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."
Jesus says in John 6:40 (Amplified), "For this is My Father's will and His purpose, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in and cleaves to and trusts i and relies on Him should have eternal Life, and I will raise him up from the dead at the last day."
Romans 4:5 (Amplified) tells us, "But to one who, not working by the Law, trusts (believes fully in Him Who justifies the ungodly), his faith is credited to him as righteousness, the standing acceptable to God."
We've made God's will and purpose so complicated, to where we no longer even understand it. God's will and purpose through Jesus was stated very clearly to us. It should be obvious that continued sin in the flesh, isn't the reason salvation has come. Jesus didn't go to the cross, so that we could continue living in this natural body and doing anything we wanted. God's will and purpose was that Adam's sin in the Garden, which cause spiritual death and separation from God, could be paid in full by Jesus, fully restoring man into God's Grace and His Presence.
We've put so much attention on the flesh and have overlooked the spirit. Adam's transgression brought caused mankind to be separated from God, Who is Life. The "original sin" wasn't so much about the sin of the flesh, but the sin in the spirit. After the separation was made in the spirit, man was excluded from God's Presence in his spirit, leaving the Law of Sin and Death to reign through man's now dead spirit. Man changed his Heavenly Father and taken on the nature of his new father, which was sin and death, both spiritually and physically. God's Word, Jesus came forth to redeem and restore mankind back unto God.
A Sinless, Perfect Sacrifice of human form, was needed to redeem and restore mankind back to God's Presence. The lower life or blood of animals wasn't enough to cleanse mankind, but only provided a temporary covering for him. This was God's Grace on behalf of man, even though it needed to be enforced by the Law. If God hadn't accepted the sacrifice of bulls and goats by Grace, then man couldn't even reach into God's Presence and the high priest couldn't enter into the Holy of Holies.
The high priest had to enter the holy place by the directions of the Law, otherwise the people had no standing with God at all. So, even though it was by Law, it was an act of Grace given by God, in order to provide a means of acceptance before Him. God's Grace provided the means for His will to be done in the people's lives. Without the Law to provide His Grace, mankind was lost to God altogether. This was only a means for satisfying the Justice of a Holy God and satisfying the Laws of God's Throne. God is a Just and Righteous Judge. Sin must be judged or God Himself would be unjust.
Man bought about the separation from God and the only sacrifice that could pay the bill for him, was the Blood of a Man. All mankind had fallen through Adam and there was no longer a man who didn't have sin and death in his bloodline. By Grace, God furnished His Own Sacrifice by His Son, Who was born of a woman. This gave Him the humanity Adam had, but Jesus was Fathered by God Himself through the Holy Spirit. Jesus' Blood didn't come from man, but from God. His Blood was without the stain of sin and death.
This might sound simple, but the Truth is that this Grace and purpose was the Greatest miracle God ever performed! God had no opposition when He created the heavens and earth, but after the fall of Adam, every demonic force opposed Him, because of God's Own righteous Laws of His Heavenly Kingdom. God had to honor His Own righteous and just Laws, or His Word couldn't stand and God Himself would be unjust. Satan knew God couldn't go against His Own Word. The only acceptable and just way of bringing mankind back into relationship with Father, was to bring a human being who was born from the Spirit, to be the Perfect Sacrifice for man. This was the Mystery that was hidden in God, that was only revealed after Jesus' resurrection from the dead.
1Corinthians 2:7-8 (Amplified) says, "For rather what we are setting forth is a Wisdom of God once hidden from the human understanding and now revealed to us by God, that Wisdom which God devised and decreed be for the ages for our glorification to lift us into the Glory of His Presence. None of the rulers of this age or world perceived and recognized and understood this, for if they had, they would never have crucified the Lord of Glory."
This awesome miracle of Grace, was beyond satan's or man's imagination. Neither would imagine that God would actually provide His Own Self, as the Sacrifice for cleansing and redemption. God's covenant of Grace with Abraham was made 430 years before the Law. God told Abraham to sacrifice his son and "Abraham, by faith in God, brought his only son to the mountain where the Lord told him to come," according to Genesis 22:8,12 (Amplified). Abraham told his son Isaac, "My son, God Himself will provide a Lamb for the burnt offering, so the two went together." Verse 12 tells us that when Abraham was about to sacrifice his son Isaac, "The angel of the Lord said unto Abraham, Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear and revere God, since you have not held back from Me or begrudged giving Me your son, your only son."
If a mere man was willing to give his son on behalf of his covenant with God, then God could do no less. This is why Jesus became the Seed of Abraham. We are heirs with Jesus, according to the Promise. Abraham trusted and had with in God that is still exemplary today. God describes Abraham as being, "the Father of us all."
Jesus was sired by God's Own Blood through His Spirit and had the flesh of man through Mary. Jesus was Man and God's Perfect Sinless Sacrifice. Grace is what sent Him, Truth is what sustained Him and obedience is what raised Him, by and through the Holy Spirit. Jesus was sinless, so He could and did, become the Perfect Sacrifice (both Spiritually and physically) on our behalf. Jesus became the visible and tangible Grace and Truth of God on this earth. By watching Jesus' earthly ministry, we can see and know God's will and purpose. By faith through the righteousness of Jesus Himself, we an enter into the Very Presence of God.
We've misunderstood the Blessing of Abraham and have accepted that the Spiritual part of the Blessing is for "after we leave this earth, when he Blessing of Abraham was a tangible, earthly Blessing too. We've not only received back the Blessing of Spiritual fellowship with the Father, but through the Blessing of Abraham, God can bless the fruit of our bodies, the fruit of our cattle, and all the other Blessings Promised Abraham. God has restored the dominion He gave Adam at the beginning, through this Blessing. Jesus restored us back to the true will of God from the beginning and given us redemption. The only part of our redemption that remains to be completed, is the redemption of our natural body, which God will raise up at the Last Day. That day is drawing very near. At that day, redemption and God's will for His family will be restored to His original Plan A. Not Plan B, Plan H or Plan Z, but Plan A like it was from the beginning.
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