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."
Ephesians 2:10 (Amplified) says, "For we are God's Own handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus (born anew), that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand for us, taking paths which He prepared ahead of time, that we should walk in them living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live."
This scripture is talking about the Plan God had for His family, before the fall of Adam, before the Law of Sin and Death was established, and before the Curse existed. God had a Plan for His family to walk in a flesh and blood body upon this earth. This was His desired for His children. Through Jesus, we now have the opportunity to walk once again with Him and be under His Blessing, like He had prearranged for us to live before time. Before Adam's fall, there was no time limit on God's children. Mankind was to live in an immortal body and have an eternal spirit, so God Himself could continually walk and fellowship with them. God Himself could walk in this natural world and we could also live in this natural world, while simultaneously seeing and walking in the Spiritual world and receiving instructions for our lives, from Him.
God never predestined sickness, death, disease or suffering for His family and He has now restored us back to Eden, through Jesus. Romans 8:1-2,3 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation, no adjudging guilty of wrong for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk after the dictates of the Spirit. For while the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being), has freed me from the Law of Sin and of Death."
The Holy Spirit tells us why we are now free and restored back into the prearranged paths the Father planned for us in Verse 3, saying, "For God has done what the Law could not do, its power being weakened by the flesh (the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit). Sending His Own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an Offering for sin, God condemned sin in the flesh, subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that Sacrifice."
God has done what we have failed to understand and He has restored His children back into the place He intended them to be, when birthing them in the beginning. God's will and Plan for mankind has never changed and Jesus was a continuation of God's Plan A. God has never needed a Plan B for His family. In God's eyes and in His Truth through Jesus, we have now been restored to the same place that both Adam and Jesus were, in God's Plan and His will. Before his transgression, Adam and his wife Eve, both walked in the Spirit and the natural world with God. God did the exact same thing and walked with Jesus, in the Spirit and in this natural world. Those of us in Christ Jesus, have been born-again by the Holy Spirit and are back to the place where God intended His family to be. Through the new creation, God can now walk with us, both in the Spirit and in the natural world.
Most in God's family are still waiting for this to happen, believing it will happen when we leave this earth. God is waiting for us to understand that it's already been done. Jesus prayed in John 17:18 (Amplified), "You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world." This isn't a play on words, but a Truth we haven't understood. Just like God was living through and in Jesus, He is now living through and in us. He has brought us back to "the paths that He prearranged and made ready for us ahead of time," (Ephesians 2:10).
Paul writes this Truth in Galatians 2:19-20 (Amplified), "For I, through the Law (under the operation of the Curse of the Law), have in Christ's death for me, myself died to the Law and all of the Law's demands upon me, so that I may henceforth live to and for God. I have been crucified with Christ (in Him I have share His crucifixion); it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in and by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in the Son of God, Who Loved me and gave Himself up for me."
Adam was never intended to live on and by his own merits, but was to be in all things, in adherence and faith in his Father. Jesus stated this in His ministry. Adam was the first Adam and Jesus was the Last Adam. We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus, and have been restored back to God's Original intent for His children. We've been waiting for this to happen in the future, because we haven't understood the Truth that it's already done, in Jesus. In this Year of Understanding, we'll step into the Revelation of who we really are in Him.
The same enemy who deceived Adam and Eve, causing them to fall from God's Glory, has deceived us today. Jesus told His Father in John 17:22,23 (Amplified), "I have given to them (us) the Glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are One." This is the Glory that Adam and Even had in the Garden. Jesus walked in this Glory, by being One in the Father and the Spirit. We're now made to be one in Him and share in God's Glory by His Spirit on and in us. Jesus continued in Verse 23, saying, "I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and definitely recognize that You sent Me and that You have Loved them even as You have Loved Me."
The Glory that Jesus gave to us, is the same Glory that was on Adam. We received this Glory at our new birth. It's the Same Holy Spirit, the Same Father and the Same Glory, because God never changed His desire for His family and He never will. Hebrews 2:10 (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 be perfectly equipped for His Office of High Priest through suffering."
Jesus endured everything through the human experience, in order to bring us into His Glory in the Father. He endured our suffering through Adam's fall, and brought us back to our rightful place. The Glory, which is God's Own Presence in us, is the same Glory Jesus had on and in Him, as God's Son. This Presence or Glory is now on and in God's family, like He intended from the beginning. This is the Glory that Adam lost in the Garden. Adam realized he was naked and that he was only clothed in flesh, after his transgression caused him to lose the Glory of God's Spirit. Jesus has brought may sons and daughters into Glory, by being the Seed that produced after Kind. We're now the Offspring of the Glory of our Heavenly Father, like we were intended to be, by and through the Seed of God's Word. God can once again, walk in this earth by His Spirit and direct the prearranged paths He made for us to walk, in the beginning.
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