Jesus said in John 10:30 (Amplified) that "I and the Father are One."
Jesus came to reveal the relation of the Father and His family to the people. The relationship of God and His people was already established in their minds and sacrifice. This new relationship was so forgotten and so completely different that it was considered blasphemy to even say such a thing.
This new relationship that dares to believe that man could be righteous in the sight of God and that declares God as Father was grounds for stoning under the covenant of the Law. John 19:7 (Amplified) says that, "The Jews answered him (Pilate) 'We have a law and according to that law He should die, because He has claimed and made Himself out to be the Son of God.'"
We who are under grace don't seem to realize just how blessed we are to be under a new covenant that brings us into son ship rights. Because we still don't have a clear picture of our Heavenly Father, we try to walk in and conduct ourselves as if we're under the Law. We declare Him as Father and then approach Him as God (under Law). We still haven't seen the full power of the sacrifice that has cleansed us and made us right with Him.
Under the old covenant, only the High Priest could come into His presence and still live. Through the Blood of Jesus, we now have the right (because we are now One with Him) to come into His presence. This sacrifice of Jesus was so complete in its cleansing, that it made us pure and clean enough that not only can we come into His presence, but He, Himself (God) can now actually live in us.
Only the Blood of Jesus can make us holy, clean, righteous and pure enough to allow God not only to approach us (or we approach Him), but actually live in us. There's not even a stain of sin in us to remind God of who we were. The Blood has completely washed away the very stain of sin and made us to be in right standing with Him.
Now, because of Jesus, our relationship has gone from being outside the covenant of Law and into the covenant of family. He no longer has to deal with us as covenant breakers and sinners, but as family and sons.
Once we understand the difference in our relationship, we will understand the difference in the way God deals with us. Today, our Father deals with us in the same way He dealt with Jesus in His earthly walk. God deals with us like He did with Adam before the fall.
The Father of Spirits and life deals with us so much more than the way all fathers deal with their children. He no longer deals with the thing by outside in, but from the inside out.
Under the old covenant, Jesus said the Pharisees and Scribes were like "white washed sepulchers" that looked clean on the outside, but the inside was full of dead men's bones. He said that if we wash the inside of a cup and made it clean, then the outside will be alright. When God cleaned the inside of you and me, He did it so completely that the outside was even clean before the Father.
This new birth that has taken place because of Jesus, is so complete that we stand in the Father's Presence just like Jesus Himself. 1 John 4:17 (Amplified) says that, "In this (union and communion with Him) love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgement (with assurance and boldness to face Him) because as He is, so are we in this world."
As He is now, we are now, even while we're still in this world. The only way our Father sees us is through Jesus. We are as perfect in the eyes of our Father as Jesus is because Jesus is our righteousness. Our Father only sees Jesus when He looks at us. He sees perfection when He looks at us because of the sacrifice of His own Lamb that was given for us. Jesus, that Lamb, is without spot or blemish.
The Father doesn't have to deal with the old man anymore. We are new wine skins filled with new wine. If we try to contain this new wine (the covenant of grace) with the old wineskin (the covenant of Law), then it will break the new covenant of grace and not preserve the covenant of Law and we lose out on both. Father doesn't discipline us by means of the flesh, but by means of the Spirit. Read these scriptures and let the Father lead you by His Shepherd, the Word. John 14:26 John 15:3 Ephesians 4:10 2 Timothy 3:16-17 John 17:26. The Lord made it clear that the Father now deals with our spirit and not our outer man.
Receive what Jesus gave His life to bring to pass and let our Father of Spirits deal with us as children of His Spirit. Let the Word, which is Spirit, and the Holy Spirit reveal the Father to you. Just as God spoke with, walked with, dealt with Jesus during His earthly walk is exactly how He deals with you and me. If we get into the realm of the flesh (the world's view) by allowing our flesh and feelings to correct us, then we are walking in the deception that the enemy has dealt with since the Garden of Eden.
Let God our Father speak into your spirit and listen to the voice of the Shepherd. Shepherds don't beat, kick, cripple or cause the sheep to be grieved or feel unsafe. Nor does our Good Shepherd "leave us or forsake us."
Learn how to relate to the Father and not walk under burdens of guilt or condemnation and dread of punishment. Learn to walk after the Liberty of grace.
Read Psalms 85 (especially verse 10) and 11 that says, "Mercy and loving-kindness and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other." Verse 11 goes on, "Truth shall spring up from the earth, and righteousness shall look down from heaven."
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