God's Original Intent of making mankind in His Own Image and Likeness, has never changed. We sometimes forget that Jesus was born in the flesh on this earth and that He operated as a Man, Who was without sin. We see Jesus as being without sin and as the Messiah, while He walked on this planet. We must also see that through His death and Resurrection, Jesus made those who believe in Him, to be without sin in God's eyes and in Righteousness through Him.
Jesus functioned as the Last Adam, according to 1Corinthians 15:45 (Amplified), which says, "Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the Last Adam (Christ) became a Life-giving Spirit, restoring the dead to life." Jesus was born without sin, by the Seed of God, the Word. We've been born-again without sin, according to the Same Seed. We mostly see ourselves as "sinners saved by Grace," instead of new creations, born of Righteousness. Jesus walked in the same mandate the First Adam was given. Now, through Jesus, we have received "all authority over the things in the earth, as well as the demonic powers and principalities that ruled in the heavenlies," according to Ephesians 1:18-21 (Amplified) which says, "By having the eyes of your heart flooded with Light, So that you can know and understand the hope to which He called you, and how rich is His Glorious inheritance in the saints (His set apart ones). And SO YOU CAN KNOW AND UNDERSTAND, what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His Power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His Mighty strength which Hes exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him and His Own right hand in the Heavenly places Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, above every title that can be conferred, not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which are to come."
The above statement Paul made to the Church, is awesome. He's saying that we've been called back to the Original Intention God had for His family. And, through Jesus, we're in a higher place than that. We've failed to have "the eyes of our heart (spirit) to be flooded with Light, so that we can know and understand the hope to which He called us." This hope is what brings about our faith to believe in His Promises to us, in Jesus. Hebrews 11:1 (Amplified) tells us, "NOW FAITH is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed), of the things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality, faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses."
Having faith perceiving as real fact, what is not revealed to our senses, is what Paul wrote about in Ephesians 1:18 (Amplified), saying, "By having the eyes of our heart (or spirit) flooded with Light, so we can KNOW AND UNDERSTAND the hope to which He called us." This kind of Light, doesn't come through our senses, but only into our spirits, by faith and Revelation from God's Word. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for," but if we don't have hope in this opening the eyes of our spirit, then we have no place for faith to bring it to pass in our lives. We continue living as just forgiven sinners, instead of as God's called-out ones in Jesus Christ. We continue living under the domination and bondage of the enemy, below the place where God has brought us into, through Jesus.
What good would it do, if Jesus bore the Curse of the Law on our behalf, if it was only for when we die and go to Heaven? There is no Curse in Heaven, which we need to redeemed and delivered from. Jesus bore the Curse, so that God's family would once again have complete authority over the earth and over everything that creeps upon it, including the Curse. The senses have caused God's Church to walk in the carnality of our minds, instead of in "The eyes of our understanding enlightened by the Revelation of Truth." This isn't arrogance, but is confidence in our Savior, Jesus Christ and His Finished Works.
Proverbs 4:7 (Amplified) says, "The beginning of Wisdom is, get Wisdom; skillful and Godly Wisdom! For skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principal things and with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation)." God is Wisdom. He can draw a blueprint, but if we don't have understanding, then we'll be unable to read those blueprints. If we're unable to read the blueprint, then we can't build the building He has laid out for our lives. It does no good to have a blueprint, if we can't read and understand that blueprint.
If "the eyes of our spirit don't receive the Light and understanding, then we won't see the Hope, to which He has called us," according to Ephesians 1:18." Jesus said in John 16:15 (Amplified), "Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He (the Spirit), will take the things that are Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, and transmit) it to you." The only way to see God's Plan and His blueprint for us, is our having "The eyes of our understanding, flooded with Light, through the Holy Spirit." God's Plan or blueprint is for our lives here on earth, now. The blueprint is completed already, in Heaven.
God's Original Intent and Plan for a family, was in His heart from the first and has never changed or been replaced with another blueprint. The blueprint is complete in Him. The world we live in, was not nor is, the world which the Father Planned for us. We read about God's Plan, where we could share and live, in Revelations 21:4-5 (Amplified), which says, "God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more, neither shall there be any anguish, sorrow, and mourning, nor grief, nor pain anymore, for the old conditions and former order of things have passed away. And He Who is seated on the throne said, See! I make all things new. Also He said, Record this, for these sayings are faithful, accurate, incorruptible, and trustworthy, and True (genuine)." The blueprint for the Father's House and His family, is complete in Jesus.
We're to live and have dominion over the earth and everything on it, now. We must enter into our authority and dominion mandate, while we're here on earth, so we can dwell in the House of the Lord forever.. Through Jesus, we'll still be able to live in this earth God created for us, and share the entire universe too. Family was in God's heart and on His mind, when He began creation. God's Original Intention for His family, has never changed and will never change.
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