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 have all received these things "out of His fullness (abundance)," and not from anything we've done. It was God's will and His desire, that these things were granted. Many feel like they're taking advantage of God, by walking in what He made available to us out of His fullness (abundance).
Walking in God's will is to believe, by faith, in His Grace and then accept it. This is Truth. Grace and Truth came to us by our faith in what God has done for us, through Jesus. We should rejoice in it and accept what God wants us to have. The people limited God in the Wilderness. This grieved God, because they wouldn't allow Him to move on their behalf or believe in His Goodness. They decided that God couldn't do what He said He would do.
We've limited Him by our own ideas of what He can or can't do for us, in our earthly lives. This is cutting short the Power and Grace of our Redemption in Christ Jesus. The only thing that stops God from doing what He has Promises us, is us. We've set our minds and hearts towards not believing in His ability to be the Almighty God. We've limited God to our own standards.
We've been taught and have learned that "God can no longer do certain things." Some brethren are even angered when hearing teaches about God's Promises of healing, tongues, speaking and leading us by the Holy Spirit and Spiritual Blessings. Differing denominations have been created, because some choose to take the limits off of God, allowing Him to be Who He says He is. If someone doesn't believe like we do, then that person is put out of the fellowship or that person seeks another fellowship that challenged their faith.
The world promotes the challenge of deeper learning in our schools, but the Church continues to do the opposite. We've learned the basics of counting to ten, but can't seem to grasp addition or subtraction. Counting to ten will allow us to function to a small degree and perhaps we can get by in the world by only knowing this, but there's so much more we could learn to make our lives better.
We've learned to have faith in God's Word for salvation and to the place of being with the Father when leaving this earth, but we haven't learned to have the Father's ability moving through us, while we're here on earth. The Very Same God Who gave Grace for the new birth, is the Very Same God Who will raise His children to adulthood. No parent will have a baby and expect that baby to raise itself.
We've reverted back to what we think God wants us to do, instead of allowing Him to raise us up into the Super-natural Image of Himself. You became a new creation, when you were born-again. Jesus said that we're "in this world, but not of this world." Our education about how to walk in Kingdom things, must come from the Kingdom. The world can't teach or raise us up into new creation beings, because the world doesn't even acknowledge that the Kingdom exists.
How can someone with no knowledge of the Kingdom, teach us how the Kingdom works? The Holy Spirit is the only One Who can teach us Spiritual things, by the Word, which is Truth. Anything outside of the Word, is not Kingdom Truth. When we allow the Holy Spirit to teach us Kingdom Truth, then that Truth will rule out over natural truth and bring deliverance to our lives and the lives of others.
We deal in what we call "facts," but Truth is greater than fact. History records the death of Jesus on Calvary, but Truth says He's not dead, but is alive and has ascended to the Father on our behalf. Truth outweighs fact, when it comes to the Word of God. We've walked in fact for so long, that Truth seems to be lost.
How many times have we been taught that "God no longer does certain things" or that "Not everyone can do certain things?" This is fact to some, but Truth says, "No one can do these things, it's the Father in us Who does the work." We've decided that only special people can do the works, but Jesus said "These signs will follow those who believe." Fact says, "some," but Truth says "ALL." The emphasis is not on man, but on believing in the Greater One within you.
Our faith has been based on what others have said and done, instead of what the Father has said and done. There are only two ways of doing anything on this planet. We will either operated by the Word or the world. These are the only two options we have, to make decisions. If we operated by the world, then we can only obtain what the world can supply. If we will operate by God's Word, then there are no limits to what God can supply. Galatians 6:7-8 (Amplified) says, "Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained or mocked) by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside. He inevitable deludes himself who attempts to delude God. For whatever a man sows, that and only that is what he will reap. For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensibility), will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap Eternal Life."
The above scripture tells us that there are only two ways man can live by, on this earth. One way is by sowing to the flesh, which is the world's idea of life. The other way is to sow to the Spirit, which is God's way of Life. When we get saved and live by the standards of the senses (flesh), then we only know what the world knows and can only have what the world has. When we live by the Dictates of the Holy Spirit, then He will be our unlimited Source of Wisdom for this life and our eternal life in Heaven.
We can only reap what we sow. This is God's Word on it, but we also have His Word in Galatians 6:7 (Amplified) which tells us, "Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked) by mere pretensions or professions or by His precepts being set aside." In other words, "Don't let someone tell you that what God said, He is not able to do. God will not be mocked, disdained or scorned. If God said He would do it, then He will prove His Word to all who tried mocking Him. Don't be deceived by those who are pretentious or say that God's precepts are set aside."
Paul tells us that these people aren't mocking you, but are mocking God and God won't allow Himself to be sneered at or scorned. Even though the world doesn't believe His Word, when we stand on God's Word without being pretentious, then God will honor His Word in the midst of the world's mocking. If we sow to the Spirit, then we will reap from the Spirit. If we allow ourselves to be deceived by those who try to mislead us, then we can only reap what the flesh or senses can deliver. These are our options and God allows us to choose. God will honor His Word, but He cannot and will not honor the world's ideas about Him. God will deliver us by Grace and He will honor Truth.
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