“If” is not really our friend. It did not exist in the beginning, in the garden. Genesis does not say “And He blessed them and said, ‘if you do good and avoid evil you will be fruitful and increase etc.’”

His first word to mankind was “Be”. The fall brought ‘if’ into existence.  Deuteronomy 28 begins, “IF you diligently obey, … then all these blessing will follow...”

Psalm 1 says you get to be a blessed man IF you do not walk in the counsel of ungodly, etc. Psalm 119 begins with the big “IF,” if you are undefiled, if you walk in the law of the Lord, etc. ...then you would not be ashamed.

After the fall, IF was God’s only way of connecting with us. When the Messiah comes and destroys all those “IF’s” and replaces them with “BE,” we will be just like our first parents in the garden.

His three worst days were our best days. All the “IFs” were completely destroyed, and we were given back our original garden identity. Yeshua began His first great sermon with “Blessed are…” meaning He is introducing a Kingdom that begins with you and I being blessed.

Putting an “IF” in His words is to completely misunderstand what He was saying. In John 14, He announces that He going to a place (outrageous death) and then return and give us His ‘Where I am’ place of habitation. He is referring to a ‘state of being,’ not a state of ‘IF.’ The Lord IS Spirit and where the Spirit IS, there IS liberty. Once again, no ‘ifs’ are in there. Just IS three times.

 “As He is, so are we in this world.” There are no ‘ifs’ there, either. Adding them is pure ‘religion’. The only if that still applies is TO YEILD. ‘If’ one still wants to live in the world of ‘ifs’ then the free gift of BEING will always remain in one’s bank but never received.

What about “if you abide in Me and my Words abide in you…” Once again abide is NOT a do, it’s a yield to.  He’s already there, so the only do is to keep saying ‘Yes.’

It might be good if we stopped putting ifs in our talking about/to Him. He doesn't talk that way to us!