Jesus said in John 10:30 (Amplified) that, "The Father and I are One."
Once the truth of this statement becomes revealed in your spirit, your struggles are over. The reason most Christians struggle to understand their Heavenly Father is because they've never understood this scripture.
Jesus said that He and the Father are One, so the view you see of the Father should only be seen by seeing Jesus. Nowhere in the four Gospels or Epistles did Jesus ever refuse anyone who needed Him. As you watched Jesus walk through the pages of your Bible, it's your Father walking in your life. If you are unsure of what His will for you is, then find the place where Jesus dealt with that situation and know it is His will for you.
If you're involved in adultery, then find out how Jesus dealt with the woman who was taken in adultery. Jesus would tell you that He doesn't condemn you just like He told that woman. If the enemy whispers to you saying that the Father still remembers your past, then go to the Word and read how "Old things are past away and all things are become new, And all things are good."
You must learn to walk in the light of grace and not Law. When He changed His position from being God to Father, through Jesus, everything changed for us. You cannot say that you were saved by grace and then try to live by the Law. You can't believe you're righteous by faith in Jesus' righteousness and then set about to establish your own by works. If you've done nothing to become righteous except believe in Jesus, then how can you lose what wasn't yours anyhow? It's still His righteousness that we have and He is still righteous.
Many Christians try to improve on their righteousness by doing good things. If you're the righteousness of God with Jesus' righteousness, then how can you improve on that? Can you become more right-standing that Jesus? If it's God's will that you become One with Him, then how can you be anything besides pure in His eyes since it was His idea anyway?
We need to stop listening to the enemy's lies and begin believing what God says is true. Many well meaning people will tell you many well meaning things. But, if they contradict the Word of the Father, then you must dismiss them.
Jesus taught in Mark 4:24 (Amplified) a parable concerning the sower. In Verse 24 "He said to them, 'Be careful what you are hearing. The measure (of thought and study) you give (to the truth you hear) will be the measure (of virtue and knowledge) that comes back to you and more (besides) will be given to you who hear.'"
Be careful what you hear! This wasn't a suggestion, but a warning. Only you can guard your heart against the deception and lies of the enemy. I can tell you, but I can't do it for you or make you do it. It's your responsibility.
We've been taught some things over the years that aren't from the Father. They have come in the guise of truth, but weren't the Words of the Father. Do I think that those who taught these things are of the devil? No! I think they believed they were doing right.
We miss the intention of the new covenant when we mix it with the old covenant. Mostly, we've never seen the change. Paul told Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:5 (Amplified) to, "Study and be eager and do your utmost to present yourself to God approved (tested by trial). A workman who has no cause to be ashamed, correctly analyzing and accurately dividing (rightly) handling and skillfully teaching the Word of Truth."
The testing by trial Paul's speaking of isn't God testing us, but the enemy to see whether you really believe what you say. The "rightly dividing"of the Word is the cross. That's what divides the Word and the covenant of Jesus. If you don't allow the cross to be the division , then you'll miss the whole change that the Father bought by the blood of Jesus.
If He was just another sacrifice, then why bother? If His Blood didn't change the way God deals with His children, then He may as well have sacrificed another bull. The Blood of Jesus changed the way that God deals with His family, but it didn't seem to change how His family deals with Him.
We act like everything is as it was. If the Father thought that (because of the new birth) you were actually pure enough for Him to tabernacle in you, then what makes you think you're not pure? We're not led by the letter of the Law, but by the Spirit of the Father. If we're still under the Law, then what good would the outpouring of the Spirit be to us? Why not just leave things alone and walk by the letter instead of the Holy Spirit?
If we're to be made new by the Spirit, then why would the Father of Spirits still lead us by the flesh? He did that for over two thousand years and it still could not make man righteous or holy.
God deals with us in the very same way He dealt with Jesus; not by the flesh, but by the Spirit. You never see Him when God wasn't present and walking with Jesus. Thus, Jesus said, "The Father and I are One." In John 17:22 (Amplified), Jesus said, "I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be One (even) as We are One." If He and the Father are One, then We and the Father are One.
In the very same way He dealt with Jesus, God deals with us now. The exception was the cross, but He did that so we wouldn't have to. Everything that the Father put onto Jesus on the cross, was so that we will never need to deal with us that way...ever! Isaiah 54:9 (Amplified) tells us, "For this is like the days of Noah to Me; As I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you."
All of God's anger was poured out on Jesus so that none would be left to pour out on us. Everything Jesus went through on the cross was so God would never again have to deal with us that way. Why do we insist on being treated as though Jesus wasn't enough?
Let God be Father to you. He's the Father of Spirits and will deal with, train, guide and speak to us in our spirit. "Your body is dead unto sin, but your spirit is alive unto God," according to Romans 8:10 (Amplified). What good would it do to chastise a dead man? Only your spirit is alive unto God so only your spirit is capable of hearing and obeying His voice. Romans 8:14 (Amplified) says that, "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God."
Are you being led by the Spirit or are you still trying to walk by the dealings and struggles of the flesh? Are you still waiting on God to make it tough, make you sick or give you hard times to teach you something? Or, are you willing to finally be led by His Spirit?
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