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."
The above scripture tells us explicitly that, "Out of God's fullness, we have all received." His fullness wasn't reserved for the early Church only, or "for certain ones," or for the Apostles only, but God's Word says, "we have all received." Today's Church has heard so many different teachings, doctrines and different "Gospels," that not all have received. God's fullness was intended for everyone, but we've decided that this isn't true for some.
The Truth came through Jesus Christ, according to the above scripture, but I'm persuaded that the Truth of the Gospel is still not received today. We've all been given the opportunity to receive, but some either don't know or have chosen not to receive. Romans 10:17 (Amplified) says, "So faith comes by hearing what is told, and what is heard comes by the preaching of the Message that came from the lips of Christ, the Messiah Himself."
Sadly, much of what is being preached today, never came from the lips of Jesus, the Christ. Surely faith came by hearing, but much of what we've heard and placed our faith in, are not the Words of Jesus. This might be what the Father meant, when He told me "This is the Year of Understanding." Since the New Testament was written over two-thousand years ago, we've developed hundreds of differing denominations and thousands of different doctrines that we call, "truth." We've mostly ignored Proverbs 4:5-8 (Amplified) where God says, "Get skillful and Godly Wisdom, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation); do not forget and do not turn back from the Words of My mouth. Forsake not [Wisdom], and she will keep, defend, and protect you; love her, and she will guard you. The beginning of Wisdom is: get Wisdom (skillful and Godly Wisdom)! [For skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principal thing]. And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation]."
We've replaced the Wisdom of God, with man's wisdom, because we lacked understanding. 1Corinthians 1:30 (Amplified) says, "But it is from Him (God) that you have your life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God. Revealed to us a knowledge of the Divine place of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as our Righteousness, thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God; and our Consecration, making us pure and holy; and our Redemption, providing our Ransom from eternal penalty for sin."
The above scripture tells us that we've been provided with Wisdom, through our union with Jesus. We have fulfilled Proverbs 4:7 by "Getting Wisdom," because Jesus is our Wisdom. This tells us that today's Church is lacking Wisdom, but that we've lacking understanding, comprehension and the interpretation of Wisdom.
When carnal-minded men, interpret the Wisdom of God, it becomes religion and not restoration. God's plan was complete restoration to what His plan for His family was from the foundation of the world. God's plan for His family, has never changed. God's plan was never for His children to be sick, depressed or "lorded over" by His enemy. We've never reached the potential of Who He made us to be, because we've lacked understanding of it. Proverbs 29:18 (Amplified) says, "Where there is no vision (no redemptive Revelation of God), the people perish; but he who keeps the Law or Word of God, which includes that of man, Blessed (happy, fortunate and happy) is he."
Today's Church has lost sight of "the Redemptive Revelation of God." God is our Redeemer and according to Proverbs 21:30 (Amplified), "There is no human wisdom or understanding or counsel that can prevail against the Lord." Whatever man's wisdom has devised, it cannot prevail against the Wisdom and understanding of the Lord. Proverbs 14:8 (Amplified) goes on, "The Wisdom (Godly Wisdom), which is comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God of the prudent is to understand His way, but the folly of self-confident fools is to deceive."
Many of God's children dismiss the things Jesus endured the cross for. He went there, in order to deliver them back into the lives of God's Own children. Many say they are "foolish." Do you really believe that a God Who can raise you from the dead, can't heal your body? Do you really believe that the Same Holy Spirit Who was on Elijah and causing Elijah to do great things, can't do the same things now that He not only is "on you," but He lives within you?
Have we allowed satan to deceive us, like he did in Eden and talk us out of our total redemption, so that we're no threat to him? We've somehow, come to believe that "God only does these things, after we die." Who is supposed to lay hands on the sick and cast out devils, here and now, on earth? Who is to display the Glory of God here, if He can only do these things after we die and go to Heaven?
Paul stood against those under the Law, who opposed him and the Gentiles who worshiped demon gods, but he never backed down in his ministry because others rejected him. Paul's commitment to the Lord, meant more to him, than the praise and adulation of men. Is God's Word still Truth to us? Why would God allow these things to be written in His Word, if He didn't intend to "back" His Word and His Promise?
We've been sold a Bill of Goods, that is only "partial Truth." Satan tried telling Jesus a partial Truth in Matthew 4:6-7 (Amplified) saying, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written, He will give His angels charge over you, and they will bear you up on their hands; lest you strike your foot against a stone." Satan was quoting God's Word from Psalm 91, but it was only a half Truth. Jesus replied in Verse 7, saying, "It is written also, You shall not tempt the Lord your God."
We've been deceived by man's wisdom and taught only half scriptures, like the Israelites in the Wilderness, who received what God called, "An evil report." How many evil reports, have we believed? How many times have we believed the gospel of men, instead of God's Gospel? The reports the spies gave about the giants, weren't lies, but they were lies about God's ability to do what man couldn't do without God. Most things in this Gospel can't be done in our own power, but we're to "Be strong in the Lord, and the Power of His Might."
The Bible is a Super-natural Book, written by a Super-natural God to a Super-natural people. It was never intended for natural man to be able to do or even understand, without the Super-natural Spirit of God in us. When the Church reduces God to a natural place, the Power of the Gospel is all but lost to the world, as a sign of God in the earth.
We must, "With all our getting, GET UNDERSTANDING!" Just prior to His Ascension to the Father, Jesus told His followers about the Holy Spirit in John 16:13 (Amplified),saying, "But when He (the Spirit of Truth, the Truth Giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His Own Message, on His Own authority, but He will tell whatever He hears from the Father (He will give the Message that has been given to Him), and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come (that will happen in the future)."
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