Lesson 18 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent

     We've been discussing the Original Intent God had for His family, before the fall of Adam.  We know very little about Adam's life prior to the fall and we've lost sight of what our Heavenly Father had in His heart for us.  Jesus is the Last Adam and we can see how He mostly restored God's Original Intent and the Blessing God pronounced on His children
     Jesus stated several times that, "I came to do the Father's will" and "When you see Me, you see the Father."  Jesus healed many sick people, so it must have been the Father's will that He did so.  It must also have been the Father's will for Jesus to make the lame to walk, the blind to see and the deaf to hear.  Jesus never taught Law, but He taught Grace.  Jesus never taught the Curse, but the Blessing.  His entire earthly ministry was to bring mankind back to the Father's Original Intent.
     In Jesus' Resurrection, He brought the new creation family back into the Father's House, like it was in the beginning.  We've been taught the Law and were told that God deals with us, the same as He dealt with the old covenant people.  We've failed to see the difference between the covenant made with men who were dead in trespass and sin and the new covenant family who were raised in the Spirit into Righteousness in Jesus Christ.  We've never been taught the fact and Truth, that sin no longer has dominion over us, because of Him.  Romans 8:2,3-4 (Amplified) says, "For 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."
     We've been taught that these things haven't happened yet and will only happen after we die and leave this earth.  Paul goes onto explain and expound on the great Truth he writes about in the above scripture, saying in Verses 3-4, "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, So that the righteous and just requirements of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh, but in the ways of the Spirit, our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit."
     Through Jesus, God's children are received as "Just, righteous, sanctified and pure in God's eyes, through Jesus.  We are now heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus.  We somehow still expect God to deal with us, like He did with those in the old covenant, instead of dealing with us by His Holy Spirit as new covenant children.  Paul writes to the Church about this very thing in Romans 8:6 (Amplified) saying, "Now the mind of the flesh, which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit is death (death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter); But the mind of the Holy Spirit is Life and soul peace both now and forever."
     We see God's children living in shame and condemnation from past sin (which Jesus has removed) and this holds them back.  This is the minds of the flesh, without the Truth that comes by and through the Holy Spirit.  We hear the lamenting of Christians who confess, "I'm still an old sinner saved by Grace."  We mostly see ourselves as who we once were before receiving Jesus as our Lord, instead of who He has made us to be.  In so doing, we hold back the fullness of God's Blessing and accept what the Curse has become for sinners.  We don't see that God sees us now, like He saw the first Adam before the fall.  We fail to see that God now sees us, like He saw Jesus after His Resurrection.
     The enemy has deceived so many of God's children in the area of condemnation, leading them to lose faith in God's ability to do what He wants to do in our lives, because they believe, "We are sinners."  We've not sinners in the Father's eyes, but we're new creation people who are begotten of God and are pure and holy in His family.  This has been so hidden from God's family, so we don't come boldly to His Throne of Grace.  We must renew our minds by God's Word and His Spirit, so we don't accept the lies of the enemy and the condemnation he brings.
     So many believers don't have the faith for miracles and God's Blessings in our lives, because we've been taught that, "God no longer does these things."  1John 3:20-22 (Amplified) says, "Whenever our hearts in tormenting self accusations make us feel guilty and condemn us, For we are in God's hands. For He is above and greater than our consciences (our hearts), and He knows, perceives and understands everything (nothing is hidden from Him) And beloved, if our hearts (consciences) do not accuse us, if they do not make us feel guilty and condemn us, we have confidence, complete assurance and boldness before God And we receive from Him whatever we ask, because we watchfully obey His orders, observe His suggestions and injunctions, follow His Plan for us and habitually practice what is pleasing to Him."
     The "tormenting, self accusation and guilt," that John writes about, abounds in someone who still sees him/herself more by our old flesh and through a sin conscience and not from someone who understands the Truth of who God has now created us to be, in Jesus.  Being carnally minded, instead of being Spiritually minded, stops the Blessing from doing what God Originally Intended it to do in our lives.  The strategy that satan has used for centuries, to control God's people---STOPS TODAY!