In Psalm 138:2 (Amplified) the Lord said that "He had magnified His Word above all His name." Since we know that in John 1:14 the Word became flesh, we know that Jesus and the Word of God are One and the same.
When we read the Word, we're listening to the very voice of Jesus Himself. Jesus said that the Words He speaks are "Spirit and Truth." We also know that unless the Holy Spirit breathes life into the Word and we by faith in the Blood allow it to become alive, it's just religious and bondage to the reader.
Through the years, we've allowed the letter of the Law kill or bind us, but the Spirit gives life to the Word. When we read the Word of God by the inspiration and life of the blood and Spirit, it always brings liberty and life.
The reason so many of God's children don't know the Father is because we have only read the dead letter of the Law. We see what it says, but we don't understand what it's telling us. It's hard for humans to believe that old things have passed away and all things have become new. It's hard to believe that our sins and trespasses have been done away with (past, present, and future) by His blood.
We behave like those who were under the Law and try to make restitution for everything that we do wrong. By so doing, we're actually saying that we trust more in our actions to cleanse ourselves, than we do in the Blood of Jesus. We still allow ourselves to walk in condemnation instead of believing what the Word is saying.
Because we won't dare to believe the Word, the Word can't operate in us the way It's supposed to. We don't do these things because we don't love God, but because we don't trust in the Word. If we couldn't pay for our own sins before we were saved, then what makes us think we can make restitution for them after we're saved? If it took the Blood of Jesus to cleanse us before, then it still takes faith in the Blood to keep us clean. Jesus doesn't have to go back on the cross. His Blood ever makes intercession for us at all times.
As with Cain and Abel, when Abel's blood cried out from the ground, Jesus' Blood still speaks and is forever crying out our redemption and forgiveness to the throne of God on our behalf. It's not a thing like under the Law, when it had to be renewed every year, but is eternal in the heavens.
In 2Corinthians 13 we have the character of God written down for us to walk in. In 1John 4:8 the Word tells us that God is Love. It was more than just love that was shed abroad in our hearts, it was God Himself Who was shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. If God is love, and 1John 4:8 says that He is, then 1Corinthians 13 is more than what we have been taught. This isn't only the way Love acts through us to other people, but God acts toward us by His presence in us.
When the Word tells us that love is never taking account of suffered wrong or evil that's done to us, Verse 5 (Amplified) then do you really believe that God would have us to react this way and then react to us differently? 1Corinthians 13 isn't just the Holy Spirit telling us to act, but is in reality telling us how the Father acts toward us too. 1Corinthians 13:7 (Amplified) says that, "Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, It's hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and It (or God Himself) endures everything (without weakening). This Love is God Himself." Everything this scripture tells us to do, is what the Father Himself walks in, thinks on and operates in on our behalf. Now, we can come to understand better when Jesus said, "Your sins and iniquities I remember no more." He (Love) really means just what He said. Love never looks at the times we fail, but Love only looks at Jesus (Who never fails) and Love sees you there as one who is perfect in the Blood.
We keep forgetting that it wasn't us who God needed perfection in; it was Jesus. By faith in that perfection, God sees us as perfect now too. If we will only learn to trust in the Word (or in Jesus) for our complete perfection. We can walk by faith in Him without the past, present, or future failures holding us back. We can go on by faith in His righteousness as though we were never in failure or sin.
We can by faith in His Blood and Love, say (even as He said) that the god of this world comes and has nothing on me. Why? Because we're in Him and He is perfect. Turn loose of what the enemy says about you and by faith, trust in what the Word (Jesus) says about you. When you read God's Word, trust in who you are and not who you were.
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