What was the Father's Original Intent for His family, when He created them and brought them to live in the earth? Did He intend for us to suffer sickness, death or a Curse that covered the earth and mankind? Was this really what the Father planned for His Own family? We've never really seen how things were supposed to be, when God made man and set him into this world.
There was no Curse or death, in the beginning. Man's spirit was eternal and his body was immortal. Man was created in God's Own Image and Likeness, which is a Spirit, according to John 4:24 (Amplified) which says, "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being), and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and Truth (reality)." The part of you that is in God's Image and Likeness, is your spirit-man. This is the eternal family of God in the earth, as well as the heavens.
The division and warring that is occurring in mankind on earth, is happening because we don't know who we are and why that's so important. Paul writes in 2Corinthians 5:4 (Amplified), "For while we are still in this tent (body), we groan under the burden and sigh deeply. Not that we want to put off this body (the clothing of the spirit) but rather that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal (our dying body) may be swallowed up by life after the Resurrection."
The mortal body was fashioned not in mortality, but is immortal like our resurrected body will be. The mortality of our body was brought about, through Adam's transgression and continues until today. Paul tells us to look to the spirit-man withing, to determine our true identity, in 2Corinthians 5:16 (Amplified) where he writes, "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."
We've lived under the Curse for so long, that we believe "That's just how things are." Jesus bore the Curse and has given us the new creation life that has joined us back to our Father. In order to truly understand what Jesus has done, we must read what Paul writes in Romans 12:2 (Amplified). Thus, he writes, "Do not be conformed to this world (this age), fashioned after and adapted to it's external -superficial customs, but be transformed (changed) by the entire renewal of your mind by its new ideals and its new attitude---."
We can only renew our mind by God's Word and His Holy Spirit and know our true identity. The only place to find Truth, is in God's Word. We've determined that the things we're witnessing around us, are God's Plan for His family. If you read Genesis 1-2, then you'll discover God's Original Intent for His family was that they would be Blessed and have dominion over everything on this earth. Adam sold our dominion and life to God's eternal enemy, causing death and calamity came on mankind.
Many have misunderstood Jesus' Sacrifice and that in Him, this new creation man/woman was restored back to God's Original Intent. Through Him, we were made alive, according to John 10:10 (Amplified) where Jesus said, "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy Life, and have it in abundance (to the full, til it overflows)." Surely, those who heard Jesus say this, believed they were already alive. The Truth is, that they and we were spiritually dead and separated from God and without Life in Him.
In Ephesians 2:12 (Amplified), Paul paints a picture of man who's without Jesus, which is strong and True, saying, "Remember, that you were at the time separated, living apart from Christ, excluded from all part in Him, utterly estranged and outlawed from the rights of Israel as a nation, and strangers with no share in the sacred compacts of the Messianic Promise, with no knowledge of or rights in God's agreements (His covenants); And you had no hope, no Promise; you were in the world without God."
Ephesians 2:5 (Amplified) says, "Even when we were dead, slain by our own shortcomings and our trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; He gave us the very Life of Christ Himself, the same new Life with which He quickened Him." It's difficult for us to understand spiritual death, because we've associated life by our natural bodies and not from a Spiritual standpoint. Even though the body is alive, our spirit-man was dead in sin and was separated from God, WHO IS LIFE.
The spirit is eternal, so it didn't die, like we think of dying. It was cut-off from God, by Adam's transgression and was sold over to death, by separation from God Himself. Satan became the father of this world and he ruled by death, fear, and destruction, until Jesus. The new birth, was from death to Life, from satan back to God. Our Heavenly Father and the Holy Spirit have made us alive to Him and placed us back into God's family, as sons and daughters. We've been born-again from death to Life and we're now back to God's Original Intent.
It's been difficult of our new identity, is for us to learn how to live in the spirit once again. We've only witnessed a very few people who've ever done this, in a flesh and blood body. One person was Adam (before the fall) and the other was Jesus Christ. Paul, along with other of the Apostles, learned some things about walking in the spirit, but most believers have fallen back into the works of the flesh, walking as mere natural men/women again.
Through the Holy Spirit, God is training us up and teaching us to be the way He created us to be. There's more of the Super-natural Life of the Father, being manifested through today's Church. Understanding is coming of age to many in the Body of Christ. Many consider that believing we are more than just forgiven sinners, is "extreme."
Righteousness is simply part of our inheritance in Christ Jesus, to this new creation body of believers. Understanding righteousness or being in right standing with God is this: through the new birth, we're new creations who've been restored to God's Original Intent and through Jesus, we now have the right again, to stand in God's Presence. The first step in seeing ourselves like the Father sees us (instead of the way we've been taught to see ourselves) is to do like Paul instructs in 2Corinthians 5:16, "Seeing no man only after the flesh, but after the spirit." Believing what God says about you, more than what man says about you, will change everything.
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