John 16:13 (Amplified) says, "But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the truth giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all truth (the whole, full truth) For He will not speak His Own message (on His Own authority) but He will tell whatever He hears (from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him); and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come (that will happen in the future)."
John 14:10 (Amplified) says, "Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? What I am telling you I do not say on My Own authority and of My Own accord, but the Father Who lives continually in Me does the (His) works (His Own miracles, deeds of power)."
Jesus tells His followers above, that the very same message the Father gave Him, is the very same message the Father will speak to us through the Holy Spirit. It's the Father is us Who does the works and the gives the Words we speak. Because the Holy Spirit is the same Spirit of Truth Who spoke through Jesus, He is now speaking to and through us by the Father.
Hebrews 1:1-3 (Amplified) says that, "In many separate revelations (each of which set forth a portion of the truth) and in different ways God spoke of old to (our) forefathers in and by the prophets. (But) in the last of these days He has spoken to us in (the person of a ) Son; Whom He appointed Heir and Lawful Owner of all things, also by and through Whom He created the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time (He made, produced, built, operated, and arranged them in order)." Verse 3 says, "He is the Sole Expression of the Glory of God (the Light-Being, the out raying or radiance of the Divine), and He is the perfect imprint and very Image of (God's) nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty Word of power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the Divine Majesty on High."
The Father Who spoke to us through Jesus is the same Father Who is speaking to us by His Holy Spirit. It's the same Words, the same power, the same Spirit and we are to only speak His Word and do as we see Him do. We can see what the Father does by watching what Jesus did. It was and is, the Father in Him Who did the works.
We can clearly see what the Father is doing when we examine Jesus' actions. We've been taught and have heard that "one can never know what God will do" and that "It might not be God's will to heal sometimes." If we watch Jesus, then we can clearly see what the Father's will is towards healing and delivering the oppressed. We cannot find one instant where Jesus failed to heal or deliver anyone who came to Him. In fact, there were people who were healed by only their response to His presence.
The woman with the issue of blood and blind Bartimaeus received their healing and deliverance simply by stopping Jesus as He passed by them. The only way we will ever know our Father on this side of heaven, is to know Jesus. Jesus is after all, the Father wrapped in flesh, right?
It's always been God's will to heal and bless His people. Under the old covenant, God was hindered by the lack of Life in the people's spirit because those in the old covenant were not "made alive" by the Holy Spirit. They weren't born again by the Holy Spirit, so God had to deal with them as merely flesh and blood people. He had deal from the outside in, instead of the inside out. The way of the old covenant was the best God could do until He could get Jesus on earth. Jesus spoke of this when He told the Scribes and Pharisees they were "white washed tombs." They were clean on the outside, but were filled with dead men's bones on the inside.
Now, we're under the new covenant and God can (and does) speak and live directly into our born again spirit, according to Romans 8:14 (Amplified) which says, "As many are led of the Spirit, these are the sons of God." Thus, it says, "Now, as sons of God, we are to walk, and speak, and act, as Jesus did when He was in His earthly ministry." Jesus was the prototype of what God's Own family was to be in the creation. God never intended for His family to be under subjection to the devil and sin.
We were created by our Father with the very same seed as Jesus was...the Word of God. 1Peter 1:23-25 (Amplified) says, "You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal origin (seed,sperm), but from One that is immortal by the everliving and lasting Word of God." Verse 24 says, "For all flesh (mankind) is like grass, and all its glory (honor) like (the) flower of grass. The grass withers and the flower drops off." Verse 25 says, "But the Word of the Lord (Divine instruction, the Gospel) endures forever. And this Word is the good news which was preached to you."
The Word (which is Spirit), is what has caused us to be born again and new creations. 1Peter 1:4-5 (Amplified) says, "(Born a new) into an inheritance which is beyond the reach of change and decay (imperishable), unsullied and unfading, reserved in heaven for you. Who are guarded (garrisoned) by God's power through (your) faith (til you fully inherit that final) salvation that is ready to be revealed (for you) in the last time." This "final salvation" is to the the glorified body that we will receive at the Lord's coming or our earthly death.
Until we receive our new body, we are to walk in this one like Jesus did in His earthly reign. We've been lied to by satan (shocker !) for nearly two thousand years about who we are and what we are on this earth. It hasn't been God holding out on us, but we haven't known what He truly expects us to be. In the beginning, we were made in His Image and in His Likeness. Through Jesus, we have now become new creations made in His Image and in His Likeness. We're not only made like Adam, but we're made in the Image and Likeness of the Last Adam, Jesus. This last Adam, Who is Jesus, is on a higher plane than the first Adam.
Hebrews 1:2 (Amplified) says, "But in the Last of these days, He has spoken to us in (the Person of a) Son, Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner of All Things." The first Adam wasn't "Heir and lawful owner of all things." Now, as Joint-heirs with Christ, we've inherited much more than the first Adam. The authority the first Adam held was limited, but the Last Adam, Jesus, is as Heir of All Things.
We are now offspring of the Seed of the Last Adam, the Word of God, like we were supposed to be the offspring of Adam before the fall. Because the first Adam was a supernatural being and was to walk "naturally supernatural," we too are supernatural beings and are to walk "naturally supernatural."
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