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 Grace heaped upon Grace. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth, came through Jesus Christ."
After speaking, Jesus asked those around Him whether the Words He spoke were God's will and they answered, "No!" Paul was tasked with ministering to the Gentiles, but no one understood that it was God's will to do so. If we know what God's will is and are seeking God's way of doing and being right, then you must continue doing so, without backing down. This is exactly what separated the early Christians in Hebrews 4 from those we read about in Hebrews 11. We must make sure it's God's will from His Word and then carry out His will in our lives. This doesn't mean we're "Lone Ranger Christians," but we can seek and walk with God as individuals.
We mustn't allow others to talk us out of our inheritance, with their unbelief. God will watch over His Word to perform it, even when others don't believe. We cannot give up our personal relationship with the Lord, in order to consolidate the majority. We can't lose out in what God desires to provide us in our lives and what He wants us to do. We must know God personally and not just by others.
Religion and tradition have taught us by what others believed and were taught. Not everything we've been taught has been wrong, but not all of it has been Truth either. God's Grace has provided us with the ability to know Him for ourselves and that's maybe the Greatest Gift He has given us. We've been taught so many different things, from the perspective of others. If we all had the same teaching, then we would all be of the same faith and unified.
Some believe one things, while other believers don't. Both groups might believe that Jesus is God's Son and has saved us from sin, but this is probably the only place there is agreement among the brethren. This is what is required for us to be saved, but what's your understanding about salvation? Does it just mean that our sin is forgiven and we're saved, or does His salvation include many other things as well? This seems to be the dividing line in Christianity.
Some believe that healing is for us today, while others don't believe it is. All believe that God can heal, but not all believe healing is God's will for everyone today. If you believe in God, then it would be foolish to believe that He cannot heal, so that's not the problem. The problem is whether you believe it's God's will to heal and that He will heal.
We understand healing, by faith and not by intellect. It's foolish and extreme to do what God calls us to do, by intellect. Moses understood by faith, that God could and would part the Red Sea. Many probably thought it seemed foolish when Moses pointed his staff at the waters, but Moses simply believed. I'm sure many believed it was foolish and the Wall of Jericho wouldn't fall down, by their simply walking around it and shouting. We understand by faith.
It's all about faith in God's ability to do what He says. We don't lean on our own understanding, but understand by faith. Moses didn't do anything, except believe God. God did the work, but we need faith to understand that. These men and women weren't great, but they understood faith. Faith doesn't make sense to the carnal mind. We keep trying to figure out how to do something, but our heads will never understand faith. Faith is a Spiritual force that is the ability to believe God at His Word. Even after you accomplish what God tells you to do, you cannot explain how it happened. How can pointing a stick at the Red Sea, make the waters part? We understand by faith that it's only God Who does the work. The free Gift of Righteousness comes only by faith. We can only truly receive, understand and appreciate what God has done, by faith.
We try to understand God's Word with our intellect and religious teachings. Then, when obstacles arise in our way, we say "It's God's will," instead of putting faith in His deliverance for us. The astronauts living on the International Space Station, can see the earth we live on and have sent us photos of the earth. We see that there is nothing holding it in place. It's only there, because God told it to be and we understand that by faith. Science has no explanation for why the earth is and what's holding it in place. They are trying to explain earth's existence without faith. We understand it by faith.
We read about those people of great faith in Hebrews 11. It required great faith in God, to do what they did. Moses didn't do anything, other than believing God and God parted the Red Sea, dropped Manna from Heaven, gave water from a rock, and delivered millions of people. All Moses did was trust God and understand God's Grace. Moses acted on God's instruction and when it was accomplished, the people failed to understand and have faith. Each time God moved, the people complained about the next move.
We must allow God to restore our Spiritual minds through His Word and the Holy Spirit, then the things that once seemed impossible, will become common occurrences in our lives. Do you remember going through a refresher course, at the beginning of school each fall? These were meant to restore our minds about things we have previously learned. The Holy Spirit does the same work, restoring, refreshing and renewing our minds, if we allow Him to do so. He is refreshing the mind of the spirit, so that we think according to God's Original Intent. These were things mankind once knew, but had forgotten.
This is why it's paramount that we read and know God's Word. It's not a duty or sacrifice, but it's like a refresher course, bringing us back to God's Original Intent. This is how God's intended it to be at the beginning. Once the teachings of the world are replaced by the mind of Christ, then miracles and healings and the works of the Gospel will once again become common place to the Church. When the doubts and unbelief of the enemy and the world are cleansed by the washing away of water by God's Word, then the trust and belief of God will be restored by the Great Shepherd Who restores our soul.
This refresher course will bring back to our remembrance, things that are already in our born-again spirit. When we became born-again, we were brought back to what God always intended us to be and God's Wisdom and nature are already in our new creation spirit. The Holy Spirit inspired John to write in 1John 2:20 (Amplified), "But you have been anointed by, you hold a Sacred appointment from, you have been given an unction from the Holy One and you all know the Truth, or you know all things." The Original Truth is already in your new creation spirit and is only restrained by an unrenewed mind and the world. We were made to trust the Father and contain His Wisdom and His Own way of thinking.
The Wisdom of God is already in our new creation spirit, but we need to restore what was lost at Adam's transgression, in our new man. The Same Teacher Who taught Adam and Jesus, now lives in our new creation spirit. We need to renovate and remove the clutter of the old man, in order to make clear the new man.
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