What does it mean to be a Christian? A Christian's life summarized in three words
and these three words will be Sit, Walk and Stand. Now, if you have read the book by
Watchman Nee on Sit, Stand and Walk, this will also go along with that book and I would highly
recommend you to check that book out. We have it in the description below. In Psalm 1:1 it says,
So David tells us in the Old Covenant, don't stand, don't walk and don't sit. It's like,
What do we do then? Now, in the book of Ephesians, which is like the book of that describes,
what it means to be a Christian. What it means to be a born-again Christian. Paul tells us three
things we can do. He talks about sitting. He talks about standing and he talks about
walking. So what does it mean to be a Christian? Who are Christians? Christians are those who sit.
Christians are those who walk and Christians are those who stand. Now, you may think,
oh yeah I know, Christians are the ones who sit in church and they are the ones that are standing
during the church service for worship or prayer and they walk around and they preach the gospel.
Actually, the book of Ephesians goes a little bit deeper than that. The first thing what it means to
be a Christian is to sit. Sitting speaks of the believer's position in Christ. Currently seated
with Him in the heavenly places. Now, believers they identify with Jesus. They don't identify
with their sexuality. They don't identify even with their gender. They don't identify with their
wealth. They identify with Christ. They identify with Jesus. Because Jesus died for them. Because
Jesus was buried. That's why Christians get baptized to identify with Jesus's burial and Jesus
rose from the dead and that's why, we come out of the water. We identify with Jesus's New Life.
But it doesn't stop there. We don't identify with Jesus only in His death, burial and resurrection.
The Bible says that as Jesus is, so are we in this world. That means that currently Jesus is
not on the cross. He is not in the garden and He is not in the tomb. Jesus is risen and He is
seated at the right hand of God and guess where we are at. We are in Christ. That's incredible. See,
a lot of people think that Christians are the ones that are going to go to heaven and that is true.
But the Bible actually tells us Christians are the ones that are already in the heavenly places
in Christ Jesus. So a Christian is not somebody who's waiting to die one day to go to heaven. A
Christian is somebody who is in Christ, in the heavenly places because Jesus died for them.
Because of Jesus's death, we don't wait to die to go to heaven. We're already in the
heavenly places. That's incredible. We are seated in Christ. The second thing is we
are walking. Ephesians not only says that we are seated together in the heavenly places,
Ephesians chapter 2 verse 6, It also says that we are walking in the Lord. In fact, it says
the following. Ephesians chapter 4 verse 1, Ephesians chapter 4 verse 1 talks about walking
worthy of the calling. Ephesians chapter 4 verse 17 talks about no longer walking as Gentiles.
Ephesians chapter 5 verse 2 talks about walking in love. Ephesians chapter 5 verse 8 talks about
walking as the children of light and Ephesians chapter 5 verse 15 talks about walking in wisdom.
So Christians are the ones that sit and the Christians are the ones that walk.
See, every time you're seated in the heavenly places but you walk in the realm of the earth
meaning because you still live in this earth. So we walk in here on earth. We walk worthy of Jesus.
We walk not like the world. We walk in love. We walk as children of light and we walk in wisdom.
A lot of Christians, they only like to sit and they don't like to walk and some Christians,
they focus more on their walk than on their sitting. It's important to see the order first
is the sitting and then is the walking meaning, we only walk in the Lord. We walk out the principles,
the expectations Jesus sets on us because we're seated in the heavenly places. We don't get our
power to walk Christian Life from Christian Life. We get our power from the Lord, from being in that
place of in Christ. Seated in the heavenly places. Live from heaven to earth instead of from earth
to heaven. A lot of Christians they struggle in their Christian life because they're trying to
live from earth to heaven instead of from heaven to earth. Jesus said to pray like this, may Your
kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. May Your will be done you know, may Your kingdom come. May
Your will be done. So we're supposed to live from the heaven to earth instead of from earth
to heaven and that's why Paul highlights first seated in the heavenly places and then he says,
make sure you walk in wisdom, make sure you walk in light, make sure you walk in the light. Most
Christians, they're so focused on make sure that they live their Christian Life properly instead of
focusing on make sure that they are positioned properly. Focus on your position more than on
your practice. Focus on where you belong, on your belief more than on your behavior.
Because Christian life is about being seated in the heavenly places first and then it's about
walking out the Christian Life. Christians struggle with their Holiness first because
they struggle to understand that it doesn't start with holy living. It starts with being in Christ
in the heavenly places. That's what the source of all Holiness and all Purity is found in. Now,
the third word that defines a Christian is so not only a Christian is somebody who sits,
not only a Christian is somebody who walks but the Christian is also somebody who stands. Now,
all of that is found in the book of Ephesians. Standing speaks of believers posture of resistance
to the work of the devil. B<ecause see, Christian Life just because I am in heaven in Christ Jesus.
I died with Jesus. He died for me. I died with Him. I was buried through baptism. I am seated
in the heavenly places. Currently right now, even though I'm sitting right here in Kennewick, in the
studio in my house but spiritually I am seated in the heavenly places. That's what the Bible says.
So that's true but because I live on this earth with my body and you know,
living here on this earth, I walk in my Christian life. I don't run in my Christian Life, I walk in
my Christian life. Now, it's true I can run the race with endurance looking unto Jesus but the
Christian life is more of a walk than a run. So it's not just about sitting in the heavenly
places, it's also walking in my Christian Life. Walking with God, walking with men.
But in this walk of Holiness and righteousness, Paul doesn't forget
about a part of a Christian life that I think many Christians are ignorant about.
I do believe those of you watching, you are not ignorant about because you've been around ministry
like ours and other ministries that emphasize spiritual warfare but Paul takes Ephesians chapter
6 and he dives deep into a portion of Christian's life that involves a posture of standing.
Now, I would think Paul would say that when it comes to spiritual warfare, a Christian should
be fighting and Paul should should have been using the words like fight, resist, renounce, pull down,
you know these are the words, he used in other portions of the scripture. But in Ephesians
chapter 6 talking about sitting, walking then he says, stand. So in the evil day, stand. He says,
put on the whole armor of God so you can stand against the wiles of the devil and he says,
you know put on the breastplate, put on the helmet, so you can withstand. Stand, stand, stand.
Wow, Stand! I thought we have to fight. See, Paul is talking about spiritual warfare in the life of
a believer and he's speaking from a position that the believer already has the victory in Christ.
We don't fight for victory, we fight from victory. Standing means, I'm not trying to achieve victory.
I received victory and I defend it now. I defend my field of beans like Shammah one of the David's
mighty men. I defend, I stand in the place that Christ has placed me in. The devil will come
against me, of course, he will come against me with lies, he will come against me using my past,
he will come against me with condemnation, with confusion, with doubt. He will come against me.
He will attack me from the outside and what I do in those moments is I Stand my ground
and that's huge. Because so many Christians, a lot of times they don't realize is that if
you stand your ground, you can withstand and the evil day will stop. The enemy will leave and that
you will keep walking with the Lord. Sometimes your walk gets interrupted because of warfare.
Therefore as a Christian, you're not just somebody who is seated, you're not just
somebody who walks, you're also somebody who have to stand. If you don't know how to stand,
spiritual warfare will catch you by surprise. You will get shot from nowhere and you're like, what's
just happening to me? Am I doing something wrong? No, you're doing everything right as a Christian
if you're walking and you're sitting, you just have to learn to also stand, putting up your
shield of faith meaning, trust in what God says about you, not on what you feel about yourself
at that moment. Trust in the fact that you are righteous because Jesus declares you are righteous
not because you're feeling righteous. Trust in the fact that you are saved that protects your brain,
that protects your mind. Put on the belt of truth, put on the shoes of peace,
take the sword of God which is the word of God. The sword of the Spirit which is the word of God
and begin to stand your ground. It's better to be a warrior in the garden than a gardener in war.
I want to challenge you as a Christian not only to know your position in Jesus, not only to know your
practice in Jesus but to also know your posture in Jesus. My position is I am in the heavenly places.
My practice is that I walk out my Christian Life, every single day for I was created for good works
for which God has created me for. I am saved for those good works to walk in them. That's
what it says in the Bible and thirdly is I have a posture and my posture is the moment Hell Breaks
Loose and bullets start flying and everything starts going crazy. I don't freak out why,
because I'm Ready for War. I'm a warrior. I'm not just somebody who sits. I'm not just somebody who
walks. I am a warrior. I got the armor. I got the weapons. I got the armor and my captain is
on my side. I'm fighting a winning battle in which Jesus already won. I withstand accusation, lies,
condemnation, confusion, doubt. I withstand that. Now, the difference between spiritual warfare when
the warfare happens in you meaning, when you come under demonic attack and oppression inside. Then
you need Deliverance. We're talking about here where you need to exercise your Dominion with
the voices come from the outside. The devil hits you with a nightmare or some kind of an accusing
voice begins to come and you just sense that everything just changed, everything went wrong,
everything got crazy and instead of freaking out and trying to figure out what did I do wrong?
I Stand my ground. The devil has to leave and he will if you resist him, being full of faith.
But to do that, you have to know a Christian is somebody who sits, somebody who walks and if the
devil brings hell to his front door is somebody who stands. He knows how to stand his ground.
Are you a true Christian? Are you currently living in any of these places in heaven on earth walking
or maybe in a spiritual warfare? Do you know that you're seated? Do you know that you need to walk
and do you know that you need to stand? Thank you for watching this video. I hope
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