Genesis 1:27-28,11 (Amplified) says, "So God created man in His Own Image (in the Image and Likeness of God He created him); male and female He created them. And God Blessed them and said to them; Be fruitful (multiply), and fill the earth, and subdue it, using all it's vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
This is and was, God's Original Intent for His children, in Heaven and earth. In Verse 11, God spoke a Spiritual Law that is still very much in effect today. Thus, it tells us, "And God said, Let the earth put forth tender vegetation; plants yielding seed and fruit trees yielding fruit whose seed is in itself, each according to its kind upon the earth. And it was so."
Acorns today, still always produce Oak trees and a kernel of corn will always produce corn. This Law of "seed in itself" and "after its kind," is still very much as true, as it was when God said it. When Adam transgressed in the Garden, God never deviated from His Original Intent for His children. In the Spirit realm, God's Word is the Seed that created all things. We're His Seed, by His Word and are restored back to His Original Intent, according to 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) which 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." God's Word is the Seed, by which we were born or created, from the Original Intent.
John 1:1,14 (Amplified) says, "In the beginning (before all time), was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. He (Christ, the Word or Seed), was present originally with God." Verse 14 continues saying, "And the Word (Seed, Christ), became flesh (human, incarnate), and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh), lived awhile among us." The Spirit of God and the "tent of flesh," is and was, God's Original Intent.
We're now living in a tent or house of flesh and have been restored to God's Original Intent. Paul was inspired by the Holy Spirit to write in 2Corinthians 5:16-17 (Amplified), "Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a purely human point of view (in terms of natural standards of value). No, even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a man, YET NOW we have such knowledge of Him that we know Him no longer in terms of the flesh Therefore if any person is ingrafted in Christ (the Messiah, Seed) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold! the fresh and new has come."
Remember that "Everything produces after kind, according to Genesis 1:11. One can't grow a Palm tree from an acorn, nor can one grow a rose, from the seed of an Iris. Everything produces after it's seed. We were born-again from the Very Seed of God and we're in His Likeness and Image again, according to His Original Intent from the beginning. We though, have done like Paul warned us not to do and have seen ourselves more after the flesh, than the Spirit. The seed of the flesh is still that of fallen man, but the Seed of God is the new creation man of the Spirit.
We're living in this tent or house of flesh, but our true identity now comes from the Incorruptible Seed or Word of God. The "real" you is like God and His Image and Likeness. A house might have termites, but that doesn't mean that the person living in that house, has termites as well. Remember what Paul said, "We no longer know and estimate even Jesus, after the flesh, but after the Spirit."
Most of us think about or "see" Jesus more after the four Gospels, more than His exalted place as Lord over all. The dominion mankind lost at the First Adam's fall, has been restored by the Last Adam, through the Seed of Promise, Who is Jesus Christ. Even the old body or house we live in, will come back into the Power of the Seed, Who created it from the beginning of God's Original Intent.
1Corinthians 15:53-54 (Amplified) tells us, "For this perishable part of us must put on the imperishable nature, and this mortal part of us, this nature that is capable of dying, must put on immortality, freedom from death. And when this perishable puts on the imperishable and this which that was capable of dying puts on freedom from death, then shall be fulfilled the scripture that says, Death is swallowed up (utterly vanquished) forever in and unto victory." This was and is, God's Original Intent.
We are God's children who have been born-again by the Incorruptible Seed and our natural, mortal bodies will be restored back to God's Original Intent, from the beginning before time. You are now like Him, by the Word or Seed of God. 1John 3:2 (Amplified) says, "Beloved, we are even here and now, God's children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be hereafter, but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall, as God's children resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He really is." Remember Paul's statement in 2Corinthians 5:18, where he said that, "We have such knowledge of Him that we know Him no longer as a Man, but as He really is." The Lord from the Kingdom, Who is clothed in Glory.
Just before ascending to the Father, Jesus prayed in John 17:21-22 (Amplified), "That they all may be one, just as You Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us; so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me. I have given to them the Glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are One." This is God's Original Intent from the very first, until now. Psalm 8:4-6 (Amplified) says, "What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of earth born man that You care for him? Yet You have made him but a little lower than God, and You have crowned him with Glory and Honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet."
Through Jesus, God has restored us back to His Original Intent, like man was in the first place. we've been trained to look more at our house of flesh, instead of the new being that lives inside it. We're always reminded of our house needing maintenance, instead of the new creation man/woman who is crowned with the Glory and honor of Jesus Himself.
We hear many teachings about faith and what it can do in our lives. When you put faith in what Jesus has said and done for us, then all the rest is easy. We seldom or ever though, see ourselves like the Father sees us. We still struggle with the flesh and forget that we are not only human. We don't have a problem with faith, but "the lack thereof." Hebrews 4:1-2 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, while the Promise of entering His Rest still holds and is offered today, let us be afraid to distrust it, lest any of you should think he has come too late and has come short of reaching it. For indeed we have had the glad tidings (Gospel of God), proclaimed to us just as truly as they (the Israelites of old) did when the Good News of deliverance from bondage came to them; but the Message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not mixed with faith, with the leaning of the entire Personality of God in absolute trust and confidence in His Power and Wisdom and Goodness by those who heard it, neither were they united in faith with the ones, Joshua and Caleb who heard and did believe."
Some today, believe Joshua and Caleb were "fanatics," for what they believed, but they were the ones God exalted. God never intended His children to be mocked, starved, sick and bound to anyone, but He created man to live in the exalted state of Glory and honor, through Jesus. The mention of "rest," in Hebrews 4:8-9 (Amplified) wasn't referring to the Israelites entering into Canaan, because if Joshua had given the people rest, then God wouldn't speak about another day in Verse 9 saying, "So then, there is still awaiting a full and complete Sabbath-rest reserved for the true people of God."
When will we move from the glory which was fading from Moses, to the Glory and honor that Jesus has given to us who believe? When will we mix faith with what we have heard, if we are hearing it? The rest that God is now speaking about, isn't for when we die and get to Heaven, but for while we are here on earth, if we have heard the Words of deliverance and son-ship. We need to learn by trusting in the Righteousness that He has imparted to us, in our new creation Seed that produced after it's kind.
We need to "see ourselves and Jesus by the Spirit and not by the flesh any longer," like Paul instructed in 2Corinthians 5:16. Righteousness simply means that through the new birth, we've been returned to God's Original Intent and we have the right to come into His Presence as the First and Last Adam did. We've been crowned with Glory and honor, like God's Intent was from the beginning.
When God decided to have a family, He never deviated from that Plan or commitment. Neither you or I, are an afterthought or mistakes. We've been born-again, into what was always the heart of our Loving Father. God sees you perfect by His Grace, faith and Love, because He sees you in your spirit and not your flesh. When we finally understand what really happened when we were born-again, we will see who we truly are in Christ.
We must get understanding and see more of Jesus, instead of the nature of fallen man, in ourselves. We're not fallen men, but we've been raised up together and seated together with Christ Jesus, in Heavenly places.
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