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."
When reading about "Spiritual Blessing," many automatically think about our being in Heaven when we receive it. God says that through our Gift of Jesus, by the Holy Spirit we now receive the Blessing of the Spirit, while in this natural body. These Blessings come from the Father into our new creation man, in order to function in the Spirit while we're still on this earth.
None of the Gifts that came through Jesus, are needed when we get to Heaven with the Father, because everything there is already done. I'm not talking specifically about the Gifts of the Spirit in 1Corinthians 12, but we won't have need of them in Heaven either. We won't need the Gifts of healing or the Gift of miracles or any other Gift, in Heaven. I'm speaking here about the "Gifts heaped upon Gift" from John 1:16. We have overlooked the Super-natural in this life, by looking for the spectacular. Most of what God does in our lives, goes unnoticed by many of us.
The Christmas Gift of Jesus Christ has never been unwrapped by those to whom it was sent. We've admired the Gift and adored it, but have never really unwrapped it, in order to find what was inside. God Himself was wrapped in flesh and swaddling clothes, making it possible for Him to walk on this earth as God again. Jesus' earthly Body allowed God Himself to dwell among His family as Father. He could again live and walk in us and be our God and we could be His people.
The Gift we received through Jesus, is the very ability and Presence of God in our natural man. God can reveal Himself to the world, through us. In Him, we live and move and have our being. The Greatest Gift (aside from His Love), is that we now have the Gift of Life. Before Jesus, we were dead in sin and trespass, but now we're alive unto God. We've been restored back into being His very Own children, as the righteousness of God Himself.
All of the Gifts that came in the wrapped Form of Jesus, have now been unwrapped at His Resurrection and given to God's family. For centuries, satan has kept us ignorant of who we have been made to be by the Great Sacrifice of Jesus, causing us to believe it's for when we die and go to Heaven. Death has already come, when we were crucified with Christ and we're now living the Life of the Spirit in Him.
Ephesians 2:5-6 (Amplified) says, "Even when we were dead, slain by our own shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; He gave us the Very Life of Christ Himself, the same new Life with which He quickened Him, for it is by Grace, His favor and mercy which you did not deserve that you are saved, delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation. And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together, giving us joint seating with Him in the Heavenly sphere, by virtue of our being in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."
God sees us now through Jesus, as already being there with Him and He is here with us. We've been dispatched as ambassadors of Christ, into the world. We are Christ's Personal representatives appointed by the Father to reveal Him to the world, like Jesus did. 2Corinthians 5:20 (Amplified) says, "So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We, as Christ's Personal representatives, be you for His sake to lay hold of the Divine favor now offered you and be reconciled to God."
We cannot be sent as ambassadors, unless we have a place to be sent from. In the heart and mind of god, we're already the citizens of Heaven and God's Kingdom. We're sent from God, to reveal His Kingdom here on earth. No one in God's Kingdom is without power and the ability to reveal God in all His Glory. We've been taught to believe that, "If you lead a good life here, then you can go to Heaven when you leave this earth." God says, that "Through Jesus, we are already of His Kingdom, just like Jesus was." God has sent us to reveal Himself and His Kingdom to the world.
Every ambassador is supplied by the kingdom from which they were sent, to complete their task. When America sends ambassadors to other countries, then America supplies them with all they will need to survive and thrive there. The other country doesn't freely feed, house and care for them. God fully intends to supply our need, according to His riches in Glory through and by our Gift of Jesus.
God's Christmas Gift to mankind is much more than we have believed. There was never anything like the new creation people on this earth, before Jesus. We are truly a new creation from another world or Kingdom. We're not those under the Law, who only had the Spirit of God descend upon them for a moment. We now have God's Spirit Living inside our spirit and He has come to abide there forever.
Image what the Old Testament prophets would have been like, if the Holy Spirit lived in them, instead of only coming on them. We're Blessed above all people on earth, because we're not limited to only the jurisdiction of this earthly realm. Our ability is only limited by God's ability and He has not limits. Jesus said that we have eyes, "but we don't see." He said we have ears, "but don't hear." We need to have the eyes of our understanding opened to the full Truth of the Gift heaped upon Gift and allow God to actually Live through us, like He desires.
1John 3:2-3 (Amplified) tells us, "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. And everyone that has this hope, resting on Him, cleanses (purifies) himself just as He is pure, chaste, undefiled, guiltless."
We are called to govern ourselves by the Word and the Spirit of Truth and to put ourselves in a place where God can actually reveal Himself through us, to the world. He has given us the Spirit of Truth and has given us His Word, which is Spirit, to feed our new creation spirit, into maturity and Truth.
If you're born-again, then you shouldn't need someone to tell you what is evil or good, because we have the Spirit of Truth living in us and through us. Don't stop pursuing God, just because someone else has stopped doing so. Delve into the Gift that was given and unwrap it, until you've discovered all the Gifts that this One Gift has provided.
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