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've been so indoctrinated by man's ideas and carnal thinking, that we've nearly lost sight of the power of the new creation being that the Father has birthed us to be. Man's carnal thinking has placed so many back under the Law, instead of walking in what God's Grace has made us to be. We've functioned more from the outside-in, rather than the inside-out. Those who were under the Law were spiritually dead, so God could only operate from the carnal and fleshly outside, instead of their spirit.
The new creation sons and daughters of God have been made alive in our spirit, so now the Holy Spirit can direct us from the inside-out. Proverbs 20:27 (Amplified) tells us, "The spirit of man (that factor in human personality which proceeds immediately from God), is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts."
The Word of God brings Light, through our spirit. Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver), the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."
Since we are spirit and God's Words are Spirit, only our spirit can fully know and receive the Truth of His Word. Our carnal minds are unable to receive the Truth, as God intended for us to know. We can read the Words and understand their meaning, but still not function in the Truth. We have the ability to read and understand what is written with our intellect and still not have the Truth. John 1:17 (Amplified) says, "For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
God's Word was Truth even under the Law, but the people couldn't get Light and Life into their dead spirits, because they weren't born-again. The only way they could receive the benefit of the Spiritual Word, was by obeying fleshly rituals. God still honored His Word, if the people obeyed in the flesh. They couldn't call Him "Father," or be in His Presence like we can today. They could only expect to the Blessed, by following rituals and the blood of sacrificed bulls and goats.
As the new creation, we now have already been Blessed through the One and Only Sacrifice of Jesus. Jesus' Sacrifice not only paid for our fleshly sins, but it did much more, it paid for the spiritual sin that came from Adam. It wasn't the natural sins that held God back from mankind, but it was the far greater sin of treason, that brought death to our spirit. Bulls and goats could cover the natural sin, but couldn't atone for the greater sin, the separation of our spirit from God's spirit.
This isn't to say that natural sin is permissible, but without the spirit of man being made alive to God, our natural man had no other choice, because it was born into sin through the first Adam. Romans 5:14 (Amplified) says, "Yet death held sway from Adam to Moses (the Lawgiver), even over those who did not themselves transgress a positive command as Adam did. Adam was a type (prefigure), of the One Who was to come in reverse. The former, destructive, the Latter, saving."
Even though we can read and by our intellect understand about spirit, we still fail to have Revelation of the Truth, that we are above all things Spirit beings. We abide in this natural body of flesh and conduct our lives on earth as humans, but we are only alive to God, by and through our spirits. We have lives that we function in while on earth, but our conduct and relationship with our Father, is to be from our spirit.
We are to enjoy our natural lives here on earth, but our natural life is to be led by the Spirit. We have spouses, families, homes, and loved ones who bring us pleasure, but these things are only at their fullest when we live through our spirit connected with the Holy Spirit. When the flesh is left to itself, it will always stray off into a place where the Spiritual Blessings cannot do what God intended them to do. James 1:17 (Amplified) tells us, "Every Good Gift and every perfect (free, large) full Gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of all that gives Light, in the Shining of Whom there can be no variation (rising or setting or shadow cast by His turning as in an eclipse)."
The above scripture tells us, "THERE CAN BE NO VARIATION OF TURNING." God cannot vary in His Own Word or do anything aside from His Word. It doesn't matter how much He Loves us and would like too, God cannot violate His Own Word...not for anyone. When we're outside of His Word, we're not being led by His Spirit and we fail to receive His Spiritual Blessings. We can only receive and walk in the natural man to the fullness of the things God made available to us, through our spirit. We might feel like we have things "under control," which leads us to stop searching for greater understanding of God's Word.
Some will read this lesson and see no need to change for the better. Many accept things that happen to them here, as though those things were part of God's plan for their lives. In Truth, these things happen from their lack of knowledge. We regulate our lives by our own sacrifices, instead of His Sacrifice. We think we must give up enjoying life, while we're in this earthly body. God intended for us to live in this natural world or He wouldn't have given man a natural body to live in. God never created us to be as miserable as possible while we're here on earth, but He intended us to rule and have dominion through our union with Him in our spirit. He intended for us to enjoy the earthly home He created for us.
No matter how "good" you think you have it here, being led by the Spirit will improve life here so much, that we would wonder why we didn't listen more to His Word before.
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