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 has 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)."
Proverbs 4:7 (Amplified) says, "The beginning of Wisdom is; get wisdom (skillful and Godly Wisdom). (For skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principle thing) And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation)."
Matthew 12:42 (Amplified) says, "The Queen of the South will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the Wisdom of Solomon, and behold, Someone more and greater than Solomon is HERE."
1Corinthians 1:30 (Amplified) says, "But it is from Him that you have your life in Christ Jesus, Whom God has made our Wisdom from God (revealed to us a knowledge of the Divine plan of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as) our Righteousness (thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God), and our Consecration (making us pure and holy) and our Redemption (providing our ransom from eternal penalty for sin)."
1Corinthians 2:6 (Amplified) tells us, "Yet when we are among the full grown (Spiritually mature Christians who are ripe in understanding) we do impart a (higher) Wisdom (the knowledge of the Divine plans previously hidden) but it is indeed not a Wisdom of this present age or of this world nor of the leaders and rulers of this age, who are being brought to nothing and are doomed to pass away)."
Ephesians 1:7-8 (Amplified) says, "In Him we have redemption (deliverance and salvation) through His Blood, the remission (forgiveness) of our offenses (short comings and trespasses) in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favor Which He lavished upon us in every kind of Wisdom and understanding (practical insight and prudence)."
Ephesians 1:17 (Amplified) says, "(For I always pray to) the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, that He may grant you a spirit of Wisdom and of revelation (of insight into the mysteries and secrets) in the (deep and intimate) knowledge of Him."
Colossians 1:9 (Amplified) says, "For this reason we also, from the day we heard of it, have not ceased to pray and make (special) request for you, (asking) that you may be filled with the full (deep and clear) knowledge of His will in all spiritual Wisdom (in comprehensive insight into the ways and the purposes of God) and in understanding and in discernment of spiritual things."
God instructs us, "With all your getting, get understanding." We've been given the Wisdom of God, when we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior. The understanding of this Wisdom has been clouded over, by the present evil strategies of this world. We've had insight into the Truth of our going into the full Life of God when we die and go to Heaven, but we're blind to what God's will is for us in this life. Have we just been left as we were before He created us as new creations? Are we to simply do what we're now doing or is there a higher realm that we're called into? Only the Wisdom of God can lead us into this Higher realm. As long as we simply believe the wisdom of the world, we will never walk in the Wisdom of our new creation being.
Jesus didn't do everything He did, so we could stop cussing or drinking and become "nice" people. He did those things, so we would be delivered from this present evil age and become what Paul call us in 2Corinthians 5:20 (Amplified) where he said, "So we are Christ's Ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We (as Christ's personal representatives) beg you for His sake to lay hold of the Divine favor (now offered you) and be reconciled to God."
Ephesians 2:18-19 (Amplified) says, "For it is through Him that we have both (whether far off or near) now have an introduction (access) by One Holy Spirit to the Father (so that we are able to approach Him). Therefore you are no longer (exiles, migrants and aliens, excluded from the rights of citizens), but you now share citizenship with the saints (God's Own people, consecrated and set apart fro Himself) and you belong to God's (Own) household."
We aren't "going to be God's Own people," we already ARE God's Own people. Even now, while we're in this physical body, we're new creation people by Jesus Christ and we're God's children. If we are now God's children, then we have our Father's nature and ability to not only rise above the things of this world, but to elevate others into this same state of being. Jesus, Paul, Peter, John and the other believers in the New Testament, didn't simply walk in God's ability, but also raised those around them, into it too.
We've misinterpreted God's power, for His Love. His power is His Love and it was "shed abroad in our hears by the Holy Spirit," according to Romans 5:5 (Amplified) which says, "Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God's Love has been poured out abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, Who has been given to us." 1John 4:4 (Amplified) says, "And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to, and put faith in, and rely on) the Love God cherishes for us, GOD IS LOVE and he who dwells and continues in Love, dwells in and continues in God, and God dwells in and continues in Him."
This Love is what gives the Word of Life, to those who are lost and it restores Life to the broken bodies and souls, of those to whom we speak it to. This Love is so strong in the new creation people of God and it cannot stand to see the condition satan has put the world in. God's Love wants to set them free!
We've been taught for many years, that only a few people have been blessed with the ability to heal and deliver those who are sick and dying. Having Wisdom and understanding this Wisdom will encourage and empower those of us by Love, to reach out through the Holy Spirit and "set at liberty all those who are bound." Jesus didn't say that He would "Someday set the captives free." In Luke 4:18 (Amplified) Jesus said, "The Spirit of the Lord (is) upon Me, because He has anointed Me (the Anointed One, the Messiah) to preach the Good News (the Gospel) to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth as delivered those who are oppressed (who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed, and broken down by calamity) to proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord (the day when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound)."
God's power is His Love and it's through this great Love that miracles, healings, deliverance, and restoration are manifest in the sight of the world. It's not for "someday," but NOW IS THE TIME for God's people to reveal Him as He really is, in the sight of a broken world and it's people.
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