John 1:!6-17 (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 seemingly forgotten what it means to be born-again, acting like it only pertains to "when we leave this earth and go to the Father in Heaven." When the new birth came into us by faith, a miracle took place in our spirit and were were created as new beings. 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 (spiritual and moral condition) has passed away. Behold! the fresh and new has come."
We were created, just as surely as the heavens and earth were created by the Word of God. We are now a new being that has never been on the earth before, except for Jesus, "Who is the First Born among many brethren." Hebrews 2:10-11 (Amplified) says, "For it was an act worthy of God and fitting to the Divine Nature that He, for Whose sake and by Whom all things have their existence, in bringing many sons into Glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect, should bring to maturity the human experience necessary to the perfectly equipped for His office as High Priest through suffering. For both He Who sanctifies (making men holy), and those who are sanctified all have One Father. For this reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren."
When we determine that our salvation is only for a future time, we are also determining that our Heavenly Father can only move in our lives, at a future time. Our misunderstanding this, limits God to only after we leave this earth. God didn't do what He did, only to allow us into Heaven, but that through Jesus, He could bring His Kingdom and His Heaven to earth, through those who are a new creation family. God intended to move and live through us, like He did through the Human Body of Jesus. God intended to make His Presence known upon the earth through His new creation family, just like He did in the First Born Son, Jesus.
When we put-off what God has done, we don't allow Him to do and live and move through us, like He wants too. In spite of the teaching and preaching of God's Word, some still refused to accept the Truth in Romans 3:3-4 (Amplified) which says, "What if some did not believe and were without faith? Does their lack of faith and their faithlessness nullify and make ineffective and void the faithfulness of God and His fidelity to His Word? By no means! Let God be found True though every human being is false and a liar, as it is written, That you may be justified and shown to be upright in what you say, and prevail when you are judged by sinful men."
When some refuse to believe and are unwilling to accept Truth, we're still the ones who are upright and justified in what God says. Jesus was the Fore-runner for the Church, just like John the Baptist was a fore-runner for Jesus. Jesus was the First Born among many brethren and now we all belong to the Same Father and the same family. We've been waiting for when we go to Heaven, to become sons and daughters of God, when have been so all along. We are sons and daughters of God now, while we're on this earth and we are to show forth His Glory to the world. God has sent us into the world as His Ambassadors from His Heavenly Kingdom.
Having unrenewed minds, keeps us thinking as mere men, when all the time we are the new creation family of God, as was Jesus, the First Born from the dead. This doesn't take away from what Jesus came to do, but it amplifies what He came to do. Jesus came to remove what Adam placed mankind under and restore what the Father had always intended for His family to be. When we deny this portion of our salvation, we are actually denying the fullness of Jesus' earthly ministry.
Some would say that this is "making light of Jesus' Deity" and making Jesus "just a Man," but nothing is further from Truth. It was by Jesus' becoming a Man on the cross, that brought us into His Deity and class of being. We would still be only human, without Jesus' allowing Himself to take our place. "Through Him, we are not as we were, but as He is," according to 1John 3:2 (Amplified) which says, "Beloved, we are even here and now God's children; it is not yet disclosed, (made clear), what we shall be hereafter, but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall as God's children resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He really is"
I don't know what a glorified body will look like when we're actually forever in His Presence, but whatever Jesus looks like, we will also look like. Until that time, "We see no longer any man after the flesh, but after the Spirit," according to 2Corinthians 5:16 (Amplified) which says, "Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a purely human point of view (in terms of natural standards of value); No, even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a Man, Yet now, we have such knowledge of Him that we know Him no longer in terms of the flesh."
Most of us still see Him as the Man Who was in the flesh, walking on the Shores of Galilee. Our insight and revelation knowledge of Him, stopped after the cross. Jesus didn't stop at the cross, but He ascended to the Father in a New Form of Being, a Spirit Born Man in a Glorified Body and He took us with Him as brethren of the new creation family. We are presently still in this body, but we hold the Same Holy Spirit and same Glory of the Father Who lived in Jesus, while He was in this natural body. We've been made one with Him and are now His natural body to reach out and minister in this natural realm, like Jesus during His earthly ministry. We've become as an earthly vehicle to allow the Father to go on in the earth, like Jesus did. We're to only do what the Father does, say what the Father says and go where the Father wants to go, because It is the Father in us now, that still wants to do the work.
We've prayed and sent the Holy Spirit to minister and heal those in need. Even though part of this is right, the Holy Spirit now lives in us and we're to go in His Power, allowing Him to work through us, like He did in Jesus. God doesn't want to "be sent," He want to GO and He wants to GO through us. This is and always has been, His will and His Truth. God's will and Truth is that He could now walk in this realm and have us walk in His realm and that there'd be no separation between His family and Himself.
The first Adam and the Father walked together in spirit and in the earth. The Last Adam, Jesus, did the same thing. God wants to do the same thing with us, His sons and daughter's. Since we've become His earthly Body (the Body of Christ) and we have His Spirit living inside us, God's will is that He can now walk together with us through Jesus, like He did from the beginning. After all, "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness there of." God can use us to do His will, when we yield ourselves to Him. He won't force Himself upon us and make us do what He wants. He wants us to submit to His will in love for Him and His Love for mankind will be made on this earth as it is in Heaven.
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