Executing Christian Integrity

Over the course of the next several months we will delve into a study that will challenge us in ways that most of us have never been challenged before. We will be called upon to put aside many of our presuppositions as it pertains to Christianity and the Christian way of life. Those of us that are willing to engage this study with a heart that is surrendered to the transforming power of the Holy Spirit will become inspired to walk in a realm of supernatural power in a manner that few have experienced.

You will be called to put aside your legalistic perspectives and you will learn that your religion has no true intrinsic value. You will be brought face to face with your fallibility, but do not despair, because this is where you will become acquainted with the very power source that will equip you to walk with Christian integrity and Godly character. You will be introduced to the same power source used by Christ during His earthly ministry, and you will discover that Christ has bequeathed that very same power source to you.

The very sphere of power that sustained Christ during his earthly ministry is available, in its unabridged and uninhibited version, to every believer that is willing to commit to operating within the blueprint of the system’s design.

Christ did not only come to the earth to provide salvation, he also came to the earth to present to you the system of power that equips you with the power necessary for you to have the confidence and the capability to execute God’s plan for your life.

Please understand that this is not an exercise in mysticism or pseudo-spirituality. This is not a name it and claim it movement. This is a movement that rests on the foundation of God’s Word and is executed through the power of the Holy Spirit as we systematically walk it out. There is no limit to God’s power, but it has to be properly appropriated to have an effect.

One last warning; this is not a quick fix. This takes commitment and consistency. We have been trained to seek emotional quick fixes, so we show up on Sunday to get our thirty minute sermon and our emotional charge, but we gain very little in the way of substance. We have lost our thirst for serious Bible study in lieu of a great motivational speech. Don’t get me wrong those Sunday morning sermons have their place, but they must be seen as the reinforcement of what the Word of God has revealed to us in our hearts. These sermons must be understood as the supplementation for our Word-infused hearts.

This study will be an ongoing endeavor that will require patients and consistency. A true foundation in the Word provides an immovable and stable foundation on which to lay brick after brick of doctrinal truths that will serve to elevate you in ways that you have never even imagined.

The System That Sustained Christ

More than once, during his earthy ministry, Jesus mentioned that He had been sent by the Father, that He obeyed the Father, and that He revealed the father (Matt: 11:27; Luke 22:42; John 14:10). Jesus revealed that he did not come to serve his own agenda, but that of the Father. As we move through this study we will find that God provided the humanity of Jesus with the necessary spiritual resources to execute His earthly mission. Understanding this as an act that is an expression of God’s essence, we learn that God never assigns a mission without providing the necessary resources to carry out that mission.

Because of Christ’s loyalty, not only to the Father, but to the Father’s plan, he gained uninhibited access to the divine assets of power that allowed Him to fulfill His destiny to become the savior of this world.

The assets and resources that God provided for Christ during his earthly ministry functioned as a cohesive and congruent system of absolute power that was executed through love.

Before we move on, it is important to make an important distinction. God the Son (the second person of the Trinity) has always co-existed with the other two members of the Trinity; God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. All three members of the Trinity are co-equal in power and essence. They never move contrary to one another. With this being said, God the Son is unique in that He exist in what is known as the hypostatic union. What this means is that at the first advent of Christ, God the Son manifested Himself in the flesh, but he was not half God and half man, he was 100 percent God and 100 percent man, joined together in hypostatic union. What hypostatic union means is that none of Jesus’ humanity ever merged with His divinity. He is unique in that He exists as a part of the triune God head, but he also exists in two totally separate entities within Himself.

It was the humanity of God the Son that manifested Himself as the Lord Jesus Christ at the first advent. The man that walked the earth was 100 percent human. He faced all of the same challenges that we face daily and then some. This was necessary because only a perfect man (human) could die for the sins of another. So as we move forward, it is important to understand that it is Jesus’ humanity that we will be discussing.

This system of power that God provided for the humanity of Christ was so sufficient that Christ was able to say in the midst of His turbulent ministry, “My yoke is easy and My burden in light” (Matt: 11:30). As the book of Hebrews so eloquently put it, ”fixing our eyes on Jesus, the [b](D)author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him(E)endured the cross,(F)despising the shame, and has(G)sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2, NASB). It was this power system that provided Christ with the unparalleled power to bear the burden and endure the extreme hardships of his first advent.

Why is this information so important? It is extremely important because it is the very power system that sustained Christ that every believer will have to access and execute in order to actualize their potential and fulfill their destiny. This ethereal journey known as the Christian way of life is filled with challenges and difficulties. The vicissitudes of life will roll into your paradise. Your friends will disappoint you. Those you trust the most will betray you. Just as David expressed, in return for your love some will become you accusers (Ps. 109:4). There will be times when the darkness is so thick that you can touch it. What will stabilize you when you engage moments that are so much bigger than you are? The plan of God sustained by the power God; that’s what!

For the sake of clarity we will call this power source the “Divine Dynasphere”, meaning the sphere of power provided by God. The phrase was initially coined by the late R.B. Thieme Jr., who was, in my assessment, one of the most thorough and accurate expositors of the Bible I have ever encountered. Whether you agreed with him or not, he provided you with enough scriptural foundation that you would be able to draw your own conclusion. That is what I plan to do with this lesson series.

Bequeathment of the Divine Dynasphere

As Christ departed this earth upon the completion of His mission here, He submitted to us the very system of power that had sustained him.

“9 Just as (J)the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.10 (K)If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as(L)I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.” (John 15: 9-10, NASB)

Is this particular passage, abiding in the love of the Father and the love of Christ has nothing whatsoever to do with emotion or sentimentality. In the context here the love of God is the conduit through which all He expresses and facilitates on our behalf flows.

We will unwrap a number of other scriptural passages that reveal this great truth as we move forward.

Christian Integrity

There are a number of terms that are used quite often to express certain virtues of the Christian way of life; terms such as holy, integrity, and character. These virtues are actually an expression of the very nature of Christ. Holy and integrity should be viewed as synonymous. If you were to ask 100 believers to define the word ‘holy” you would probably received 100 different definitions. Holy is a word that simply defines the absolute character of God, in other words, to be holy means to live a life that is in no way contradictory to the character of God. Simply put, to be holy means to have unquestionable integrity.

Since Christ is the author and finisher of our faith (Heb. 12:2), He is the standard by which we are measured. Christian integrity is simply the execution of Christ like character. Having access to the Divine Dynasphere provides the assets necessary to produce the spiritual fortitude necessary to execute the plan of God in your life.

In studying the “Divine Dynasphere” we will also become acquainted with the true nature of God’s plan of grace. We will find that grace was never designed to be a blanket for sin, but it is the aggregate plan of God that delivers us from sin and gives us power over sin. It is through grace that God provides all that He has for us to carry out His plan.

We fail to execute integrity when we use grace as blanket to cover sin we refuse to release. We stifle our ministry and destiny through the misappropriation of grace.

Christ, through the execution of the sinless life, complete actualization of His potential, and the absolute fulfillment of His destiny, revealed that spiritual growth and maturation is accomplished within the Divine 

Dynasphere.

 “Just think of Him Who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself [reckon up and consider it all in comparison with your trials], so that you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting in your minds.” (Heb 12:3, AMP)

When we able to examine the confidence and peace of Christ as endured severe hostility and opposition, we are able to gain confidence that the same system of power that sustained Him will sustain us. The simple understanding that the very source of Jesus’ strength is available to use provides a level of certainty, not as to the circumstances, but as to the outcome. The apostle Paul expressed it this way:

Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors [m]and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us. (Rom 8:37. AMP)

It is through functioning with the power system providing by God that we actually come to know Christ. This system is the facilitator of the spiritual maturation process of every believer. When the believer is walking in the spirit (surrender to the prompting and guiding of the Holy Spirit Galatians 5:16) he has access to the entire protocol plan of God, but every time he ventures into carnality, he exits the divine Dynasphere and temporarily becomes powerless to execute the Christian way of life. A believer’s maturity is expressed by the time he/she is able to remain in the Divine Dynasphere and be effective in executing the plan of God.

Dr. Rick Wallace

When we function inside of the Divine Dynasphere we have the same mindset of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16), thinking Bible doctrine in lieu of cosmic world views. Paul said that we are able to take on the mental attitude has Christ (Phil 2:5). When we move within this system, the dynamic force that worked through Christ also works in us to produce the same results (John 16:13; Gal. 5:16; Eph. 5:18).

As we function within God’s predetermined plan for our lives, He provides an unfailing power source to insure that we are thoroughly equipped to carry out our assignments. There is nothing that you will face in this life that God has not provided the provision of power to endure. As we move through this lesson series, you will find that you have unlimited assets at your disposal. The key is to move in the fullness of the power that God has provided. 

We will move further along in the installment. God Bless! ~ Dr. Rick Wallace