2Corinthians 5:17-18 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed. Behold, the fresh and new has come. But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself (received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself) and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation (that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him)."
Romans 10:17 tells us that, "Faith comes by hearing" and we've been hearing the Gospel of salvation for two-thousand years now. We've placed our faith into the saving grace of God and have led many others to Jesus, over the years. We've mostly believed that through Jesus, we will go to Heaven when we leave this earth and then will spend eternity with Him. This is certainly true, but it isn't the "full Gospel" that represents God's Kingdom on earth.
Since this hasn't been preached or taught on very often, many have never heard or had faith to receive the full Gospel. Ephesians 2:6,10 (Amplified) says, "And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together (giving us joint-seating with Him) in the Heavenly sphere (by virtue of our being) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One). He did this that He might demonstrate through the ages to come the immeasurable (limitless, surpassing) riches of His free grace (His unmerited favor) in (His) kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ."
Paul goes on in Verse 10 saying, "For we are God's (Own) handiwork (His workmanship) recreated in Christ Jesus, (born anew) that we may do those good works which God pre-destined (planned beforehand) for us (taking paths which He prepared ahead of time) that we should walk in them (living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to LIVE."
We have failed to see in God's Word how in this new creation, we've been "born again, anew" into what God planned beforehand for us (His family). The new creation people are "taking paths which God pre-destinated (planned beforehand, planned ahead of time) that we should walk in them living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live"
This is what God planned for His children ahead of time. What time did He plan this for us? Ahead of time. Before the foundation of world, before time was created, in the eternal Kingdom of God, He arranged all the Heavens and earth for His family. God created every living animal, the seas, trees and the Garden of Eden and then He placed man into this place that He had pre-arranged for his family.
In Christ Jesus, the new creation people have been restored back to God's original plan for His family, the plan He predestined and planned beforehand for us and we're taking paths which He prepared ahead of time. Genesis 1:26-27 (Amplified) tells us, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) make mankind in Our Image, after Our Likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of god He created him, male and female, He created them."
Genesis 2:7-8 (Amplified) continues, "Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or Spirit of Life, and man became a living being. And the Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden (delight), and there He put the man whom He had formed (framed, constituted)."
The above scriptures tell us about all the things God planned beforehand for His family. These are the paths that He had prearranged ahead of time. This isn't a future even, but one that was in God's heart before He spoke light and matter into existence. You were the very reason that all these things exist. God never had a Plan B, but only Plan A and the new creation people are the exact image of His heart. This same authority and dominion has now been returned to His children, through Jesus. We've already been restored to the Kingdom authority that was given in Genesis, by Jesus and our joint-seating with Him in the Heavenlies. This God given authority and dominion was the plan He prearranged beforehand (before He created man). This was and is, the same plan that God had from the beginning.
Jesus is the Head of the Church, the Firstborn of many brethren and is (and was) the very Image of God's heart from the beginning. As the Last Adam, Jesus walked in the authority and dominion that God had predestined for His Own children to walk in, before the foundation of the world. We were always destine to be the new creation. Authority has been restored to mankind (the new creation man) by Jesus and His resurrection. In His earthly walk, Jesus did the things that man was to have walked in from before time. Our Last Adam, took back what the first Adam lost and restored it to the new man creation, to walk in once again.
The miracles and healings that Jesus performed, were the Kingdom Mandate that God gave to Adam in the beginning, "to have dominion over all the earth and everything that creeps on it." If the first Adam hadn't fallen into the lie of satan, then the ministry of Jesus wouldn't have been needed. All of the sickness and disease that Jesus dealt with, were not in the prearranged paths that man was to walk in. The Last Adam brought things back into God's will and what His will had always been before He created man and gave man dominion over the earth, in the beginning.
Jesus walked in the complete understanding of this predestined family of God. Jesus took what was man's God given authority and restored things satan perverted, back into God's will. When Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven," He was speaking of the new creation that was coming through Him. And, He was speaking about the restoration of the God given authority, to return earth to the Garden of Eden restoration.
It is true that we will not see the "fullness of the Kingdom," until God's Word is completed in the revelation of Jesus (the Book of Revelation), but we should be seeing the Kingdom being restored over all the earth, like it was through Jesus' earthly ministry. Jesus told His followers that, "It is better for you that I go," because He couldn't restore the Kingdom to mankind until He went back to the Father. Through Jesus' sacrifice, death, and resurrection, He has "raised us up together with Him, and caused us to be seated together with Him (giving us joint seating with Him). Jesus restored the new creation back into the paths God prepared for us, before He ever created an earth for us to rule over.
Through Jesus, we are already restored into what God desired for His family, from the beginning. What good would it have been for God to create these things, without God's children to enjoy this planet? Who would enjoy the heart that gave all these things for us to walk in? God created all this for you to enjoy and after seeing that, "It was very good," He formed man. The destiny of His new creation is, to enjoy the place He has created for us.
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