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."
We must get past the idea that we're still under the Law, in order to understand the fullness of what we've received through Jesus. Many have been taught about our relationship with the Father, through the Old Testament relationship of the Law. We've not been taught the Spiritual Blessing and Truth, we've received through Jesus. The concept of salvation we have, has been limited to man's idea and teaching, instead of the Father's intent.
We can plainly see God's intent and will for those who will believe in Jesus in the above scripture. We see that His intent is for those believers, to be delivered from the Law and inherit Grace, Spiritual Blessing, favor, Gifts and Truth. This isn't something we must work for or earn by obedience, like those under the Law, but these were given by Grace and through our faith in Jesus Christ. The above scripture tells us that "we have all received and all been supplied with these," but we continue trying to receive by our own merits, what the Father has already given by Grace. Grace isn't an excuse to sin and act foolish, but it's an open door into the things the Father has already put in place for His Own family, before the fall in the Garden of Eden.
The only way we can inherit what Jesus has left us in His will, is by faith in what He has done. Listen very closely to what Paul writes in Galatians 3:22-26 (Amplified), "But the scriptures picture all mankind as sinners, shut up and imprisoned by sin, so that the inheritance, Blessing, which was Promised through faith in Jesus Christ (the Messiah) might be given (released, delivered and committed) to all those who believe (who adhere to and trust in and rely on Him). Now before faith came, we were perpetually guarded under Law, kept in custody in preparation for the faith that was destined to be revealed (unveiled, disclosed). So that the Law served, to us Jews, as our trainer, our guardian, our guide to Christ, to lead us until Christ came, that we might be justified, declared righteous, put in right standing with God, by and through faith. But now that the faith has come, we are no longer under a trainer, the guardian of our childhood, For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith For as many of you as were baptized into Christ, into a Spiritual union and communion with Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), have put on (clothed yourselves with Christ) There is now no distinction, neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is not male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, are in Him Who is Abraham's Seed, then you are Abraham's offspring and Spiritual heirs according to Promise."
We've been trying to obtain by the Law, the things that have already been given us by faith in Jesus. This deception has been taught to the Church from generations of old and is holding back the Truth from God's family. The Law was given to the Hebrew people (Jews) by Moses, but Gentiles were never under the Law. The Gentile nations were never under God's Promise of Law, to begin with. Now that Grace and Truth have come through Jesus, why would anyone ever wish to return to a covenant that has been replaced with a new and better covenant?
Galatians 5:4 (Amplified) tells us, "If you seek to be justified and declared righteous and 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)."
We've been trying to become what God has already made us to be in Christ Jesus, through man-made laws, but it is all by faith through Grace. We've been redeemed by the Blood of Jesus and restored into a position that Adam was. We're to make choices for or against the Truth and Grace of God, just like Adam. When Adam was placed in a position of dominion over the earth (Garden), he was in a place of listening to the Lord or listening to the deception. If Adam had listened to the Holy Spirit, then he would have held onto "who he was." When he listened to satan's lie, he tried becoming what God had already made him to be and he lost his place of dominion.
Genesis 3:5 (Amplified) says, "For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing the difference between Good and evil and Blessing and calamity." Genesis 1:27 (Amplified) 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." Adam and Eve were already made in His Likeness. We don't need to try becoming what God has already made us to be, but we need to walk in what He has done to and for us, by Grace.
We've been trying to find a place of favor and right standing with God, by our own ideas of favor and righteousness. We're no longer required to observe the sacrifices and rituals of the Law, in order to obtain favor with God. By faith in God's Grace we now receive Truth and the Spiritual Blessing, through Jesus.
God created us to walk naturally Super-natural before Him in the beginning. We've now been created in the new creation to walk this way again. We were to live in a natural body, while being Super-natural in our union with the Spirit of God. From the beginning, this was God's original intent and He has never changed His plan. As God's children, both before the fall and now after Jesus, we were to live in a natural body, be alive to God in and through our union with Him in our spirit, and walk and reign in this realm, by our family relationship in the Spirit.
The Father has done everything needed to restore us back into His Original intent. This was and still is, God's Plan for His family. Heaven was never meant to be our home, but the Father created this earth for us to live on. Adam's fall resulted in the Curse coming on the earth. Jesus went to the Father's House to prepare a place for us there, according to Revelations 21:1-5 (Amplified) which says, "Then I saw a new sky (Heaven), and a new earth, for the former sky and the former earth had passed away (vanished), and there no longer existed any sea. And I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, descending out of Heaven from God, all arrayed like a bride beautified and adorned for her husband. Then I heard a Mighty Voice from the Throne and I perceived it's distinct Words, saying, See! The Abode of God is with men, and He will live (encamp, tent) among them, and they shall be His people, and God shall Personally be with them and be their God. God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more, neither shall there be anguish, sorrow, and mourning, nor grief nor pain anymore, for the old conditions and the former order of things have passed away And He Who was seated on the Throne said, See! I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW. Also He said, Record this, for these sayings are faithful, accurate, incorruptible and trust worthy and true and genuine."
God couldn't leave things like they were before Jesus, because the whole of creation was contaminated by satan and Adam's fall. God will remove us from this planet, until the final days of redemption, where He will then "make all things new" and restore and make the earth new, but He will bring the new Heaven and the new earth into a union with Him, as it was determined from the beginning. We will live and walk in a realm of walking naturally Super-natural. We will have a body like the one Jesus lives in, after He was resurrected from the dead. These bodies will simultaneously function on earth and the Heavenilies.
The body (house) we now live in, will pass away in the Resurrection, but God is going to make a new body for us to live in, for eternity. 1John 3:2 (Amplified) says, "Beloved, we are even here and now God's children; it is not yet disclosed, made clear what we shall be hereafter, but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall, as God's children, resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He really is."
"There will be no Curse on the new earth and there will be no more separation from God, in this new creation man," according to 2Corinthians 25:17. There will be no more fallen angels or corruption in the Heavenlies, but there will be a new sky (or heaven), a new earth, a new creation people who will inhabit them. God and His people will live together in this new family, for eternity. God's Plan A fulfilled!
As God's new creation children, we have already been made righteous, justified, and holy by our union through Jesus. The Promise is now fact and fulfilled, to those who are in Christ Jesus. Favor, Blessing, Grace, Spiritual union, restoration and redemption are already ours, even while we are here now. We no longer have to "try being right with God, because Jesus has already all that was needed to make us righteous before and in God. The harder we try "becoming" these things, the less we believe He already has done it for us. This is Grace through faith.
Grace works by faith, just like Love works by faith, according to Galatians 5:6 (Amplified) which says, "Faith works by Love." The more we understand what Love has already done through Jesus, the more our faith will work towards God and others. 1John 4:17 (Amplified) says, "In this union and communion with Him, Love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment with assurance and boldness to face Him, because as He is, so are we in this world."
This is Grace at it's best and faith in this Grace, that God Who is Love has bestowed on us in Jesus. If we don't understand Love, then we can't understand Grace. If we don't understand Grace, then faith is dead and we try becoming what Love has already made us.
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