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."
Proverbs 4:7 (Amplified) says, "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."
Godly Wisdom is the most important piece of the things of God, that you have ever received in this world. 1Corinthians 1:30 (Amplified) says, "But it is from Him (God) that you have your Life in Christ Jesus, Whom God has made our Wisdom from God." If you're born-again, then you have Wisdom. Jesus has been made our Wisdom and the Holy Spirit, Who is actually God Himself, now lives in and through you. Just prior to His Ascension, Jesus told His followers in John 16:13 (Amplified), "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)."
We've been given Wisdom from the Teacher, Who is the Holy Spirit Himself and we have the "Handbook," The Bible, which tells us how to live in God's Kingdom. Now, we must have understanding, on how to use Wisdom. Jesus tells us in Matthew 6:33 (Amplified), "But seek, aim at and strive after first of all His Kingdom and His Righteousness His way of doing and being right and then all these things taken together will be given you besides."
We're now part of God's Kingdom and that Kingdom has a way of doing and being right, which are the Laws that govern Heaven (the Kingdom). It's crucial that we understand how we are to operate in these Laws. Jesus prayed in Matthew 6:10 (Amplified), "Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven."
Jesus taught us to pray that the will of God which governs Heaven or His Kingdom, be done this way on earth. How is God's will being done in the Kingdom of Heaven? We don't know how to apply Wisdom in our lives, without understanding what the Kingdom Laws are and what God's will is there.
Too many of God's children continue seeing themselves like they used to be before being saved, instead of who God has made them to be now. We must see ourselves through the Father's eyes and the the eyes of the world. The Holy Spirit tells us in James 1:22-26 (Amplified), "But be doers of the Word, obey the Message, and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth. For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his own natural face in the mirror for he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like. But he who looks carefully into the faultless Law (the Law of Liberty), and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer who obeys, he shall be Blessed in his doing his life of obedience. If anyone thinks himself to be religious (piously observant of external duties of his faith), and does not bridle his tongue but deludes his own heart, this person's religious service is worthless, futile, barren."
Jesus said in Matthew 12:37 (Amplified), "For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced." Does this still apply to today's Christian? I'm not talking about our being saved or saved, but about our being acquitted or sentenced. Let's go back to James 1:26 which says, "If anyone thinks himself to be religious (piously observant of the external duties of his faith), and does not bridle his tongue but deludes his own heart, this person's religious service is worthless, futile, barren."
What does this mean? If you go to the Mirror (God's Word) and find out who you are from the faultless Law of Liberty, but speak out contrary to your new citizenship, then you're deluding your own heart. Jesus tells us in Matthew 12:33 that "The things we receive or don't receive in our lives, come from a heart that is not deluded or double-minded." Jesus said that "A tree is known by it's fruit." What fruit of your lips are you revealing in the Kingdom?
Wisdom has spoke this entire universe into existence. God created everything we see and don't see, by His Words. We're born-again by confessing and believing God's Word. 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) says, "You have been regenerated (born-again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from One that is Immortal, by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God."
Wisdom has come, but understanding Wisdom has been slow in coming. We witness Jesus in His earthly ministry, doing almost everything we read about, by speaking Words. Jesus spoke to the dead, He spoke to the fig tree, He spoke to the storm, He spoke to demons, He spoke to sickness and disease, He spoke to the maimed, and He has spoken to us in these Last Days. Hebrews 1:1-2 (Amplified) says, "In many separate Revelations, each of which set forth a portion of the Truth, and in different ways God spoke of old to our forefathers in and by the prophets; But in the Last of these days He has spoken to as in the Person of a Son, Whom He appointed Heir and Lawful Owner of all things, also by and through Whom He created the Worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time, He made, produced, built, operated and arranged them in order."
Everything came by Words that God spoke and sent into His Kingdom. Jesus understood the Laws of the Kingdom and how they operate and He only spoke God's Words or right Words. John 3:34 (Amplified) says, "For since He Whom God has sent speaks the Words of God (proclaims God's Own Message), God does not give Him His Spirit sparingly or by measure, but boundless is the Gift God makes of His Spirit." When we read this scripture, without understanding it, we believe He is only talking about "being saved." God's Own Message goes much further than just our being born-again. Now that we are born-again and are part of God's new creation family, God has given us authority to speak His Own Message, over things. We can speak words of deliverance or we can speak words that keep us under condemnation. We can speak Words of the Kingdom or we can speak words that keep us in the natural realm and keep us deluding our own hearts.
The entire Kingdom is held in place, by the Word of His Power. We have looked into the perfect Law of Liberty and have seen that we are now sons and daughter of God. We've had a reflection of ourselves as the Father has made us to be, by His Own Word. We've seen the reflected righteousness that has made us new creation children of God, but then we've gone our own way and have forgotten what we looked like. We've deluded our own hearts and spoken words that hold back our own deliverance from a heart that has no understanding.
The Power of God's Word still holds the universe and everything in it, in place. God's Word has lost none of it's Power, we have just lost sight of His Word. Do we speak from who we are or do we speak from whom we were? Do we speak as the Righteousness of God or do we speak of ourselves from the condemnation the enemy, that held us captive? Do we quote the Law of Liberty, the Word of the Kingdom or do we speak the lies of the enemy, saying, "It doesn't matter what we say?" Do we have understanding or are we like those James speaks about and "deluding our own heart by not bridling our tongue?"
We became born-again believers by speaking and believing Romans 10:9,10 (Amplified) which says, "Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in and rely on) the Truth that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." We are saved because we believed and spoke from our hearts that, "Jesus Christ is Lord."
Now, let's go to the perfect Law of Liberty, the mirror that reflects back to us, who we are in Christ Jesus. Thus, Verse 10 says, "For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in and relies on) Christ and so is justified (declared righteous), acceptable to God, and with the mouth declares openly and speaks out freely his faith and confirms his salvation."
Do you see yourself as righteous, in this Law of Liberty? God's Word is a mirror that reflects who He has made you to be in Christ Jesus and liberates you from the condemnation of the world. You are righteous in the Father's eyes, because of Jesus, but do you see yourself like this? How does your tongue answer your heart and reflection? Have you bridled your tongue by the Word of God or have your deceived your own heart, saying, "It doesn't matter what I say?" Jesus said that, "It's by our words, we can either hope to be justified or acquitted, condemned or sentenced," in Matthew 12:37.
This doesn't mean that God will condemn or sentence you, but your words will do this if you're not using the Kingdom principal that sets you free. Isaiah 53:7 (Amplified) says this about Jesus, "He was oppressed, yet when He was afflicted, He was submissive and opened not His mouth; like a Lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth."
Have you ever wondered about what this scripture tells us? If Jesus had opened His mouth and spoke the Wisdom and Truth on His Own defense, then He would have been perfectly and completely exonerated. Jesus didn't speak on His Own defense and He was judged, condemned and sentenced because He chose not to speak His deliverance. Jesus chose to speak only God's Word and because of His being submissive, He was delivered over for our sake.
We are now "set free from the Law of Sin and of Death, according to Romans 8:2, into the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus."We have the ability to speak life or death, deliverance or captivity into our own lives. We must understand that the words we speak, do make a difference. The words we speak will change the outcome of either deliverance or bondage, in our lives. We are children of God, born of His Spirit and we have the ability and authority to speak God's Own Message, like Jesus, Paul, Peter and all who are born-again have. If the words we speak brought us to salvation, then why wouldn't the other words we speak, have the same power?
Jesus tells the Parable of "The Prodigal Son" in Luke 15:11-32. The prodigal son lost sight of who he was, by the circumstances of where he was. When he returned to the Father, he described himself as "not being worthy" and being "a simple servant." He had forgotten what he looked like in the Father's eyes and saw himself in the eyes of his circumstance. The Father however, still saw a son and loved him. We see ourselves too many times, in the mirror of the perfect Law of Liberty, but walk away and forget what we looked like. The Father never forgets. We must bridle our tongues to bring forth good fruit. We must hold onto the Words of justification and deliverance, allowing the Laws of the Kingdom to work on our behalf.
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