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)."
Mankind has had Wisdom in our midst for centuries, through God's Word. Proverbs 1:20-21 (Amplified) tells us that, "Wisdom cries aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the markets: she cries at the head of the noisy intersections, in the chief gathering places, at the entrance of the city gates she speaks."
God has made Wisdom available to all men in abundance. We received Wisdom, when we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior. 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 Plan 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."
Jesus is the Wisdom of God and He is our Wisdom, so why aren't we walking in what Jesus made available to us? I truly believe it's because we lack understanding. Man has placed his own understanding into God's Wisdom for centuries and have
.fashioned religions. Wisdom and understanding were to reveal the Original intent God had for His children, to mankind. The Original Intent is found in chapters 1 & 2 of Genesis. Jesus is the Living Proof of what God's Original Intent was for all of His children.
Through Jesus, we witness what God's Intent and His purpose was when He created the First Adam and Eve. God gave birth to a being who was to rule with the Father, by and through his spirit, along with ruling the natural kingdom through his natural body. God and His children were to have unbroken fellowship and it was to be God and Sons ruling together. Man was made just like his Father and was to have complete dominion over the earth and everything in it.
We've somehow been deceived into thinking that God's family is much less than "family." The sense of unworthiness and condemnation has diminished the Perfect Work of Jesus, until it seems like Jesus wasn't really enough to bring us back to God's Original Intent for His children. God knows that your previous condition wasn't all your fault. You were born in sin. From the time of Adam, sin became your nature from birth. It wasn't just something you did, but was your spiritual nature from birth. This wasn't God's Intent for His family and there was nothing you could do about it, so God took it upon Himself to bring about restoration to His children.
It wasn't just that we were sinners, but sin was born in us from Adam, until now. By His Wisdom, God was "calling out in the streets" to turn us back to Him and bring us home to Him. We didn't know we were lost, because were born in the darkness and living in darkness. We believed that this was "just how things were" and there was "nothing we could do about it." Everyone around us was in the same boat. While some turned to the call of Wisdom and accepted Jesus, we still lacked understanding of what really took place in our lives.
When we encountered a Holy God, we still didn't see the Perfect salcation of what had taken place, when we were born-again. How could a Holy God ever see us as being pure and holy, after seeing who we once were. After seeing Him, we became more conscience of how far we had fallen and we couldn't imagine being right in God's eyes again. Once again-GET UNDERSTANDING! We've heard many things over the years, about the Potter and the vessels He makes from men. The Potter has the ability to put the vessels back on the wheel and remove all the cracks and blemishes it holds. He can make the vessel perfect once more.
We've been taught more from man's ideas, instead of by God. God meant it when saying, "I make all things new." We're not just forgiven, we are new creations in Christ Jesus and "old things are passed away and all things are made new and all things are of God," according to 2Corinthians 5:17-21 (Amplified). We continue seeing ourelves as "fallen," but God sees us lifted up and seated with Jesus. The Potter placed us back on the wheel and has perfected us, as though there was never a spot or wrinkle, in our new being. In Jesus, one can't tell there was ever a blemish in us.
We've heard sermons that have left us feeling like God only pitied us and that we're not worth His time. We were left feeling like we had to beg and cry, in order to gain God's attention. The truth is, we were always on God's mind. From the moment Adam transgressed in the Garden, the Plan of Redemption was already at work, on our behalf.
God's Original Intent was to have family and fellowship and joy at being able to teach and raise His children, just like any good father would do today. God's great delight was teaching His son Adam, to name all the beasts of the field and watch Adam do the things he was born to do. God was to walk with him in the Spirit and watch Adam grow into the man, God created him to be. When God made Eve, so she and Adam could produce God's Own offspring, who would bring Him joy and pleasure, as family.
Man was never created or formed, to be without God and His Holy Spirit, anymore than the Last Adam, Jesus was ever to be without them. When we see Jesus in His earthly walk, we can see how the First Adam was to have functioned on earth. The great difference being that Jesus spent His time healing and teaching about the Father, when the First Adam wouldn't have needed to do this. There wouldn't have been sickness or disease, if the children of the First Adam had known the Father firsthand.
The only thing God's children were to ever have known throughout their lives, was God's Presence and His Provision. God and His family were to walk and talk together, both in the Heavens and earth simultaneously. God could walk here on earth with Adam and Eve and they could walk with God in His place of Abode. They were one. Adam and Eve could see and be seen by angels. Adam and Eve could also see the Spirit realm.
Through his relationship with the Father, all things were perpetually open and available to him. God's Original Intent for mankind, didn't include suffering, death, sickness, hunger or any of the thing we suffer today. By Jesus, God has redeemed and restored us back to the Original Intent, but we've never understood this plan at all.
In Jesus, we're able to talk and walk and be in perfect fellowship with our Heavenly Father, just like Jesus did. Jesus bore the Curse and penalty for Adam's transgression, bringing us back to God, not just in Heaven, but also here on earth. We've become new creations, born-again and able to walk and live like Jesus did, like God intended from before the foundation of the world.
God dealt with man in the old covenant, differently than He does under the new covenant. Man wasn't born-again under the Law and the old covenant, because Jesus hadn't yet come, so he was still dead in his spirit and not alive unto God. John 10:10 tells us that, "Jesus came to give us Life." Every person hearing Jesus say this, was already alive, but Jesus was speaking about the deadness of their spirits that had died in Adam. God warned Adam that, "The day you eat of this tree, you shall surely die." Adam lived over 900 years after transgressing, in his flesh, but his spirit died that day. God's Word says, "The wages of sin is death." The wages of Adam's sin was death, death in his spirit and separation from God. We're now alive to God and He is alive to us. We need to return to His Original Intent for His family. \
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