In John 8:19 (Amplified) Jesus is asked, "Then they said to Him, Where is this Father of Yours? Jesus answered, You know My Father as little as you know Me. If you knew Me, you would know My Father also."
Jesus is our Only Living Testimony our our Heavenly Father. Under the old covenant, people couldn't know or see God and they couldn't see Him as "Father." They could only know Him by the Law and their own obedience to it. They had no relationship with Him as Father and very little relationship with Him even as God. The old covenant people could only hear from the prophets, the way and Word of God. That was only when a prophet was sent. The people didn't trust the words of the prophets and failed to walk in what they were told.
Today, many still cannot see or hear the Father's Voice by His Spirit and they continue struggling to know and understand the Father's will for the Church, the world and Israel. God has shown mankind what His will is, through Jesus. God has a will for mankind and He has a will for the Church and He has a will for Israel. These may differ, but they are for "all to be saved." God has a plan and will, for each of our individual lives.
It might be the hardest things for the Church to do, but we must understand God's will for His Body and for the personal life He has given each of us. Many have mistaken the Law and the old covenant, as being God's plan and will for this age and mankind. We've been taught that the old covenant Law is still "God's way of doing things in this age." We assumed this was true, because we were taught by man, instead of the Word.
Many believe God teaches and disciplines us, by trials and sickness, but nothing can be further from the TRUTH, according to John 8:31-32 (Amplified) which says, "So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in Him, If you abide in My Word (hold fast to My teachings and live in accordance with them(, you are truly My disciples." Verse 32 says, "And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free."
Many have quoted the 32nd Verse, without paying much attention to the previous one. Jesus said, "If we hold fast to His teachings, then we will know the Truth and the Truth will set us free." We've listened to the teachings of men and what they think the Word says, instead of the teachings of Jesus and this has kept us in bondage to man's religion. So, we're not as free, like Jesus said, because "the Truth (God's Word) will set us free."
When we don't use Jesus as our Example and follow the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit, then we return to being under the Law. Paul writes in Galatians 5:4 (Amplified), "If you seek to be justified and declared righteous and to be given a right standing with God through the Law, you are brought to nothing and so separated severed from Christ. You have fallen away from Grace, from God's gracious favor and unmerited blessing."
Jesus told His followers in John 5:19 (Amplified), "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the Son is able to do nothing of Himself (of His Own accord), but He is able to do only what He sees the Father doing, for whatever the Father does is what the Son does in the same way (in His turn)." Jesus told us that, "If I don't do something, then the Father doesn't do it" and "If I'm doing it, then it's the Father doing it." If you truly want to know God's will for mankind, then watch Jesus.
If Jesus healed the sick, then it was God's will. If Jesus made someone sick, then that would have been God's will. Did you ever read in the Word, where Jesus made someone sick or refused to heal someone? No. Why didn't this never happen? Because, this isn't God's will. I challenge you with Jesus' Words, to show me in the new covenant, where it was God's will for us to be sick or made sick, in order to teach us something?
Do people (including God's people) still get sick? Of course they do, but mostly from what the Word says is the Curse that came from the first Adam's fall; not the LAST ADAM. Jesus came to heal the sick. Was Jesus doing God's will or was He just operating on His Own? Jesus wouldn't have healed them, if it wasn't the Father's will.
Before ascending to Heaven, Jesus spoke to His followers about sin, judgment, righteousness, Himself and satan, in John 16:7-11 (Amplified). Listen carefully to what He says, "However, I am telling you nothing but the Truth when I say it is profitable (good, expedient, advantageous) for you that I go away. Because if I do not god away, the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Stand-by) will not come to you, into close fellowship with you; but if I god away, I will send Him to you, to be in close fellowship with you. And when He comes, He will convict and convince the world and bring demonstration to it about sin and about righteousness, uprightness of heart and right standing with God, and about judgment." Verses 9-11 go on, "About sin, because they do not believe in Me (trust in, rely on, and adhere to Me) About righteousness and uprightness of heart and right standing with God, Because I go to the Father, and you will see Me no more. About judgment, because the ruler, evil genius, prince of this world, satan, is judged and condemned and sentence is passed on him already."
Jesus was speaking, what the Father says about sin, righteousness and judgment. Part of this is for you or for the Church, and the other is for satan and the unsaved. Judgment is for satan, while righteousness is for those who believe in Jesus as their Sin Bearer. As children on God, we were "judged, declared righteous and without sin and made free already," by Jesus' Sacrifice. Where is sickness, disease, calamity and terrible trials, listed as being God's will for us, in the new covenant family?
God isn't judging the earth or those on the earth and He won't do so, until the appointed time (which is not yet). The only one who's been judged already, is satan. Sickness, trouble, and calamity, are not God's judgment or how He disciplines His children. These are not God's will for the world or for His children. 1Timothy 2:4-6 (Amplified) says, "God, Who wishes all men to be saved and increasingly to perceive and recognize and discern and know precisely and correctly the Divine Truth. For there is only One God, and Only One Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus. Who gave Himself as a Ransom for all people, a fact that was well attested to at the right and proper time."
If you truly want to know God's will and nature, then listen to what the Holy Spirit writes about Jesus, in Hebrews 1:2 (Amplified), "He (Jesus) is the Sole Expression of the Glory of God, the Light-Being, the Outraying or radiance of the Divine and He is the Perfect Imprint and Very Image of God's nature, upholding 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."
When we see the Man Christ Jesus, we see the very will and nature of our Heavenly Father. Don't allow men and religion, to give you a false outlook on the Father. When we walk in what man and religion says about the Father, instead of the Truth of God's Word, we place ourselves back into satan's bondage and the world's idea of the new creation being, we've become in Christ Jesus.
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