Genesis 1:26-27 (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 all the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image of God He created him; male and female He created them."
God created man in His Image. We do the same today, sharing our DNA with our natural children and giving them our characteristics. Genesis 2:7 (Amplified) says, "Then the Lord 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." God's man was a spirit being, with a natural body, just like mankind is today. Adam and Eve had no need (even in their physical bodies), that the Father had not anticipated and provided for.
Paul writes about how the new creation people being restored back into an even better place that Adam was, in 2Corinthians 5:17. We're not only God's children, but we're now joint heirs with Jesus Himself. We've lived so long in only a natural environment, that we've lost faith and understanding of the Spirit realm, in which we've been born-again. God has seen and provided for every need, His family would ever have. He has provided for all our Spiritual lives, as well as our natural lives.
God anticipated all our needs for the new creation people who are now alive, through Jesus' Sacrifice. We've no longer under Law, but Grace. We don't have need for more sacrifice, because we've been redeemed and owe no debt to repay, in the Spirit realm. We must receive the Power of what Jesus did on our behalf and apply it to our natural man, here and now. We've taken all Spiritual things and tried to apply them from the outside into the spirit, instead of from the spirit to the natural.
This is backwards to the Laws of the Spirit, so we continue struggling with healing, Baptism of the Holy Spirit and most all of the free Grace God's Spirit has for mankind. It wasn't like that for Adam and Eve. They received from God in their spirit first, before their flesh could even feel, think, touch, smell or taste what He gave them. Once their spirit received these things, their flesh simply obeyed the spirit. We've grown up backward to this. Our natural man wouldn't receive the Spiritual things of God, unless our senses could identify them. Now, we've come to a place where we refuse to believe the Spirit realm, unless our senses can identify them. The Gifts God's Grace provides for us, are without Power in our lives. We must renew our minds, like Paul instructs in Romans 12:2, so we can accept what Grace has provided for us now. We continue trying to figure our what we need to do, in order to "get God to heal, prosper, Bless or provide many other Blessings and Gifts in our lives", while He has already freely given us these things.
Most of God's Gifts of Grace aren't manifested in our Christian lives today, because we don't know how to simply receive them by faith in the Finished Work of Jesus. We didn't need to do anything, except believe, when we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior. We struggle to realize that we only need to believe, in order to receive everything else that He has done for us. Jesus paid for our freedom, in every area of our lives, just like He paid for the remission of our sin. We receive all the rest of our salvation, just like we received our cleansing from sin. Our feelings get in the way of our faith, making it difficult to receive and believe. All things have been restored back to God's Original Intent for His family, but we don't understand things of the Spiritual realm, because of our carnal way of thinking. This Revelation comes from God's Word and His Spirit, through and in, our born-again spirit.
We can read God's Word and know it in our minds and intellect, but the Revelation of what we've read can only come in and through our spirit. When our spirit has Revelation of God's Word, our flesh must submit to the spirit. Until then, our carnal man will still dominate our spirit. We "clean-up" the outer-man of his/her bad habits, but we still remain carnal and allow the flesh to rule.
We've failed to educate the outer-man by the inner-man and continued allowing the old carnal man to rule, just like it did before we were born-again. Our carnal mind cannot accept anything it doesn't understand. Even though we're free, we continue to walk under the control of the flesh and we suffer the consequences of sickness, depression and the other things this world brings on mankind. Today's Church doesn't seem to know what our being redeemed means. We think it means we've been forgiven and are going to Heaven. The carnal mind can't accept the Truth that Heaven has now come to live in our body.
Many struggle with the Truth that we're not just forgiven, but our sins are done away with and we're now righteous in God's eyes, because of Jesus. Your spirit man has received this Truth, but your carnal man/woman doesn't have any understanding of this yet. Most of us still see ourselves as "sinners in God's eyes."
This is a failure of having our spirit man/woman seeing the Truth of the Finished Work of Jesus. We continue trying to walk under self-made laws, in order to achieve what Jesus has already done for us, instead of receiving the fullness of what Jesus has already done by Grace. The "unclaimed riches of Grace" haven't entered in by Revelation, to where faith can accept them. Remember, "Grace and Truth came by and through Jesus Christ," according to John 1:17 (Amplified) which says, "For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth, came through Jesus Christ."
We don't need to "work for," but must simply accept the Spiritual Blessing that came through Jesus. We must simply accept them by faith, in what Jesus has already done, just like we received our salvation. We didn't do anything to "deserve" being saved and we didn't have to accomplish anything to get salvation. We simply believed what Jesus did and what He said. Just like we received salvation, we receive everything else Jesus has done for us. Your new creation spirit man/woman, already knows these things, but the carnal mind is blocking the manifestation of it. We still function in the spirit, like we did before being born-again, allowing our carnal mind to rule. Our spirit is held captive from all these Spiritual Blessings, by the carnal, natural man who ruled us, before being saved. We've educated the carnal mind, but the carnal mind fights against Revelation and hates to give up it's rule over you.
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