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."
Jesus said in John 6:40 (Amplified), "For this is My Father's will and Purpose, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in and cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Him, should have Eternal Life, and I will raise him up from the dead at the Last Day."
Jesus tells us that, "God's will and purpose is for everyone to believe in and trust in Jesus. There's only one will and purpose in God's Plan for the world and that is "That all should be saved and none should perish." When you accept and believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that Jesus died and rose again and that Jesus is Lord, then you're in the will of God. Romans 12:2 (Amplified) tells us to, "Not be conformed or adapted to this present world (age), but renew our minds and the way we think by God's Word. When we renew our minds with God's Word, we can go from just being in God's Good will, to His acceptable and perfect will.
When you're born-again, you are in the Good will of God already. As we grow into the knowledge and truth of what this actually means in our lives, then we go from Good to acceptable. As we grow from adolescence to adulthood to maturity in Christ, we can fulfill the perfect or mature will of God. It's God's will that we "Have Life, and have it in abundance," according to John 10:10.
"We have all received, out of His fullness and abundance," according to the above scripture. This includes everyone who is born-again. It's not just for some, but we have ALL RECEIVED and were ALL SUPPLIED WITH these Gifts, Graces, favors, Spiritual Blessings and Truth, in Jesus Christ. God has already supplied us with everything we will ever need, both in this life and our life hereafter. It's not that some have been left out, but some don't believe in the supply and Blessing we've received from His abundance and fullness.
Everything has been taken care of for us, from the moment we were born-again into God's family, for eternity. Romans 8:16-17,19 (Amplified) tells us, "The Spirit Himself thus testifies together with our own spirit, assuring us that we are children of God." The Holy Spirit bears witness to our own spirit. He doesn't bear witness to our senses or natural man, but to our spirit. Verse 19 goes on, "And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also; heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him." The rest of this Verse says we must also, Share in His sufferings." Many have focused on the last part of this scripture about, "Sharing in Christ's sufferings" and have used it to mean, sickness, torment and many others things, which aren't meant here.
The suffering that came upon Jesus while He was on the cross, are not what we are to suffer. These came upon Him, so that we wouldn't have to suffer them. The suffering Jesus bore, was His being rejected, hated and cursed, by those who wouldn't believe. Jesus described the suffering we would endure in John 15:18-19 (Amplified) saying, "If the world hates you, know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you belonged to the world, the world would treat you with affection and would love you as it's own. But because you are not of the world (no longer one with it), but I have chosen you out of the world, the world hated (detests) you."
We're living in a world that is governed by God's enemy, satan and as a believer in Christ Jesus, you're not welcome in his domain. Matthew 4:8-9 (Amplified) says, "Again, the devil took [Jesus] up on a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory (the splendor, magnificence, pre-eminence) and excellence of them. And he said to Him, These things all taken together, I will give You, if You will prostrate Yourself before me and do homage and worship me."
Satan secured ownership of the world from Adam, when Adam transgressed in the Garden of Eden. If it wasn't his to give away, then satan wouldn't have legally offered it to Jesus. After His resurrection, Jesus spoke to His followers in Matthew 28:18 (Amplified), saying, "All authority, all power of rule in Heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go then and make disciples of all nations."
Jesus stripped satan of the authority he usurped from Adam and he's lost all hold on the world through Jesus. Satan continues trying to use the authority that was once his, against the Lord and the Lord's anointed Body (the Church). The same hatred satan had for Jesus, is the same hatred he has for us. Satan will use whatever the world system has against you, in order to bring you suffering. Satan can harness the Church and make us more carnal than Spiritual, when we conform to and adapt to the world (age) and it's culture. In order to avoid the world's criticisms, we have adapted ourselves to it.
The world will tolerate religion, but not reality. The devil doesn't care about what we do in the natural, by the senses. He can control the natural man by his/her senses and carnal minds. Satan tries to stop Spiritual things, because he has no defense against the Spiritual Blessings and God's Word. When you step out in the natural man (the carnal mind and sense realm), into what the Holy Spirit bears witness to, then you're no longer welcome by the world and its system (way of doing things).
The only requirement needed to bring you into the Father's Kingdom, is to believe in Jesus as your Lord and Savior. After you've entered into God's family, you've been supplied with the favors, Gifts, Graces, Spiritual Blessings and Truth found in John 1:16-17. Everything needed to "prove for yourself what is God's will, has been given to you. You must believe and trust in and rely on what Jesus has already made yours. Paul tells us in Romans 12:2, "Through the Holy Spirit, we can prove for ourselves what is the perfect, mature will of God."
Paul instructs us to renew our minds or change the way we were trained to think, when we were in the world and were one with it. We're now, in the world, but not of the world and we must renew our way of thinking and doing things, according to the Truth of God's Word. The world's attitude is, "I don't believe that or that or that..." Our minds were trained by the world, to say, "I don't believe."
If a person had believed, then he would have been born-again, but the world's ingraining culture and the natural mind, taught that person, "Don't believe that." We must break down the stronghold that was in our minds before we met Jesus, and instead of "not believing," we must trust in, rely on, adhere to and be changed in the way we think. We must believe. We've chosen to believe some things from the Word, but we continue to think like the world does, in many other areas of our lives. Paul said that we can "prove for ourselves, what is God's will in and for our lives." First though, we must learn how to renew our minds, thinking by the spirit now, instead of the senses. Romans 8:12 (Amplified) says, "So then brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh, we are not obligated to our carnal nature to live a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates of the flesh."
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