Genesis 1:26 (Amplified) tells us, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), make man in Our Image (after Our Likeness)."
The above scripture tells us that we were made after God's Image and Likeness, in the beginning. John 4:24 (Amplified) says, "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being), and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and Truth (reality)." In the beginning, we were created spiritual beings, in God's Image and Likeness. Genesis 2:7 (Amplified) says, "God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the Breath or Spirit of Life, and man became a living being."
We've not only been created a spiritual being like our Heavenly Father, but now, as new creations, we're created in Him and like Him. 2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) says, "Therefore if any person is ingrafted in Christ (the Messiah), 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." Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, saying in John 17:21 (Amplified), "That they may all 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."
When Jesus said that, "It was not Me, but the Father in Me Who does the work," we've missed how He was talking about the new creation man who was to come after His Resurrection. The Same Father has now been made One in us, as well as One in Jesus, through Jesus. If we are in Christ Jesus, like the Word tells us we are, then we are One with God, altogether in His Spirit. We are not a separate spirit, but are one in His Spirit, with Him.
Paul writes in Romans 3:26 (Amplified), "It was to demonstrate and prove at the present time (in the now season), that He Himself is Righteous and that He justifies and accepts us as him who true faith in Jesus." 2Corinthians 5:21 (Amplified) says, "For our sake He made Christ virtually to be sin Who knew no sin, So that in and through Him we might become endued with (viewed as being in, and examples of), the Righteousness of God. What we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His Goodness."
We received the Righteousness of God Himself, when we were made one in Christ Jesus. We've been made one with and in Jesus, and through Him, we've been created with the right, to once again come into the Father's Presence, without sin or fault.
This is Grace in it's fullness. Hebrews 4:16 calls it, "God's Throne of Grace." This is where Grace has taken us and where we meet with our Father of Grace. We can only enter into God's Presence, through Grace and we can only receive the great Truth of His act of Love for us, by faith. We keep "trying to be good enough to enter in," but it's only by Grace and faith in His Grace, that we can receive the right to once again stand in His Full Presence.
The Father doesn't see us (Christians) as mere men and women of the flesh, but as people who've been infused and united in Himself and as part of Himself. This isn't saying that we should allow our flesh to do whatever it desires. We're to use His Presence that is united with our own spirit, to bring the flesh and senses into the subjection of our new creation person. We now have the same ability to walk above sin in the flesh, that Jesus had. You might say, "Yes, but Jesus was without sin." God's Word says that, "We're also without sin in God's eyes."
Hebrews 7:27 (Amplified) says, "He, Jesus, had no day by day necessity as do each of these other high priests, to offer sacrifice first for all of his own personal sins and then for those of the people, because He brought Himself as a Sacrifice which He offered up." In Hebrews 8:12 (Amplified) God says, "For I will be merciful and gracious towards their sins, and I will remember their deeds of unrighteousness no more."
We all know that we were all sinners and that we didn't deserve what God in His great Love for us, has done for us. But, we must also accept what He has done and rejoice in it in His Presence, like He has planned. This isn't being proud and boastful, but being grateful and thankful for His Grace and Mercy. If God says, "You're now righteous," then who are you to tell Him that, "He is wrong?" After all, it was Jesus Who did it and pronounced it over us, when we came to Jesus. Jesus said that, "I Am the Door to bring us back to the Father. We must not close the Door into God's Presence, by religious tradition and false pride. You are invited by God Himself, into unbroken fellowship with Him.
Your carnal mind is at enmity with God's Word and it cannot be submitted. Romans 8:7 (Amplified) says, "That is because the mind of the flesh, with its carnal thoughts and purposes is hostile toward God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot." Romans 8:16 (Amplified) says, "The Spirit Himself thus testifies together with our own spirit, assuring us that we are children of God."
We've failed to understand all that the Father did for us, when He sent Jesus on our behalf. We still don't know who are now, in Christ Jesus and must learn who He has now made us to be.
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