Revivals have broken out, as God moved in His Spirit to awaken and move in the natural lives of men/women. Again, we tried to harness the Super-natural move of His Spirit, making it another form of religion. We always try to bring the Super-natural into another realm of carnal interpretation. God always seemed to be outside the way we thought He would be. Those who dared reaching into the realm of the Spirit, were looked upon as "fanatics, fools, or even demonic." Jesus said in John 4:24 (Amplified), "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being), and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and Truth (reality),"
We've tried everything, except the Spirit, to reach God. We read what God says to do and the things we're to live by, in His Word, but we've never thought of those things as Truth and the way God expected to live by. We've tried walking by the Spirit, with natural works, like those under the Law did. We've read God's Word, interpreting it as being only laws and natural ways of walking. Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified), "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver); the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (Truths) that I have been speaking to you are SPIRIT AND LIFE."
We've somehow never viewed God's Word as being Spirit. We read about the Word in John 1:1 (Amplified), which says, "In the beginning (before all time), was the Word, Christ, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself." One cannot get more Spirit, than that. We read God's Word as rules and regulations to live by, like under the old covenant. We've tried to become good enough to deserve the things we knew God could do, but this didn't work.
God had to establish rules and Laws for the old covenant people, because they were only flesh and blood persons. Under the new covenant today, those who have received Jesus as our Lord and Savior, are no longer only flesh and blood, but we've now become spirit. Jesus said that, "The flesh conveys no benefit whatever and there's no profit in it." We try to "make the Spirit work," by observing the flesh. This is the Law, which was determined more by men, than God. God was always ready to provide mankind's every need, but under Law, it was determined by the works of men. If a person could and would do what the entire Law demanded, then he/she could reap the benefits of the Spirit, because the Law or Word was Spirit.
No man ever fulfilled the Law, except Jesus. He said in Matthew 5:17 (Amplified), "Do not think that I have come to do away with or undo the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to do away with or undo but to complete and fulfill them." The Law can't be done away with, because the Law was and is Spirit. The flesh couldn't accomplish what the Spirit demanded. Jesus fulfilled the Law, making all that the Law Promised available to us, through and by our new creation spirits, that can fulfill the Spiritual Word in our hearts. Romans 10:4 (Amplified) tells us, "For Christ is the End of the Law (the Limit at which it ceases to be), for the Law leads up to Him Who is the fulfillment of it's types, and in Him the purpose for which it was designed to accomplish is fulfilled. That is, the purpose of the Law is fulfilled in Him as the means of Righteousness (Right relationship to God), for everyone who trusts and adheres to and relies on Him."
Jesus removed or fulfilled the flesh's uselessness to fulfill Spiritual things. He removed the flesh from the equation and placed the benefit of God's Word (which is Spirit), into the realm of the spirit. We can now received the benefits of the Spirit and the Word, without performing the rituals and religions of the flesh.
God always intended and wanted to fulfill all His Promises, from the time of Adam, until now. Man was spiritual dead and was no longer righteous or had a right to come into God's Presence, without the blood or life or animals covering his nakedness of God's Glory on himself, UNTIL JESUS. Through Jesus, we've now been restored and brought back into God's Original Intent. God Blessed man and crowned him with Glory, according to Psalm 8:4-8 (Amplified) which 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 littler lower than God or heavenly beings and You have crowned him with Glory and honor. You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet."
Adam's transgression caused mankind to be cut-off from and separated from God and dead in his spirit. God is Life and Adam's spirit became dead, after being separated from God. Through Jesus, Spiritual Life was restored to mankind again, according to John 17:22 (Amplified), where Jesus prays, "I have given to them the Glory and Honor which You have given Me, that they may be one, even as We are One." Jesus has restored us back into the Glory and Honor, that the Father clothed us with in the Garden of Eden. We're once again where we belong, in the Father's House and at His table, as His family.
There's no need for rituals, traditions, self-abasement or any of the fleshly things religion tells us to do, in order to "get God to do something on our behalf." We have His Word and His Promises. His Word is Spirit and Life again, in our newborn, righteous spirit, through Jesus. Jesus has taken the flesh out of the way, by nailing it to the cross. He has restored God's Intention of His Spirit, back to his Original Intent.
Remember when reading God's Word, that you might be understanding it by your intellect, without understanding it by and through your spirit. It's only Laws, rituals and traditions, instead of what the Life-giver has in His mind for you, until you until it becomes Spirit to you. Jesus said that, "The flesh conveys no benefit whatever." You don't "wish God would do something," because you, "Know by His Word you have the petitions that you desire of Him," according to 1John 5:15 (Amplified). All we're required to do, is to accept what He has already done. The third Great Awakening began nearly fifty years ago, and God's raised up the Joshuas and Calebs who will take the land.
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