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 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."
Notice, how the above scripture tells us that these things, "Came through Jesus Christ." It doesn't say that, "These things are coming through or will come through Him," referring to the future. These Promises of God given in Genesis-Revelations are now ours, according to 2Corinthians 1:20 (Amplified) which tells us, "For as many as are the Promises of God, they all find their Yes answer in Him (Christ). For this reason we also utter the Amen (So be it), to God through Him, in His Person and by His Agency, to the Glory of God."
The Glory of believing these Promises and accepting them as ours in Jesus, is offered up to the Father in faith through Jesus, to God's Own Glory. The Church has stumbled between Truth and tradition, for over two-thousand years. We've been living in a place of awaiting these Promises, without realizing that they're no longer Promises to those who are in Christ Jesus, but they're Truth and reality. Many of God's children haven't yet come to the Truth of whether God is for us of against us.
We've failed to understand the new covenant that has been offered to us by God's Own Spirit, through Jesus. Grace is simply God's Own will being done in those who are in Jesus and is for all who believe and come into Christ's salvation. Grace is unearned and undeserved by the whole of mankind. Many haven't accepted the Gift of Grace unto salvation and many who've accepted God's Grace to salvation, haven't yet accepted it in Truth.
God's will is Grace and Truth. God wants us to know His will and to accept it's Truth in Jesus/ The Father once told me that, "My people's faith has accepted what My Grace has provided." Romans 4:16 (Amplified) tells us, "Therefore, inheriting the Promise is the outcome of faith, and depends entirely on faith, in order that it might be given as an act of Grace (unearned, undeserved favor), to make it stable, and valid, and guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the devotees and adherents of the Law, but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all."
We've did nothing to be saved, but we only believed the Promise in faith. When we did this, Grace received us into the Promise and it became our Truth that we now belong to God as His children. All of the other Promises of Grace, come by the same action on our part. Grace has made them all ours, by our faith in His Truth. We don't do anything to inherit our healing, son-ship rights, access to God's Throne of Grace or our peace in Him, with Him and through Him. It is all by faith in God's will and His Truth.
God has made His will for us so very clear, when He sent Jesus to reveal it to us, but we still are unclear about it. When we see Jesus, we see God's will and His Grace for us in action. Jesus and God's will for mankind, are exactly the same. Jesus was and still is, the Exact Revelation of God's will for mankind. If Jesus didn't do it, then God doesn't do it.
Romans 8:31-32 (Amplified) says, "What then shall we say to all this? If God is for us, who can be against us? Who can be our foe, if God is on our side? He Who did not withhold or spare even His Own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all other things?" What are "all the other things?" All the Promises God made through Jesus, by His Grace. All of these Promises are now fulfilled through Jesus.
Romans 8:16-17 (Amplified) says, "The Spirit Himself, thus testifies together with our own spirit, assuring us that we are children of God. 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, only we must share His suffering if we are to share His Glory." God's family has been taught to focus only on the last part of this scripture about "sharing in His suffering, if we are to share in His inheritance." What is the suffering that Jesus endured? His suffering on the cross of Calvary isn't what this scripture is speaking about here. Christ suffered on the cross for our benefit. Jesus did this so that we could inherit His Blessing and to deliver us from everything that we'd been subject to as a result of Adam's transgression in the Garden. Jesus' suffering was from the hands and lies of the people, who wouldn't believe in His Message of God's Grace.
James 1:5-8 (Amplified) says, "If any of you is deficient in Wisdom, let him ask of the Giving God Who gives to all me liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching and fault finding, and it will be given him. Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything he asks for from the Lord For being as he is a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), he is unstable and uncertain about everything he thinks, feels, decides."
The man without faith in the above scripture, has been taught by the world and tradition and has been told to "accept everything happening to and around him, because it's God's will." Many things happening in today's world are not God's will. These might be things that the eyes of God has seen in the future, but His will is that "all should be saved and come to the knowledge of God." 2Peter 3:19 (Amplified) says, "The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He Promises, (according to some people's conception of slowness), but He is long-suffering, extraordinarily patient toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance."
We see many people who still haven't turned to repentance and are still not in God's will, but for those who have already turned, we are already in His will. The Apostle Paul speaks to the Church about our Foundation, Who is Jesus Christ, and how the House or structure being built of this Foundation, in 1Corinthians 3:9-15. Mankind has built many houses, religions, denominations and traditions on the Foundation of Jesus. The world and the devil are testing these structures right now. Even though the structure or tradition might not withstand the enemy's deception and it's destroyed, the Foundation Who is Jesus, remains strong and they are still saved.
God is looking for a few good men and women, who will carry out His end time strategies. Many will reject and turn from God's Grace and Truth. Many will hold onto tradition, just like they did in Jesus' earthly ministry. This never has, nor never will, stop God from doing what He set out to do. God will raise up an army in these Last Days before Jesus returns. These will be people who've made it their quest in life, to seek after Truth and Wisdom and have built a relationship with the Father, through the Holy Spirit.
Many will be and are being persecuted for their stand and ministry. Many will become targets of the enemy, but satan will not stop the Invading Army of God in these Last Days. Paul didn't suffer at the hands and doings of God, but he was pursued by an evil spirit that buffeted him at every turn, in order to stop him from preaching God's Grace and Truth. Paul was the only man who had been given the Revelation of God's Plan for His people, at that time. Today though, there are millions of believers spreading God's Message, so satan cannot focus on one person. We are a great and mighty army on this earth and VICTORY IS CERTAIN.
Seek God for yourself, without turning away from others. Allow the Holy Spirit to lead and instruct you. You might suffer persecution at the hands of religious leaders, just like Jesus and Paul did, but press on to see the Glory of God in this earth.
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