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."
Grace, by faith in Jesus' finished work, has brought the Spiritual Blessing that wasn't available to those under the Law. Jesus said He came to bring Spiritual Life in John 10:10 (Amplified) saying, "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy Life, and have it in abundance (to the full, til it overflows)."
Many have never truly understood that full extent of the Life, that Jesus came to bring us. So long as mankind was void of Spiritual Life and could only function in the natural realm, these Spiritual Blessings couldn't be ministered to them. We haven't fully appreciated these Spiritual Blessings like we should, because they haven't been taught to the Church. The greatest Spiritual Blessing is the new birth, but within the new birth, the Blessings are ours.
Man could never be made righteous within himself. One of the greatest Spiritual Blessings we've received through Jesus, is being made righteous in God's sight, through faith in Jesus. These Spiritual Blessings are so plentiful, that we've failed to recognize and even accept them for what they are to us now in this earthly life. We've put off many of these Spiritual Blessings for being, "when we get to Heaven." God's Grace has provided these Spiritual Blessings, for our acceptance and use on earth as His representatives.
Our adversary, the devil, hates these Gifts and Spiritual Blessings that came through Jesus. "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds," according to 2Corinthians 10:4 (Amplified). Without these Gifts and Spiritual Blessings, we're left as being mere mortal men and woman. These Gifts and Blessings can only be used by those who are born-again and understand who and what we really are in this world.
As God's family, we're not only born-again and have become new creation people, but we've been equipped with the Spiritual aspect of God's Plan for mankind, from the beginning. Man was never to be subjected to the bondage of satan, but to have dominion over everything on this planet. When Adam transgressed in the Garden, mankind lost the ability to Live in the spirit and satan took dominion over from man. Luke 4:5-6 (Amplified) says, "Then the devil took [Jesus] up to a high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time (in the twinkling of an eye). And he said to Him, To You I will give all this power and authority and their glory (all their magnificence, excellence, pr-eminence, dignity, and Grace), for it has been turned over to me, and I give it to whomsoever I will."
Adam's fall caused all the kingdoms of the habitable world to fall into the hands of the outlaw spirit (satan) and could only be dealt with, by Spiritual Laws from spiritual beings. These Laws or Spiritual Blessings could only come by Grace and a new creation people. When we were born-again in Christ Jesus, all the dominion that once belonged to Adam and was usurped by the enemy's deception, was delivered into our hands. The authority and dominion was placed back to the rightful or those in right standing or those who were made righteous in Jesus unto the Father.
Only spiritual beings can deal in Spiritual things. We've been taught or have simply believed that we "had to die in this natural realm, then we become a spirit and go to be with the Lord." As long as we believe this, our Spiritual Blessings, dominion and authority is useless to us or the world, while we remain on earth.
2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come." When you were born-again and became a new creation in Christ, the Spiritual Blessings that belonged to man from the beginning, were restored to us. We were Spiritually connected with the Father again and regained dominion and authority over the adversary. We've regained dominion and authority over his unlawful acts and kingdoms of this world.
This was an act of Grace. It has given us favor and Gifts of righteousness or right standing with God, which activates the Spiritual Blessings to God's family again. We must begin seeing ourselves like God has made us to be in Jesus. This isn't pride, but Truth. We've been mostly walking in a truth, but not the Truth. Being born-again is a truth, while who we are now in Jesus, is the Truth. You might ask, "Aren't these the same thing?" No. Have you heard the story about a man showed his elephant to three blind men? One man took hold of the elephant's tail and said, "The elephant is like a rope." Another man grabbed the elephant's tail, saying, "The elephant is like a tree." The third man took hold of the elephant's trunk, saying, "The elephant is like a snake." Each man had "a truth," but they didn't have "the Truth." The truth is that an elephant is much more than what they imagined, because they only touched a part of the Truth.
We've seen a truth, but the Truth is so much more than we can see by our natural way of touching Truth. That's why we're instructed to "Live by faith," in 2Corinthians 5:7 (Amplified) which says, "For we walk by faith, we regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and Divine things, with trust and Holy fervor, thus we walk not by sight or appearance." Hebrews 11:1 (Amplified) says, "Now faith is the assurance, the confirmation, the title deed of things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality, faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses."
We cannot "see" the spiritual world by our senses, only by faith. We can't see our dominion and authority over spiritual things, except by faith. The Spiritual Blessings that came upon us, through our union with Jesus Christ, can only be activated by faith and faith is a Gift from God, by His Grace. Ephesians 2:8 (Amplified) says, "For it is by free Grace (God's unmerited favor), that you are saved, delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation through your faith. And this salvation is not of yourselves (of your own doing, it came not through your own striving), but it is the Gift of God."
We've never seen faith, it's a Spiritual force. We've never seen salvation, it's also a Spiritual Blessing. We've never seen Grace, it's a Gift from God. By faith though, we've accepted these things as being real. This is a truth, but it's not the Truth. The rest of our salvation and redemption, is just as real by faith, as the things we've received in our lives already by faith. We believe in many things that we've never seen, even in this natural faith. We've never seen the wind, only it's results. We don't deny it's reality though. We've never seen the force of gravity, but we believe that if we jump from a high building, then we will come down. Why is it more difficult to believe in what these Spiritual Blessings are in our lives, unless we can see them? We walk and conduct our lives by faith in what God has said, rather than what our eyes and senses dictate to us. This is faith and it's the Gift of God, through Jesus Christ.
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