Ephesians 2:10,12,13 (Amplified) says, "For we are God's Own handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus (born anew) that we may do those Good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us, taking paths which He prepared ahead of time, that we should walk in them, living the Good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live."
Today's Church should realize just how awesome the above scripture is for us. God established a Plan for His children to walk in complete fellowship and Blessing with Him, both before the fall of Adam and now through His Son Jesus. This isn't just for when we leave this earth and go to Heaven, but is for the He planned for His children on earth. The Original Intent of God's heart has now come back into His Own Plan for us, in and before He created mankind.
Through Jesus, we (the Church of Gentiles) have been born into God's covenant and Promise of Blessing He made to Abraham. Paul continues writing to the Church in Verse 12, saying, "Remember that you were at that 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 right in God's agreements (His covenants), and you had no hope, no Promise, and you were in the world without God."
It strange to even think about being "in the world without God." Verse 13 says, "But now in Christ Jesus, you were once so far away, through, by and in the Blood of Christ, have been brought near." By the Blood of Jesus, we as Gentiles, have been made partakers of all God's Promises. We've been restored, bought back, and redeemed back to God's Original Intent for His family, through Jesus. This was God's Plan for His children, even before the fall of Adam. He wasn't prearranging paths for us to walk in Heaven, but made Plans before creating mankind, for us to walk in this earth.
As born-again people, we're destined to go to Heaven when we leave this planet, but this doesn't do away with His Plan for us now, on earth. God prearranged these Plans and paths as part of His Original Intent for His children and He is still carrying out these Plans on earth. Many stagger at the thought of God's Plan and Promise, believing there are "too much for us today." We've forgotten to bring God into the Plans for us. Without having God in these Plans, man can't understand His heart or how to walk in the paths He made for us.
God never intended for His family to walk in the Curse. There was no Curse, before Adam's fall. We've been brought back to God's Original Intent for His family, through Jesus. Jesus paid off our debt and made the Way for us to live in God's heart, Plan and Intent for His family from before time and before we were separated from His Plan. The Predestined Plan is still in the heart of God.
Paul explains how and why he can say such thing about God's Prearranged Plan for the Gentiles, in Galatians 1:11-12 (Amplified), which says, "For I want you to know brethren, that the Gospel which was proclaimed and made known by one is not man's gospel (a human invention according to or patterned after any human standard). For indeed I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through a direct Revelation given by Jesus Christ (the Messiah)." Romans 10:17 (Amplified) says, "So faith comes by hearing what is told, and what is heard comes by the preaching of the Message that came from the lips of Christ the Messiah Himself."
Do you think that Jesus would say something that is different from the Gospel or Revelation that He gave Paul to preach? What has happened to us, is what Jesus revealed to Paul. Natural man believed it was "too far out," so we improvised, making the message something we could do on our own. The Promises were greater than natural man could do or even think, so we brought it down to man's invention and human standards.
Most of the Gospel we've heard preached today, leaves out the Super-natural intervention of God and His ability to bring it to pass. Natural man has removed God's part in His Promise, making it for only "when we die and go to Heaven." This has never been God's Original Intent. His Plan was for us to walk with Him here on earth, as well as in Heaven.
There's no way to walk in the Blessing of Abraham that is now ours through Jesus, without the Super-natural Presence of God bringing it to pass. The Blessing God Promised Abraham, was the Plan He had before Adam's fall in the Garden and still His Plan on earth today. Jesus taught us to pray in Matthew 6:10 (Amplified), "Your Kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." There's no way for us to walk in Heaven's Blessing, without first knowing what God's will is for us here.
As the Last Adam, Jesus restored man back to Heaven's will, during His earthly walk. We can see the heart of God's Original Intent for His family, even here on earth, through Jesus' Example. During His earthly ministry, Jesus spoke the Blessing, healed the sick, delivered those who were possessed, and raised people from the dead and we're to follow His Example, but we can't do any of these things without the Super-natural move of God.
We've heard about the "faith movement" from many sources, but many dismiss it as "foolishness." Faith is simply another word for "trust." We've never learned to trust God with our healing or other Super-natural things. Man's gospel tells us that, "God doesn't do these things anymore." Without Him, everything the Gospel teaches is IMPOSSIBLE. We haven't dared believe in His Promises on earth, because we've never been taught to trust Him that far.
We've allowed ourselves to be brought back under man-made laws, so we could walk in them without God. Only God can bring His Promises to pass and that comes by having faith and trusting in God's Word. The people in the Wilderness limited God, by not trusting His Word and covenant. God wanted to meet their every need by Himself, but they held onto Egypt and its ways. 1John 3:16,17-18 (Amplified says, "And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of), by observation and experience and believe, adhere to and put faith in and rely on, the Love God cherishes for us. God is Love, and he who dwells in and continues in love, dwells and continues in God and God dwells in and continues in Him." We read about God's Love for us in Verses 17-18, which say, "In this union and communion with Him, Love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, with assurance and boldness to face Him, because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in Love (dread does not exist), but full grown (complete, perfect) Love, turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror. For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and so he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of Love, is not yet grown into Love's complete perfection."
We read one of God's Promises for us, concerning fear and terror, in Isaiah 54:14 (Amplified), which says, "You shall establish yourself in Righteousness (in rightness, in conformity with God's will and order); you shall be far from even the thought of oppression or destruction, for you shall not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near you." In order to walk free from fear or oppression and destruction and terror, you must trust in God and His Love for you. This faith or trust, is born out of knowing God's heart and His Love for you, for yourself. No one can put this into your heart, you must do it for yourself. You must know Him and His intention for you, as His child. If you don't have Revelation of Him for yourself and only know what others say about Him (the gospel of men), then you can't live out the Blessing.
Faith or trust comes only when you come to know Him for yourself, as a child of God. Many have come into the new birth or family with only the understanding of other men. Many know about God, but not many know God for themselves. We still walk in fear of the Law and our inability to walk in out, which leads us to expect God's punishment for our failures. God's the Only One Who can do the things we need done in our lives, but we've been afraid to trust Him for them. Our part of the covenant is to have faith and trust God. God's part is to fulfill what only He can do. ALL GOD ASKS OF US is to trust Him. God has already made our paths, preparing them ahead of time, and He has made them available to us. We can only walk them by faith, trusting Him while we're still here on earth.
This might seem like "hyper faith," or "foolish" to some, but God wants His children to walk in complete trust in Him. God prearranged paths for us to walk in before time existed. This is His Original Intent for His family.
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