Genesis 1:26-27,28 (Amplified) says, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the tame beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them." Verse 28 continues, saying, "And God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful (multiply and fill the earth), and subdue it using all its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
This was God's Original Intent for mankind. Many things have happened between that time and the present age, but God's Original Plan has never changed or varied. Throughout the years, there have been many different persons of God teaching different things, but God's Plan for us has never changed. Jesus delegated His authority over to seventy disciples in Luke 10:9-10 (Amplified) saying, "Behold! I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and physical and mental strength and ability over all the power that the enemy possesses; and nothing shall in any way harm you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are enrolled in Heaven."
We now have the authority Jesus delegated and the power of His Name, to use when needed. Our names aren't only enrolled in Heaven, but we are so linked to His Name, that we are actually called, "His Body." We've heard many teachings about how Jesus cancelled our sins, but we've never learned that the removal of our sins opens our spirits, to receive the mandate God gave to the First Adam. Adam's fall in the Garden, caused man to be dead unto God, making satan his spiritual father. God told Adam on the day he transgressed, that "He would surely die that day." Genesis 5:5 tells us that, "Adam lived for 930 years in his natural body," but his spirit was dead from God, Who is Life."
Jesus said in John 10:10 (Amplified), "I came that you might have Life and have it more abundantly." Every person hearing Jesus' Words, was alive in his/her flesh, but dead in their spirit. When we accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior, the Holy Spirit came into our dead spirit, returning us again to the Life of God. He infused Himself with us and made us one, with Himself. His Life is now our Life. Death has no hold on us any longer. Just like Jesus, we can have perfect fellowship with God, in our now living spirit. This wasn't so, in the old covenant. 1Corinthians 15;22 (Amplified) says, "For just as because of their union of nature in Adam all people die, so also by virtue of their union of nature shall all in Christ be made alive."
Isaiah 59:2 (Amplified) says, "But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His Face from you, so that He will not hear." Adam's sin in the Garden, separated us from God's Presence and only the blood of a sinless man, could remove this separation from death, back to spiritual Life in God. The blood sacrifice of goats and bulls could only cover sins, leaving the same sin of separation from God. Man couldn't come into God''s Presence, even after these sacrifices were made. Spiritual death didn't mean that man's spirit was gone, but it was separated from the Life of God.
God accepted the sin sacrifice of Jesus, fulfilling justice and reestablishing righteousness that God Planned from the beginning. The same Sacrifice that removed our sin, also restored the Blessing, the Redemption, the Justification, the healing, the protection and the fulfillment of all the Promises God made to His family.
As we look upon the Gift of God in the manger, let's unwrap the swaddling clothes and look into the Package that was so carefully wrapped. We mostly see the wrappings and not what was in the Package of flesh, which held the Original Intent God had for His family. 1Corinthians 1:30 (Amplified) says, "But it is from Him that you have your Life in Christ, Whom God made our Wisdom from God, revealed to us a knowledge of the Divine Plan of salvation previously hidden manifesting itself as our Righteousness, thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God, and our Consecration, making us pur and holy, and our Redemption, providing our Ransom from eternal penalty for sin."
Ephesians 4:24 (Amplified) says, "Put on the new nature, the regenerate self, created in God's Image, Godlike in true Righteousness and holiness." Colossians 2:10 (Amplified) says, "And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of Life, in Christ Jesus you too are filled with the GodHead (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit)-and reach full spiritual stature, and He is the Head of all rule and authority of every angelic principality and power."
I emphasized some of the Gifts that are within the Package of Love,Jesus, Who was wrapped in flesh and holds all the Promises of our Father. Let's look further and unwrap this Gift of Love, allowing Him to be revealed in our hearts.
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