In John 6:38-39 (Amplified) Jesus says, "For I have come down from Heaven not to do My Own will and purpose, but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me. And this is the will of Him Who sent Me, that I should not lose any of all that He has given Me, but that I should give new life and raise them all up at the last day."
2Corinthians 5:17 tells us that this "new life" is a completely new creation, born from a Spiritual birth coming from the Father Himself. Man was spiritually dead and separated from God, through Adam's transgression. Jesus came so that by faith in Him, we could be restored back to God's will and Life. This new Life is more than just being forgiven of sin. It places us back into the very righteousness and Presence of God, without having even the appearance of trespass.
For years, Christians have struggled about what things are God's will for us. When we're proclaiming the Messiah's birth this Christmastime, we need to fully understand what has taken place for mankind, through Him. We can actually witness Love in action, when reading about Jesus' earthly ministry. Jesus was the Perfect will of God and He never did or said anything, that violated God's will. Many have lost sight of this Truth.
God set forth a Promise and plan to redeem man, immediately following Adam's giving his dominion over to satan, in the Garden. Jesus was and is, God's Promise and plan and will. Jesus is the Perfect plan and will of the Father, for all who will accept the Promise. We've mostly seen that Promise as being forgiven, but the Father has restored mankind back to Himself and not only forgiven us. Mankind was to be restored back into the Perfect will and plan of God since before the foundation of the world, through Jesus Christ.
God's Word tells us that the entire creation was made for God's family to live in and enjoy. God designed the whole of creation, for the co-habitation of His family and Himself, according to Genesis 1:27 (Amplified) which says, "So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them." We know that God created mankind in His Image and Likeness. In John 4:24 (Amplified), Jesus says, "God is a Spirit, a Spiritual Being and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in Truth or reality."
God formed a house" or natural body for Adam to live in, on the earth. Genesis 2:7 (Amplified) says, "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." God made man's natural body from the dust of the earth, which God created for His family. God gave man the earth as his kingdom and place of dominion. Genesis 3:8 (Amplified) says, "And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in te Garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the Presence of the Lord God among the trees of the Garden."
God created the Garden of Eden, as the starting place for His family to live in. Man is a spirit, because he was made in the Image and Likeness of God (Who is a Spirit). God made him a natural body (house) to dwell in and providing God access to man in man's dominion. God and His family could dwell together in everything. Adam would receive Wisdom and Counsel from God, into his spirit. Adam would apply them to his natural surroundings, bringing forth God's Own children in the unity God planned before the foundation of the world.
After Adam's transgression (fall), God lost fellowship and no longer had a place of "family" with His son, Adam. God Promises of Jesus and satan's downfall, in Genesis 3:15 (Amplified) saying,"And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring. He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel." This was God's Promise of Restoration and His full plan and will.
Every Promise God made after Adam's fall from Grace, had to do with the birth, death and resurrection of the Seed of the woman. This didn't simply include forgiveness, but the total restoration into perfect fellowship with God as His Own children. Satan couldn't comprehend God's plan, because he lacked Revelation knowledge. Satan only had fallen knowledge, finding it impossible to fathom how God could bring another Adam (the Last Adam, Jesus) without the stain of sin in His Life. Satan believed he had gained total control over God's family, because he knew what sin had done in the spirit of mankind.
The "woman had no Seed," so how could the Sinless Seed be born from the loins of sinful man. How could a such a man, be "Perfect" in the eyes of a Just and Holy God? The stain of sin has been transferred from Adam, into every person ever born of a woman. Man no longer inherited the Life of God by birth, as the Father planned, only spiritual death would be the result of natural and spiritual birth. God couldn't overlook what had occurred, because He is a Just and Righteous God, so He needed to bring forth an entirely new creation. How could any fallen, sinful man pay for Adam's transgression? Death (separation from God's Life) had become the spiritual DNA of every man born of woman, so how could God's family be redeemed and restored into the place of right standing with God again? This is the Mystery that was hid in God, through Christ Jesus.
After God made His Promise of the Seed that was to come, satan instantly set out to prevent this from happening. Satan believed that Able was the Seed, so satan had Cain murder him. Satan thought he had stopped God's plan, but God didn't say, "The Seed of man." God said, "The Seed of woman." Adam took the whole of God's will for His family, down with him when he fell in the Garden. The Father was without His family and the Curse of the Law of Sin and Death, with it's disease, death, misery, brokenness, starvation, and total separation from God's Blessing had befell mankind.
We hear much said today about God's will is to heal, bless, give dominion and give the Holy Spirit to mankind. We've allowed satan to hold onto his authority, even over those who become God's new creation family. When God Promised "the Seed" in Genesis, He wasn't Promising just forgiveness, but Redemption for His family. God's Promise was to completely restore everything Adam lost to mankind, man to God and God to man.
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