In Mark 16:15-20 (Ambassador) Jesus gave a commission to His disciples to go into the world and preach this message of total deliverance to everyone. This included the diplomatic immunity from the "god of this world." In this commission, Jesus declared that these signs would follow those who believed in His name. Jesus didn't say the signs would just follow those who preached, but those who believed what was preached. This commission not only gave them authority for themselves, but authority on behalf of others who were bound by satan. verse 20 said that "Jesus went with them (in the presence of the Holy Spirit) and confirmed His Word by the attesting signs and miracles that closely accompanied it."
Could it be that we don't see "or do" these miracles and signs today because we don't preach them and that the Holy spirit has no words to confirm? Or is it because the Holy Spirit will not confirm this "passed away" mentality that we preach today? If that's what is preached today is "Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven," then we as the church are in big trouble.
There are some things that we as Jesus' representatives need to learn from 1 John 1:1-10 (Amplified) where John writes that "if we say we haven't sinned, then we won't receive Jesus for the sacrifice for our sins; If we admit we have sinned, then we can receive forgiveness and cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
So, John says the first step is Jesus! Then he says in chapter 2 that "not holding our neighbor in his sin but loving him and walking in the same forgiveness towards him as we received when He forgave us (this is staying in the light)." This love that we received is to go out of us to the world by the same way it did in our Lord, by setting them free as we are free.
In Chapter 4:4 (Amplified) John writes to the church these words "Little children, you are of God (you belong to Him) and have (already) defeated and overcome them (the agents of the anti-Christ) because He who lives in you if greater (mightier) than he who is in the world." verses 16-18 (Amplified) John tells us that our maturity is based on our understanding of the love of God. " If we don't understand the completeness of our salvation based on His love for us, then we have no longer any fear of our being punished or shut out of His grace. We understand by faith, that our Lamb has paid the full price and we are exempted from the dread of having slipped of fallen, we are still in His Love and need not fear." Once you know this you are free from the lie of the enemy and can go into more maturity instead of retreating into condemnation again.
We begin to have boldness as Paul had in Jesus in II Corinthians 2:7-11 (Amplified). Paul said that we are to pray and forgive. verse 10 says "if you forgive anyone anything, I too forgive that one, and what I have forgiven, If I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence (and with the approval) of Christ the Messiah." Now we understand as Ambassadors, what John said in 1 John 5:14-16 (Amplified) about "confidence in Jesus, knowing His will and praying in boldness, knowing we receive what we ask verse 16 we have ability to forgive sin, to allow grace to flow (not the sin of rejecting Jesus unto salvation) but forgiveness to loose them from the trap of the devil to receive the light of the gospel of Grace."
Paul said in IICorinthians 2:11 (Amplified) about the power of forgiveness, that releasing them by faith in Jesus "keeps satan from getting an advantage over us, for we are not ignorant of his wiles and intentions."
Since we haven't understood and haven't been walking in this light as an ambassadors should do, we have walked right into the trap the enemy has laid down. Now in 1 John 5:18 (Amplified) we come to the conclusion of what John was saying, "if we can build on 'the rock of Truth' instead of only hearing what someone else says, the one who was begotten of God carefully watches over and preserves him against the evil and the wicked one does not lay hold (get a grip) on him or touch (him)."
The enemy has been so good at keeping our eyes on ourselves instead of on what Jesus has done and keeping us aware of our failures instead of His success. We're trying to perform and earn by lies of the devil, what God has already given us by faith. We spend so much time trying to keep ourselves right that we don't have time for anyone else.
I don't want you to just "get to heaven," but I want to bring heaven to you and from you and to all people for the Glory of the Lord.
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