Jesus said in John 10:30 (Amplified) that, "I and the Father are One."
When you see Jesus, you see the Father. You don't always just see God, you see God the Father.
There's a big difference in just seeing God than there is in seeing Him as your Father. Since we've now become His family instead of simply people, things have changed in our lives. When God dealt with Adam in the Garden of Eden, His relationship was entirely different than it was after the transgression. It wasn't that God was any different, but man was. God had to deal with man differently because mankind was changed. It wasn't that God didn't want to treat man the same, but now He couldn't according to Isaiah 59:1-2 (Amplified) that says, "Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened at all, that it can not save, nor His ear dull with deafness, that it can not hear." Verse 2 goes on, "But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear."
So now, because of the sin in the Garden, all of mankind was separated by the enormity of Adam's transgression. Neither God's power nor His heart changed towards man, but now His presence and ability to work for His people must undergo a change.
Romans 8:2 (Amplified) says there is a Law of sin and death and because of the dictates of the Law, death had entered into all of mankind. The Father had to devise a way to keep life covering the death until He could get Jesus into the earth. Since sin always brought death, then it would take a death to pay the price for it. We read in Leviticus 17:11 (Amplified), "For the life (the animal soul) is in the blood, and I have given it for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life (which it represents)."
So now, by reason of the death of the animal sacrifice, the Law of sin and death could by paid by the blood which declared a death. The life of the blood would be payment to extend the life of the people for a time. By accepting the blood of the sacrifice,God could move (at least in a limited way) on behalf of man. But, according to the book of Hebrews4:20 (Amplified), "(In fact) under the Law almost everything is purified by means of blood, and without the shedding of blood there is neither release from sin and its guilt nor the remission of the due and merited punishment for sins."
Hebrews 10:4 (Amplified) says that, "Because the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to take sins away. Because of His great love and mercy, He set in order the Law so as to have input into mankind until He could bring about His plan of total redemption."
We've totally mistaken the love of this awesome God we serve because of the way He was forced to deal with mankind under the Law. We believed that God found some perverse pleasure or disregarded man as being subhuman to a degree and that He always found fault with us. Nothing could be farther from the truth. It was always God's plan to bring us back home into His presence and to lavish all of His love on us.
Now, because of Jesus, we have been bought with sinless blood; the blood of God Himself. Hebrews 18:19 (Amplified) says that, "Now where there is absolute remission (forgiveness and cancellation of the penalty) of these (sins and lawbreaking) there is no longer any offering made to atone for sin." Verse 19 continues, "Therefore, brethren, since we have full freedom and confidence to enter into the (Holy of) Hollies (by the power and virtue) in the blood of Jesus."
Now, this great and powerful God has once again become Father. All of the things done under the Law were to bring us to this point of return. Now, because of Jesus, our Father can once again deal with His family without a spot or blemish or stain because of the precious blood of His Lamb, Jesus. The power of this awesome God is now being released in His love and grace on behalf of His family.
God will never again (for those who have received His sacrifice) deal with man the way He did under the Law. All of this dread of punishment and rejection for sin have been met and paid for by Jesus. His blood didn't just cover sin for a long time, but His blood erased the sin completely.
In Colossians 2:15 (Amplified), "(God) disarmed the principalities and powers that were ranged against us and made a bold display and public example of them, in triumphing over them in Him (Jesus) and in the cross."
Hebrews 10:35-6 (Amplified) tells us, "Do not, therefore, fling away your fearless confidence, for it carries a great and glorious compensation of reward." Verse 36 says, "For you have need of steadfast patience and endurance, so that you may perform and fully accomplish the will of God and thus receive and carry away (and enjoy to the full) what is promised."
Our Father has so many things He wishes to do for us, and through us, if we will only allow Him to do it. Don't let the remembrance of past of present sin or shortcomings in your life be a barrier between you and Him. Put your faith in the blood that cleanses you and walk in boldness before your Father just like Jesus did.
Let your conscience be cleansed by His blood and walk in the newness of your mind. Let the mind of Christ be made manifest in you and walk as the new creation that you've become in Him. You're no longer separated from God, but you're His family.
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