John 1:17 (Amplified) says, "For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing, and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
Grace and Truth are both God's will for all the earth. Both have been offered to the world, through Jesus. All who've been saved have come into the family of God, by both Grace and Truth. The only missing component for everyone to be saved, is their having faith in both God's Grace and Truth. Many view God's Word as being a historical Truth, while others view it as being a myth. Those who are saved, know that God's Word is Grace and Truth.
There are some who recognize the Truth of God's Word, but only for certain portions of it. Others believe the Word is Truth, but only for the future when we're in Heaven. In God's heart and mind, His Word is all Truth, from before He created the world, until hereafter. Many Christians have placed faith in the Gift of salvation, but only in part. They've trusted and were born-again, but have pushed the natural Blessings of being part of God's family to the time when we leave earth. God's plan and purpose is that when we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we inherited the entire plan of redemption (with the exception of having a glorified body, that comes at the close of the age).
Everything we will ever need, both now and later, has already been done in the resurrection of Jesus. The Price for sin and death has been paid. Through Jesus' resurrection, our redemption has now been established and Jesus redeemed everything that the first Adam lost. At the catching away of the Church, even the full redemption of our mortal bodies will have been fulfilled. The same faith in the grace that got you saved, is the same faith we have in the Grace that heals, Baptizes in the Holy Spirit and makes us a new creation. That same faith makes us righteous, justified, and consecrated unto God.
The problem doesn't lie with God or His plan of redemption, but with the carnal minded Christians who limit God, with our own small thinking. God has never changed and He never will. The things available to His family, are the very things that were available to the first Adam and his family. God never intended that His family be subjected to the evils of this world. God never intended for His children to be under the domination of satan.
God never intended for healing to be something we would need to be concerned with. God's intent from the beginning, was that His children would never be sick or die. God was to supply everything His children would ever need or want. God intended for His children to live in an immortal body and it would continually renew every cell at the appropriate time, so we would remain young and supple forever.
Sin brought all the misery that this planet has had to endure. With sin came death (both spiritually and temporarily), in this earth. Jesus paid for the sin problem of the world. Jesus paid for and met the Law of Sin and Death. Now, Life in our new creation spirit has completed what Jesus stated in John 10:10, where He said, "I came that you now might have and enjoy Life to the full (till it overflows)." God's Own Life has been restored again, connecting us to united fellowship with Him. We can now hear, see, talk with and be in His Presence, like God had always intended from the beginning.
God's Word and instructions have restored us to all that was lost through Adam's fall. Your natural body will still age and finally fall asleep in physical death (if Jesus tarries), but at the coming of the Lord, even natural death will be vanquished in Christ. 1Corinthians 15:54-55 (Amplified) says, "And when this perishable puts on the imperishable and this that was capable of dying puts on freedom from death, then shall be fulfilled the scripture that says, Death is swallowed up (utterly vanquished) forever and unto victory. Death, where is your victory, death where is your sting?" At the rapture of the Church, those of us "who are alive and remain, will not die, but will be caught away with the resurrected dead in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so always we shall be with the Lord," according to 1Thessalonians 4:13-18 (Amplified).
The redemptive Blood of Jesus has completely restored everything to us, that the first Adam lost. We've been raised up by our Father in complete fellowship with Him. Religion and the world have downplayed the Truth of what God's Grace has now made available to us through simple faith in Jesus Christ. Many have exercised faith to the degree of going to Heaven, but few have exercised their faith in everything else that Grace has granted us, in Jesus.
If satan can keep the Church in the carnal realm of religion, even though Grace has already done everything needed to be done to overcome him, then satan will continue to control the Church, through the realm of carnal minds and futile thinking. Much of today's Church is afraid to declare that they're righteous in Christ Jesus. Many confess that, "None are righteous, no not one" or "My righteousness is as filthy rags." This is a lack of faith in God's Grace and His declaration "our righteousness is of Me." In Isaiah 54:17 (Amplified) God says, "No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, those in Whom the Ideal Servant of the Lord is reproduced. This is the righteousness or the vindication which they obtain from Me, this is that which I impart to them as their justification, says the Lord."
This Prophetic scripture speaks about those who are in Christ Jesus and all those who will come to Him by faith. Did you ever notice how Isaiah 53, 54 and 55 show how everything from healing t righteousness, from restoration to peace and justification and beyond that, is now made available to us today, in Him. Everything has been covered in our lives, from sin to complete reproduction of Jesus, the Ideal Servant of the Lord. It has all been made ours, by Grace and it is received by faith, according to Romans 1:17 (Amplified) which says, "For in the Gospel a righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith, disclosed through the way of faith, that arouses to more faith, as it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith." We must allow our faith in Jesus, to grow beyond man's idea and receive what Grace has provided for us, both for here and for hereafter.
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