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 understand the Plan of our redemption, in order to know the Father's will and intention for His family. There's a hidden Truth in Proverbs 29:18 (Amplified) we need the Holy Spirit to reveal to the hearts of God's children. Thus it says, "Where there is no vision, no redemptive Revelation of God, the people perish; but he who keeps the Law of God which includes that of man, Blessed, happy, fortunate, and enviable is he."
Many in the Church declare, "I am the redeemed of the Lord." Psalms 107:2 (Amplified) says, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has delivered from the hand of the adversary." Most have no idea what they're redeemed from, so they simply say, "I'm the redeemed of the Lord," without saying what they've been redeemed from. We need to know what Jesus paid for, when He went to Calvary for us. If God intended such these things as sickness, disease, and destruction, to be part of His Plan for us, then Jesus wouldn't have to purchase us out from this bondage.
Because we've been erroneously taught and misunderstand the Truth, we've allowed the adversary to triumph over us, in the things Jesus paid to redeem us from. Why would Jesus redeem us, from something that was God's will for us to have? Galatians 3:13-14 (Amplified) tells us, "Christ purchased our freedom, redeeming us from the Curse (doom of the Law and it's condemnation) by Himself becoming a Curse for us, for it is written in the scriptures, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified). To the end that through their receiving Christ Jesus, the Blessing Promised to Abraham might come on the Gentiles, so that we through faith might all receive the realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit (John 1:16), "The Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing."
When the Blessing of the Holy Spirit came upon us, we not only received the ability of God came upon us like the old covenant people, but the Holy Spirit now lives in us. This includes more than just speaking in tongues and being a different denomination. It's the Promise of the Spirit restoring us back to the Garden before Adam's fall. This restoration includes fellowship, authority, ability and dominion over all things. The Blessing has been restored to us.
Jesus' Blood paid for the Curse of the Law. Everything written in Deuteronomy 28:15-68 about the Curse of the Law, has been paid for by Jesus. If God was going to "put these things on you" or if it's His will for you to have them, then the Blood of His Son wouldn't have removed them for us. We would still be under them. It doesn't make sense for Jesus to die in order to remove the things of the Curse, if it's God's will for us to have them. Jesus came to do the Father's will.
We've received something that wasn't God's will for us to have. Read about the Curse of the Law and see how many things listed under it, we continue allowing to enter our lives and believe it's God's will for us to bear. Jesus' Blood was payment to buy us back and redeem us from the Curse, according to 1Peter 1:18-19 (Amplified) which says, "You must know (recognize) that you were redeemed (ransomed) from the useless, fruitless way of living inherited by tradition from your forefathers, not with corruptible things such as silver and gold. But you were purchased with the Precious Blood of Christ (the Messiah), like that of a Sacrificial Lamb without blemish or spot."
1Corinthians 7:19-20 (Amplified) says, "Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you? Whom you have received as a Gift from God? You are not your own. You were bought with a Price, purchased with a Preciousness and paid for, made His Own. So then honor God and bring glory to Him in your body."
We're not honoring God, when we continue to allow the things Jesus redeemed us from, to be in our lives. We've been taught to surrender to things, that aren't God's will for us and have accepted and allowed them to continue in our lives, even though Jesus redeemed us from these things. This might be the "tradition of our forefathers," but that's not the will of our Heavenly Father. We were given white robes, not white flags of surrender. We were never intended to surrender to circumstances around us and stop trusting in the Blood of our Redeemer.
Many will not receive this message and deem it as being foolishness, but it will challenge others to expand our faith, into areas that have been taken over by the adversary. This is an individual choice and a responsibility to the Word of God. "Honoring God in your body," means not being complacent, but standing in faith for what Jesus paid for. This means we will discipline our body, in order to resist the devil in more areas than we have before. Grace will see us through and Truth will uphold us in the Word.
If we gave up on things in this natural realm the way we gave up in the spirit, then most of us wouldn't even be able to walk or talk. When we first began learning to walk, we spent lots of time picking ourselves up off the floor. We've become more and more proficient in balancing ourselves, until we mastered walking. When it comes to Spiritual Blessings, we try it once and when it didn't work, we quit.
Hebrews 12:1 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, Then, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses who have borne testimony to the Truth, let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily and deftly and cleverly clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us."
I believe that "the sin that readily and deftly and cleverly clings to and entangles us," is the sin of complacency that allows (or makes us) settle for much less than Jesus died to redeem us from. We're willing to settle for "going to Heaven when we die," without advancing in the Spirit realm. We were given white robes and not white flags. We're supposed to be an advancing army, instead of a compromising one that isn't willing to "make waves." The world isn't looking for another religion, but the reality of a Living and Breathing and Acting God, Who is Above All gods.
We're a Super-natural people, placed in the midst of a natural-minded world. The natural man has his own way of dealing with problems and we've adopted these customs. We have the answers to these problems that aren't limited to man's natural realm. The answers come from the Super-natural ability within us. Find out what Jesus redeemed you from and stand against these things, just like you stand against any other source of the adversary. You might not be victorious initially, but you must apply patience and keep trying.
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