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 came through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth, came though Jesus Christ."
We sometimes forget that these Spiritual Blessings and favor couldn't be given to us, until we were born-again. These new Spiritual Blessings that came upon us through Jesus, couldn't be given to those who were spiritually dead and didn't have the Life that Jesus came to bring. Now that we're children of God, we've been made alive unto Him and by Him and the Spiritual Blessings that were for God's children before Adam's fall have been restored to us, through Jesus.
Many have put off these Spiritual Blessings as being for "when we die and get to Heaven," but they belong to us now and are to guide and Bless us in this natural realm, by the Holy Spirit. We were never intended to live in this natural realm, without the Spirit realm leading our lives. Now that we're born-again, our Heavenly Father can do through us, what He had planned for His children at the beginning. We forget that we are Spiritual children now, as well as when we leave this earthly bodies.
When we leave this body, all of the Spiritual Blessings will come upon us, as a result of our being released from our carnality. We're still in this carnal realm and must learn to renew our minds, in order to walk by faith. When we're released from our natural body and are fully in God's Presence, faith will no longer be an issue. Grace though, will continue into eternity for us. Adam never thought about "faith" in his earthly walk, because he only knew oneness with his own Father and Creator. Faith is required to bring about God's will for us, in our new birth.
We must learn how these Spiritual Laws function, because they are the Laws that govern the Kingdom we are now citizens of. The Law of Words tells us that words are the seeds of creation and existence. This is a Spiritual Law that still governs all things. Many believe that words are simply communication with the world and ignore their being Spirit. This isn't only false, but it is foolish. Jesus said in Matthew 6:33 (Amplified), "Seek first of all, the Kingdom of God, and His way of doing and being right." God's way was and still is, speaking things into this world and the future to come. What we hear is what we speak. The words we speak will create either our deliverance or captivity.
When Jesus admonished us to "Be careful what we hear," in Mark 4:24-25 (Amplified), He meant just that. Jesus said in Verse 25, "For to him who has will more be given; and from him who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away by force." Jesus said that "He who has ears to hear the Truth of this teaching" is "he who has and will be careful of what comes into his ears." Jesus said that person will have more understanding to come.
All words are seeds All are either seeds of God's Kingdom or the kingdom of darkness and this world. This is why it's so vital that we "Be careful what we are hearing." Paul speaks to the new believers in Galatians 3:1-3 (Amplified). Paul was teaching them about Grace and Truth, through the Revelation he received from Jesus saying, "O you poor and silly and thoughtless and unreflecting and senseless Galatians, Who has fascinated or bewitched you or cast a spell over you? Unto whom, right before your eyes, Jesus Christ (the Messiah) was openly and graphically set forth and portrayed as crucified? Let me ask you one question; Did you receive the Holy Spirit as the result of obeying the Law and doing it's works, or was it by hearing the Message of the Gospel and believing it? Was it from observing a Law of rituals or from a Message of faith? Are you so foolish and so senseless and so silly? Having begun your new life Spiritually with the Holy Spirit, are you now reaching perfection by dependence of the flesh?"
How do you think that these Christians went from Grace to Law? By not being careful what they were hearing. Paul goes on in Galatians 4:16-17 (Amplified) saying, "Have I then become your enemy by telling the Truth to you and dealing sincerely with you? These men (the Judaizing teachers), are zealously trying to dazzle you (paying court to you, making much of you), but their purpose is not honorable or worthy or for any good. What they want to do i to isolate you from us who oppose them, so that they may win you over to their side and get you to court their favor."
These new believers went from being a Church that was Spiritual and walked by Grace and faith, to being one that walked by Law and works, all because they were not careful about the words they heard. They heard seeds (words) that were sown by those who didn't understand the principles of the Kingdom and God's way of doing and being right.
What we hear, will determine what we say. If we're not careful of what we hear, then we will reap the fruit of what we allowed to be sown in our heart (spirit). Proverbs 4:23-24 (Amplified) says, "Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance, and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of Life. Put away from you false and dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk put far from you."
The above scripture doesn't only advise us, "not to speak willful and contrary things," but we're "not to listen to false and dishonest and willful and contrary speech." We must guard our spirit man and not allow seeds of carnality and foolishness, to be sown there, because "Out of is flow the springs of Life." Jesus said in Matthew 12:33,37 (Amplified), "Either make the tree sound (healthy, good), and its fruit sound (healthy and good) or make the tree [your life] rotten (diseased and bad), and its fruit [your life] rotten (diseased and bad); for the tree is known and recognized and judged by its fruit." Jesus continues in Verse 37, saying, "For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced." Jesus wasn't just talking about going to Heaven, but was speaking about how we walk out life here, on this earth. Jesus said that by the words we hear and the words we speak, our lives will be diseased or healthy, good or bad. Words are seeds.
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