testament is Jesus’ last will and testament. For us to receive the testimony of Jesus, it has to be enacted. That is why a testament is latent (dormant) power waiting on someone to receive it.

When we receive it, we must get out of the way so we can testify, preach, and do the miraculous like Jesus did. In order for it to take effect in us, the death of us (our will being submitted to God, and we being dead to the flesh and the world) must take place, because the testament has no strength at all while we (our wills) live.

If you are still trying to walk your life AND perform the miraculous – it’s not going to happen. Jesus said, “. . . I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” He came to give us life (salvation) and life more abundantly (a life like He had). Not everyone will be a carpenter or a preacher. He’s talking about walking in the Spirit with a life of faith. The just (the saved) shall live by faith.

Some people think that living by faith is living in a decrepit or desolate position. It is not. It is living in an overcoming position and in all power. The finished work of it is living in the position where all things are possible.

Romans 12:1 says, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Living and sacrifice don’t make any sense when you put them together, unless part of us is alive and part of us is going to die! I don’t mean dying and going to heaven. There won’t be any ministry going on in heaven. Everybody is saved and healed up there. We have an eternal inheritance here. Why would you inherit something in this life and not have any opportunity to advance the kingdom of God?

Romans 14:17 says, “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”

He comes and lives in us, and now there are two living in this vessel. God is not interested in your OLD man. He is interested in the new man, Christ Jesus within you. Colossians 1:27 says, “. . . which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:” He did away with all the sin that is in the man. This is the goal and object of God. We are alive, but we are dead! Jesus wants us to be dead so we will be alive.

Galatians 2:20 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.” Paul surpassed his own way of living, and thinking, and his own limited faith. God wants to take us out of our limitations and put us into the things of God!

Luke 1:37 says, “For with God nothing shall be impossible.” God wants all of us to be with God. Matthew 5:8 says, “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” That is not talking about dying and going to heaven only. It also means in this life.

There has to be a death in order for your testimony to have any power. The Lord has already died and rose again. He has made a way for us to die. Jesus made a way for us to live, but there has to be a death before there can be a resurrection and entrance into eternal life. The altar is a place of death and sacrifice. You give up your life and you take on Him operating IN YOUR life. He takes Himself and you into one life, one vessel, and makes one new man.

We want to get into the place where we can decree a thing, and it is done. We want to lay hands on the sick, and not just hope they get healed; they will be healed. God wants to help us get rid of our bondage. Then we can really go for God. If we are going to believe full gospel, we have to LIVE full gospel. To obtain abundant life, we have to get rid of our old nature.

2 Corinthians 5:1-2 says, “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:”

It is not talking about going to heaven. The earthly tabernacle was dissolved. Dissolution means to do away with, and it is a form of redemption, of trading places. Jesus dissolves it so we can’t build it back. That is the plan of God for the church and every man that believes.

2 Corinthians 1:20 says, “For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen. . . .” However, we don’t come into those promises automatically. We desire to be clothed upon with our house from heaven. We need the Holy Ghost.

2 Corinthians 5:3-4 says, “If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.”

In this realm in this vessel we are burdened. Then he says that mortality is swallowed up of life. He is not talking about dying and going to heaven. Mortality right there means all the limitations of being mortal. Don’t misunderstand - I am not talking to you about having a glorified body in the earth. The inability to accomplish the things that the Bible says are yours, is a trait of mortality and impossibility.

The Holy Ghost has come down from heaven now. We don’t want to be naked. We want to be clothed upon – we want to be Christ like – so it will swallow up our impossibilities and make all things possible. All things ARE possible to the believer. Jesus did not intend for us to have substandard abilities, churches or ministries. Therefore we are not supposed to have a substandard lifestyle!

Full gospel people have a strange way of looking at things. We believe for the fullness of God, and we have to live differently. Otherwise, everybody else could do what God intended for only the Christian to do.

2 Corinthians 5:5 says, “Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.”

Earnest money is a deposit, a profession of full intent to purchase something. You say you mean business. However, I am not talking about a deposit on worldly terms.

Ephesians 1:10 says, “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:” He is not talking about dying and going to heaven.

God put all things in heaven and on earth in Christ. Why? Luke 11:2 says, “. . . Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.”

God’s full purpose is to have heaven come to earth as far as the believer, so you will have the same anointing you would have if you were in heaven, but you are here and you can perform the miraculous. That sounds just like Jesus! God gathered together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him. That is how we get it – IN HIM.

Ephesians 1:13 says, “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,” He is talking about the baptism of the Holy Ghost right there, not the Spirit of Christ and salvation. He said you believed – that is salvation. He said after that, “ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,” – that is the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Those are two different events.

The Spirit of truth is also the Spirit of promise. Someone said they counted and there are over 30,000 promises in the Bible. All of them are in the Spirit of God. Zechariah 4:6 says, “ . . . Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.”

When you give way to the Spirit of God to have His way instead of your own will, God can take over and do anything He wants to in you, just like He could do anything He wanted to do in Jesus.

Matthew 7:2 says, “. . . with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” In other words, the more you yield to God, the more God gives to you. Ephesians 1:13 says, “. . . ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”

The purchased possession is you and me! 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says, “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price. . . .” You are a purchased possession; you belong to God, but until you are fully redeemed, you just have an earnest, which is the Holy Ghost.

Luke 9:29 says, “And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered. . . .” Jesus started out praying and three witnesses got to see it happen on the Mount of Transfiguration. He wasn’t trying to be flashy, but He showed them something. He told them to keep the vision close until after He arose from the dead. They obeyed Him, and afterward they understood what He was talking about.

He did this on purpose to show them how to pray into the spirit realm. Usually while He prayed, they slept. Later on when they were filled with the Holy Ghost, they stayed awake and prayed, and even the shadow of Peter healed the sick. His own shadow didn’t belong to him anymore. God was in that shadow that healed the sick. It was the vessel of Peter, but God was in him.

Acts 19:11 says, “And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.” This happened because his body didn’t belong to him anymore; it belonged to God.

Mark 16:18 says, “. . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” You don’t have any power in your hands to do anything, but when he Holy Ghost comes upon you, you are turned into another man!

1 Samuel 10:6-7 says, “And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man. And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.” God told this to Saul by the prophet. He said he would prophesy. Revelation 19:10 says, “. . . for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

The testimony comes by the Holy Ghost. 1 Corinthians 12:3 says, “. . . no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.” This is how we enter in as children of God. We must be faithful to God and His Word. We must also be faithful in Holy Ghost prayer.

Jude 1:20 says, “But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,” Building up is a key point. 2 Corinthians 5:1 told us that if we are dissolved, we have a building of God that is eternal. Verse 2 says we groan, wanting to be clothed with this house from God.

Peter talked about it. 1 Peter 2:5 says, “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house. . . .” It is a house of faith, because the just shall live by his faith!

We have an earnest in the Holy Ghost. God has placed the ability in us to pray to Him so the devils can’t figure it out! The angels desire to look into it! He wants to purchase us COMPLETELY. He wants to take full possession.

When something is all yours, you are free to do what you want. You aren’t renting, you are living in it, and it is yours! God wants to take up residence and take full control and possession. God rarely uses what He doesn’t own.

When I borrow something, it is with a certain amount of trepidation. It is mine right now in my hands, but I am not the owner. If I make a purchase, it is mine, and if I break it or if I never use it, it is my business. That is what God wants with you and me. He has bought us; He has an earnest in us.

God says we are His and He is ours, and we are going to work together. He wants us to come on and walk in the Spirit. Don’t stay in the flesh, walking in your old nature. God did not save you so that you could accomplish all your own plans! He saved you to get rid of your plans, and put His plans in you, and then turn this world upside down.

Keep your focus on this. The earnest of our inheritance is until the redemption of the purchased possession. There has to be redemption. Redemption means to be changed over, converted, translated, transfigured, transformed. Redemption is not salvation alone. It is the beginning of salvation. Hebrews 7:25 says, “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”

The Lord spoke this to me one day. I was concerned about some things, and I was asking God what He was going to do with me. This is what He told me. 1 Corinthians 15:36 says, “Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:”

I put out a little garden. Those seeds have to bust open and in a sense be destroyed before the latent plant, which can bear multiplied fruit beyond that one seed, can come out. There is a potential for great harvest and multiplied life, but there has to be the death of the seed, a casting away. It has to be stuck in the ground, and rotted away, before it can bust forth with all of its potential.

Faith is indicative of the potential of God. The Word of God tells us what our potential is, but we have to get there. We have to believe for it. A lot of people don’t want that potential, because of the responsibility. Luke 12:48 says, “. . . For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required. . . .” They consider it a constant strain to walk in holiness, when actually it is liberating. It is glorious if we will just trust God.

1 Corinthians 15:39 says, “All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.” Scientists have finally figured that out with DNA signatures, but it was already in God’s Word!

1 Corinthians 15:40 says, “There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.” Celestial means of the heavens and terrestrial means of the earth, so there are heavenly and earthly bodies. There is a spiritual and there is a natural. There is a high and there is a low, and there is a difference in the glory of them. There was a difference between the anointing of Moses and the anointing of Jesus.

Look at Verse 44: “It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.” You and I are sown a natural body.

James 5:7 says, “. . . Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth. . . .” What is he waiting for? The death of the seed. Why does God continue to wait on revival? Why does He wait on people? Sometimes we take a beating over here while the sinner is loafing and goofing around. We are waiting on them. God is waiting for the fruit, the death of the seed, and then He will move.

You have a natural body, and you have a spiritual body. 1 Corinthians 15:45 says, “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.”

People who shall lay hands on the sick and they recover, have been quickened by the Spirit of God. God’s Spirit is much more powerful than their spirit and the spirits they are fighting. God gives deliverance to the souls of the ones they are praying for. Romans 12:21 says, “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.” God supplies the need according to His riches in glory.

The last Adam was made a quickening spirit. God wants us to go from a living soul to a quickening spirit position.

1 Corinthians 15:46 says, “Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.” You start out natural. When you first get saved, you are still thinking naturally. God says to get filled with the Spirit, and you will start thinking spiritually. You will be renewed in the spirit of your mind.

Romans 12:1-2 says, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 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.”

Your goals will be different when God renews you. Right now we are trying to use the Holy Ghost to try to meet certain goals of our own minds. Allow God to work according to the Word, and you will pray, plan, and live differently. Jesus told Peter in Luke 22:32 – “when thou art converted. . . .” Peter had to be changed.

1 Corinthians 15:47 says, “The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.” The first man is earthy – that is the living soul. The second man is the Lord – remember 2 Corinthians 5:2 says, “. . . clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:” The Holy Ghost is going to make you like Jesus.

John 16:13 says, “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.” The Holy Ghost will glorify God and make you like Jesus.

1 Corinthians 15:48 says, “As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.”

Galatians 6:8 says, “For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.”

1 Corinthians 15:49 says, “And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.” Once again, it is not talking about dying and going to heaven.

Jesus told us how to pray. The first thing He said in Matthew 6:9 was, “. . . Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” That was the first thing He told us to pray for! We address God as our Father and enter His courts with thanksgiving and His gates with praise before we ask Him for anything. The first petition is “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”

Our house from heaven is heavenly. Our house is built up by praying in the Spirit, praying in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is from heaven.

Acts 2:1-4 says, “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”

Genesis 1:2-3 says, “. . . And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” When God says something, it is so. Romans 4:17 says, “. . . God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.”

God wants us to get in that place. I did not say become God, I said walk like Jesus. This is the process. We are to be replaced. We get filled with the Holy Ghost, because the Holy Ghost is a great killer. He will take out everything that is not like Jesus and replace it with that which is of Jesus. He does not leave a vacuum. God is good, and He wants us to have this.

2 Corinthians 3:6 says, “Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”

2 Corinthians 3:9-10 says, “For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.”

He is talking about the anointing and the faith of Moses. He was anointed of God, but he brought them condemnation by the commandments of God. As soon as you heard it, you realized you had sinned. There was an anointing and a glory on that, but there is a glory that excels. We have that in the new covenant with Jesus.

Verse 11 says, “For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.” This is why just telling people that sin will send them to hell does not work. You have to make them feel so much of heaven they don’t want hell. Heaven has got to be on you and me in the anointing.

2 Corinthians 3:17 says, “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” The greater the intensity of the Spirit of the Lord, the more liberty there is. You can cast out devils and unclean spirits that come to church Sunday after Sunday.

2 Corinthians 3:18 says, “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” We are changed into the image of Christ Jesus. Why do you think the devil does not want you to pray? Why does he want you to consider the Holy Ghost to be optional? He is concerned with how much Bible study and Word knowledge you have. He doesn’t want you to press in.

Jesus gave us the keys to the kingdom of God. There is a holy replacement going on in your life. When you got born again you agreed to die, to be sacrificed on the altar of consecration, and to give your life to God. God isn’t going to leave you there. He is going to walk in you, you shall be His, and He shall be your God.

God has called us to this. It is by divine appointment and mandate. Folks, we can do this if we will have it. It is an act of our will. Revelation 22:17 says, “And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”

CONTACT INFORMATION:

PASTOR KEVIN BADGLEY

LIVING HOPE FELLOWSHIP, P. O. BOX 111, GRAND CHAIN, IL 62941

CHURCH / FAX (618) 634-2541

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These condensed Bible studies have been published to help new Christians in their new walk with the Lord. Kevin Badgley, the author, is the pastor of Living Hope Fellowship Church.

This is a Living Hope Fellowship publication.