John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received (all had a share and were all supplied with), one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
The Spiritual Blessing that we now have to enjoy through Jesus, was shut off when Adam fell in the Garden of Eden. God could move only so far with fallen man, because the spiritual part of man became dead in sin and trespass. The Spiritual Blessing that we now have, is more than just what we've determined. It's more than speaking in tongues and the Baptism of the Spirit. Most of us have limited this Spiritual Blessing to these things.
God made man in His Image and Likeness and man was a spirit, according to Genesis 5:1-2 (Amplified) which is the Book (the written record of the offspring of Adam) and tells us that God created them male and female and Blessed them and named them both Adam (man at the time they were created). In Genesis 2:7 (Amplified), we see the human or earthly form of man, who was made from the dust of the earth. Thus, it says, "And 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's original intent and purpose for man, was to have and enjoy the Grace and Truth of God in this human form in the earthly realm He created for them. Man was never created to live in Heaven, but was created to inhabit the earth and have Heaven open to him at any time. The purpose has now been made as God intended from the beginning. The Spiritual Blessing that was on Adam and Jesus, was the Life of the Spirit of God. It would produce everything man needed, from the Same Source of the Spirit Who created all things.
Adam was to have dominion over everything that the Spirit had created, through his spirit. He was to live by his spirit, have dominion through his spirit and have his provision through his spirit. Adam was given a soul, mind, will and five senses, in order to contact and dwell in his physical body, while living through his spirit. God never intended Adam to live by his senses, but by his spirit. Adam's soul was to receive information and guidance from God through his spirit, because the soul connects the spirit to the body. Then, that would inform his brain as to how his body was to function. All of his spirit, soul and body were to flow from the Wisdom of the Father.
When sin entered Adam's life, he was cut off from the Spiritual Blessing, which has now been restored to us, through our union with Jesus Christ. Mankind has been dead to the spirit since Adam's transgression, resulting in man's soul able to only draw information from the fallen world and man's dead spirit. In this deadened state, man had no Spiritual blessing to contribute to the natural man which it now lived. The only information that the soul had, was that of it's five physical senses, everything else was now closed off to it. The human portion or flesh only had the information to the brain, which came from the senses and not the spirit.
The brain is the main controller of how man learns, lives and functions. After Adam's fall, it had only sense knowledge to direct it. It could no longer function in any other way. The flesh had to be controlled by the flesh and that only by bodily discipline. The Spiritual Blessing or direction and discipline and Life from the Spirit, couldn't come through men's souls into the human factor. The brain is a human element that stays in the body, even after the body is dead and this is why man must be led by the spirit. Without his spirit teaching the soul, man's brain can only glean information from the world.
We can educate the brain with schools and society, but only on a worldly level of fallen man. The Wisdom of God's Spirit had been cut off, because of Adam's fall. The natural or human form of man had to rely on the senses to guide, love, provide and function outside of God. God had to work from the outside, in order to operate in man's life until He could bring Life and Guidance again into man. We had become like the beasts of the field, having only the residue of the moral and educational function of our ability to speak and think. Even after the fall, man was still a spirit, even though his spirit wasn't functioning on God's level and was still superior to any other creature on earth. Man had the ability to build, create cities, raise families and nurture their young, far above all else in creation. But, man still didn't have the Spiritual Blessing that came from our union with God, until Jesus.
God gave man dominion over the earth and after the fall, he was still in control, but without the Father's Spiritual Blessing. Satan received dominion from Adam, through Adam's transgression. Satan then directed and controlled man, by his own ungodly nature. The beauty and glory God made into His children, became a source of heartache and pain for God. After Adam's fall, God had to bring mankind back unto Himself and He had to do so, according to His Own Laws of Justice. God is Righteous and Just, so He couldn't do it any other way, while remaining Just and Righteous. His Own Law of governing meant that God couldn't take any shortcuts and remain Truth.
Through Jesus, man could come to a place of receiving God's Spiritual Blessing again. Man's soul has been corrupted over thousands of years and our minds have been fashioned into such a worldly state of thinking, without the Holy Spirit. This has made them enemies to God. Man has functioned on his own for so long, that our souls have lost sight of how God operates. This makes is difficult for God to direct His Own family.
1Corinthians 2:14 (Amplified) says, "But the natural (non-spiritual) man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the Gifts and teachings and Revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless, nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them, of progressively recognizing, understanding and becoming better acquainted with them, because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated." This scripture lets us better understand what Paul wrote in Romans 12:2 (Amplified) where he says, "Do not be conformed to this world (this age) fashioned after and adapted to it's external, superficial customs, but be transformed (changed) by the entire renewal of your mind, by its new ideals and its new attitude, so that you may prove for yourselves what is the Good and acceptable and Perfect will of God, even the thing which is Good and acceptable and Perfect in His sight for you."
When man doesn't have a renewed mind, his soul doesn't receive from his spirit through God. An unrenewed mind just receives from the world, and he can only know God's will from a sense ruled mind. In 1Peter 2:2 (Amplified), Paul says this about the new man, "Like a newborn babies you should crave, thirst for, earnestly desire, the pure unadulterated Spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow into completed salvation."
Paul also speaks about this in 1Corinthians 3:2-3 (Amplified), "I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not yet strong enough to be ready for it, but even yet you are not strong enough to be ready for it. For you are still unspiritual, having the nature of the flesh, under the control of ordinary impulses, For as long as there are envying and jealousy and wrangling and factions among you, are you not unspiritual and of the flesh (behaving yourselves after a human standard and like mere unchanged men)?"
Paul speaks about Christians who are like "mere unchanged men" and who still think like they did before knowing Jesus. Their minds haven't been renewed and they continue behaving like they did before knowing Jesus. Paul was not talking so much about sin, as simply still thinking as mere men, but about their having no revelation to enlighten them. They still governed themselves by the flesh, instead of the spirit.
A renewed mind comes only when we allow our now alive spirit, to receive from the Holy Spirit instead of the world. We will never act differently, until we think differently. We can govern our actions towards others, by disciplining the flesh, but it's only superficial and not the True Fruit of the Spirit. We resort to traditions and rituals, in order to know and try the will of God. This is to no avail. When we renew our minds by the True will of God, the trials of making the flesh "do the right things," are over. The flesh will only do what we allow it to do and what we train it to do. We cannot train it to do right, until we know what is right.
Paul writes in Hebrews 5:14 (Amplified), "But solid food is for full-grown men; for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to Divine or human Law." We struggle with the new Spiritual Blessing given to us in Jesus, because we don't understand the things of the Spirit, that has brought them. Through Jesus, all the things the Father intended for man, before man's spiritual fall, are now our's again. This is the Blessing that was for Jesus (and us) as the Seed. Abraham received a portion of it, but Jesus received it all and then He willed it to us. What has the Holy Spirit contained for us until now? What Mysteries are yet ours to know, through Him?
The Mysteries of the Kingdom are not only revealed to us, but have been granted to us. They're not only ours to know, but to have in this life on earth and continue over into the Kingdom, when we leave here. These are the Life, peace, authority, Grace and Love God has for His precious family. They are for in Heaven (the Kingdom) and on earth. All these things are now our's to enjoy and to walk in, by His Spirit. This is the Spiritual Blessings we've received through Jesus Christ. Our carnal, unrenewed minds haven't seen anything yet, but a renewed mind will see into the Spirit realm and appropriate these Spiritual Blessings for here and now.
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